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The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11, as well as United Airlines Flight 175 at the World Trade Center, and the subsequent collapse of both towers on 11 September 2001 caused 2,606 ground fatalities in addition to the deaths of the 157 people on board both flights, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
This was Germany's worst air disaster. August 16 – A Burma Airways Douglas C-47 crashed into the sea shortly after departing from Thandwe Airport in Burma, killing 25 of the 28 on board. August 31 – Aeroflot Flight 558 , an Ilyushin Il-18 en route from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, to Moscow in the Soviet Union, crashed following an in-flight fire ...
The deliberate crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 constitute, by a large margin, the deadliest aircraft disaster by number of victims on the ground, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and ...
With a total of 583 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest accident in aviation history. [ e ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The two aircraft had landed at Los Rodeos earlier in the day, and were among a number of aircraft diverted to Los Rodeos due to a bomb explosion at their intended destination of Gran Canaria Airport .
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
The accident was the world's deadliest aviation disaster at the time, and remains the deadliest accident in the history of United Airlines. (United Airlines Flight 175, with close to 1000 total deaths, is excluded as the flight crashed not by accident but due to a terrorist attack.) [2]
The captain was the sole survivor, though he would die a year later in another aviation accident. February 26, 1941 8 8 8 Eastern Air Lines Flight 21: Morrow: Georgia: Douglas DC-3: The aircraft struck terrain during approach due to improperly set altimeters. August 31, 1940 25 0 0 Lovettsville air disaster: Lovettsville: Virginia: Douglas DC-3