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United States Auto Club#1978 plane crash – killed eight racing officials and their pilot; 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue – killed two divers rescuing 12 youth footballers and their coach from a flooded cave; 2018 Leicester helicopter crash – killed five, including football club owner and two staff members
California Polytechnic State University football team plane crash: Swanton Township: Ohio: Curtiss C-46 Commando: The aircraft crashed during takeoff due to a premature liftoff by the pilot. Contributing factors were that the aircraft was overloaded and partial loss of power from one engine. October 4, 1960 62 10 10 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 ...
In light of the crash of the Wichita State football team just over a month earlier, school officials originally planned to cancel the flight. Instead, they opted to fly on a different plane than the one which crashed in Colorado (a Martin 4-0-4), and chartered the Southern Airways DC-9. [ 7 ]
Five killed in Virginia plane crash; plane departed from Fort Lauderdale
The family of a passenger who died in the midair collision near Washington, D.C., filed legal claims against the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the United States Army, seeking $250 ...
The PSA Airline-operated commercial plane, which had 60 passengers and 4 crew members, had been headed for the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Virginia from Wichita, Kans. when ...
All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, including 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the helicopter. It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 24 years.
Virginia State Police said officers were notified of the potential crash shortly before 4 p.m. and rescuers reached the crash site by foot around four hours later.