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1988 Jul 3 Iran Air Flight 655 Shot Down by US Missiles
Iran Air Flight 655, also known as IR655, was a civilian airliner shot down by US missiles on Sunday 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward the end of the Iran-Iraq War. The ai...
1992 Jan 20 Air Inter Flight 148 Crashes, Killing 87
Air Inter Flight 148 was a scheduled airline flight on 20 January 1992 that crashed in the Vosges Mountains, near Mont Sainte-Odile, while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport. 87 of th...
1994 Mar 23 Aeroflot Flight 593 Crashes with 15-year Old in Control
Aeroflot Flight 593, a "Russian Airlines" Airbus A310-304 passenger airliner, registration F-OGQS, operating on behalf of Aeroflot, crashed into a hillside in Siberia on 23 March 1994. Al...
1994 Apr 26 China Airlines Flight 140 Stalls at Landing
China Airlines Flight 140 was a route from Taipei, Taiwan to Nagoya, Japan. On April 26, 1994, the Airbus A300 on the route was due to land at Nagoya Airport. The Airbus A300 was completi...
1997 Sep 26 Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 Crashes in Low Visibility
Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 (GA152, GIA152) was a scheduled domestic Indonesian passenger flight from Jakarta to Medan Sumatra operated by state owned flag carrier Garuda Indonesia. On Se...
2007 Jul 17 TAM Airlines Flight 3054 Explodes Near Gas Station
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ 3054) was an Airbus A320 airliner, registration PR-MBK, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Porto Alegre and São Paulo, Brazil, which c...
2009 Jun 1 Air France Flight 447 is lost over Atlantic Ocean
Military aircraft and warships from France and Brazil were combing the equatorial Atlantic in a desperate quest to find the wreckage of an Air France jet that disappeared with 228 people ...
2009 Jun 8 Brazilian Officials Confirm Retrieval of Air France Flight 447 Vertical Stabilizer
Search crews recovered the vertical stabilizer from the tail section of the Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic, Brazil's air force said yesterday - a key item in finding the ca...
2009 Jun 8 Seventeen bodies have been recovered from Air France Flight 447 debris, according to Brazilian military authorities
Seventeen bodies have been recovered from last week's crash of an Air France jetliner off the South American coast, according to Brazil's military. The Brazilian navy and air force say...
2009 Jun 10 French Submarine Sent to Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Box
Off the coast of Brazil, search teams continue to hunt for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. They have recovered 41 bodies so far, with 187 still not accounted for. The cause of the ...
2009 Jun 14 Autopsy Reports from Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Seem to Rule Out Terrorism
Autopsies on the bodies recovered after the Airbus disaster in the south Atlantic suggest there was no explosion or fire and therefore no terrorist attack. But two weeks after Air Fran...
2009 Jun 15 Centennial Paris Air Show Opens on Somber Note Amid Continuing Air France Flight 447 Investigations
The world's largest showcase of civilian and military aircraft and equipment, the Paris air show, has opened at Le Bourget Airport. Some 2,000 exhibitors from 48 countries will be exh...
2009 Jun 27 Brazil Announces End of Search for Bodies from Air France Flight 447
Brazil has called off its search for more bodies and debris from the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean four weeks ago. Brazil Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mu...
2009 Jun 30 Yemenia Flight 626 Crashes
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled commercial flight operated by Yemenia en route from Sana'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros that crashed on 30 June 2009 at around 1:50 a.m. local time (22:50...
2009 Jul 10 Two Ships End Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Box
The ping signals from the black boxes belonging to doomed Air France Flight 447 began to fade about 10 days ago, and now two of the ships involved in the hunt are leaving. A French nuc...
2010 Jul 28 Pakistan Airbus A321 Crash
An airblue Airbus A321 crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan, in rainy weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board, according to an Associated Press report. Res...