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This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia. The earliest known sole survivor is Lou Foote. On 17 March 1929, as the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight, he attempted to force land the monoplane when it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.
[9] [10] The aircraft's wings were reported as being on fire moments before the plane crashed into the rooftops of the houses and buildings in the area, [11] [12] [9] some of which caught fire. [13] The crash was captured on video by a CCTV camera of a nearby building, which shows the aircraft just before crashing into the neighborhood. [14]
"Society of the Snow" is earning raves for its a ccurate depiction of the terrifying 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains that involved a Uruguayan rugby team.. The new Netflix drama, directed ...
A notorious real-life 1972 plane crash in the Andes is the inspiration behind the new Netflix adventure drama “Society of the Snow.”. The disaster happened on Oct. 13, 1972, when Uruguayan Air ...
Colin Firth Stars in New Limited Series Based on Real-Life 1988 Plane Crash. K.L. Connie Wang. October 14, 2024 at 1:00 AM. For many, our first memory of terrorist attacks were those of Sept. 11 ...
Ketron Island crash site in 2024. In the days after the crash, cleanup and recovery crews contracted by Alaska Airlines and its insurers were present on the island to remove debris. As of 2019, this cleanup effort was still ongoing, with pieces of aircraft wreckage still being located on the island after the first anniversary of the incident.
The effects of the crash on Huntington went far beyond the Marshall campus. Because it was the Herd's only charter flight of the season, boosters and prominent citizens were on the plane, including a city councilman, a state legislator, and four physicians. Seventy children had at least one parent die in the crash, with 18 of them left orphaned ...