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Helios Airways Flight 522 was a scheduled passenger flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Prague, Czech Republic, with a stopover in Athens, Greece.Shortly after take-off on 14 August 2005, Nicosia air traffic control (ATC) lost contact with the pilots operating the flight, named Olympia; it eventually crashed near Grammatiko, Greece, killing all 121 passengers and crew on board.
Iowa State Cyclones women's cross country team: Cross country running: Private: Aero Commander twin-engine: Des Moines, Iowa, United States: 7: 6: All killed on the return trip from the 1985 Championships. 15 other members of the men's team and coaching staff were aboard 2 other planes which successfully made the trip the same night. [16] 8 ...
January 12, 1970: Douglas C-47 of the Hellenic Air Force crashes in Vilia, resulting in the death of 23 people. September 6, 1973: Two Mirage V's of the Belgian Air Force crash into the Lefka Ori mountains within one minute of each other, killing their pilots. February 9, 1975: Transall C-160 of the Luftwaffe crashes in Chania, killing 40 people.
The tragic last words of two heroic pilots who died fighting wildfires in Greece have been revealed, as blazes continue to rage across Europe.. Commander Christos Moulas, 34, and co-pilot Pericles ...
Recovering the bodies of two men killed earlier this month in a plane crash in a ravine cannot be performed safely, officials at Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve said. “If and when ...
Plane veered well off course, ran out of fuel and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Speculated loss of cabin pressure incapacitated Rein and pilot Lewis F. Benscotter. Lance Reventlow: United States 1972 Entrepreneur and racecar driver Cessna 206: Aspen, Colorado: attempted to fly into a blind canyon and stalled the aircraft while trying to turn ...
The exact cause of the crash that occurred in the late evening hours on Wednesday, between a military-operated Black Hawk helicopter and commercial American Airlines flight 5342 ready to land at ...
The plane climbed sluggishly to an altitude of just 209 feet (64 m) as it approached the 200-foot-tall (61 m) Pani Hill in Alimos, [4] [9] after which the plane lost altitude. [15] As it passed over Kallithea , Nea Smyrni , and Syggrou , its altitude was only 180 feet (55 m) and its speed was 160 miles per hour (140 kn; 260 km/h).