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Air France Flight 4590. / 48.98556°N 2.47222°E / 48.98556; 2.47222. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27 ...
The crash is the first fatal crash involving the 737-200. December 20 – In the 1972 Chicago–O'Hare runway collision, Delta Air Lines Flight 954, a Convair CV-880, and North Central Airlines Flight 575, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, collide on the runway due to ATC communication errors, killing 10 people and injuring 17.
This article lists the deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision . As of 28 July 2024, 206 accidents and incidents have resulted in at least 100 fatalities, 34 at least 200 ...
N772SW, the aircraft involved, photographed in 2016. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a Boeing 737-700 that experienced a contained engine failure [a] in the left CFM International CFM56 engine after departing from New York–LaGuardia Airport en route to Dallas Love Field on April 17, 2018. The engine cowl was broken in the failure, and cowl ...
United Airlines Flight 175 was a domestic passenger flight from Logan International Airport in Boston to Los Angeles International Airport in California that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The aircraft involved, a Boeing 767-200 carrying 65 passengers and crew ...
The aircraft crashed while on a low-level training flight when it impacted the very steep terrain 800 ft (240 m) below the peak of 7,903 ft (2,409 m) MSL Mazatzal Peak at 495 KIAS under controlled flight in instrument meteorological conditions. Both crew members were killed instantly. No attempts to eject were made.
Fairchild F-27. A passenger entered the cockpit and shot the captain and then the first officer and finally himself, causing the aircraft fall out of control in a murder-suicide. The incident led to an FAA requirement to keep the cockpit door locked during flight in most circumstances. March 1, 1964.
On 4 April 1975, [note 1] a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy participating in the first mission of Operation Babylift crashed on approach during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. The cause was ascribed to loss of flight control due to explosive decompression and structural failure. The accident marked the second operational loss ...