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South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to London, England. The Boeing 707-300C operating the flight, which was only six weeks old, flew into the ground soon after take-off after a scheduled stopover in Windhoek, South West Africa (present day Namibia) on 20 April 1968. [1]
South African Airways Flight 228, named Pretoria crashed on 20 April 1968 while on approach to Windhoek, killing 123 people. LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashed on 29 November 2013 into the Bwabwata National Park in Namibia en route to Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Angola. All 27 passengers and six crew on board were killed.
Four passengers and a flight attendant were killed and 122 escaped. April 20: South African Airways Flight 228, a 707-344C, crashed shortly after take-off from Windhoek, Namibia. [10] The crew used a flap retraction sequence from the 707-B series on the newly delivered 707-C, which retracted the flaps in larger increments for that stage of the ...
American Eagle Flight 5342 plunged into the Potomac River on the night of Jan. 29, carrying 60 passengers and four crew members from Wichita, Kansas, to Reagan International Airport.
South African Airways Flight 295 (SA295/SAA295) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan, to Jan Smuts International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, with a stopover in Plaisance Airport, Plaine Magnien, Mauritius.
Flight 7C2216, operated by the Korean budget airline Jeju Air, was carrying 181 passengers and crew when it tried to land at Muan International Airport at 9:03 a.m. local time but overran the runway.
The Commemorative Air Force on Monday released the names of all six flight crew members who were killed when a P-63 Kingcobra collided with a B-17 Flying Fortress at the CAF’s Wings Over Dallas ...
South African Airways Flight 228 crashed just after its 9:00 p.m. takeoff from J. G. Strijdom International Airport in Windhoek, South West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 of the 128 people on board. [113] The destruction of the Boeing 707-344C jet Pretoria remains the deadliest aviation accident in Namibian history. [114]