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The airplane was heading toward the grandstand area when the pilot swung the plane and crashed it into the spectator boxes lining the track area. [ 344 ] 15 May – Grand Island, Nebraska – Stunt Pilot Warren P. Kite was killed following a mid-air collision in which the tail section of his aircraft was severed by an aircraft piloted by J.H ...
Bad fog covered half the field at the time of the crash. The aircraft was approaching the field from the south, apparently 90 degrees away from the runway heading, with landing gear still up. Several miles from the end of the runway the plane banked to the right and the wing hit a telephone pole breaking it off about 5 feet above the ground.
The NTSB's preliminary report offers no insights into a possible cause of the airplane crash that killed 2 on Oct. 31. ... Ohio. Killed were left front seat occupant Hal Durbin, 71, of Findlay ...
It was the first loss of a Martin 2-0-2 aircraft, the worst disaster involving a Martin 2-0-2 to date, and with 37 fatalities, still ranks as the worst air crash in Wisconsin history. [ 189 ] On November 18, 1966, the crew departed Barksdale AFB , Louisiana, in B-52G (tail number 58‑0228) on a training flight to K. I. Sawyer AFB south of ...
The Ohio State Highway Patrol post in Trumbull County, which was notified shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, said the crash just north of the airport killed the pilot and two passengers.
On March 5, 1967, Lake Central Airlines Flight 527 was scheduled from Chicago, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan. The flight, operated by one of the company's Convair 580 aircraft and flown by captain John W. Horn (45) and first officer Roger P. Skillman (33), left Chicago at 4:04 p.m. CST and proceeded normally to Lafayette, Cincinnati and Columbus.
The National Transportation Safety Board released photos of the charred black box from the air ambulance crash that occurred Jan. 31 in Philadelphia.
After the accident involving Flight 553, in all areas below 10,000 feet (3,000 m) aircraft were prohibited from exceeding 250 knots (290 mph; 460 km/h) IAS. The accident also influenced the Federal Aviation Administration 's decision to create terminal control areas or TCAs (now called Class B airspace ) around the busiest airports in the country.