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[b] At 08:54, as the plane flew in the vicinity over Pike County, Ohio, it began deviating from its normal assigned flight path and turned south. [45] Two minutes later, the plane's transponder was switched off. [31] The flight's autopilot was promptly engaged and set on a course heading eastbound towards Washington, D.C. [46]
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash was featured in "Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster", a Season 12 (2012–13) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday! [86] (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and elsewhere around the world). The dramatization was broadcast with the title "Hockey ...
The impact and the resulting fire killed all 248 people on board the KLM plane and 335 of the 396 people on board the Pan Am plane, with only 61 survivors in the front section of the latter aircraft. With a total of 583 fatalities, the disaster is the deadliest accident in aviation history .
[69]: 63 After the plane passed through the tower, part of the plane's landing gear and fuselage came out the north side of the skyscraper and crashed through the roof and two of the floors of 45–47 Park Place, between West Broadway and Church Street, 600 feet (200 yd; 180 m) north of the former World Trade Center. Three floor beams of the ...
The plane's right elevator malfunctioned and the aircraft turned to the left. The right elevator then detached from the plane and the plane went out of control. It crashed onto the ground in Karawang, killing all aboard. The investigation concluded that a fracture on the plane's spigot caused the elevator to fail. [53] [54]
Around 1 p.m. Mountain Time in Campbell County, Wyoming, a Pilatus PC-12/47E single-engine aircraft crashed to the north of Gillette, roughly 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of Wyoming capital Cheyenne. The crash started a wildfire that firefighters were able to contain to an area smaller than one square mile.
Japan Airlines Flight 471 crashed near Palam Airport, killing 82 of 87 onboard and three on the ground; Japan claimed that a false glide path signal caused the crash, while India claimed that the pilot disregarded let-down procedures.
The Oklahoma State University Cowboys basketball team plane crash occurred on January 27, 2001, at 19:37 EST, when a Beechcraft Super King Air 200, registration N81PF, carrying two players on the Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team along with six Oklahoma State broadcasters and members of the Oklahoma State coaching staff, crashed in a field 40 miles (64 km) east of Denver, [1] near ...