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  2. Category:Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell ...

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    Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas DC-9" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  3. Continental Airlines Flight 1713 - Wikipedia

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    As the DC-9 skidded, the left side was tilted over and the tail was inverted; this action caused the center section of the fuselage to compress and crush many of the passengers on board. [1]: 20 [11] A total of 25 passengers and three crew members died due to the crash; the final two fatalities succumbed while hospitalized.

  4. McDonnell Douglas DC-9 - Wikipedia

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    On April 4, 1987, Garuda Indonesia Flight 035, a DC-9-32, hit a pylon and crashed on approach to Polonia International Airport in bad weather with 24 fatalities. [78] On November 15, 1987, Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a DC-9-14, crashed on takeoff from Stapleton International Airport in bad weather with 28 fatalities. This accident was ...

  5. ValuJet Flight 592 - Wikipedia

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    ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami to Atlanta in the United States. On May 11, 1996, the ValuJet Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the route crashed into the Florida Everglades about ten minutes after departing Miami as a result of a fire in the cargo compartment probably caused by mislabeled and improperly stored hazardous cargo (oxygen generators).

  6. Aeroméxico Flight 498 - Wikipedia

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    Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, United States, with several intermediate stops.On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped in the tail section by N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Cherokee owned by the Kramer family, and crashed into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, killing all ...

  7. Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft was a five-year-old McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 registered as N8984E, which was delivered to Eastern Airlines on January 30, 1969. [5]: 25 The captain was 49-year-old James E. Reeves, who had been with the airline since 1956. He had 8,876 flight hours, including 3,856 hours on the DC-9.

  8. Southern Airways Flight 932 - Wikipedia

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    On Nov. 14, 1970, 75 people died in the worst sports-related air tragedy in U.S. history, when a Southern Airways DC-9 crashed into a hillside nearby. The victims included 37 Marshall University football players, 9 coaches and administrators, 25 fans and air crew of 5. No one survived this horrific disaster. [4]

  9. 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision - Wikipedia

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    The DC-9 caught fire and was destroyed. [3] The captain of the DC-9 escaped from the aircraft through the left sliding window. Eighteen people escaped the plane from the left overwing exit, 13 people escaped through the left main boarding door and four people jumped from the right service door. The rear jumpseat flight attendant and a passenger ...