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On 24 August 2008, a Boeing 737-200, owned and operated by Itek Air (a Kyrgyz company) on a charter flight for Iran Aseman Airlines, flight 6895, crashed near Manas International Airport in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, while attempting an emergency landing, returning to the airport of origin, 10 minutes after departure. Sixty-eight ...
[42] [43] In response to the closure of ATA Airlines and Aloha Airlines, the airline began flights to Oakland on May 1, 2008. [ 44 ] On February 16, 2010, Hawaiian Airlines sought approval from the United States Department of Transportation to begin nonstop flights from its hub at Honolulu to Tokyo-Haneda sometime in 2010.
Alaska was the only airline to fly from the west coast of the United States to Havana, Cuba, with a flight from Los Angeles, which operated from 2017 to 2018. After a seasonal drop in demand, and travel restrictions placed by the Trump administration, the route was discontinued a year after launch. [7]
This scenario was repeated 23 years later at another California-based airline, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA), when a recently dismissed employee shot a supervisor, then both pilots on board a BAe 146-200 Flight 1771 en route from Los Angeles to San Francisco, causing it to crash in the hills of San Luis Obispo County with the loss of all on ...
An Alaska Airlines in-flight snack. In 2006, the airline launched its buy on board meal program, [154] [non-primary source needed] on most flights over 2 ½ hours. [155] [non-primary source needed] As part of the program, the airline offers various "Picnic Packs" for a charge in Premium Class and Main Cabin.
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to San Francisco. On December 7, 1987, the British Aerospace 146-200A , registration N350PS, crashed in San Luis Obispo County near Cayucos , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] after being hijacked by a passenger.
The Beechcraft plane took off from Santa Monica Airport at 5:57 p.m. on Tuesday and landed at Catalina Airport at 6:20 p.m., according to Flight Aware. Safai's wife told NBC4 that he was on board ...
March 31, 1971 – Western Air Lines Flight 366, a Boeing 720-047B flying from Los Angeles to Ontario, California, on a pilot proficiency check flight, yawed and rolled out of control, and crashed while in the process of executing a 3-engine missed-approach from a simulated engine-out instrument approach. The five crew members and only ...