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    Southern Airways Flight 242 was a flight from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Atlanta, Georgia, with a stop in Huntsville, Alabama. On April 4, 1977, it executed...
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    Southern Airways began to experience difficulties. Two fatal accidents (Southern Airways Flight 932, November 14, 1970, and Southern Airways Flight 242...
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    Southern Airways Flight 932 was a chartered Southern Airways Douglas DC-9 domestic United States commercial jet flight from Stallings Field (ISO) in Kinston...
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    a known deficiency of this type of engine. The 1977 loss of Southern Airways Flight 242, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-9-31, while penetrating a thunderstorm...
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  • singer who recorded in the 1960s and 1970s. She died in the Southern Airways Flight 242 crash. She was born Annetta Snell in Sandersville, Georgia, and...
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    West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 was a charter flight that crashed in northwest Venezuela in the early hours of Tuesday, 16 August 2005, killing all...
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    failure Southern Airways Flight 242, a flight that experienced dual engine failure after their engines ingested hail TACA Flight 110, a flight that suffered...
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    List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft Southern Airways Flight 242, another McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 which crash landed on a highway...
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    dual engine flameout due to birdstrike leading to ditching Southern Airways Flight 242 – Similar incident involving a DC-9, dual engine flameout due...
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    and 158 injuries. The storm system also caused the crash of Southern Airways Flight 242, which killed 72 and injured 22. Prior to 1990, there is a likely...
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    American Civil War, took place in this area. On April 4, 1977, Southern Airways Flight 242 crashed near New Hope, killing 72 people after making an emergency...
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  • board. July 13 – In the 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash, an Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport, England, crashed...
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    for Paninternational were sentenced to prison terms in 1974. Southern Airways Flight 242 a Douglas DC-9, which also crashed on April 4, 1977 during an...
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  • air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and other mainly flight-related disasters and crises. It reveals the events that led to each crisis...
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    marker for the Battle of New Hope Church, the forced landing of Southern Airways Flight 242 occurred. The passenger jetliner, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 with...
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    the weather ahead. Southern Airways Flight 242 TACA Flight 110 Ranter, Harro. "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation...
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    the DC-8 was allowed to fly back to the U.S. On April 4, 1977, Southern Airways Flight 242 was on descent to the airport when hail was ingested into the...
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    from being lost through a cockpit window that had failed. Southern Airways Flight 242, on which the cabin crew provided safety briefings to their passengers...
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    aircraft Southern Airways Flight 242 British Airways Flight 009 Gimli Glider TACA Flight 110 Avianca Flight 052 Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 751 Garuda...
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    Iraqi Airways Company (Arabic: الخطوط الجوية العراقية, romanized: al-Xuṭūṭ al-Jawwiyyah al-ʿIrāqiyyah), operating as Iraqi Airways, is the national carrier...
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    December 1986. Retrieved 14 June 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Southern Airways-242)". Aviation Safety Network. 4 April 1977. Retrieved 28 May 2013....
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    with no injuries. A less successful crash landing involved Southern Airways Flight 242 on April 4, 1977. The DC-9 lost both of its engines due to hail...
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    multi-engine, 1 jet and 9 helicopter. List of airports in Alabama Southern Airways Flight 242 FAA Airport Form 5010 for MSL PDF. Federal Aviation Administration...
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    consisted of 32 passengers and six crew members. 4 April 1977 Southern Airways Flight 242 – both engines on the DC-9 failed when the pilots flew into a...
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  • Unknown Annette Snell 32 April 4, 1977 New Hope, Georgia, U.S. Southern Airways Flight 242 plane crash Helmut Köllen Triumvirat 27 May 3, 1977 Cologne,...
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    Air Lines president and World War I hero Eddie Rickenbacker. Southern Airways Flight 242 executed a forced landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding...
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  • Alitalia ♠ All Nippon Airways ♠ American Airlines ♠ Braniff International ♠ British Overseas Airways Corporation ♠ British Airways Canadian Pacific Airlines...
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  • damages to 228 residential and commercial structures. Southern Airways Flight 242 during a flight leg en route to Atlanta, Georgia from Huntsville, Alabama...
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  • (hail, ice or overwhelming rain). Below is a list of commercial airline flights that were forced to glide at some point while in the air. "What happens...
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