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A hull loss is an aviation accident that damages the aircraft beyond economic repair, [1] resulting in a total loss. The term also applies to situations where the aircraft is missing, the search for its wreckage is terminated, or the wreckage is logistically inaccessible.
Pan Am Flight 93 was the first hull loss of a Boeing 747 (747-121), the result of terrorism after it was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. On September 6, 1970, a new Pan Am aircraft flying from Amsterdam to New York City was hijacked and flown first to Beirut , then to Cairo .
[103] [104] The aircraft was written off, and resulted in the first hull loss of the Airbus A320neo family. [105] On 10 September 2023, Air China Flight 403, an Airbus A320-271N, registered as B-305J, with 155 people on board, had a fire in its left engine right before landing at Singapore Changi Airport. The aircraft landed safely at its ...
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...
The list of aircraft accidents and incidents caused by structural failures summarizes notable accidents and incidents such as the 1933 United Airlines Chesterton Crash due to a bombing and a 1964 B-52 test that landed after the vertical stabilizer broke off. Loss of structural integrity during flight can be caused by: faulty design; faulty ...
The accident killed 48 people in all: 35 passengers and five crew members on board the aircraft, and seven occupants of the houses.There were 250 passengers and 13 crew who survived; however 37 passengers and crew and another 11 people on the ground were injured in the accident. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair and written off. [14]
A perfect storm led to Bayesian sinking, experts say. The combination of unlikely factors that could have contributed to the ship's fate constituted a "black swan event," Matthew Schanck, chairman ...
Delta subsequently declared the aircraft a hull loss, making the accident the 37th hull loss of a McDonnell Douglas MD-80. [9] [16] The crew of the plane managed a complete evacuation only after more than 17 minutes, while the aircraft was leaking fuel. [10]: 63 Twenty-nine passengers suffered minor injuries, all of whom were sent to the ...