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Two students drowned while taking selfies at Kosi Dam near Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. A group of students were taking selfies and became trapped in a vortex; the rest were saved. [116] 13 July 2016 Vietnam: 2 0 Transport In Hung Yen, two men aged 21 and 28 were hit and killed by a train while taking a selfie on the tracks. Bystanders attempted to ...
Name Nationality Year Notability Flight/aircraft Crash site Cause/circumstances Aaliyah: United States 2001 Actress, singer, and model Cessna 402: Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas Maximum takeoff weight of airplane substantially exceeded, pilot under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. [1] Michael J. Adams: United States 1967 test pilot
The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11, as well as United Airlines Flight 175 at the World Trade Center, and the subsequent collapse of both towers on 11 September 2001 caused 2,606 ground fatalities in addition to the deaths of the 157 people on board both flights, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
The plane carried 260 people. Everyone onboard and five people on the ground were killed in the crash. The American Airlines flight, which took off from Kennedy Airport, and was headed to the ...
TWA Flight 6963 (28 December 1946) - A Lockheed L-049 Constellation operated by Trans World Airlines crashed short of the runway. 9 people died while 14 people survived. Pan Am Flight 1-10 (15 April 1948) - A Lockheed L-049-51-26 Constellation operated by Pan American World Airways crashed short of the runway. 30 people died and 1 person survived.
A bomb exploded underneath a passenger's seat. The passenger died, but the plane landed safely in Honolulu. July 9, 1982 153 4 0 Pan Am Flight 759: Kenner: Louisiana: Boeing 727-200: The aircraft experienced a microburst shortly after takeoff, causing a rapid, unrecoverable descent. All on board and 8 on the ground were killed. January 23, 1982 ...
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
In the last decade, the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command has worked to recover the remains of 52 service members who died when their military transport plane crashed into an Alaska ...