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2 days ago · On September 1, 1983, the flight was shot down by a Soviet Sukhoi Su-15 interceptor aircraft. The Boeing 747 airliner was en route from Anchorage to Seoul, but owing to a navigational mistake made by the crew, the airliner drifted from its planned route and flew through Soviet prohibited airspace.
Sep 13, 2024 · An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board later revealed that the jet was missing bolts meant to hold on its door plug, a panel that covers slots in the plane body used for ...
Sep 12, 2024 · Emily Wiprud, the first officer piloting Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on January 5, says she initially thought people had been killed when the plane’s door plug blew off shortly after takeoff ...
Sep 11, 2024 · Cockpit recordings indicate the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 teamed up to attack their hijackers, forcing down the plane near Shanksville, a township in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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6 days ago · A man caused a commotion on a Frontier Airlines flight this week by pulling down oxygen masks and saying he was going to kill everyone on board, prosecutors say.
2 days ago · On July 17, 1996, at approximately 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, the Boeing 747-100 serving the flight exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York. [1]: 1. All 230 people on board died in the crash; it is the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
Sep 8, 2024 · An editor on the CBS News national desk was calling and directed him to drive to downtown Manhattan to shoot what, at that time, was thought to be a plane crash into a building in lower...
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