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On April 22, 1947, a Douglas DC-3 of Delta Air Lines and a Vultee BT-13 Valiant of the Tuskegee Aviation Institute collided in mid-air above Muscogee County Airport (now Columbus Airport) in Georgia, United States, and crashed. All nine people on board both aircraft, including several Delta executives, were killed in the accident.
On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance, near the German-Swiss border. All of the passengers and crew aboard both planes were killed, resulting in a ...
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303, a Tu-154M (B-2610), broke up in mid-air and crashed shortly after takeoff from Xi'an Xianyang International Airport due to a maintenance error, killing all 160 on board in China's deadliest air disaster. The autopilot controls had been connected backwards: the yaw-channel was connected to the bank control ...
DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757-200F, collided in mid-air with a Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 over Überlingen, Germany, killing the two pilots in the DHL plane and all 69 people in the Bashkirian Airlines plane.
Boeing 757-23APF: Bergamo–Brussels: Mid-air collision with a Bashkirian Airlines Tu-154 OO-DLL: Baghdad: 22 November 2003: Airbus A300B4-203F: Baghdad–Bahrain: Missile attack, loss of controls Flight 7216: Juan Santamaría Int'l Airport: 7 April 2022: Boeing 757-27A (PCF) San José–Guatemala City: Under investigation (runway excursion ...
In the air traffic audio, the controller told the Alaska flight to follow the “runway heading” path, while the Skywest flight was told to turn right as it left the runway.
April 22 – In the 1947 Columbus mid-air collision a Delta Air Lines Douglas DC-3 collided with a Tuskegee Aviation Institute Vultee BT-13 killing all nine people onboard both aircraft. May 29 – In the 1947 Héðinsfjörður air crash , a Flugfélag Islands Douglas DC-3 crashed into Hestfjall on the west side of Héðinsfjörður fjord ...
About 8:43 p.m. Wednesday, an air traffic controller at Reagan National contacted the commercial jet. “Can you take Runway 33?” the controller asked, directing the jet to a shorter runway that ...