Timeline Airline Crashes and Plane Bombings
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1912
Jul 1, Drama critic Harriet Quimby (b.1875) took a
passenger up in her new Blériot monoplane from Boston to fly
over Dorchester Bay at the Harvard-Boston Aviation Meet. As she
descended for landing, the plane went into a dive and, without seat
belts, she and her passenger were thrown out into the shallow water of
the bay, where they struck the muddy bottom and were crushed to death.
Quimby was the first American to receive a pilot's license (1911) and
was the first woman to solo across the English Channel (1912). Her
interest in flight was piqued at an aviation meet in 1910.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Quimby)(HNPD,
7/31/98)(ON, 1/00, p.11)
1927 Apr 26, US Navy officers
Cmdr. Noel Davis and Lt. Stanton Wooster were killed when their
aircraft crashed near New York while trying to take off with a huge
load of fuel for a final test flight prior to an attempt to cross the
Atlantic.
(ON, 2/08, p.1)
1927 May 8, French pilots Charles
Nungesser and Francois Coli took off from Paris in their airplane named
L’Oiseau Blanc (the White Bird), in an attempt to cross the Atlantic.
Pilots and plane vanished during the flight.
(ON, 2/08, p.2)
1937 May 6, At
7:25 p.m. the giant German airship (dirigible or zeppelin) Hindenburg
burst into flames and crashed to the ground as it attempted to dock
with a mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.
Carrying 36 passengers and 61 crew, Hindenburg left Frankfurt on May 4
for its first transatlantic voyage of the 1937 season. A total of 36
died when the fire ignited the 16 hydrogen-filled cells and destroyed
the zeppelin in only 34 seconds. It was 803 feet long and had private
rooms for 50 passengers. It had an 11,000 mile range. A newsreel film
of the Hindenburg Disaster was made. The true cause of the disaster
remains a mystery, although crash investigators considered claims that
Hindenburg was lost due to sabotage or an accidental charge of static
electricity.
(TMC, 1994, p.1937)(Hem., 1/96, p.108)(AP,
5/6/97)(SFC,11/21/97, p.C17)(HNPD, 5/6/00)
1942 Jan 16, Actress Carole
Lombard and her mother were among some 20 people killed when their
plane crashed near Las Vegas while returning from a tour to promote war
bonds.
(AP, 1/16/00)
1942 Oct 23, Ralph Rainger (41),
pianist and song writer, was among 12 people killed when their DC-3
crashed after being clipped by a B-34 bomber flown by Army Lt. William
Wilson, who had wanted to thumb his nose at Louis Reppert, a flight
school buddy and co-pilot of the DC-3. An Army court-martial panel
later exonerated Wilson, who had been charged with manslaughter.
Rainger’s songs included “Love in Bloom” and “Thanks for the Memories,”
which Bing Crosby made a hit in 1934.
(WSJ, 12/30/08, p.D7)
1942 Nov 2, An amphibious aircraft
foundered in rough weather, in the waters surrounding what is now the
Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve in the eastern Gulf of Saint
Lawrence. The plane was based at Presqu'Ile, Maine, in the US, and
serviced an airfield in the village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Quebec.
Four of the crew escaped the flooding plane and were rescued by local
fishermen rowing out from shore in open boats in rough seas. Five
others perished, trapped inside. In 1941 and 1942, the US had
constructed a series of airfields in Eastern Canada to ferry aircraft
to Allied air forces in Northern Europe, as part of the so-called
"Crimson Route." Wreckage of the downed plane was found in 2009.
(AFP, 8/7/09)
1943 Jun 14, A US Army B-17 took
off from Mackay, Australia, and crashed in fog at nearby Bakers Creek,
killing 40 of the 41 servicemen crammed into the bomb bay and crannies
of the aircraft. Wartime censorship restrictions suppressed news of the
crash.
(AP, 6/14/03)
1943 Jul 4, A Liberator II
aircraft carrying Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, Poland’s prime minister and
chief army commander, crashed into the sea just 16 seconds after taking
off from Gibraltar. In 2008 Poland began an investigation into the
crash.
(AP, 9/3/08)
1943 A Vultee BT-13 Valiant
disappeared on a flight from San Antonio, Texas, to Chile. Pilot Werner
Martinez and Sgt. Tomas Ayala were on ill-fated flight, which crashed
in Costa Rica. In 2008 police were led to the crash site after an
anonymous caller reported seeing a local resident carrying plane parts
in the town of San Isidro de El Guarco.
(AP, 2/27/08)
1944 Nov 30, A US Navy
reconnaissance plane crashed into the south face of Mount Tamalpais, in
Marin County, Ca. 8 Navy fliers were killed.
(SSFC, 11/29/09, p.A1)
1945 Jul 28, A twin-engine U.S.
Army B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building between the
78th and 79th floors and killed 14 people. The plane’s propellers
severed elevator cables and sent one on a 38-story fall in which the
operator survived.
(SFC, 2/24/96, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/11/97, p.A1)(HT, 5/97,
p.26)(AP, 7/28/97)
1948 Mar 12, In Alaska 24 merchant
marines and six crewmen were flying from China to New York City, when
their DC-4 slammed into Mount Sanford killing all 30. Pilots Kevin
McGregor and Marc Millican discovered some mummified remains in 1999
while recovering artifacts to identify the wreckage they had found two
years earlier.
(AP, 8/17/08)
1948 Jun 17, A United Air Lines
DC-6 crashed near Mount Carmel, Penn., killing all 43 people on board.
(AP, 6/17/98)
1950 Nov 5, A US bomber caught
fire and crashed while flying over China’s southern Guangdong province.
Its mission was not known. Records and eyewitness accounts indicated
that four bodies were buried at the crash site, while the fate of the
other 11 on board wasn't clear.
(AP, 10/27/09)
1951 Nov 18, Two 4-engine Korean
airlift planes collided above Oakland Municipal Airport. One plane
crashed and the crew of 3 were killed. The other made an emergency
landing at SFO.
(SFC, 11/16/01, WB p.G4)
1952 Sep 6, An engine on a de
Havilland 110 plane falls into a crowd at Farnborough Air Show in
England. Thirty people on the ground and the pilot are killed.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1953 Oct 29, A British airliner
with 11 passengers and 8 crew crashed into Kings Mountain, 10 miles
west of Redwood City, Ca., and all aboard were killed. William Kapell
(b.1922), genius pianist, died in the crash. He was returning from a
tour in Australia when his airplane crashed into a mountain outside San
Francisco. A set of his 1944-1953 recordings was released in 1998 by
RCA. In 1999 BMG released "The William Kapell Edition," a nine-disk set.
(SFC, 10/24/03, p.E10)(SFEC, 11/29/98, DB p.44)(WSJ,
2/1/99, p.A19)(WSJ, 5/24/08, p.W12)
1955 Apr 11, Just before the
Bandung conference, an apparent attempt to kill China's then-Premier
Zhou Enlai resulted in the deadly crash of a chartered Air India plane.
Declassified Chinese documents have suggested that Taiwanese agents
placed the bomb in the mistaken belief that Zhou was on board. The
device detonated as the Lockheed Constellation, named Kashmiri
Princess, was descending north of Jakarta. It caused a fire that forced
the pilots to ditch the airliner. The co-pilot, flight engineer and
navigator managed to swim to safety, but 16 other passengers and crew
members drowned. They included six journalists and Air India's chief
pilot, Capt. D.K. Jatar.
(AP,
4/24/05)(www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=236591)
1955 Oct 15, Richard Martin
Theiler (28) was in the front seat of the Lockheed-Martin T-33A that
went missing just after takeoff from the Los Angeles International
Airport. In 2009 aviation archaeologist G. Pat Macha and a group of
volunteers found the plane underneath 100 feet of water.
(AP, 9/30/09)
1955 Nov 1, A time bomb aboard
United DC-6 killed 44 above Longmont, Colorado. Jack Gilbert Graham
rigged a time bomb for the Denver to Seattle flight and put it into his
mother’s suitcase in order to collect the insurance money. Graham was
executed in the gas chamber Jan 11, 1957.
(MC, 11/1/01)(AWC, 1982)
1956 Jun 30, A United DC-7 and a
TWA Lockheed Constellation collided during a thunderstorm over the
Grand Canyon (Arizona) killing all 128 people.
(WSJ, 6/20/06, p.D3)(SFC, 6/30/09, p.D8)
1956 Oct 15, Pan Am Flight 943,
enroute to Hawaii from San Francisco crash landed in the ocean. All 31
aboard were rescued by the Coast Guard cutter Pontchartrain.
(SFC, 1/24/09, p.A1)
1957 Nov 8, Romance of the Skies,
a Pan Am luxury airliner enroute to Hawaii from San Francisco, crashed
in the Pacific Ocean. Only a handful of bodies and some wreckage were
found. A crew of 6 and 38 passengers had been booked on the flight.
(SSFC, 11/4/07, p.A1)
1958 Mar 22, Movie producer Mike
Todd (56) and three other people were killed in the crash of Todd's
private plane near Grants, N.M.
(AP, 3/22/08)
1958 Aug 14, KLM
Superconstellation crashed west of Ireland, killing 99.
(MC, 8/14/02)
1959 Feb 3, A plane crash
near Clear Lake, Iowa, claimed the lives of rock- and-roll stars Buddy
Holly (22), Ritchie Valens (17) and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson
(28). They had just finished performing at the Surf Ballroom in Clear
Lake. Buddy Holley and the Crickets had 2 hit songs "Oh Boy" and "Maybe
Baby," Valens had the 2-sided hit "Donna" and "La Bamba," Richardson
was popular for his song "Chantilly Lace."
(AP, 2/3/97)(WSJ, 2/25/99, p.A16)
1959 Feb 3, An American Airlines
Lockheed Electra crashed into New York's East River while approaching
LaGuardia Airport, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.
(AP, 2/3/08)
1960 Oct 5, A Lockheed Electra
turbo-prop crashed in Boston Harbor and 62 people died. The plane had
flown into a flock of starlings.
(MC, 10/5/01)(SFC, 8/16/03, p.A21)
1960 Oct 29, Chartered C46
carrying Cal State's football team crashed and 16 people were killed.
(MC, 10/29/01)
1960 Dec 16, 134 people were
killed when a United Air Lines DC-8 and a TWA Super Constellation
collided over Staten Island, New York City.
(AP, 12/16/97)(MC, 12/16/01)
1961 Jan 24, A B-52 carrying two
nuclear bombs near Goldsboro, North Carolina encountered a violent
gust. The giant plane rolled completely over, came upright, and
continued rolling inverted a second time before whipping into a vicious
flat spin and breaking up.
(www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Broken_Arrows.html)
1961 Feb 15, 73 people, including
18 figure skaters from the United States, were killed in the crash of a
Boeing 707 in Belgium. The skaters were en route to a world meet in
Czechoslovakia.
(HN, 2/15/98)(AP, 2/15/98)
1962 Mar 1, American Airlines 707
plunged nose 1st into Jamaica Bay, NY, killing 95.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1962 Mar 16, US Lockheed
Super-Constellation disappeared above Pacific Ocean and 167 were killed.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1963 Mar 5, A private plane crash
near Camden, Tenn., claimed the lives of country music performers
Patsy Cline, "Cowboy" Copas and "Hawkshaw" Hawkins.
(AP, 3/5/98)
1964 May 7, A disturbed man
entered the cockpit of a Pacific Airlines flight and killed pilot Ernie
Clark (52). All 44 people aboard the Fairchild F-27A died as the plane
crashed in San Ramon, Ca.
(SFC, 10/9/09,
p.D12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773)
1964 Aug 12, Charles Ogle, land
investor, vanished after flying out of Oakland, Ca., en route to Reno,
Nevada.
(SFC, 9/10/07, p.A1)
1965 Feb 8, Eastern DC-7B crashed
into the Atlantic off Jones Beach, NJ, and 84 people were killed.
(MC, 2/8/02)
1966 Jan 17, Two US Air Force jets
collided in the skies over Spanish coastal village of Palomares. The
mid-air crash of the B-52 bomber and a KC-135 refueling plane killed 8
crew members. The real scare was a missing hydrogen bomb which was
found 2 months later, intact, in nearby waters.
(MC, 1/17/02)
1966 May 27, 6 French fighters
crashed above Spain.
(MC, 5/27/02)
1966 Jun 24, A Bombay to NY Air
India flight crashed into Mont Blanc (Switz) and 117 died.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1966 Jul 24, Oakland-born golfer
Tony Lema (32), while flying with his wife Betty to an exhibition match
in Chicago, Illinois, crashed on the seventh hole of a golf course in
Lansing, Illinois, after their chartered twin-engine Beechcraft Bonanza
ran out of fuel. All four people on board were killed.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Lema)
1968 Jan 21, An American B-52
bomber carrying four hydrogen bombs crashed at North Star Bay,
Greenland, killing one crew member and scattering radioactive material.
Reports began to surface later and in 1995 the Danish government paid a
$15.5 million settlement to some 1,700 exposed workers.
(www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2004/2004-08-09-02.asp)(AP, 1/21/08)
1968 Aug 10, In West Virginia 35
people were killed in the crash of a Piedmont Airlines Fairchild FH-227
at Kanawha County Airport.
(AP, 8/10/08)
1969 Sep 9, Allegheny Flight 853
collided with Piper Cherokee above Indiana. 82 were killed.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Airlines_Flight_853)
1970 Feb 15, A Dominican DC-9
crashed into sea at Santo Domingo and 102 people were killed.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19700215-0)
1970 Feb 21, The PFLP-GC planted a
time bomb on a Swissair jet that blew up on a flight from Zurich to Tel
Aviv. All 47 aboard were killed.
(SFC, 5/21/02,
p.A16)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_330)
1970 Jul 3, A British Dan-Air
charter, flying a Comet 4 turbojet, crashed near Barcelona and 112 were
killed.
(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=834)
1970 Oct 2, A plane carrying the
Wichita State Univ. football team crashed near Silver Plume,
Colorado, killing 29 passengers as well as the Captain and Flight
Attendant.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_State_University_Crash)
1970 Nov 14, The Marshall
Univ. football team of Huntington, West Virginia, was wiped out in air
crash of a Southern Airways DC-9 at Kenova, WV. All 75 people on board
were killed.
(www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-11-14(SouthernAir).asp)
1971 May 28, Audie Murphy
(b.1926), WW II hero and actor, was killed in plane crash near Roanoke,
Va.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy)
1971 Jul 30, A Japanese 727
collided with a jet fighter. 162 people were killed.
(WUD, 1994, p.
1688)(www.airdisaster.com/features/top100/top100.shtml)
1971 Sep 4, An Alaska Airlines jet
crashed near Juneau, killing 111 people.
(AP, 9/4/97)
1971 Dec 24, LANSA Flight 508, a
LANSA Lockheed Electra OB-R-941 commercial airliner, crashed in the
Peruvian rainforest. Juliane Diller Kopcke (17) of Lima, Peru, was the
sole survivor of 92 passengers. She and her mother, famed ornithologist
Maria Kopcke, were traveling to meet with her father, biologist
Hans-Wilhelm Kopcke. Juliane traveled for 9 days in the jungle before
she found help. Her experience became the subject of two films: the
1974 Giuseppe Maria Scotese film Miracoli accadono ancora, I (Miracles
Still Happen), and the 2000 film “Wings of Hope” by Werner Herzog film.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliane_K%C3%B6pcke)
1972 May 5, Alitalia’s DC-8 Flight
112 crashed west of Palermo, Sicily; killing 115.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alitalia)
1972 Jun 18, A BEA Trident, Flight
BE548, crashed after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 people.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720618-0&lang=de)
1972 Aug 28, Prince William of
Gloucester was killed in an air race near Wolverhampton in the west
Midlands.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/28/newsid_2536000/2536275.stm)
1972 Oct 13, Aeroflot Il-62
crashed in large pond outside Moscow and 176 died.
