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McDonnell Douglas: YAV-8C Harrier 158384 Crashed into the sea near San Diego, California. [82] 14 October 1980 No. 3 Squadron RAF: Harrier GR3 XV792 Rolled over and crashed while in the hover at RAF Gutersloh due to fatigue in a control rod from the starboard aileron to the starboard roll reaction shutter.
The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine ground-attack aircraft that constitutes the second generation of the Harrier family, capable of vertical or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL).
A McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, BuNo 162955, of VMA-231, crashed on the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina as the pilot was doing "touch and go" landings. The aircraft's flaps jammed when moisture got into the flap controller causing it to short out.
The aircraft, a 16-year-old McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 with the registration number HL7328, had at the time of the accident, performed 11,440 [citation needed] 73: The DC-10’s seventh deadliest crash happened on October 31, 1979 with Western Airlines Flight 2605 when it mistakenly landed on a closed runway at Mexico City International Airport ...
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control.
The aircraft involved was a twin-engined McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration number N312RC), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft. [ 1 ] : 1 The jet was manufactured in 1981, entered service with Republic Airlines , and was acquired by Northwest Airlines in its merger with ...
The Harrier, informally referred to as the Harrier jump jet, is a family of jet-powered attack aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations (V/STOL). Named after the bird of prey , [ 1 ] it was originally developed by British manufacturer Hawker Siddeley in the 1960s.
Seating chart for American Airlines Flight 1420 created by the NTSB, revealing the location of passengers and lack of injury, severity of injuries, and deaths. The aircraft involved in the incident was a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration N215AA [2]), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft.