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The DC-9-31, registration N975NE, [3] serial number 47075, was manufactured in September 1967 and had 14,639 flight hours at the time of the accident. The jetliner was one of the aircraft that Delta Air Lines acquired in their 1972 merger with Northeast Airlines, to whom the aircraft was originally delivered.
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1976 (15 P) Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in 1976" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
In St. Louis, live news reports about the hijacking prompted David J. Hanley, a 30-year-old businessman, to crash his 1972 Cadillac at 80 mph through two airport fences, travel down the runway at high speed, and crash into the nose gear of the plane, which was beginning to taxi. The demolished car lodged under the fuselage and one wing.
An already hectic holiday travel day was made more chaotic with two separate plane collisions on the tarmac at Boston Logan International Airport just hours apart on Monday.
The crash claimed all 16 passengers and the two flight crew aboard and is the worst aviation accident in Minnesota history. On March 7, 1950, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 hit a flagpole on approach to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport and crashed into a house.
The Cape Air plane departed Nantucket Memorial Airport in Massachusetts at 5:35 p.m. and landed in Boston at 6:14 p.m., according to FlightAware, a site which tracks flight paths.
A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON/Star-Telegram There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than ...
American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727-100, crashed at St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands on April 27, 1976, while on a domestic scheduled passenger flight originating at T. F. Green Airport in Rhode Island and ending at Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, with an intermediate stop at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Out of the ...