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Southern Airways Flight 242 was a flight from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, with a stop in Huntsville, Alabama.On April 4, 1977, it executed a forced landing on Georgia State Route 381 in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, United States, after suffering hail damage and losing thrust on both engines in a severe thunderstorm.
In light of the crash of the Wichita State football team just over a month earlier, school officials originally planned to cancel the flight. Instead, they opted to fly on a different plane than the one which crashed in Colorado (a Martin 4-0-4), and chartered the Southern Airways DC-9. [6]
Southern Airways was a local service carrier, a scheduled airline certificated by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board, in the United States, from its founding by Frank Hulse in 1949 until 1979, when it merged with North Central Airlines to become Republic Airlines.
Pages in category "Southern Airways accidents and incidents" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49 started on November 10, 1972, in Birmingham, Alabama, stretching over 30 hours, three countries, and 4,000 miles (6,400 km), not ending until the next evening in Havana, Cuba. [1]
It was the second-deadliest plane crash in Texas history but today is largely forgotten A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON ...
Southern Airways Flight 932: Huntington: West Virginia: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31: The aircraft descended below the minimum descent altitude during approach and crashed short of the runway. The charter flight was carrying the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team. October 2, 1970 31 9 9 Wichita State University football team plane crash
It was the first loss of a Martin 2-0-2 aircraft, the worst disaster involving a Martin 2-0-2 to date, and with 37 fatalities, still ranks as the worst air crash in Wisconsin history. [ 189 ] On November 18, 1966, the crew departed Barksdale AFB , Louisiana, in B-52G (tail number 58‑0228) on a training flight to K. I. Sawyer AFB south of ...