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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
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control.
December 8 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashed after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 43 of 60 people on board and two people on the ground; one of the fatalities is Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. The crash was the first fatal crash involving the 737-200.
List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in 50 or more fatalities. Initial sort order is by total fatalities (descending) and then by date (most recent to most distant). Deaths T Incident [a] Aircraft Location Phase Airport Distance Date Tot C P G N; est. 1,700 [b] 11 81 est. 1,600 † INH American Airlines Flight 11: Boeing 767-223ER
A pilot is dead after his small plane crashed into a home just shy of the runway at Chicago's Midway International Airport. The turboprop aircraft went down around 2:45 a.m., sources told WBBM .
1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, A plane hijacking leading to three planes getting destroyed: a Boeing 737, a Boeing 757, and a Boeing 707 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision , a 1990 airport collision between a Boeing 727 and a McDonnell Douglas DC-9
Air Chicago Freight Airlines N9446Z crash [206] 6 August 1976 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. North American B-25 Mitchell: 1 0 1: N/A Indian Airlines VT-EFL crash [24] 12 January 1977 Hyderabad, India Boeing 737: 1 0 1: 1 (on aircraft) Air Inter F-BHRZ crash [24] 21 February 1977 Bordeaux, France Sud Caravelle: 1 68 69: 2 (all on aircraft) Aeroflot ...
Flight 2216 is currently the deadliest plane crash of the 2020s decade, the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft surpassing Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, and the second-deadliest accident involving a Boeing 737 behind Lion Air Flight 610. 2024 marked the deadliest year in commercial aviation since 2018. [113]