The Grand Canyon mid-air collision occurred on June 30, 1956, when a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L1049 Super Constellation (TWA 2) struck United Airlines Douglas DC-7 (United 718) over the Grand Canyon National Park. All 128 on board both flights perished, making it the first commercial airline crash to result in more than 100 deaths. Grand…
Timings in GMT/UTC Red title is a fatal accident This data represents some well known cases. 1956 25 December; Douglas DC-3 (Dakota) ; AP-ACZ : after arriving in Gilgit at 0514, the captain elected not to carry any passengers on the return flight to Rawalpindi due weather conditions. The DC-3 took off at 0900 and…
Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Date: 21 December 1988 Summary: In-flight breakup due to terrorist bombing Site: Lockerbie, Scotland Coordinates: N55°06′56″; W003°21′31″W Total fatalities: 270 Aircraft Type/Registration: Boeing 747–121 (Clipper Maid of the Seas); N739PA Operator: Pan American World Airways Call sign: Clipper 103 (Clipper one zero three) Flight origin: Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt, West…
There are all kinds of flying-sports flying, aerobatics, soaring, ballooning, even hang gliding-but to most of us cross-country flying in a powered aircraft is what flying is all about. Basically, flying from where we are to where we want to be is really not much different than driving a car. We climb in, fasten the…
1989 Damage to United Airlines Flight 811 after the cargo door blew open mid-flight. 9 passengers were ejected through the hole. January 8 – British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737, crashes near Kegworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, after one of its engines loses a fan blade and fails. Of the 118 passengers and eight…
1999 21 accidents 20 fatal 560 dead The black boxes of EgyptAir Flight 99 February 24– China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes while on approach to Wenzhou Airport, killing all 61 passengers and crew on board. April 7 – Turkish Airlines Flight 5904, a Boeing 737-400, crashes in poor weather near Hamdilli,…
Read: Year 2009 = Accidents 26 (Fatal 18) Data valid till 18 May 2018. 2009 = 26 (20) Jan 15 US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320, ditches in the Hudson River just after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City after total engine failure due to multiple bird strikes; all people aboard…
Accident Date November 12, 2001 Summary Vertical stabilizer failure due to pilot error as a result of unnecessary rudder inputs Site Belle Harbor, Queens, New York City, New York, United States Aircraft Aircraft type Airbus A300B4-605R Operator American Airlines Registration N14053 Flight origin John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, United States Destination…
The action by First Officer Gamil al-Batouti in disconnecting the autopilot as a first step in diagnosing something if he had heard a sound or felt a tremor in the aircraft is not unusual and understandable. But as a former airline pilot, I would like to add the following: I would never shut off the engines…
Surface search Flight 447 was due to pass from Brazilian airspace into Senegalese airspace at approximately 0220 (UTC) on 1 June, and then into Cape Verdean airspace at approximately 0345. Shortly after 0400, when the flight had failed to contact air traffic control in either Senegal or Cape Verde, the controller in Senegal attempted…
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