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    Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 was a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter that crashed on August 14, 1968 in the city of Compton, California. All eighteen passengers...
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  • California resulting in the loss of 23 lives. On August 14, 1968, Los Angeles Airways Flight 417, crashed in Compton, California resulting in the loss of 21...
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    Los Angeles Airways Flight 841 was a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter that crashed at 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22, 1968, in the city of Paramount, California...
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  • Flight 417 may refer to: Los Angeles Airways Flight 417, crashed on 14 August 1968 Olympic Airways Flight 417, caused a death by smoke inhalation on 4...
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    "WN 417" flies from Jacksonville to Baltimore to Oakland to Los Angeles on Southwest Airlines. A given flight segment may have multiple flight numbers...
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    Airliners were a key customer for the S-61L. Los Angeles Airways, New York Airways, and Chicago Helicopter Airways were among the first operators. However...
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  • Transatlantic Services – Laker Airways, Woodley, C., The History Press, Stroud, 2016, p. 154 Laker asks for Los Angeles Skytrain, Flight International, 17 December...
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  • 14 August – Sikorsky S-61L N300Y, operating Los Angeles Airways Flight 417, loses a rotor blade in flight and crashes at Compton, California. All 21 people...
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  • days. Both the hijackers and the hostages go free. August 14 – Los Angeles Airways Flight 417, a Sikorsky S-61L prototype, crashed at Compton, California...
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    The 1968 Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 lost one of its main rotor blades due to fatigue failure. The 1968 MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 lost...
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  • to confusion of the part of the crew. August 14, 1968 21 0 0 Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 Compton California Sikorsky S-61L The helicopter experienced...
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    Hits Long Beach". The Los Angeles Times. December 2, 1913. p. 13. Retrieved June 1, 2024. Darack, Ed (March 2015). "The Final Flight of Extortion 17". Smithsonian...
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  • can be collected on all flights operated by Star Alliance member airlines, as well as Air Astana, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways. Asiana has endorsement...
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    known as airways (at least where they have been defined), even if such routes are not as economical as a more direct flight. Within these airways, aircraft...
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  • defences to fly in supplies to the Biafran rebels August 14 – Los Angeles Airways Flight 417 crashes at Compton, California, resulting in the loss of 21...
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    jetliners, in which eight major airlines (All Nippon Airways, American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Delta Air Lines, Japan Airlines, Qantas...
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  • Pacific Southwest Airlines (category US Airways Group)
    nonstop flights each week from Los Angeles to San Francisco, plus 49 flights a week from Burbank to San Francisco. About half of these flights by the competition...
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    Licensing Board", Flight International, pp. 471–473, 13 April 1961 Airways – B.O.A.C.'s Rolls-Royce Boeing 707s (Cunard Eagle Airways and BOAC-Cunard)...
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    Airways to offer seasonal flights from Bradley Airport to Orlando and Orange County, California". NBC Connecticut. December 12, 2023. "Breeze Airways...
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    Leave". The Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. February 4, 1978. Page I-1. "Hanoi Recalls U.N. Envoy Ousted by U.S.". The Los Angeles Times. Associated...
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    2018. In July 2020, British Airways announced that it was retiring its 747 fleet. The final British Airways 747 flights departed London Heathrow on October...
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  • Network. Retrieved 15 May 2010. "Only Crash Survivor Was En Route Here". Los Angeles Times. 15 April 1948. Retrieved 15 May 2010. Aviation Safety Network...
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  • later to fly on Thai Airways International Flight 311 in 1992; Gilles Pichon, chief engineer of the A320; Jacques Troyes, head of Flight Control at Airbus;...
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    raised by the SEPI to keep the company afloat. On 6 June, flights to Auckland, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, São Paulo, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro were...
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    industry, including Juan Trippe, founder and Chief Executive of Pan American Airways, and World War I flying ace Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, president of Eastern...
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    collapsed. On 29 September 1982, Aeroflot Flight 343 ran off the runway on landing. On 6 November 2002, Luxair Flight 9642, Fokker 50 (registration LX-LGB)...
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    Clint Eastwood (category Los Angeles City College alumni)
    starred Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, who successfully landed the US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in an emergency landing, keeping all passengers...
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    admitted to the locker room of a major league sports team after the Los Angeles Dodgers had defeated the host Houston Astros, 8 to 5, to end the season...
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    to 2014, is an international airport covering portions of the cities of Angeles and Mabalacat within the Clark Freeport and Special Economic Zone in the...
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    "Iraqi Airways Lockheed L-1329 JetStar II YI-AKD / MUC". aircraftslides.blogspot.com. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2017. "Iraqi Airways Lockheed...
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