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The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, MSN 47196, originally registered as CF-TLU, that was manufactured in 1968 and was delivered to Air Canada on April 7. It had logged 36825 airframe hours and 34987 takeoff and landing cycles and was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B engines.
The crew of the 727 saw the DC-9 and attempted to avoid the collision by rotating their aircraft for lift-off; however, the 727 had not reached flying speed and its rear fuselage struck the DC-9. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Both aircraft caught fire and were destroyed; all 42 people on board the DC-9 were killed, while 51 (50 passengers, one crew member) of ...
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As the DC-9 skidded, the left side was tilted over and the tail was inverted; this action caused the center section of the fuselage to compress and crush many of the passengers on board. [1]: 20 [11] A total of 25 passengers and three crew members died due to the crash; the final two fatalities succumbed while hospitalized.
December 20, 1972: Delta Air Lines Flight 954 a Convair 880, was at O'Hare International Airport taxing across runway 27L in heavy fog. At the same time, North Central Airlines Flight 575, a DC-9-31, took off from the same runway. The aircraft collided killing 10 on board the DC-9, injuring 17 others, while 101 remained uninjured. [14]
Avensa Flight 007 [1] was a domestic Venezuelan flight operated by Avensa Airlines on a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, which crashed on 11 March 1983 on a domestic flight from Caracas Airport to Barquisimeto Airport, Venezuela. It landed hard, skidded off of the runway and exploded. [2] [3] Twenty-two passengers and one crew member died. [2] [3]
With 155 dead in all, this was the deadliest crash involving a member of the original DC-9 family, as well as the worst crash in civil aviation history at the time it took place. [ 61 ] On September 9, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 , a DC-9-30, collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee near Fairland, Indiana .
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51: 35 4 39 † 14 Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 [29] 16 January 2017 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Boeing 747-400F: 32 20 52 † 20 Munich C-131 crash [30] 17 December 1960 Munich, Germany Convair C-131 Samaritan: 32 12 44 † ~200 Beijing Hawker Siddeley Trident crash [31] 14 March 1979 Beijing, China Hawker Siddeley HS-121 ...