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Two Mi-8 helicopters, a Su-34 fighter-bomber and a Su-35 fighter, all belonging to the Russian Air Force, crashed, all 9 people in the group of aircraft died. [233] 12 May A Russian Mil Mi-28 crashed in the Dzhankoi district of Crimea during a training flight killing both pilots. The Russian Defense Ministry suspects equipment failure as the ...
One cadet wasn't allowed to board the flight at the last moment. Twenty-five bodies were found at the crash site. Two cadets survived the accident, but one of them, having received burns to 90% of his body, died on 26 September in an ambulance hospital in Kharkiv. A total of 26 people died in the plane crash – 19 cadets and seven crew members.
All 18 people on board were killed (including ministers of the interior of Poland and Czechoslovakia). [45] [46] 30 April 1973 A South Yemen Air Force aircraft, probably an An-24, crashed in Yemen, killing all 25 on board. The aircraft type has not been confirmed, with possible types being an An-24, An-12, or a Yemenia Douglas DC-3. [47] 14 May ...
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
The number of people killed after a Ukraine military plane crashed near the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Friday has climbed to 26. A total of 20 military cadets and seven crew members were ...
[268] [269] [270] The Navy releases photos of the aircraft both under repair and in flight at San Diego on 15 October 1942. [271] 4 June "San Rafael, Calif., June 5, – Fourteen army flyers died in the crash of a heavy bomber near here last night, the army said today. Flames consumed the wreckage when the plane hit a hilltop as the pilot ...
"Phoenix, Arizona, August 2 – Second Lt. Arthur C. Collins, 22, and Aviation Cadet Wayne B. Bowers, 22, were killed today when their twin engine training plane crashed 10 miles west of Chandler, Ariz." [95] They went down in Lockheed RP-322 Lightning, AF162, of the 535th Twin Engine Flying Training Squadron, Williams Field, Arizona.
While at 3,000 ft., one wing was struck by lightning. Unable to maintain altitude, the aircraft crashed into a wooded area." [87] 15 June "London, June 15 - Twenty-seven members of the royal air force [sic] were killed early today when a Liberator crashed into the side of a hill on the Dorset coast at Swanage."