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Lufthansa Flight 540 was a scheduled commercial flight for Lufthansa operated with a Boeing 747-100, carrying 157 people (140 passengers and 17 crew members). The flight was operating the final segment of its Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg route. On 20 November 1974 it crashed and caught fire shortly past the runway on takeoff. This was the first fatal accident and third hull loss of a Boeing 747. This was also the third fatal accident involving a wide-body aircraft, after Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 in 1972 and the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 981 earlier in 1974. To date, it is also the deadliest plane crash to occur on Kenyan soil.

As the aircraft was making its takeoff from runway 24 at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, the pilots felt a buffeting vibration. The captain continued the climb and retracted the landing gear. However, as this was being done, the aircraft started to descend and the stall warning system light came on. The aircraft continued to descend and approximately 3,700 feet (1,100 m) from the end of the runway, the 747 grazed bushes and grass. It then struck an elevated access road and broke up. The left wing exploded and fire spread to the fuselage. Of the 157 people aboard, 55 of the 140 passengers and 4 of the 17 crew members were killed.


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United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered N1819U) operating the route crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine, which led to the loss of all flight controls. Of the 296 people on board, 111 died in the accident while 185 survived.[note 1] Despite the deaths, the accident is considered a prime example of successful crew resource management due to the manner in which the flight crew handled the emergency, and the high number of survivors considering that the airplane was landed without conventional control. The flight crew became well known as a result of their actions, in particular the captain, Alfred C. Haynes, and a DC-10 instructor on board who offered his assistance, Dennis E. Fitch.

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American Airlines Flight 587 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Santo Domingo's Las Américas International Airport in the Dominican Republic. On November 12, 2001, the Airbus A300-600 flying the route crashed into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York City, shortly after takeoff. All 260 people on board the flight were killed, along with five people on the ground. It is the second-deadliest aviation incident involving an Airbus A300, after Iran Air Flight 655 and the second-deadliest aviation incident to occur on U.S. soil, after American Airlines Flight 191.[note 1] To date, no single-airplane crash incident that was ruled accidental and not criminal since then has surpassed that death toll, though before 2001 there had been deadlier incidents of this type.

The location of the accident and the fact that it took place two months and one day after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in Manhattan initially spawned fears of another terrorist attack. However, terrorism was officially ruled out as the cause by the National Transportation Safety Board, which instead attributed the disaster to the first officer's overuse of rudder controls in response to wake turbulence or jet wash from a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 that took off minutes before it. According to the NTSB, this aggressive use of the rudder controls by the co-pilot caused the vertical stabilizer to snap off the plane. The plane's two engines also separated from the aircraft before it hit the ground.[1]

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Korean Air Flight 801 – 228 νεκροί (1997)



Παρά τις διαμαρτυρίες του μηχανικού του αεροσκάφους, ότι ο πιλότος δε λάμβανε σωστά σήματα για την προσγείωση, το αεροσκάφος αναχώρησε από τη Σεούλ. Συνετρίβη σε μια βουνοπλαγιά του Γκουάμ. Επέζησαν μόλις 26 άνθρωποι.



Swissair Flight 111 – 229 νεκροί (1998)

Στις 2 Σεπτεμβρίου του 1998 η πτήση 111 της Swissair από τη Νέα Υόρκη στη Γενεύη έπεσε στον ωκεανό λίγο έξω από τις ακτές της Νότιας Σκωτίας, εξαιτίας φωτιάς που εξαπλώθηκε γρήγορα στο πιλοτήριο.


Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 – 234 νεκροί (1997)

Στις 26 Σεπτεμβρίου του 1997 η πτήση 152 συνετρίβη σε μια ορεινή χαράδρα λίγο πριν την προσγείωση εξαιτίας κακής επικοινωνίας με τον πύργο ελέγχου. Απ’ ό,τι φάνηκε στο αεροδρόμιο πλησίαζε και μία άλλη πτήση με το ίδιο νούμερο, αναφέρει το δημοσίευμα.





American Airlines Flight 191 – 273 νεκροί (1979)

Λίγα λεπτά μετά την απογείωση της πτήσης 191 των αμερικανικών αερογραμμών από το Σικάγο αποσπάστηκε η αριστερή μηχανή του αεροσκάφους, το οποίο γύρισε ανάποδα και έπεσε σε ένα χωράφι.




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