The 1943 Liberator crash at Whenuapai was an aircraft accident in New Zealand during World War II. The Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express aircraft, owned...
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The Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express was a transport derivative of the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber built during World War II for the United States Army...
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Air France Flight 4590 (redirect from Concorde crash)
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...
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1960 New York mid-air collision (redirect from Park Slope plane crash)
flight crashed not by accident but due to a terrorist attack.) The accident became known as the Park Slope plane crash or the Miller Field crash after...
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United Air Lines Flight 553 (redirect from 1972 United Airlines flight 553 crash)
City of Lincoln, registration N9031U,: 2 crashed while approaching Midway Airport.: 1 The plane crashed into a residential neighborhood, destroying...
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a flameout, at which point a mayday was declared. This was the last radio transmission from Flight 173 to air traffic control; it crashed into a wooded...
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United Airlines Flight 232 (section Crash landing)
July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered as N1819U) serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic...
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667 had a cockpit fire while parked at the gate at Cairo Airport, and British Airways Flight 38 crashed on landing at Heathrow Airport. But the latter was...
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1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision (redirect from 1956 Grand Canyon Crash)
cloud on opposite sides. At about 10:30 am, the two aircraft collided over the canyon at an angle of about 25 degrees. Post-crash analysis determined that...
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Continental Airlines Flight 11 (section Crash)
Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, on May 22, 1962. The aircraft crashed in a clover field near Unionville, in Putnam County, Missouri, killing...
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Continental Airlines Flight 1713 was a commercial airline flight that crashed while taking off in a snowstorm from Stapleton International Airport in...
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unable to resolve the cause of the crash, but after similar accidents and incidents involving Boeing 737 aircraft, the crash was determined to be caused by...
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United Airlines Flight 175 (category Airliner accidents and incidents involving deliberate crashes)
second-deadliest plane crash in aviation history, surpassed only by American Airlines Flight 11. Flight 175 departed from Logan Airport at 08:14. Twenty-eight...
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series Mayday (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S. and Air Crash Investigation internationally), which included interviews with survivors...
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787-8 model, delivered at launch. In May 2018, United planned to replace its 51 Boeing 767s in a deal potentially worth $14 billion at list prices, and was...
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United Airlines Flight 93 (redirect from United 93 crash)
11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijackers planned to crash the plane into a federal government building in the national capital of...
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registration N37559. It had accumulated a total of 11,949 flight hours at the time of the crash. It was powered by four Pratt & Whitney CB-16 R-2800 engines. The...
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United Air Lines Flight 23 (redirect from United Airlines Chesterton Crash)
the aircraft in flames at an altitude around 1,000 feet (300 m). A second explosion followed after the aircraft crashed. The crash scene was adjacent to...
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nine square "tubes", clustered in a 3×3 matrix; seven of the tubes set back at upper floors. The tower has 108 stories as counted by standard methods, though...
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Airport in Houston, Texas. On the evening of December 20, 2008, the flight crashed while taking off from Denver, resulting in two critical injuries, 36 noncritical...
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aircraft, drifted off a snow-packed runway at night while landing at Durango-La Plata County Airport and crashed into a snowbank. No injuries were reported...
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United Air Lines Flight 389 (redirect from 1965 United Airlines flight 389 crash)
International Airport, Chicago, Illinois. On August 16, 1965, at approximately 21:21 EST, the Boeing 727 crashed into Lake Michigan 20 miles (17 nmi; 32 km) east of...
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the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and military personnel. At the time, this was the deadliest airline crash in the history of American commercial aviation. Another...
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2008-01-05. Livingstone, Bob (1998). Under the Southern Cross: The B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific. Turner. p. 115. ISBN 1-56311-432-1. Whananaki Coastal...
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that he heard a fellow passenger exclaim that baggage handlers on the ramp at Chicago O'Hare International Airport were throwing guitars during a layover...
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stopover in Detroit. On January 11, 1983, a DC-8 operating as Flight 2885 crashed after take-off from Detroit, killing all three crew members. The National...
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Francisco International Airport, California, crashed short of the runway while attempting a scheduled landing at Salt Lake City International Airport, Utah...
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service, crashed on approach to Oakland, causing the death of all 44 passengers and 6 crew members on board. The flight departed Chicago at 10:59 p.m...
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On April 9, 2017, at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, four paying customers were selected to be involuntarily deplaned from United Express Flight...
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