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The crash site was 8 kilometres (5 mi; 4 nmi) from shore, roughly equidistant from the small fishing and tourist communities of Peggy's Cove and Bayswater, killing all 215 passengers and 14 crew members on board the MD-11, making the crash the deadliest accident in the history of Swissair and the deadliest accident involving the McDonnell ...
Swissair 111 Memorial, Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia The Swissair Flight 111 Memorial is located at The Whalesback, a promontory approximately 1 km northwest of Peggys Cove. It is one of two memorials built to commemorate the victims of the Swissair Flight 111 disaster, which crashed into St. Margarets Bay on 2 September 1998.
Colgan Air Flight 3407 (marketed as Continental Connection Flight 3407) was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York on February 12, 2009. . Approaching Buffalo, the aircraft, a Bombardier Q400, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into a house at 6038 Long Street in Clarence Center, New York at 10:17 pm EST (03:17 UTC), about ...
“We're all grieving this," 1968 Olympic gold medalist Peggy Fleming said, "on all kinds of levels." ... A plane crash on Feb. 15, 1961 that killed all 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team, ...
The six passengers traveling on a medical jet before it crashed in Northeast Philadelphia Friday night have been identified by the Mexico-based company that was operating the small plane. All ...
On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111 crashed into St. Margaret's Bay approximately eight kilometres (five miles) southwest of Peggy's Cove with the loss of all 229 aboard. The cove became one of the staging areas for first responders that were involved in the search-and-rescue response, crash recovery operation, and investigation of the crash.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers removes the mangled fuselage of an American Airlines plane from the Potomac River on Feb. 3, 2025, after the passenger jet collided with an Army Black Hawk ...
January 5 – In the 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, a Lisunov Li-2 crashed near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Soviet Union, killing all 19 on board. March 7 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 , a Martin 2–0–2, crashed near Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport after hitting a flagpole during approach, killing all 13 on board ...