Air Disasters timeline
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TAM Airlines Flight 3054 Explodes Near Gas Station
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ 3054) was an Airbus A320 airliner, registration PR-MBK, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight between... Read more
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Spanair Flight 5022 Crash
Spanair Flight JK 5022, from Barajas Airport in Madrid to Gran Canaria Airport in Gran Canaria, Spain, crashed just after take off from runway 36L... Read more
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Aeroflot Flight 821 Crashes, Killing 88
Aeroflot Flight 821, operated by Aeroflot-Nord in a service agreement with Aeroflot and as its subsidiary, crashed on approach to Perm Airport on... Read more
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DJ AM and Travis Barker Survive Learjet 60 Crash
The 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash occurred just before midnight on September 19, 2008, when a Learjet 60 crashed while taking off from... Read more
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Colgan Air Flight 3407 Crashes, Killing 50
A Bombardier DHC8-402 Q400 operating as Flight 3407 departed late from Newark on February 12, 2009, at 9:20 p.m. EST. Shortly after the last... Read more
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Air France Flight 447 is lost over Atlantic Ocean
Military aircraft and warships from France and Brazil were combing the equatorial Atlantic in a desperate quest to find the wreckage of an Air... Read more
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Seventeen bodies have been recovered from Air France Flight 447 debris, according to Brazilian military authorities
Seventeen bodies have been recovered from last week's crash of an Air France jetliner off the South American coast, according to Brazil's... Read more
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French Submarine Sent to Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Box
Off the coast of Brazil, search teams continue to hunt for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. They have recovered 41 bodies so far, with 187... Read more
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Autopsy Reports from Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Seem to Rule Out Terrorism
Autopsies on the bodies recovered after the Airbus disaster in the south Atlantic suggest there was no explosion or fire and therefore no terrorist... Read more
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Centennial Paris Air Show Opens on Somber Note Amid Continuing Air France Flight 447 Investigations
The world's largest showcase of civilian and military aircraft and equipment, the Paris air show, has opened at Le Bourget Airport. Some 2,000... Read more
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Brazil Announces End of Search for Bodies from Air France Flight 447
Brazil has called off its search for more bodies and debris from the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean four weeks... Read more
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Yemenia Flight 626 Crashes
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled commercial flight operated by Yemenia en route from Sana'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros that crashed on 30 June... Read more
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Two Ships End Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Box
The ping signals from the black boxes belonging to doomed Air France Flight 447 began to fade about 10 days ago, and now two of the ships involved... Read more
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Tourist Helicopter Collides with Private Plane over Hudson River, Killing Nine
A deadly mid-air collision between a tourist helicopter and a small plane over New York’s Hudson River has revived fears about the safety of... Read more
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Crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration ET-ANB performing flight ET-409 from Beirut (Lebanon) to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) with 82... Read more
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2010 Austin Plane Crash
The remains of two people have been found in an Austin, Texas, building where a man crashed a small plane, authorities said. The identities of... Read more
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Scores of Polish Civic, Religious, Military, and Government Leaders, Including President Lech Kaczyński, Die in Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 Crash
On 10 April 2010, a Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft crashed near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 passengers and crew. Those killed... Read more
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Crash of Polish Air Force Tu-154M Kills 96 Including Polish President Lech Kaczyński.
A plane carrying the Polish president and dozens of the country’s top political and military leaders to the site of a Soviet massacre of Polish... Read more
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Multiple Heads of State to Attend Funeral for Polish President Set for April 18th
President Obama will join the leaders of Russia, France and other nations at the state funeral Sunday of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who was... Read more
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Thousands of Polish Mourners Pay Respects to Bodies of President and First Lady Kaczynski at Presidential Palace
Thousands of grieving mourners tossed flowers at a slow-moving hearse or joined an enormous viewing line at the presidential palace to pay their... Read more
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Black Box Analysis from Polish Plane Crash Determines that Pilots were not Pressured to Land
Russian investigators said today the black box retrieved from Saturday's devastating plane crash that killed Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski,... Read more
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Crash of Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771
A young boy appeared to be the only survivor on Wednesday after a Libyan airliner crashed while landing at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing... Read more
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Pamir Airways Flight 112 Crash
Wails of sadness echoed across a snowcapped mountaintop Tuesday as relatives grieved over 44 people aboard a passenger plane that crashed into a... Read more
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Crash of Air India Express Flight 812
On 22 May 2010, around 06:30 local time, Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737-8HG, registration VT-AXV, on a scheduled passenger flight from... Read more
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Pakistan Airbus A321 Crash
An airblue Airbus A321 crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan, in rainy weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board,... Read more