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Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles, California, with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach to land at DFW ...
The flight's first officer, the crash's only survivor, was later featured in a film about sole survivors of plane crashes. The opening skit of the 58th Primetime Emmy Awards – which aired on the same night as the plane crash – featured host Conan O'Brien getting into a plane crash similar to the TV show Lost. The skit was criticized and ...
August 2, 1985: Delta Air Lines Flight 191, operating a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, on a Fort Lauderdale–Dallas/Fort Worth- Los Angeles route, suffered a severe microburst-induced wind shear which caused the plane to crash. 134 out of 163 on board were killed (2 survivors died more than 30 days after the accident) and one person on the ground in ...
The 1988 crash of Delta Flight 1141 was the last major commercial accident at Dallas-Fort Worth. Ahead of the 35th anniversary, these Star-Telegram photos of the scene are published for the first ...
Everyone aboard the Delta flight from Minneapolis survived the crash. Video obtained by CNN shows the plane landing hard on the runway, with the plane’s rear landing gear buckling and the right ...
Delta passenger Peter Koukov recalled the harrowing moment his plane crash-landed and flipped over at the airport in Toronto. He shared video of the plane evacuation after the incident.
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control.
The Delta flight, on a trip from Minneapolis, was cleared for Runway 23 under a westerly wind, with gusts up to 38 miles per hour. “Might be a slight bump in the glide path,” an air traffic ...