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TransAsia Airways Flight 235 was a domestic flight from Taipei to Kinmen, Taiwan.On 4 February 2015, the aircraft serving the flight, a 10-month-old ATR 72-600, crashed into the Keelung River around 5 km (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) from Taipei Songshan Airport, where the aircraft had just departed from.
Atta flew the plane into the tower's north face from floors 93 through 99 at 08:46 local time. The impact was witnessed by countless people in the streets of New York City as well as the nearby state of New Jersey, but few video recordings captured the moment. Jules Naudet captured the only known footage clearly depicting Flight 11's impact ...
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).
1931 Jinan plane crash; 1946 Railway Air Services Dakota crash; 1954 BOAC Lockheed Constellation crash; 1956 Cairo TAI Douglas DC-6 crash; 1970 Stockholm Spantax Convair CV-990 crash; 1974 EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 crash; 1975 Agadir Royal Air Maroc Boeing 707 crash; 1983 Madrid Airport runway collision; 1991 Vallejo helicopter crash; Airbus ...
Videos of the aircraft before it crashed showed it in a downward flat spin, in a slight nose-down orientation, and were widely shared on social media. [ 15 ] [ 23 ] Brazilian television news channel GloboNews broadcast aerial footage from around the area of the accident site, showing fire and smoke rising from the aircraft's wreckage.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
Jon James McMurray, a 34-year-old Canadian rapper, died Saturday after falling off an airplane wing during a music video shoot. McMurray, who performed under the name Jon James, was filming a ...
The flight proceeded normally until the descent, when the crew experienced technical problems with the aircraft and decided to make an emergency landing at Malakal. The plane touched down short of the runway, causing several tires to burst and subsequently, the Captain, who was flying the aircraft lost control.