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Air Canada Flight 797: Hebron: Kentucky: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32: A fire developed in an aft lavatory, eventually filling the plane with smoke and destroying some electrical cables. The plane made a successful emergency landing, but during evacuation a flashover occurred that caused the death of half the original occupants. January 11, 1983 3 0 0
1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, a Boeing 747-168B of Saudi Arabian Airlines collided with Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76. The collision killed 349 people onboard both aircraft. Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747-237B of Air India crashed 101 seconds after taking off from Sahar Airport killing all 213 occupants onboard.
Modern San Francisco airport diagram showing runway layout (in 1971 runway 28R was more than 2,000 feet (610 m) shorter) [5] Flight 845's crew had planned and calculated its takeoff for runway 28L but discovered only after pushback that this runway had been closed hours earlier for maintenance, [6] and that the first 1,000 feet (300 m) of runway 01R, the preferential runway at that time, [a ...
Air Canada Flight 759 accidentally lined up with a taxiway on final approach and nearly collided with taxiing planes at San Francisco International Airport. The plane landed safely. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 went down on January 31, 2000, in the Pacific Ocean about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north of Anacapa Island, California. The two pilots, three ...
JetBlue Flight 292 making an emergency landing in September 2005 with its nose landing gear turned sideways.. This list of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline summarizes airline accidents and all kinds of minor incidents by airline company with flight number, location, date, aircraft type, and cause.
The plane — Air Canada Express flight 7121 — took off bound for Vancouver, British Columbia, about 40 minutes late at 9:52 a.m., according to FlightAware, an online plane tracking system.
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This was the first loss of a Boeing 747. May 29, 1971 Flight 442, a Boeing 707, was hijacked to Cuba by one person. [55] July 2, 1972 Flight 841, a Boeing 747, was hijacked over the South China Sea by 24-year-old Nguyen Thai Binh in protest of the US involvement in the Vietnam War as well has his expulsion from the US. The aircraft continued to ...