Aviation Disaster facts
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On July 7, 2017 a flight landing in San Francisco descended to an altitude of 25m and as close as 9m laterally to four planes waiting below before aborting. 1,000 passengers were at imminent risk and with only seconds to spare, narrowly avoided "the greatest aviation disaster in history"
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About the Tenerife Airport Disaster when, on a day in which there was fog heavy enough to reduce visibility to less than 500 yards, two Boeing 747s had a head-on collision at the runway that resulted in 583 casualties and the deadliest accident in aviation history.
What is the most deadliest aviation disaster?
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what is the worst aviation disaster?
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In 2002, Chechen separatists brought down a Russian Mi-26 helicopter, which subsequently crashed into a minefield killing 127 soldiers on board. It was the most deadly aviation disaster ever suffered by the Russian armed forces, as well as their worst loss of life in a single day since 1999.
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The deadliest (583 casualties) crash in Aviation history occurred not in the skies but on the runway between two Boeing 747s on March 27, 1977. Known as the 'Tenerife Airport Disaster'.
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Former flight attendant Dorothy Kelly narrowly survived the deadliest aviation disaster in history at Tenerife, then 11 years later declined to take a colleague’s flight that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland
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A man named Jack Ridout survived the Tenerife Airport Disaster- the deadliest accident in aviation history. The following year, he booked a ticket on Flight 182 from Los Angeles, but cancelled it at the last moment. Flight 182 collided with a Cessna and crashed, killing everyone on board.
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Clipper Victor, the aircraft which served the 747's inaugural flight in 1970, was also the first 747 to be hijacked, it then landed in Cuba making it the first 747 to visit the country, and was one of the planes involved in the deadliest ever aviation disaster after only 7 years of service.
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The Boeing 747 that made the first commercial passenger flight was also the first 747 to be hijacked, and was destroyed in the worst aviation disaster in history.
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In 2001, two Japan Airlines aircraft nearly collided over Japan, missing by 35 ft (11 m). Had they collided, it could potentially have been the deadliest aviation disaster in history, with 677 people on board.
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In 1960 two commercial airliners collided over New York City, with one crashing in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, and the other in Staten Island. With a death toll of 134, it was the deadliest aviation disaster worldwide at the time.
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The Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest accident in aviation history, the only survivor from the KLM flight from Amsterdam to Tenerife survived because she chose not to reboard for Las Palmas, as she lived in Tenerife and did not want to fly to Gran Canaria to fly back the next day.
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The second-deadliest ground aviation disaster in the US. in 1965, a loaded KC-135 Tanker crashed in a Wichita, KS neighborhood, killing 23 on the ground.
It's been 29 years (July 3,1988)since Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by the US Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes. All 290 on board, including 66 children died. It was among the deadliest disasters in aviation history - source
the first 747 to fly a grand oceanic flight made history twice when it was destroyed in the worst disaster in aviation history. - source
The Tenerife airport disaster was the worst aviation accident killing 583 people. - source
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The plane that crashed into the French Alps is the third-deadliest crash of an Airbus A320, after TAM Airlines Flight 3054 and Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501, and the third-deadliest aviation disaster on French soil.
