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October 19, 1988 – Indian Airlines Flight 113, a Boeing 737-200, had crashed on its final approach to Ahmedabad Airport, killing 133 of 135 people on board. [51] February 9, 1989 – A LAM Mozambique Airlines 737-200 registered as C9-BAD overran the runway while making an emergency landing at Lichinga Airport. There were no fatalities.
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.
Boeing 727-200: The aircraft crashed during an unstabilized approach when the aircraft descended prematurely. December 1, 1974 3 0 0 Northwest Airlines Flight 6231: Haverstraw: New York: Boeing 727-200: The crew of the ferry flight failed to activate the pitot tube heaters, leading to atmospheric icing of the tubes and erroneous airspeed readings.
March 20, 2019. New detail in Lion Air crash. An off-duty pilot who was riding in the cockpit of a Lion Air flight helped the flight crew control their diving Boeing 737 Max 8 jet on Oct. 28, 2019 ...
Boeing timeline: Inside the air giant’s turbulent journey in recent years. Chris Isidore and Matt Stiles, CNN. ... In addition to the loss of 346 lives in the two crashes, the problems have cost ...
The American plane maker has been under intense pressure since early January, when a panel blew off a brand-new Alaska Airlines 737 Max midflight. On Monday, Boeing announced that CEO David ...
The Boeing 737 MAX passenger airliner was grounded worldwide between March 2019 and December 2020 and again in 2024 – after 346 people died in two similar crashes in less than five months: Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019.
The Boeing 737 MAX airliner, which began service in 2017, was involved in two fatal accidents, Lion Air Flight 610 on October 29, 2018, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on March 10, 2019, that resulted from a malfunction of the aircraft's new flight stabilizing software, [1] the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS).