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Hughes Airwest Flight 706 The wreckage of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 at its crash site Accident Date June 6, 1971 (1971-06-06) 18:11 (6:11 PM) PDT Summary Mid-air collision Site San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, United States 34°10′30″N 118°00′00″W / 34.175°N 118.00°W / 34.175; -118.00 Total fatalities 50 Total survivors 1 First aircraft N9345, the ...
AMHC Gilbert Chavarria attached to US Navy VF-154 the Black Knights, while on board USS Coral Sea died after being blown into a parked F-4 Phantom II, by another F-4 Phantom during flight deck operations in the Sea of Japan. 22 February Blue Angels pilot Lcdr. Stu Powrie, 1970 Naval Academy graduate killed in A-4 Skyhawk crash during airshow ...
A bomb exploded underneath a passenger's seat. The passenger died, but the plane landed safely in Honolulu. July 9, 1982 153 4 0 Pan Am Flight 759: Kenner: Louisiana: Boeing 727-200: The aircraft experienced a microburst shortly after takeoff, causing a rapid, unrecoverable descent. All on board and 8 on the ground were killed. January 23, 1982 ...
The accident was the first commercial airplane collision since 2009, when a Colgan Air flight crashed on landing near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people. The Wednesday collision was the deadliest ...
4 July 1989 Kortrijk, Belgium Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23: 1 124 125 † 0 Baikal Airlines Flight 130 [215] 3 January 1994 Irktusk, Russia Tupolev 154M: 1 0 1: 12 (three on aircraft) Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 [216] 8 December 2005 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Boeing 737-7H4: 1 49 50 † 4 Colgan Air Flight 3407 [217] 12 February 2009 Clarence ...
All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, including 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the helicopter. It was the first major U.S. commercial passenger flight crash in nearly 16 years since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest U.S. air disaster in nearly 24 years.
A screen grab captured from a video shows a regional plane that collided in midair with a military helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29, 2025.
The explosion led to legislation, the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act, which would forever change the way plane accident victims’ families and loved ones are treated.