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Animated reconstruction of the crash by the Dutch Safety Board While on final approach for landing, the aircraft was about 2,000 ft (610 m) above ground, when the left-hand (captain's) radio altimeter suddenly changed from 1,950 feet (590 m) to read −8 feet (−2.4 m) altitude, although the right-hand (co-pilot's) radio altimeter functioned ...
1951 Miami Airlines C-46 crash; 1953 Sabena Convair CV-240 crash; 1961 Bogoroditsk Il-18 incident; 1965 Hong Kong US Marines KC-130F Crash; 1970 Dominicana de Aviación DC-9 crash; 1977 British Airtours Boeing 707 crash; 1979 Interflug Ilyushin Il-18 crash; 1983 TAMPA Colombia Boeing 707 crash; 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash; 2001 Omsk An-70 ...
18 August 1973 - Aeroflot Flight 13, an Antonov An-24B operated by Aeroflot crashes on takeoff due to engine failure, killing 56. 5 December 1995 - Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 – Shortly after taking off from Nakhchivan Airport, the Tupolev Tu-134's no. 1 engine failed. The pilots seemed to misread it as a failure on engine no 2.
Jun. 12—Federal investigators say engine failure due to poor maintenance caused a helicopter crash nearly two years ago that claimed the lives of four Bernalillo County first responders.
The crash killed all 37 occupants on board the aircraft, including 4 crew members and 33 passengers. [1] Because the aircraft did not have a CVR nor an FDR, the cause was never determined. On 30 September 1957, Unzen , Flight 108, a Douglas DC-4-1009 (JA6011), suffered failure of all four engines after takeoff from Osaka Air Base , at an ...
Both crashes happened around 10 a.m. At noon, the sheriff’s office said the southbound lanes of the Stretch were reopened, but traffic backups on U.S. 1 in Florida City and on the Turnpike ...
A Dallas Fire-Rescue engine crashed off an expressway bridge on Sunday and landed on a railway track below, injuring four firefighters, officials said. The crash happened just after 6 a.m. on the ...
In 1987, on LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055, the failure of the aircraft's inner left (#2) engine damaged the outer left (#1) engine, setting both on fire and causing loss of flight controls, leading to a crash that killed all 183 people on board. In both cases, the turbine shaft in engine #2 disintegrated due to production defects in the ...