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The exact cause of the accident was never determined. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 293 was a Military Air Transport Service charter flight carrying 101 servicemen and their families that crashed into the sea off the Alaska coast on June 3, 1963. The cause of the accident was never determined, and no bodies were ever recovered. [9]
Two hours into the flight, at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m), the plane received reports of severe clear-air turbulence in the area and the seat belt sign was turned on. Moments later, the aircraft suddenly dropped around 100 feet (30 m), seriously injuring 15 passengers and 3 crew members. [ 2 ]
Better extreme weather detection systems exist and flight techniques have been improved. “Wake turbulence affects smaller aeroplanes more than large ones. One accident comes to mind; American ...
The accident of Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was covered in 2010 in "Alarming Silence", a season-9 episode of the internationally syndicated Canadian TV documentary series Mayday. [19] The sole survivor of the accident was a four-year old child who appeared in the 2013 documentary Sole Survivor.
One passenger died and 30 others were injured aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that was hit by "severe turbulence," officials said Tuesday, but experts say such deaths are rare even as ...
The last fatal turbulence-related accident on Cirium's database involved a United Airlines Boeing 747 in 1997. ... A spate of turbulence reports has triggered a debate over whether climate change ...
The Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the isolation of the No. 7 leading-edge slat in the fully or partially extended position after an extension of the Nos. 2, 3, 6 and 7 leading-edge slats and the subsequent retraction of the Nos. 2, 3, and 6 slats, and the captain's untimely flight control inputs to counter ...
The crash killed all aboard 1921-08-23 1921 Humber crash UK: Hull: R38 (ZR-2) Weather combined with weakened hull 44 Deformation followed by fire & explosion 1925-09-03 Crash of the USS Shenandoah: Caldwell, Ohio, United States USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) Severe weather 14 Torn apart by turbulence 1930-07-23 Meopham air disaster: Meopham, Kent ...