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Location of the explosion. Air India Flight 182 was a passenger flight operating on the Montreal – London – Delhi – Bombay route, that on 23 June 1985, disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean as a result of an explosion from a bomb planted by Canadian Sikh terrorists. [1] [2] [3] It was operated using a Boeing 747-237B registered VT-EFO.
Pan Am Flight 103. / 55.11556°N 3.35861°W / 55.11556; -3.35861. Pan Am Flight 103 ( PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747 registered ...
On the night of September 19, 2008, a Learjet 60 business jet ( registration N999LJ) [2] operating for Global Exec Aviation, crashed during take-off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina. [3] [4] Four of the six people on board died in the crash. The survivors, musician Travis Barker and disc jockey Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein, were ...
At 19:10 local time on 29 October 2009 (02:10 on 30 October UTC ), a Lockheed HC-130H Hercules aircraft of the United States Coast Guard and a Bell AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter of the United States Marine Corps collided in mid-air. The location of the accident was 24 kilometres (15 mi) east off San Clemente Island, California.
The San Diego Freeway is one of the named principal Southern California freeways. It consists of the following two segments: Interstate 5, from California State Route 94 in San Diego to Interstate 405 ( El Toro Y) in Irvine [1] Interstate 405, in its entirety from Interstate 5 in Irvine to Interstate 5 near San Fernando.
Jinnah Airport is surrounded by urban areas on all sides save for the north side, which leads to a scenario very similar to San Diego or Kai Tak with jets having to pass low over urban buildings before landing on one of the two runways. Edhi Foundation's Faisal Edhi said at least 25 houses suffered damage due to the crash.
The 1959 San Diego F3H crash was the crash of a United States Navy McDonnell F3H-2N Demon in San Diego, California, on 4 December 1959.The pilot, Ensign Albert Joseph Hickman from VF-121, chose not to eject from the stricken aircraft, piloting it away from populated areas of Clairemont, including an elementary school, saving "as many as 700 people" on the ground, according to one estimate.
Pilot of airliner shot during flight causing plane to crash: 5: 1965 Highway 101 sniper attack: Orcutt: 1965-04-25: 4: Teenager of 16 years opened fire on cars traveling along the 101 freeway: 6: Tate–LaBianca murders: Los Angeles: 1969-08-08/10: 8: Murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family, victims included actress Sharon Tate: 7