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She was an El Al employee based in Amsterdam, and was travelling to Tel Aviv to marry another El Al employee. [9] Captain Fuchs was an experienced aviator, having flown as a fighter-bomber pilot in the Israeli air force in the late 1950s. [10] He had over 25,000 flight hours, including 9,500 hours on the Boeing 747.
El Al Flight 1862: 43 A Boeing 747 cargo aircraft of the then-state-owned Israeli airline El Al, crashed into two flats in the Bijlmermeer (colloquially "Bijlmer") neighbourhood (part of Amsterdam-Zuidoost) of Amsterdam. 43 people died. [85] 9 August 1993 A F-16 of Volkel Airbase crashed at a corn field near the base, possibly due to a bird in ...
The aftermath of El Al Flight 1862, with the tree being located behind the destroyed buildings. On 4 October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a cargo flight from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS/EHAM) to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport (TLV/LLBG) operated by a Boeing 747-200 of El Al Israel Airlines, crashed into the flats at Bijlmermeer 15 minutes after takeoff due to two of its engines breaking off the ...
That year, more than 50 percent of the passengers flying into Israel arrived on El Al flights. [18] On 15 June 1961, the airline set a world record for the longest non-stop commercial flight: an El Al Boeing 707 flew from New York to Tel Aviv, covering 5,760 miles (9,270 km) in 9 hours and 33 minutes. [24]
On 4 October 1992, Israeli El Al Flight 1862 lost two engines shortly after take-off from Schiphol at 6 PM. The 338-ton Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed into two 11-storey council flats (Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg). 43 people were killed, 39 of them on the ground. This accident is known as the Bijlmerramp (Dutch for "Bijlmer disaster").
El Al Flight 432 attack; El Al Flight 1862; H. Hindawi affair; I. 1969 Israeli embassies and El Al attacks; L. 1978 London bus attack; 2002 Los Angeles International ...
On 30 January 2020, El Al suspended flights to Beijing because of the outbreak of COVID-19. [6] In March 2020 the airline saw reduced demand and cancelled flights to Europe. El Al proposed in early March 2020 to lay off 1 in 6 of its 6,200 employees.
The Gooimeer is related to the crash of El Al Flight 1862 in 1992, as the two right-hand side jet engines of the Boeing 747-200F serving the route separated from the plane and fell into the lake, witnessed by a fishing off-duty police officer.