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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 ...
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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]
On Tuesday, five Marines died when a military craft went down in Pine Valley, about 40 miles east of San Diego. The helicopter was traveling from Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nev., to ...
The helicopter carrying five Marines that crashed during a storm in the mountains outside San Diego was a CH-53E Super Stallion designed to fly through bad weather, even at night. The Super ...
Lockheed U-2R, 68-10332, Article 054 of the 9th SRW crashed into the Sea of Japan off the Korean coast this date while on flight out of Osan Air Base, South Korea, pilot Capt. Marty McGregor killed. This was the first of five U-2 losses (and four pilots) suffered by the newly formed Air Combat Command in its first five years.