Tag: aviation safety history
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Today In 1960: Australia’s Unsolved Fokker F27 Tragedy – Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538’s Deadly Descent Over A Dark, Calm Sea
On the night of 10 June 1960, Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 departed on what was supposed to be a routine domestic journey across Queensland. Instead, the flight ended in one of Australia’s most haunting aviation mysteries — a disaster in which investigators could never determine exactly why a modern airliner flew perfectly under control…
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Two Airliners Collided Over The Grand Canyon – In Broad Daylight 128 Aboard TWA Flight 2 And United Flight 718 Perished – 70-Year-Old Disaster Still Haunts Aviation History
The June 30, 1956, midair collision above the Grand Canyon killed all 128 aboard TWA Flight 2 and United 718. Pilots struggled to see each other due to constant bearing, decreasing range, and cockpit obstructions. The hardest airplane to see in the sky may be the one flying directly toward you. That should be impossible.…
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