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Mohawk Airlines Flight 405, a Fairchild Hiller FH-227 twin-engine turboprop airliner registered N7818M, was a domestic scheduled passenger flight operated by Mohawk Airlines that crashed into a house within the city limits of Albany, New York, on March 3, 1972, on final approach to Albany County Airport (now Albany International Airport), New York, killing 17 people. [1]
Continental Airlines Flight 1883 was a Boeing 757 that mistakenly landed on a taxiway at Newark Liberty International Airport on the evening of October 28, 2006. There were no reported injuries or damage, but the narrowly averted disaster was investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board, and caused the Federal Aviation Administration to reevaluate and modify air and ground safety ...
People Express Airlines, stylized as PEOPLExpress, was a low-cost airline in the United States that operated from 1981 until it merged with Continental Airlines in 1987. Its headquarters was in the North Terminal (later Terminal C) of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey.
On December 16, 1951, a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46 Commando airliner crashed in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, shortly after taking off from nearby Newark Airport.All 58 people on board were killed.
Media related to Newark Metropolitan Airport Buildings at Wikimedia Commons Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NJ-133, "Newark International Airport" HAER No. NJ-133-A, "Newark International Airport, Brewster Hangar" HAER No. NJ-133-B, "Newark International Airport, Administration Building" NPS.gov; NJ Historic Preservation Office
In 1994, a new, 33,000 sq ft (3,100 m 2), $11-million terminal opened, replacing the cramped original building.Simultaneously, the runway was extended from 5,801 feet (1,768 m) to 6,602 feet (2,012 m); the runway was subsequently extended in 2009 to its present 6,977 feet (2,127 m) as part of a runway-safety extension project that added 375 feet (114 m) of additional takeoff pavement to Runway 14.
Postcard showing the 1960s BAC 1-11 livery Postcard showing the 1970s BAC 1-11 livery. Mohawk Airlines was a local service carrier operating in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, mainly in New York and Pennsylvania, from the mid-1940s until its acquisition by Allegheny Airlines in 1972.
Media coverage of the disaster that began in the North Tower 17 minutes earlier meant Flight 175's impact at 09:03 was the only one of the four attacks to be televised live around the world. The damage done to the South Tower by the crash and subsequent fire caused its collapse 56 minutes later at 09:59, killing everyone who was still inside.