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During the Yankee Air Museum’s Thunder Over Michigan event, a retired MiG-23 jet was flying near Willow Run Airport outside Ypsilanti when it caught fire, leading the pilot and backseater to ...
May 25 - A Spitfire crashed in a field during a Battle of Britain event at RAF Coningsby just before 1.20pm, killing the pilot. [2] May 12 - Two jets touch wings during a formation flight at an air show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. An emergency was declared, but the planes were able to land without incident.
The MiG-23, which was built in the former Soviet Union in 1981, crashed Sunday during the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Detroit.
TWA Flight 841 was a scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minneapolis, Minnesota. On April 4, 1979, at or around 9:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (01:48 UTC), while flying over Saginaw, Michigan, the Boeing 727-31 airliner began a sharp ...
A pilot and crew member ejected from a vintage jet that crashed at a Michigan air show on Sunday, 13 August. Officials said the pair escaped serious injury and were taken to hospital after a ...
0. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 operating its daily transcontinental service between New York City and Seattle when it disappeared on the night of June 23, 1950. The flight was carrying 55 passengers and three crew members; the loss of all 58 aboard made it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in America at the time.
Comair Flight 3272 was a Comair flight from Cincinnati to Detroit on Thursday, January 9, 1997. While on approach for landing, the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia aircraft crashed nose-down 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport at 15:54 EST.
The father of the jet engine-powered semitruck driver who died during an air show performance said the truck burst into flames after a tire ruptured. Father: Blown tire caused fatal blast at ...