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Locations of large airliner accidents. |
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 | Air New Zealand Flight 901 (TE901) was a scheduled Antarctic sightseeing flight from Auckland Airport in New Zealand. The Antarctic sightseeing flights were operated with McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 aircraft and began in February 1977. On 28 November 1979 the 14th flight crashed into Mount Erebus, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crewmembers aboard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Z... |  | 06/30/2009 | 291 | 
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 | UTA Flight 772 Memorial
UTA Flight 772 of the French airline, Union des Transports Aériens, was a scheduled flight operating from Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, via N'Djamena in Chad, to Paris CDG airport in France.
On 19 September 1989 the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft registered N54629 took off from N'Djamena International Airport at 13:13. Forty six minutes later, at... | | 06/19/2009 | 77 |
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 | This is the field in which Buddy Holly died in a plane crash on February 3, 1959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly | | 06/17/2009 | 594 |
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 | On Thursday, October 20, 1977, just three days after the release of Street Survivors, and five shows into their most successful headlining tour to date, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 ran out of fuel near the end of their flight from Greenville, South Carolina, where they had just performed at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium, to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Though the pilots attemp... | | 06/17/2009 | 477 |
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 | An Aeroflot Il-14 from the the Soviet Union that crashed in Molodyozhnaya, Antarctica on January 2, 1979. The engine experienced engine failure shortly after takeoff, killing four of the seven people on board.
The crash site is well-preserved because of the cold, and the inability to remove the debris. |  | 01/17/2009 | 19,842 |
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 | This is breaking news right now as I'm posting this (on TV/CNN so you can verify it through that) of an F-18 crash in a residential neighborhood west of the Miramar runway in San Diego. I put the pin on what I think is the house or building that it hit. | | 12/09/2008 | 2,305 |
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 | On July 9th, 1946 at 10:30 pm a B-17 "Flying Fortress" bringing twenty-five service men home crashed at this site. No one survived. | | 11/08/2008 | 1,437 |
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 | On January 5th 2002, a 15 year old student pilot deliberately crashed a stolen single engine Cessna into the 28th floor, slightly damaging the building. The student was killed.
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 | This crash site is located in El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve, San Mateo County, California. It is on the Date of Crash: 10/29/1953
Aircraft Model: DC-6
Cause of Crash:
Attributed to pilot error, but fog may have been a contributing factor.
Resolution Trail, named after the crashed DC-6. Nearby Vista Point was cleared by bulldozers to serve as t... | | 11/08/2008 | 532 |
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 | This spot is sacred to the memory of the 5 people on the plane. They died when their U.S. Army airplane crashed here May 18, 1944.
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 | On May 13th, 1948, a C54 crashed in Adams Farm. Three men were lost and are being remembered at this memorial. | | 11/07/2008 | 241 |
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 | Flight 792 from Laconia to Berlin, NH crashes on a cold mountainside.
Date of Crash: 11/30/1954
Aircraft Model: Douglas DC-3
Cause of Crash:
The aircraft crashed during an ILS approach to Berlin. Premature and unauthorized instrument descent to an altitude that did not permit terrain clearance
| | 11/07/2008 | 377 |
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 | TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727-231 with tail number N54328 crashed onto a mountain top near Berryville, Virginia during approach to Dulles International on December 1, 1974. All 85 passengers and 7 crewmembers were killed. | | 11/06/2008 | 454 |
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 | On Thursday, December 28, 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 en-route from Denver, CO to Portland, OR with 181 passengers and a crew of eight crashed in a residential area five miles east of Portland International Airport.
Date of Crash: 12/28/1978
Aircraft Model: McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-61
Cause of Crash: Pilot error
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 | From Paris to Toronto, the Airbus A340 failed to stop and plunged into a nearby shallow ravine, coming to rest and bursting into flames approximately 300 metres past the end of the runway. | | 11/06/2008 | 314 |
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 | An Iraqi Air Force Light Observation Aircraft that was shot down by U.S. Forces when the Iraqi Royal Air Force Base in Al Kut, Iraq was taken over.
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 | A memorial to those who lost their lives in the tragic crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight #349. It is located in Mint Springs Valley Park, Crozet, Virginia. | | 11/06/2008 | 129 |
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 | Crew of 5 and all 73 passengers were killed in a farm field about 9 miles west (four minutes out) of Midway Airport on the way to Las Vegas. The Constellation was named "Star of Dublin".
There is no marker at the site today, which has been completely developed for residential housing. Since the site is on private property, the best you can do is drive around the perimeter stree... |  | 11/06/2008 | 226 |
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 | A Boeing 737-400 plane operated by the state-owned Garuda airline has crashed on landing in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta ,07 MAR 2007.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20070307-0 |  | 11/06/2008 | 195 |
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 | 20 Nov, 1944, Wellington bomber MF509 crashed here.
http://www.bombercrew.com/wales/walescrash.htm
http://www.archives.mcgill.ca/public/exhibits/mcgillremembers/allisonstory.htm
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/396900 | | 11/05/2008 | 702 |
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 | Nov. 21, 2004. Flight Mu5210 from Baotou to Shanghai, east China, fell into the frozen lake in the Nanhai Park of Baotou about a dozen seconds after it took off from Baotou airport at 8:20 a.m. (0020 GMT) Sunday, killing all 47 passengers and six crew members on board.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200411/22/eng20041122_164682.html | | 11/05/2008 | 438 |
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 | Funeral plane crashed in snow storm 22 Jan, 1957.
http://www.check-six.com/Coast_Guard/Funeral_Plane_Crashes_in_Snow_Storm.htm | | 11/05/2008 | 656 |
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 | On 6 Jun,2008,a small plne crashed at 17.3 miles south of the village of Quinhagak, near Jack Smiths Bay.
The victim of the crash was identified as Shaun Lunt, 33, of Loma Linda, California. Lunt was flying one of two Piper Super Cubs traveling together at the time of the crash. The pilot of the other Super Cub, identified as Lon “Loni” Habersetzer of Washington, had successfully landed ... | | 11/05/2008 | 141 |
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 | On 24 December 1964, a Lockheed Super Constellation L-1049H, serial number N6915C, crashed at 12:31:30 a.m. The aircraft crashed 65 feet below the summit of Sweeney Ridge.
http://www.mishalov.com/lockheed-24mar07/
http://www.mishalov.com/lockheed-24mar07/then-pictures.html
| | 11/05/2008 | 146 |
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 | Caravelle 3D-KIK was chartered by the Celtel company to transport telecommunications equipment to Goma. Approaching Goma, the pilot was not allowed to land and was forced to hold near Goma. Low on fuel, the captain decided to divert to neighboring Gisenyi Airport's in Rwanda. The Caravelle crashed on landing at Gisenyi Airport's 1000 metre long runway 01/19.
Uncertainty exist regarding t... | | 11/04/2008 | 1,293 |
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