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West Coast Airlines Flight 720 was a scheduled passenger flight in the northwest United States from Klamath Falls, Oregon to Seattle, Washington, with intermediate stops at Medford, Eugene and Portland, Oregon. On March 10, 1967, it crashed shortly after takeoff from Klamath Falls, killing all three crew members and the flight's lone passenger.
West Coast Airlines Flight 720: near Klamath Falls: Oregon: Fairchild F-27: The aircraft accumulated significant amounts of snow and ice while waiting for takeoff and crashed shortly after becoming airborne, presumably due to a stall. March 9, 1967 26 0 0 TWA Flight 553: Concord Township: Ohio: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15, Beechcraft Baron
N833NA, the Boeing 720 aircraft involved in the test. NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted a joint program for the acquisition, demonstration, and validation of technology for the improvement of transport aircraft occupant crash survivability using a large, four-engine, remotely piloted transport airplane in a controlled impact demonstration (CID).
A loss of oxygen is a leading theory for why an unresponsive business jet flew off course and over the nation’s capital Sunday before it crashed in rural Virginia. The Cessna Citation took off ...
The pilot of a business jet that flew over Washington and crashed in a remote part of Virginia appeared to be slumped over and unresponsive, three U.S. officials said Monday, recounting ...
A small plane crash near Virginia’s western border on Sunday killed all five people on board, including a juvenile, authorities said.
This was the first crash of a 707. [1] October 19: A Boeing 707-227 (N7071) crashed northeast of Arlington, Washington, while on a acceptance flight for Braniff International Airways. Four people were killed in the crash and four survived. [2]
The Boeing 720 is an American narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Announced in July 1957 as a 707 derivative for shorter flights from shorter runways, the 720 first flew on November 23, 1959.