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How Overuse Of The Rudder Downed An Airbus A300 In 2001
The crash of American Airlines Flight 587 is one of the worst in US aviation history, with 260 fatalities. It involved an Airbus A300 aircraft, which suffered a catastrophic loss of its vertical ...
What we know about the American Airlines plane and Army helicopter crash over D.C.'s Potomac River
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter. Reagan National Airport grounded all flights.
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Commercial Passenger Airplane Crashes Fast Facts
Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...
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American Airlines crash in Washington DC may be carrier’s worst disaster in two decades
The Airbus A300 hit wake turbulence from a larger aircraft ... which was flown into the Pentagon. The worst aviation accident ever in the U.S. was American Airlines Flight 191, which in May ...
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Beached whales: Airbus grounds its massive Beluga cargo flights
with a rounded fuselage mounted on an Airbus A300-600 base. Big enough to carry two full-size helicopters of the Super-Puma type, the mega-transporter was brought into service in 1995 specifically ...