(http://tinyurl.com/5a6zlm)
1972 Oct 13, A Uruguay to Chile
plane carrying 45 people crashed in the Andes Mountains. The event was
concluded by December 23, 1972 when the last of 16 survivors were
rescued. The group survived by collectively making a decision to eat
flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades. The book “Alive: The
Story of the Andes Survivors,” published two years after their rescue,
was written by Piers Paul Read, who interviewed the survivors and their
families.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571)
1972 Oct 16, A light plane
carrying House Democratic leader Hale Boggs (b.1914) of Louisiana and
three other men were reported missing in Alaska. Nick Begich, Alaska
congressman, his aide, Russell Brown, and the pilot, Don Jonz were also
on the plane and later presumed dead. The plane was never found.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Begich)(Econ,
9/6/08, p.35)
1972 Dec 3, A Spantax Convair 990A
charter carrying West German tourists crashed in Tenerife, Canary
Island, and 155 died.
(www.secret-tenerife.com/2006/03/tenerife-air-disasters-in-perspective.shtml)
1972 Dec 23, 16 plane crash
victims (Oct 13 flight from Uruguay to Chile) were rescued from the
Andes after 70 died. The group survived by collectively making a
decision to eat flesh from the bodies of their dead comrades.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571)
1972 Dec 29, Eastern Airlines
Flight 401, a Lockheed Tri-Star Jumbo Jet carrying 176 people, crashed
into the Florida Everglades. 75 people survived. In the end, the crash
was blamed on the crew's preoccupation with a landing gear light.
(http://www3.gendisasters.com/florida/1415/everglades,-fl-jumbo-jet-crash,-dec-1972)
1972 The Soviets introduced the
Tu-154 airplane. It was their version of the Boeing 727. The
three-engine Tupelov 154 first flew passengers and has since become a
workhorse of fleets in Russia, the former Soviet bloc and China. The
jet can carry between 156 and 180 passengers and has a range of 2,400
miles at a maximum speed of 560 mph.
(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)(AP, 7/2/02)
1973 Jun, A Soviet supersonic
Tupelov 144 explodes in flight at the Paris Air Show and crashes into a
nearby village, killing the six-man crew and seven people on the ground.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1974 Mar 3, A Turkish Airlines
DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris and 346
people were killed. It was the worst air disaster to date.
(AP,
3/3/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981)
1974 Apr 22, A Pan Am 707 crashed
into the mountains of Bali, killing 107.
(www.pan-american.de/Desasters/Tinga-Tinga.html)
1974 Sep 11, In North Carolina an
Eastern Airlines DC-9, Flight 212, crashed 3 miles from the Douglas
Municipal Airport. Of the 82 persons aboard the aircraft, 11 and two
crewmembers survived the accident. One passenger died 3 days after the
crash, and another died 6 days after the crash. One survivor died of
injuries 29 days after the accident.
(AP,
9/11/06)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines)
1975 Apr 4, Some 155 people, most
of them children, were killed when a U.S. Air Force C-5A transport
plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans as part of "Operation Babylift"
crashed shortly after takeoff from Saigon.144 adults and 76 babies were
killed. There were over 170 survivors.
(AP, 4/4/97)(SFC, 4/3/00, p.A8)
1975 Jun 24, In New York 113
people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while
attempting to land during a thunderstorm at John F. Kennedy
International Airport. The crash was later attributed to a microburst,
not experienced at the control tower because of a sea breeze front.
(AP, 6/24/97)(SFC, 6/24/09, p.D8)
1976 Oct 6, A Cuban aircraft from
Venezuela with 73 people onboard was blown up on a flight over the
Caribbean. Castro blamed the explosion on the US. Luis Posada Carriles,
a veteran of the Cuban exile’s war against Castro, was charged and
twice acquitted in the bombing. Venezuelan authorities kept him in jail
for 9 years until his escape in 1985 when he settled in El Salvador. In
April, 2005, Posada sought asylum in the US. In May, 2005, declassified
documents were made public that linked Posada to the bombing and
indicated he was on the CIA's payroll for years.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A8)(SFC,11/17/97, p.A14)(AP,
4/15/05)(AP, 5/11/05)
1977 Mar 27, A KLM Boeing 747,
attempting to take off, crashed into a Pan Am 747 on the Canary Island
of Tenerife. 583 people were killed with 54 survivors.
(SSFC, 10/17/04, p.B7)(AP, 3/27/07)
1977 May 16, Five people were
killed when a New York Airways helicopter, idling atop the Pan Am
Building in midtown Manhattan, toppled over, sending a huge rotor blade
flying.
(AP, 5/16/97)
1977 Oct 20, Three members of the
rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a chartered plane
near McComb, Miss.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1978 Apr 20, A South Korean Air
Lines Boeing 707 crash-landed in northwestern Russia. Flight 902 was
fired on by a Soviet interceptor after entering Soviet airspace. 107
passengers and crew survived after the plane made an emergency landing
on a frozen lake and 2 passengers were killed.
(AP,
4/20/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_902)
1978 Sep 25, In Calif. 144 people
were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) Boeing 727 and a
Cessna private plane collided over San Diego.
(WUD, 1994, p.1691)(AP, 9/25/97)
1979 Jan 16, Aaliyeh (d.2001),
R&B singer and actress, was born in Brooklyn and grew up in
Detroit. She was killed (22) in a plane crash in the Bahamas.
(SFC, 8/27/01, p.A16)
1979 May 25, 273 people died in
America's worst domestic air disaster when an American Airlines DC-10
crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The
left engine was lost on takeoff. 3 of the dead were on the ground.
(WSJ, 9/13/01, p.B11)(AP, 5/25/07)
1979 Nov 25, American Airlines
DC-10 crashed on takeoff from Chicago and 275 people were killed.
(MC, 11/25/01)
1979 Oct
31, A US DC-10, flown by Western Airlines, crashed at Mexico City when
it struck a vehicle and 74 were killed.
(http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetGOjg/Disasters.htm)
1979 Nov 28, An Air New Zealand
DC10 en route to the South Pole crashed into Mount Erebus in
Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.
(www.planecrashinfo.com/cvr791128.htm)
1979 Comair experienced a fatal
crash.
(SFC, 1/10/96, p.A3)
1980 Mar 14, a Polish airliner
crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87
people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.
(AP, 3/14/97)
1980 Jun 27, A DC-9 crashed near
Sicily and 81 people were killed. In 1999 it was reported that a fight
by warplanes led to the crash and coverup charges were filed against
Italian military officials.
(WSJ, 9/2/99,
p.A1)(www.emergency-management.net/avi_acc_1979_1989.htm)
1980 Aug 19, 301 people aboard a
Saudi Arabian L-1011 died as the jetliner made a fiery emergency
landing at the Riyadh airport.
(AP, 8/19/99)
1981 Dec 1, 180 people were killed
when a chartered Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slammed into a mountain while
approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica.
(AP, 12/1/01)
1982 Jan 13, An Air Florida 737
crashed into the capital's 14th Street Bridge after takeoff and fell
into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
(AP, 1/13/98)
1982 Feb 9, On approach to Haneda
Airport a Japan Airlines DC-8 plunged into Tokyo Bay killing 24 people.
141 survived the crash caused when the captain pushed the nose down
prematurely and engaged in a struggle with the co-pilot.
(WSJ, 3/10/98,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_350)
1982 Jul 9, A Pan Am Boeing 727
crashed in Kenner, La., killing all 145 people aboard and eight people
on the ground.
(AP, 7/9/07)
1982 Sep 11, U.S. Army Chinook
helicopter crashes during Mannheim Air Show in Germany, killing 46
people on board.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1982 In Brazil a Vasp 747 crashed
in the northeastern city of Fortaleza, killing 137 people.
(AP, 9/30/06)
1982 A Pan Am flight from Tokyo to
Honolulu was bombed. One boy was killed and 15 people were injured. In
1998 Mohammed Rashid, a Palestinian national, was turned over to the US
by Egypt on charges related to the bombing.
(SFC, 6/4/98, p.A4)
1983 Jun 2, A toilet caught fire
on Air Canada's DC-9 and 23 died at Cincinnati.
(www.ntsb.gov/Speeches/former/hall/jh980602.htm)
1983 Sep 1, The KAL flight 007 was
downed by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet
airspace. 269 people were killed aboard the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747
including sixty-one Americans, among them Georgia Representative Larry
McDonald. The order was given by Soviet Gen’l. Anatoly Kornukov who
held that the plane was part of a hostile US operation. In 2005 the
History Channel featured a TV documentary on the tragedy.
(SFC, 5/29/96, A3)(AP, 9/1/97)(WSJ, 1/23/98,
p.A1)(TV, 12/22/05)
1983 Sep 6, The USSR admitted to
shooting down KAL 007 on Sep 1.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_007)
1983 Sep 12, The USSR vetoed a UN
resolution deploring its shooting down of South Korea’s KAL flight 007
plane.
(www.globalpolicy.org/security/membship/veto/vetosubj.htm)
1983 Nov 27, In Spain 181 people
were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near
Madrid's Barajas airport.
(AP, 11/27/07)
1983 Dec 7, In Madrid, Spain, an
Aviaco DC-9 collided on a runway with an Iberia Air Lines Boeing 727
that was accelerating for takeoff, killing all 42 people aboard the
DC-9 and 51 aboard the Iberia jet.
(AP, 12/7/03)
1985 Feb 19, 150 were killed when
a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain.
(MC, 2/19/02)
1985 Jun 23, All 329 people aboard
an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when Flight 182 from Montreal to
London crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, apparently because
of a bomb. An hour earlier, a bomb in baggage intended for another Air
India flight exploded in a Tokyo airport, killing two baggage handlers.
In 2000 Canadian police arrested 2 men of Sikh origin for the bombing.
In 2001 Canadian prosecutors filed murder charges against Inderjit
Singh Reyat. In 2003 Reyat was sentenced to 5 years for his role in
making the bomb. In 2005 a Canadian judge acquitted 2 men who had been
accused of conspiring in the case. Talwinder Parmar (1944-1992) was
later assumed to have been the mastermind behind the attacks.
(AP, 6/23/97)(SFC, 10/28/00, p.A13)(SFC, 6/6/01,
p.C3)(AP, 2/11/03)(AP, 3/17/05)(Econ, 6/16/07, p.47)
1985 Jul 10, A Soviet Tu-154
crashed in Uzbekistan and all 200 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01,
p.A10)(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19850710-0)
1985 Aug 2, In Texas 137 people
were killed when a Delta Air Lines jumbo jet crashed while attempting
to land at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
(AP, 8/2/97)
1985 Aug 12, The world's worst
single-aircraft disaster occurred as a crippled Japan Air Lines Boeing
747 on a domestic flight crashed into Mount Otsuka, 70 miles northwest
of Tokyo, killing 520 of 524 people onboard. A flawed splice made by
Boeing 7 years earlier was the probable cause. In 2006 Japan opened a
museum to remember the crash. Boeing and JAL paid undisclosed
settlements to each victim’s family.
(AP, 8/12/97)(WSJ, 7/27/06, p.A1)
1985 Sep 6, All 31 people aboard a
Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 were killed when the Atlanta-bound
jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee's Mitchell Field.
(WSJ, 6/14/96, p.A15)(AP, 9/6/05)
1985 Dec 12, 248 American soldiers
and eight crew members were killed when an Arrow Air charter crashed
after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland.
(AP, 12/12/97)
1985 Lt. Cmdr. Michael Gershon, a
Navy Blue Angel pilot, was killed when 2 planes collided during an air
show at Niagara Falls, NY.
(SFC, 10/29/99, p.A3)
1986 Mar 31, 167 people died when
a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in a remote mountainous region
of Mexico.
(AP, 3/30/97)
1986 Aug 31, Aeromexico flight 498
with 64 passengers collided with a light plane as it approached Los
Angeles and crashed to the ground where an additional 15 people were
killed. The National Transportation Safety Board blamed flaws in the
overloaded traffic control system. 82 people were killed when an
Aeromexico jetliner and a small private plane collided over Cerritos,
Calif.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A20)(AP, 8/31/97)
1986 Sep 5, The Pakistan army
stormed a hijacked US B-747 in Karachi and 19 people were killed. In
2001 Zayd Hassan Abd Al-latif Masud Al Safarini, jailed in Pakistan for
15 years, arrived in Alaska and was expected to face a 1991 indictment
for the 1986 hijacking of a Pan Am jet in which 22 people were killed.
In 2003 Safarini pleaded guilty and agreed to 3 life sentences plus 25
years.
(MC, 9/5/01)(SFC, 10/2/01, p.A3)(SFC, 12/17/03, p.A4)
1986 Dec 12, Russian Tupolev-134
crashed in East Berlin and 70 of 82 people were killed.
(www.emergency-management.net/avi_acc_1979_1989.htm)
1987 May 9, All 183 people aboard
a Polish jetliner were killed when the plane, bound for New York,
crashed and burned in Warsaw after the pilot attempted an emergency
return.
(AP, 5/9/97)
1987 Aug 16, 156 people were
killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take
off from a Detroit airport; the sole survivor was 4-year-old Cecelia
Cichan. The plane hit a freeway overpass following takeoff.
(AP, 8/16/97)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A12)
1987 Nov 15, Twenty-eight of 82
people aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilot and
co-pilot, were killed when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking
off from Denver's Stapleton International Airport.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1987 Oct 20, Ten people were
killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near
Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying to
make an emergency landing, ejected safely.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1987 Nov 15, Twenty-eight of 82
people aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilot and
co-pilot, were killed when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking
off from Denver's Stapleton International Airport.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1987 Nov 28, A South African
Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean with the loss of all
159 people aboard.
(AP, 11/28/97)
1987 Nov 29, A Korean Air
jetliner, Flight 858, disappeared off Burma over the Indian Ocean, with
the loss of all 115 people aboard; South Korean authorities charged
that North Korean agents had planted a bomb on the aircraft.
(WSJ, 9/9/96, p.A18)(AP, 11/29/97)
1987 Dec 7, Forty-three people
were killed in the crash of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner in
California after a gunman apparently opened fire on a fellow passenger
and the two pilots.
(AP, 12/7/97)
1988 Jan 18, An airliner crashed
in southwestern China, killing all 108 people on board, according to
the official Xinhua news agency.
(AP, 1/18/98)
1988 Jun 26, Three people were
killed when a new Airbus A-320 jetliner carrying more than 130 people
crashed into a forest during an air show demonstration flight in
Mulhouse, France.
(AP, 6/26/98)
1988 July 3, The US Navy shot down
an Iranian Airbus A-300 in the Persian Gulf from the cruiser ship
Vincennes. All 290 people aboard were killed. In 1996 the US paid
$131.8 million in compensation. Iran filed suit in World Court in 1989
and settled out of court in Feb, 1996.
(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-14)
1988 Aug 28, Seventy [33] people
were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show
at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany, sending flaming debris
into the crowd of spectators.
(AP, 8/28/98)(RTH, 8/28/99)
1988 Aug 31, Fourteen people were
killed when a Delta Boeing 727 crashed during takeoff from Dallas-Fort
Worth Airport.
