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Air & Sea Show. The Air & Sea Show is an annual air show founded by producer Mickey Markoff in 1995 in South Florida. [1] The show usually took place on the first weekend of May in Fort Lauderdale, and drew hundreds of thousands of people to the beach to watch. In recent years, the event has been scheduled during Memorial Day Weekend in Miami ...
May 25 – A Spitfire crashed in a field during a Battle of Britain event at RAF Coningsby just before 1.20pm, killing the pilot. [ 5 ] May 12 – Two jets touch wings during a formation flight at an air show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. An emergency was declared, but the planes were able to land without incident.
June 22 – Wings Over Long Island Airshow – (Westhampton, New York) – Two planes racing collided over Francis S. Gabreski Airport in front of 15,000 spectators. Pilot Dick Goodlett died when his aircraft crashed and burst into flames. The second plane crash-landed, critically injuring pilot Chris Kalishek.
4. Colgan Air Flight 3407 (marketed as Continental Connection Flight 3407) was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, US to Buffalo, New York, US on February 12, 2009. Colgan Air staffed and maintained the aircraft used on the flight that was scheduled, marketed, and sold by Continental Airlines under its Continental Connection ...
Lists of air show accidents and incidents give lists of accidents and incidents at air shows. They include: List of air show accidents and incidents in the 20th century. List of air show accidents and incidents in the 21st century. Categories: Lists of events lists. Aviation accidents and incidents at air shows.
Major air shows. Royal International Air Tattoo, England (2006) RAF Red Arrows, RAF Waddington Airshow (2013) Airbus Beluga at Airexpo 2014. A Douglas C-54 Skymaster, called Spirit of Freedom, a flying museum regarding the Berlin Airlift, at a Lancaster, Ohio air show (2009) Abbotsford International Airshow.
Sun ’n Fun Aerospace Expo (officially styled SUN 'n FUN) is a nonprofit organization in Lakeland, Florida dedicated to the promotion of aviation education. It is best known for the annual week-long fly-in and airshow at Lakeland Linder International Airport in Lakeland, Florida, usually held during late March or early April. [3][4][5][6]
Air France Flight 447. Air France Flight 447 (AF447 / AFR447) [b] was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. On 1 June 2009, inconsistent airspeed indications and miscommunication led to the pilots inadvertently stalling the Airbus A330.