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Flight 841, a Boeing 727-31, went into a spiral dive over Saginaw, Michigan; the aircraft descended to 5000 feet in 63 seconds before the crew regained control and then made an emergency landing at Detroit; all 89 on board survived. The crew stated that the No. 7 slat extended due to a failed actuator, causing the dive, but the NTSB disputed ...
The Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the isolation of the No. 7 leading-edge slat in the fully or partially extended position after an extension of the Nos. 2, 3, 6 and 7 leading-edge slats and the subsequent retraction of the Nos. 2, 3, and 6 slats, and the captain's untimely flight control inputs to counter ...
American Airlines Flight 96 (AA96/AAL96) was a regular domestic flight operated by American Airlines from Los Angeles to New York via Detroit and Buffalo. On June 12, 1972, the left rear cargo door of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the flight blew open and broke off above Windsor, Ontario, after takeoff from Detroit, Michigan; the accident is thus sometimes referred to as the Windsor ...
An Emery Worldwide Douglas C-47A, N57131, was destroyed by fire following a taxiing accident at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois. The aircraft was due to operate a cargo flight. [9] 2 April An Aviogenex Tupolev Tu-134A (YU-AJS) crashed on landing at Libreville, Gabon, six crew and two passengers killed. [10] 13 May
The accident of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was covered in 2010 in "Alarming Silence", a season-9 episode of the internationally syndicated Canadian TV documentary series Mayday. [19] The sole survivor of the accident was a four-year old child who appeared in the 2013 documentary Sole Survivor.
The crew began their last shift before the accident near midnight on August 17, flying N814CK from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan and Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. The flight to Atlanta was supposed to be ...
In 1980, ZIA bought the mainland cargo business of Hawaiian Airlines (branded Hawaiian Air Cargo, also focused on Logair), including Hawaiian's Electras and its hangar at Macon, Georgia. [6] [7] [8] A 21 March 1982 windstorm collapsed the ZIA hangar at Macon and crushed two Lockheed Electras within. [9] The hangar was rebuilt, larger than ...
United Airlines Flight 976. This is a list of air rage incidents in commercial air travel that have been covered in the media. Air rage occurs when airline personnel or passengers act violently or disruptively towards others.