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The Airport Fire was a wildfire that burned 23,526 acres (9,521 ha) in the Santa Ana Mountains in Southern California in September and October 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The fire destroyed 160 structures in Orange and Riverside counties and caused 21 non-fatal injuries.
The 1985 Manchester Airport disaster occurred when British Airtours Flight 28M (officially known as Flight 328), an international passenger flight, was en route from Manchester Airport to Corfu International Airport. It caught fire on takeoff on 22 August 1985, resulting in 55 fatalities.
UPS Airlines Flight 6 was a scheduled international cargo flight operated by UPS.On September 3, 2010, the Boeing 747-400F flying the route between Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Cologne, Germany, developed an in-flight fire, which caused the aircraft to crash, killing both crew members, the only people on board.
The fire, which is currently at 95% containment, has scorched some 23,500 acres, destroyed 160 structures and resulted in 22 injuries, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire ...
The cause of a huge blaze at London’s Luton Airport that damaged up to 1,500 cars and sparked travel chaos has been revealed.. More than 100 firefighters battled through the night to extinguish ...
American Airlines confirmed in a statement that the fire was caused by an overheating laptop brought on board by a passenger. “During boarding of American Airlines flight 2045 with service from ...
In August 1984, the NTSB issued a final report that, while praising the captain for "exhibiting outstanding airmanship without which the airplane and everyone on board would certainly have perished", concluded that the probable causes were a fire of undetermined origin, the flight crew's underestimation of the fire's severity and conflicting ...
ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo (oxygen generators).