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What is the most serious type of aircraft incident?
JAL Flight 123 520: The crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 on August 12, 1985, is the single-aircraft disaster with the highest number of fatalities: 520 people died on board a Boeing 747.
Which airline has had the most incidents?
The airline with the most crashes that is based in North America is American Airlines, having 13 fatal crashes since 1970.
What is a serious incident in aviation?
A “serious incident” means an incident involving circumstances indicating that there was a high probability of an accident and is associated with the operation of an aircraft.
What are the three predictors of good hazard recognition?
Hazard identification processes should be based on a combination of reactive, proactive, and predictive methods of safety data collection.
Who was the first pilot killed in a powered airplane?
Eugène Lefebvre was the first pilot killed in a powered airplane in 1909, while the first fatal mid-air collision occurred on 19 June 1912, near Douai, France, killing the pilot of each aircraft.
What is the most fatal accident in aviation history?
The most fatalities in any aviation accident in history occurred during 1977 in the Tenerife airport disaster when 583 people were killed when two Boeing 747s collided on a runway. The greatest number of fatalities from a midair collision occurred at the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, to the west of New Delhi,…
What are some of the most famous aircraft hijackings?
The following is a list of notable aircraft hijackings . March–July 1919: Fleeing from the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás seized a plane at gunpoint in Budapest to fly to Vienna. May 15, 1928: Harry W. Anderson was hijacked by Clarence Frechette while flying near Detroit.
What happened to the jetliner that was hit by lightning?
Lightning flashed around the plane at 800 feet, and the jetliner encountered a microburst wind shear—a strong downdraft and abrupt shift in the wind that caused the plane to lose 54 knots of airspeed in a few seconds.