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Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, United States, with several intermediate stops.On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped in the tail section by N4891F, a Piper PA-28-181 Cherokee owned by the Kramer family, and crashed into the Los Angeles suburb of Cerritos, killing all ...
January 21 – A Piper PA-46 Malibu light aircraft transporting footballer Emiliano Sala crashed off Alderney in the Channel Islands. The aircraft had been travelling from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, Wales. The wreckage of the aircraft was found thirteen days later. [77] Sala's remains were recovered on 7 February. [78]
Accident; Date: 21 January 2019 (): Summary: Loss of control, mid-air breakup, crashed into the sea: Site: English Channel, off Alderney, Channel Islands 1]: Aircraft; Aircraft type: Piper PA-46 Malibu: Registration: N264DB: Flight origin: Nantes Atlantique Airport, Nantes, France: Destination: Cardiff Airport, Cardiff, Wales: Occupants: 2: Passengers: 1: Crew: 1: Fatalities: 2: Survivors: 0 ...
List of aircraft accidents and incidents caused by structural failure; Date Accident/incident Location Aircraft Cause Fatalities Notes 1913-08-07 Death of S F Cody: UK Cody Floatplane "inherent structural weakness" 2 Broke up 1919-08-02 Airliner crash at Verona: Italy Caproni Ca.48: Wing flutter followed by wing collapse 14, 15, or 17 (sources ...
The cockpit of a Piper PA-28-151 Cherokee Warrior (2016) For the Cherokee family, Piper used their traditional flight-control configuration. The horizontal tail is a stabilator with an antiservo tab (sometimes termed an antibalance tab). The antiservo tab moves in the same direction of the stabilator movement, making pitch control "heavier" as ...
The aircraft's propellers severed the tops of pine trees while the plane's left wing hit the ground, tore off, and spilled fuel. The rest of the plane impacted some thousand feet further. The impact and subsequent fire from the plane's fuel tanks scorched an 8-foot-deep (2.4 m) trench in the countryside.
On 21 February 2008, Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 strays off course and flies into the side of a mountain shortly after takeoff, killing all 46 people on board. Investigators determined that the aircraft took off with inoperative navigation equipment due to the pilots' failure to do their pre-flight checklist.
Dangerous Flights is a documentary-style reality television show that airs on the Discovery Channel.The show follows the pilots of C.B. Aviation as they ferry light aircraft to their new owners across distances the aircraft weren't designed to fly and often over routes that are generally considered to be dangerous by the aviation community.