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The crew failed to maintain sufficient altitude awareness during approach in poor visibility, largely due to distracting themselves with impertinent conversation. The accident was the first to eventually precipitate the sterile cockpit rule. January 30, 1974 96 5 5 Pan Am Flight 806: Pago Pago: American Samoa: Boeing 707-321B
[23] [24] Later that April, investigators' findings prompted the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to order the immediate inspection of Hartzell propellers similar to those on the accident aircraft. [25] [26] The accident was attributed to metal fatigue of the propeller hub caused by improper design and manufacturing. [23]
This was the worst aviation accident in the Atlantic Ocean at the time and remains the worst ever involving the Latécoère 631. August 29 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421, a Martin 2–0–2, crashed near Winona, Minnesota, due to structural failure of a wing, killing all 37 on board in the worst ever accident involving the Martin 2–0–2 ...
FAA RI Rank [a] [8] NTSB Accident ID (links to reports) [9] Refs. 2023-01-09 Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, California Air traffic control cleared a plane to land in the same location where a plane was already being inspected. B [10] Not investigated by NTSB [1] 2023-01-12 Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Maryland
After this accident, airlines began performing pre-flight safety demonstrations for over-water flights. Prinair Flight 191 crashed while attempting to land at Mercedita Airport on June 24, 1972. Five people died in the accident. [196] Vieques Air Link Flight 901A crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after taking off from Vieques, Puerto Rico, on ...
List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan; List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War; List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War
The FAA report stated, "There is no record of warranty claim by GEAE for defective material and no record of any credit for GEAE processed by Alcoa or TIMET". [1]: 53–55 GE records of the second disk having the serial number of the crash disk indicate that it was made with an RMI Titanium Company titanium billet supplied by Alcoa. Research of ...
A U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II in flight. Operations of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II family began in 1995 with the Joint Strike Fighter program.Since its first flight in 2006, the aircraft has faced substantial controversy, shortages in its research and development supply, [1] and safety concerns due to incidents. [2]