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It was the first major commercial passenger flight accident in the U.S. in nearly 16 years, following Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009. It was also the first fatal accident involving American Airlines since Flight 587 on November 12, 2001, [47] as well as the first fatal crash of a CRJ700 series aircraft. [48]
The crash was the second fatal accident involving Jet Rescue in fifteen months, following a November 2023 runway excursion at Cuernavaca Airport in Mexico that killed four people. [ 14 ] Victims
Egyptian swimmer who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Egyptian Air Force when his Spitfire collided in mid-air with another Spitfire over Port Said. Paris Kanellakis: Greece 1995 Computer scientist, professor American Airlines Flight 965: Buga, Colombia Navigational errors by flight crew William Kapell: United States 1953
She is the daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke and sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 crash. When the plane was struck by lightning, she fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered numerous injuries including a concussion, broken collarbone, and a torn knee ligament.
Early on the day of the crash flight, the aircraft departed from London's Luton International Airport and made a short positioning flight to Bristol where 139 passengers boarded. [5] At 07:19 UTC, Flight 435 took off from Bristol. Captain Anthony Dorman flew the plane, while his co-pilot Captain Ivor Terry was handling communication.
It was the second-deadliest aviation accident at the time in the United States. [3] [4] It is also the deadliest aviation accident to have a sole survivor, [5] [a] the deadliest aircraft accident in the history of the state of Michigan, [6] and the worst crash in the history of Northwest Airlines.
Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia. The earliest known sole survivor is Lou Foote. On 17 March 1929, as the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight, he attempted to force land the monoplane when it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.
Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 was a scheduled flight from Logan International Airport to Bangor International Airport in the United States on August 25, 1985. On final approach to Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport, the Bar Harbor Airlines Beechcraft Model 99 crashed short of the runway, killing all six passengers and two crew on board.