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While originally scheduled to depart at 2:45 pm, delays due to snowfall pushed departure back to 6:01 pm. At takeoff, with a nearly full complement of 95 passengers and 6 crewmembers (3 flight crew and 3 stewardesses), the plane weighed in at 98,575 pounds (44,713 kg), just 265 pounds (120 kg) below maximum takeoff weight.
The aircraft based from USS Pine Island (AV-12), [2] Bureau Number 59098, callsign "George 1", hit a ridge and burned while supporting Operation Highjump. [2] The crash instantly killed Ensign Maxwell A. Lopez and Petty Officer Wendell K. Hendersin. [2] Two hours later, Petty Officer Frederick Williams also died. [2]
January 5 – In the 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, a Lisunov Li-2 crashed near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Soviet Union, killing all 19 on board. March 7 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 , a Martin 2–0–2, crashed near Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport after hitting a flagpole during approach, killing all 13 on board ...
The last commercial plane crash in the U.S. happened on Feb. 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed during landing near Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all 49 people onboard.
All 67 people on board the American Airlines regional jet and US Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair Wednesday night are presumed dead – a grim tragedy that has left a heartbreaking ...
The multigenerational loss evoked painful memories of the 1961 plane crash that killed 73 people – including all 18 members of the US figure skating team headed to the world figure skating ...
The captain of Flight 27 was William R. Broocke, aged 54, who had been employed by National Airlines since 1946 and had qualified to fly the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in 1972, accumulating 21,853 flight hours during his career with 801 hours on the DC-10.
Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation's first major commercial airline ...