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Aeroflot accidents and incidents. Founded in 1923, Aeroflot, the flag carrier and largest airline of Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), has had a high number of fatal crashes, with a total of 8,231 passengers dying in Aeroflot crashes according to the Aircraft Crashes Record Office, mostly during the Soviet era, about five times more than any ...
On September 20, a contractor's digging equipment hit & ruptured a crude oil gathering pipeline in Williams County, North Dakota, spilling about 8,400 gallons of crude oil. [30] On December 7, the Keystone Pipeline leaked about 588,000 gallons of tar sands crude into a creek, in Washington County, Kansas. This is the biggest oil spill in ...
September 26, 1992: C-130H 911 of the Nigerian Air Force crashed three minutes after take-off from Lagos, Nigeria, three engines failed, high take-off weight. All 158 people on board were killed, including eight foreign nationals. This crash is the deadliest involving the Lockheed C-130.
2014. May 31: One US CH-53 Sea Stallion was destroyed in a hard landing, the crew survived. [45][46] May 28: One US Army crew member died when a UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan. The helicopter crashed when it hit a cellphone tower in the Marouf district of Kandahar province.
On 28 September 2018, the first F-35 crash occurred. A USMC F-35B crashed near Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, and the pilot ejected safely. [8] The crash was attributed to a faulty fuel tube; all F-35s were grounded on 11 October pending a fleet-wide inspection of the tubes. [9] The next day, most USAF and USN F-35s returned ...
One man died suddenly while carrying equipment during the clean-up. [41] The plant's reactors Nos. 4, 5 and 6 were inactive at the time. 1 [42] and 3+ labour accidents; plus a broader number of primarily ill or elderly people from evacuation stress: 1,255–2,078 (2018 est.) [43] 7 September 12, 2011: Marcoule, France
Prior to the crash the pilot reported a power failure to the tail rotor. Pilot, Co-Pilot and 2 door gunners died in this incident. [283] 30 November An Indian Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MKI crashed near Jethagaon in Jaisalmer of Rajasthan after it took off from Jodhpur. The crash happened while returning from a regular training mission.
1950s. May 17, 1953: Delta Air Lines Flight 318, a Douglas DC-3, crashed 13 miles (21 km) east of Marshall, Texas. The flight, which originated from Dallas Love Field, was on approach to Shreveport, Louisiana. 19 out of 20 on board perished. The crash was attributed to adverse weather conditions with a thunderstorm in the area.