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At the time of the crash, Flight 427 was the second-deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737 (all series); as of 2024, it now ranks as the ninth-deadliest. It was also the seventh-deadliest aviation disaster in the history of the United States, and the deadliest in the U.S. involving a 737; as of 2024, it ranks eleventh. [17]
Ferguson v. NTSB, 678 F. 2d 821 (9th Cir. 1982) is a landmark aviation ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down on June 2, 1982.. On July 31, 1979, Lowell G. Ferguson was the captain of a Western Airlines Boeing 737-200 jetliner operating as Flight 44 from Los Angeles, California, to seven destinations, including Las Vegas, Nevada; Denver, Colorado; and ...
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Buffalo State College's 11th president, Muriel Howard, released a statement regarding the six alumni killed on Flight 3407. Beverly Eckert was a 1975 graduate from Buffalo State. [44] On March 4, 2009, New York governor David Paterson proposed the creation of a scholarship fund to benefit children and financial dependents of the 50 crash victims.
There has not been a fatal crash of a U.S. airliner since 2009, when a Colgan Air plane operated for Continental crashed near Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one on the ground.
The plane crashed at about 1 p.m. north of the town of Gillette near the Wyoming state line, Campbell County officials said in a social media post. The number of fatalities was not immediately ...
The pilots were hailed as heroes for landing the plane only using the throttles. A DC-3 owned by and carrying the Minneapolis Lakers NBA team made an emergency landing in a cornfield near Carroll, Iowa, on January 17, 1960. The DC-3 had lost all electrical power. Future NBA Hall of Fame player Elgin Baylor was on board. [92]
American Airlines said the Boeing 737-800 “experienced a braking issue on landing.” Officials are looking into why an American Airlines jetliner ran off the end of a Texas runway Skip to main ...