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Flight 101 (other)
Flight 101 is an airline flight number with multiple accidents and incidents. It may refer to the following aviation accidents: * National Airlines Flight 101, a Douglas DC-6 which crashed on 11 February 1952, due to a propeller pitch control failing when climbing out from Newark Airport * Aeroflot Flight 20, Aeroflot Flight 20/101, an Ilyushin Il-18 which crashed due to low visibility on 3 January 1965, near Alma-Ata Airport * Air India Flight 101, a Boeing 707 which accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France on 24 January 1966 * TABSO Flight 101, an Ilyushin Il-18 which crashed on 24 November 1966, near Bratislava in Slovakia * Aeroflot Flight 101/435, an Antonov An-24 which was hijacked by the co-pilot on 19 December 1985 * Fine Air Flight 101, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8 which crashed on 7 August 1997 after take-off from Miami * Flightline Flight 101, a Swearingen Metroliner which crashed on 10 October, 2001 * Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101, a Grumman G-73 Mallard which crashed o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Airlines Flight 101
National Airlines Flight 101 was a scheduled flight from Newark Airport, New Jersey, to Miami, Florida, that on February 11, 1952 crashed in the town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, shortly after take-off. It was the third plane crash occurring in Elizabeth in less than two months, following the loss of a Miami Airlines C-46 in December and the crash of an American Airlines Convair 240, three weeks earlier. Crash The aircraft, a four-engined, propeller-driven Douglas DC-6, had departed from Newark Airport's runway 24 at 00:18 EST and was observed by personnel in the control tower suddenly losing altitude, while veering to the right. Two minutes later, the plane clipped an apartment building in Elizabeth, setting it on fire; it then crashed to the ground and burst into flames, narrowly missing an orphanage. Of the 63 people on board (59 passengers and 4 crew members), 29 perished, while all of the survivors were injured, many seriously. Four residents in the apartment building wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeroflot Flight 20
Aeroflot Flight 101/X-20 ( ''Reys 101/X-20 Aeroflota'') was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Moscow to Alma-Ata via Omsk, Soviet Union, that crashed in low visibility conditions on 4 January 1965, killing 64 of the 103 people on board. Aircraft The aircraft involved in the accident was an Ilyushin Il-18B registered CCCP-75685 to the Kazakh Civil Aviation Directorate of Aeroflot. The aircraft had sustained 6802 flight hours. Crew Eight crew members were aboard the flight. The cockpit crew consisted of: * Captain Konstantin Sergeevich Artamonov * Check captain and Head of the Kazakh Civil Aviation Directorate Rishat Nurmukhametovich Azakov * Co-pilot Nikolai Aleksandrovich Slamikhin * Flight engineer Anatoliy Galiyevich Shakirov * Navigator Vladimir Vasiliyevich Pristavka * Radio operator Nikolay Nikolayevich Safonov Synopsis The flight was scheduled to depart from Domodedovo airport at 07:30 on January 4, but was delayed by necessary engine repairs. The flight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air India Flight 101
Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled Air India passenger flight from Bombay to London. On the morning of 24 January 1966 at 8:02 CET, the aircraft operating the flight accidentally flew into Mont Blanc in France. The accident was caused by a misunderstood verbal instruction from the radar controller to the pilot in lieu of VOR data, one of the receivers being out of service. All 117 members on board died on impact. Among the passengers who were killed was Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the founder & chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission. The crash occurred just a few hundred feet away from where an Air India Lockheed 749 Constellation operating Air India Flight 245 on a charter flight, had crashed in 1950. Accident Air India Flight 101 was a scheduled flight from Bombay to London; and on the day of the accident was operated by a Boeing 707, registration ''VT-DMN'' and named ''Kangchenjunga''. The Pilot-In-Command was an 18-year veteran, Captain Joe T. D'Souza. After lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TABSO Flight 101
TABSO Flight 101 was a scheduled service of the Bulgarian national airline from Sofia, Bulgaria via Budapest, Hungary and Prague, Czechoslovakia (today's Czech Republic) to Berlin, East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic (today's Germany). The service was operated by the airline's 1960s' flagship equipment, the Ilyushin Ilyushin Il-18, Il-18B airliner. On Thursday 24 November 1966, the service crashed near Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia (then part of Czechoslovakia), with the loss of 82 lives. The crash remains Slovakia's deadliest aviation disaster. Background On the day of the accident, flight 101 was operated by an Il-18B airliner registered LZ-BEN. It had been manufactured in January 1964 (constructor's number 7101) and had been accepted by TABSO on 22 January that year. By the time of the accident, it had not been involved in any incidents and had been maintained in accordance with the manufacturer's schedules. The crew comprised Commander (Captain (civil aviati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeroflot Flight 101/435
Aeroflot Flight 101/435 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by its co-pilot, Shamil Alimuradov, on 19 December 1985, en route from Takhtamygda to Chita. Armed with a hatchet, Alimuradov demanded that captain Vyacheslav Abramyan divert the Antonov An-24 aircraft to China. Soviet officials authorized the crew to land in China, and gave Abramyan the radio frequency of Qiqihar Airport Qiqihar Sanjiazi Airport is a dual-use military and civil airport serving the city of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, China. Airlines and destinations [Baidu] |
