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1956 Eglisau Ilyushin Il-12 plane crash: Jim Croce: United States 1973 Others killed in the crash were pilot Robert N. Elliott, Croce's bandmate Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese, and road manager Dennis Rast. Beechcraft E18S: Natchitoches, Louisiana
Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia. The earliest known sole survivor is Lou Foote. On 17 March 1929, as the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight, he attempted to force land the monoplane when it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.
A suicidal passenger exploded a bomb in a lavatory causing loss of the tail and a crash. March 1, 1962 95 0 0 American Airlines Flight 1: Jamaica Bay, Queens, New York City: New York: Boeing 707-123B: The aircraft experienced an uncommanded rudder movement due to a manufacturing defect shortly after takeoff, crashing into the bay. November 8 ...
The single-engine plane came down about 60 feet away from eastbound lanes of Interstate 40, near the Nashville suburb of Charlotte Park, just before 8 p.m. Monday, officials said.
March 23 – Stanford graduate and multi-talented test pilot for Cirrus Aircraft, Scott D. Anderson, was killed in a plane crash while flight-testing the Cirrus SR20 before it went on sale. The problem occurred when his plane experienced an aileron jam during experimental stress-testing.
Four children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after a plane crash endured the death of their mother in front of them and used supplies from the wreckage to stay alive, authorities and a ...
The Lost Children tells the true story of how Lesly, Tien, Soleiny and Cristin survived both a violent plane crash and over a month of living in the Amazon rainforest.. According to The Washington ...
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]