1908 - 1959 |
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09/17/1908 |
First airplane fatality in history |
06/25/1925 |
Crash of an early KLM passenger plane |
07/03/1926 |
Passenger plane crash in Rossaugpt, Czechoslovakia
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08/22/1927 |
A Fokker F-VIII crashes in Sevenoaks, England |
06/17/1929 |
An Imperial Airways Handley Page HP-30 ditches in the English Channel |
09/03/1929 |
A Transcontinental Air Transport Ford Tri-Motor crashes at Grants,New Mexico |
06/05/1930 |
A Colonial Air Transport Ford Tri-Motor ditches in Boston Harbor |
03/31/1931 |
Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne killed |
03/28/1933 |
First airline disaster caused by sabotage |
01/15/1934 |
Air France Dewoitine D-332 crashes after entering severe snowstorm |
11/15/1934 |
Qantas passenger plane crashed while on delivery |
08/15/1935 |
Will Rogers, Wiley Post killed, Point Barrow Alaska |
01/12/1937 |
African Exlorer Martin Johnson, killed, Newhall, California |
03/25/1937 |
Trans Continental and Western Airline DC-2, Clifton Pennsylvania |
05/06/1937 |
Hindenburg destroyed at Lakehurst, New Jersey |
08/10/1937 |
Eastern Air Lines DC-2 crashes on take off at Daytona, Beach Florida |
10/17/1937 |
United Air Lines DC-3 crashes in Wyoming |
11/29/1938 |
United Air Lines DC-3 runs out of fuel and ditches in the ocean |
10/30/1941 |
Northwest Orient Airlines plane crashes, pilot only survivor, Moorhead, Minnesota |
01/16/1942 |
Actress Carole Lombard killed, Mt. Potosi, Nevada |
08/25/1942 |
George Edmund, Duke of Kent killed, Dunbeath, Scotland |
07/28/1945 |
Military B-25 crashes into the Empire State Building, New York, NY |
11/13/1946 |
Western Airlines DC-3 crashes at Lebec, California |
05/29/1947 |
Pilot forgot to release the gust lock before takeoff |
11/24/1947 |
Faulty design leads to fire onboard |
10/20/1948 |
KLM Constellation runs into power lines and crashes |
09/09/1949 |
Husband places bomb aboard to collect insurance on his wife, Quebec, Canada |
05/04/1949 |
All team members of the Torino Soccer Team killed, Superga, Italy |
11/01/1949 |
U.S. Reps, George Bates and Michael Kennedy killed, Arlington, Virginia |
08/24/1951 |
Collision into Tolman peak, Decoto, California |
12/16/1951 |
Engine fire, Miami Airlines, Elizabeth, New Jersey |
06/18/1953 |
First accident to take more than 100 lives |
09/05/1954 |
KLM Constellation, ditches into the Shannon River, Foynes, Ireland |
10/06/1955 |
DC-4 slams into side of Medicine Bow Peak |
11/01/1955 |
Son places bomb in mother's luggage to collect insurance, United Airlines, Longmont, CO |
06/30/1956 |
Midair collision between a United Airlines DC-7 and TWA Constellation, Grand Canyon, AZ |
02/01/1957 |
Northeast Airlines DC-6 crashes at Rikers Island, New York |
02/06/1958 |
British European Airways accident involving the Manchester United football team |
03/02/1958 |
Director, producer Mike Todd killed, Grants, New Mexico |
02/03/1959 |
Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper killed, Mason City, Iowa |
02/03/1959 |
American Airlines Electra crashes into the East River, New York, New York |
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