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The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, MSN 47196, originally registered as CF-TLU, that was manufactured in 1968 and was delivered to Air Canada on April 7. . It had logged 36825 airframe hours and 34987 takeoff and landing cycles and was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B engin
[2] [3] At the same time, a DC-9 of Aviaco registered EC-CGS, operating Aviaco Flight 134, was taxiing to the end of the same runway for take-off bound for Santander Airport. [4] As the Boeing 727 rolled along the runway, the crew of the DC-9 accidentally made a wrong turn in the fog and taxied their aircraft onto the runway, into the path of ...
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Avensa Flight 007 [1] was a domestic Venezuelan flight operated by Avensa Airlines on a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, which crashed on 11 March 1983 on a domestic flight from Caracas Airport to Barquisimeto Airport, Venezuela. It landed hard, skidded off of the runway and exploded. [2] [3] Twenty-two passengers and one crew member died. [2] [3]
April 4, 1987 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 035, a Douglas DC-9-32 operated by Garuda Indonesia crashes on approach killing 23. December 7, 1996 - Dirgantara Air Service Flight 5940 , CASA C-212 Aviocar operated by Dirgantara Air Service crashes due to engine failure killing 18.
With 155 dead in all, this was the deadliest crash involving a member of the original DC-9 family, as well as the worst crash in civil aviation history at the time it took place. [ 61 ] On September 9, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 , a DC-9-30, collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee near Fairland, Indiana .
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 had been involved in 55 accidents and incidents, including 32 hull-loss accidents, with 1,261 occupant fatalities. It was eventually replaced by more advanced and fuel-efficient twin-engine airliners, such as the Boeing 777 and the Airbus A330. [1] The last passenger DC-10 was retired in 2014 by Biman Bangladesh ...
Aeroméxico Flight 110 was a scheduled domestic commercial flight from Acapulco to Guadalajara. On November 8, 1981, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight experienced a cabin decompression and crashed near Zihuatanejo while initiating an emergency descent, killing all 18 people on board.