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The accident was featured in an episode of Seconds from Disaster (S2E7 9/13/05 "Crash Landing in/at Sioux City") on the National Geographic Channel and MSNBC Investigates on the MSNBC news channel. The History Channel distributed a documentary named Shockwave; a portion of Episode 7 (originally aired January 25, 2008) detailed the events of the ...
Ozark Air Lines Flight 650 was a regularly scheduled flight on December 20, 1983 from Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, to Sioux Falls Regional Airport in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. While landing in Sioux Falls, the aircraft struck a snow plow on the runway and burst into flames.
A fire developed in an aft lavatory, eventually filling the plane with smoke and destroying some electrical cables. The plane made a successful emergency landing, but during evacuation a flashover occurred that caused the death of half the original occupants. January 11, 1983 3 0 0 United Airlines Flight 2885: Romulus: Michigan: Douglas DC-8-54F
This weekend, survivors will gather for 25th anniversary memorial events at the Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation in Sioux City. Still, some of the safety changes sought by ...
By Dirk Lammers SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A small airplane heading back to South Dakota after a Texas cattle sale crashed into a wind farm in foggy weather, killing the pilot and three passengers.
The museum opened to the public on 5 March 2010. [16] By the end of September, it had changed its name back to Mid America Museum of Aviation & Transportation. [17] Construction on a new memorial to United Airlines Flight 232 began in May 2014. [18] Two months later, the museum held a three day event on the 25th anniversary of the crash.
Ozark Airlines began service in Sioux City on August 9, 1955. It was the first crash of a DC-9 jetliner for Ozark since the beginning of their use on July 8, 1966. According to the manager of Ozark's News Bureau in St. Louis, Charles R. Ehlert, it was the "first crash of any significance for the airline."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air traffic control audio recorded the moments before and after an American Airlines regional passenger jet crashed with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in a midair ...