Tag: aviation accident investigation
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On This Day In 1960: Air France Flight 343 Crashed Into the Atlantic Off Dakar Duringa Rainstorm, Killing All 63 Aboard – The Exact Cause Was Never Determined.
On 29 August 1960, Air France Flight 343 was approaching Dakar, Senegal, on a routine international flight from Paris to Abidjan. The Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation, registration F-BHBC, carried 55 passengers and eight crew members. Within minutes, the aircraft would disappear into the Atlantic Ocean, killing everyone aboard. What made the tragedy particularly haunting was…
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Voepass Flight 2283 Crash: Final Report Reveals How Icing, De-Icing Failures & Safety Culture Led to 62 Deaths
Brazil Releases Final Report on Deadly Voepass Flight 2283 Crash That Killed 62 Brazil’s Center for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (CENIPA) has released its final report into the tragic crash of Voepass Flight 2283, identifying a combination of icing conditions, de-icing system failures, pilot actions, maintenance shortcomings, and organizational safety deficiencies as the…
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Today In 2011: A Navigator’s GPS Mistake And A Midnight Fog Approach Led To A Tragic Crash That Killed 47 People
On the night of June 20, 2011, RusAir Flight 9605 was operating a domestic passenger service from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to Petrozavodsk in Russia’s Republic of Karelia. The aircraft involved was a Tupolev Tu-134A, a Soviet-era twin-engine airliner carrying 52 people, including passengers and crew. What should have been a routine late-night flight ended in…
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Cessna Citation Latitude Jet Crashes In Laredo, Texas – 1 Dead, 5 Others Evacuated In A Dramatic Rescue
A tragic business jet accident occurred late on June 16, 2026, when a NetJets-operated Cessna 680 Citation Latitude, registration N523QS, crashed near Loop 20 and Saunders Street in Laredo, Texas, during an emergency diversion. The aircraft had departed from San José del Cabo International Airport (SJD) in Baja California Sur, Mexico, and was en route…
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Cracked Parts Had Been Flagged Ahead Of Kentucky UPS MD11 Crash That Killed 15 People
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed on Tuesday that it is reviewing reports of cracks in a wing mount before the left engine sheared off from a UPS freight airplane on takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, in November, resulting in a crash that killed 15 people. That information surfaced at the beginning of a two-day…
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Pilot Was Clutching Controls Witness Reveals Morgue Horror After Air India Crash
A man who gained access to the morgue where victims of the fiery Air India AI-171 crash were kept has revealed he witnessed scenes he “can never unsee”, including the body of the plane’s captain still clutching the aircraft’s steering column. The London-bound Air India flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed into the hostel building…
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