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May 27 – A Super King Air 200 crashed in the Río de la Plata, near Carmelo, Uruguay, killing 5 and wounding 4. [65] July 23 – An American pilot attempting to fly around the world in 30 days to promote education crashed with his plane in the Pacific Ocean, killing him and leaving his father, also on board, missing. [66]
The deliberate crashes of the aforementioned American Airlines Flight 11, as well as United Airlines Flight 175 at the World Trade Center, and the subsequent collapse of both towers on 11 September 2001 caused 2,606 ground fatalities in addition to the deaths of the 157 people on board both flights, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash: near Gillsburg: Mississippi: Convair CV-240: The aircraft crashed due to fuel exhaustion caused by the crew's failure to adequately monitor its fuel. Lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in the crash. April 4, 1977 72 22 22 Southern Airways Flight 242: New Hope: Georgia: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
The last time a U.S. passenger airline crashed was in February 2009, when 50 people died on Colgan Air Flight 3407 in New York. Max Roser of Our World in Data wrote in December that 12.3 trillion ...
The pilots tried to make their way back to the airport but failed. The plane crashed and burst into flames, killing all 19 people on board. Wreckage of Nepal Airlines Flight 183 Wreckage of Nepal Airlines Flight 555. Nepal Airlines Flight 555 – On 16 May 2013, a Nepal Airlines DHC-6 overran the runway at Jomsom Airport with 21 passengers on ...
A private jet carrying at least two people crashed near a mall in northeast Philadelphia on Friday evening, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Video showed smoke and fire in the area of the ...
The collapsed floor severed the control cables, which left the pilots without control of the elevators, the rudder and No. 2 engine. The aircraft entered a steep dive and crashed. It was the deadliest plane crash of all time until the Tenerife disaster in 1977. However, it is currently the deadliest single-aircraft crash with no survivors.
A small private jet crashed in woods and burned Sunday afternoon near a small airport in rural Virginia, killing all five people aboard, police said. The twin-engine IAI Astra 1125 went down amid ...