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American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Ohio) near Trammel: Kentucky: Douglas DC-3: The flight lost control due to severe turbulence and a downdraft caused by a thunderstorm. January 21, 1943 19 0 0 Pan Am Flight 1104: near Ukiah: California: Martin M-130: The flight became off-course in poor weather at night and struck a mountain. October 23 ...
December 8 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashed after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 43 of 60 people on board and two people on the ground; one of the fatalities is Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. The crash was the first fatal crash involving the 737-200.
It is the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history, the first fatal Pacific Southwest Airlines incident, and at the time, the deadliest aircraft incident in the United States. [38] PSA Flight 1771 crashed near Cayucos, California, on December 7, 1987, after being hijacked by a disgruntled former airline employee, killing all 43 on ...
Data from flight tracker FlightAware showed a plane leaving the small airport at 2:07 p.m. before its flight ended at 2:09 p.m., which is the time that police said they received a notification ...
At the airport, 143 departing flights, along with 141 arriving flights, have been canceled so far today. In pictures: Kentucky buried under winter storm Sunday 5 January 2025 21:30 , Katie Hawkinson
There were 30 such accidents recorded in 2023, the most recent year for which full-year accident data are available, amounting to a risk of one accident every 1.26 million flights, says IATA.
List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in 50 or more fatalities. Initial sort order is by total fatalities (descending) and then by date (most recent to most distant). Deaths T Incident [a] Aircraft Location Phase Airport Distance Date Tot C P G N; est. 1,700 [b] 11 81 est. 1,600 † INH American Airlines Flight 11: Boeing 767-223ER
Indian Airlines suspended all flights to and from Nepal for some time, fearing a lack of security at check-in. [14] Yeti Airlines Flight 103 – On 8 October 2008, a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter carrying 19 people crashed into terrain in bad weather. The Captain was the sole survivor. An investigation concluded that the cause was CFIT.