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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 South African Airways Flight 295: Indian Ocean, 134 nautical miles (248 km) north-east of Mauritius,
The collision resulted in the tail of the much smaller Endeavor plane being nearly sliced from the body of the plane. The DeltaA350, the largest plane in Delta's fleet, suffered damage to its wing.
The tail of the plane separated from its main body and smashed into a three-story building, while the rest of the aircraft skidded and impacted the crowded Tras Lomita restaurant. It then exploded in what onlookers described as an "inferno". Parts of the aircraft then flew into a gas station and caused a massive fire. [3] [6]
Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered flight that crashed on 8 September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, 18 kilometres (10 nautical miles) north of Hirtshals.All fifty passengers and five crew members on board the aircraft died, making this the deadliest disaster in Danish aviation history. [1]
After over 100 people were killed in a South Korea plane accident, here are the worst accidents and crashes in aviation history. ... Much of the crash was captured on video. The plane was en route ...
A small, twin-engine aircraft with only the pilot inside crashed near a busy highway in Texas on Wednesday, according to officials. The incident, under investigation by the Federal Aviation ...
As the bodies of all on board were fragmented by the impact forces, the crash site was declared a biohazard. [1]: 73 Flight 4184 was the first hull loss, and was also tied with Aero Caribbean Flight 883 as the deadliest aviation accident involving an ATR 72 aircraft, until Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashed in 2023.
The crash of Flight 182 was preceded by a near-tragedy almost ten years earlier (also involving Pacific Southwest Airlines), when, on January 15, 1969, a PSA Boeing 727-214 (#N973PS) had collided with Cessna 182L (#N42242) on-ascent from San Francisco International Airport, bound for Ontario International Airport.