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Name Nationality Year Notability Flight/aircraft Crash site Cause/circumstances Aaliyah: United States 2001 Actress, singer, and model Cessna 402: Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas Maximum takeoff weight of airplane substantially exceeded, pilot under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. [1] Michael J. Adams: United States 1967 test pilot
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 ...
TWA Flight 6963 (28 December 1946) - A Lockheed L-049 Constellation operated by Trans World Airlines crashed short of the runway. 9 people died while 14 people survived. Pan Am Flight 1-10 (15 April 1948) - A Lockheed L-049-51-26 Constellation operated by Pan American World Airways crashed short of the runway. 30 people died and 1 person survived.
Photo Name Title Date Place Country Type Aircraft model (1862–1936) Arvid Lindman [3] former Prime Minister of Sweden: 9 December 1936 Croydon, Surrey United Kingdom: Airplane accident: Douglas DC-2 (1881–1943) Władysław Sikorski [3] Prime Minister of Poland 4 July 1943 Gibraltar United Kingdom: Airplane accident: Consolidated B-24 Liberator
The bodies of all 10 people who died in a crash of a Bering Air caravan in Alaska on Thursday have been recovered from the wreckage, according to the Alaska State Troopers. Bering Air Flight 445 ...
The plane carried 260 people. Everyone onboard and five people on the ground were killed in the crash. The American Airlines flight, which took off from Kennedy Airport, and was headed to the ...
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
The pilot of the plane that crashed down in Brazil last week was buried Monday in Sao Paulo, becoming the first person laid to rest among the 62 victims, as authorities continue working to ...