CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from a Sudanese military aircraft crash in the city of Omdurman increased to at least 46 people, including women and children, officials said Wednesday, one of the deadliest plane crashes in the northeastern African nation in the past two decades. Th...
Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, N.Y. All 45 passengers and the four crew members were killed when the Bombardier DHC-8 propeller plane crashed into a house. One person on the ground also was kil...
The deadliest plane crash in history happened 48 years ago today on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The headline above, which ran the following day, was 33 fatalities short. The actual death toll was 583. For more on this unforgettable accident, see my earlier story here. The “Los Angele...
How a tiny Spanish island became the setting for the deadliest plane crash everPatrick Smith
The 6 February crash was one of Alaskas deadliest plane crashes this century and the third major US aviation mishap in eight days. A commercial jetliner and an army helicopter collided near the nations capital on 29 January, killing 67 people. A medical transportation plane crashed in ...
According to David Ropeik, author of "How Risky is it, Really?" the deadliest plane crash to date, happened in 1977 in Tenerife when 583 people were killed after two airplanes collided on the runway. However, in America, the same amount of people die from heart disease every eight hours....
The crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 is the deadliest aviation accident to include a single vehicle, killing the vast majority of passengers onboard. The flight was traveling from Tokyo to Osaka when an explosion unexpectedly rocked the plane, destroying the vertical stabilizer and tearing off pa...
Likely the deadliest plane crash in a quarter-century If all 64 people on board the plane were killed, it would be the deadliest U.S. airline crash since Nov. 12, 2001, when an American Airlines flight crashed into a residential area of Belle Harbor, New York, ...
Here’s what we know about the crash – now the subject of a National Transportation Safety Board investigation and the deadliest aviation disaster in the US in more than two decades. Collision in notoriously busy skies American Airlines Flight 5342 was due to land at the Reagan National airport...
SEOUL/SEATTLE--Before it suffered the deadliest crash in South Korea’s history, budget airline Jeju Air was moving fast: racking up record passenger numbers and flying its aircraft more than domestic rivals and many of its global peers, data show. ...