Sentences with phrase «worst air accident»

Nigeria's worst air accident was in 1973, when 176 people died in a crash involving a Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 flying from Jeddah to Kano, according to the Aviation Safety Network website.

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The incident is Cuba's worst aviation disaster in three decades and its third major air accident since 2010.

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.

After all, 30 kilometers was the extent of the spread of dangerous radioactive material even at Chernobyl, a far worse nuclear accident that included an intense fire that wafted radioactive particles more than 9,000 meters into the air.

My worst day as secretary of transportation was Feb. 12, 2009, when Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed outside Buffalo, N.Y., an accident in which fatigue may have impaired the pilots» performance.

I think it is a dangerous vehicle to be in if you have a bad accident as i have read other reviews of air bags not deploying anywhere in the car.

Flying in bad weather, pilot error, improper maintenance, design defects, manufacturing problems, product failures, and air traffic control errors are just some of the many causes of aviation accidents.

Often the severity of the injuries are worse than those acquired in car accidents because motorcycles do not have seat belts or air bags.