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The aircraft suffered a mid-air explosion due to a bomb in the baggage compartment and crashed. It was the first confirmed act of air sabotage in commercial aviation. March 31, 1931 8 0 0 1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash: Bazaar Township: Kansas: Fokker F-10
This was the worst aviation accident in the Atlantic Ocean at the time and remains the worst ever involving the Latécoère 631. August 29 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421, a Martin 2–0–2, crashed near Winona, Minnesota, due to structural failure of a wing, killing all 37 on board in the worst ever accident involving the Martin 2–0–2 ...
List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan; List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War; List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Libyan Civil War (2011)
The pilot survived after ejecting. This was the second crash of a fighter jet of the Taiwanese Air Force within three months after the crash of an F-16 on 11 January. [138] 18 March A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B participating in military exercise Cold Response in Norway crashed in the Gråtådalen valley in Beiarn Municipality in Nordland county ...
The crash results in 19 deaths out of 21 passengers. [61] It was the deadliest ballooning disaster in history, surpassing the 1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash in Australia. [62] [63] June 29 - An in-air collision between a glider and a Cessna 150 killed four people and a dog near Whistler, B.C. [64]
Editor's note: This page reflects news of the plane crash near DC on Thursday, Jan. 30. For the latest updates on victim recovery efforts, please read USA TODAY's live coverage of the plane crash ...
The National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the fatal collision, is also probing the passenger jet, flight paths and air traffic control operations.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...