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The Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia is a twin-turboprop 30-passenger commuter airliner designed and manufactured by the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer. It was the first turboprop aircraft that had an APU. The EMB 120 began development during 1974.
The PT-ZBA took its maiden flight on July 27th, 1983. The Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia was designed as a regional turboprop aircraft, capable of carrying passengers and cargo efficiently. The airliner was used only by Embraer as a demonstrator of the EMB-120 and was never used by any other airline. [1]
The involved was an Embraer 120RT Brasilia, registered as N33701 with serial number 120077. It was delivered to Continental Express in 1988, three years before the accident, and had accumulated 7,229 flight hours through 10,009 cycles.
The aircraft involved was an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia (registration number N270AS), manufactured on November 30, 1990. Equipped with two Pratt & Whitney PW-118 engines and Hamilton Standard 14RF-9 propellers, it received its U.S. standard airworthiness certificate on December 20.
On August 21, 1995, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia flying from Atlanta to Gulfport, crashed in the community of Burwell between the cities Bowdon, Georgia and Carrollton, Georgia. 9 of the 29 passengers and crew on board were killed as a result of the accident.
The Air Littoral Flight 1919 crash was an aviation disaster that occurred on 21 December 1987 when an Embraer 120 Brasilia, operated by Air Littoral for Air France, [1] performing a regional flight between Brussels, Belgium, and Bordeaux, France, crashed into a forest in the commune of Eysines, in the department of Gironde, during approach to Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport, resulting in the deaths ...
Comair Flight 3272 was a Comair flight from Cincinnati to Detroit on Thursday, January 9, 1997. While on approach for landing, the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia aircraft crashed nose-down 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport at 15:54 EST , killing all 29 people on board.
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