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On February 13, 2018, around noon local time, a Boeing 777-222 [a] airplane, operating as United Airlines Flight 1175 (UA1175), experienced an in-flight separation of a fan blade in the No. 2 (right) engine while over the Pacific Ocean en route from San Francisco International Airport to the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii. [1]
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure. The aircraft was able to ...
Indian Airlines Flight 814 was hijacked by terrorists and flown to Kandahar, Afghanistan. One passenger was killed by the hijackers; the other 192 aboard survived. [6] 1 192 November 12, 1996 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 collided in mid-air with Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907. The cause was determined ...
The plane stalled, nose-dived, slid, and exploded near Alma-Ata. All 166 people were killed in Kazakhstan's deadliest plane crash. Aeroflot Flight 5463 – The aircraft crashed into the western slope of Dolan Mountain while on approach to Almaty. All 90 passengers and crews on board were killed. Crash site of SCAT Airlines Flight 760
It is the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history, the first fatal Pacific Southwest Airlines incident, and at the time, the deadliest aircraft incident in the United States. [ 38 ] PSA Flight 1771 crashed near Cayucos, California , on December 7, 1987, after being hijacked by a disgruntled former airline employee, killing all 43 on ...
A spokesperson for United Airlines told The Independent: “United flight 2428 was descending to SFO on September 19 with the seatbelt sign on when it slowed its descent to account for another ...
December 8 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashed after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 43 of 60 people on board and two people on the ground; one of the fatalities is Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. The crash was the first fatal crash involving the 737-200.
Ice ingested into engines; dual engine failure Crash landed in open field near Gottröra 0: 129 12 November 1995 American Airlines Flight 1572: MD-83: Hartford, Connecticut: Engines ingested tree debris Aircraft was low on approach, clipped trees on ridge-line. One engine failed, other engine severely degraded. Aircraft glided to runway. [12] 0: 78