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On 20 January 1992, Air Inter Flight 148, an Airbus A320-111 registered as F-GGED, crashed into a high ridge near Mount Sainte-Odile in the Vosges mountains while on final approach to Strasbourg at the end of a scheduled flight from Lyon. This accident resulted in the deaths of 87 of the aircraft's 96 occupants (six crew members, 90 passengers ...
Older model aircraft such as the Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Boeing 737-100/-200, Boeing 747-100/SP/200/300, Airbus A300, and Airbus A310, which were first flown during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, have had higher rates of fatal accidents.
In 2012, Boeing released a study of worldwide commercial jet airplane accidents between 1959 and 2011, reporting 1,798 accidents, 603 categorized as fatal, which accounted for 29,025 onboard fatalities and an additional 1,173 ground or noncommercial aircraft collision deaths. [10] The Boeing analysis suggests a decrease of commercial aviation ...
Eastern Air Lines Flight 853, flying the Constellation, approached TWA Flight 42, flying the Boeing, which appeared to be at the same altitude. Evasive maneuvers by both aircraft led to a mid-air collision. The Boeing safely made an emergency landing while the Constellation crashed, with 4 fatalities. November 11, 1965 43 35 48
The first accident involving a 737 was on July 19, 1970, when a 737-200 was damaged beyond repair during an aborted takeoff, with no fatalities; the first fatal accident occurred on December 8, 1972, when United Airlines Flight 553 crashed while attempting to land, with 45 (43 on board plus 2 on the ground) fatalities; and, as of February 2024 ...
Two fatal crashes of the 737 Max in late 2018 and early 2019 that killed 346 people were tied to a design flaw in the plane and led to a 20-month grounding of Boeing’s best-selling model. It had ...
Boeing, the company’s main competitor, has been struggling to bounce back in recent years — first from crashes of two of its passenger jets in 2018 and 2019 and then from an in-flight incident ...
December 8 – United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashed after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 43 of 60 people on board and two people on the ground; one of the fatalities is Dorothy Hunt, wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt. The crash was the first fatal crash involving the 737-200.