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The DC-9-31, registration N975NE, [3] serial number 47075, was manufactured in September 1967 and had 14,639 flight hours at the time of the accident. The jetliner was one of the aircraft that Delta Air Lines acquired in their 1972 merger with Northeast Airlines, to whom the aircraft was originally delivered.
In St. Louis, live news reports about the hijacking prompted David J. Hanley, a 30-year-old businessman, to crash his 1972 Cadillac at 80 mph through two airport fences, travel down the runway at high speed, and crash into the nose gear of the plane, which was beginning to taxi. The demolished car lodged under the fuselage and one wing.
Lockheed TriStar 1 (N31007) burned out while parked at Logan International Airport following an unexplained fire; no casualties. [44] August 26, 1974 A fire was discovered in the rear baggage compartment of a Boeing 707 after landing at Rome. A bomb placed on board malfunctioned and started a fire instead of exploding. [45] November 26, 1975
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 ...
The accident was the third airplane crash in the United States between 1975 and 1985 where more than 100 people were killed due to a microburst. These crashes likely helped to drive the need to ...
August 2, 1985: Delta Air Lines Flight 191, operating a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, on a Fort Lauderdale–Dallas/Fort Worth- Los Angeles route, suffered a severe microburst-induced wind shear which caused the plane to crash. 134 out of 163 on board were killed (2 survivors died more than 30 days after the accident) and one person on the ground in ...
1976 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crash; 1976 Sabah Air GAF Nomad crash; 1976 Venezuelan Air Force C-130 crash; A. Aeroflot Flight 418; Aeroflot Flight 909;
Aerial footage of the crash site from local news showed the wrecked fire utility truck amid debris littered across the road. All told, nine paramedic units, 12 ambulances and three helicopters ...