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Wingfoot Air Express crash. July 21 – The Goodyear dirigible Wingfoot Air Express caught fire and crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, while carrying passengers to a local amusement park, killing thirteen people: three out of the five on board and ten others on the ground, with 27 others on the ground being injured.
The United Kingdom is noted to have the highest number of air crashes in Europe, with a total of 110 air crashes within the time period, and Indonesia is the highest in Asia at 104, followed by India at 95. [6] The most fatalities on board a single aircraft are the 520 fatalities of the 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 accident.
The aircraft suffered a mid-air explosion due to a bomb in the baggage compartment and crashed. It was the first confirmed act of air sabotage in commercial aviation. March 31, 1931 8 0 0 1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash: Bazaar Township: Kansas: Fokker F-10
On January 29, 2025, American Airlines Flight 5342 (operated by regional carrier PSA Airlines under the American Eagle brand), [a] [6] [7] a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner, collided mid-air with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River, about half a mile (0.8 km) short of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
Published flight data indicated the aircraft had a filed maximum speed of 518 mph, a maximum altitude of 38,000 feet, with a planned flight distance of 1,050 miles against 1,010 mi actually travelled; the route was referred to as the "MXE PENSY J110 AIR J80 SPI" route. [23] The crash was the second fatal accident involving Jet Rescue since a ...
On 29 January 2025, a Beechcraft 1900D operated by Eagle Air on behalf of Light Air Services crashed in Unity State, located in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. The aircraft was on a routine scheduled charter flight from GPOC Unity Airstrip to Juba International Airport when it crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 20 out of 21 on ...
2016 Air Kasthamandap crash – On 26 February 2016, an Air Kasthamandap PAC 750XL crash-landed in Chilkhaya, killing two. Summit Air Flight 409 – On 27 May 2017, a Summit Air Let L-140 crashed short of the runway threshold while attempting a landing at Tenzing–Hillary Airport in Nepal. The captain and the first officer died as a result of ...