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11. Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to New York City that crashed on June 24, 1975, while on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 of the 124 people on board. [1]: 1 The crash was determined to be caused by wind shear caused by a microburst, but the failure of the ...
December 1, 1974: Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 crashed due to icing near Stony Point, New York. All three crew died. June 24, 1975: Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 crashed on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport; 113 people died. The cause was determined to be a microburst. [28]
1962. 1 March. American Airlines Flight 1, [5] a Boeing 707 crashed on takeoff from Idlewild after its rudder jammed. All 87 passengers and 8 crew members were killed. 30 November. Eastern Air Lines Flight 512, a Douglas DC-7, crashed into the ground during a missed approach, killing 25 of the 51 on board.
The Great Silver Fleet in 1939. By 1937, Eastern's route system stretched from New York to Washington, Atlanta, and New Orleans, and from Chicago to Miami. [7] In the same year, it operated 20 daily flights and returns, every hour on the hour, between New York and Washington; the flight time was one hour, twenty minutes, one-way.
Eastern Airlines Flight 212 had 82 people on board on Sept. 11, 1974, when it crashed in Charlotte. Of those 82, 72 people died and 10 survived. This seat map illustrates where those 10 survivors ...
10. Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 was a controlled flight into terrain accident of a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 during approach to Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. The incident occurred on September 11, 1974, killing 72 of the 82 people on board. The scheduled flight was from Charleston Municipal Airport to Chicago O'Hare ...
June 24, 1975 113 11 11 Eastern Air Lines Flight 66: Queens, New York City: New York: Boeing 727-200: The aircraft experienced windshear caused by a microburst during approach. January 9, 1975 14 0 0 Golden West Airlines Flight 261: Whittier: California: de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter: The flight experienced a mid-air collision with a ...
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66: John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York Windshear Joseph LaMotta: United States 1998 Chef, son of Jake LaMotta Swissair Flight 111: Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport, Nova Scotia, Canada In-flight fire caused by faulty wiring of entertainment system André Lanet: France 1928