Archive for the ‘Aviation’ Category
Southwest Airlines flight Tuesday has an explosion and chaos reigns and 1 person is dead
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018Algerian state radio says that more than 100 people were killed in a military plane crash southwest of Algiers
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
3/27/1977: Two 747 jumbo jets crash into each other on the runway at an airport in the Canary Islands, killing 582 passengers and crew members.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew has crashed on landing at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport, killing 49
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018A Russian military transport plane carrying 33 passengers and six crew members crashed on landing at an air base in Syria on Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2018A Russian airliner has crashed after leaving Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, killing all 65 passengers and six crew on board. The cause is unclear at this point.
Sunday, February 11th, 20181/13/1982: An Air Florida Boeing 727 plunges into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., killing 78 people.
Saturday, January 13th, 20182017 airliner accident statistics showed an extremely low total of 10 fatal airliner accidents, resulting in 44 fatalities.
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018“……Five accidents involved cargo flights, five were passenger flights. Given the expected worldwide air traffic of about 36,800,000 flights, the accident rate is one fatal passenger flight accident per 7,360,000 flights……”