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USAir Flight 1493 was a scheduled service from Syracuse, New York, making stops at Washington, DC, Columbus, Ohio, and LAX, before continuing to San Francisco. [3]: 1 On February 1, 1991, Flight 1493 was operated using a Boeing 737-300 (registration N388US [4]); after a crew change in Washington, DC, [3]: 1 it was under the command of Captain Colin Franklin Shaw (48), a highly experienced ...
Los Angeles, California, United States KNBC-TV: Pilot/reporter and former U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers along with cameraman George Spears are killed in the crash of a Bell 206B helicopter. The "KNBC News Telecopter" ran out of fuel which caused the accident. 2 0 Improper inflight decisions and mismanagement of fuel which lead to fuel ...
Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, United States, with several intermediate stops.On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped in the tail section by N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Cherokee owned by the Kramer family, and crashed into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, killing all ...
A young man piloting a small plane that crashed east of the Santa Paula Airport was being airlifted to a burn center in Los Angeles, authorities said. Pilot critically hurt, headed to burn center ...
1991 Los Angeles airport runway collision: Los Angeles: California: Boeing 737-300, Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner: USAir Flight 1493 crashed during landing into SkyWest Flight 5569, which had mistakenly been given approval by air traffic control to hold for takeoff on the same runway. All aboard the SkyWest flight, as well as 23 aboard the ...
Delta Air Lines Flight 89 was a scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Shanghai Pudong International Airport.On January 14, 2020, the Boeing 777-232ER conducting the flight had engine problems shortly after takeoff; while returning to the origin airport for an emergency landing, it dumped fuel over populated areas adjacent to the city of Los Angeles, resulting in skin and ...
In the first crash, an American Airlines jet that was taxiing to its gate clipped the wing of a parked Frontier Airlines plane, local ABC affiliate station WCVB reported. It was very scary. All of ...
On Aug. 2, 1985, around 6:05 p.m., the Delta Air Lines Flight 191 from Florida to Los Angeles with 163 people aboard crashed short of the runway at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and ...