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USAir Flight 1493 was a scheduled service from Syracuse, New York, making stops at Washington, DC, Columbus, Ohio, and LAX, before continuing to San Francisco. [3]: 1 On February 1, 1991, Flight 1493 was operated using a Boeing 737-300 (registration N388US [4]); after a crew change in Washington, DC, [3]: 1 it was under the command of Captain Colin Franklin Shaw (48), a highly experienced ...
USAir Flight 1493 crashed during landing into SkyWest Flight 5569, which had mistakenly been given approval by air traffic control to hold for takeoff on the same runway. All aboard the SkyWest flight, as well as 23 aboard the USAir flight, perish. December 3, 1990 8 10 190 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision: Romulus: Michigan
Iberia Flight 350 (a Boeing 727) was involved in a runway collision with Aviaco Flight 134 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) after taxiing across a fog-shrouded runway into the path of the DC-9 while it was taking off. Only 42 people survived, all on Flight 350, at least 30 of which sustained injuries. [14] 20 December 1983: 1 (on the ground) 86
US Airways Flight 1549 was a commercial flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York City to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, that on January 15, 2009, made an emergency water landing in the Hudson River about six minutes after takeoff. USAir Flight 405 crashed during takeoff from LaGuardia Airport on March 22 ...
Just after 7 p.m. Sept. 8, 1994, a USAir flight carrying 127 passengers and five crew members suddenly crashed into a Hopewell Township hillside as it was preparing to land at Pittsburgh ...
The current title of USAir Flight 1493 seems to undermine Skywest 5569 at a first glance. I couldn't find any archives about this, so I'm bringing up the question here. Tntad 02:44, 25 February 2018 (UTC) Your suspicion is correct.
An aerial view of the US Air Flight 427 crash site from 1,000 feet in the air on Sept. 13, 1994. The plane entered what engineers call an aerodynamic stall, greatly reducing the lift on the wings.
During the 1990s, a series of issues affecting the rudder of Boeing 737 passenger aircraft resulted in multiple incidents. In two separate accidents (United Airlines Flight 585 and USAir Flight 427), pilots lost control of their aircraft due to a sudden and unexpected rudder movement, and the resulting crashes killed everyone on board, 157 people in total. [1]