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After the crash occurred, the airline provided several flights for around 300 relatives so that they could go to the crash site. [ 32 ] On August 13, 1997, 50 protesters staged a sit-in at Guam Airport, saying that the recovery of the dead was taking too long; they sat on blankets and sheets of paper at the Korean Air counter.
The aircraft crashed on Nimitz Hill in Asan-Maina, Guam, while on approach to the airport. [4] The National Transportation Safety Board cites poor communication between the flight crew as probable cause for the crash, along with the captain’s poor decision-making on the non-precision approach. [3]
August 6 – Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashes on Nimitz Hill in Asan-Maina, Guam, on landing approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, killing 228 of the 254 people on board.
Nimitz Hill, Guam: The only incident in a US territory to result over 100 fatalities. 7. October 31, 1999: 217 0 0 EgyptAir Flight 990: Atlantic Ocean, near Nantucket, Massachusetts: 8. September 11, 2001: 189 (including 125 on the ground) 106 (ground) 0 American Airlines Flight 77: The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia
View of the flight deck of USS Nimitz after the crash of the EA-6B. 26 May Grumman EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 159910, of VMAQ-2 Detachment Y, crash landed on the flight deck of USS Nimitz, off the Florida coast, [42] killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others (some reports say 42, some 48). The crash was the result of the aircraft missing the last ...
Investigators head into the debris field at the site of a commercial plane crash near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001. ... demolishing the two 110-story towers that symbolize U.S ...
People inside both the North and South towers of the World Trade Center hung on for dear life after the planes hit on 11 September. According to New York Magazine, 2,016 people died who worked in ...
2008 Guam B-52 crash; W. World Airways Flight 830 This page was last edited on 2 May 2020, at 03:14 (UTC). Text is ...