09/17/08 First airplane fatality in history, Fort Meyer Virginia
03/31/31 Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne killed, Bazaar Kansas
08/15/35 Will Rogers, Wiley Post killed, Point Barrow Alaska
01/16/42 Actress Carole Lombard killed, Mt. Potosi, Nevada
08/25/42 George Edmund, Duke of Kent killed, Dunbeath, Scotland
07/28/45 Military B-25 crashes into the Empire State Building, New York, N.Y.
09/09/49 Husband places bomb aboard to collect insurance on his wife, Quebec, Canada
11/01/49 U.S. Reps, George Bates and Michael Kennedy killed, Arlington, Virginia
12/16/51 Engine fire, Miami Airlines, Elizabeth, New Jersey
09/05/54 KLM Constellation, ditches into the Shannon River, Foynes, Ireland
11/01/55 Son places bomb in mother's luggage to collect insurance, United Airlines, Longmont, Colorado
06/30/56 Midair collision between a United Airlines DC-7 and TWA Constellation, Grand Canyon, Arizona
02/01/57 Northeast Airlines DC-6 crashes at Rikers Island, New York
02/06/58 British European Airways accident involving the Manchester United football team, Munich, Germany
03/22/58 Director, producer Mike Todd killed, Grants, New Mexico
02/03/59 Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper killed, Mason City, Iowa
02/03/59 American Airlines Electra crashes into the East River, New York, New York
10/04/60 Lockheed Electra crashes after hitting a flock of Starlings, Boston Massachusetts
12/16/60 Midair collision between a United Airlines DC-8 and TWA Constellation, Staten Island, New York
03/01/62 American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes into Jamaica Bay due to rudder malfunction, New York
05/22/62 Bomb explodes aboard a Continental Boeing 707, Unionville, Missouri
03/05/63 Country western singer, Patsy Cline killed, Camden, Tennessee
07/31/64 Country western singer, Jim Reeves killed, Nashville Tennessee
05/20/65 Pakistan Airlines Boeing 720 crashes due to excessive sink rate, Cairo, Egypt
11/11/65 United Airlines Flight 227 crashes short of the runway, Salt Lake City, Utah
02/04/66 All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 crashes due to excessive sink rate, Tokyo, Japan
03/05/66 British Overseas Airways disintegrates over Mt. Fuji, Japan
04/08/68 British Overseas Airways loses an engine after taking off, London, England
05/03/68 Lockheed Electra crashes after attempting to penetrate a line of thunderstorms, Dawson, Texas
08/31/69 Boxer Rocky Marciano killed, Newton Iowa
07/05/70 Premature deployment of spoilers, Air Canada, Toronto, Canada
11/14/70 Marshal University football team tragety. Huntington, West Virginia
06/06/71 Hughes Air West midair collision with a F-4 over the San Gabriel Mountains, California
09/04/71 Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 crashes onto mountain, Juneau, Alaska
06/18/72 Incapacitated British Airways pilot leads to crash, London, England
09/24/72 Sabrejet crashes into ice cream parlor, Sacramento, California
12/29/72 Eastern Air Lines Lockheed TriStar crashes into the Everglades
09/20/73 Singer, Jim Croce killed, Natchitoches, Louisiana
03/03/74 Defective cargo door latch, Turkish Airlines, Ermenonville, France
03/27/77 Pan American/KLM, ground collision results in worst air disaster in history, Tenerife, Canary Islands
05/08/78 National Airlines B-727 lands short of the runway, Pensacola, Florida
09/25/78 Pacific Southwest Airlines midair collision with a Cessna over San Diego, California
05/25/79 American Airlines Flight 191, worst US air disaster in history, Chicago, Illinois
10/31/79 Pilot landed on closed runway, Western Airlines, Mexico City, Mexico
11/28/79 Air New Zealand sightseeing disaster, Mt. Erebus, Antarctica
08/19/80 Landed safely, but all aboard killed, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
