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1956 Paris DC-6 crash: Paris-Orly Airport, France Crashed on takeoff [19] Gheorghe Caranda: Romania 1912 Army officer, first Romanian airplane accident casualty Farman: Bucharest, Romania Plane crash during training on Cotroceni Airfield Mel Carnahan: United States 2000 Governor of Missouri: Cessna 335: Goldman, Missouri, United States Thunderstorm
The plane crash victims included four members of the Steamfitters Local 602 union, which represents workers in heating, air conditioning, refrigeration and process piping industries in the D.C ...
Sixty-seven people are dead after a regional jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night over Washington, D.C., officials said, the nation's first major commercial airline ...
American Airlines Flight 5342 and a U.S. Army Black Hawk collided in Washington, D.C. Authorities believe all 67 on board both aircraft died.
The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor was Northwest Airlines Flight 255, which crashed in Romulus, Michigan, on 16 August 1987, killing 154 of the 155 people on board the aircraft, as well as two people on the ground. The sole survivor of the crash was a 4-year-old girl named Cecelia Cichan, who was seriously injured.
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]
Bodies of 41 people killed when an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided in the air over Washington, DC, Wednesday night have been recovered from the wreckage, officials said Friday.
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).