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Air France Flight 066 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, operated by Air France and using an Airbus A380-861. On 30 September 2017, the aircraft suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Goose Bay Airport , Canada.
Air France Flight 422: the Air France flight from Bogotá's El Dorado Airport, to Quito, using a Boeing 727 wet-leased from TAME, crashed into a mountain near Bogotá. All 43 passengers and 10 crew died. [92] Although not an Air France plane, the flight was the final segment of an Air France flight originating in Paris. 5 March 1999
[16] [15] The airport was renamed Los Angeles International Airport in 1949. [18] The temporary terminals remained in place for 15 years but quickly became inadequate, especially as air travel entered the "jet age" and other cities invested in modern facilities. Airport leaders once again convinced voters to back a $59 million bond on June 5, 1956.
Los Angeles runway disaster. The wreckage of Flight 1493 after the accident. / 33.9494; -118.4095. On the evening of February 1, 1991, USAir Flight 1493, a Boeing 737-300, collided with SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner turboprop aircraft, upon landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). [ 1][ 2] As Flight ...
Air France Flight 406: 78: Bombed in mid-air and crashed in the Algerian Sahara. All nine crew and 69 passengers were killed. [88] June 20, 1961: L-749 N5595A — Unknown Written off following a ground collision with a Douglas DC-7 (N312A) at Oakland International Airport. [89] July 30, 1961: L-049: N2520B — 1
Air France Flight 4590. / 48.98556°N 2.47222°E / 48.98556; 2.47222. On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde passenger jet on an international charter flight from Paris to New York, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde accident during its 27 ...
There were more than 100 reports of soda cans exploding on flights in June, Southwest flight attendant union president Bill Bernal told CNN, some of which have injured flight attendants.
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to New York City that crashed on June 24, 1975 while on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 of the 124 people on board. [ 1]: 1 The crash was determined to be caused by wind shear caused by a microburst, but the failure of the ...