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Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 civilian airliner shot down by a Soviet Air Force Sukhoi Su-15TM interceptor on 1 September 1983, near Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin Island, after it strayed into Soviet airspace. 269 passengers and crew, including US congressman Larry McDonald, were aboard KAL 007; there were ...
Air Canada Flight 759 accidentally lined up with a taxiway on final approach and nearly collided with taxiing planes at San Francisco International Airport. The plane landed safely. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 went down on January 31, 2000, in the Pacific Ocean about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north of Anacapa Island, California. The two pilots, three ...
Airliner shot down [37] Geoffrey de Havilland Jr. United Kingdom 1946 Test pilot de Havilland DH 108: Hoo Peninsula: Aircraft broke up while carrying out high-speed tests John de Havilland: United Kingdom 1943 Test pilot de Havilland Mosquito: Hatfield, England Mid-air collision Léon Delagrange: France 1910 Aviator and sculptor Bleriot XI ...
Azerbaijan Airlines, shot down by Russian anti-aircraft fire over Grozny on Christmas Day. It was the first flight tragedy involving a passenger jet in 2024. It was the first flight tragedy ...
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
A Southwest Airlines plane was struck by a bullet moments before its scheduled takeoff from Dallas Love Field airport in Texas on Friday night, according to the airline.
The Shanghai Y-10 or Yun-10 (Chinese: 运-10; lit. 'Transporter-10') is a four engined narrow-body jet airliner developed in the 1970s by the Shanghai Aircraft Research Institute. The plane used Boeing's 707-320C as reference, designed according to Federal Aviation Regulation (Part 25, 1970 edition).
Footage and photos showcase the devastation in the Pacific Palisades, a neighborhood in Los Angeles damaged by an intense blaze that destroyed nearly 20,000 acres of land and led to widespread ...