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An Air Midwest Beechcraft 1900D operating for USAir Express, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident. Air Midwest Flight 5481 (operating as a US Airways Express flight under a franchise agreement with US Airways) was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport near Charlotte, North Carolina, to Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport in ...
Air Midwest, Inc., was a Federal Aviation Administration Part 121 certificated air carrier that operated under air carrier certificate number AMWA510A issued on May 15, 1965. It was headquartered in Wichita , Kansas , [ 1 ] United States , and from 1991 was a subsidiary of Mesa Air Group .
Air Midwest Flight 5481 took off from Charlotte/Douglas international airport to Greenville-Spartanburg international airport. The Beechcraft 1900D had its elevator range of motion cut to only 7 degrees downward but a full 14 degrees upward during a maintenance error, and was overweight.
All 10 people on board were killed on impact and in the subsequent fire. [13] Wien Consolidated Airlines Flight 55 crashed into Pedro Bay, killing all 39 on board on December 2, 1968, after encountering extreme air turbulence and suffering structural failure. [14] The accident is the third-worst accident involving a Fairchild F-27. [15]
Millions face potential travel nightmare along I-90 corridor from Chicago to Boston. Midwest and Northeast could face significant impacts from potential ice threat.
A travel nightmare began to unfold across portions of Kansas and Missouri early Wednesday morning as the first in a pair of high-impact ice storms has millions of people across nearly two dozen ...
Air Midwest (operating as US Airways Express) provided flights to Kansas City International Airport from 2006 through 2008. [11] Kirksville went without service from mid-2008 through mid-2009 until Air Choice One began scheduled flight operations twice daily, to and from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport during July 2009. [citation needed]
"As the mild air mass clashes with frigid air farther north, the ingredients for a major ice storm are expected to be in place beginning Wednesday across a zone spanning from the Midwest to the ...