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    A KLM Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner (named Nijmegen and registered PH-TEN) crashed into high ground near Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Scotland, on...
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  • Azerbaijan with ten on board. October 20 – In the 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster, a Lockheed Constellation named Nijmegen, flying from Schiphol Airport...
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    Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with its hub at nearby Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM group and a...
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  • incidents involving Dutch airline KLM. The airline has suffered 64 incidents since 1921. 24 April 1924 – 1924 KLM Fokker F.III disappearance: Fokker...
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  • 1981), French actress Koene Dirk Parmentier, KLM airplane pilot in the 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster Marc Parmentier (born 1956), Belgian scientist...
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    Koene Dirk Parmentier (category 1948 deaths)
    service at KLM and a short time later head of flight company. The 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster occurred the night of 20 to 21 October 1948, when Parmentier...
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  • discontinued after the flight. October 20 – 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster: KLM Lockheed L-049-46-25 Constellation PH-TEN Nijmegen crashes at about 23:32...
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    Bert Sas (category 1948 deaths)
    Sas had been promoted to lieutenant-general in a senior army function when he died in the 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster in Prestwick, Scotland....
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  • operation until March 2009. 20 October – 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster: a KLM Lockheed Constellation airliner crashes into power cables on approach...
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  • Service (Scotland) Act 1947. 20 October – 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster: A KLM Lockheed Constellation airliner crashes into power cables on approach...
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  • Princess, a Lockheed L-749A Constellation operated by Air India is bombed and crashes into the sea killing 16. July 16, 1957 - KLM Flight 844, a Lockheed 1049E...
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  • aircraft Miss Macao in 1948, but ended up crashing the plane, killing the other 25 people on board. The deadliest aviation disaster to have had a sole survivor...
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  • Douglas DC-10 Martinair Flight 495 PH-TEN Lockheed L-049-46-25 Constellation 1948 KLM Constellation air disaster PH-TFA Douglas DC-3 Hurum air disaster...
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  • collision killed all 248 on board the KLM 747 and 335 of 396 on board the Pan Am 747. With 583 total casualties, the disaster remains the deadliest in commercial...
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  • failure, killing four of 15 on board. 3 August 1953 Air France Flight 152, a Lockheed L-749A Constellation (F-BAZS), ditched 6 miles from Fetiye Point, Turkey...
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  • guitarist for The Doobie Brothers, in Aberdeen, Washington The KLM Constellation air disaster killed 40 people near Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland...
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  • passengers, were killed. PK-AFV, also known as the PH-ALP Pelikaan (one of the KLM airliners that diverted during the German invasion of the Netherlands), was...
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    Victor was destroyed seven years later in the Tenerife air disaster, in a collision with a KLM 747-200). While on the tarmac at Heathrow, two students...
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  • design and dolphin-shaped fuselage. The Constellation was used as a civilian airliner and as a U.S. military air transport, seeing service in the Berlin...
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    Gander International Airport (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command on the North Atlantic Route)
    Spartan Air Services disappeared after departing Gander on a flight to Ottawa. On 25 August 1954, a Lockheed L-749 Constellation F-BAZI of Air France of...
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  • Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The aircraft was owned and operated by KLM, flying for BOAC. On 16 June 1943, Lockheed Hudson IV FK459 stalled and crashed...
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    statistics and summaries of over 100 midair collisions in U.S. from 1948 to 1957 Analysis of Mid-Air Collisions, One of the most hazardous consequences of a loss...
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    War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with the Lockheed Constellation in the long-range commercial transport market. More than 700 were built...
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  • Aer Lingus (redirect from Air Lingus)
    agreements with airlines including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Delta Air Lines, KLM, and United Airlines. Aer Lingus explained the move stating the carrier...
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    fire. There was one survivor. 5 September 1954 – Lockheed Super Constellation PH-LKY, KLM Flight 633 from Amsterdam to New York City, using Shannon as a...
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  • created in 1948, after the national air traffic had been liberalized for Spanish private companies in 1946. In 1961, Iberia had 9 Super Constellation in the...
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  • Icelandair (redirect from Iceland Air)
    Economist claimed that Icelandair could even take advantage when catering for disaster tourists. In February 2011 Icelandair was chosen "The Knowledge Company"...
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    Airliner (redirect from Air liner)
    Fokker F.II, then the enlarged F.III. These were used by the Dutch airline KLM, including on its Amsterdam-London service in 1921. A relatively reliable...
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    Glasgow Prestwick Airport (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command on the North Atlantic Route)
    five people on the ground were killed. On 20 October 1948, a Lockheed L-049 Constellation of KLM crashed on approach to Prestwick; all 40 aboard died...
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  • El Al (category Airlines established in 1948)
    On 27 July 1955, a Lockheed Constellation operating El Al Flight 402, registered 4X-AKC, was shot down by two Bulgarian Air Force fighter jets over Blagoevgrad...
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