1970 - 1979 |
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| 07/05/1970 | Premature deployment of spoilers, Air Canada, Toronto, Canada |
| 11/14/1970 | Marshal University football team tragedy. Huntington, West Virginia |
| 11/27/1970 | Capital Airlines DC8 over overruns runway, Anchorage Alaska |
| 05/28/1971 | WW II hero Audie Murphy killed, Roanoak, Virginia |
| 06/06/1971 | Hughes Air West midair collision with a F-4 over the San Gabriel Mtns., California |
| 05/05/1972 | Alitalia DC8 crashes into mountain, Carini Sicily |
| 06/18/1972 | Incapacitated British Airways pilot leads to crash, London, England |
| 08/14/1972 | Tail separates from plane after uncontrollable fire |
| 09/24/1972 | Sabrejet crashes into ice cream parlor, Sacramento, California |
| 12/03/1972 | Crash of a Convair 900 at Tenerife, Canary Islands |
| 12/29/1972 | Eastern Air Lines Lockheed TriStar crashes into the Everglades |
| 07/11/1973 | Emergency landing after a fire is reported aboard |
| 09/20/1973 | Singer, Jim Croce killed, Natchitoches, Louisiana |
| 01/30/1974 | Pan Am B707 crashes at Pago Pago, American Samoa |
| 03/03/1974 | Defective cargo door latch, Turkish Airlines, Ermenonville, France |
| 03/13/1974 | Charter plane crash kills the Wolper Productions movie crew, near Bishop, California |
| 04/04/1975 | Flight evacuating 243 Vietnamese orphans crashes on takeoff from Saigon |
| 06/24/1975 | Eastern Airlines B727 crashed while landing at JFK Airport |
| 09/10/1976 | ATC error causes midair collision |
| 03/27/1977 | Pan American/KLM, ground collision, Tenerife, Canary Islands |
| 08/01/1977 | Helicopter crash killes news reporter Francis Gary Powers, Encino, California |
| 10/20/1977 | Plane crash kills Lynyrd Skynyrd band members, Gillsburg, Mississippi |
| 11/15/1978 | Icelandic Air DC-8 crashes in Sri Lanka |
| 03/01/1978 | Continental DC10 catches on fire after an aborted takeoff |
| 05/08/1978 | Boeing 727 land short of the runway in 12 feet of water |
| 09/25/1978 | Pacific Southwest Airlines midair collision with a Cessna over San Diego, CA |
| 12/28/1978 | United Air Lines DC8 runs out of fuel and crashes. |
| 05/25/1979 | American Airlines worst US air disaster in history, Chicago, Illinois |
| 08/02/1979 | Yankee catcher Thurman Munson killed in his Cessna 501 Citation |
| 0811/1979 | Two Aeroflot Tupolev 134s collide in midair. |
| 10/08/1979 | Swissair DC-8 runs off the runway |
| 10/31/1979 | Western Airlines DC-10 lands on closed runway |
| 11/28/1979 | Air New Zealand sightseeing disaster, Mt. Erebus, Antarctica |
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