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On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
An Air Midwest Beechcraft 1900D operating for USAir Express, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident. Air Midwest Flight 5481 (operating as a US Airways Express flight under a franchise agreement with US Airways) was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport near Charlotte, North Carolina, to Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport in ...
April 12, 1977: Delta Air Lines Flight 1080 a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, while mid-flight on the San Diego to Los Angeles leg en route to Atlanta, the left elevator of the L-1011 stuck in the upwards position, causing the plane to pitch upward, nearly put the plane into a stall, however the crew was able to counteract the pitch by reducing the ...
The crash resulted from loss of control due to failure of the airplane's elevator cable. [1] Frequent takeoff and landing are believed to have been a major factor in the crash, because of wear and tear on the elevator cables, inspected only at fixed time intervals, regardless of usage.
One of these was to evaluate every DC-8 on U.S. soil to prevent further crashes that could be caused by the disconnection of the right elevator tab. The Federal Aviation Administration subsequently found more than 100 maintenance violations by the airline, including one that caused another accident on April 26, 2001.
Flight 11 crashed almost midway into the North Tower's central core, [53] causing the ignited jet fuel to shoot through elevator shafts down as far as the basement and concourse levels, [54] with a flash fire exploding from elevators in the ground floor lobby, more than 90 floors below the impact. [55]
The NTSB stated the jammed elevators prevented the airplane from rotating during the takeoff. The jammed elevators condition was caused by dynamic high wind while parked like the Ameristar Charters Flight 9363 accident in 2017. Following the 2017 accident, Boeing recommended revised preflight procedures to detect jammed elevators. [7]
The crash occurred after the aircraft failed to rotate upwards, and the investigation focused on the aircraft's elevator system as a cause of the failure. The elevators of the MD-80 series aircraft are controlled indirectly via a system of servo tabs, using a design similar to the MD-80's predecessor, the DC-9. [1]: 12