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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 ...
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to San Francisco.On December 7, 1987, the British Aerospace 146-200A, registration N350PS, crashed in San Luis Obispo County near Cayucos, [3] [4] after being hijacked by a passenger.
CANT Z.506 crash off Benghazi: 9 [9] 1939-11-17 C Spanish Air Force: Cap Juby Ju 52 ditching 10 [10] 1940-04-09 Ogwyn George 21 Male C RAF Sylling crash 9 [11] [12] 1941-10-30 Clarence Bates 41 Male C: Northwest Airlines: Northwest Airlines Flight 5: 14 Captain of Flight 5. Died in another plane crash one year later. [13] 1942-08-25 Sgt Andrew ...
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
The aircraft involved in the accident was an 11-year-old Boeing 737-3Q8 powered by two CFM International CFM56-3C1 engines. It was built by Boeing at its Renton factory in Renton , Washington and made its first flight on 9 October 1992 before it was delivered to TACA International Airlines as N373TA on 22 October 1992.
His 16-year-old daughter, Leah Kim, told Fox that her father spent his final years “doing what he loved, which was saving animals.” Many in the animal rescue community also mourned his ...
pilot error; see John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. United States 1944 older brother of John F. Kennedy: Consolidated B-24 Liberator modified as a flying bomb: near Blythburgh, Suffolk, England Killed on a combat flight during Operation Aphrodite: Dorjee Khandu: India 2011 Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Eurocopter
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.