Fine Air Flight 101
Fine Air Flight 101 was a scheduled cargo flight from Miami International Airport to Las Américas International Airport, operated by McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61F N27UA, that crashed after take-off on August 7, 1997, at Miami International Airport. All 4 people on board and one person on the ground were killed. Aircraft The aircraft involved in the accident was a 29-year-old McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61F, msn/ C/n: 45942/349, registration N27UA (Transferred by Japan Airlines (JA8058)), operated by Fine Air, with total airframe hours of 46,825 and 41,688 cycles. Crew and passenger There were three crew members and a security guard on board. The captain, 42-year-old Dale Patrick "Pat" Thompson, had been with Fine Air since 1993. He had a total of 12,154 hours of flying time, including 2,522 hours as a DC-8 captain at Fine Air. The first officer, Steven Petrosky, aged 26, hired on 15 August 1994, had a total of 2,641 hours of flying time, of which 1,592 hours were with Fine Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flightline Flight 101
Flightline Flight 101 was an international flight from Barcelona, Spain to Oran, Algeria. It crashed into the sea, probably due to a lightning strike leading to a loss of electricity. Aircraft and crew EC-GDV was a Swearingen SA226-AT Merlin IVA Metroliner built in 1976. Prior to the accident it had accumulated 11,950 flight hours. It was powered by two TPE331-10UA engines. It was not equipped with a cockpit voice recorder nor a flight data recorder, and was not required to. The captain and first officer, aged 33 and 43, respectively, were both Spanish nationals. Their total amount of flight experience is unknown. Flight The aircraft took off from Barcelona-El Prat Airport at 10:18. It flew normally in the direction of Valencia before the last radio contact at 10:38 and disappeared from radar screens 4 minutes later, probably as a result of total electrical failure, caused by a lightning strike. The loss of electricity rendered many systems inoperable, such as elevator tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeti Airlines Flight 101
Yeti Airlines Flight 101 was a domestic flight in Nepal, that crashed on final approach to Tenzing-Hillary Airport in the town of Lukla in eastern Nepal on 8 October 2008. The De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 registered as 9N-AFE originated from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. Aircraft The aircraft involved in the crash was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operated by Yeti Airlines. Its maiden flight was in 1980 with Bristow Helicopters. The aircraft entered into service in Nepal in 1997, when Lumbini Airways acquired the plane. In 1998, Yeti Airlines bought the plane. In 2006, it already met with a minor incident, when the aircraft collided with a fence upon landing in Bajura Airport. It was involved in another incident, when the aircraft veered off the runway at Surkhet Airport in 2007. Crew and Passengers Fourteen of the dead were reported to be tourists. Twelve of the passengers on the flight were German and two Australian. The only su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Air Force Flight 101
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria, the former president of Poland in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Polish Government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy, and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. The group was arriving from Warsaw to attend an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the massacre, which took place not far from Smolensk. The pilots were attempting to land at Smolensk North Airport — a former military airbase — in thick fog, with visibility reduced to about . The aircraft descended far below the normal approach path until it struck trees, rolled, inverted and crashed into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agni Air Flight 101
Agni Air Flight 101 was a regional flight between Kathmandu and Lukla, Nepal, that crashed on 24 August 2010, killing all 14 people on board. Twenty minutes after take-off, the flight crew had reported a technical problem. Contact with the aircraft was lost shortly after. The aircraft crashed south of Kathmandu. The investigation into the accident found that pilot fell victim to spatial disorientation following the loss of flight instruments after both generators failed. Backup battery power was exhausted prematurely due to the crew using an outdated checklist. History of the flight Flight 101 was traveling on a flight between Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, Nepal. Twenty minutes after take-off, the crew of the aircraft contacted air traffic control reporting technical problems and requesting a return to Kathmandu. Controllers then diverted the aircraft to Simara Airport in Pipara Simara, Nepal, due to poor weather con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight 1 / 001 (other)
Flight 1 or Flight 001 is an airline flight number that has had multiple accidents and incidents. It may refer to: *American Airways Flight 1 (1936), a Douglas DC-2 that crashed near Goodwin, Arkansas in 1936 en route from Memphis to Little Rock * TWA Flight 1, a Douglas DC-2 that crashed in Pennsylvania en route from Newark to Los Angeles in 1936 *Northwest Airlines Flight 1, a Lockheed Super Electra that suffered a fire on board and crashed in Montana in 1939 coming from Minneapolis *American Airlines Flight 1 (1941), a Douglas DC-3 that crashed near Lawrence Station, Ontario in 1941 en route from Buffalo to Detroit *American Airlines Flight 1 (1962), a Boeing 707 that crashed after a rudder failure in 1962 just out of New York towards Los Angeles ** "Flight 1" (Mad Men), an episode of the television show ''Mad Men'', centering in part on the American Airlines crash *CSA Flight 001, a flight that crashed in Czechoslovakia in 1976 * *Icelandic Airlines Flight 001, a Douglas DC-8 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
