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Modern San Francisco airport diagram showing runway layout (in 1971 runway 28R was more than 2,000 feet (610 m) shorter) [5] Flight 845's crew had planned and calculated its takeoff for runway 28L but discovered only after pushback that this runway had been closed hours earlier for maintenance, [6] and that the first 1,000 feet (300 m) of runway 01R, the preferential runway at that time, [a ...
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
China Airlines Flight 006 (call sign "Dynasty 006") was a daily non-stop flight from Taipei to Los Angeles International Airport.On February 19, 1985, the Boeing 747SP operating the flight was involved in an aircraft upset accident, following the failure of the No. 4 engine, while cruising at 41,000 ft (12,500 m).
In 1977, 583 people were killed on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife after a KLM Boeing 747 attempted to take off. There was heavy fog and the Boeing crashed into a Pan Am 747 ...
Flight 845, operated by Boeing 747-121 Clipper America, struck runway structures on takeoff from San Francisco International Airport due to pilot error; all 218 on board survived. February 3, 1975 A passenger started a fire on board a Boeing 747 63 miles west of Rangoon; the fire was put out by the crew and all 77 on board survived. [43]
The aircraft crashed into construction equipment on the runway, killing 83 of the 179 people aboard. Ninety-eight occupants initially survived the accident, but two passengers died later from injuries in the hospital. [1] This was the first fatal crash involving a Boeing 747-400, and also the first fatal accident in the history of Singapore ...
A private plane crash into a busy San Francisco Bay Area intersection killed one person, California firefighters reported. The crash, involving a single-engine Vans RV-6, took place at 10:30 a.m ...
Pan Am Flight 845 struck the approach light structure navigational aids at the end of San Francisco International Airport's runway 01R on take-off for Tokyo on July 30, 1971. [ 36 ] Pan Am Flight 1104 crashed into a mountain near Boonville, California , on January 21, 1943, killing all 19 on board, including Rear Admiral Robert Henry English ...