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EVA Air launched a new year-round service to Istanbul on 5 March 2016, operating 777-300ER aircraft. This route was first downgraded to a seasonal frequency and then cancelled altogether by September 2016. [89] EVA Air also launched daily service to Cebu, Philippines on 27 March 2016 using A321-200 aircraft.
Wingfoot Air Express crash. July 21 – The Goodyear dirigible Wingfoot Air Express caught fire and crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, while carrying passengers to a local amusement park, killing thirteen people: three out of the five on board and ten others on the ground, with 27 others on the ground being injured.
Delta Flight 954, operating the Convair, experienced miscommunication with air traffic control and were crossing a runway in poor visibility when North Central Airlines Flight 575, operating the DC-9, were in their takeoff roll on the same runway. The DC-9 attempted to fly over the Convair but struck it and then crash landed back on the runway.
The airline was established by Delford Smith (founder and owner) and began operations in 1960 as Evergreen Helicopters.It acquired the operating certificate of Johnson Flying Service and merged it with Intermountain Airlines (a known CIA front) from Pacific Corporation (also a CIA front) in 1975 to form Evergreen International Airlines, a United States supplemental air carrier (i.e. charter ...
The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11, as well as United Airlines Flight 175 at the World Trade Center, and the subsequent collapse of both towers on 11 September 2001 caused 2,606 ground fatalities in addition to the deaths of the 157 people on board both flights, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
The United Kingdom is noted to have the highest number of air crashes in Europe, with a total of 110 air crashes within the time period, and Indonesia is the highest in Asia at 104, followed by India at 95. [6] The most fatalities on board a single aircraft is the 520 fatalities of the 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 accident.
1939 Pan Am Sikorsky S-43 crash; 1951 Rio do Sal Linhas Aéreas Paulistas C-47 crash; 1957 Begé VARIG Commando crash; 1962 Paraná da Eva Panair do Brasil Lockheed Constellation crash; 1982 TABA Fairchild FH-227 accident; 1986 Brazilian UFO incident; 2006–2007 Brazilian aviation crisis; 2009 Manaus Aerotáxi Embraer Bandeirante crash; 2021 ...
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 777" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.