User:Sardanaphalus/List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft (example layout)

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1930

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 * October 5
 * British airship R101
 * Crashes north of Paris, killing 48 people in an eruption of flames.
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1931

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 * March 31
 * Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 599 Fokker F-10 Trimotor
 * Crashes near Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, killing all eight aboard, including legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.
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1933

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 * October 10
 * United Airlines Boeing 247
 * Destroyed by a bomb over Chesterton, Indiana in the first proven case of air sabotage on a commercial aircraft; all seven on board are killed.
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1937

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 * May 6
 * DZR Hindenburg
 * [[Image:Hindenburg burning.jpg|right|100px]] Bursts into flames and crashes while attempting a landing at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board are killed. One person on the ground also dies.
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 * November 16
 * Sabena Junkers Ju 52
 * Crashes near Ostend, Belgium killing all 11 on board, including the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse.
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1938

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 * January 10
 * Northwest Airlines Flight 2 Lockheed L14H Super Electra
 * Crashes near Bozeman, Montana, killing all ten on board; the machine with which the manufacturer measured component vibration is found to be inaccurate, causing the aircraft to be more prone to flutter than thought.
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1939

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 * January 13
 * Northwest Airlines Flight 1 Lockheed L14H Super Electra
 * Crashes on takeoff from Miles City, Montana, killing all four on board. The aircraft's cross-feed fuel valve leaked fuel into the cockpit and an intense fire broke out.
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1940

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 * June 14
 * Kaleva incident
 * An Aero Junkers Ju 52-3/mge flying from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki, Finland is shot down by two Soviet bombers over the Gulf of Finland. At the time, Finland was not at war with any country.
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1941

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 * February 26
 * Eastern Air Lines Flight 21 Douglas DC-3
 * Crashes while descending to land at Atlanta, Georgia, killing 16 of 25 aboard; World War I hero and Eastern Air Lines president Eddie Rickenbacker is among the survivors.
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1942

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 * January 16
 * Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 3 Douglas DC-3
 * After refueling in Las Vegas, en route to California, the plane took off on a clear night, and twenty-three minutes later crashed into "Double Up Peak" near the 8300-foot level of Mount Potosi, 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas. All 22 passengers were killed, including actress Carole Lombard and her mother.
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1943

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 * June 1
 * BOAC Flight 777 Douglas DC-3
 * Shot down by German fighter aircraft over the Bay of Biscay, killing 17 passengers and crew, including actor Leslie Howard. It has been speculated that the flight was attacked because German intelligence believed that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was aboard.
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1947

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 * August 12
 * BSAA Star Dust Avro Lancastrian
 * Disappears over the Andes after transmitting an enigmatic coded message ("STENDEC"); the fate of the plane remains a mystery until the crash site is located in 2000. The crew of four and nine passengers were killed.
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 * October 24
 * United Airlines Flight 608 Douglas DC-6
 * Crashes near Bryce Canyon Airport, Utah, when a fire caused by a design flaw destroys the plane. All 52 on board died.
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1948

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 * January 28
 * A flight chartered by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service crashes in the hills west of Coalinga, California, killing 32. The crash becomes the impetus of the Woody Guthrie song "Deportee"
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 * March 12
 * Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 Douglas DC-4
 * Crashes into Mount Sanford in the Alaska Territory, killing 30.
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 * June 17
 * United Airlines Flight 624 Douglas DC-6
 * Crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, after errors in executing procedures to extinguish what was believed to be an on-board fire. All 43 on board died.
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 * July 17
 * Miss Macao PBY Catalina
 * In the first known case of aircraft hijacking, four hijackers attempt to rob the 23 passengers on board a seaplane while it crosses the Pearl River delta en route from Macau to Hong Kong. The seaplane's pilot, one of three crew members, is attacked and loses control during the ensuing struggle in the cockpit. The subsequent crash kills all on board except one passenger, who is later identified to be the lead hijacker.
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 * October 2
 * Bukken Bruse disaster
 * A flying boat crashes upon landing in Trondheim, Norway; Bertrand Russell is among the survivors.
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 * October 20
 * KLM Constellation air disaster
 * A Lockheed Constellation, the Nijmegen, crashes near Prestwick, Scotland, killing 40.
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1949

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 * May 4
 * Superga air disaster FIAT G212CP
 * Crashes into the Superga hills near Turin, Italy, killing all 31 on board, including 18 Torino football team players (see also Grande Torino).
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 * September 9
 * Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3
 * Explodes in flight while en route from Quebec City to Baie-Comeau, Quebec as the result of sabotage, killing all 23 on board.
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 * November 1
 * Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 Douglas DC-4
 * On approach to Washington National Airport, the flight suffers a mid-air collision with a P-38 Lightning. All 55 people on board die, including Congressman George J. Bates, New Yorker cartoonist Helen Hokinson, and former Congressman Michael J. Kennedy.
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 * November 29
 * American Airlines Flight 157 Douglas DC-6
 * Veers off course and strikes buildings after the flight crew loses control of the aircraft during its final approach to Dallas Love Field. 26 passengers and 2 crew members are killed.
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