Not exact matches
Prior to Tuesday, the most recent
fatal accident came in February 2009 near Buffalo, New York, when an aircraft operated by the now - defunct regional airline Colgan
Air crashed and killed 50 people, including 49 on board and one person on the ground.
The
crash of an
Air National Guard transport was the second
fatal crash in less than a year involving a version of the C - 130, a workhorse of military aviation.
The U.S.
Air Force Thunderbirds announced Thursday morning that they've canceled their appearance at the Fort Lauderdale
Air Show May 5 - 6 following a pilot's
fatal crash in the Nevada desert earlier this month.
The U.S.
Air Force Thunderbirds canceled their appearance at the Fort Lauderdale
Air Show after a
fatal crash in Nevada on April 4.
A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived
air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near -
fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006
crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.
Nepal Airlines and Tara
Air, both based in Nepal, tied for the most likely to be involved in a
fatal crash.
Among the most popular carriers, and with the most extensive routes, are national carrier Garuda Indonesia (last
crashed in 2007 in Yogyakarta, killing 21; subsidiary Citilink), AirAsia Indonesia (last
crashed in 2014, killing all 162 on board), and LionAir (last
fatal crashed in 2004 but at least eight serious incidents since then; subsidiary Wings
Air and Batik
Air).
If you are planning a trip that involves
air travel and you find out that one airline has a
crash rate of.01 % and another.1 % (these are just hypothetical numbers; planes are much safer than this), you are going to choose the former, even if you are considering one - in - on - thousand chances because the consequences are so dire /
fatal.
Car accidents cause extraordinary suffering and loss to motorists, passengers and pedestrians and the South Carolina car accident attorneys handle every type of car accident resulting in serious injury or death: Intersection collision; Highway accident; SUV rollover;
Fatal car
crash; and Seatbelt injury,
Air bag injury, or Tire blowout.