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Turkish Airlines now operates in 131 countries, 120 of them being confirmed as active by Guinness World Records. [103] [104] 22 December A Piper PA-42 Cheyenne crashed shortly after takeoff at Canela Airport, Brazil, killing all 10 occupants onboard and injuring a further 17 on the ground. [105] [106] 23 December
Anxious airline flyers may well remember 2024 as the year their worst fears about the safety of air travel felt confirmed, as a series of unprecedented, and in some cases fatal, airplane incidents ...
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
From 2000 to 2024, the United States spent over US$3 billion on improving over 1,000 runway safety areas; this effort was accelerated by the 1999 crash of American Airlines Flight 1420, in which 11 people died after the aircraft failed to stop and crashed into a non-frangible approach lighting system. [98]
U.S. airlines still posted an overall on-time arrival rate of 76% in 2024, up from 74% in 2023. American, Southwest and Spirit were also among the most on-time North American carriers.
The U.S. airline industry is facing questions about safety after a string of concerning events this year. The most notorious occurred on Jan. 5, when a door plug blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 ...
On 2 January 2024, Japan Airlines Flight 516, an A350-900 flight from New Chitose Airport in Sapporo to Haneda Airport in Tokyo, collided with a Japan Coast Guard De Havilland Canada Dash 8 while landing. The aircraft caught fire and was damaged beyond repair. All 379 passengers and crew were evacuated from the aircraft.
An opening is seen in the fuselage of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 MAX on January 7, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. A door-sized section near the rear of the plane blew off 10 minutes after Flight ...