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The electrical wiring in the baggage compartment of TWA Flight 513 on July 11, 1946, arced, starting a fire while the aircraft was in the air. The smoke and intense fire that were created made it impossible for the pilots to maintain control of the aircraft. Of the six crewmembers aboard, five were killed.
Flight 513 may refer to: TWA Flight 513, crashed on 11 July 1946; Aeroflot Flight 513, crashed on 8 March 1965 This page was last edited on 24 ...
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Tupolev Tu-124V with two Soloviev D-20P engines, registered CCCP-45028 to the Soviet Union's state airline, Aeroflot. At the time of the accident, the aircraft had accumulated 1,612 flight hours and 1,151 pressurization cycles in service.
The disaster happened on Oct. 13, 1972, when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which was carrying an Uruguayan rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into the Andes ...
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 was the chartered flight of a Fairchild FH-227D from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, that crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina on 13 October 1972. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster ( Tragedia de los Andes , literally Tragedy of the Andes ) and the ...
A new documentary explores a theory that a fifth plane was set to be hijacked on September 11, 2001. Io Dodds reports. Suspicious passengers, box cutters and an argument: Was there really a fifth ...
The first flight carrying "high-threat" migrants to Guantanamo Bay arrived Tuesday evening, part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. The C-17 plane took off from El ...
On July 21, 1984, South Pacific Island Airways Flight 513, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter carrying 14 occupants, crashed upon landing at Tau Airport.While on final approach to the airport, the flight controls suddenly collapsed forward, and the nose of the aircraft pitched up.