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After being hijacked by five Al-Qaeda terrorists it was deliberately crashed into the South Tower of World Trade Center, resulting in the deaths of all 65 people on board including the five hijackers, as well as an estimated 614 people in the South Tower when it subsequently collapsed as a result of the crash. Thousands of people on the ground ...
Egyptian swimmer who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Egyptian Air Force when his Spitfire collided in mid-air with another Spitfire over Port Said. Paris Kanellakis: Greece 1995 Computer scientist, professor American Airlines Flight 965: Buga, Colombia Navigational errors by flight crew William Kapell: United States 1953
Sixty-four people were on board the plane, which departed from Wichita, Kansas. Three soldiers were on the helicopter. The collision happened around 9 p.m. when the PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 ...
The 1988 crash of Delta Flight 1141 was the last major commercial accident at Dallas-Fort Worth. Ahead of the 35th anniversary, these Star-Telegram photos of the scene are published for the first ...
On Sept. 11, 1974, Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashed in Charlotte, killing 72 passengers. Ten people survived. It remains the deadliest plane crash in Charlotte history.
The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11, as well as United Airlines Flight 175 at the World Trade Center, and the subsequent collapse of both towers on 11 September 2001 caused 2,606 ground fatalities in addition to the deaths of the 157 people on board both flights, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
American pop singer Rick Nelson died during the crash-landing of his band's aircraft on December 31, 1985. The plane, a Douglas DC-3, was brought down mid-flight outside De Kalb, Texas, by a fire that rapidly spread from a suspected faulty in-cabin heater. Nelson and six others—including several band members and his girlfriend—were killed ...
A plane carrying 181 people crashed at an airport in South Korea in late December, killing 179. Photos and videos show the aircraft overrunning a runway before being engulfed in flames.