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Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 was a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 that collided with a twin-engine Cessna 310 on July 19, 1967, over Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States. [2] Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew were killed, [ 2 ] including John T. McNaughton , an advisor to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara .
Piedmont Airlines, Inc. (/ ˈ p iː d m ɒ n t / PEED-mont) is an American regional airline headquartered at the Salisbury Regional Airport in Wicomico County, Maryland, [2] near the city of Salisbury. [3]
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The airline achieved annual revenues of about $90mm (over $250mm in 2024 dollars) before accepting a purchase offer from Piedmont Airlines in October 1985. The transaction closed in early 1986 and after a brief period, Empire merged into Piedmont. Piedmont itself merged into USAir in 1989 which, many years later, bought American Airlines in 2015.
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Landmark Aviation is derived from a company called "Garrett/Piedmont Hawthorne/Associated" which operated for about a year before being rebranded in October 2005. Garrett/Piedmont Hawthorne/Associated was in turn created from the merger of three companies ( Garrett Aviation , Piedmont Hawthorne, and Associated Air) which were all owned by the ...
The crash took place around 3 a.m. in Piedmont, a small affluent area community enclaved by Oakland in Alameda County and the cause of the crash remained under investigation by law enforcement Monday.
On October 30, 1959, Piedmont Airlines Flight 349, a Douglas DC-3, crashed on Bucks Elbow Mountain near Crozet, Virginia, killing the crew of three and all but one of its twenty-four passengers. The sole survivor was seriously injured and lay on the ground near the wreckage, still strapped in his seat.