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South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to London, England. The Boeing 707-300C operating the flight, which was only six weeks old, flew into the ground soon after take-off after a scheduled stopover in Windhoek , South West Africa (present day Namibia ) on 20 April 1968. [ 1 ]
South African Airways Flight 228, named Pretoria crashed on 20 April 1968 while on approach to Windhoek, killing 123 people. LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashed on 29 November 2013 into the Bwabwata National Park in Namibia en route to Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Angola. All 27 passengers and six crew on board were killed.
Four passengers and a flight attendant were killed and 122 escaped. April 20: South African Airways Flight 228, a 707-344C, crashed shortly after take-off from Windhoek, Namibia. [10] The crew used a flap retraction sequence from the 707-B series on the newly delivered 707-C, which retracted the flaps in larger increments for that stage of the ...
Adam Tebben was the crew's flight nurse. He previously served in leadership positions as a nurse in his home state of Kansas before coming to Oklahoma. Oklahoma medical helicopter crash remains ...
The helicopter carrying five Marines that crashed during a storm in the mountains outside San Diego was a CH-53E Super Stallion designed to fly through bad weather, even at night. The Super ...
12 January – Mil Mi-17 transport helicopter belonging to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Macedonia crashes near the village of Blace, in the region of Katlanovo, [3] approximately 10–15 kilometres south-east of Skopje. All 11 individuals aboard the helicopter, including eight passengers and three crew members, are killed. [4]
April 20 – South African Airways Flight 228, the Boeing 707-344C Pretoria, crashes just after takeoff from J. G. Strijdom International Airport in Windhoek, South-West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 of the 128 people on board. It remains the deadliest aviation accident in the history of Namibia.
Three people were killed Monday evening when a medical helicopter crashed in Owen County. All three victims were crew members with Air Evac Lifeteam Base 133, the company said in a statement.