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October 30, 1941: American Airlines Flight 1, a Douglas DC-3 en route from New York City to Detroit with two stopovers at Buffalo and Chicago, stalled and dived into a plowed field over St. Thomas, Ontario, in Canada killing all 20 on board after circling to look for a place to land. Cause undetermined.
PSA Flight 182 collided with a Cessna over San Diego on September 25, 1978, killing all 144 people on both aircraft. It is the deadliest aircraft disaster in California history, the first fatal Pacific Southwest Airlines incident, and at the time, the deadliest aircraft incident in the United States. [37] PSA Flight 1771 crashed near Cayucos ...
This was the worst aviation accident in the Atlantic Ocean at the time and remains the worst ever involving the Latécoère 631. August 29 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421, a Martin 2-0-2, crashed near Winona, Minnesota, due to structural failure of a wing, killing all 37 on board in the worst ever accident involving the Martin 2-0-2. This ...
93. On December 20, 1972, North Central Airlines Flight 575 and Delta Air Lines Flight 954 collided on a runway at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. [4] [5] Ten people died – all on the North Central aircraft – and 17 were injured in the accident. [1] : 1 [6] This was the second major airliner accident ...
See also. List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities. List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by location. List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft.
TWA Flight 529 was a Lockheed Constellation L-049 propliner, registration N86511, operating as a scheduled passenger service from Boston, Massachusetts to San Francisco, California. On September 1, 1961, at 02:05 CDT, the flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport ( ICAO: KMDW) in Chicago, killing all 73 passengers and five crew ...
This article lists the deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision . As of 9 May 2024, 206 accidents and incidents have resulted in at least 100 fatalities, 34 at least 200 ...
The identity of the person killed in the accident has not yet been released. Today around 3 pm an American Airlines ground crew piedmont employee was involved in a fatality, no additional ...