What goes down when a plane crashes? NONFICTION: The author was a passenger on a plane that crashed on Cape Cod in 1979. Now he looks up other survivors and rescue workers to hear how the crash affected them.(VARIETY)Olson, Rochelle...
4 August 1979; Indian Airlines HS748; near Bombay, India:The aircraft was approaching the airport at night and in poor weather when it collided with high ground about six miles (10 km) from the airport. All four crew members and 41 passengers were killed. 10 May 1980; Indian Airlines 737...
Kuwait Airlines plane crashes 21 December 1988; Pan Am 747-100; N739PA; flight 103; near Lockerbie, Scotland: The aircraft was about a half hour into a scheduled flight from London's Heathrow airport to JFK airport in New York when a bomb detonated in the forward cargo compartment. The...
Other MD-11 crashes 25 May 2002; China Airlines 747-200; flight 611; near the> Penghu Islands, Taiwan: The aircraft crashed into the sea about 20 minutes into a scheduled flight from Taipei to Hong Kong. The impact area was in the Taiwan Straits near the Penghu Islands about 75 km (...
Boeing 727 plane crashes 27 April 1976; American Airlines 727-23; N1963; flight 625; St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands: The aircraft was on a scheduled flight domestic flight from JFK airport in New York to St. Thomas, VI. The aircraft overran the runway after an unsuccessful attempt at...
The plane was a "homebuilt, Single-Engine Jansen Pazmany PL-2" that crashed on airport property while departing from runway around 9:30 a.m. local time, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). FAA registry information showed the aircraft was built in 1979 and had a valid ...
There is a sad, long history of team planes going down, always leaving a lasting mark on a country or sport, like what happened with Marshall University in 1970. Below is a list of other sports teams involved in fatal plane crashes: ...
–NTSB, also involved in non-American “crashes”!, has a board of only 5 members.They decideon the cause of a crash…![/quote] Yeah…the NTSB [and their equivalents around the world who “investigate” plane or train “crashes” are just as integral to any hoax as the ...
The pilot’s body was found on the bed in the master bedroom. The plane crashed into one end of the house, where the three bedrooms were. That part of the house was wrecked. The Carols, who own the house, were all at home eating dinne...
20 Sports Teams Killed in Airplane Crashes Notable Famous Deaths Updated April 11, 2019162.8K views20 items There have been a surprisingly large amount of sports teams who met their ends in airplane tragedies over the years, likely due to the high amount of time teams spend traveling.One of ...