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Douglas DC-7, North American F-100 Super Sabre: The two aircraft approached each other at high speed and were unable to avoid a mid-air collision. April 6, 1958 47 0 0 Capital Airlines Flight 67: Saginaw Bay, near Freeland: Michigan: Vickers Viscount 745D: The plane experienced severe icing which led to an unrecoverable stall during approach ...
Name Nationality Year Notability Flight/aircraft Crash site Cause/circumstances Aaliyah: United States 2001 Actress, singer, and model Cessna 402: Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas Maximum takeoff weight of airplane substantially exceeded, pilot under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. [1] Michael J. Adams: United States 1967 test pilot
American Airlines Flight 1 crashed into a swamp near Goodwin on January 14, 1936; the flight, disintegrated on impact, killing all 17 people on board. "With great difficulty the bodies of the victims were brought out of the marsh where their bodies were found scattered among fragments of the shattered plane."
The aircraft was a Lockheed L-188 Electra four-engined turboprop airline registered as N183H. [4] It had first flown in January 1961 and was bought by American Flyers Airline in January 1963. [5] It is the same plane that carried the Beatles from city to city in 1964 during their second tour of the U.S. [6]
American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe all 67 on board both aircraft died.
Editor's note: This page reflects news from Friday, Jan. 31. For the latest updates on the plane crash, please read USA TODAY's coverage of the investigation on Saturday, Feb. 1. WASHINGTON ...
The craft was due over Milwaukee at 1:27 A.M. and at Minneapolis at 3:23 A.M. If all aboard are lost, the crash will be the most disastrous in the history of American commercial aviation. The plane carried a capacity load of fifty-five passengers and a crew of three, headed by Capt. Robert Lind, 35 years old, of Hopkins, Minn.
In the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, three hijacked planes slammed into the Pentagon and New York's landmark World Trade Center on Tuesday, demolishing the two 110-story towers ...