06/08/82 Pilot did not heed altitude alert, VASP, Sierra de Pacatuba, Brazil
07/09/82 Windshear, Pan American, Kenner, Louisiana
06/02/83 Air Canada lavatory fire, Cincinnati, Ohio
06/02/83 Procedural errors, AVIANCA, Madrid, Spain
02/19/85 Pilot ignored GPWS warnings, Iberia Airlines, Mt. Oiz, Spain
08/02/85 Windshear, Delta Airlines, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas
08/12/85 Defective repair leads to blowout of pressure bulkhead, Japan Airlines, Ueno Village, Japan
12/12/85 Icing or explosive device, Arrow Air, Gander, Newfoundland
08/31/86 Aeromexico midair collision with a Piper, Cerritos, California
08/16/87 Flaps not extended on takeoff, Northwest Airlines, Romulus, Michigan
04/28/88 Top of plane peels off, Aloha Airlines, Maui, Hawaii
06/26/88 Air France Airbus crashes during air show, Habsheim, France
12/21/88 Bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103 causes crash, Lockerbie, Scotland
07/19/89 United Airlines Flight 232, loss of all hydraulic controls, Sioux City, Iowa
01/25/90 Avianca Boeing 707 runs out of fuel, Cove Neck, New York
04/04/91 Senator H. John Heinz killed, Merion, Pennsylvania
05/26/91 Inadvertent deployment of reverse thruster, Lauder Air, Ban Nong Rong, Thailiand
10/25/91 Rock promoter Bill Graham killed, Vallejo, California
09/28/92 Airliner strikes high ground while attempting to land, Pakistan Int. Airlines, Kathmandu, Nepal
10/04/92 An El Al cargo plane crashes into apartments, Amsterdam, Holland
04/26/94 Pilot inadvertently triggers the TOGA lever, China Airlines, Nagoya, Japan
07/02/94 Windshear, USAir, Charlotte, North Carolina
09/08/94 Uncommanded deflection of the rudder, USAir, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
10/31/94 Icing, American Eagle Flight 4184, Roselawn Indiana
12/20/95 Navigation error leads to collision with mountain, American Airlines, Buga, Colombia
04/03/96 U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Ron Brown killed, Dubrovnik, Croatia
04/11/96 Trainee pilot Jessica Dubroff killed, Cheyenne, Wyoming
05/11/96 Valujet crashes into the Everglades near Miami, Florida
07/17/96 Center fuel tank explodes, TWA Flight 800, East Moriches, New York
11/12/96 Saudi Arabian/Kazastan Airlines midair collision over New Delhi, India
11/23/96 Boeing B-767 runs out of fuel after being hijacked, Moroni, Comoros
08/06/97 Crew error leads to landing short of the runway, Korean Airlines, Agana, Guam
01/09/97 Icing, Comair, Monroe, Michigan
10/12/97 Singer John Denver killed, Pacific Grove, California
09/02/98 Uncontrollable fire aboard a Swissair MD-11, off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia
11/21/98 Actor William Gardner Knight killed, Edgewater, Maryland
06/01/99 American Airlines MD-82 skids off the end of the runway, Little Rock, Arkansas
10/25/99 Pressurization failure, Pro golfer Payne Stewart killed, Aberdeen, South Dakota
02/14/00 Race car driver Tony Bettenhausen killed, Leesburgh, Kentucky
03/05/00 Southwest Airlines narrowly escapes disaster, Burbank, California
04/19/00 Air Philippines Boeing 737 crashes during a second landing attempt, Samal Island, Philippines
07/25/00 Air France Concorde crashes, Paris France
10/31/00 Singapore Airlines 747 takes off on a closed runway and crashes into construction equipment, Taipei, Taiwan
07/04/01 Russian airliner goes into a flat spin and crashes, Irkutsk, Russia
08/24/01 R & B singer and actress Aaliyah Haughton killed, Marsh Harbour, Bahamas
09/11/01 Hijacking and deliberate destruction of 4 separate aircraft results in the death of thousands.
11/12/01 American Airlines Airbus A-300 crashes at Bell Harbor, New York
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