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The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, MSN 47196, originally registered as CF-TLU, that was manufactured in 1968 and was delivered to Air Canada on April 7. . It had logged 36,825 airframe hours and 34,987 takeoff and landing cycles and was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B engin
Avensa Flight 007 [1] was a domestic Venezuelan flight operated by Avensa Airlines on a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, which crashed on 11 March 1983 on a domestic flight from Caracas Airport to Barquisimeto Airport, Venezuela. It landed hard, skidded off of the runway and exploded. [2] [3] Twenty-two passengers and one crew member died. [2] [3]
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[2] [3] At the same time, a DC-9 of Aviaco registered EC-CGS, operating Aviaco Flight 134, was taxiing to the end of the same runway for take-off bound for Santander Airport. [4] As the Boeing 727 rolled along the runway, the crew of the DC-9 accidentally made a wrong turn in the fog and taxied their aircraft onto the runway, into the path of ...
The pilot of the DC-7 was killed and the C-123 Provider was damaged by fire. The DC-7 was repaired and placed back into service. [7] March 30, 1967: Delta Air Lines Flight 9877, a Douglas DC-8, crashed during a training exercise near New Orleans. The improper use of flight and power controls by both instructor and the Captain-trainee during a ...
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The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 32 series, powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines. At the time of the incident the aircraft had accumulated 25,476 hours of flight time. [ 2 ] The aircraft was registered CF-TLV and was the 289th DC-9 built at the Long Beach assembly plant.
With 155 dead in all, this was the deadliest crash involving a member of the original DC-9 family, as well as the worst crash in civil aviation history at the time it took place. [ 61 ] On September 9, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 , a DC-9-30, collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee near Fairland, Indiana .