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Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (TK981/THY981) was a scheduled flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to London Heathrow Airport, with an intermediate stop at Orly Airport in Paris. On 3 March 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the flight crashed into the Ermenonville Forest , 37.76 kilometres (23.46 mi) outside Paris, killing all 335 ...
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1930s. American Airways flight attendants Mae Bobeck, Agnes Nohava, Marie Allen, and Velma Maul are poised, each with her right hand on the guard rail, as they descend the boarding steps of an ...
The deadliest crash of this year was Turkish Airlines Flight 981, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 which crashed shortly after takeoff from Paris, France on 3 March, killing all 346 people on board. At the time, the accident was the deadliest in aviation history, more than doubling the previous record.
It made its first flight on 5 September 1972, joined Turkish Airlines on 9 January 1973, and had flown for 2,269 hours over 3,133 flights prior to the accident. [2] The Fokker F28 was named Van for the city Van; [3] its airworthiness certificate was valid until 13 December 1974. [4] The captain and pilot in command of the flight was İlhan ...
In a statement, the FAA said the flight "landed safely at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York around 6 a.m. local time on Wednesday, October 9, after the one of the pilots suffered a ...
On Sept. 11, 1974, Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 crashed in Charlotte, killing 72 passengers. Ten people survived. It remains the deadliest plane crash in Charlotte history.