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Survivors. 0. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 was a Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft, registration N137US, [1] which crashed on take-off from Chicago 's O'Hare International Airport September 17, 1961. All 37 on board were killed in the accident. Flight 706 began its day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was scheduled to stop at Chicago before ...
April 7, 1936. Flight 1, a Douglas DC-2-112, struck Cheat Mountain in poor visibility due to pilot error, killing 12 of 14 on board. March 25, 1937. Flight 15A, a Douglas DC-2-112, crashed in a nose dive near Clifton, Pennsylvania due to wing icing, killing all 13 on board. March 1, 1938.
0. Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, United States, while en route from O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, on May 22, 1962. The aircraft crashed in a clover field near Unionville, in Putnam County, Missouri, killing all 45 ...
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 293 was an American military charter operated on June 3, 1963, by a Northwest Orient Airlines Douglas DC-7 C registered N290 which crashed into the sea off the coast of Alaska. All 101 crew and passengers on board were killed. [1] It was the airline's deadliest disaster until the crash of Northwest Airlines ...
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport.On the afternoon of May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating this flight was taking off from runway 32R at O'Hare International when its left engine detached from the wing, causing a loss of control, and the aircraft ...
List of American Airlines accidents and incidents. As of March 2019, American Airlines has had almost sixty aircraft hull losses, beginning with the crash of an Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor in August 1931. [1][2] Of the hull losses, most were propeller driven aircraft, including three Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft (of which one, the crash in 1959 of ...
Ground fatalities. 6. On December 16, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward LaGuardia Airport. [1] The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten Island and the DC-8 in ...
American Airlines Flight 191 lost control and crashed immediately after take-off at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago on May 25, 1979. killing all 271 occupants and two people on the ground. Its number-one engine had been severed on the runway. It was the deadliest plane crash in U.S. history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.