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The pilot-in-command was 40-year-old Captain Mohammad Tarmizi Muda, [3] he was a former military pilot, and had a total of 3,947 flight hours, 783 were on the Dornier 228; [1]: 7 The pilot-monitoring was 29-year-old First Officer Wong Lein Yee, [3] with 1,120 total flight hours, he had 22 hours of experience on the Dornier 228.
Vesna Vulović was born in Belgrade on 3 January 1950. [1] [2] Her father was a businessman and her mother was a fitness instructor. [2]Driven by her love of the Beatles, Vulović travelled to the United Kingdom after completing her first year of university, hoping to improve her English language skills.
The crash killed 136 people, consisting of 12 crew, 123 troops and a security guard on the ground. [70] 25 October: a Bali International Air Service Britten-Norman Trislander carrying 17 passengers and crews went missing above the Bornean jungle while circling over Sampit in Central Kalimantan. [71]
The greatest number of passenger fatalities involving one airline in a single calendar year occurred in 2014 with Malaysia Airlines, with 537 people dead (presumably - with the wreckage unrecovered, the death toll is not entirely confirmed) in two tragedies: disappearance of Flight 370 on 8 March and the shootdown of Flight 17 on 17 July.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Indonesia AirAsia from Surabaya, Java, Indonesia, to Singapore.On 28 December 2014, the Airbus A320-216 flying the route crashed into the Java Sea, killing all 162 of the people on board.
The deliberate crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 constitute, by a large margin, the deadliest aircraft disaster by number of victims on the ground, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and ...
It predates the Boeing 737 Max, the type that was involved in two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed all 346 people on board those flights. The 737 Max was grounded for almost two years.
The highest altitude obtained by an electrically powered aircraft is 29.524 kilometres (96,863 ft) on August 14, 2001, by the NASA Helios, and is the highest altitude in horizontal flight by a winged aircraft. This is also the altitude record for propeller driven aircraft, FAI class U (Experimental / New Technologies), and FAI class U-1.d ...