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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 ...
It was the first loss of a Martin 2-0-2 aircraft, the worst disaster involving a Martin 2-0-2 to date, and with 37 fatalities, still ranks as the worst air crash in Wisconsin history. [ 189 ] On November 18, 1966, the crew departed Barksdale AFB , Louisiana, in B-52G (tail number 58‑0228) on a training flight to K. I. Sawyer AFB south of ...
Wreckage of Japan Airlines Flight 123, the worst single aircraft crash in history. Japan Airlines Flight 123 – Flight 123 was flying over Japan when part of its vertical stabilizer detached, causing some hydraulic loss which led to losing control. Flight crews tried to recover the plane and head back to Tokyo, but it was too late.
March 14 – Sterling Airways Flight 296, a Sud Caravelle flying from Colombo, Ceylon, to Copenhagen, Denmark, crashed near Kalba in the United Arab Emirates due to pilot error; all 112 on board died. This was the worst air disaster in the history of the UAE.
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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 ...
14 14 Continental Charters Flight 44-2: near Napoli: New York: Curtiss C-46 Commando: The aircraft struck terrain in poor weather and visibility due to the crew attempting to fly under visual flight rules in inappropriate conditions and at an insufficient altitude. December 16, 1951 58 0 0 1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash: Elizabeth: New Jersey
Japan Airlines Flight 123: Japan: Mount Osutaka: Boeing 747SR: Improper maintenance 520 Faulty repair after same plane suffered a tailstrike: the rear bulkhead failed which caused the tail fin to fall off and rupture all four hydraulic systems. The crash remains the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history. 1987-11-28