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On September 9, 1969, the aircraft serving the flight, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 light aircraft near Fairland, Indiana. The DC-9 was carrying 78 passengers and 4 crew members, and the Piper was leased to a student pilot on a solo cross-country flight.
The first XB-70 carried out its maiden flight in September 1964 and many more test flights followed. [71] The data from the XB-70 test flights and aerospace materials development were used in the later B-1 bomber program, the American supersonic transport (SST) program, and via espionage, the Soviet Union's Tupolev Tu-144 SST program. [72]
All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, including 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the helicopter. It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 24 years. [6] [7]
A retired Army helicopter pilot shared insights into what may have caused Wednesday’s deadly mid-air collision over the Potomac River in Washington, DC — ranging from visibility challenges to ...
Remains from all 67 victims of the midair collision over Washington, D.C., that sent an American Airlines regional plane and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashing into the Potomac River have been ...
School communities in Virginia and Ohio mourned the victims and families devastated by the horrific mid-air collision between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter in nearby Washington, D.C ...
This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving mid-air collisions. [1] [2] [3] In aviation, a mid-air collision is an accident in which two or more aircraft come into unplanned contact during flight. Owing to the relatively high velocities involved and the likelihood of subsequent impact with the ground or sea, very severe damage ...
The cellphone footage provides the clearest angle yet of Wednesday's tragic midair collision in Washington, DC, that killed 67 people in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster in almost a ...