(AP, 8/31/98)
1988 Dec 21, Pan Am Flight 103 was
downed over Lockerbie, Scotland by a terrorist bomb. 270 people were
killed aboard the Boeing 747. Libya was accused of responsibility for
the bombing, which killed 259 people onboard and 11 on the ground. Two
Libyan operatives, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi and A-Amin Khalifa Fahimah,
were indicted in 1991 and thought to be in hiding in Libya. They were
sent to the Netherlands for trial in 1999 and implicated Mohammed Abu
Talb, a Palestinian terrorist jailed in Sweden. In 2000 Ahmad Behbahani
(32) told a 60 Minutes journalist from a refugee camp in Turkey that he
proposed the Pan Am operation and coordinated the 1996 bombing of the
Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. He also claimed that Iran was behind the
1994 bombing in Argentina that killed 86 people. Behbahani was later
called a fraud by the CIA and FBI. In 2001 a Scottish court convicted
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, of murder
in the 1998 bombing of Pan am Flight 103. A 2nd Libyan, Lamen Khalifa
Fhimah, was acquitted. The conviction was upheld in 2002. In 2003 Libya
set up a $2.7 billion fund for families of 270 people killed.
(WSJ, 12/18/95, p.A-9)(SFC, 5/11/96, p.A-8)(SFC,
6/7/97, p.A4)(AP, 12/21/97)(WSJ, 4/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/25/99,
p.A14)(SFC, 6/5/00, p.A9)(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A10)(SFEC, 6/11/00,
p.A20)(SFC, 1/31/01, p.A11)(SFC, 3/15/02, p.A9)(AP, 8/15/03)
1989 Jan 8, Forty-seven people
were killed when a British Midland Boeing 737-400 carrying 126
passengers crashed in central England. The pilots shut down the good
engine and tried to land with a bad one.
(AP, 1/8/99)(WSJ, 10/3/01, p.A20)
1989 Feb 8, In the Azores 144
people were killed when an American-chartered Boeing 707 filled with
Italian tourists slammed into fog-covered Santa Maria mountain.
(AP, 2/8/99)
1989 Feb 24, A cargo door blew off
a United Air Lines Boeing 747-100 flying near Hawaii; the explosive
release of pressure pulled nine passengers to their deaths.
(AP, 2/24/99)
1989 Jun 7, 169 people were killed
when a Suriname Airways airplane crashed in a tropical forest near the
Paramaribo airport.
(AP, 6/7/99)
1989 Jul 19, 111 people were
killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency
landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
(AP, 7/19/08)
1989 Jul 27, Eighty people were
killed when a Korean Air DC-10 crashed in Libya.
(AP, 7/27/99)
1989 Aug 13, Searchers in Ethiopia
found the wreckage of a plane which had disappeared almost a week
earlier while carrying Texas Congressman Mickey Leland and 15 other
people. There were no survivors.
(AP, 8/13/97)
1989 Sep 3, In Brazil a Varig
737-300 plane crashed in the Amazon jungle with 52 people aboard. 14
died and 34 were injured.
(http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/dnetGOjg/030989.txt)
1989 Sep 3, A Cubana de Aviacion
jetliner crashed after takeoff in Havana, killing all 126 aboard and 26
people on the ground.
(AP, 9/3/99)
1989 Sep 19, A Paris-bound French
DC-10, UTA Flight 772, was bombed over the Sahara desert of Niger and
all 170 passengers died. French authorities placed the blame on Libya’s
Abdallah Senoussi, brother-in-law of Moammar Khadafy and chief of
foreign operations for the Libyan secret service. The six Libyan
suspects were named by a French judge in 1998 and tried in absentia in
1999. The attack was in retaliation for French intervention on behalf
of Chad in a war with Libya since the mid 1980s. In 2004 Libya signed a
$170 million compensation accord with families of the people killed. In
2008 a federal judge in Washington ordered Libya and six of its
officials to pay more than $6 billion in damages to the families of 7
Americans killed in the attack.
(SFC, 5/7/97, p.C3)(SFEC,10/19/97, p.A26)(WSJ,
1/30/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A11)(SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)(AP,
9/19/99)(AP, 1/9/04)(Reuters, 1/16/08)
1989 Oct 28, Twenty people were
killed in the crash of a commuter plane on the island of Hawaii.
(AP, 10/28/99)
1989 Nov 27, A bomb, blamed by
police on drug traffickers, destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes
after takeoff from Bogota's international airport. 107 people were
killed.
(AP, 11/27/99)
1990 Jan 25, An Avianca Boeing 707
ran out of fuel and crashed in Cove Neck, N.Y.; 73 of the 161 people
aboard were killed.
(AP, 1/25/00)
1990 Feb 14, Ninety-four people
were killed when an Indian Airlines passenger jet crashed while landing
at a southern Indian airport.
(AP, 2/14/00)
1990 May 11, The center fuel tank
of Philippine Air Lines B737-300 exploded as the plane pushed back from
the gate and 8 people were killed.
(WSJ, 6/26/08, p.A12)
1990 Dec 3, A Northwest Airlines
DC-9 collided on the ground with a Northwest Boeing 727 at Detroit
Metropolitan Airport, resulting in a fire that claimed eight lives.
(AP, 12/3/00)
1991 Feb 1, A US-Air jetliner
crashed atop a commuter turboprop plane while landing at Los Angeles
International Airport. 34 people were killed.
(SFC, 8/9/97, p.A1)(AP, 2/1/97)
1991 Mar 3, 25 people were killed
when a United Airlines Boeing 737 inexplicably crashed while
approaching the airport in Colorado Springs, Colo.
(AP, 3/3/98)
1991 Mar 16, A plane crash near
San Diego, Ca., killed 10 people including 7 members of Reba McIntire's
band.
(www.answers.com/topic/reba-mcentire)
1991 May 26, An Austrian Lauda Air
Boeing 767 crashed in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard. Crash
investigators blamed an engine thrust reverser that had inexplicably
deployed shortly after takeoff. The plane was enroute to Vienna and
crashed shortly after takeoff from the Bangkok airport.
(AP, 5/26/01)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1991 Jul 11, A Nigerian Airlines
jet carrying Muslim pilgrims crashed at the Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, int'l
airport, killing all 261 people on board. The plane was a
Canadian-chartered DC-8.
(AP, 7/11/97)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1991 Dec 29, A Boeing 747-200F of
China Airlines crashed into a mountain at Taipei and 5 people were
killed.
(www.airdisaster.com/cgi-bin/aircraft_detail.cgi?aircraft=Boeing+747)
1992 Jan 20, A French Airbus A-320
crashed near Strasbourg, killing 87 people.
(AP, 1/20/98)
1992 Feb 9, An Air Senegal flight
chartered by Club Med crashed and 30 people were killed. In 2000 a
French court convicted Club Med founder Gilbert Trigano and his son,
Serge, for involuntary manslaughter.
(SFC, 7/7/00,
p.D6)(http://aviation-safety.net/database/country/country.php?id=6V)
1992 Mar 22, Twenty-seven people
were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed on takeoff from New York's La
Guardia Airport; 24 people survived.
(AP, 3/22/97)
1992 Sep 26, A Nigerian military
transport plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 163 people
aboard.
(AP, 9/26/97)
1992 Sep 28, A Pakistani Airbus
jetliner crashed in Nepal, killing all 167 people aboard. The crew had
miscalculated their altitude.
(AP, 9/28/97)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A10)
1992 Oct 4, In the Netherlands an
Israeli El Al Jumbo Jet transport, enroute from New York to Tel Aviv,
crashed into an Amsterdam apartment complex and killed 43 people. Since
then scores of people complained of unidentified health problems. In
1998 it was revealed that the jet carried 50 gallons of dimethyl
methylphosphonate, a non-poisonous ingredient of sarin nerve gas,
destined for Israel. A report on the crash was released in 1999 and
said that the plane's ballast included carcinogenic depleted uranium.
{Netherlands, Air Crash, Israel, Medical}
(AP, 10/4/97)(WSJ, 4/22/99,
A1)(www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/5.03/990211-cargo.html)
1992 Dec 21, A Dutch DC-10 burst
into fire at landing on Faro, Portugal, and 56 died.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19921221-0)
1992 Dec 22, A Libyan Boeing 727
jetliner crashed, killing 157 people.
(AP, 12/22/97)
1993 May 19, A Boeing 727 of
Columbian SAM regional airline crashed into a jungle mountain near
Medellin and killed all 132 on board.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1993 Jul 26, A Boeing 737-500
crashed in South Korea and 68 people were killed.
(http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930726-1)
1993 Dec 1, Eighteen people were
killed when a Northwest Airlink commuter plane crashed in Minnesota.
(AP, 12/1/98)
1993 Dec, A U-2 pilot was killed
on takeoff from Beale Air Force Base southeast of Oroville, Calif., on
a routine training mission.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A11)
1994 Jan 3, A Russian Tu-154
airplane operated by Baikal Air, crashed near Mamony in Siberia and
killed all 124 people onboard and one person on the ground.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)
1994 Mar 23, A Russian Airbus
A-310 crashed in Siberia and 74-75 were killed.
(SS, 3/23/02)
1994 Apr 26, A China Airlines
A300-600 Airbus crashed at the south end of Nagoya airport west of
Tokyo and killed 264 people. There were 7 survivors.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)
1994 Jun 6, A China Northwest
Airlines Tu-154 on a flight from Xian to Guangzhou crashed 10 minutes
after takeoff, and killed all 160 onboard.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1994 Jul 2, A USAir DC-9 Flight
1016 crashed in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport
in North Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard.
(WSJ, 1/4/96, p.A-8)(AP, 7/2/97)
1994 Aug 21, An Air Morocco
regional jet crashed and killed all 44 onboard. It was suspected that
the pilot steered the plane into the ground.
(WSJ, 3/10/98,
p.A1)(www.planecrashinfo.com/1994/1994-43.htm)
1994 Sep 8, A US Air Boeing 737
from Chicago crashed near Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport and killed all 132
people onboard. USAir Flight 427 crashed 6 minutes before it was due to
land. In 2002 Bill Adair authored “The Mystery of Flight 427.”
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(AP, 9/8/97)(SFC, 11/13/01,
p.A12)(WSJ, 5/23/02, p.D7)
1994 Oct 31, A French-built ATR-72
crashed in Roselawn, Ind., and killed 68 people. In 1997 American
Airlines and 7 other companies settled a suit filed by relatives for
$110 million.
(SFC, 1/10/96, p.A3)(SFC, 9/23/97, p.A4)
1994 Dec 13, An American Eagle
commuter plane carrying 20 people crashed short of Raleigh-Durham
International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15.
(AP, 12/13/98)
1994 Dec 29, In East Turkey a
B737-400 flew into a mountain at Edremit and 55 people were killed.
(http://tinyurl.com/98ytm)
1994 A California Air National
Guard Learjet plowed into a Fresno, Calif., apartment complex. The
2-member crew was killed and 18 were injured on the ground.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A11)
1994 A Korean Airbus crashed but
no one was killed.
(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A10)
1995 Jan 11, A 9-year-old girl
survived a Colombian airliner crash that killed the other 52 people
aboard near the Caribbean resort of Cartagena.
(AP, 1/11/00)
1995 Jun 18, A private plane
carrying the Angolan soccer team crashed in Luanda, Angola, killing 48
people.
(AP, 6/18/00)
1995 Aug 9, A Boeing 737 belonging
to Guatemala’s Aviateca airline hit the Chichontepec volcano in El
Salvador on a flight from Miami and killed all 65 on board.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1995 Aug 21, A commuter plane
crashed near Carrollton, Georgia. Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight
529 enroute to Gulfport, Miss., crashed with 29 people aboard. 10 died.
In 2001 Gary M. Pomerantz authored "Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: The
Tragedy & Triumph of ASA Flight 529."
(AP, 8/21/00)(SSFC, 10/21/01, p.R4)
1995 Sep 22, An AWACS plane
carrying US and Canadian military personnel crashed on takeoff from
Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, killing all 24 people
aboard.
(AP, 9/22/00)
1995 Sep, A Fokker-50
operated by a Malaysian airline crashed on arrival at Tawau, Malaysia
airport, killing 34 people. The plane touched down 500 yards short of
the runway, pulled up and crashed into a shantytown.
(AP, 2/10/04)
1995 Nov 8, An air force Fokker 27
crashed in central Argentina’s mountains and killed all 57 on board.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1995 Dec, 6, A Tu-154 jetliner
apparently crashed on a flight from Sakhalin Island to Khabarovsk with
95 [97] people.
(WSJ, 12/8/95, p.A-1)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)
1995 Dec 18, A chartered Zairian
plane crashed in northern Angola killing 139 [141] people. Five people
survived. The plane was a Lockheed Electra, an old plane with a
capacity of 99. It was owned by Trans Service Airlift, a private
company.
(WSJ, 12/20/95, p.A-1)
1995 Dec 20, An American Airlines
Boeing 757, Flight 965 jet crashed in Columbia with 164 people on
board. Four survivors were reported. It smashed into a mountain near
Cali enroute from Miami. It was later reported that pilots had entered
an incorrect code for the approach to Cali.
(WSJ, 12/22/95, p.A-1)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(SFC,
4/18/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1995 A U-2 spy plane based at
Beale Air Force Base in Calif., crashed in England.
(SFC, 8/8/96, p.A11)
1996 Jan 8, A Russian-made
Antonov-32 skidded into a crowded marketplace shortly after take-off in
Kinshasa in Zaire (Congo) and killed at least 350 people. The
twin-turboprop was owned by African Air and was overweight when it took
off. At least 470 people were injured.
(WSJ, 1/9/96, p.A-1) (SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(WSJ,
11/13/01, p.A14)
1996 Jan 15, A Mitsubishi MU-2B
twin turboprop crashed in Idaho and killed all eight onboard. The plane
was carrying Coca-Cola bottling execs from Salt Lake City to a sales
meeting in Pocatello.
(WSJ, 1/16/96, p. A-1)
1996 Jan 29, A Navy F-14 fighter
jet crashed shortly after take-off in Nashville, Tenn. The two-man crew
and three people on the ground were killed.
(WSJ, 1/30/96, p.A-16)
1996 Feb 4, A DC-8 Columbian cargo
plane crashed after takeoff in Paraguay and killed four onboard and 18
on the ground.
(WSJ, 2/5/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 6, A Turkish-owned Boeing
757 jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Puerto
Plata shortly after takeoff from the Dominican Republic, killing 189
people, mostly German tourists.
(WSJ, 2/8/96, p.A-1)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(AP,
2/6/01)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1996 Feb 23, An F-14 crashed in
the Persian Gulf. It was the 3rd this month and the 32nd since 1991.
The navy says that record is not alarmingly high but ordered the entire
fleet grounded for 72 hours to check for any common threads.
(WSJ, 2/23/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 27, A Sudanese military
plane crashed 25 miles south of Khartoum and killed 91 people on board.
The plane was a US made C-130.
(WSJ, 2/28/96, p.A-1)
1996 Feb 29, Mar 2, A Boeing 737
of the Peruvian domestic Fawcett airlines crashed in the southern Andes
and killed 123 people.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)
1996 Mar 2, A Boeing 737 of the
Peruvian domestic Faucett airlines crashed in the southern Andes and
killed 123 people. The crash was later blamed on pilot error.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-14)(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)
1996 Apr 3, A US Air Force T-43,
the military version of a Boeing 737, crashed in Croatia and killed 35
people including the US Sec. of Commerce Ron Brown.
(SFC, 4/6/96, p.A-3)
1996 Apr 11, Seven year old
Jessica Dubroff was killed with her father and flight instructor when
their Cessna Cardinal 177B crashed during bad weather in Cheyenne,
Wyoming. She was attempting to become the youngest person to fly across
the US.
(SFC, 4/16/96, p.A-1,11)
1996 Apr 17, A US Navy F-14B
crashed while trying to land at Ocean Naval Air Station at Virginia
Beach, Va. It was the 4th F-14 crash this year.
(SFC, 4/18/96, p.A-3)
1996 May 3, A Sudanese airliner on
a domestic flight crashed in bad weather and killed all 50 [53]
onboard. It was an Antonov 24 airplane and had tried to land outside of
Khartoum in an area cleared for a new airport because sand covered the
runways at Khartoum.
(SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-10)(SFC, 5/5/96, p.A-14)
1996 May 10, Two US Marine
helicopters collided and killed 14 servicemen at Camp LeJeune, N.C. An
AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter collided with a CH-46 Sea Knight troop
copter during exercises with British forces.
(SFC, 5/10/96, p.A-1)
1996 May 10, A plane crashed and
killed 16 people in the rugged mountains of northwestern Mexico. The
twin-turboprop De Haviland Twin Otter DHC-6 was flying from Durango and
crashed in Santa Maria de Otaes, a small mining town.
(SFC, 5/11/96, p.A-10)
1996 May 11, A ValuJet DC-9 with
110 people onboard caught fire shortly after takeoff crashed in the
Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami Int’l. airport. In
1999 Florida brought murder charges against Sabre-Tech, a Miami repair
facility, that had loaded hazardous oxygen generators onto the plane.
In 1999 SabreTech Maintenance Co. was convicted for mishandling oxygen
canisters that were blamed for the crash. In 2000 a $11 million penalty
was ordered against SabreTech. In 2001 8 0f 9 convictions against
Sabre-Tech were overturned by a federal appeals court.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-1)(AP, 5/11/97)(SFC, 7/14/99,
p.A1)(SFC, 12/7/99, p.A3) (SFC, 8/15/00, p.3)(SFC, 11/1/01, p.C2)
1996 Jun 13, An Indonesian DC-10
skidded of a runway at the Fukuoka airport in Japan and burst into
flames. 3 people were killed, but 270 others were able to flee the
burning jet.
(SFC, 6/13/96, p.C3)
1996 Jul 8, A 1975 JetRanger Bell
Helicopter crashed in Salem, Ohio and killed all 5 people onboard.
(SFC, 7/9/96, p.A3)
1996 Jul 11, An Air Force F-16 crashed into a house
in Pensacola, Fla., killed a young boy and badly burned his mother. The
pilot ejected safely.
(SFC, 7/12/96, p.A1)
1996 Jul 15, A Belgian plane,
Lockheed C-130, crashed during landing in the Netherlands and killed 32
people.
(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A9)
1996 Jul 17, TWA flight 800
crashed off of Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy
International Airport and 230 people died. It was a 25-year-old
Paris-bound Boeing 747 whose previous flight had been from Greece.
Later reports of a missile attack were tracked to a Navy P-3 Orion
flying at 20,000 feet as opposed to the altitude of the Boeing at
13,600 feet. In 1997 the FBI issued a report that the disaster was
caused by an explosion in the central fuel tank and was not the result
of sabotage.
(WSJ, 7/18/96, p.A1)(SFC, 3/21/97, p.A7)(AP,
7/17/97)(SFC,11/19/97, p.A3)
1996 Aug 17, An Air Force C-130
cargo plane crashed after takeoff from Jackson, Wyoming, and nine
people were killed.
(SFC, 8/19/96, p.A1)
1996 Aug 19, A Russian Ilyushin-76
carrying rescue flares and car wheels destined for Libya crashed at
Belgrade’s airport and killed all 12 aboard.
(SFC, 8/20/96, p.A10)
1996 Aug 29, A Russian Tu-154
plane with 141 passengers crashed on a desolate arctic island 6 miles
from Spitsbergen where they were returning to jobs in a Russian-run
coal mine. It was the worst crash in Norway’s history.
(SFC, 8/30/96, p.A14)(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)
1996 Sep 25, In the Netherlands a
DC-3 aircraft went into the North Sea near Den Helder and killed all 32
people on board.
(SFC, 9/26/96, p.A11)
1996 Oct 2, The Aeroperu flight
603, a Boeing 757, crashed shortly after takeoff into the Pacific and
all 61 passengers and nine crew members were killed. The pilot claimed
loss of navigational equipment just before the crash. It was later
reported that a maintenance worker failed to remove tape from sensors
after polishing the aircraft. A judge ordered Aeroperu and the worker
to pay $29 million to families of the 70 dead.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)(AP, 10/2/97)(WSJ, 1/22/98, p.A1)
1996 Oct 8, A Russian Antonov 124
cargo plane crashed in San Francesco al Campo in northwestern Italy. At
least 2 crew members and 2 villagers were killed.
(SFEC, 10/9/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 18, An AV-8B Harrier jet
crashed during training exercises at Twentynine Palms Marine Corps
Air-Ground Combat Center. The pilot ejected safely.
(SFC, 10/19/96, A19)
1996 Oct 22, A Boeing 707 cargo
plane crashed in an impoverished neighborhood in the port of Manta in
southeast Ecuador and killed 25 people.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1996 Oct 31, In Brazil a
Dutch-made Fokker-100, TAM Regional Airlines Flight 402, crashed after
take-off from Sao Paulo into the streets of Vila Santa Catarina. At
least 98 people were killed.
(SFC, 11/1/96, p.A18)
1996 Nov 1, In Guatemala a
Brazilian-made turboprop crashed near Flores in Peten province and 14
people enroute to the Mayan site of Tikal were killed.
(SFC, 11/2/96, p.C1)
1996 Nov 7, In Nigeria Flight 086,
a Boeing 727 belonging to the Aviation Development Corp., crashed near
Epe east of Lagos and 141 people died.
(SFC, 11/8/96, p.A18)
1996 Nov 12, Near New Delhi,
India, a Saudi Arabian Boeing 747 with 312 passengers crashed into a
Kazak Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 with 39 people in midair. It marked the
worst midair collision in aviation history and the 3rd deadliest air
crash. Investigators later claimed the Ilyushin II-76 failed to
maintain its assigned altitude. All 349 passengers and crew were killed.
(SFC, 11/13/96, p.A1)(SFC, 5/14/97, p.A12)(AP,
11/12/97)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1996 Nov 19, Two commuter planes
collided on a runway, exploded and killed all 14 people on both planes
at Baldwin Municipal Airport in Quincy, Ill.
(SFC, 11/20/96, p.A4)
1996 Nov 27, A Russian military
cargo plane, an Ilyushin-76, crashed in central Siberia and 23 were
killed.
(SFC, 11/29/96, p.B6)
1996 Dec 17, A Russian AN-12
military transport crashed and killed all 17 people onboard shortly
after takeoff from St. Petersburg. Colonel General Sergei Seleznyov,
commander of the Leningrad military district, was among the dead.
(SFC, 12/18/96, p.C1)
1997 Jan 9, A Comair Brazilian
made Embraer 120 commuter plane crashed 18 miles southwest of Detroit
and killed all 29 onboard. Icing was blamed for the crash.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.A7)(AP, 1/9/99)
1997 Feb 1, An Air Senegal plane
crashed and at least 23 people died after liftoff from a wildlife
refuge at Tambacounda.
(SFC, 2/3/97, p.C3)
1997 Mar 14, In northeastern Iran
a C-130 military cargo plane crashed near Mashad and all 86 people
aboard were believed killed.
(SFC, 3/15/97, p.A19)
1997 Mar 17, A Stavropol Airlines
AN-24 airplane crashed and all 48 aboard were presumed dead.
(SFC, 3/18/97, p.A11)
1997 May, In China a Boeing 737
crashed in Shenzhen and 35 people were killed.
(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A11)
1997 Jul 11, A Cuban An-24
passenger plane with 44 people plunged into the sea after take-off from
Santiago de Cuba onroute to Havana.
(SFC, 7/12/97, p.A14)
1997 Jul 26, A light aircraft
spirals to the ground during a maneuver at a show in Ostende, Belgium,
killing the pilot and eight spectators.
(AP, 7/27/02)
1997 Aug 6, Korean Air Flight 801
from Seoul, a Boeing 747-300 jumbo jet, crashed into a hillside a short
distance from Guam’s Agana International Airport killing 228 with 26
survivors. A programming glitch in the ground radar system was later
identified as a contributing factor but not the cause.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801)(WSJ, 4/8/99,
p.A1)(AP, 8/6/98)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1997 Aug 7, A DC-8 cargo plane
crashed on take-off at Miami Int’l. Airport. Four people were killed on
the denim filled 29-year-old plane bound for the Dominican Republic.
(SFC, 8/8/97, p.A3)
1997 Aug 11, In Taiwan a 19-seat
Dornier 228 crashed on the island of Matsu and killed all 16 onboard.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A8)
1997 Sep 3, A Tu-134 Vietnam
Airlines jet crashed on approach to Phnom Penh airport and killed 65
people. One child survived.
(WSJ, 9/3/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 12, In southeast Congo a
plane crashed enroute to a religious meeting. All 20 aboard were killed.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, p.A24)
1997 Sep 13, A German military
transport, a Soviet-made Tupelov-154 jet, was reported crashed with 24
people off the coast of Angola [Namibia]. A midair collision with a
USAF C-141 Starlifter cargo plane was reported and the total dead
reached 32. Poor communications and faulty regional traffic control
were cited as the cause. On Mar 31, 1988 the German government reported
that the German crew was at fault for flying in airspace reserved for
westbound traffic.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A1)(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)(WSJ,
3/31/98, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/25/99, p.A5)
1997 Sep 14, An Air Force F-117A
Stealth fighter broke apart in midair at a Baltimore County air show.
The pilot ejected safely but about a dozen people on the ground were
slightly injured.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 15, In Oman a US Navy
F/A-18 crashed and the pilot was killed.
(WSJ, 9/16/97, p.A1)
1997 Sep 16, Two Air national
Guard F-16 fighters collided off Atlantic City, N.J. All the crew
members survived.
(SFC, 9/17/97, p.A2)
1997 Sep 26, An Indonesian Garuda
Airbus A-300 crashed while approaching Medan Airport in north Sumatra
and all 234 passengers were killed. Low visibility from the areas fires
were thought to have contributed the tragedy. An air traffic control
error was cited.
(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A1)(WSJ, 9/29/97, p.A1)(AP,
9/26/98)(SFC, 11/13/01, p.A10)
1997 Oct 2, A Navy F-14 Tomcat
fighter jet crashed off the coast of N. Carolina. One crew member was
rescued but the pilot was still missing.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 10, An Argentine DC-9
with 75 people crashed in Uruguay.
(SFC, 10/11/97, p.A10)
1997 Dec 6, In Siberia a Russian
Antonov-124 jet cargo aircraft crashed seconds after takeoff on the
edge of Irkutsk into an apartment building and killed at least 62
(68-69) people.
(SFEC,12/797, p.A19)(WSJ, 12/8/97, p.A1)(AP,
12/6/98)(SFC, 7/4/01, p.A10)
1997 Dec 11, In northern Russia an
An-12 cargo plane hit a civilian helicopter at the Naryan-Mar airport
and all 8 passengers in the helicopter were killed.
(SFC,12/19/97, p.B2)
1997 Dec 15, In the UAR a Russian
Tu-154 charter flight from Tajikistan crashed 9 miles from Sharjah and
85 people were killed.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.B1)
1997 Dec 17, A Ukrainian jetliner
from Odessa, a Yakoviev 42, was missing as it approached the Greek city
of Salonica with 70-71 people onboard. The wreckage was located near
Fotina, Greece, on Dec 20, as a Greek military plane, searching for the
wreckage, crashed north of Athens. All five people aboard the C-130
transport plane were killed.
(WSJ, 12/18/97,
p.A1)(www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/20/greece.plane.pm/)
1997 Dec 19, In Indonesia a
Singapore SilkAir operated Boeing 737 jet crashed by the Musi River
north of Palembang on its flight from Jakarta to Singapore. All 104
people on board were feared dead. The 10-month-old plane was later
found to have some fasteners missing. Capt. Tsu Way Ming was later
suspected of having committed suicide due to investment losses
(SFC,12/20/97, p.A10) (WSJ, 1/8/98, p.1)(WSJ,
7/30/98, p.A1)
1998 Feb 2, In the Philippines a
Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashed on Mount Sumagaya as it approached for
landing at Cagayan de Oro. 104 people were onboard. Rescuers reached
the wreckage the next day but found no survivors.
(SFC, 2/3/98, p.A6)(SFC, 2/4/98, p.C3)
1998 Feb 16, In Taiwan a China
Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashed at Chiang Kai-shek airport while
trying to land in fog. 196 people on board were killed plus 6 on the
ground. The passengers included the governor of Taiwan’s Central Bank
and other financial officials.
(SFC, 2/17/98, p.A6)(AP, 2/16/08)
1998 Mar 19, Two small planes
collided over Riverside Ct. in California and 3 people were killed.
(SFC, 3/20/98, p.A3)
1998 Mar 19, In Afghanistan a
Boeing 727 operated by Ariana state airline crashed 12 miles south of
Kabul and killed all 22 people on board.
(SFC, 3/20/98, p.A16)
1998 Mar 29, In Peru an air force
plane evacuating people stranded by flooding crashed in Piura.
Twenty-two people were killed when a Russian-made Antonov military
plane crashed into a Peruvian shantytown outside the northern city of
Piura.
(SFC, 3/30/98, p.A10)(AP, 3/29/99)
1998 Apr 20, In Columbia a Boeing
727 crashed after takeoff from Bogota and all 53 people aboard were
killed.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A12)
1998 May 6, In Peru a Boeing 737,
chartered by Occidental Petroleum from the Peruvian air force, crashed
in the Amazon jungle. At least 13 of 87 people survived the crash.
(WSJ, 5/7/98, p.A1)
1998 May 27, In Mongolia a Yu-12
plane crash killed all 28 on board.
(WSJ, 5/28/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 18, A commuter plane
crashed near Montreal with engineers of Canadian General Electric Co.
All 11 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 6/19/98, p.B4)
1998 Jul 30, In France a Proteus
Airlines Beechcraft collided with a Cessna off the west coast and 15
people were killed.
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A11)
1998 Aug 29, In Quito, Ecuador, a
Cuban plane with 90 people onboard crashed. 80 people were killed
including 5 children playing on the ground. At least 8 people survived
the crash of the Russian-made Tupelov-154.
(SFEC, 8/28/98, p.A15)(SFC, 8/31/98, p.A10)(AP,
8/29/08)
1998 Sep 2, A Swissair MD-11
jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia with 229 people aboard and all were
feared dead. The New York to Geneva flight had 136 Americans on board.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/4/98, p.A17)(AP,
9/2/99)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1998 Sep 6, Divers working off
Nova Scotia found the flight data recorder from Swissair Flight 111,
which had crashed Sep 2, killing all 229 people on board. However, it
turned out the recorder had stopped working several minutes before the
crash.
(AP, 9/6/03)
1998 Sep 11, Divers off Nova
Scotia recovered the cockpit voice recorder from Swissair Flight 111,
which had crashed Sept. 2, with 229 people aboard. The data recorder
was found Sep 6.
(AP, 9/11/03)
1998 Sep, In Burma Air Myanmar
F-27 with 39 people crashed near Tachilek in Shan state. Shan tribesmen
looted the wreckage. 5 adult male survivors were tortured and an air
hostess was raped for days. A surviving baby was left to die. 30
villagers were arrested.
(SFC, 9/25/98, p.A12)
1998 Sep 25, In Morocco a
chartered Spanish airliner crashed and killed all 38 people onboard.
(SFC, 9/26/98, p.A11)
1998 Sep 29, In Sri Lanka a
Lionair commercial plane, Flight 602, carrying 55 people disappeared
off the coast after leaving the Jaffna peninsula. The Ukrainian-built
Antonov-24 was bound for Colombo. The government said 700 soldiers and
rebels had died in a 3-day battle in the north. Later reports put the
death toll to 1300.
(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A11)(WSJ, 9/30/98, p.A1)(WSJ,
1/28/00, p.A1)
1998 Dec 11, A Thai Airways Airbus
A310-200 jet crashed near the airport at Surat Thani. 45 people
survived and 101 died.
(SFC, 12/12/98, p.A15)(WSJ, 12/14/98, p.A1)
1999 Feb 24, A China Southwest
Airlines jet crashed near Ruian and all 61 people onboard were killed.
