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British Airways Flight 5390; B. 1974 British Airways bombing attempt; 1983 British Airways Helicopters Sikorsky S-61 crash; Z. 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision
The crash-landing of British Airways Flight 38 on 17 January 2008 received worldwide media attention despite there being only minor injuries among the occupants. 2000. 6 February – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 805, operated by Boeing 727-228 YA-FAY, was hijacked on a domestic scheduled passenger flight from Kabul, Afghanistan to Mazar-i-Sharif.
On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes. An extensive search operation failed to locate the wreckage, despite covering the area of the crash site.
Exclusive: ‘The cabin crew were clearly in distress,’ says passenger
The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision was a mid-air collision that took place on September 10, 1976, when British Airways Flight 476 en route from London to Istanbul, collided mid-air with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550 en route from Split, SFR Yugoslavia, to Cologne, West Germany, near Zagreb in modern-day Croatia.
The flight disappeared from radar 23 minutes after take-off. [123] ADS-B tracking of the A321 onboard flight sensors by Flightradar24 indicates that the flight was at 31,000 feet before a rapid descent. The cause of the crash was likely an onboard explosive device, [124] [125] and that ISIL has claimed that it brought down the aircraft. [126]
British Airways Flight 009, a Boeing 747 that lost all of the engine controls due to the blockage by volcanic ash in 1982. El Al Flight 1862 , a Boeing 747-258F that lost 2 of 4 engines on approach, loss of control, and crashed into Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in Bijlmermeer , killing all 4 people.
British Airways Flight 268 was a regularly scheduled flight from Los Angeles to London Heathrow.On February 20, 2005, the innermost left engine burst into flames triggered by an engine compressor stall almost immediately after takeoff.