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In the 1970s and 1980s it was a busy airport for charter operations (Antonov An-2, Mi-4, Mi-8, etc.) which served geological expeditions, firefighters, and local transport routes. This is probably a former PVO-Strany fighter field, based on the length of the now-unusable runway between the current active runway and the ramp area.
This incident is believed to be the first commercial passenger plane attacked by hostile forces. [1] On 24 August 1938 – during the Second Sino-Japanese War – the Kweilin, a DC-2 jointly operated by China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and Pan American World Airways, carrying 18 passengers and crew, was forced down by Japanese aircraft in Chinese territory just north of Hong Kong. 15 ...
Transair Georgia Crash (21 September) - Shot down on approach at Sukhumi Babushara Airport. All 22 passengers and 5 crew died. Orbi Georgian Airways Crash (22 September) – Shot down as it was trying to land at Sukhumi. 108 people died. Transair Georgia Crash (23 September) - Shot at during boarding. 1 crew member died.
An An-30B surveillance plane, bort number Yellow 80, was shot down with two shoulder-launched missiles. 3 crewmen survived, 5 died. [7] [8] 14 June 2014: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane was shot down as it approached an airport in Luhansk, killing nine crew members and 40 troops on board. [9] 2 July 2014
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
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 ...
A Honda HA-420 jet crashed through a fence at Falcon Field Airport in Arizona on Tuesday, killing all five people inside. 12 News “We were just about to get into our aircraft and go when we ...
Germany portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aviation accidents and incidents in Germany . Accidents and incidents appearing in this category may relate to the country where the accident or incident occurred, the country of origin of one or more of the aircraft involved, or the nationality of the majority of passengers or casualties ...