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The Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated as Lion Air Flight JT610 departed Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 06:20 local time on October 29, 2018, with 181 passengers and 8 crew members on board. Twelve minutes later, it struck the Java Sea at high speed. There were no survivors. The Indonesian accident investigation authority, KNKT, found...
United Airlines Flight 232 departed Denver Stapleton International Airport at 2:09 PM on July 19, 1989, bound for Philadelphia with a scheduled stop in Chicago. There were 285 passengers and 11 crew on board. Captain Al Haynes, 57, had been flying for United for 33 years. First Officer William Records and Second Officer Dudley Dvorak...
On the morning of April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 departed Hilo Airport on the eastern tip of Hawaii for a routine interisland hop to Honolulu. The flight was expected to take about 35 minutes. The aircraft was a Boeing 737-200 that had been in service for 19 years, registration N73711, and had flown...
Flying is statistically the safest way to travel. Still, nothing is safe 100% of the time, and that’s sadly true of flying – and when things go wrong aboard a plane, the results can prove deadly. The cases on this list rank among the industry’s worst tragedies. The sad fact is that for as much...
The past six decades of helicopter history has seen its fair share of triumphs – but sadly has also borne witness to far too many tragedies. The entries on this list rank among the most tragic incidents in helicopter history. As this list demonstrates, there are myriad potential causes of a helicopter crash, each of...
When a plane starts to shake and rattle mid-flight, most passengers become understandably scared. During those stressful moments you will likely wonder if turbulence could make the plane crash. However, turbulence is a common occurrence and rarely poses a threat. The chance of bad weather or turbulence causing a plane to crash is equal to...