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On Tuesday 1 March 1988, Comair Flight 206, an Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante flying from Phalaborwa to Johannesburg [1] [unreliable source?] was approaching Johannesburg International Airport to land when it broke up in flight over Germiston. [2] [3] Reports indicated an explosive device on board; the cockpit was found a quarter of a kilometer ...
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055: 1987 Ilyushin Il-62M Accident 183/183 Rapid decompression Uncontained engine failure Aloha Airlines Flight 243: 1988 Boeing 737-200: Accident 1/95 Explosive decompression: Metal fatigue Iran Air Flight 655: 1988 Airbus A300B2-203: Shootdown 290/290 Explosive decompression
On April 28, 1988, an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737-200 operating Flight 243 from General Lyman Field (as Hilo International Airport was known then) to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (Honolulu International Airport) carrying 89 passengers and 5 crew members experienced rapid decompression when an 18 feet (5.5 m) section of the fuselage roof ...
The controller replied that the flight should expect to approach Runway 17L (later named 17C). At 18:00:36, the approach controller asked an American Airlines flight that was two aircraft ahead of Flight 191, and on the same approach, if they could see the airport.: 3 The flight responded, "As soon as we break out of this rain shower we will."
1988 Talia Airways/JAT Boeing 727 crash. / 35.295; 33.572. On 27 February 1988, a Talia Airways passenger flight operated by a Boeing 727-200 with registration TC-AKD on behalf of JAT, crashed into the Kyrenian mountain range on approach to Northern Cyprus on 27 February 1988. All 15 occupants on board the aircraft died in the crash and fire ...
The search for Flight 1517 started at 10:25 am. At 6:42 pm, Civil Air Patrol located the crash site 6 miles east from the airport. Flight 1517 struck the southwest face of Hall Mountain at an elevation of 2,400 ft. Zilda Spadaro-Wolan was the first female commercial airline pilot to perish in an airplane crash in the United States. Cause
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-200, similar to the one involved. / 11.60472°N 37.31972°E / 11.60472; 37.31972. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 604 was a scheduled Addis Ababa – Bahir Dar – Asmara flight in which the aircraft caught fire during a belly landing at Bahir Dar Airport, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, on 15 September 1988.
Indian Airlines Flight 113. VT-EAH, the aircraft involved in the accident. / 23.09139°N 72.65250°E / 23.09139; 72.65250. Indian Airlines Flight 113 was a flight operating from Mumbai to Ahmedabad that crashed on its final approach to Ahmedabad Airport on 19 October 1988, killing 133 of the 135 people on board.