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0 (initially, 1) [a] On 18 September 1961, a DC-6 passenger aircraft of Transair Sweden Flight 001, operating for the United Nations, crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia ). The crash resulted in the deaths of all people on board, including Dag Hammarskjöld, the second secretary-general of the United Nations, and 15 others.
The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, the Evansville Purple Aces, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off. [1]
Jessica Whitney Dubroff (May 5, 1988 – April 11, 1996) was a seven-year-old American trainee pilot who died while attempting to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the United States. On day two of her quest, the Cessna 177B Cardinal single-engine aircraft, piloted by her flight instructor, Joe Reid, crashed during a ...
Peter Dix, 35, Irish Olympic sailor, killed in Lockerbie disaster. Tom Fraser, 77, Scottish coal miner and trade unionist, Member of Parliament, Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. Carl Hubbell, 85, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants), car crash due to stroke. Pál Kalmár, 88, Hungarian pop singer.
The projected (in green) and actual (in red) ground track of N47BA from departure in Orlando to Dallas and to crash site in South Dakota. On October 25, 1999, a Learjet 35, registration N47BA, [7] operated by Sunjet Aviation of Sanford, Florida, departed Orlando Sanford International Airport ( IATA: SFB, ICAO: KSFB) at 13:19 UTC (09:19 EDT) on ...
A flight instructor and student were killed Friday when a small plane crashed in Chatham County, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. The crash happened in a wooded area near the Siler ...
Survivors. 0. West Air Sweden Flight 294 was a cargo flight of a Canadair CRJ200 from Oslo to Tromsø, Norway that crashed on 8 January 2016. A malfunction in one of the inertial reference units had produced erroneous attitude indications on one of the instrument displays. The crew's subsequent response resulted in spatial disorientation ...
David Allen, 78, and his wife, 79-year-old Jeanne Allen, both from Elbert, Colorado, were killed in the crash, Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs show. The incident was reported at 6:10 p.m. in an ...