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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
MIAMI — A witness saw sparks shooting from a cargo plane as it made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport shortly after takeoff.. The aircraft landed safely Thursday night “after ...
Pages in category "Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 747" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Modern San Francisco airport diagram showing runway layout (in 1971 runway 28R was more than 2,000 feet (610 m) shorter) [5] Flight 845's crew had planned and calculated its takeoff for runway 28L but discovered only after pushback that this runway had been closed hours earlier for maintenance, [6] and that the first 1,000 feet (300 m) of runway 01R, the preferential runway at that time, [a ...