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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 ...
Images; An-225 image gallery: Second Antonov An-225 (line no. 01-02) under construction, September 2004: Second Antonov An-225 under construction, August 2008: Second Antonov An-225 under construction, August 2008: Video; on YouTube The worlds biggest planes: Antonov An-225 in comparison with Airbus A380-800, Airbus A340-600 and Boeing 747-400
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 ...
A Soviet-era Antonov-24 aircraft carrying 30 passengers landed on a frozen river near an airport in Russia’s far east on Thursday because of pilot error, transport prosecutors said.
The CVR not found at crash site, and investigators could not determine whether the airplane was equipped with one at the time of the crash. [80] 2014-03-08 370: Malaysia Airlines: Boeing 777-200ER: South Indian Ocean: Unknown The plane and all 239 passengers and crew went missing, along with the CVR and FDR. 2014-07-24 5017: Air Algérie ...
A Yak-40 plane traveling from Stepanakert airport to Yerevan on 27 March 1992, with a total of 34 passengers and crew, was attacked by an Azerbaijani Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft. With an engine failure and a fire in rear of the plane, it eventually made a safe landing on Armenian territory. [80] [81] [82]
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]
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in ...