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All seven people aboard died. [45] [46] [47] US Airways Flight 1549, ditched in the Hudson River in 2009 with all passengers surviving. On 15 January 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320-214 registered as N106US, en route from New York City LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, ditched into the Hudson River seven minutes after ...
TWA Flight 6963 (28 December 1946) - A Lockheed L-049 Constellation operated by Trans World Airlines crashed short of the runway. 9 people died while 14 people survived. Pan Am Flight 1-10 (15 April 1948) - A Lockheed L-049-51-26 Constellation operated by Pan American World Airways crashed short of the runway. 30 people died and 1 person survived.
US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States.On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, losing all engine power.
US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 departing for Charlotte/Douglas International Airport ditched in the Hudson River after losing both engines as a result of multiple bird strikes at an altitude of 3,000 feet (910 m); all 150 passengers and 5 crew members successfully evacuated.
Forty-nine people died in the tragedy. Continental merged with United Airlines in 2010. The last major American Airlines crash occurred in November 2001 near John F. Kennedy International Airport.
XL Airways Germany Flight 888T (GXL888T) [1] was an acceptance flight for an Airbus A320 on 27 November 2008. The aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, 7 km (4.3 mi; 3.8 nmi) off Canet-en-Roussillon on the French coast, close to the Spanish border, killing all seven people on board.
In a statement, the Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating after American Airlines Flight 271, an Airbus A320, "made a hard landing" on the runway around 2:00 p.m. local time.
An Air Malta crewman performing a pre-flight inspection of an Airbus A320.. Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation.This includes preventing aviation accidents and incidents through research, educating air travel personnel, passengers and the general public, as well as the design of aircraft and aviation infrastructure.