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All 18 people on board were killed (including ministers of the interior of Poland and Czechoslovakia). [45] [46] 30 April 1973 A South Yemen Air Force aircraft, probably an An-24, crashed in Yemen, killing all 25 on board. The aircraft type has not been confirmed, with possible types being an An-24, An-12, or a Yemenia Douglas DC-3. [47] 14 May ...
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
Aeroflot Flight 1661 was a passenger flight operated by an Antonov An-24 that crashed during its initial climb, 25 minutes after take-off from Tolmachevo Airport on 1 April 1970. All 45 people on board perished. An investigation revealed that the Antonov collided with a radiosonde, causing a loss of control.
2 (all on aircraft) Aeroflot Flight 331 [208] 27 May 1977 Boyeros, Cuba Ilyushin Il-62M: 1 77 78 † N/A Indian Air Force Antonov An-12 crash [209] 19 November 1978 Leh, India Antonov An-12: 1 72 73: 14 Western Airlines Flight 2605 [210] 31 October 1979 Mexico City, Mexico McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10: 1 0 1: 2 (all on aircraft) Ozark Air Lines ...
A pilot died after two single-engine planes collided midair on Sunday in Southern California, officials said. The planes, a single-engine Nanchang CJ-6 and a single-engine Yakovlev Yak-52 ...
Televised news footage showed the plane upside down in a parking lot. The NTSB said skies were clear and cloudless at the time of the crash. The crash killed Newman and left his sons Caleb, Connor ...
All 11 people on board were killed. Preliminary reports indicate the pilots reported a fuel leak and an engine fire to air traffic controllers, but did not manage to return to the airport. The aircraft then crashed in a wooded area. The aircraft involved, RA-11125, was the oldest aircraft in the Russian commercial air fleet. [133]
— Aug. 27, 2016 — A pilot from Alaska was killed when his 450 Stearman biplane, a World War II-era plane often used for military training, crashed during the Airshow of the Cascades in Madras ...