Air Disasters timeline
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Air India's Malabar Princess Crashes on the Mont Blanc
1950 November 3, "Malabar Princess", a Lockheed Constellation of the Air India company, registered VT-CQP, was connecting Bombay to London via... Read more
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Tete de l'Obiou Accident
The Tete de I'Obiou accident was an airliner crash in France on 13 November 1950. Curtiss Reid Flying Services had been operating a scheduled... Read more
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Ringway Dakota Accident of 1951
On 27 March 1951 a Douglas Dakota 3 cargo aircraft registered G-AJVZ operated by Air Transport Charter en route from Ringway Airport, Manchester,... Read more
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Cubana de Aviación Flight 493 Crashes into a US Navy Beechcraft SNB-1 Kansan
Cubana de Aviación Flight 493, registration CU-T188, was a Douglas DC-4 en route from Miami, Florida, United States, to Havana, Cuba, on April 25,... Read more
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Pan Am's Clipper Great Republic Crashes
The Johannesburg to New York City flight was on the Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana), to Monrovia, Liberia leg of its journey. At 0301h during a... Read more
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United Airlines Flight 610 Crashes, Killing 50
After completing its first two segments, Flight 610 departed Salt Lake City at 12:11 a.m. en route to its next destination of Denver. At around... Read more
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United Airlines Flight 615 Crashes, Killing 50
At 04:25 Flight 615 was cleared for a straight-in approach on the southeast course of the Oakland radio range from Newark. At 04:27 the flight... Read more
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American Airlines Flight 6780 Crashes
Flight 6780 originated at Buffalo, New York, for Newark, New Jersey, with stops scheduled at Rochester, New York, and Syracuse, New York. The first... Read more
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Pan Am's Clipper Good Hope Crashes, Killing 50
Flight 202 originated at Buenos Aires, destination New York, with en route stops scheduled at Montevideo, Uruguay; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Port... Read more
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American Airlines Flight 910 Collides with a Single Engine Temco Swift
American Flight 910 took off from San Francisco at 23:05 for a flight to Dallas. At 06:56 the following morning, a Temco Swift airplane (N3858K, cn... Read more
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American Airlines Flight 723 Crashes
Flight 723 was cleared for a contact approach to runway 10. On final approach, while still miles west of the airport, the Convair descended too... Read more
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British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines' Resolution Crashes
The only problem, however, was that the "Resolution" was actually several miles south of their reported position. At about 8:42 AM., the flight... Read more
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British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 781 Crashes
BOAC Flight 781 departed Rome, Italy on a flight to London, England. While climbing through 27,000 feet, the plane experienced a sudden in-flight... Read more
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South African Airways Flight 201 Crashes
On 8 April 1954, Flight 201 departed Rome for Cairo and Johannesburg. The flight was used with a leased British Overseas Airways Corporation De... Read more
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Air India's Kashmir Princess Crashes
The Air-India Constellation (named "Kashmir Princess") departed Hong Kong at 04:25 GMT for a flight to Jakarta. On board were Chinese and east... Read more
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El Al Flight 402 is Shot Down by Bulgarian Fighter Pilots
Perhaps only the Soviets could display such gall, but other countries have also been guilty of firing on commercial flights. In 1955, two Bulgarian... Read more
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United Airlines Flight 409 Crashes
Airliner Hits Peak, Explodes; Rescuers on Way to Wreck; May Be Worst Civil Air Crash. An Oakland-bound United Air Lines DC-4 smashed into a... Read more
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United Airlines Flight 629 Explodes
At 6:52 p.m. on November 1, 1955 United Air Lines Flight 629, a DC-6B with forty-four persons aboard, took off from Stapleton Airport, Denver,... Read more
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Two Airliners Collide Over the Grand Canyon
June 30, 1956; A midair collision over the Grand Canyon involving TWA Super Constellation L-1049 N6902C, Star of the Seine and United Airlines DC-7... Read more
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Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 Crash
An east-bound Trans-Canada Air Lines plane vanished Sunday night with 62 persons aboard ini turbulent weather over the mountains of southwest... Read more
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Northeast Airlines Flight 823 Crashes
After what was described as a normal takeoff roll, the aircraft lifted off. Upon establishing a positive rate of climb, the landing gear and wing... Read more
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Pan Am's Clipper Romance Of The Skies Crashes
Pan Am Flight 7, registration N90944, Clipper Romance Of The Skies, was an around-the-world-flight originating in San Francisco that flew westbound... Read more
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Aquila Airways' City of Sydney Crashes
The aircraft, an Aquila Airways Short Solent 3 flying boat named the City of Sydney, registered G-AKNU, departed Southampton Water at 22:46 on a... Read more
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Munich Air Disaster
As the plane gathered speed, throwing up slush as it went, Captain Thain called out the velocities in ten-knot increments. At 85 knots, the port... Read more
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The Southern Cloud's Crash Site is Discovered
The wreckage was not discovered until October 1958 and the fate of the aircraft, its crew and passengers ascertained. The loss of the "Southern... Read more