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Remains of a Antonov AN-26 at Luzamba airfield, Angola

Remains of a Antonov AN-26 at Luzamba airfield, Angola

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.
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Crashed McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Chittagong Airport

Crashed McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Chittagong Airport

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...
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Crashed Boeing 747 at Sharjah Airport, UAE

Crashed Boeing 747 at Sharjah Airport, UAE

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...
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Crashed Boeing 707 at Juba Airport, Sudan

Crashed Boeing 707 at Juba Airport, Sudan

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.
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Remains of McDonnell Douglas DC-8 at Mwanza Airport, Tanzania

Remains of McDonnell Douglas DC-8 at Mwanza Airport, Tanzania

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.
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Crash Site of a Boeing 707 near Mwanza Airport, Tanzania

Crash Site of a Boeing 707 near Mwanza Airport, Tanzania

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...
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Remains of an outburned Lockheed Hercules at Malange airfield, Angola

Remains of an outburned Lockheed Hercules at Malange airfield, Angola

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.
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Crash site of an Antonov AN-24RV near Varandey, Russia

Crash site of an Antonov AN-24RV near Varandey, Russia

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...
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Plane crash near the Outeniqua Pass in June 2002, South Africa

Plane crash near the Outeniqua Pass in June 2002, South Africa

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...
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Destroyed airplane at Wau airfield, Sudan

Destroyed airplane at Wau airfield, Sudan

This Shaanxi Y-8 was destroyed during the landing on the runway.
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Crash site of a USAAF C-47 Dakota in 1944

Crash site of a USAAF C-47 Dakota in 1944

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...
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Crash site of a RAF Handley Page Hampden bomber on 30th Sept 1940

Crash site of a RAF Handley Page Hampden bomber on 30th Sept 1940

The crash site of aircraft L4189, a British Handley Page Hampden Mark I bomber, which crashed on 30th September 1940 at Black Edge. It belonged to 106 Squadron, based at Finningley. It was on a navigation exercise at night when it crashed. In the opening years of the 21st century some small fragments of aircraft wreckage were still noted on site.

Please note that a licence to ex...
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Crash site of a RAF Vickers Wellington bomber on 30th Jan 1943

Crash site of a RAF Vickers Wellington bomber on 30th Jan 1943

The crash site of aircraft X3941, a British Vickers Wellington Mark III bomber, which crashed on 30th January 1943. The aircraft belonged to Number 27 Operational Training Unit. It was on a night-time exercise from Church Broughton when the crash occurred. The aircraft was operating over hilly terrain around Beeley Moor, it struck a line of trees near Gladwins Mark and crashed into a field. Two...
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Crash site of a USAAF RB-29A Superfortress in 1948

Crash site of a USAAF RB-29A Superfortress in 1948

The Post-War period crash site of aircraft 44-61999 "Over Exposed": an American Boeing Superfortress RB-29A heavy bomber, which was modified to be a F13A, and which thus had been in use prior to the crash in a reconnaissance role. The crash occurred at Higher Shelf Stones on 3rd November 1948. The aircraft is of historic interest because of its role in the Cold War: it was formerly part of the ...
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Crash of a Boeing 737 from Air Guinee Express at Freetown

Crash of a Boeing 737 from Air Guinee Express at Freetown

On August 11, 2004 about 1425 UTC, Guinea registry 3X-GCM, a Boeing 737-200 airplane, operated by Air Guinee Express, overran the runway during takeoff and collided with terrain at Freetown International Airport-Banjul, Sierra Leone. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed. There were two flight crewmembers, five cabin attendants, and 119 passengers aboard. There aircraft was substantially d...
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Transport Helicopter lost Airplane during flight in Upper Franconia

Transport Helicopter lost Airplane during flight in Upper Franconia

A Piper Malibu from the Coburger Flugdienst was lost during a transportation flight with a czech Mil Mi-8 near the village of Ebersdorf.
The transport started at 11 o'clock from the Brandensteinsebene airport in Coburg. Around 11.40 the cables break and the airplane crashed from 250m on the street. Luckily no one was injured, but 250 liters of cerosin, from the not drained tanks, had to...
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1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash

1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash

The B-52 crash at Fairchild Air Force Base was a fatal air crash that occurred on June 24, 1994, killing the four crew members of a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 Stratofortress during a training flight. In the crash, Bud Holland, who was the command pilot of the aircraft based at Fairchild Air Force Base, call sign Czar 52, flew the aircraft beyond its operational parameters and lost cont...
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Thai plane crash in Phuket kills 88, 16 September 2007

Thai plane crash in Phuket kills 88, 16 September 2007

PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - A budget airliner crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Sunday, killing 88 people as it broke up and burst into flames while trying to land in driving rain, a senior official said.

Forty two people were injured, Phuket deputy governor Vorapot Rajsima told a news conference, and a hospital official said at least five of the survivors were ser...
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PIA - Fokker F-27-200 Friendship crashed at Chitral, Pakistan

PIA - Fokker F-27-200 Friendship crashed at Chitral, Pakistan

AP-AUR touched down on the 5800 feet / 1768 m long runway 02/20 but failed to stop within the length of the runway. It overran, crossing a drainage ditch. The undercarriage collapsed, causing serious damage to the fuselage and propellers.
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Ilyushin Il-76TD crashed in Dushanbe

Ilyushin Il-76TD crashed in Dushanbe

Written off after a forced landing which occured on December 30th 2004. The aircraft was coming from Kabul (Afghanistan) where the left gear was completely destroyed during a missed landing in very poor weather conditions. Fortunately no casualties among the 8 crew members.
Rating of 3.508/08/2007552Google Earth Logo
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748 Air Services - Hawker Siddeley HS-780 Andover C1 crashed after engine f

748 Air Services - Hawker Siddeley HS-780 Andover C1 crashed after engine f

Written off at Rumbek’s unpaved airstrip in South Sudan in March 2003, apparently after engine failure. No fatalities. First flew July 1966 for RAF (XS602). Went to RNZAF (New Zealand air force) November 1976 (NZ7622), which later modified it for VIP configuration. Sold to 748 Air Services (Kenya) October 1998, and used in ferrying relief supplies into South Sudan.
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Kenya Airways - Boeing 707-351B overrun runway at Addis Ababa

Kenya Airways - Boeing 707-351B overrun runway at Addis Ababa

Written off after emergency landing on 11 July 1989. She returned to ADD after landing gear didn't retract, brakes failed after touchdown and the Boeing overran the wet runway.
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Crash site of the Atlantic Airways Flight RC670

Crash site of the Atlantic Airways Flight RC670

Stord, Norway - 10th October, 2006

The Atlantic Airways Flight RC670 was chartered by the Norwegian industrial concern Aker Kværner to fly personnel from Stavanger to Molde via Stord (Norrway). The flight was performed by a British Aerospace 146-200 jet and was carrying 12 passengers and 4 crewmembers.

While landing at Stord Airport, the plane overran the 1200 m ...
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Avro Lincoln Bomber crashed into Mount Superbus on 9 April 1955

Avro Lincoln Bomber crashed into Mount Superbus on 9 April 1955

Avro Lincoln bomber, A73-64 of 10 Squadron RAAF based in Townsville crashed into Mount Superbus near Emu Vale in the early hours of Easter Saturday morning on 9 April 1955 during a medical evacuation of a sick baby from Townsville to Eagle Farm airfield in Brisbane. The crew of four RAAF personnel and the two passengers were all killed in this tragic accident.
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UFO Crash Site

UFO Crash Site

What looks like a UFO Crash site in Utrecht
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