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C-GAUN from another angle. Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on Saturday, July 23, 1983, [1] at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,500 m), midway through the flight.
The DC-3 was struck by the B-34 as its pilot was attempting to get closer to it to establish visual communication with the first officer, as the two were friends. The DC-3 lost control and crashed, killing all on board, while the B-34 landed successfully with minor damage. January 16, 1942 22 0 0 TWA Flight 3: Potosi Mountain: Nevada: Douglas DC-3
Simferopol, Ukraine (July 10, 2006) - a passenger plane crashes at the end of a runway; Lexington, Ohio (June 25, 2006) - racer Joey Hand's BMW is nudged and flips end over end; Dallas, Texas (July 4, 1988) - stuntman Jimmy Lynn Davis is slammed to the ground when his motorcycle hang glider is caught by an updraft; 32 September 26, 2008
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
Plane ran out of fuel due to multiple bad-weather approach holds to JFK Airport, crashed into hillside on Long Island. 73: 158 27 December 1991 Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751: McDonnell Douglas MD-81: Gottröra, Sweden: Ice ingested into engines; dual engine failure Crash landed in open field near Gottröra 0: 129 12 November 1995
A plane crashed in a small wooded area in New Hampshire Tuesday morning. It was caught on camera, showing the plane getting dangerously close to houses.
The events of Flight 236 were featured in "Flying on Empty", a season-one (2003) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday [21] (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S. and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and elsewhere around the world).
The accident happened just before 3 p.m. when a Learjet 35A “veered off the runway after landing ... 1 dead after 2 jets — including private plane owned by Mötley Crüe singer — collide on ...