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The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897, when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. [1] The incident (similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later) is claimed to have resulted in a fatality of the pilot. The pilot was "not of this world" and was said to be an alien. [2]
A motorist captured the moment leading up and the aftermath of a small plane crash near a highway Victoria, Texas that destroyed three vehicles and left four people injured.
The Tenerife airport disaster, the worst accident in aviation history, is a prime example of an accident in which a chain of events and errors can be identified leading up to the crash. [9] Pilot error, communications problems, fog, and airfield congestion (due to a bomb threat and explosion at another airport) all contributed to this ...
Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in Texas" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The accident was the third airplane crash in the United States between 1975 and 1985 where more than 100 people were killed due to a microburst. These crashes likely helped to drive the need to ...
The NTSB also received a report analyzing 250,327 departures involving 737-500s and found that only four of those departures (less than 0.002%) had experienced a crosswind above 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph), [4] meaning that for a commercial pilot to have real-life experience with crosswinds anywhere near the velocity that hit Continental ...
Screech. Boom. Crash! In today's fast-paced world, car crashes feel like simply a fact of life. In 1913, before cars dominated the roads, there were only 1.3 million vehicles registered and 4,200 ...
The Texas Department of Public Safety announced that rescue units had discovered no survivors. [7] The wreckage was spread over a 2- to 4-square-mile (10 km 2) area, and some pieces fell into the Colorado River. [8] Diamonds worth approximately $500,000 (1991 value; $1,100,000 [9] in 2023) were discovered in the wreckage, but they had no role ...