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N862DA, the aircraft involved in Delta Air Lines Flight 18, seen in 2009. On 26 November 2008, Delta Air Lines Flight 18 from Shanghai to Atlanta, another Trent 800-powered Boeing 777, experienced an "uncommanded rollback" of one engine while in cruise at 39,000 feet (12,000 m). The crew followed manual recovery procedures and the flight ...
The accident became known as the Staines air disaster. As of 2024, it remains the deadliest air accident (as opposed to terrorist incidents) in British aviation history and was the deadliest air accident involving a Hawker Siddeley Trident. Initially, there were two survivors of the accident: a man who was discovered in the aircraft cabin and a ...
1956 London Heathrow Avro Vulcan crash; BKS Air Transport Flight C.6845; B. 1950 Heathrow BEA Vickers Viking crash; BOAC Flight 712; H. 1948 Heathrow disaster; M.
Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and ...
8 February – a Farman F.60 Goliath of Air Union crashed whilst attempting to land at Lympne. The aircraft was on a cargo flight from Paris to Croydon when an engine failed over the Channel. [12] [13] 1926. 18 August – Air Union Blériot 155 F-AIEB, named Wilbur Wright, crashed at Hurst, Kent whilst attempting a forced landing due to engine ...
The 1965 British European Airways Vickers Vanguard crash was a domestic flight operated by a Vickers Vanguard 951 aircraft of British European Airways (BEA). On Wednesday, 27 October 1965, the aircraft crashed during landing at London Heathrow Airport, causing the deaths of all 36 people on board.
Morning Disaster". British Pathe. 4 September 1958. Retrieved 20 March 2010. "Air Commerce: The Southall Accident: Report of the Public Inquiry". Flight, 21 August 1959, p. 58. "Air Commerce: Southall: The Aftermath". Flight, 28 August 1959. p. 91. Vickers 621 Viking 1 G-AIJE London Airport (LHR). Aviation Safety Network. 15 April 2007 ...
The flight took off at about 9:24 p.m. on 20 February 2005. When the aircraft, a four-engine Boeing 747-436, was around 300 feet (91 m) into the air, flames burst out of its number 2 engine, a result of engine surge. The pilots shut the engine down. Air traffic control expected the plane to return to the airport and deleted its flight plan.