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A hull loss is an aviation accident that damages the aircraft beyond economic repair, [1] resulting in a total loss. The term also applies to situations where the aircraft is missing, the search for its wreckage is terminated, or the wreckage is logistically inaccessible.
As of March 2024, 180 aviation accidents and incidents have occurred, [1] including 38 hull-loss accidents, [2] resulting in a total of 1490 fatalities. [ 3 ] Through to 2015, the Airbus A320 family has experienced 0.12 fatal hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs, and 0.26 total hull-loss accidents for every million takeoffs; one of ...
At the time of the accident, the aircraft was painted in Air New Zealand livery. Seven people — two Germans (the pilot and co-pilot from XL Airways) and five New Zealanders (one pilot, three aircraft engineers and one member of the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand) – were killed. [9] 7 0 0 0
On 4 June 2020, China Airlines Flight 202, an Airbus A330-302 registered as B-18302, from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Taipei Songshan Airport with 76 passengers and 11 crew, [27] landed on Songshan's wet runway 10, when upon touchdown all three primary flight computers, thrust reversers and autobrake systems failed affecting the stopping distance of the aircraft.
Nepalese authorities found that the probable causes of the accident were the captain and air traffic controller's loss of situational awareness; language and technical problems caused the captain to experience frustration and a high workload; [16] the first officer's lack of initiative and inconclusive answers to the captain's questions; the ...
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Pan Am Flight 93 was the first hull loss of a Boeing 747 (747-121), the result of terrorism after it was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. On September 6, 1970, a new Pan Am aircraft flying from Amsterdam to New York City was hijacked and flown first to Beirut, then to Cairo. Shortly after the occupants were ...
The accident marked the first hull-loss accident involving Japan Airlines since Flight 123 in 1985, and also the first hull-loss accident of an Airbus A350 since its introduction with Qatar Airways in January 2015. [9] [10] [11] [12]