Air Disasters timeline
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United Airlines Flight 823 Crashes, Killing 39
A United Air Lines Viscount turbo-prop with 39 aboard crashed and burned at 6:15 p.m. Thursday in the East Tennessee foothills of the Smokies near... Read more
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Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114 Crashes, Killing 29
Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114 was a Fairchild F-27 turboprop airliner flying out of Phoenix, Arizona to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas,... Read more
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Linjeflyg Flight 277 Crashes
Linjeflyg Flight 277 (actually LF267V), a Convair CV-340 Metropolitan (SE-CCK), crashed during the approach to Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport,... Read more
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Crash of BOAC Flight 911
At 13:42 hours the crew contacted ATC requesting permission to start the engines and clearance for a VMC climb via Fuji-Rebel-Kushimoto. The... Read more
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Southern Airways Flight 932 Crashes, Killing 37 Members of Marshall University Football Team
Southern Airlines Flight 932 departed Kinston, NC at 18:38 to return members of the Marshall University football team, coaching staff and other... Read more
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All Nippon Airways Flight 58 Collision
There was a festive air about the 155 passengers as they boarded All Nippon Airways' Flight 58 at Chitose Airport. Most were from the sleepy town... Read more
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Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 Crashes Near Juneau
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 was the first fatal jet airliner crash of Alaska Airlines (sometimes incorrectly cited as the first fatal crash... Read more
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LANSA Flight 508 is hit by Lightning in Midair
On Christmas Eve 1971, a Peruvian airliner was struck by lightning in an area of heavy turbulence at 21,000 feet and crashed into a the Amazon.... Read more
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JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 is Bombed
The plane crashed after the detonation of a bomb in the forward cargo hold. A flight attendant, 22 year old Vesna Vulovic, fell 33,330 feet in the... Read more
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Andes Flight Disaster
In fact, our survival had become a matter of national pride. Our ordeal was being celebrated as a glorious adventure… I didn't know how to explain... Read more
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Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 Crash
At 23:41:40 Miami approach contacted the flight and granted the crew's request to turn around by clearing him for a left turn heading 180 degrees.... Read more
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Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Crashes from Cargo Hatch Failure
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, registered TC-JAV and nicknamed the Ankara, that crashed just outside Senlis, France, on... Read more
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Martinair Holland Flight 138 Hits Mountain Descending into Rising Terrain
The aircraft departed Surabaya at 12:03 UTC for a hadj flight to Jeddah with a planned intermediate stop at Colombo. Around 16:30 UTC Colombo... Read more
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Eastern Airlines Flight 66 Strikes Rockaway Boulevard
I was driving in my car and came to a red light on Rockaway Boulevard (which in this area runs along the perimeter of Kennedy Airport and... Read more
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Crash of Malév Flight 240
In the early hours of 30 September 1975 a Malev passenger plane crashed into the Mediterranean, minutes before landing at Beirut airport. On board... Read more
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Zagreb Mid-Air Collision
Flying at 29,000 ft. near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, last week, Lufthansa Pilot Josef Kröse chanced to glance above him. There he saw a scene that caused... Read more
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Runway Collision at Tenerife Airport
The Tenerife airport disaster in 1977 was a collision involving two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft on the runway of Los Rodeos Airport (now known as... Read more
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Instrument Malfunction to Blame for Air India Flight 855 Crash
An Air India Boeing 747 jet crashes into the sea just after takeoff from a Bombay airport on this day in 1978, killing all 213 people on board. The... Read more
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PSA Flight 182 Collides with Cessna
Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Flight 182, registration N533PS, was a Boeing 727-214 commercial airliner that collided over San Diego, California... Read more
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American Airlines Flight 191 Crashes during Take-off
At just after 3 p.m. on May 25, 1979, an American Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff killing all 271 on board and two on the ground. The... Read more
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Antarctic Sightseeing Flight Crashes
Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) was a scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flight from Auckland Airport in New Zealand. The Antarctic sightseeing... Read more
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Ustica Massacre
Twenty-six years ago, Itavia Airlines flight 870 took off from Bologna bound for Palermo with 81 passengers and crew aboard. An hour into the... Read more
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Fire Consumes Saudia Flight 163 on Taxiway
Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled passenger flight of Saudia that caught fire at Riyadh's International Airport (now the Riyadh Air Base) after a... Read more
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153 Dead in Pan Am Flight 759 Crash
Pan Am Flight 759, operated by a Boeing 727-235, N4737 Clipper Defiance, was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Miami to Las Vegas, with... Read more
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Korean Air Lines Flight 007 Shot Down by Soviet Jet Interceptors
Soviet jet fighters intercept a Korean Airlines passenger flight in Russian airspace and shoot the plane down, killing 269 passengers and... Read more