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October 9 – Lanseria Airport, near Johannesburg, South Africa – Demonstration Pilot Peter Philips flying a Britten-Norman Trislander in flying display performed a second wing-over and had insufficient altitude to recover. Impacted the runway and bounced into the air and came to rest some 500m further off to the side of the runway.
wreckage and bodies not found for more than 37 months after crash José Sanjurjo: Spain 1936 General/Coup Leader/Aspiring Dictator Small Biplane Estoril, Portugal Overloaded Cargo Pablo Santos: Mexico 2006 Actor Piper PA-46: Toluca, Mexico Richard C. Saufley: United States 1916 U.S. Navy aviation pioneer, altitude and endurance record holder
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
October 2 – Two Ilyushin Il-38 reconnaissance aircraft collided while flying in formation during the Indian Navy's Squadron 315 "The Winged Stallions" silver jubilee celebrations at Dabolim Naval Air Base in Goa, India. 17 people were killed, including all twelve crew members on board the two aircraft. [223] Sixteen civilians were injured.
After being hijacked by five Al-Qaeda terrorists it was deliberately crashed into the west wall of the Pentagon, resulting in the deaths of all 64 people on board including the five hijackers, as well as an additional 125 people in the Pentagon. 106 people on the ground suffered from injuries of varying severity. September 11, 2001
The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1] The first electric aircraft crash to result in ground fatalities was on 18 May 1935, when the Maxim Gorky was involved in a mid-air collision over Moscow ...
List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in 50 or more fatalities. Initial sort order is by total fatalities (descending) and then by date (most recent to most distant). Deaths T Incident [a] Aircraft Location Phase Airport Distance Date Tot C P G N; est. 1,700 [b] 11 81 est. 1,600 † INH American Airlines Flight 11: Boeing 767-223ER
Following Nick's death after a car crash in 1988, Grace learned to fly the Spitfire. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1990, she made her first solo Spitfire flight and qualified as a pilot for the aircraft. [ 5 ] While female pilots had flown the Spitfire during World War II as part of the Air Transport Auxiliary , Grace was the first qualified female pilot ever ...