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 | A light aircraft crashed near Broughton, U.K |  | 05/21/2008 | 367 | 



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 | The Swamp Ghost is a Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress piloted by Captain Frederick 'Fred' C. Eaton, Jr, that crashed in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War in 1942. The plane was rediscovered in 1972 in Agaiambo swamp, Oro Province. It was salvaged in 2006 and moved to Lae wharf where it lies waiting for permission to be transferred to the United States. |  | 03/19/2008 | 1,759 | 



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 | Pictures of the B-2 crash site at Andersen AFB, Guam show that the composite-body stealth bomber survived the Feb. 23 crash and subsequent fire largely intact. This picture was taken by an airline passenger (who asked not to be identified) as he flew past the base.
Update: Videolink for youtube added. |  | 03/14/2008 | 4,115 | 



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 | The Munich air disaster took place on 6 February 1958, when British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at the Munich-Riem airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the Busby Babes, along with a number of supporters and journalists. Twenty-three of the 44 passengers on board... |  | 02/05/2008 | 269 | 



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 | B-24J Liberator 42-52003 of the 27th Air Transport Group crashed on 11th October 1944. Parts of the wreckage still remain. Just oe of many aircraft lost in this area.... |  | 02/03/2008 | 634 | 



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 | Maybe the remains of the blue Su-27 involved in the Sknyliv Airshow Disaster on 28th July 2002. 84 people were killed and more than 100 injured. The pilot and co-pilot survived and were each sentenced to eight years imprisonment for negligence. (Source: airliners.net http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1312536/L/ ) |  | 01/24/2008 | 393 | 



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 | Date: 7 June 2004
Type: Antonov AN-26B Registration: ST-ARO
Serial: 10205
Operator: Ababeel Aviation
The aircraft overran the runway on landing, crossed an unpaved road and some ditches before coming to rest 250 meters beyond the runway. Nobody was injured but the aircraft is written off. |  | 01/23/2008 | 260 | 



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 | On 13.04.1945 12:58 1st Lt Shannon Eugene Estill took off in his P-38 Lightning from airfield Straßfeld near Euskirchen. Together with his comrades of the 428th Fighter Squadron they were tasked to find German tanks near Torgau and eliminate them.
Estill is a 22 year old pilot from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He had married his wife just before he left for Europe. In April he got a lette... |  | 01/03/2008 | 534 | 



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 | Surinam Airways Flight PY764 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname on a Surinam Airways DC-8. On June 7, 1989, the flight crashed during approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij, killing 176 of the 187 on-board, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history.
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 | Registration: N68055
Serial: 47809/191
About 0554 eastern daylight time, on September 5, 1996, a Douglas DC-10-10CF, N68055, operated by the Federal Express Corporation as flight 1406, made an emergency landing at Stewart International Airport, Newburgh, New York, after the flightcrew determined that there was smoke in the cabin cargo compartment. The flight was operating... |  | 12/04/2007 | 630 | 



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 | Date: 1993
Type: Antonov 26
Registration:
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Operator: Força Aérea Populular de Libertação de Moçambique
During final approach, the Antonov 26 missed the runway and landed in the grass next to the runway, killing at least 1 person, who squatted there (next to the runway, many displaced people were located at that time). |  | 11/30/2007 | 294 | 



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 | Date: 5 January 2001
Type: Boeing 727-46F
Registration: S9-BAI
Serial: 20078/686
Operator: Air Gemini Cargo
The cargo plane approached Dundo in favourable weather conditions. The airplane touched down just short of the runway. The right main landing gear collapsed after striking the raised lip of the runway. The Boeing 727 continued onto the runwa... |  | 11/28/2007 | 549 | 



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 | Date: 6 December 1994
Type: Antonov AN-8
Registration: D2-FVA
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Operator: Von Haaf Air
The pilot had some difficulties maintaining directional control during the take-off. At about VR (190km/h) the aircraft veered right onto rough ground, became airborne and struck power lines. |  | 11/28/2007 | 224 | 



