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UPS Airlines Flight 6 was a scheduled international cargo flight operated by UPS.On September 3, 2010, the Boeing 747-400F flying the route between Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Cologne, Germany, developed an in-flight fire, which caused the aircraft to crash, killing both crew members, the only people on board.
Air India Flight 855 was a scheduled passenger flight from Bombay (now Mumbai), India, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.On 1 January 1978, the Boeing 747 operating the flight crashed into the Arabian Sea about 3 km (1.9 mi; 1.6 nmi) off the coast of Bandra, less than two minutes after take-off, killing all 213 passengers and crew on board.
The crew aborted take-off, but the aircraft was unable to stop before it overran the runway and broke up, with minor injuries. [46] On July 7, 2008, Centurion Air Cargo Flight 164, a 747-200F, crashed into a farm field near the small village of Madrid, Colombia, shortly after take-off from El Dorado International Airport. The crew had reported ...
A UPS (UPS) plane headed from Dubai to Cologne, Germany, crashed minutes after takeoff with two crewmembers aboard. The plane, a Boeing 747-400, crashed at about 8 p.m. local time, UPS said in a ...
TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727-231, was hijacked shortly after takeoff on 14 June 1985. One person was killed. Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked on the ground at Algiers and flown to France on 24 December 1994. Air Algérie Flight 6289, at 5 seconds after takeoff, the left engine of the Boeing 737-200 exploded on 6 March 2003.
TWA Flight 800, was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, at about 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris.
On February 20, 2005, the innermost left engine burst into flames triggered by an engine compressor stall almost immediately after takeoff. The Boeing 747-400 continued to fly across the United States, Canada, and the Atlantic Ocean with its three remaining engines despite air traffic controllers expecting the pilots to perform the emergency ...
On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.