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South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to London, England. The Boeing 707-300C operating the flight, which was only six weeks old, flew into the ground soon after take-off after a scheduled stopover in Windhoek , South West Africa (present day Namibia ) on 20 April 1968. [ 1 ]
South African Airways Flight 228, named Pretoria crashed on 20 April 1968 while on approach to Windhoek, killing 123 people. LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashed on 29 November 2013 into the Bwabwata National Park in Namibia en route to Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Angola. All 27 passengers and six crew on board were killed.
April 20: South African Airways Flight 228, a 707-344C, crashed shortly after take-off from Windhoek, Namibia. [10] The crew used a flap retraction sequence from the 707-B series on the newly delivered 707-C, which retracted the flaps in larger increments for that stage of the flight, leading to a loss of lift at 600 ft (180 m) above ground level.
The wreckage of a U.S. Navy fighter jet that crashed Tuesday in Washington state has been found, but the aircraft's two crew members remain missing. ... in 2004 and made its first flight in 2006 ...
The flight crew also consisted of 36-year-old first officer David Attwell and 37-year-old relief first officer Geoffrey Birchall, with 7,362 and 8,749 hours' experience (including 4,096 and 4,555 hours on the Boeing 747) respectively; and 45-year-old flight engineer, Giuseppe "Joe" Bellagarda and 34-year-old relief flight engineer, Alan Daniel ...
Worse, airline staff later found boxcutters – small knives used in at least two of the 9/11 hijackings – concealed in a seat-back pocket of another plane that had been sitting next to Flight 23.
A UNC-Chapel Hill student was found dead Sunday after disappearing on a hike in a South African national park, authorities said. Brook Cheuvront, 20, of Avery County, went missing Saturday when ...
April 20 – South African Airways Flight 228, the Boeing 707-344C Pretoria, crashes just after takeoff from J. G. Strijdom International Airport in Windhoek, South-West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 of the 128 people on board. It remains the deadliest aviation accident in the history of Namibia.