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Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash: near Gillsburg: Mississippi: Convair CV-240: The aircraft crashed due to fuel exhaustion caused by the crew's failure to adequately monitor its fuel. Lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in the crash. April 4, 1977 72 22 22 Southern Airways Flight 242: New Hope: Georgia: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
Two passengers who survived the initial crash died months later. 13. December 16, 1960 † 134 (including 6 on the ground) N/A 0 1960 New York mid-air collision: Brooklyn, New York, and Staten Island, New York: One passenger, an 11-year-old boy who was on United Airlines Flight 826, survived the initial crash but died of pneumonia the next day. 14.
December 29 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flying from New York to Miami, crashed in the Florida Everglades when the crew was distracted by a faulty gear-down light, resulting in the deaths of 101 of the 176 people on board. This was the first crash of a widebody aircraft and the first loss of a Lockheed Tristar.
Bodies of 41 people killed when an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided in the air over Washington, DC, Wednesday night have been recovered from the wreckage, officials said Friday.
All 64 people aboard the American Airlines jet and three aboard the Army Black Hawk ... Potomac River today. ... of the state’s ice skating community who died in the D.C. plane crash.
Sixty-four people were on board the plane, which departed from Wichita, Kansas. ... at a prayer vigil for victims of the plane crash of the American Eagle flight 5342, at Wichita City Hall, in ...
Egyptian swimmer who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Egyptian Air Force when his Spitfire collided in mid-air with another Spitfire over Port Said. Paris Kanellakis: Greece 1995 Computer scientist, professor American Airlines Flight 965: Buga, Colombia Navigational errors by flight crew William Kapell: United States 1953
The U.S. had not had a major commercial plane crash since 2009, when a Colgan Air wreck outside Buffalo, New York, killed 50 people, including one on the ground.