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The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, MSN 47196, originally registered as CF-TLU, that was manufactured in 1968 and was delivered to Air Canada on April 7. . It had logged 36825 airframe hours and 34987 takeoff and landing cycles and was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B engin
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As the DC-9 skidded, the left side was tilted over and the tail was inverted; this action caused the center section of the fuselage to compress and crush many of the passengers on board. [1]: 20 [11] A total of 25 passengers and three crew members died due to the crash; the final two fatalities succumbed while hospitalized.
Avensa Flight 007 [1] was a domestic Venezuelan flight operated by Avensa Airlines on a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, which crashed on 11 March 1983 on a domestic flight from Caracas Airport to Barquisimeto Airport, Venezuela. It landed hard, skidded off of the runway and exploded. [2] [3] Twenty-two passengers and one crew member died. [2] [3]
December 20, 1972: Delta Air Lines Flight 954 a Convair 880, was at O'Hare International Airport taxing across runway 27L in heavy fog. At the same time, North Central Airlines Flight 575, a DC-9-31, took off from the same runway. The aircraft collided killing 10 on board the DC-9, injuring 17 others, while 101 remained uninjured. [14]
The crew of the 727 saw the DC-9 and attempted to avoid the collision by rotating their aircraft for lift-off; however, the 727 had not reached flying speed and its rear fuselage struck the DC-9. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Both aircraft caught fire and were destroyed; all 42 people on board the DC-9 were killed, while 51 (50 passengers, one crew member) of ...
Douglas DC-9-32: None: Burned during maintenance Flight 155: Linate Airport: 10 December 1980: Douglas DC-9-32: Milan–Rome: Runway collision with a Mitsubishi Mu-2 Flight 404: Stadlerberg: 14 November 1990: Douglas DC-9-32: Milan–Zurich: CFIT: Flight 552: Okecie Airport: 17 December 1991: Douglas DC-9-32: Rome–Warsaw: Hard landing, runway ...
With 155 dead in all, this was the deadliest crash involving a member of the original DC-9 family, as well as the worst crash in civil aviation history at the time it took place. [ 61 ] On September 9, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 , a DC-9-30, collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee near Fairland, Indiana .