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Air Illinois Flight 710 was a scheduled passenger flight from Chicago to Carbondale, Illinois, United States. On the night of October 11, 1983, the Hawker Siddeley HS 748 operating the flight crashed near Pinckneyville, Illinois due to the flightcrew's mismanagement of electrical generator and distribution problems.
The fuselage broke apart, with the nose coming to rest about 200 yards (600 ft; 180 m) away from the initial point of impact, and the rest of it about 80 yards (240 ft; 70 m) farther down towards the runway and about 0.6 miles (1 km) from its edge and catching fire. Both crew members died in the accident. [7]: 7–8, 40 [2] [14]
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II: The F-4 of the Marine Corps was flying under visual flight rules but failed to see the commercial aircraft in time to avoid a mid-air collision. The only survivor was the radar intercept officer of the F-4, who successfully ejected. November 14, 1970 75 0 0 Southern Airways Flight 932 ...
AMHC Gilbert Chavarria attached to US Navy VF-154 the Black Knights, while on board USS Coral Sea died after being blown into a parked F-4 Phantom II, by another F-4 Phantom during flight deck operations in the Sea of Japan. 22 February Blue Angels pilot Lcdr. Stu Powrie, 1970 Naval Academy graduate killed in A-4 Skyhawk crash during airshow ...
The plane and military helicopter, piloted by three soldiers, struck each other in midair as Flight 5342 approached the airport's runway, causing both to go down. Everyone in both aircraft was killed.
All of the 67 victims have been identified as more details about what led up to the incident are emerging. The plane, American Eagle Flight No. 5342, a regional jetliner, was carrying 60 ...
Misha Mitrofanov, Jimmy Ma and Alisa Efimova, members of The Skating Club of Boston, spoke about the Olympic potential of their peers who died in a plane crash.
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. 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]