Air Disasters timeline
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Bombing of Gulf Air Flight 771
Gulf Air Flight 771 was a flight from Karachi, Pakistan to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. On 23 September 1983, while the Boeing 737-2P6 was on... Read more
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Runway Collision Causes Explosion of Aeroflot Flight 3352
Flight 3352 as approaching Omsk in poor weather; light rain, visibility 2 miles, 300 feet ceiling. Landing lights were switched off as they caused... Read more
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Terrorists Bomb Air India Flight 182
Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Toronto-Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay route. On 23 June 1985, the airplane operating... Read more
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Aeroflot Flight 7425 Crashes in USSR Territory
Aeroflot Flight 7425 on the 10 July 1985 was operated by a three-engined Tupolev Tu-154B-2 which departed Tashkent for a flight to Leningrad. The... Read more
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29 Survive Delta Air Lines Flight 191 Crash
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was an airline service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, bound for Los... Read more
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Japan Airlines Flight 123 Crashes into Mt. Osutaka
Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a Japan Airlines domestic flight from Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) to Osaka International Airport (Itami).... Read more
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Arrow Air Flight 1285 Crash Sparks Controversy
Arrow Air Flight 1285 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF jetliner, registered N950JW, which operated as an international charter flight carrying... Read more
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Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading... Read more
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Northwest Airlines Flight 255 Crashes After Take-off
Northwest Airlines Flight 255 was a flight that originated in Saginaw, Michigan, United States's MBS International Airport and was scheduled to... Read more
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Korean Air Flight 858 Explodes Mid-Air From North Korean Bomb
Korean Air Flight 858 was en route from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok on 29 November 1987 when it exploded over the Andaman Sea killing all 115 on board.... Read more
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Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 Crashes After Pilot is Shot
"There's gunfire on board . . . We're going down." The distress call came from Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 halfway on its run from Los... Read more
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Iran Air Flight 655 Shot Down by US Missiles
Iran Air Flight 655, also known as IR655, was a civilian airliner shot down by US missiles on Sunday 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward... Read more
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Lockerbie Bombing Kills 270
Pan Am Flight 103, also commonly referred to as the Lockerbie bombing, was the bombing of a Pan Am transatlantic flight from London Heathrow... Read more
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The Azores Crash of 1989
An American charter jet carrying Italian vacationers to the Caribbean crashed into a fog-shrouded mountain in the Azores today while trying to land... Read more
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Engine Fails on United Airlines Flight 232
United Airlines flight 232 was a scheduled flight from Stapleton International Airport, in Denver, Colorado, to O'Hare International Airport in... Read more
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UTA Flight 772 is Bombed
The DC-10 was operating as UTA Flight 772 on the Brazzaville-N'Djamena-Paris route. The aircraft took off from N'Djamena at 13:13 and climbed to a... Read more
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Lauda Air Flight 004 Crashes over the Jungle of Ban Nong Rong in Thailand
Lauda Air Flight 004 was an international passenger flight that crashed due to a thrust reverser deployment of the number 1 engine in flight. On... Read more
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Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 Crash-Lands in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
It was early in what pilots call the "takeoff roll" when first officer Kent Davidge signalled to his captain that he had a possible blown... Read more
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Air Inter Flight 148 Crashes, Killing 87
Air Inter Flight 148 was a scheduled airline flight on 20 January 1992 that crashed in the Vosges Mountains, near Mont Sainte-Odile, while circling... Read more
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Pakistan International Airline's Flight 268 Crashes, Killing 167
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 was an Airbus A300B4-203, registration AP-BCP, which crashed on approach to Kathmandu's Tribhuvan... Read more
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Bijlmer Disaster
At 6:35 pm local time, the Boeing 747, in nearly a ninety-degree bank with its right wing pointing at the ground, ploughed into two high-rise... Read more
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Aeroflot Flight 593 Crashes with 15-year Old in Control
Aeroflot Flight 593, a "Russian Airlines" Airbus A310-304 passenger airliner, registration F-OGQS, operating on behalf of Aeroflot, crashed into a... Read more
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China Airlines Flight 140 Stalls at Landing
China Airlines Flight 140 was a route from Taipei, Taiwan to Nagoya, Japan. On April 26, 1994, the Airbus A300 on the route was due to land at... Read more
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USAir Flight 427 Crash
USAir Flight 427 was a scheduled flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with a final destination of West... Read more
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American Airlines Flight 965 Crashes into Mountain
American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757 registered N651AA, was a scheduled flight from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida to Alfonso... Read more