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Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 2002" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2002 (25 P) Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in 2002" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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The exact cause of the accident was never determined. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 293 was a Military Air Transport Service charter flight carrying 101 servicemen and their families that crashed into the sea off the Alaska coast on June 3, 1963. The cause of the accident was never determined, and no bodies were ever recovered. [9]
On January 5, 2002, Charles J. Bishop, a high-school student of East Lake High School in Tarpon Springs, Florida, United States, stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida. The impact killed the teenager and damaged an office room, but there were no other injuries.
On October 9, 2002, while over the Bering Sea, the Boeing 747-400 experienced a lower rudder hardover event, which occurs when an aircraft's rudder deflects to its travel limit without crew input. The 747's hardover gave full left lower rudder, requiring the pilots to use full right upper rudder and right aileron to maintain attitude and course.
October 13 – Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936) October 17 – Aileen Riggin, American swimmer and diver (b. 1906) October 18 – Kam Fong Chun, American actor (b. 1918) October 23. Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1914) Richard Helms, American CIA director (b. 1913) October 24
A depression in North American commercial aviation begins in the aftermath of an economic recession and the 11 September attacks of 2001. The Government of Hungary creates the Civil Aviation Safety Bureau of Hungary as the agency responsible for the investigation of aviation accidents in Hungary. Air Djibouti ceases operations.