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N833NA, the Boeing 720 aircraft involved in the test. NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted a joint program for the acquisition, demonstration, and validation of technology for the improvement of transport aircraft occupant crash survivability using a large, four-engine, remotely piloted transport airplane in a controlled impact demonstration (CID).
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash: near Gillsburg: Mississippi: Convair CV-240: The aircraft crashed due to fuel exhaustion caused by the crew's failure to adequately monitor its fuel. Lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in the crash. April 4, 1977 72 22 22 Southern Airways Flight 242: New Hope: Georgia: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
In 2012, Boeing released a study of worldwide commercial jet airplane accidents between 1959 and 2011, reporting 1,798 accidents, 603 categorized as fatal, which accounted for 29,025 onboard fatalities and an additional 1,173 ground or noncommercial aircraft collision deaths. [10]
The crash was the subject of a Discovery Channel television series Curiosity 2-hour episode "Plane Crash". [14] [15] The episode was aired on 7 October 2012, and narrated by Josh Charles. [15] [16] The 1-hour-35-minute episode "The Plane Crash" aired on Channel 4 in Britain on 11 October 2012.
The Bramlage plane crashed on June 7, 2012, near Lake Wales. The crash probably was caused by the inexperience of the pilot, Ronald Bramlage of Junction City, Kansas, who was killed with his wife and four children. RED Air Flight 203 caught fire at Miami International Airport after landing due to landing gear collapsing, causing a runway ...
The Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident was the September 22, 1995 crash of a United States Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft with the loss of all 24 crewmembers on board. [2] The aircraft, serial number 77-0354 with callsign Yukla 27, hit birds on departure from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, United States. With ...
The aircraft's jet fuel ignited on impact, causing a fireball that covered the front of the hotel up to the fourth floor. [6] Indianapolis Airport crash trucks arrived on the scene a minute after impact, and firefighters used foam to bring the fire under control four minutes later.