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Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. [3] All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1976 (15 P) Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in 1976" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
October 25 – After the No. 1 engine of a Taxi Aéreo El Venado Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain (registration HK-149) fails shortly after takeoff from El Yopal Airport in Yopal, Colombia, its crew attempts to return to the airport, but the airliner noses down, crashes, and burns 6.5 kilometers (4.0 miles) from the airport, killing all 36 people on board.
Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, also known as LAB, was the flag carrier of Bolivia. It was founded in 1925, and it had been existing for 51 years at the time of the accident. The aircraft, a then 17 year old Boeing 707-131F (CN/MSN: 17671), manufactured 30 June 1959, was originally delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA) on 14 July 1959, and was assigned its aircraft registration (or tail number ...
On Aug. 2, 1985, around 6:05 p.m., the Delta Air Lines Flight 191 from Florida to Los Angeles with 163 people aboard crashed short of the runway at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and ...
Map of the crash The aircraft descended at a rate of around 11,000 feet per minute (3,350 m/min). [ 18 ] A doorbell camera filmed the airplane falling out of the sky, producing a large explosion with heavy plumes of smoke after hitting the ground.
Spanish media circulated pictures of a screenshot of Google Maps' Street View from October 2024 showing a person dumping an object covered in a white shroud into a car trunk in the village of Tajueco.
According to the NTSB, the last fatal accident involving a commercial flight in the U.S. was Feb. 12, 2009, when a Bombardier DHC-8 approaching Buffalo-Niagara International Airport crashed into a ...