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November 9, 2024 – Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5682, a cargo Boeing 737-4Q8 (SF) registered as PS-TLB, suffered an in-flight fire and was forced to make an emergency landing at São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport. The plane stopped on the runway, where it was destroyed by the fire. Both crew members on board survived.
The cause was determined to be metal fatigue in the structure of the wings due to years of use in low-level mission training, an unintended consequence of the Air Force's decision to use Boeing's high altitude bomber design for low-level missions following the shoot down of Francis Gary Powers' Lockheed U-2 spy plane in 1960. The crash of this ...
Window separated from plane causing the pilot to be sucked out. First Officer successfully landed the plane in Southampton 1991-02-06 1991 Gulf War Boeing KC-135 accident: Near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: Severe weather and wake turbulence: 0 Due to excess maneuvering, the airframe was pushed to its limits.
A door-sized section near the rear of the Boeing 737-9 MAX plane blew off 10 minutes after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 took off from Portland, Oregon on January 5 on its way to Ontario, California ...
A Rossiya Airlines Boeing 777-300ER cargo plane made an emergency landing in Moscow during a 2021 flight from Hong Kong to Madrid due to a problem with the engine control sensor, the airline said ...
The plane, a single-engine Piper Comanche, went down early Friday morning, bursting into flames near the intersection of Hawthorne Boulevard and 126th Street in the city of Hawthorne, California.
18 January 1988 - China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146's engine No. 4 detached due to an in-flight fire causing a loss of control, killing all 108 on board. 2 October 1990 - In the 1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, a Boeing 737, was hijacked while attempting to land. It sideswiped a Boeing 707, then the ...
[3]: 1 On February 1, 1991, Flight 1493 was operated using a Boeing 737-300 (registration N388US [4]); after a crew change in Washington, DC, [3]: 1 it was under the command of Captain Colin Franklin Shaw (48), a highly experienced pilot with around 16,300 total flight hours (including more than 4,300 hours on the Boeing 737), and First Officer ...