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October 30, 1941: American Airlines Flight 1, a Douglas DC-3 en route from New York City to Detroit with two stopovers at Buffalo and Chicago, stalled and dived into a plowed field over St. Thomas, Ontario, in Canada killing all 20 on board after circling to look for a place to land. Cause undetermined.
December 22, 1992: Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103, a 727-2L5 (registration 5A-DIA) was involved in a mid-air collision with a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 of Libyan Air Force over Tripoli, Libya. The crash resulted in the deaths of 147 passengers and 10 crew members on board the 727, the two MiG pilots survived.
Fairchild F-27. A passenger entered the cockpit and shot the captain and then the first officer and finally himself, causing the aircraft fall out of control in a murder-suicide. The incident led to an FAA requirement to keep the cockpit door locked during flight in most circumstances. March 1, 1964.
To find out which U.S. airlines have the best and worst safety records, Stacker looked at WalletHub's 2024 report on this year's best airlines and narrowed the data to the safety section of the ...
All 153 people on board survived uninjured. July 1: Continental Airlines Flight 12, a 707-124 N70773 overran the runway and crashed at Kansas City, Missouri, United States, with no casualties. [ 1] August 21: Middle East Airlines 720-047B is damaged beyond repair by shelling at Beirut, Lebanon.
American Airlines was hit with a record $24.2 million fine by the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday for failing two years ago to comply with mandatory safety rules. American said it ...
PSA Flight 182 collided with a Cessna over San Diego on September 25, 1978, killing all 144 people on both aircraft. It is the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history, the first fatal Pacific Southwest Airlines incident, and at the time, the deadliest aircraft incident in the United States. [ 38] PSA Flight 1771 crashed near Cayucos ...
The union representing pilots at American Airlines says it is seeing a “significant spike” in safety issues on flights. The Allied Pilots Association is warning members of “problematic ...