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The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
F-89 Scorpion: Design flaw 2 Wing broke off during flypast [2] 1952-09-06 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash: Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom de Havilland DH.110: Design flaw 31 Leading edge aeroelastic flutter caused the aircraft to breakup and crash into the crowd 1953-02-06 National Airlines Flight 470: Gulf of Mexico: Douglas DC-6 ...
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is an all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop Corporation.It was the first jet-powered aircraft to be designed for the interceptor role from the outset to enter service, [1] as well as the first combat aircraft to be armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons in the form of the unguided Genie rocket.
aircraft stalled and crashed during approach to land in snow [32] Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam: United Kingdom 1948 8th Earl FitzWilliam: de Havilland Dove: France Oscar Westover: United States 1938 Major General, Chief of the United States Army Air Corps: Northrop A-17AS Burbank, California: aircraft crashed in crosswind short of runway on ...
A man was killed in a Warren County aircraft crash Friday afternoon, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said in a news release. Troopers from the highway patrol's Lebanon Post responded to the Caesar ...
A USAF Northrop F-89D-15-NO Scorpion fighter jet, 51-11314, [206] of the 18th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron armed with 104 live rockets, strikes an automobile during an aborted take-off at Wold-Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, killing three of the five occupants of the vehicle; both F-89 crew members survive. [206] 9 June
The aircraft had just completed a scheduled Factory Maintenance Visit at the Boeing facility in Wichita. [239] 16 January U.S. Navy LCDR. Dick Oliver crashes Grumman F-11A Tiger, Blue Angel Number 5, BuNo 141869, doing a dirty roll during practice, but receives minor injuries. The new aircraft 5 became BuNo 141859, which he flies on the ...