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The Meopham Air Disaster occurred on 21 July 1930 when a Junkers F.13ge flying from Le Touquet to Croydon with two crew and four passengers crashed near Meopham, Kent, with the loss of all on board. The report of the inquiry into the accident was made public, the first time in the United Kingdom that an accident report had been published.
Wichita State University football team plane crash: near Loveland Pass, 8 miles west of Silver Plume: Colorado: Martin 4-0-4: The company president, serving as first officer, attempted to fly a poorly planned scenic route and the aircraft entered a box canyon from which it was unable to climb out, crashing into a mountain ridge.
The F13 was a very popular civilian aircraft, carrying it is estimated 40% of the world's air traffic in the early 1920s. [6] In Bolivia, LAB's first airplane was a Junkers F 13; first flight took off from Cochabamba on September 23, 1925.
Wingfoot Air Express crash. July 21 – The Goodyear dirigible Wingfoot Air Express caught fire and crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, while carrying passengers to a local amusement park, killing thirteen people: three out of the five on board and ten others on the ground, with 27 others on the ground being injured.
The last commercial plane crash in the U.S. happened on Feb. 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed during landing near Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all 49 people onboard.
21 July – a Walcot Air Line Junkers F13 registered G-AAZK crashed at Meopham, Kent; all on board were killed. 1931. 17 January – Breguet 280T F-AIVU of Air Union crashed whilst attempting to land at Lympne. [19] [20] The aircraft caught the boundary fence and crashed onto the airfield, damaging the forward fuselage and undercarriage. [21]
PHOTO: The wreckage of a Delta Air Lines-operated CRJ900 aircraft that crashed Feb. 17, 2025, lays on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada as an ...
The Mexico-bound air ambulance reached about 1,500 feet less than a minute after takeoff from Northeast Philadelphia Airport when it crashed at Roosevelt Boulevard and Cottman Avenue just after 6 p.m.