Air Disasters
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Documentary (1996)
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Airbus A320-211
Registration F-GFKC, c/n 009 built in 1988. Air France Flight 296 was a chartered flight of a new fly-by-wire Airbus A320-111 operated by Air France. On 26 June 1988, it was flying over Mulhouse–Habsheim Airport as part of an air show. The low-speed flyover (with landing gear down) was supposed to take place at an altitude of 100 feet (33 metres) AGL (above ground level); instead, the plane performed the flyover at 30 feet, skimmed the treetops of the forest at the end of the runway, and crashed to the ground—killing three passengers. This was the first crash of an A320 aircraft.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Beechcraft 2000A Starship 1
Registration N2000S, c/n NC-1.
Bell UH-1 Iroquois
Boeing 720-027
Known as the Controlled Impact Demonstration, NASA and the FAA intentionally crashed this remote-controlled 720 at the Dryden Flight Research Facility on 1 December 1984 in order to collect data about plane crash survivability and test new technologies. Registration N833NA, c/n 18066 built in 1961.
Aircraft in other works at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Boeing 727-225/Advanced
Boeing 737-297
Registration N73711, c/n 20209/152 built in 1969. Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui, Hawaii on 28 April 1988. There was one fatality, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing, who was ejected from the airplane. Another 65 passengers and crew were injured.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Boeing 737-300
Registration N73700. Maiden flight in 1984.
Boeing 737-401
Registration N413US, c/n 23882/1621. On 02 August 1989, the aircraft landed at Greensboro without a main landing gear after diverting from Charlotte due to the problem. A wheel chock left in the gear well the night before was blamed for jamming the gear in the up position.
Boeing 737-401
Registration N416US, c/n 23884/1643 built in 1988. USAir Flight 5050 from New York's La Guardia Airport to Charlotte International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina on 20 September 1989, crashed after aborting takeoff, killing two passengers.
Boeing B-52H Stratofortress
Registration 61-0026. Aircraft crashed on 24 June 1994 at Fairchild Air Force Base when its pilot, Arthur "Bud" Holland, flew the aircraft beyond its operational limits and lost control. The aircraft stalled, fell to the ground and exploded, killing Holland and the other three U.S. Air Force crew members.
De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk 22A
Registration ZK-TNR, c/n C1/0018. Crashed at the Wings Over Wanaka airshow on 3 April 1994, killing the pilot.
De Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo
Registration C-GCTC, c/n 103 built in 1980. At the 1984 Farnborough Airshow, a DHC-5D STOL demonstration ended in a very heavy landing which destroyed the aircraft.
FMA IA 63 Pampa & Aérospatiale SA 316 Alouette III
The white tail and single jet engine exhaust of the FMA IA 63 Pampa is visible at left, behind the yellow-orange Citroën Acadiane. Probably 38º Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (Le Bourget [Paris Air Show] june 1989) ; look at the Mig 29 section below. But the FMA IA 63 Pampa was first displayed there in 1985.
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2P
Registration XV239, c/n 8014 built in 1971. On 2 September 1995, this Nimrod crashed into Lake Ontario while participating in the Canadian International Air Show, killing the seven crew members.
Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune
BuNo 145923.
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
Registration LN-RKB, c/n 46871/219. SAS Flight 901 touched down 1440 m past the runway 04R threshold at John F. Kennedy International Airport on 28 February 1984. The crew steered the plane to the right side off the runway to avoid approach lights. The DC-10 ended up in shallow water and all occupants survived.
McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II
Crash test performed in 1988 by Sandia National Laboratories. The F-4 was attached to a rocket sled and slammed into a wall to see the results of an aircraft hitting a reinforced concrete structure.
Mikoyan MiG-29A
303 Blue crashed at the 1989 Paris Air Show after the pilot ejected.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Mikoyan MiG-29S
Two Russian Air Force MiG-29s collided at the Royal International Air Tattoo in 1993. No one was injured and the pilots ejected to safety.
North American F-86 Sabre
On 2 May 1993, during the 1993 MCAS El Toro airshow, an F-86 Sabre was going to engage with a MiG-15 in a mock dogfight when it crashed on the runway. The F-86 pilot, James A. Gregory, died on impact.
Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
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See also
- Aérospatiale SA 316/319 Alouette III
- Airbus A300
- Airbus A320 family
- Beechcraft Starship
- Blackburn Buccaneer
- Boeing 720
- Boeing 727
- Boeing 737
- Boeing 747
- Boeing 767
- Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
- Boeing C-135
- British Aerospace BAe 125
- British Aerospace Jetstream
- De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
- De Havilland DH106 Comet
- Eurofighter Typhoon
- FMA IA 63 Pampa
- Grumman F-14 Tomcat
- Hawker Siddeley Nimrod
- Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon
- Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
- Lockheed P-2 Neptune
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- Mikoyan MiG-29
- North American F-86 Sabre
- Panavia Tornado
- Pitts Special
- Sikorsky H-34
- Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King