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November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
Contributing to the accident was the pilot flying an unstabilized approach. March 4, 1987 9 20 10 Northwest Airlink Flight 2268: Romulus: Michigan: CASA C-212 Aviocar: The aircraft crashed during approach due to the pilot flying an unstabilized approach, specifically the captain's use of the beta propeller mode which caused asymmetric power at ...
There were 16 passengers on board the Jetstream 31, a twin-engine turboprop manufactured by British Aerospace, [3] for a flight from Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, with a stop at Chisholm-Hibbing Airport, in Hibbing. There were two pilots operating the aircraft: the captain was Marvin Falitz (42); the first officer was Chad ...
At the request of the Minneapolis ARTCC, Northwest's dispatchers made at least eight attempts to reach the pilots and urge them to reestablish radio contact, without success. [7] When other pilots in the area got word of the situation, they tried to help the controllers, attempting to reach the pilots as well.
On August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground.
This was also not the first time that a Northwest Martin 2-0-2 suffered an accident in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area; a little over a year and a half prior, on August 29, 1948, Flight 421, also flown by a 2-0-2, crashed on approach to the Twin Cities Airport in Fountain City, Wisconsin, 4.1 mi (6.6 km) northwest of Winona ...
Gerald Clayton Gustafson (September 14, 1928 – March 1, 2024) was an American fighter pilot during the period after World War II. His most notable achievements came during the Vietnam War, where he was awarded the Air Force Cross.
Delta Air Lines Flight 2422: While the pilot of this flight to Charlotte was taxiing out to the runway at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport on the morning of July 27, the air traffic controller informed him that he would not be allowed to take off for almost a half hour. When the controller later advised the pilot that he was ...