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A hull loss is an aviation accident that damages the aircraft beyond economic repair, [1] resulting in a total loss. The term also applies to situations where the aircraft is missing, the search for its wreckage is terminated, or the wreckage is logistically inaccessible.
Pan Am Flight 93 was the first hull loss of a Boeing 747 (747-121), the result of terrorism after it was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. On September 6, 1970, a new Pan American World Airways aircraft flying from Amsterdam to New York City was hijacked and flown first to Beirut , then to Cairo .
As of March 2024, 180 aviation accidents and incidents have occurred, [1] including 38 hull-loss accidents, [2] resulting in a total of 1490 fatalities. [ 3 ] Through to 2015, the Airbus A320 family has experienced 0.12 fatal hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs, and 0.26 total hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs; one of ...
The accident resulted in the first hull loss and first fatal accident involving the 737NG. May 5, 2007 (): Kenya Airways Flight 507, a 737-800 carrying 108 passengers and 6 crew lost contact and crashed into a swamp on a flight to Nairobi, Kenya from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, after making a scheduled stop at Douala, Cameroon. There were no ...
The aircraft sustained minor damage and the three crew-members were not injured. Post-accident investigation found improper maintenance to the left main landing gear was at fault. 7 February 2006 UPS Airlines Flight 1307, cargo fire on landing approach to Philadelphia and resultant hull loss, no fatalities. [11]
The Saab 340B is a twin-engined turboprop commuter plane. [3] Before the hull loss of Crossair Flight 498, there had been only five crashes worldwide of the 400 Saab-340 plane types since 1984 of which three were hull losses.
On February 13, 2018, around noon local time, a Boeing 777-222 [a] operating as United Airlines Flight 1175 (UA1175), experienced an in-flight separation of a fan blade in the No. 2 (right) engine while over the Pacific Ocean en route from San Francisco International Airport to the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii. [1]
This was the first hull loss and the first fatal accident involving the Embraer E190 and as of 2025, the deadliest. The final investigation report, released in June 2012, concluded that the flight crew failed to observe safety procedures for operations in low visibility.