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South African Airways Flight 228 was a scheduled flight from Johannesburg, South Africa, to London, England. The Boeing 707-300C operating the flight, which was only six weeks old, flew into the ground soon after take-off after a scheduled stopover in Windhoek , South West Africa (present day Namibia ) on 20 April 1968. [ 1 ]
All 7 passengers and 2 crew are killed. Aero Flight 311 (3 January 1961) – The plane, a Douglas DC-3, entered a spin during approach and crashed into the woods, killing all 25 people on board. Aero Flight 217 (8 November 1963) – A Douglas DC-3 crashed into the ground while trying to land at Mariehamn Airport. The plane came to rest upside ...
April 20: South African Airways Flight 228, a 707-344C, crashed shortly after take-off from Windhoek, Namibia. [10] The crew used a flap retraction sequence from the 707-B series on the newly delivered 707-C, which retracted the flaps in larger increments for that stage of the flight, leading to a loss of lift at 600 ft (180 m) above ground ...
Family, friends remember medical crew killed in helicopter crash Several pieces of the Bell 206 helicopter's propulsion system were found scattered around the crash site, including the ...
American Eagle Flight 5342 was descending to land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport; the Army helicopter was shifting from one flight path to another, a common move often performed in ...
Crew members swept off deck as helicopter was attepmting to drop off supplies South Africa: Three killed in navy submarine disaster as crew swept off deck near Cape Town Skip to main content
12 January – Mil Mi-17 transport helicopter belonging to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Macedonia crashes near the village of Blace, in the region of Katlanovo, [3] approximately 10–15 kilometres south-east of Skopje. All 11 individuals aboard the helicopter, including eight passengers and three crew members, are killed. [4]
April 20 – South African Airways Flight 228, the Boeing 707-344C Pretoria, crashes just after takeoff from J. G. Strijdom International Airport in Windhoek, South-West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 of the 128 people on board. It remains the deadliest aviation accident in the history of Namibia.