Archive for the ‘Aviation’ Category
8/12/1985: A Japan Air Lines Boeing 747SR crashes into Mount Otsuka killing over 500 souls
Monday, August 12th, 20197/28/1945: In heavy fog, a United States military plane crashes into the Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
Sunday, July 28th, 20197/25/2000: An Air France Concorde jet crashes upon takeoff in Paris on this day in 2000, killing 105 onboard as well as 4 on the ground.
Thursday, July 25th, 20197/17/2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over the Ukraine-Russia border killing all 298 on board
Wednesday, July 17th, 20197/17/1996: Out of JFK, a TWA Boeing 747 jetliner (Flight 800) bound for Paris explodes over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 souls aboard.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2019International investigators have accused three Russians and one Ukrainian of taking part in the attack on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a passenger plane that was shot down nearly five years ago, killing all 298 people on board.
Thursday, June 20th, 2019“…..
Three Russians, Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov, were named, along with Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko.
The flight was on its way from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur in July 2014, when it was shot out of the sky over territory held by pro-Russian separatists…..”
5/4/2002: An EAS Airline plane crashes into the town of Kano, Nigeria, killing 148 people.
Saturday, May 4th, 2019“……The Executive Airline Services twin-engine plane took off from Kano at about 1:30 p.m. with 76 people on board headed for Lagos…..[T]he plane immediately showed signs of distress before plunging toward the ground. It then ripped through a working-class neighborhood……About three full blocks of structures were destroyed.
Many of the victims on the ground were burned to death……”