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Of the 146 people on board, 88 passengers and 4 crew members were killed. [22] On 20 January 1992, Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111 registered as F-GGED, crashed into a high ridge near Mount Sainte-Odile in the Vosges mountains while on final approach to Strasbourg at the end of a scheduled flight from Lyon. This accident resulted in ...
All 8 people on board the two aircraft were killed. July 27 – Two TV news AS-350 AStar helicopters collided in mid-air over Phoenix, Arizona , killing all four aboard. November 16 – Inclement weather caused a BHP Billiton AS350-B2 helicopter, [ 40 ] to crash in Angola , killing the helicopter's five passengers.
An Air Malta crewman performing a pre-flight inspection of an Airbus A320.. Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation.This includes preventing aviation accidents and incidents through research, educating air travel personnel, passengers and the general public, as well as the design of aircraft and aviation infrastructure.
Many variables affect the landing distance of an aircraft, such as approach speed, weight and the presence of either a tailwind or a headwind. For an Airbus A320, a landing speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) higher than normal can result in as much as a 25% increase in the runway length needed to stop an aircraft.
The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1] The first electric aircraft crash to result in ground fatalities was on 18 May 1935, when the Maxim Gorky was involved in a mid-air collision over Moscow ...
In a statement, the Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating after American Airlines Flight 271, an Airbus A320, "made a hard landing" on the runway around 2:00 p.m. local time.
A Florida TikToker responsible for the death of six farmworkers has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the 2022 Palm Beach fatal collision.
FlightAware's log shows the incident caused the flight's landing to be delayed just under 10 minutes. The plane arrived at the gate at 8:16 p.m., according to the online site.