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Nine months after the crash of Flight 1713, Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashed in Dallas. When the NTSB released its report on Flight 1713, it specifically mentioned the fact that "almost 3 minutes of non-pertinent social conversation" had occurred before takeoff.
This is the first crash in which a flight recorder was used to provide details in a crash investigation. The accident was the deadliest aviation disaster in history at the time. December 22 – Philippine Airlines Flight S85, a Douglas DC-3C, crashed shortly after takeoff due to loss of control following engine failure, killing 28 of 37 on board.
Delta Flight 954, operating the Convair, experienced miscommunication with air traffic control and were crossing a runway in poor visibility when North Central Airlines Flight 575, operating the DC-9, were in their takeoff roll on the same runway. The DC-9 attempted to fly over the Convair but struck it and then crash landed back on the runway.
The investigation will involve three primary areas — the pilot, the aircraft and the operating environment — and consider the flight track data, recordings of any air traffic control ...
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 N473DA, the Boeing 727-200 involved in the accident, seen at LaGuardia Airport in 1980 Accident Date August 31, 1988 (1988-08-31) Summary Crashed on takeoff after failure to configure flaps and slats Site Dallas/Fort Worth Int'l Airport, Euless, Texas, United States 32°52′13″N 097°03′04″W / 32.87028°N 97.05111°W / 32.87028; -97.05111 Aircraft ...
The events of Flight 1420 were featured in "Racing the Storm", a season one (2003) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday [5] (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S., and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and elsewhere around the world). The dramatization was broadcast in the United States with the title "Fatal Landing".
The crash was the country’s deadliest since 1997, when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed in the Guam jungle, with the loss of 228 lives. It is not yet clear what caused it, with the ...
Jeju Air flight 7C2216 departed Bangkok on 29 December for Muan in southwestern South Korea, but crash-landed on its belly, overshooting the regional airport’s runway and exploding into flames ...