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Survivors. 176. On 4 April 1975, [note 1] a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy participating in the first mission of Operation Babylift crashed on approach during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. The cause was ascribed to loss of flight control due to explosive decompression and structural failure.
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 ...
Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other western countries (including Australia, France, West Germany, and Canada) at the end of the Vietnam War (see also the Fall of Saigon ), on April 3–26, 1975. By the final American flight out of South Vietnam, over 3,300 ...
The crash kills all six people on the plane and five people on the ground. [42] October 23 – Attempting a go-around after a missed approach in a heavy rain shower at Cairns Airport in Cairns , Australia , Connair Flight 1263, a de Havilland DH.114 Riley Heron (registration VH-CLS) crashes, killing all 11 people on board.
A notorious real-life 1972 plane crash in the Andes is the inspiration behind the new Netflix adventure drama "Society of the Snow.". The disaster happened on Oct. 13, 1972, when Uruguayan Air ...
A Delta plane flies by the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 the day after the Aug. 2, 1985, crash. JOE GIRON/Star-Telegram. There have been 2,751 aircraft crashes with a fatality in Texas in more than ...
Z. 1975 Żabbar Avro Vulcan crash. Categories: Aviation accidents and incidents by year. 20th-century aviation accidents and incidents. Transport disasters in 1975. 1975 in aviation. Hidden category: Commons category link from Wikidata.
8. Ground injuries. 60. The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash was the destruction of the second production Tupolev Tu-144 at Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, which killed all six crew members and eight people on the ground. [1] [2] The crash, at the Paris Air Show on Sunday, 3 June 1973, [3] damaged the development program of the Tupolev Tu-144.