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The Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia is a twin-turboprop 30-passenger commuter airliner designed and manufactured by the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. It was the first turboprop aircraft that had an APU. The EMB 120 began development during 1974.
On August 21, 1995, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia flying from Atlanta to Gulfport, crashed in the community of Burwell between the cities Bowdon, Georgia and Carrollton, Georgia. 9 of the 29 passengers and crew on board were killed as a result of the accident.
The Air Littoral Flight 1919 crash was an aviation disaster that occurred on 21 December 1987 when an Embraer 120 Brasilia, operated by Air Littoral for Air France, [1] performing a regional flight between Brussels, Belgium, and Bordeaux, France, crashed into a forest in the commune of Eysines, in the department of Gironde, during approach to Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport, resulting in the deaths ...
The aircraft involved was an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia (registration number N270AS), manufactured on November 30, 1990. Equipped with two Pratt & Whitney PW-118 engines and Hamilton Standard 14RF-9 propellers, it received its U.S. standard airworthiness certificate on December 20. In service less than four months, the aircraft had accumulated ...
On September 11, 1991, the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia turboprop, registered N33701, [3] crashed while initiating its landing sequence, killing all 14 people on board. The aircraft wreckage hit an area near Eagle Lake, Texas , approximately 65 miles (105 km) west-southwest of the airport.
While military aircraft made up the majority of Embraer's products during the 1970s and early 1980s, including the Embraer AT-26 Xavante and the Embraer EMB 312 Tucano, [citation needed] it debuted a regional airliner, the Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante, which made its first flight in 1968, [18] and the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, launched in 1985. [19]
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The PT-ZBA took its maiden flight on July 27th, 1983. The Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia was designed as a regional turboprop aircraft, capable of carrying passengers and cargo efficiently. The airliner was used only by Embraer as a demonstrator of the EMB-120 and was never used by any other airline. [1]