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Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was an Alaska Airlines flight of a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31, 2000, roughly 2.7 miles (4.3 km; 2.3 nmi) north of Anacapa Island, California, following a catastrophic loss of pitch control, killing all 88 on board: 5 crew and 83 passengers.
As the result of a provision in the Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 105–134 (text)), [65] there is a US$200 million cap on the aggregate of all passengers' damage claims in a railroad crash against a passenger railroad, including punitive damages. In dividing the $200 million among the 25 dead and more than 100 injured ...
As of March 2019, American Airlines has had almost sixty aircraft hull losses, beginning with the crash of an Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor in August 1931. [1] [2] Of the hull losses, most were propeller driven aircraft, including three Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft (of which one, the crash in 1959 of Flight 320, resulted in fatalities). [2]
A small plane crash-landed onto a Southern California freeway Tuesday, hitting a truck before breaking apart and erupting in flames. Dramatic video showed the moment the single-engine Piper PA-32 ...
Two firefighting helicopters collided while responding to a blaze in Southern California, sending one to the ground in a crash that killed all three people on board. The crash late Sunday ...
Red Asphalt is a series of instructional driver's education films and videos produced by the California Highway Patrol, known for their graphic depictions of fatal traffic collisions in a shockumentary style. [1] Horrendously injured and dismembered bodies are shown, typically those of negligent drivers.
The crash was the first fatal crash involving the 737-200. December 20 – In the 1972 Chicago–O'Hare runway collision, Delta Air Lines Flight 954, a Convair CV-880, and North Central Airlines Flight 575, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, collided on the runway due to ATC communication errors, killing 10 people and injuring 17.
KNXV-TV is the ABC affiliate for Phoenix, Arizona, and its surrounding area, while KTVK is an independent news station. The two helicopters were broadcasting a police pursuit on live television when the collision occurred, at 12:46:18 p.m. MST. [7]