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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Thumbnail for United Air Lines Flight 553
    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Continental Airlines Flight 1713
    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • of color. 1930s NC13304 NC13357 Flight 4 United Airlines Newark Airport Crash NC13319 NC13355 NC16073 NC16074 NC18108 NC16066 1940s NC16086 NC25678 NC18146...
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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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  • Thumbnail for 2017 United Express passenger removal
    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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