🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟭): Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides mid-air with a US Marine Corps F-4 Phantom II over the San Gabriel Mountains. All 49 die on board Flight 706 and 1 of 2 on the F-4. ATC limitations had led to both crews to fail to see and avoid each other.

🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟮): Copa Airlines Flight 201 enters into a high-speed dive and disintegrates over the Darién Gap, Panama, all 47 on board die. The inflight break-up was caused by faulty instrument readings, confusion among the crew and insufficient training.

🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰): Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Buk 9M83 surface-to-air missile launched by pro-Russian rebels and disintegrates, all 298 on board die. This is the deadliest airliner shoot-down in aviation history.

#Breaking #Ongoing Bloomberg reported today that a Southwest B-737 came within 400 ft of hitting the sea on a go-around in bad weather. Incident occurred off Hawaii (US). Jet dropped at “an abnormally high rate of more than 4,000 feet per minute before the flight crew pulled up

CCTV video of the Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 takeoff shows the aircraft descending in a right-wing low attitude until it struck the ground and burst into flames.

We are following reports of a crash of Air India flight #AI171 from Ahmedabad to London. We received the last signal from the aircraft at 08:08:51 UTC, just seconds after take off. The aircraft involved is a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with registration VT-ANB

#Breaking Following reports on the crash of an Air India B-787 with 240 aboard in Ahmedabad (India). First reports state accident occured during take-off. More updates when possible

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