Air Disasters timeline
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Turkish Airlines Gatwick Crash of 1959
The 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash was an air disaster that occurred on 17 February 1959, near London Gatwick Airport (IATA: LGW, ICAO: EGKK).... Read more
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Capital Airlines Flight 75 Crashes
Just three minutes later the aircraft lost control in an area of severe turbulence and entered a steep descent. The aircraft probably reached an... Read more
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National Airlines Flight 967 Crashes
National Airlines Flight 967, registration N4891C, was a Douglas DC-7B aircraft which disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico en route from Tampa,... Read more
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National Airlines Flight 2511 Crashes, Killing 34
The DC-6 was one of two aircraft substituted for a Boeing 707 which had incurred mechanical difficulty. En route to Miami the aircraft... Read more
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Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 Crashes, Killing 63
The Chicago, IL to Miami, FL Lockheed Electra carrying 57 passengers and a crew of six plunged into the earth killing all on board. The plane fell... Read more
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Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 Crashes
Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, registration N5533, was a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft that crashed on takeoff from Logan International Airport in... Read more
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California Polytechnic State Football Team Plane Crash
Crash Experts yesterday examined the twisted wreckage of a plane which was a flaming death trap for nearly half the 35 members of a college... Read more
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TWA and United Airlines Aircrafts Collide in Mid-Air
United Airlines Flight 826, Mainliner Will Rogers, registration N8013U, was a Douglas DC-8 en route from O'Hare Airport in Chicago to New York... Read more
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Sabena Flight 548 Crashes, Killing the United States Figure Skating Team
There was no indication of trouble on board the plane until it approached the Brussels airport. The pilot had to circle the airport while waiting... Read more
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TWA Flight 529 Crashes, Killing 78
At 2:04 a.m., four minutes out of Chicago's Midway Airport, something—Civil Aeronautics Board investigators are trying to discover what it was—went... Read more
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Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 Crashes on Take-Off
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706, registration N137US, was a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft which crashed on take-off from Chicago's O'Hare... Read more
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Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 Crashes
Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 was a Lockheed Constellation L-049 four-engine propliner, registration N2737A, chartered by the United States Army... Read more
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Aerolineas Argentinas Flight 322 Crashes
Aerolineas Argentinas Flight 322 was the flight number of a scheduled international passenger flight from Buenos Aires to Trinidad and New York... Read more
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American Airlines Flight 1 Crashes
It was ideal flying weather. The morning was dazzlingly clear, the ceiling and visibility unlimited, and a brisk, 20-mile-an-hour wind blew from... Read more
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Caledonian 'Star of Robbie Burns' Crashes, Killing 111
In November 1961, a fledgling Caledonian Airways leased its first aircraft from Sabena, it was a Douglas DC-7C. She was registered G-ARUD and was... Read more
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Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 Disappears over Western Pacific Ocean
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was a Super Constellation propliner chartered by the United States military that disappeared on 15 March 1962 over the... Read more
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Continental Airlines Flight 11 Explodes
Continental Flight 11 took off from Chicago-O'Hare (ORD) at 20:35 for a one hour flight to Kansas City (MKC). The airplane climbed to FL390 and was... Read more
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Air France Orly Crash
On June 3, 1962, an Air France charter flight from Paris to Atlanta crashed on takeoff from France’s Orly Field. The crash, at the time the... Read more
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Air France Flight 117 Crashes
The aircraft, named "Chateau de Chantilly", was on a flight from Paris to Santiago via Lisbon, Azores and Guadeloupe. The VOR at Le Raizet Airport... Read more
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New Zealand National Airways Corporation Flight 441 Crashes
New Zealand National Airways Corporation Flight 441 was a scheduled flight of New Zealand's National Airways Corporation from Whenuapai to... Read more
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Swissair Flight SR306 Crash
Radioing the tower, he reported that the visibility varied along the runway and that the jet exhaust had blown away some of the fog. Holhli then... Read more
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Pan Am's Clipper Tradewind Crashes
Flight 214 was in a holding pattern awaiting an insturment approach to the Philadelphia International Airport when it was struck by lightning.... Read more
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Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 Crashes
Eastern Air Lines Flight 304 was a Douglas DC-8 flying from New Orleans International Airport to Washington-National Airport that crashed on... Read more
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Pacific Airlines Flight 773 Crashes After the Pilot and Co-Pilot are Shot
After arriving at the San Francisco Airport, Gonzales took out two insurance policies totaling a $105,000. Then, shortly before boarding the flight... Read more
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Edward Kennedy Survives Plane Crash with Broken Back
On June 19, 1964, Kennedy was a passenger in a private Aero Commander 680 from Washington to Massachusetts that crashed on final approach into an... Read more