The jet was a Russian-made Tupelov-154.
(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A11)
1999 cMar 7, An Antonov 32 Indian
air force plane crashed near New Delhi airport killing all 18 onboard
and 3 people on the ground.
(WSJ, 3/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 1, In Little Rock, Ark.,
9 people died when an American Airlines jet carrying 145 people crashed
into a light tower on landing in stormy weather. The toll climbed to 11
after 2 initial survivors died. In 2001 pilot error was cited.
(SFC, 6/3/99, p.A1)(SFC, 6/17/99, p.A3)(SFC,
10/24/01, p.C14)
1999 Aug 10, An Indian jet shot
down a Pakistani naval reconnaissance plane over the disputed Sir Creek
area. All 16 people in the plane were killed.
(www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9908/10/india.pak.plane.01/index.html)
1999 Aug 22, In Hong Kong a China
Airlines plane with over 300 passengers overturned while landing under
high winds from Typhoon [Tropical Storm] Sam. 2 people were killed and
211 injured of the 313 survivors.
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A14)
1999 Aug 31, In Argentina at least
64 people were killed when a Lapa Airlines Boeing 737 crashed after
takeoff from Jorge Newberry airport in Buenos Aires. There were 26
survivors.
(SFC, 9/1/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 9/1/99, p.A1)(SFC, 9/2/99,
p.A14)
1999 Oct 28, Two Navy Blue Angel
aviators, Kieron O'Connor (35) and Kevin Colling (32), were killed when
their F/A-18 Hornet crashed during a training flight near Moody Air
Force Base in Georgia.
(SFC, 10/29/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 31, An EgyptAir Boeing
767-300, Flight 990, enroute from New York to Cairo crashed off
Nantucket Island and all 217 people aboard were killed. Captains Ahmed
al-Habashy and Raouf Noureldin were at the controls. Relief pilot Gamil
al-Batouti was suspected to have caused the crash.
(SFC, 11/1/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/16/99, p.A3)(SFC,
11/17/99, p.A1)(SFC, 11/18/99, p.C5)(WSJ, 11/13/01, p.A14)
1999 Nov 17, Officials close to
the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 said a relief
co-pilot alone in the cockpit had said, in Arabic: “I made my decision
now; I put my faith in God’s hands” just before the jetliner began its
fatal plunge. In Egypt, relatives angrily rejected any notion that
relief co-pilot Gameel el-Batouty had deliberately crashed the plane.
(AP, 11/17/00)
1999 Nov 9, In Mexico a TAESA DC-9
jet exploded in flight near Uruapan and all 18 people onboard were
killed.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A14)
1999 Nov 12, In Serbia a World
Food Program flight from Rome crashed in northern Kosovo and all 24
aboard were killed. The plane was a propeller-driven ATR-42.
(SFC, 11/13/99, p.A10)
1999 Dec 10, In Kuwait a US airmen
was instantly killed when an Air Force C-130 transport landed short of
the runway at Al Jaber Air Base. The plane regained altitude, dumped
fuel and made an emergency belly landing following which 2 more airmen
were killed. The pilot was charged with involuntary manslaughter for
killing three servicemen by crashing the plane.
(SFC, 12/11/99,
p.A17)(www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/ahmed-al-jaber.htm)
1999 Dec 11, In the Azores a SATA
airline ATP turboprop crashed on Sao Jorge island and all 35 people
aboard were killed.
(SFEC, 12/12/99, p.D1)
1999 Dec 21, In Guatemala City a
Cubana de Aviacion DC-10 skidded and crashed on landing. At least 26
people were killed.
(SFC, 12/22/99, p.C9)
1999 Dec 22, In Britain a Korean
Air 747 cargo plane crashed near London and all 4 people aboard were
killed.
(SFC, 12/23/99, p.C7)
1999 Dec 25, A Cuban airplane,
Russian-made YAK-42, with 22 people crashed just before landing in the
northern Venezuelan state of Carabobo.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.D6)
2000 Jan 10, In Switzerland a
Crossair Saab-340 airplane crashed after takeoff from Zurich and all 10
people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/11/00, p.A11)
2000 Jan 13, A Swiss Shorts
300-360 airplane carrying Libyan oil workers to a refinery at Marsa
el-Brega crashed off the Libya coast and at least 15 of 41 people were
killed.
(SFC, 1/14/00, p.D2)(WSJ, 1/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 30, A Kenyan Airbus 310
crashed into the sea after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Kenya
Airways Flight 431 carried 179 people. 10 survivors were pulled from
the water.
(SFC, 1/31/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 1/31/00, p.A1)
2000 Jan 31, Alaska Airlines
Flight 261, an MD-83 jet with 88 people bound for Seattle from Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico, crashed about 2.7 miles north of Anacapa Island, Ca.
There were no survivors. A stop had been scheduled in SF.
(SFC, 2/1/00,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261)
2000 Feb 16, In California an
Emory Worldwide DC-8 crashed after lifting off from Mather Airport near
Sacramento and all 3 crew members were killed.
(SFC, 2/17/00, p.A1)
2000 Mar 9, In Moscow A Yak-40
aircraft crashed on takeoff from Sheremetyevo Airport and all 9 people
aboard were killed. Among the dead were journalist Artyom Borovik and
oil executive Ziya Bazhayev.
(SFC, 3/9/00, p.A11)(SFC, 3/10/00, p.D5)
2000 Apr 19, An Air Philippines
Boeing 737-200 jet crashed and all 131 people aboard were killed on
Samal Island following an attempted landing at Davao City. It was the
worst air crash in Philippine history
(SFC, 4/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/19/01)
2000 Jul 17, In India an Alliance
Air Boeing 737 jet with 58 people caught fire and crashed just before
landing at Patna airport. 6 people survived.
(SFC, 7/17/00, p.A15)
2000 Jul 25, In France a NY bound
Concorde jet crashed in Gonesse after takeoff and all 109 people aboard
were killed along with 4 people on the ground. Passengers included 96
Germans, 2 Danes and an Austrian.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.A1)(SFC, 7/27/00, p.A12)
2000 Jul 27, In Nepal a Canadian
built Twin Otter Royal Nepal Airlines plane crashed near Jogbudha and
all 25 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 12, In Congo a
Russian-made Antonov crashed on approach to Tshikapa and 27 people were
killed.
(WSJ, 8/14/00, p.A1)
2000 Aug 23, In Bahrain a Gulf Air
Airbus A320 crashed on approach to Manama and all 143 people aboard
were killed including 36 children.
(SFC, 8/24/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 25, A Russian plane with
at least 75 passengers and crew crashed while trying to land in
Georgia. All were feared dead.
(SFC, 10/26/00, p.D8)
2000 Oct 31, A Singapore Airlines
Boeing 747-400 jet crashed on takeoff from Taiwan as Typhoon Xangsane
approached. Flight SQ006 was bound for Los Angeles. The plane
apparently hit construction equipment on a closed runway. The airlines
announced a $400,000 payment to victim’s families after admitting to
pilot error. 83 people were killed when the pilots took off on the
wrong runway. The pilots were not prosecuted.
(WSJ, 11/1/00, p.A1)(SFC, 11/3/00, p.A16)(SFEC,
11/5/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/14/02)
2000 Nov 15, In Angola an Antonov
24 airplane crashed near Luanda Int’l. Airport and at least 40 people
were killed.
(SFC, 11/16/00, p.A17)
2002 Nov, A Fokker-50 caught fire
and crashed on a flight from Berlin to Luxembourg, killing 20 people.
(AP, 2/10/04)
2000 Dec 11, A US Marine Osprey
aircraft crashed in North Carolina and all 4 people aboard were killed.
The fleet was grounded the next day.
(SFC, 12/13/00, p.A3)
2001 Jan 27, A small plane crashed
south of Denver and 10 people were killed including passengers
associated with the Oklahoma State Univ. basketball team.
(SSFC, 1/28/01, p.A13)
2001 Mar 2, In Thailand a bomb
blast gutted a Thai Airways Boeing 737-400 in Bangkok just before PM
Shinawatra was to board. One crew member was killed. It was later
reported that the empty center fuel tank of the plane had exploded.
(SFC, 3/5/01, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/26/08, p.A12)
2001 Mar 24, An Air Caraibes plane
with mostly French tourists from St. Maarten crashed on St. Barts and
killed all 19 aboard.
(WSJ, 3/26/00, p.A1)
2001 Jun 3, In California pilot
Daniel Katz (24) disappeared while flying over San Bernardino National
Forest. This spurred one of the most extensive and high-tech searches
in the area's history. In 2008 the wreckage of his rented plane was
found on a steep mountainside north of Rancho Cucamonga near Lytle
Creek.
(AP, 9/23/08)
2001 Jul 3, In Russia Flight
TD-352, a Tu-154 operated by Vladivostok Avia, crashed in Siberia near
the village of Burdakovka. All 143 people aboard were killed.
(SFC, 7/4/01,
p.A10)(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1421072.stm)
2001 Sep 11, 8:45 a.m. American
Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 carrying 92 people, crashed into the
North tower of the World Trade Center in NYC. It was enroute from
Boston to LA.
9:03 a.m. United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767
carrying 65 people, crashed into the South Tower of the WTC. It
was enroute from Boston to LA.
9:38 a.m. American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757
carrying 64 people, crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.
It was enroute from Washington DC to LA.
9:40 a.m. The FAA grounded all domestic flights and
ordered all airborne craft to land immediately.
10:00 a.m. The South Tower of the WTC collapsed.
10:10 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757
carrying 45 people, crashed southeast of Pittsburgh. The plane had left
Newark for SF but was believed to be directed by hijackers to Camp
David. Passengers appeared to have overcome the hijackers.
10:29 a.m. The North Tower of the WTC collapsed.
5:25 p.m. Building 7 of the WTC complex collapsed.
Four groups of terrorists used knives, hijacked 4 airplanes, and were
suspected to be linked to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda organization.
(SFC, 9/12/01, p.A6,10,12)(WSJ, 9/12/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 4, A chartered Russian
Tupelov-154 airplane crashed in to the Black Sea and all 78 people were
killed. The Sibir Airlines jet was bound to Novosibirsk from Tel Aviv.
An accidental missile strike from Ukrainian military forces was
suspected but denied by Ukraine officials. Pres. Putin said terrorists
might have been responsible. Later evidence indicated that flight 1812
was hit by an S-200 missile. Ukraine and Russia acknowledged that an
errant missile was the probable cause on Oct 12. In 2003 Ukraine agreed
to pay $200,000 for each Israeli killed.
(SFC, 10/6/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/21/03,
p.A1)(www.ncsj.org/AuxPages/100501crash.shtml)
2001 Oct 8, In Milan, Italy, a
Scandinavian Airlines SAS jet, Flight 686 to Copenhagen, crashed into a
small Cessna on takeoff and 114 people were killed in both planes with
4 killed on the ground. The Cessna had moved onto the wrong runway as
the SAS jet took off under foggy conditions.
(SFC, 10/9/01, p.B1)(WSJ, 10/9/01, p.A1)
2001 Oct 10, In Alaska a small
plane crashed following takeoff from Dillingham. 10 people were killed
in the Cessna 208 Caravan.
(SFC, 10/11/01, p.A21)
2001 Nov 12, American Airlines
Flight 587, bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed in Belle Harbor
in the Far Rockaway district of Queens just after takeoff from JFK
Airport. All 260 crew and passengers were killed as well as 5 people on
the ground. The A300-600 plane appeared to have fallen apart. The
vertical tail section cracked off when composite fittings failed
possibly due to turbulence from a preceding 747. In 2004 a safety board
said the pilot’s “unnecessary and excessive“ use of the rudder
contributed to the crash.
(SFC, 11/14/01, p.A14)(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A19)(SFC,
10/27/04, p.A3)(AP, 11/12/05)
2001 Nov 19, A Russian airliner
crashed 90 miles north of Moscow and all 24 on board were killed. The
Ilyushin-18 was chartered by Israero and was from the Siberian city of
Khatanga.
(WSJ, 11/20/01, p.A1)
2001 Nov 24, In Switzerland a
Swiss Avro RJ-100 Jumbolino crashed with 33 people on board. 10 were
killed.
(SSFC, 11/25/01, p.A18)
2002 Jan 16, In Indonesia a Boeing
737-300 with 60 people crash-landed on a river in Java. One person was
killed and 23 injured.
(SFC, 1/17/02, p.A10)
2002 Jan 28, An Ecuadoran TAME
Airlines Boeing 727-100 crashed along the Colombia border with 92
people aboard. The wreckage was found on a glacier of the Nevado de
Cumbal volcano and there were no survivors.
(SFC, 1/29/02, p.A8)(SFC, 1/30/02, p.A8)
2002 Feb 12, An Iran Air Tours
Tupelov Tu-154 crashed into the Sefid Kouh mountains near Khorramabad
killing all 119 on board.
(SFC, 2/13/02, p.A12)(AP, 2/11/03)
2002 Apr 15, In South Korea an Air
China jet Boeing 767, CA-129, with some 166 passengers crashed into a
mountain near Kimhae. 122 people died in the crash.
(SFC, 4/15/02, p.A3)(SFC, 4/16/02, p.A7)(AP, 4/15/07)
2002 Apr 19, In Colombia a
Russian-made Antonov jet, used to transfer inmates, crashed near
Popayan airport and at least 2 prison officials were killed.
(SFC, 4/20/02, p.A15)
2002 May 4, A Nigerian jet crashed
in Kano. 4 of 76 onboard survived. Nigeria's EAS Airlines owned the
British Aerospace twin-engine jet. The Red Cross reported 145 dead. A
total of 154 people on the plane and the ground were killed.
(SSFC, 5/5/02, p.A16)(SFC, 5/6/02, p.A3)(AP, 5/4/03)
2002 May 7, A China Northern
Airlines with 112 people crashed off the northeast coast. Flight 6136
was an MD-82 enroute from Beijing to Dalian.
(SFC, 5/8/02, p.A15)
2002 May 7, An EgyptAir Boeing 737
with 62 people crashed in bad weather near Tunis. 14 people were killed.
(SFC, 5/8/02, p.A15)(AP, 5/7/03)
2002 May 25, A Taiwanese China
Airlines Boeing 747 airliner bound for Hong Kong crashed into the sea
and 225 people were killed.
(SSFC, 5/26/02, p.A12)(SFC, 5/27/02, p.A7)(AP,
5/25/03)
2002 Jul 1, Bashkirian flight 2937
with 45 Russian children headed for a beach vacation in Spain were
among 71 people killed when their chartered Tupolev airliner slammed
into a Boeing 757 DHL cargo plane over southern Germany. The flights
were under Swiss air control. An onboard device told the pilot to climb
but he followed a controller’s order to dive instead. In 2007 four
employees of a Swiss air traffic control company were convicted of
negligent homicide for the crash of flight 2937.
(AP, 7/2/02)(SFC, 7/2/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 7/2/02,
p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 7/9/02, p.A1)(AP, 9/4/07)
2002 Jul 3, Swiss authorities said
a collision-warning system was out of service in the Zurich tower when
it took control of a Russian airliner and a cargo jet shortly before
they collided on July 1 at 35,000 feet, killing 71 people, including 45
children headed for an end-of-school beach holiday. One of 2 required
air controllers was on a break.
(AP, 7/3/02)(SFC, 7/4/02, p.A8)
2002 Aug 19, A Russian Mi-26
military helicopter loaded with troops crashed in Chechnya. 127 were
killed and 32 injured when the troop transport fell into a minefield in
what Russian media called the nation's biggest military helicopter
crash and the biggest single-day casualty count in the Chechen war.
Chechen rebels claimed to have shot the helicopter down.
(AP, 8/20/02)(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/21/03)(AP,
8/19/07)
2002 Aug 22, In Nepal a plane
carrying foreign tourists slammed into a mountain in bad weather,
killing all 18 people on board.
