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…
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (USA) Frustrated in their efforts to acquire a fleet of strategic bombers for service with the Army Air Corps, US Army planners – who were devotees of the theories expounded by Brigadier General William “Billy” Mitchell – inserted the thin end of an important wedge when they ordered…
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…
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The United States Air Force’s first African American female fighter pilot Women have been involved in aviation from the beginnings of both lighter-than air travel and as airplanes, helicopters and space travel were developed. Women pilots were also called “aviatrices” (singular: “aviatrix”). Women have been flying powered aircraft since 1908, however most, prior to…
COMPLACENCY Pk 705, 19/5/1965; AP-AMH, B720-047B Time is UTC; Cairo is UTC + 2 AP-AMH Pk 705 departed Karachi at 1800 on May 19 for Dhahran, and from there onwards to Cairo at 2122. Approaching Cairo at 2340, the aircraft was cleared for a left-hand visual circuit to Runway 34. The crew reported turning final…
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…
The driving factors of the most recent airliner developments have been communications and cockpit technologies, structural techniques and materials and, perhaps most importantly, the vital necessity to reduce fuel burn and minimize the environmental impact of air travel. Airbus and Boeing followed very different strategies for their new airliner development plans, initially addressing different markets,…
In a stark contrast to the ‘big jet’ market, Europe came to dominate sales of first-generation turboprops, primarily through the efforts of Fokker, with its excellent F-27 Friendship. The basic economics of the turboprop compared to the pure jet are as sound today as they were in the late 1940s. Arranging a turbine, or jet…
The Cessna 310 is an American four-to-six-seat, low-wing, twin-engined monoplane produced by Cessna between 1954 and 1980. It was the first twin-engined aircraft that Cessna put into production after World War II. Development The 310 first flew on January 3, 1953 with deliveries starting in late 1954. The sleek modern lines of the new twin…
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