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The mission ended on February 1, 2003, with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster which killed all seven crew members and destroyed the space shuttle. It was the 88th post- Challenger disaster mission. The flight launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003.
Columbia memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) was an internal commission convened by NASA to investigate the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-107 upon atmospheric re-entry on February 1, 2003.
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.
Michael Phillip Anderson (December 25, 1959 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut.He and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. [1]
The crash claimed the lives of six of the 20 people on board the aircraft, including four passengers and both crew members. A United States Marine Corps Lockheed Martin KC-130 crashed in Leflore County, Mississippi, on July 10, 2017, killing all 16 people on board, including seven passengers and 9 crew members. This made it the deadliest ...
A Polish military airplane EADS CASA C-295, '019', c/n S-043, crashed in forested area near Polish city Miroslawiec killing all 20 people aboard – 16 Polish Air Force officers (including one general, Gen. Andrzej Andrzejewski, who previously survived an ejection from a Su-22M-4K on 18 August 2003, and six colonels) and 4 crew members.
All five crew members are killed in the first crash involving a Boeing 707. August 19 – A Transair Douglas Dakota crashed into a mountain in Spain, killing all 32 on board. September 24 – TAI Flight 307, a Douglas DC-7, crashed into a pine forest on departure from Mérignac Airport, France; 54 of the 65 people on board are killed.
In 1992, El Al Flight 1862 crashed into a high-rise apartment complex in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, Netherlands, killing all four crew members on board as well as 39 people in the building. The following is a list of aircraft accidents and incidents which have resulted in fatalities on the ground.