(Reuters, 8/22/02)
2002 Aug 29, In Russia a small
plane disappeared in the Far East region of Khabarovsk. The plane
crashed into a cliff and 16 people were killed.
(AP, 8/29/02)(AP, 9/2/02)
2002 Dec 23, In central Iran a
Ukrainian An-140 aircraft, carrying Ukrainian and Russian aerospace
scientists from Turkey, flew into a mountainside while preparing to
land killing all 46 people on board. Airport officials said pilot
"carelessness" caused the plane to crash.
(AP, 12/24/02)
2003 Jan 8, In Charlotte, NC, a US
Airways Express Beech 1900 turboprop crashed on takeoff and all 21
aboard were killed.
(SFC, 1/9/03, p.A3)
2003 Jan 8, In Turkey the pilot of
the British Aerospace RJ-100 missed the runway because of heavy fog in
the southeastern city of Diayarbakir. 75 people were killed with 5
survivors.
(AP, 1/9/03)(WSJ, 1/9/03, p.A1)
2003 Jan 9, A Peruvian airliner
carrying 46 people, including eight children, disappeared amid
cloud-covered mountains in the Amazon jungle. On Jan 11 rescue workers
found the wreckage of TANS Airlines Flight 222, a Fokker 28 near the
jungle town of Chachapoyas. There were no survivors.
(AP, 1/9/03)(AP, 1/11/03)
2003 Jan 9, In southeastern Turkey
2 Turkish F-4 warplanes collided in heavy fog during a training flight
killing the four crew members.
(AP, 1/9/03)y
2003 Feb 19, An Iranian
military plane carrying 275 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards
crashed in southeastern Iran, killing all on board.
(WSJ, 2/20/03, p.A1)(AP, 2/19/08)
2003 Mar 6, An Air Algerie
Boeing 737 jet crashed killing 102 passengers and crew in the southern
Algerian province of Tamanrasset. At least 1 person survived.
(AP, 3/6/03)(SFC, 3/7/03, p.A14)
2003 May 26, An airplane carrying
Spanish peacekeepers crashed into a mountain in northeastern Turkey
while making its third attempt to land in thick fog. All 74 people
aboard were killed. The Yak-42 was chartered from a Ukrainian company.
(AP, 5/26/03)(WSJ, 5/27/03, p.A1)
2003 Jul 8, A Sudanese airliner
crashed minutes after its captain reported technical problems following
takeoff, killing 116 people. The only survivor was a 2-year-old boy.
(AP, 7/8/03)
2003 Dec 25, A passenger plane
bound for Beirut crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from the
west African nation of Benin and at least 138 people, mostly Lebanese,
were killed. Some 35 people survived.
(AP, 12/25/03)(SFC, 12/26/03, p.A3)(AP, 12/27/03)
2003 Dec 26, Kelvin Stark, a new
Zealand pilot, was killed while flying a new PAC 750XL airplane to
California. The 17-passenger plane was billed as the 1st passenger
aircraft built in New Zealand and was specially designed for skydiving.
(SFC, 12/27/03, p.A15)
2004 Jan 13, In Tashkent,
Uzbekistan, a domestic airliner crashed on approach to the airport. At
least 36 people, including the top U.N. official for Uzbekistan, were
aboard and no survivors were reported.
(AP, 1/13/04)
2004 Jan 17, A Cessna 208 regional
plane carrying hunters went down in Lake Erie about one mile west of
Pelee Island, Canada. All 9 aboard were killed.
(AP, 1/18/04)(WSJ, 1/19/04, p.A1)
2004 Jan 30, A 25-30 seat
passenger plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Lagos, Nigeria.
(AP, 1/30/04)
2004 Mar 11, In San Diego 4
Marines were killed when their small UC-35 jet crashed on landing at
Air Station Miramar.
(SFC, 3/12/04, p.B3)
2004 May 14, A Brazilian domestic
airliner crashed near the Amazon city of Manaus, killing all 30
passengers and three crew members.
(AP, 5/15/04)
2004 Aug 21, A military plane
crashed into a mountain in central Venezuela, killing 25 people,
including five children.
(AP, 8/22/04)
2004 Aug 24, A Russian airliner
crashed and a second disappeared from radar about the same time night
after both planes took off from the same Moscow airport, raising fears
that terrorism was involved. A distress signal was activated on the
second plane. All 89 passengers and crew were killed, 46 aboard a
TU-154 and 43 aboard a TU-134.
(AP, 8/25/04)(SFC, 8/25/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 30, A Lion Air MD-82
passenger plane from Jakarta carrying nearly 150 people skidded off a
runway in Solo, Indonesia, and split into two pieces killing at least
31 people.
(AP, 11/30/04)(SFC, 12/1/04, p.A3)
2005 Feb 3, An Afghan passenger
jet carrying 104 people disappeared from radar screens during a
snowstorm near the mountain-ringed capital. NATO helicopters found the
wreckage of 2 days later. There were no survivors.
(AP, 2/4/05)(AP, 2/5/05)
2005 Mar 16, A Russian turboprop
airliner carrying at least 52 people crashed and caught fire while
trying to land near an oil port along the Arctic coast, and at least 29
people were killed.
(AP, 3/16/05)
2005 May 23, A Russian-made plane
crashed shortly after takeoff near Bunyakiri, Congo, killing 26 people.
(AP, 5/23/06)
2005 Aug 2, An Air France jet
skidded off a Toronto runway and burst into flames, prompting 309
passengers and crew to slide down escape chutes.
(AP, 8/3/05)
2005 Aug 6, A Tunis Air jet
carrying 35 passengers went down in the sea off the Sicilian coast, and
rescuers were on their way. 16 people were killed, while 23 survived. A
bad fuel gauge on the Tuninter plane caused the crash. On March 23,
2009, the Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency
measures before crash-landing his plane, was sentenced to 10 years in
jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot. Another five
employees of Tuninter, a subsidiary of Tunisair, were sentenced to
between 8 and 9 years in jail.
(AP, 8/5/05)(AP, 8/7/05)(WSJ, 9/8/05, p.A1)(Reuters,
3/24/09)
2005 Aug 14, A Cypriot airliner,
Helios Air 737, crashed into a hill north of Athens, killing all 121
people on board. An inquiry in 2006 ruled pilots erred in setting
pressurization controls.
(AP, 8/14/05)(WSJ, 10/11/06, p.A1)
2005 Aug 16, A chartered jet
filled with tourists returning home from Panama to the French Caribbean
island of Martinique crashed in western Venezuela, killing all 160
people on board. The pilot had been attempting an emergency landing
after both engines failed.
(AP, 8/16/05)(WSJ, 8/17/05, p.A1)
2005 Aug 23, TANS Peru Flight 204,
a Boeing 737-200 with 100 people on board, split in two after an
emergency landing during a fierce storm, killing at least 41 people.
The pilot tried to land in a marsh to soften the impact but the landing
split the aircraft in two. The plane was enroute from Lima to Pucallpa
and landed 20 miles from Pucallpa.
(AP, 8/24/05)
2005 Sep 5, In Indonesia a
domestic jetliner slammed into a crowded neighborhood after taking off
from Medan, bursting into flames and killing at 143 people including 44
on the ground. 18 passengers survived the crash, including an
18-month-old boy.
(AP, 9/6/05)(AP, 9/5/06)
2005 Dec 6, A C-130 Iranian
military transport plane crashed into a 10-story apartment building as
it was trying to make an emergency landing, ripping open the top of the
structure and igniting a huge fire. At least 115 people were killed
including 21 on the ground in the Azadi suburb of Tehran.
(AP, 12/06/05)(SFC, 12/7/05, p.A3)
2005 Dec 10, Nigeria’s Sosoliso
Airlines Flight 1145 carrying 110 passengers crashed while landing
during a storm in the southern city of Port Harcourt. Some 107 people
were killed including 71 children. The runway lights were off because
the airport had not bought a generator.
(AP, 12/10/05)(AFP, 12/12/05)(WSJ, 10/1/07, p.A1)
2005 Dec 19, In Florida a
58-year-old propeller seaplane, owned by Chalk’s Ocean Airways, crashed
in the water off Miami Beach after taking off for Bimini in the
Bahamas. 20 people were killed. Federal investigators found
longstanding cracks in a wing that fell off.
(AP, 12/20/05)(SFC, 12/20/05, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/22/05,
p.A1)
2006 Feb 11, In southern Sudan a
military transport plane blew a tire while landing at Aweil, swerved
off the runway and exploded, killing all 20 people on board.
(AP, 2/12/06)
2006 May 3, An Armenian Airbus
A-320 crashed in stormy weather off Russia's Black Sea coast while
readying to land at the Sochi resort, killing all 113 people on board,
most of them Armenians.
(AP, 5/3/06)(WSJ, 5/3/06, p.A1)
2006 Jul 9, A Russian Airbus 310
passenger plane skidded off a rain-slicked Siberian runway and plowed
through a concrete barrier, bursting into flames. At least 125 of 203
people on board were killed.
(AP, 7/9/06)(AP, 7/9/07)
2006 Aug 22, A Russian passenger
jet with at least 170 people aboard crashed in Ukraine after sending a
distress signal. The Pulkovo airlines Tupolev 154, en route from the
Russian Black Sea resort of Anapa to St. Petersburg, crashed near the
Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
(AP, 8/22/06)
2006 Sep 1, In northeastern Iran a
Russian-made Tupolev 154 airplane with 148 people on board skidded off
the runway and caught fire, killing 29 people.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 29, A Brazilian jetliner,
Gol airlines Flight 1907, with 155 people aboard crashed in the Amazon
jungle after reportedly colliding with a smaller executive jet carrying
16 passengers. The Legacy jet stabilized after the apparent collision
and then landed at a Brazilian air force base in the Amazon state of
Para. It was later reported that the US executive jet was at the wrong
altitude and Brazil confiscated the passports of the pilots. In
November it was reported that the flight recorder transcript from the
executive jet involved in the air disaster showed that the jet's
American pilots were told by Brazilian air traffic control to fly at
the same altitude as a Boeing 737 before the planes collided over the
Amazon rainforest. Pilots Joseph Lepore (42), of Bay Shore, N.Y., and
Jan Paladino (34), of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., were allowed to return
to the US on Dec 8 after signing a document promising to return to
Brazil for their trial or when required by local authorities.
(AP, 9/30/06)(AP, 10/1/06)(WSJ, 10/5/06, p.A1)(AP,
11/2/06)
2006 Nov 26, David Hermance (59),
a US engineer for Toyota, was killed when his experimental plane, a
Interavia E-3, crashed off San Pedro near Los Angeles, Ca. Hermance’s
job had been to take technology developed in Japan, as in the Prius
hybrid, and bring it to the US.
(SFC, 11/27/06, p.A5)
2007 Jan 1, Flight KI-574, an
Indonesian passenger plane carrying 102 people, disappeared in stormy
weather off Sulawesi island. Rescue teams were sent to search in the
area where the Boeing 737-400 sent out a distress signal. In 2008
investigators said the pilots had accidentally disconnecting the
plane's autopilot. A speed boat capsized in poor weather off the coast
of Borneo island, killing 15 people.
(AP, 1/1/07)(AP, 1/2/07)(AFP, 3/25/08)
2007 Jan 9, Iraqi and US soldiers,
backed by American warplanes, battled suspected insurgents for hours in
central Baghdad, and 50 militant fighters were killed. A cargo plane
carrying Turkish construction workers crashed during landing at an
airport near Baghdad, killing 32 people and injuring two.
(AP, 1/9/07)
2007 Mar 17, A Russian airliner
crash landed in the central Russian city of Samara, killing seven
people and injuring 23.
(AP, 3/17/07)
2007 Apr 21, A US Navy Blue Angel
jet went down during an air show in South Carolina, plunging into a
neighborhood of small homes and trailers and killing the pilot.
(AP, 4/22/07)
2007 May 5, A Kenya Airways jet
with 114 people on board crashed after sending out a distress signal
over a remote rainforest in southern Cameroon. The Boeing 737-800 was
carrying 114 people, including 105 passengers, from 23 countries. There
were no survivors.
(AP, 5/5/07)(AP, 5/7/07)
2007 Jun 4, A small plane from
Milwaukee carrying a six-member organ transplant team and their cargo
of donor organs to Michigan crashed in Lake Michigan with no survivors.
(AP, 6/5/07)
2007 Jun 25, A charter plane
carrying 22 people between two popular Cambodian tourist destinations
crashed in a mountainous region in the south of the country.
(AP, 6/25/07)
2007 Jul 10, In Florida a small
plane trying to make an emergency landing crashed into a suburban
Orlando neighborhood, killing both people aboard and starting two house
fires that seriously burned two adults and a 10-year-old boy.
(AP, 7/10/07)
2007 Jul 17, In Sao Paulo, Brazil,
a TAM airlines Airbus-320 slammed into a gas station and a TAM building
and burst into flames after trying to land on a short, rain-slicked
runway at Congonhas airport. All 187 people aboard were killed along
with 12 on the ground.
(AP, 7/18/07)(AP, 7/17/08)
2007 Jul 29, A 43-year-old Russian
cargo plane crashed minutes after taking off from a Moscow airport,
killing all seven crew on board.
(AP, 7/29/07)
2007 Aug 2, In Washington state a
helicopter with four people aboard crashed and burst into flames on the
east slopes of the Cascade Range, starting a wildfire. By the next day
it spread through dry timber to cover 300 to 400 acres.
(AP, 8/3/07)
2007 Aug 5, A medical plane left
the Ruidoso Regional Airport on a flight to University of New Mexico
Hospital, and crashed almost immediately in Devil's Canyon in the
Lincoln National Forest. 5 people were killed including a 15-month-old
patient and her mother.
(AP, 8/7/07)
2007 Aug 9, A small airplane
plunged into the sea moments after taking off from the French
Polynesian resort island of Moorea, apparently killing all 20 people
aboard in the territory's worst-ever plane crash.
(AP, 8/10/07)
2007 Aug 20, In Okinawa, Japan,
passengers used emergency slides to evacuate a China Airlines Boeing
737-800 just minutes before the plane burst into a fireball on the
tarmac. All 165 people aboard escaped unhurt, including the pilot, who
jumped from the cockpit at the last second.
(AP, 8/20/07)(AP, 8/20/08)
2007 Sep 16, In Thailand a
One-Two-Go Airlines passenger plane filled with foreign tourists
crashed as it tried to land in pouring rain on the island of Phuket,
splitting in two and bursting into flames. 89 people were killed.
(AP, 9/17/07)(AP, 9/16/08)
2007 Oct 4, In Congo a cargo plane
crashed in a residential neighborhood near the main airport in
Kinshasa, plowing into homes and killing at least 52 people. The next
day Congolese President Joseph Kabila sacked Transport Minister Remy
Henri Kuseyo Gatanga.
(AP, 10/4/07)(Reuters, 10/5/07)
2007 Oct 7, A Cessna 208 Grand
Caravan crashed in the Cascade Mountains after it left Star, Idaho,
near Boise, en route to Shelton, Wash., northwest of Olympia. 9
skydivers and the pilot were killed. Searchers found the wreckage the
next day.
(AP, 10/9/07)
2007 Oct 8, In Colombia a plane
carrying 15 soldiers and three civilians disappeared. The wreckage was
spotted Oct 11 high in the Andes and the armed forces chief said there
was no chance of survivors.
(AP, 10/11/07)
2007 Nov 30, In southwest Turkey
an Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before it was due
to land, killing all 57 people on board.
(AP, 11/30/07)
2007 Dec 25, In Panama the bodies
of Michael Klein (37), a California hedge fund manager, his daughter
Talia Klein (13) and pilot Edwin Lasso (23) were found in an
uninhabited region known as Las Ovejas on the slope of the Baru
volcano. Francesca Lewis (12) survived the Dec 23 crash, but cold, wet
weather prevented authorities from evacuating her immediately.
