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Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles, California, with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). On August 2, 1985, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar operating Flight 191 encountered a microburst while on approach to land at DFW ...
August 2, 1985: Delta Air Lines Flight 191, operating a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, on a Fort Lauderdale–Dallas/Fort Worth- Los Angeles route, suffered a severe microburst-induced wind shear which caused the plane to crash. 134 out of 163 on board were killed (2 survivors died more than 30 days after the accident) and one person on the ground in ...
The 1988 crash of Delta Flight 1141 was the last major commercial accident at Dallas-Fort Worth. ... three years earlier — the 1985 crash of Delta Flight 191, downed by a microburst during ...
Everyone aboard the Delta flight from Minneapolis survived the crash. Video obtained by CNN shows the plane landing hard on the runway, with the plane’s rear landing gear buckling and the right ...
But two of the “moments” were tragedies: the 1985 crash of Delta 191 and the 1988 crash of Delta 1141. Forgive me if I don’t dwell on those. In 1985, I was in the Star-Telegram newsroom.
The earliest known female sole survivor is Linda McDonald. On 5 September 1936, she survived a Skyways sightseeing plane crash near Pittsburgh that killed 10 other people, including her boyfriend. She was 17 at the time. The youngest sole survivor is Chanayuth Nim-anong, who on 3 September 1997, survived a crash when he was just 14 months old.
The plane, operated by Minneapolis-based Delta Air Lines subsidiary Endeavor Air, struck the landing strip as it arrived at Toronto Airport at about 1:15 p.m. CST, according to Delta.
The crash of Delta Flight 191 was not only the subject of the film. [4] It was also featured on an episode of When Weather Changed History on The Weather Channel , [ 5 ] and the episode "Deadly Weather" of Survival in the Sky . [ 6 ]