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 | Date: 28 December 1999
Type: Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
Registration: S9-BOP
Serial: 4477
Operator: Transafrik
The aircraft could not be brought to a halt before the end of the 3000 feet runway. The Hercules overran the dirt runway and went into a 40 feet ravine. The aircraft was reportedly transporting diesel fuel in an internal mounted tank. |  | 11/28/2007 | 213 | 



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 | Date: 04 FEB 1999
Type: Antonov 26
Operator: Air-Angol Sociedad Aeronautica
Registration: EL-ANZ
C/n / msn: 13906
The Antonov overshot the runway on landing and burned out. |  | 11/28/2007 | 239 | 



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 | Date: 1 July 2005
Type: McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30ER
Registration: S2-ADN
Serial: 46542/295
Operator: Biman Bangladesh
The aircraft touched down on runway 23 but ran off the right side of the runway, into the grass. The right hand undercarriage collapsed and the plane sank a meter-deep into the mud, causing the severe damage to the right hand wing... |  | 11/24/2007 | 304 | 



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 | Date: 07 NOV 2004
Type: Boeing 747-230F (SCD)
Registration: TF-ARR
Serial: 23621/660
Operator: Air Atlanta Cargo
The aircraft was substantially damaged after overrunning runway 30 (4060 meters long). The aircraft had aborted the takeoff after passing the V1 speed and could not be brought to a halt on the runway. Reportedly, some tyres burst, the u... |  | 11/24/2007 | 514 | 



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 | Date: 14 August 1999
Type: Boeing 707-351C
Registration: ST-ANP
Serial: 19632/649
Operator: Trans Arabian Air Transport - TAAT
Landed long and fast with a 9 knots tailwind and overran runway 31 by 150m. |  | 11/23/2007 | 345 | 



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 | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-54F
Registration: EL-WVD
Serial: 45885/342
Operator: Cougar Cargo/Anova Airlines
The DC-8 cargo plane was being repositioned from Entebbe to Mwanza to collect 40 tons of frozen fish filets when it ran off the left side of the runway. The airplane was steered back onto the runway, but ground looped. |  | 11/23/2007 | 320 | 



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 | Boeing 707-351C
Registration: ST-APY
Serial: 19412/563
Operator: TAAT - Trans Arabian Air Transport
The aircraft was departed Khartoum for a flight to Mwanza where it was supposed to pick up a cargo of 38 tonnes of fish fillet from Vick Fish Processors for delivery in Europe. When it went dark en route to Mwanza, the radio altimeter integral light was found t... |  | 11/23/2007 | 183 | 



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 | Date: 7 April 1994
Type: Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
Registration: D2-THC
Serial: 4679
Operator: TAAG Angola Air Charter
The brakes were overheated while taxiing to another parking spot following landing. A fire broke out and spread. |  | 11/23/2007 | 188 | 



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 | Antonov AN-24RV
Registration: RA-46489
Serial: 27308107
Operator: Kuzbassaviafrakht
While approaching the airport of Varandey the crew allowed the airspeed to decay and the nose to rise until the airplane stalled. It contacted a small hill, crashed and burned.
Possible errors in the indications of the airspeed and angle-of-attack could have hindered th... |  | 11/23/2007 | 194 | 



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 | British Aerospace BAe-748-372 Srs. 2B
Operator: Airquarius
Registration: ZS-OJU
Serial: 1782
An Airquarius HS-748 plane departed Bloemfontein for a mail flight to George around 04:00. The crew allowed a passenger to board the flight. Hansie Cronje, a former South African cricket captain who had missed a South African Airlines flight. Weather was poor at Geor... |  | 11/21/2007 | 461 | 



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 | This Shaanxi Y-8 was destroyed during the landing on the runway. |  | 11/21/2007 | 180 | 



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 | The crash site of aircraft 41-38608, a Second World War American Douglas Dakota (also known as the C-47 Sytrain), which crashed near Dawson Farm near Bosley on 22-DEC-1944. The aircraft belonged to the 33rd Photo Reconnaissance Squadron of the 363 Tactical Air Command Reconnaissance Group, United States Army 9th Air Force. It was on an aborted flight from Burtonwood to le Culot in France: the a... |  | 11/16/2007 | 412 | 



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