Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The accident aircraft, an Avro 146-RJ100, with registration HB-IXM, manufactured in 1996, had its Maiden flight on 16 August, and logged more than 13,000 hours and 11,500 cycles in total before the crash. The airplane was delivered to Crossair on 23 August 1996. The aircraft was powered by four Lycoming LF507-1F turbofan engines. [2] [3]: 12
Wichita State University football team plane crash: near Loveland Pass, 8 miles west of Silver Plume: Colorado: Martin 4-0-4: The company president, serving as first officer, attempted to fly a poorly planned scenic route and the aircraft entered a box canyon from which it was unable to climb out, crashing into a mountain ridge.
His plane crashed into the ground, as he tried to initiate a recovery from a flat spin, at a "height lower than required". April 10 – 2010 Air Races Crash. A MXS-R race plane crashed into the Swan River outside of Perth, Australia prior to participating in the Red Bull Air Races. The pilot was hospitalized in stable condition, the plane was ...
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 ...
The crash occurred while the entire cockpit crew was preoccupied with a burnt-out landing gear indicator light. They failed to notice that the autopilot had inadvertently been disconnected, and as a result, the aircraft gradually lost altitude and crashed. This was the first fatal crash of a wide-body aircraft.
English: The graph is meant to compare the number of deaths that occurred due to plane crashes in scheduled revenue flights, and other kinds of flights*. The aim is to display the descending trend in the number of plane crashes and therefore victims, and the different amount of fatalities according to the kind of flight.
The pilot, 2nd Lt Bruce D. Umland, 23, of Minneapolis and student-navigator 2nd Lt. Gregory Johnson, 22, of Duluth, Minnesota safely ejected from the plane before it crashed. The crash occurred on National Forest property about 12-1/2 miles north of Grass Valley, California (between Highway 49 and Marysville Rd) on a Tuesday morning.
The crash of a Grumman S-2 Tracker moments after take-off from Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, kills all four U.S. Navy crew on board. A military spokesman said that the twin-engined anti-submarine warfare plane crashed and burned "after climbing to some 100-feet. Wreckage was spread over a wide area about one mile south of the base."