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Aero Flight 311, often referred to as the Kvevlax air disaster, was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aero O/Y (now Finnair) between Kronoby and Vaasa in Finland. The aircraft, a Douglas DC-3 , crashed in the municipality Kvevlax ( Finnish : Koivulahti ), nowadays part of Korsholm ( Finnish : Mustasaari ) on 3 January 1961 ...
3 January 1961: Aero Flight 311, a DC-3 that was being flown by alcohol-intoxicated and sleep-deprived pilots crashed in Kvevlax, Finland (Koivulahti in Finnish), with the loss of all 25 on board. [5] The accident remains the deadliest in Finnish aviation history.
July 21 – Alaska Airlines Flight 779, a Douglas DC-6 cargo plane operating under contract to the United States Air Force′s Military Air Transport Service, strikes an embankment just before landing at Shemya Air Force Base on Shemya in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and crashes, killing the entire crew of six. July 24
A couple has gone viral for accusing American Airlines staff of keeping them from their dogs after their flight was delayed. The married couple from Florida, identified by the DailyMail as 42-year ...
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-3 A that occurred in 1961, including aircraft based on the DC-3 airframe such as the Douglas C-47 Skytrain and Lisunov Li-2. Military accidents are included; and hijackings and incidents of terrorism are covered, although acts of war involving military aircraft are outside the ...
Two dogs that survived an animal rescue plane crash have found forever homes.. The crash, which occurred on Nov. 24, 2024, in upstate New York, resulted in the death of one dog and pilot, 49-year ...
Flight 311 may refer to: Aero Flight 311, plane crash in 1961; Thai Airways International Flight 311, plane crash in 1992 This page was last edited on 6 July ...
Johnny Shaw/Flickr. When landing in St. Maarten, on the Caribbean island's Dutch side at Princess Juliana airport, a certain strip of beach is visible out the plane window.