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November 10, 1946: Delta Air Lines Flight 10, a Douglas DC-3 which departed Jackson, Mississippi attempting to land at then Meridian Key Field (MEI) in a thunderstorm and winds, had a runway excursion after landing, going beyond the end of the runway and up the western slope of a ditch adjoining the highway adjacent to the airport, bouncing over a highway, and coming to rest with the nose ...
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Aug. 31, 1988: Delta pilot Larry Davis, who suffered serious injuries, was the last survivor removed from the wreckage of Delta Flight 1141 after it crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
Delta Flight 954, operating the Convair, experienced miscommunication with air traffic control and were crossing a runway in poor visibility when North Central Airlines Flight 575, operating the DC-9, were in their takeoff roll on the same runway. The DC-9 attempted to fly over the Convair but struck it and then crash landed back on the runway.
Henry A. Duffy began his career in 1962 as a pilot for Delta Airlines, later serving as the Chairman of the Delta Master Executive Council (MEC) and the Delta Pilots Representative to ALPA. [3] In November 1982, he was elected as President of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), [ 4 ] and served from 1983 to 1990. [ 2 ]
The flight crew consisted of Captain John Streil (49) and First Officer Sidney Burrill (31). Captain Streil, a highly experienced pilot, had accumulated roughly 14,800 flight hours throughout his flying career. He had 17 years of experience as pilot-in-command and had been flying DC-9s since 1970, with 1,457 hours logged in them.
Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles, California, with an intermediate stop at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW).