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The aircraft was destroyed, with the loss of all 144 people on board, resulting in the deadliest plane crash in Portugal's history. [2] All of the passengers on board were Italian and all of the crew were Americans. [3] [4] The crash is also known as "The disaster of the Azores" (Italian: Il disastro delle Azzorre). [5]
Following the crash of Independent Air Flight 1851 in 1989, Independent Air received bad press in Italian newspapers, primarily about the age of its aircraft. Also, some passengers who boarded one of its earlier flights into the Dominican Republic and Jamaica complained about the state of its aircraft and the interior citing faulty air ...
1959 Arlington Boeing 707 crash; 1971 Qantas bomb hoax; 1973 Kano Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 crash; 1975 Agadir Royal Air Maroc Boeing 707 crash; 1976 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Boeing 707 crash; 1977 British Airtours Boeing 707 crash; 1983 TAMPA Colombia Boeing 707 crash; 1991 RAAF Boeing 707 crash; 2002 Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 crash
World War II soon followed, causing men in aviation to enroll in the army, leaving flight attendant positions widely available to women. Soon, it became a female-dominated field, with women making ...
“The first is rare as the cause of a crash in transport aircraft. There are a couple of examples from the 1960s,” he says. “Microbursts cause fewer accidents now than they did in the 1990s.
The jet came down hard and fast. Flames erupted around the rear landing gear, followed by a growing fire ball shrouded by a rising trail of black smoke, according to video from the scene.
The long flight and fatigue took its toll and the hijackers gave up. It was a record for long-distance hijacking, over 7,500 miles. [28] [29] July 25: Pan Am Flight 6005, a 707-321C (N461PA, named Clipper Rising Sun) crashed at Manila, Philippines, due to poor CRM and a premature descent, four killed. [1]
The new Netflix drama, directed by J.A. Bayona, tells the story of the disaster, which happened in October 1972 when Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes mountains, immediately ...