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Fine Air Flight 101 was a scheduled cargo flight from Miami International Airport to Las Américas International Airport, operated by McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61F N27UA, that crashed after take-off on August 7, 1997, at Miami International Airport. [1] All 4 people on board and one person on the ground were killed. [2] [3]
The airport was originally called Pontiac Municipal Airport when it opened in 1928 and became Oakland-Pontiac Airport later before adopting its current name. The airport holds an open house every year, showing aircraft based at PTK, military aircraft, and vintage aircraft. The Civil Air Patrol acts as security for the open house.
One of four flights involved in the September 11 attacks. 9. August 16, 1987: 156 (including 2 on the ground) 6 (including 5 on the ground) 1 Northwest Airlines Flight 255: Romulus, Michigan, (a suburb of Detroit) 10. July 9, 1982: 153 (including 8 on the ground) 4 (ground) 0 Pan Am Flight 759: Kenner, Louisiana: 11. September 25, 1978 †
A high-end wedding photographer and his Indian American family were subjected to the wrath of a fellow traveler who hurled sickening insults at them after their United Airlines flight.
Pontiac (/ ˈ p ɒ n (t) i æ k / PON-(t)ee-ak) is a city in and the county seat of Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. [3] Located roughly 26 miles (41.8 km) northwest of downtown Detroit, Pontiac is part of the Detroit metropolitan area, and is variously described as a satellite city or suburb of Detroit.
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
U.S. Air Force Lt. Heather "Lucky" Penney, an F-16 pilot at the time, was ordered into the air to intercept United Airlines Flight 93. Her father was a flight captain for United at the time.
A woman was reportedly removed from a United Airlines flight after trying to open the emergency door and making racist comments — and the first class cabin gave her a hilarious sendoff. An ...