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Alexander and McCusker were accompanied by Donald McGregor, Onassis's regular pilot, who was recovering from an eye infection. [17] A few seconds after takeoff from runway 33, the plane's right wing dropped and stayed down, and the plane crashed shortly after losing control, in a flight lasting no more than 15 seconds. [18]
January 22 – The personal Piaggio P.136L-2 airplane of Alexander Onassis crashed at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece. [6] A few seconds after takeoff from runway 33, the plane's right wing dropped and stayed down, and the plane crashed shortly after losing balance. [7]
American businessman Alexander Onassis, the son of Aristotle Onassis and Athina Livanos and brother of Christina Onassis, and the other two men on board suffer serious injuries when his personal Piaggio P.136L-2 amphibian crashes immediately after takeoff from Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece. Onassis dies the following day ...
The crash occurred as a result of the reversing of the aileron connecting cables during the installation of a new control column on the plane. President of Olympic Aviation, Alexander Onassis was evaluating a new pilot (Donald McCusker) and was accompanied by his then regular pilot (Donald McGregor). McCusker and McGregor survived with serious ...
January 5 – In the 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, a Lisunov Li-2 crashed near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Soviet Union, killing all 19 on board. March 7 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 , a Martin 2–0–2, crashed near Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport after hitting a flagpole during approach, killing all 13 on board ...
The Beechcraft plane took off from Santa Monica Airport at 5:57 p.m. on Tuesday and landed at Catalina Airport at 6:20 p.m., according to Flight Aware. Safai's wife told NBC4 that he was on board ...
William Anders, an Apollo astronaut who snapped the iconic 1968 “Earthrise” photo of the Earth while orbiting the moon, died at age 90 in a plane crash near the San Juan Islands on Friday ...
On 23 January 1973, Aristotle Onassis' son, Alexander, died in a plane crash; the event came as a shock to the Greek people and a new phase began for Olympic Airways. A few months later, Onassis sold all of the OA shares to the Greek state and he died shortly afterwards (in 1975).