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On July 23, 1973, Ozark Air Lines Flight 809 was operated by one of the company ' s Fairchild-Hiller FH-227s, registration N4215.The flight was scheduled to go from Nashville, Tennessee, to St. Louis, Missouri, with four intermediate stops at Clarksville, Tennessee; Paducah, Kentucky; Cape Girardeau, Missouri; and Marion, Illinois.
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1973 (25 P) Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents in 1973" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
The DC-9-31, registration N975NE, [3] serial number 47075, was manufactured in September 1967 and had 14,639 flight hours at the time of the accident. The jetliner was one of the aircraft that Delta Air Lines acquired in their 1972 merger with Northeast Airlines, to whom the aircraft was originally delivered.
Texas International Airlines Flight 655, registration N94230, was a Convair 600 turboprop aircraft en route from El Dorado to Texarkana, Arkansas, crashing into Black Fork Mountain, Arkansas, on the night of September 27, 1973. The eight passengers and three crewmembers on board were killed. [1] [2]
During the same accident, team commander Major Dan Dempsey safely ejected from his aircraft. [77] June 8 – Paris Air Show (Paris, France) – During a low-speed, high angle-of-attack portion of Mikoyan's test pilot Anatoly Kvochur's routine display flight, a bird sucked into the turbofan of his MiG-29's right engine caused it to malfunction.
The accident was the third airplane crash in the United States between 1975 and 1985 where more than 100 people were killed due to a microburst. These crashes likely helped to drive the need to ...
In addition to this, it was found that between August 8 and September 12, 1973, there had been fifteen problems reported about the third engine. [8] The engine had been taken off the aircraft for repairs, and between the time it was replaced and the accident, a further twenty-six faults had been reported by the flight crew.
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).