Airplane Disasters
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NOTE the planes mentioned below are examples of many Airplane Disasters:
US Airways Flight 1549, Airbus A320 piloted by Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger took off from La Guardia Airport, when a gaggle of geese flew into the engines. With a goose or two chocking each engine, the captain made the "Miracle" landing into the Hudson River in Jan. 2009 with no power. He did not want the plane to crash in New York city. All passengers and crew aboard survived accident, Engines choked. Plane sank into the river after the passengers were rescued.
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Pan Am Flight 103 (the Lockerbie bombing) Year:1988
Fatalities: 270 Survivors: 0
Pan Am Flight 103, from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York City, was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1988, killed all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board. Large sections of the aircraft crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.
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United Airlines Flight 93
Crash Site: New Baltimore, Pennsylvania
On September 11, 2001, Terrorists intended to strike the Pentagon after the World Trade Center had been attacked. The 33 brave passengers and 7 crew members were able to over-take the 4 hijackers and save the Pentagon from being damaged by this plane. A memorial to these Heroes is now located at the National September 11 Memorial's South Pool in Manhattan, New York.
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Note: All 4 planes from the 9/11 disaster are listed on a separate free space easily accessed by the Hot Link found at the top of this page.
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Southern Airways Flight 932
Largest U. S. Sports Air Crash
On November 14, 1970, while returning from a football game, 75 people died when a chartered DC-9 impacted into a hill near Ceredo, West Virginia. The Marshall University players, coaches, boosters and crew killed there represent the deadliest airline disaster in U.S. sports. NTSB theorized water had gotten into flight instruments and caused them to malfunction during adverse weather. A memorial to the victims is at Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington, West Virginia.
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R38 AIRSHIP
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Charles Campbell designed an Airship. Near the end of World War I, the Airship was tested.. Charles was killed in the 1921 explosion of the R-38 airship during testing over England.. During the tests the ends dropped, the structure creased, then fire broke out in the front section. An explosion followed as the rest of the structure fell into Humber Estuary. The other airship orders were cancelled.
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