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12 0 0 United Airlines Trip 4: near Hecla: Wyoming: Boeing 247D: The pilot is believed to lost spatial awareness and crashed into terrain. May 6, 1935 5 8 8 TWA Flight 6: near Atlanta: Missouri: Douglas DC-2: The aircraft crashed into terrain due to low visibility. February 23, 1934 8 0 0 1934 United Airlines Boeing 247 crash
The report found commercial airlines experienced at least 46 close-call incidents in July, which occurred multiple times a week, and include every US airline and are occurring across the country.
In St. Louis, live news reports about the hijacking prompted David J. Hanley, a 30-year-old businessman, to crash his 1972 Cadillac at 80 mph through two airport fences, travel down the runway at high speed, and crash into the nose gear of the plane, which was beginning to taxi. The demolished car lodged under the fuselage and one wing.
The Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 formally defines an aviation accident as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place from the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until all such persons have disembarked, and in which (a) a person is fatally or seriously injured, (b) the aircraft sustains significant damage or ...
U.S. aviation officials are investigating an alarming number of recent near air disasters, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to announce a safety call to action. 2023 has already seen ...
Its number-one engine had been severed on the runway. It was the deadliest plane crash in U.S. history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. American Airlines Flight 444 was attacked by the Unabomber on November 15, 1979, near Chicago Illinois. The bomb planted in the cargo hold malfunctioned, but 12 passengers had to be treated for smoke ...
On 11 May—after receiving a special exemption from relief funding provisions requiring US airlines to maintain existing destinations—JetBlue suspended service until at least 30 June to 16 US destinations, notably including airports in Chicago, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Houston, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Philadelphia, and Portland ...
The cause of the crash was wind shear during a heavy thunderstorm. 12 November Overseas National Airways Flight 032, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, struck a flock of sea gulls during takeoff, crashing past Taxiway Z. All 129 passengers and 10 crew members escaped successfully while the aircraft was destroyed.