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Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 (also known as the Poldercrash [6] or the Schiphol Polderbaan incident) was a passenger flight that crashed during landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, the Netherlands, on 25 February 2009, resulting in the deaths of nine passengers and crew, including all three pilots.
Pages in category "Turkish Airlines accidents and incidents" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Turkish Airlines Flight 981: Ermenonville, France Cargo hatch and control cable failures Cowboy Copas: United States 1963 Entertainer and country music singer Piper Comanche: Camden, Tennessee, United States Severe weather; Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins were also killed in this accident. Frank Eugene Corder: United States 1994 Cessna 150
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
The deliberate crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 constitute, by a large margin, the deadliest aircraft disaster by number of victims on the ground, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and ...
Video footage has captured survivors miraculously emerging from the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash wreckage. An international investigation is underway into how an Embraer 190 passenger jet with ...
The oldest survivor of Flight 212, Mihalek was 46 at the time of the crash and helped pull co-pilot Jim Daniels away from the wreckage. His son Darryl Mihalek calls him “the original 9/11 hero.”
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...