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On 3 August 1989, Olympic Aviation Flight 545, operated by a Shorts 330-200, crashed into a cloud-shrouded Mount Kerkis on Samos due to the pilots using visual flight rules in instrument meteorological conditions. All on board perished. [1] [2] This accident is the worst involving a Shorts 330. [3]
3 August, 1989: an Olympic Aviation Short 330, operating as Olympic Aviation Flight 545, flew into the cloud-shrouded Mount Kerkis on Samos island, Greece, while attempting a landing approach. All 3 crew members and 31 passengers were killed. [18]
The last Olympic Airlines flight was flight 424 from Toronto via Montreal, landing at 11:10 on 29 September 2009 at the Athens International Airport. Olympic Air took over the rest of the operations on 29 September 2009 and their first flight was on 1 October 2009 at 06:20 leaving the Athens International Airport and heading to Thessaloniki ...
American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe all 67 on board both aircraft died. Students, Olympic skaters, families and more. A ...
Air India flight attendants in traditional garb pose for a photo during the unveiling of Air India's first Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3 in New Delhi on ...
In addition to those on static display, there was one known airworthy example at the Olympic Flight Museum by the 2020s. [41] While various HH-43s still exist, some models can be quite rare. For example, only of two of the 18 USAF HH-43A survived and neither is on display. [42] A HH-43B on display at Hubschraubermuseum Bückeburg, Germany Burma
In honor of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, here are 100-year-old photos of the 1924 Olympics in the City of Light.
Olympic Airways received its first 747 in 1973. [6] Olympic Airways was the flag carrier for Greece and had purchased 747s for some of its prime routes, including a nonstop between Athens and New York. [3] This meant that large numbers of American tourists could be accommodated in one flight [3] at lower per-seat costs to the airlines. [5]