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Locations of large airliner accidents. |
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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 | 699 | 
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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 | 81 |
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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.
| | 11/07/2008 | 546 |
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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 | 135 |
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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 | 100 |
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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 | 65 |
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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
| | 11/06/2008 | 46 |
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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 | 36 |
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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.
| | 11/06/2008 | 96 |
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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 | 26 |
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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 | 28 |
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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 | 28 |
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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 | 358 |
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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 | 359 |
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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 | 559 |
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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 | 34 |
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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 | 46 |
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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 | 792 |
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 | Estimated crash site based on debris in picture and Topo Photos released in the press by the local sheriff |  | 10/02/2008 | 3,282 |
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 | A light aircraft crashed near Broughton, U.K |  | 05/21/2008 | 865 |
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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 | 2,808 |
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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 | 4,789 |
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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 | 365 |
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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 | 908 |
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