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American Airlines Flight 63 (Flagship Ohio) near Trammel: Kentucky: Douglas DC-3: The flight lost control due to severe turbulence and a downdraft caused by a thunderstorm. January 21, 1943 19 0 0 Pan Am Flight 1104: near Ukiah: California: Martin M-130: The flight became off-course in poor weather at night and struck a mountain. October 23 ...
List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in 50 or more fatalities. Initial sort order is by total fatalities (descending) and then by date (most recent to most distant). Deaths T Incident [a] Aircraft Location Phase Airport Distance Date Tot C P G N; est. 1,700 [b] 11 81 est. 1,600 † INH American Airlines Flight 11: Boeing 767-223ER
It is the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history, the first fatal Pacific Southwest Airlines incident, and at the time, the deadliest aircraft incident in the United States. [38] PSA Flight 1771 crashed near Cayucos, California, on December 7, 1987, after being hijacked by a disgruntled former airline employee, killing all 43 on ...
The Japan Airlines A350 in flames after landing in Tokyo in January. All 379 on board survived (AFP/Getty) Families are grieving after two aviation tragedies within four days killed more than 200 ...
There were 30 such accidents recorded in 2023, the most recent year for which full-year accident data are available, amounting to a risk of one accident every 1.26 million flights, says IATA.
December 8 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashed after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 43 of 60 people on board and two people on the ground; one of the fatalities is Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. The crash was the first fatal crash involving the 737-200.
American Airlines Flight 587 On Nov. 12, 2001, an Airbus A300 crashed into a neighborhood in Queens, New York, two months after 9/11 in 2001, according to ABC 7 NY. The plane carried 260 people.
Indian Airlines suspended all flights to and from Nepal for some time, fearing a lack of security at check-in. [14] Yeti Airlines Flight 103 – On 8 October 2008, a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter carrying 19 people crashed into terrain in bad weather. The Captain was the sole survivor of the crash.