WASHINGTON: Here’s a record of great US airplane crashes in recent times, after a passenger airplane with 64 folks aboard collided with a navy helicopter carrying 4 and crashed into Washington DC’s Potomac River Wednesday night time.
- February 12, 2009: a Colgan Air Bombardier plane flying from New York to the small city of Buffalo crashes, killing the 49 passengers onboard.
- January 15, 2009: a US Airways Airbus A320 carrying greater than 150 folks collides with a flock of birds earlier than making a spectacular touchdown on the Hudson River in New York, due to the pilot’s exemplary actions.
- August 27, 2006: a regional transport airplane makes use of a fallacious, unlit runway, fairly than the designated one and crashes shortly after taking off from Lexington airport, Kentucky, killing round 50 folks onboard.
- December 19, 2005: a Grumman G-73T Mallard hydroplane operated by Ocean Airways, connecting Miami and an island within the Bahamas, crashes into the ocean shortly after takeoff, killing each crew members and 18 passengers.
- October 19, 2004: a BAe Jetstream 32 operated by AmericanConnection crashes close to Kirksville, Missouri on account of poor visibility. Each pilots and 11 out of the 13 passengers are killed.
- January 8, 2003: a US Airways Beechcraft 1900, flying between Charlotte, North Carolina and Greenville, South Carolina, crashes right into a hangar shortly after takeoff. Each pilots and the 19 passengers onboard are killed.
- November 12, 2001: two months after the September 11 assaults, an American Airways Airbus A-300, flying from New York to Saint-Domingue, crashes shortly after taking off from JFK airport. The 251 passengers and 9 crew members are killed. On the bottom, a number of homes are destroyed or broken, and 5 residents killed.
- January 13, 1982: an Air Florida Boeing 737-222 hits a bridge over the Potomac earlier than crashing into the river simply after takeoff throughout a snowstorm. The crash kills 78 folks together with 4 motorists who had been on the bridge.
