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The aircraft was destroyed, with the loss of all 144 people on board, resulting in the deadliest plane crash in Portugal's history. [2] All of the passengers on board were Italian and all of the crew were Americans. [3] [4] The crash is also known as "The disaster of the Azores" (Italian: Il disastro delle Azzorre). [5]
Following the crash of Independent Air Flight 1851 in 1989, Independent Air received bad press in Italian newspapers, primarily about the age of its aircraft. Also, some passengers who boarded one of its earlier flights into the Dominican Republic and Jamaica complained about the state of its aircraft and the interior citing faulty air ...
The long flight and fatigue took its toll and the hijackers gave up. It was a record for long-distance hijacking, over 7,500 miles. [28] [29] July 25: Pan Am Flight 6005, a 707-321C (N461PA, named Clipper Rising Sun) crashed at Manila, Philippines, due to poor CRM and a premature descent, four killed. [1]
1941 Alma-Ata G-2 crash; 1948 Bodaybo Li-2 crash; ... Independent Air Flight 1851; Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308; J. 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident; K.
“The first is rare as the cause of a crash in transport aircraft. There are a couple of examples from the 1960s,” he says. “Microbursts cause fewer accidents now than they did in the 1990s.
A pre-flight inspection of a Jeju Air passenger plane hours before it crashed in South Korea, killing 179 people, found "no issues", the airline has said. "Nothing abnormal was noted with the ...
A DOD-contracted aircraft flying an "intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance" mission crashed in the Philippine Province of Maguindanao del Sur, killing all four on board, U.S. Indo-Pacific ...
The Israeli Air Force later flies the MiG-23MLD at its Flight Test Center. October 21 – TAN-SAHSA Flight 414, a Boeing 727-200, crashes into a hill near Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa Honduras, while on approach to landing there, killing 127 of the 146 people on board and injuring all 19 survivors.