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United Flight 826 proceeded beyond its clearance limit and the confines of the airspace allocated to the flight by Air Traffic Control. A contributing factor was the high speed of the United DC-8 as it approached the Preston intersection, coupled with the change of clearance which reduced the en-route distance along Victor 123 by approximately ...
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16 December 1960 United Air Lines Flight 826, a DC-8-11 (named Mainliner Will Rogers) collided over Staten Island, New York City with TWA Flight 266, a Lockheed Constellation (named Star of Sicily). [1] The 1960 New York mid-air collision killed all 128 people on both aircraft and six on the ground. 19 January 1961
December 16, 1960 Flight 266, operated by Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Star of Sicily collided with United Air Lines Flight 826, a DC-8, over Staten Island, New York, killing all 128 on board both aircraft; another five (later six) on the ground also die. The DC-8 had been flying too fast and left the airspace assigned to it.
Flight 826 may refer to United Airlines Flight 826. Mid-air collision on 16 December 1960; Aeroflot Flight 826, crashed on 3 August 1969;
On December 28, 1997, United Airlines Flight 826 was operated by a Boeing 747-100 flying from New Tokyo International Airport (Narita), Japan to Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. Two hours into the flight, at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m), the plane received reports of severe clear-air turbulence in the area and the seat belt sign ...
The new Netflix drama, directed by J.A. Bayona, tells the story of the disaster, which happened in October 1972 when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes mountains, immediately ...
December 16, 1960: 134: 0 UA Flight 826 / TWA Flight 266: Descent United States New York City: February 1, 1963: 104: 0 MEA Flight 265 / Turkish Air Force flight: Descent Turkey Ankara: December 4, 1965: 4: 108 TWA Flight 42 / Eastern Airlines Flight 853: Descent United States Carmel, New York: March 9, 1967: 26: 0 TWA Flight 553 / Private ...