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American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control.
October 10 – United Air Lines Trip 23, a Boeing 247, exploded in mid-air over Chesterton, Indiana, United States, in the first proven case of air sabotage on a commercial aircraft; all seven on board were killed. December 30 – In the 1933 Imperial Airways Ruysselede crash in Belgium, an Avro Ten struck a radio mast, killing all 10 on board.
9 January 1990 A Sudanese Air Force aircraft, possibly an An-24, was shot down and crashed at Kajo Kaji, South Sudan. 26 January 1990 A MIAT Mongolian Airlines An-24RV (BNMAU-10208) crashed near Ulaangom Airport at night after the crew failed to locate the airport; all 41 on board survived.
The fire spread into the cabin, causing mass panic among the passengers. The plane then crashed, killing all 156 people on board. Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2806 is hijacked by terrorists and taken to Medina airport. After some negotiations, Saudi special forces storm the plane. One flight attendant, a passenger and one of the hijackers were ...
The aircraft involved, purchased in April 1966, [1] was a 22-year-old Antonov An-24B registered as SP-LTD and named Dunajec. [1] [2] [3] The Antonov An-24 is a Soviet-built twin-engine turboprop aircraft, entering into commercial service in 1963. The aircraft can seat up to 50 people, with the aircraft having a capacity of up to 48 seats. [4]
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]
All 11 people on board were killed. Preliminary reports indicate the pilots reported a fuel leak and an engine fire to air traffic controllers, but did not manage to return to the airport. The aircraft then crashed in a wooded area. The aircraft involved, RA-11125, was the oldest aircraft in the Russian commercial air fleet. [133]
The Antonov An-24, tail number 46764 (factory number 47301301), was manufactured by the Antonov Serial Production Plant on 30 September 1964. At the time of the crash, the aircraft had accumulated a total of 580 flight hours and 573 landings.