(AP, 12/26/07)(SFC, 12/26/07, p.A4)
2008 Jan 4, A private plane
carrying 14 people crashed into the sea after taking off from
Venezuela's Los Roques islands.
(AP, 1/5/08)
2008 Jan 20, In southern
California The two small Cessnas crashed near the small Corona
Municipal Airport, killing five and raining debris and bodies down on
car dealership parking lots.
(AP, 1/21/08)
2008 Feb 17, In New Zealand 3
people were killed after a light plane and a helicopter collided in
mid-air in the coastal settlement of Paraparaumu.
(AP, 2/17/08)
2008 Mar 15, In Nigeria a Wings
Airline 19-seater aircraft went missing shortly after leaving Lagos for
the Obudu Cattle Ranch in Cross River state. On Aug 30 hunters found
the wreckage of the plane and the bodies of its three crew members.
(AFP, 9/3/08)
2008 Apr 3, In Suriname a
twin-engine Antonov-AN28, operated by Surinamese carrier Blue Wing
airlines, crashed on approach to an airstrip in the Benzdorp mining
region, near the country's border with French Guiana. All 19 aboard
were killed. Blue Wing, which has operated since 2002, was barred from
landing at European airports in June 2006 after French aviation
officials found safety deficiencies during an inspection of planes. The
airline was removed from the blacklist in 2007 after a commission said
the company had resolved the issues.
(AP, 4/4/08)
2008 Apr 8, In Vietnam a small
military plane crashed near Hanoi, killing all five aboard.
(AP, 4/8/08)
2008 Apr 11, In Moldova a
Sudanese-owned transport plane laden with fuel crashed shortly after
takeoff from an airport near the capital and burst into flames, killing
all 8 people on board.
(AP, 4/12/08)
2008 Apr 15, In eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo at least 44 people were killed and up tot 100 injured
when a passenger plane crashed onto a market district after taking-off
at Goma.
(Reuters, 4/16/08)(WSJ, 4/18/08, p.A1)
2008 Apr 16, A military plane
belonging to Equatorial Guinea crashed off its coast with at least 13
people on board. There are no survivors.
(AP, 4/18/08)
2008 Apr 28, A Ukrainian
helicopter crashed onto an offshore drilling platform in the Black Sea,
killing all 20 people on board.
(Reuters, 4/28/08)
2008 May 13, In Canada a
helicopter with three people on board appeared to hover as if looking
for a landing spot before it crashed onto a street and burst into
flames in Cranbrook, British Columbia. A pedestrian Kenyan exchange
student, was killed along with the 3 in the helicopter.
(Reuters, 5/14/08)
2008 May 24, In California a tour
helicopter crashed on Santa Catalina Island killing 3 people and
injuring 3 others.
(SSFC, 5/25/08, p.A6)
2008 May 26, A Russian an An-12
cargo plane crashed near Chelyabinsk, Siberia, killing all 9 people
onboard.
(SFC, 5/27/08, p.A3)
2008 May 29, Chile's national
police chief and 10 other people were killed when the aging Panamanian
government helicopter they were riding in crashed into a three-story
building in the heart of Panama City.
(AP, 5/30/08)
2008 May 30, In Honduras a Grupo
Taca Airbus A320 overshot a runway and raced onto a busy street in
Tegucigalpa, killing the pilot, two passengers and a motorist on the
ground. At least 65 people were injured.
(AP, 5/31/08)
2008 Jun 10, A Sudan Airways plane
carrying 214 people veered off a runway and burst into flames after
landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing at least 29 people.
(AP, 6/11/08)(SFC, 6/11/08, p.A2)
2008 Jun 11, A plane carrying 10
people that disappeared four days ago in Chile's frigid southern
forests was found with nine survivors who stayed alive by huddling for
warmth, sharing food and sheltering in the plane's wreckage. The only
fatality was the pilot Nelson Bahamondes (65). The plane had
disappeared June 7 after taking off the Chilean city of Puerto Montt en
route to La Junta.
(AP, 6/11/08)
2008 Jun 19, In central Bosnia a
helicopter carrying two Spanish pilots of the EU peace force and two
German officers crashed, but it was not clear if there were any
casualties.
(AP, 6/19/08)
2008 Jun 26, In Indonesia a 1984
Casa-212 plane disappeared during an aerial surveillance mission about
60 miles south of the capital, Jakarta. All 18 aboard were killed.
(AP, 6/27/08)(AP, 6/28/08)
2008 Jun 27, In Guatemala a
helicopter crash killed Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez and three
other people.
(AP, 6/28/08)
2008 Jun 27, In Sudan a small
cargo plane crashed mid-flight, killing seven crew members, including
five foreigners, in the third fatal aviation accident to blight the
African country in the past two months. There was one survivor.
(AFP, 6/28/08)(AP, 6/28/08)
2008 Jun 27, In Sudan a small
cargo plane crashed mid-flight, killing 7 crew members, including 5
foreigners, in the third fatal aviation accident to blight the African
country in the past two months. There was one survivor. Gunmen killed a
Ugandan driver contracted to deliver aid for the World Food Program in
Sudan, in the 7th such killing in the country in three months.
(AFP, 6/28/08)(AP, 6/28/08)(AFP, 6/29/08)
2008 Jun 28, A small plane crashed
outside Las Vegas killing 4 residents of Oakley, Ca.
(SFC, 6/30/08, p.B1)
2008 Jun 29, A helicopter ferrying
a patient with a medical emergency from the Grand Canyon collided into
another chopper carrying a patient near a northern Arizona hospital,
leaving six people dead and critically injuring a nurse.
(AP, 6/30/08)
2008 Jun 30, In Sudan a cargo
plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Khartoum's airport, killing
all four Russian crew members aboard. The plane hit an electricity pole
shortly after takeoff and then crashed into an empty field.
(AP, 6/30/08)
2008 Jul 6, In northern Mexico a
plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed s it was trying to land,
killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot.
(AP, 7/6/08)
2008 Jul 20, In central Bolivia a
Venezuelan military helicopter often used to transport Bolivian
President Evo Morales crashed. Four Venezuelan military personnel and a
Bolivian officer were reported killed.
(AP, 7/21/08)
2008 Jul 21, A US B-52 bomber that
was due to fly in a Liberation Day parade in the US territory of Guam
crashed into the Pacific Ocean soon after take-off. All of the bomber's
six-man crew were killed.
(AFP, 7/21/08)(AP, 7/23/08)
2008 Jul 31, A small jet crashed
while preparing to land at Degner Regional Airport in Minnesota killing
8 people including several casino and construction executives.
(WSJ, 7/31/08, p.A2)
2008 Aug 3, In Gearhart, Oregon, a
small plane crashed into a seaside house killing 2 people aboard and 2
children in the vacation home.
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.A3)
2008 Aug 3, In Canada a small
plane crashed on Vancouver Island. Two survivors were pulled from the
wreckage but five other people on the aircraft died.
(Reuters, 8/4/08)
2008 Aug 17, Two small planes
collided in midair and crashed near Coventry in central England,
killing five people.
(AP, 8/17/08)
2008 Aug 20, A Spanair MD-82 bound
for the Canary Islands caught fire while trying to make an emergency
landing just after departing from Madrid airport leaving 153 people
dead. This was the nation's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years. The
toll rose to 154 on Aug 23.
(AP, 8/20/08)(AP, 8/21/08)(Reuters, 8/23/08)
2008 Aug 22, In North Las Vegas,
Nevada, an experimental aircraft crashed into a house killing the pilot
of the Velocity 173 RG and 2 people in the home.
(SFC, 8/23/08, p.A4)
2008 Aug 23, In Utah a small plane
crashed and burned shortly after takeoff from Canyonlands Field
airport. All 10 aboard, including 9 employees of a Cedar City
dermatology company, who traveled to remote areas to provide medical
treatments.
(SSFC, 8/24/08, p.A2)
2008 Aug 24, In Guatemala a Cessna
Caravan carrying humanitarian workers crashed about 60 miles east of
Guatemala City killing 10 people, including five Americans. At least 2
people survived. The plane was headed to a village in the area of El
Estor to build homes for CHOICE Humanitarian, a group based in West
Jordan, Utah.
(AP, 8/25/08)
2008 Aug 24, In Kyrgyzstan a
Boeing 737 passenger jet carrying 90 people to Iran crashed near
Bishkek’s Manas Int’l. Airport. At least 65 people were killed.
(AP, 8/24/08)
2008 Aug 25, A 41-year-old
Lockheed Martin C-130 military cargo plane crashed in the waters off
the southern Philippines. Two Philippine Air Force pilots and 7 crewmen
were feared dead.
(AFP, 8/26/08)
2008 Sep 1, In Nevada an air
tanker being used to drop retardant on a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada
crashed after taking off for its last flight of the day, killing all
three crew members.
(AP, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 1, In east Democratic
Republic of Congo a humanitarian plane carrying 17 passengers and crew
crashed into a mountain with no sign of survivors.
(Reuters, 9/2/08)
2008 Sep 3, A helicopter carrying
foreign contractors crashed into an oil platform off the coast of
Dubai, killing all seven people on board and halting production in one
of the emirate's four offshore oil fields.
(AP, 9/4/08)
2008 Sep 4, A US coast Guard
helicopter went down off Oahu, Ha., killing 4 crew members.
(SFC, 9/6/08, p.A3)
2008 Sep 10, In northern Israel a
military helicopter crashed at sundown and burst into flames killing
two crew members.
(AP, 9/10/08)
2008 Sep 14, In Western
Australia's 4 people died in a helicopter crash in the Bungle Bungle
National Park of the remote Kimberly region.
(AFP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 14, Aeroflot Flight 821,
traveling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm, crashed near
residential buildings as it was preparing to land, killing all 88
people aboard, including 21 foreign nationals. A Russian investigator
said the crash of the Boeing-737-500 was most likely caused by engine
failure.
(AP, 9/14/08)
2008 Sep 28, In Maryland a medical
helicopter crashed and killed 4 of 5 people on board.
(SFC, 9/29/08, p.A2)
2008 Oct 8, In Nepal a small
airplane crashed and caught fire as it tried to land in foggy weather
at a tiny mountain airport near Mount Everest, killing 18 people,
including 16 tourists from Germany, Australia and Nepal.
(AP, 10/8/08)
2008 Oct 23, An Italian military
helicopter crashed in northeastern France, killing all eight people on
board.
(AP, 10/23/08)
2008 Oct 24, In Paraguay a small
plane crashed shortly after takeoff in Asuncion, killing all five
people on board. The plane belonged to the private hospital Asismed and
was used to transport patients. Hospital President Miguel Figueredo
said the pilot had said he would be conducting a test flight, and did
not tell officials he would have passengers.
(AP, 10/24/08)
2008 Nov 2, In Guyana American
pilots James Barker and Chris Paris and Canadian technician Patrick
Murphy were doing uranium survey work for Prometheus Resources Guyana
Inc., a subsidiary of U308 Corporation of Toronto, Canada, when the
plane went missing.
(AP, 11/18/08)
2008 Nov 4, One of Mexico's top
pointmen in the war against drug trafficking died when a government jet
crashed into a Mexico City street, setting fire to dozens of vehicles.
The loss of Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, former anti-drug
prosecutor Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos and six others thinned the
ranks of Mexico's already embattled leadership. 9 people on the plane
were killed as well as 5 people on the ground. A 15th victim died 2
weeks later. A 16th victim died in On Dec 11. Three alleged hitmen
suspected in the killing of a top border-state police official died in
a gunbattle with police in Nogales. They were suspected of having
helped kill Sonora state police chief Juan Manuel Pavon on Nov 2. One
Sonora state police officer died in the shootout. A suspect in Pavon's
killing was taken into custody.
(AP, 11/5/08)(AP, 11/6/08)(AP, 11/18/08)(AP,
12/11/08)
2008 Nov 16, On Canada's Pacific
coast 7 people were killed and one was injured when the charter plane
they were flying in crashed on Thormanby Island.
(AP, 11/17/08)
2008 Nov 27, An Airbus A320
passenger plane crashed off France's southern coast during a
maintenance flight, killing 3 people and leaving the 4 others on board
missing.
(AP, 11/28/08)(AP, 12/1/08)
2008 Dec 3, In Puerto Rico a
Rockwell International 690B plane slammed into El Yunque mountain,
killing Caribbean pilot Ken Webster and two US tourists on board. A
spokesman for the Medical Mutual of Ohio health insurance company later
identified the two Americans as Kent W. Clapp, the firm's chief
executive, and his fiancee, Tracy Turner.
(AP, 12/5/08)
2008 Dec 7, A Mexican government
Learjet plunged into Atlangatepec lake in central Mexico, killing two
pilots in the second deadly crash in a month involving a federally
owned plane.
(AP, 12/8/08)
2008 Dec 8, In San Diego The
F/A-18D Hornet crashed into a street about two miles from Marine Corps
Air Station Miramar as the pilot was returning from a training flight.
3 people, a mother, her baby and a grandmother, were killed in one
house. Two homes were destroyed and a fourth person, believed to be a
small child, had not been found.
(AP, 12/9/08)(WSJ, 12/9/08, p.A1)
2008 Dec 15, A plane from the
Dominican Rep. went missing near the Turks and Caicos Islands that
reportedly had 12 people, including 11 migrant workers, on board.
Several days after the disappearance, Dominican authorities said
Adriano Jimenez, the pilot, was allowed to take off even though he had
only a US student pilot's license.
(AP, 12/16/08)(AP, 12/17/08)(AP, 12/16/09)
2008 Dec 17, Two Australian women
were killed when their light aircraft slammed into a suburban house in
Sydney after a mid-air collision between two flying school planes.
(AFP, 12/18/08)
2008 Dec 19, In northern Mexico a
small plane carrying government officials and television reporters
crashed in northern Mexico and all five people on board are in serious
condition. The plane was carrying state water commission chief Rafael
Reyes, his assistant and two TV Azteca reporters. They were
hospitalized along with the pilot.
(AP, 12/20/08)
2009 Jan 2, In Britain 2 people
were feared dead after a light aircraft crashed into a major railway
line, causing severe disruption to train services between Rugeley and
Stafford.
(AFP, 1/2/09)
2009 Jan 4, In Louisiana 8 people
were killed when a PHI Inc. helicopter, bound for offshore oil fields,
crashed about 100 miles southwest of New Orleans.
(SFC, 1/5/09, p.A3)
2009 Jan 9, A Russian helicopter
owned by the state gas giant Gazprom crashed while on a hunting trip in
the mountains of Western Siberia, killing eight aboard. 3 people
survived. The crash involved government officials on an illegal hunt.
(AP, 1/11/09)(WSJ, 4/28/09, p.A8)
2009 Jan 11, Marcus Schrenker's
plane went down en route to Destin, Fla., from Anderson, Ind. Schrenker
(38), an investment manager, had reported that the windshield imploded
and that he was bleeding profusely. Federal marshals believe he faked a
distress call before parachuting from his plane over Alabama and
disappearing on a motorcycle he had stashed in advance.
(AP, 1/13/09)
2009 Jan 15, A US Airways Airbus
A320 jetliner, piloted by Chesley B. Sullenberger and bound for
Charlotte, NC, landed in the Hudson River after both engines failed
shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia and an encounter with a flock of
geese. All 155 people aboard Flight 1549 survived.
(AP, 1/16/09)(WSJ, 1/16/09, p.A3)
2009 Jan 15, In western
Afghanistan Gen. Fazaludin Sayar, a top Afghan army general, was killed
in a helicopter crash. All 12 others aboard were also killed.
