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All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, including 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the helicopter. It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 24 years.
It was carrying the Turkish prime minister and a party of government officials. The Viscount crashed in a wood 3 miles (4.8 km) from the threshold of Gatwick runway during its final approach to land in extensive fog. Five of the eight crew and nine of the 16 passengers died in the crash. The prime minister was among the ten survivors.
former Prime Minister of Sweden: 9 December 1936 Croydon, Surrey United Kingdom: Airplane accident: Douglas DC-2 (1881–1943) Władysław Sikorski [3] Prime Minister of Poland 4 July 1943 Gibraltar United Kingdom: Airplane accident: Consolidated B-24 Liberator (1910–1959) Barthélemy Boganda [3] [1] Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
The husband and father of two victims killed in the Washington, D.C. plane crash is remembering the pair as loving and talented ladies. Andrey Ter, an Armenian refugee who fled from Azerbaijan in ...
Asra Hussain was on American Airlines Flight 5342 on Jan. 29 when the jet collided with a U.S. Army helicopter in Washington, D.C. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, husband Hamaad Raza ...
A man whose wife was on the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. has revealed the final text he received from her before the crash. On ...
Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 (doing business as American Eagle Flight 3379) was a scheduled flight from Piedmont Triad International Airport to Raleigh–Durham International Airport during which a British Aerospace Jetstream crashed while executing a missed approach to the Raleigh–Durham International Airport on the evening of Tuesday, December 13, 1994.
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office.In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.