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Air France Flight 007 crashed on 3 June 1962 while on take-off from Orly Airport. The only survivors of the disaster were two flight attendants; the other eight crew members, and all 122 passengers on board the Boeing 707, were killed. The crash was at the time the worst single-aircraft disaster and the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 707.
March 5: Air France Flight 212, a 707-328, crashed at Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe. All 62 passengers and crew on board were killed. April 8: BOAC Flight 712, a 707-465, suffered engine failure on take-off from London Heathrow Airport followed by an engine fire. The plane made an emergency landing back at the airport, but an explosion in the port ...
Air France Flight 007, operated with an Airbus A380, collided with Delta Connection Flight 6293, a Bombardier CRJ 701, while the Airbus was taxiing for takeoff from JFK. [13] None of the passengers or crew members on either airplane were injured.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 civilian airliner shot down by a Soviet Air Force Sukhoi Su-15TM interceptor on 1 September 1983, near Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin Island, after it strayed into Soviet airspace. 269 passengers and crew, including US congressman Larry McDonald, were aboard KAL 007; there were ...
The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...
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All 122 passengers on Air France Flight 007 were killed, along with 8 of 10 crew members, overran the runway on takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris, at 12:29 p.m. local time. Two flight attendants survived. Most of the passengers (106 of 122) were cultural and civic leaders of the Atlanta Art Association, returning home from a tour of Europe.
Air France Flight 422: the Air France flight from Bogotá's El Dorado Airport, to Quito, using a Boeing 727 wet-leased from TAME, crashed into a mountain near Bogotá. All 43 passengers and 10 crew died. [93] Although not an Air France plane, the flight was the final segment of an Air France flight originating in Paris. 5 March 1999