(AP, 1/15/09)
2009 Jan 17, A helicopter carrying
10 French soldiers crashed off the coast of Gabon in central Africa. At
least 2 survived and 2 were killed as rescuers searched for 6 missing.
(AP, 1/17/09)
2009 Jan 26, In northern Iraq 2 US
helicopters crashed in Tamim province, killing four American troops, in
the deadliest single incident for US forces in more than four months.
Enemy fire was later reported as the cause of the collision.
(AP, 1/26/09)(WSJ, 2/28/09, p.A1)
2009 Jan 30, In West Virginia a
small plane crashed in snowy weather killing all six on board.
(SSFC, 2/1/09, p.A8)
2009 Feb 3, A Russian military
Mi-24 helicopter gunship crashed about 700 kilometers (450 miles)
southeast of Moscow, killing all three people aboard.
(AP, 2/3/09)
2009 Feb 7, In Brazil 4 people at
the rear of a plane that crashed in a muddy Amazon river managed to
open an emergency door and swim to safety as the aircraft sank,
dragging 24 others to their death.
(AP, 2/8/09)
2009 Feb 8, A single-engine plane
carrying six US citizens crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the north
coast of Puerto Rico.
(AP, 2/9/09)
2009 Feb 12, A commuter plane,
Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, N.J., coming in for a
landing nose-dived into a house in suburban Buffalo, sparking a fiery
explosion that killed all 49 people aboard and a person in the home. It
was the nation's first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in 2 1/2
years. Historian Alison Des Forges (66), prominent human rights
advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda, was among the victims of
the crash.
(AP, 2/13/09)(AP, 2/13/09)
2009 Feb 20, In Egypt 5 crew
members died when a Ukrainian cargo plane crashed during takeoff, burst
into flames and slid down the runway in the city of Luxor.
(AP, 2/20/09)
2009 Feb 25, A Turkish Airlines
plane with 135 people aboard slammed into a muddy field while
attempting to land at Amsterdam's main airport. Nine people were killed
and more than 50 were injured, many in serious condition.
(AP, 2/25/09)
2009 Mar 9, In Uganda a cargo
plane carrying equipment for African Union peacekeepers in Somalia
caught fire and crashed into Uganda's Lake Victoria shortly after
takeoff, killing all 11 people on board.
(AP, 3/9/09)
2009 Mar 12, In Canada 17 people
were missing in the frigid waters off Canada's Atlantic coast after a
helicopter crashed while ferrying workers to an offshore oil platform.
It went down about 47 nautical miles southeast of the Newfoundland and
Labrador capital of St. John's.
(Reuters, 3/12/09)
2009 Mar 19, In Quito, Ecuador, a
small army plane crashed into an apartment building, killing seven
people and sending a fireball into the evening sky. The dead included 3
soldiers, the pilot’s wife and son and 2 people on the ground.
(AP, 3/20/09)
2009 Mar 22, In Montana a
single-engine turboprop airplane crashed just short of Butte’s Bert
Mooney Airport, killing all 14 people aboard, including 7 children. The
aircraft had departed from Oroville, Calif., and the pilot had filed a
flight plan showing a destination of Bozeman.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 23, In Japan an MD-11
aircraft operated by FedEx crashed at Tokyo's main international
airport, killing its two-member crew. Though largely retired from
passenger use for economic reasons, the MD-11 aircraft is still
employed for cargo transport.
(AP, 3/23/09)
2009 Mar 25, One of the US Air
Force's top-of-the-line F-22 fighter jets crashed in the high desert of
Southern California, killing test pilot David Cooley (49), an employee
of prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
(AP, 3/26/09)(WSJ, 3/26/09, p.A5)
2009 Mar 25, An Ecuadorean air
force training jet crashed in a jungle area near the Colombian border.
The pilot and a member of the air force rescue team were killed when a
cable snapped as they were being lifted to a helicopter.
(AP, 3/25/09)
2009 Mar 25, In Turkey a
helicopter crashed in the snow-covered mountains of central Turkey.
Muhsin Yazicioglu, leader of the small conservative Great Unity Party,
was one of six people on board. Authorities the next day released a
recording of an emergency call made after the crash by journalist
Ismail Gunes, who said he thought he was the only survivor.
(AP, 3/26/09)
2009 Apr 1, A helicopter returning
to Aberdeen with 16 people from an oil platform crashed in the North
Sea. The Bond Super Puma helicopter went down off the northeast coast
of Scotland. 8 bodies were recovered and the others were presumed dead.
7 bodies were later found inside the wreckage of the helicopter.
(AFP, 4/1/09)(AP, 4/2/09)(AP, 4/5/09)
2009 Apr 6, An Indonesian military
plane carrying 24 people crashed into an airport hangar during heavy
rains and burst into flames, killing everyone on board.
(AP, 4/6/09)
2009 Apr 29, A Boeing 737 on a
test flight from Brazzaville crashed southeast of Kinshasa, killing 7
people.
(AP, 4/30/09)
2009 May 3, Sixteen Venezuelan
soldiers and a civilian were killed when a military helicopter crashed
near the Colombian border. A brigadier general was among those killed.
(AP, 5/3/09)
2009 May 5, A Marine Corps
helicopter crashed shortly before midnight in a remote area of Southern
California, killing the two people who were on board.
(AP, 5/6/09)
2009 May 14, A small plane crashed
into a yard in Guatemala City, reportedly killing six people on board
and setting a home on fire near the airport.
(AP, 5/15/09)
2009 May 20, An Indonesian C-130
Hercules military transport plane, carrying troops and their families,
crashed into a row of houses in East Java and burst into flames,
killing 99 people.
(AP, 5/20/09)
2009 May 22, In Brazil a
twin-engine plane crashed near a private airport in a northeastern
coastal resort area, killing all 11 people aboard.
(AP, 5/23/09)
2009 May 31, A missing Air France
Airbus A330 jet, Flight 447, carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to
Paris ran into lightning and strong thunderstorms over the Atlantic
Ocean. Brazil soon began a search mission off its northeastern coast.
(AP, 6/1/09)
2009 Jun 2, An airplane seat, a
life jacket, metallic debris and signs of fuel were found in the middle
of the Atlantic Ocean by Brazilian military pilots searching for a
missing Air France airliner Flight 447.
(AP, 6/2/09)
2009 Jun 6, Brazilian search crews
retrieved the first 2 bodies in the Atlantic from the May 31 crash of
Air France Flight 447. Investigators said faulty speed readings had
been found on the same type of jets.
(Reuters, 6/6/09)
2009 Jun 7, Brazilian and French
ships recovered 14 more bodies from ocean near Air France crash,
bringing the total to 16.
(AP, 6/7/09)(SFC, 6/8/09, p.A3)
2009 Jun 8, Brazilian and French
ships recovered 8 more bodies from Air France Flight 447, bringing the
total recovered to 24. The tail section of the plane was also
recovered. The plane disappeared during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to
Paris on May 31 amid strong thunderstorms.
(AP, 6/9/09)(SFC, 6/9/09, p.A3)
2009 Jun 9, In New Mexico a
helicopter crashed while attempting to rescue Megumi Yamamoto, a
Japanese graduate student who was hiking in the mountains above Santa
Fe. Police Sgt Andy Tingwall and Yamamoto died in the crash.
(SFC, 6/15/09, p.A6)
2009 Jun 9, An Indian air force
transport plane crashed near the disputed Chinese border in the
mountains of northeast Arunachal Pradesh state. All 14 on board were
killed.
(Reuters, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 10, The French nuclear
submarine Emeraude reached the crash zone of Air France Flight 447
where 41 of 228 bodies have been recovered.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Jun 12, A Brazilian ship
recovered three more bodies from the Atlantic bringing the total to 44.
Searchers said weather and currents complicated their job and warned it
is unlikely that all the dead from Air France Flight 447 will be found.
(AP, 6/12/09)
2009 Jun 13, Brazil reported that
a French ship had found six more bodies from Air France Flight 447,
which would bring the total to 50. It went down May 31 with 228 on
board.
(AP, 6/13/09)
2009 Jun 22, US pilot Capt. George
B. Houghton (28), of Candler, NC, died in an F-16 crash at the Utah
Test and Training Range near the Nevada-Utah state line.
(SFC, 6/24/09, p.A4)(SFC, 6/25/09, p.A5)
2009 Jun 24, In Arizona a private
plane crashed killing 4 people. The plane was returning to Texas from
California and carried over 12 pounds of marijuana and over $8,000 cash.
(SFC, 6/26/09, p.A5)
2009 Jun 30, A Yemenia Airbus 310
jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean as it tried
to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros. The
passengers were on the last leg of a journey from Paris and Marseilles
to Comoros with a stop in Yemen to change planes. Bahia Bakari (14),
the only person to survive, was plucked from the sea after clinging to
wreckage for 13 hours. Investigators on Aug 28 retrieved the slightly
damaged flight data recorder and 10 more bodies from the Yemenia
Airways flight. The voice recorder was recovered on Aug 29.
(AP, 6/30/09)(SFC, 7/2/09, p.A3)(AP, 8/29/09)
2009 Jul 2, A British RAF Tornado
fighter aircraft crashed in a remote area of Scotland.
(AFP, 7/2/09)
2009 Jul 15, In Iran a
Russian-made Caspian Airlines TU-154 jet plane carrying nearly 170
people crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran's Imam Khomeini
International Airport. It was headed to the Armenian capital Yerevan.
All on board were killed.
(AP, 7/15/09)
2009 Jul 19, In
southern Afghanistan a Russian-owned civilian Mi-8 helicopter crashed
and burst into flames shortly after takeoff from the Kandahar
NATO base, killing 16 civilians in the latest in a string of deadly
aircraft crashes in the country. Gunmen killed a candidate for
provincial council in Kunduz province as he was traveling to a campaign
event. The US military denounced the release of a video showing a
soldier captured in Afghanistan, describing the images as Taliban
propaganda that violated international law.
(AP, 7/19/09)(Reuters, 7/19/09)
2009 Jul 24, In Iran a Russian
Ilyushin-62 plane, operated by Tehran-based Aria Airlines and carrying
153 passengers and crew, skidded off the runway and hit a wall while
landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad. 13 of the 16 people killed
in the crash were members of the crew, 9 of them from Kazakhstan. The
plane landed at high speed and the tires failed.
(AP, 7/25/09)
2009 Aug 2, In eastern Indonesia a
plane carrying 16 people disappeared over a jungle-clad and mountainous
region of Papua. All aboard were killed.
(AP, 8/2/09)(AP, 8/5/09)
2009 Aug 4, In Thailand a
passenger plane skidded off the runway and crashed into a building
after landing on the Thai resort island of Samui, killing the chief
pilot and injuring at least seven people including foreign tourists.
(AP, 8/4/09)
2009 Aug 8, In New Jersey 9 people
died in an air collision over the Hudson River, including 3 members of
a Pennsylvania family in the private plane and five Italian tourists
and a pilot from New Jersey in a Liberty Tours helicopter.
(AP, 8/9/09)
2009 Aug 11, In Papua New Guinea a
charter plane carrying 13 people to a popular tourist site vanished on
approach in bad weather to an airport nestled in rugged terrain.
(AP, 8/11/09)
2009 Aug 16, Two Russian air force
fighters rehearsing acrobatic maneuvers collided near Moscow, killing
one pilot and sending the jets crashing into nearby vacation homes.
(AP, 8/16/09)
2009 Aug 20, In Colorado a Black
Hawk helicopter crashed during training on Mount Massive, the state’s
2nd highest mountain. 4 soldiers were killed in the crash.
(SFC, 8/21/09, p.A8)
2009 Aug 22, Vicki Cruse (40) from
Santa Paula, Calif., died in an accident during the World Aerobatic
Championships at Britain's Silverstone motor racing circuit. She was a
former member of the US national aerobatics team and was the first
woman to qualify to race in her class at the Reno National Championship
Air Races.
(AP, 8/22/09)
2009 Aug 26, In the Republic of
Congo 7 people, including five Russian crew members, were killed when a
cargo plane crashed on the outskirts of Brazzaville.
(AFP, 8/26/09)
2009 Sep 2, In India a helicopter
carrying Y.S.R. Reddy (60), a powerful politician from southern Andhra
Pradesh state, disappeared in heavy rains as it flew over a forested
region largely controlled by Maoist rebels. Wreckage and the bodies of
all 5 aboard were found the next day.
(AP, 9/2/09)(AP, 9/3/09)
2009 Sep 5, A small airplane
crashed into a Tulsa, Okla., park killing all 5 people on board.
(SSFC, 9/6/09, p.A7)
2009 Sep 7, A small Indonesian
military plane crashed on Borneo with nine passengers and crew aboard,
killing four.
(AP, 9/7/09)
2009 Sep 22, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said that Iran is stronger than ever and warned that its
military will "cut the hand" of anyone who attacks. But a military
parade where he spoke was marred when an air force plane crashed,
killing seven people.
(AP, 9/22/09)
2009 Sep 24, Two French military
fighter Rafale jets crashed into the Mediterranean Sea during a
training mission and one pilot was missing.
(AP, 9/24/09)
2009 Sep 25, In South Carolina a
medical helicopter, which had just dropped off a patient in Charleston,
crashed near Georgetown killing the pilot, a flight nurse and a
paramedic.
(SSFC, 9/27/09, p.A8)
2009 Oct 10, In Louisiana 2 Cessna
150s, each carrying 2 people, collided near Pineville Regional Airport,
killing 2 and injuring 2.
(SSFC, 10/11/09, p.A6)
2009 Oct 14, A hot air balloon
crashed in a southern Chinese resort town with dramatic limestone
formations, killing four Dutch tourists.
(AP, 10/14/09)
2009 Oct 15, Two F-16 planes
collided around 8:30 p.m. about 40 miles off Folly Beach, near
Charleston, SC. One jet, piloted by Capt. Lee Bryant, landed safely at
Charleston Air Force Base. The missing plane was piloted by Capt.
Nicholas Giglio.
(AP, 10/16/09)
2009 Oct 17, In the Philippines a
propeller-driven plane on a test flight crashed and burst into flames
in a suburb of Manila, killing at least four people onboard.
(AP, 10/17/09)
2009 Oct 21, A Sudanese cargo
plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Sharjah International Airport
north of Dubai, killing the 6-member crew but causing no other
casualties on the ground.
(AP, 10/21/09)
2009 Oct 29, A US Coast Guard
airplane on a nighttime search for a boater collided with one of four
Marine Corps helicopters flying in formation to a military training
island off Southern California. All seven people aboard the Coast Guard
plane and the two-person crew of the Marine Corps AH-1W Super Cobra
helicopter were missing.
(AP, 10/30/09)
2009 Oct 29, In the US Virgin
Islands a small plane crashed into a field and burst into flames
shortly after taking off in St. Croix, killing all three people on
board.
(AP, 10/30/09)
2009 Oct 29, In Brazil a
single-prop Cessna Caravan plane went down on the Itui River in a
remote part of the Amazon rain forest. Members of the Matis Indian
tribe found the plane with 9 survivors of 11 on board.
(AP, 10/31/09)
2009 Nov 1, A Russian heavy-lift
military cargo plane crashed on takeoff in Siberia, killing all 11 crew
members on board.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2009 Nov 12, In Rwanda a passenger
plane with a recent history of technical problems crashed into an
airport VIP lounge Kigali, killing one passenger. The CRJ-100 aircraft
was leased from Kenya's Jetlink.
(AP, 11/13/09)
2009 Nov 14, In South Africa a
civilian pilot was killed when his fighter jet crashed shortly before
he was to participate in an air show near Bredasdorp, about 200 km west
of Cape Town.
(Reuters, 11/14/09)
2009 Nov 28, In China a
Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane crashed in flames during takeoff from
Shanghai's main airport, killing 3 American crew members and injuring 4
others on board.
(AP, 11/28/09)
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