37 aircraft accidents in USA since 2000

The Boeing 767-300 freighter, operated by 21 Air on behalf of Amazon Prime, took off from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on a cargo flight to Miami, Florida (USA). After landing at Miami International Airport, the aircraft overran the runway, crossed a highway, and struck several vehicles before coming to rest in a parking lot approximately 460 meters (1,500 feet) beyond the end of the runway. A fire subsequently broke out. Five people on ground were killed and five others were injured, three of them critically. The aircraft sustained substantial damage, including a fracture of the right wing.

An Air Canada express (Jazz) Canadair CRJ-900 took off from Montreal, Canada for a passenger flight to New York La Guardia, NY, USA. 72 passengers and 4 crew members were onboard. The plane collided with a fire truck during landing. The captain and first officer died in the accident, two fire fighters on board the truck received serious injuries, 9 passengers received serious injuries, 32 passengers received minor injuries.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11 operated by UPS (United Parcel Service) took off from Louisville, KY for a cargo flight to Honolulu, HI, USA. 3 crewmembers were onboard. The plane was accelerating for takeoff when the aircraft impacted ground and came to a rest at an approximate position about 0.6 NM (1km) past the runway end bursting into flames. All three occupants perished. There are 10 fatalities and 11 injuries on the ground.

The Canadair CRJ-700 operated by A PSA Airlines on behalf of American Airlines took off from Wichita, Kansas, USA, for a passenger flight to Washington National,DC, USA. 60 passengers and 4 crew members were onboard. The CRJ-700 had been cleared to land by ATC and was on final approach to Washington National's airport descending through about 200 feet AGL about 0.6 NM (1km) before the runway threshold when the aircraft collided with a military Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. Both the CRJ-700 and the helicopter fell into the Potomac River. All 64 occupants and 3 occupants from the helicopter were killed.

The Boeing 737-275C cargo operated by Transair/Rhoades Aviation took off from Honolulu, HI, USA to Kahului, HI, USA. 2 crewmembers were onboard. A few seconds after takeoff, the crew stopped the climb at about 2000 feet reporting they had lost the left-hand engine. The flight crew initiated a turn back to Honolulu’s airport and advised they might lose their other engine. The crew requested the coast guard out. The aircraft did not make it to the airport and needed to ditch in the Ocean about 2.7 NM short of runway. Both crew were rescued, one pilot was airlifted to a hospital, the other taken ashore by a rescue boat and taken to a hospital. Both pilots received serious injuries.

The Saab 2000 belonging to PenAir and operated on behalf of Alaska Airlines took off from Anchorage, AK, USA, for a passenger flight to Unalaska, AK, USA. 38 passengers and 3 crewmembers were onboard. The plane overran the end of the runway while landing on Unalaska's airport, and partially hanging down a cliff into the sea. One passenger died as result of the accident. 12 passengers were injured. The 28 other occupants were unhurt. The aircraft received substantial damage.

The Embraer ERJ-145 operated by CommutAir on behalf United Express took off from Newark, NJ, USA for a passenger flight to Presque Isle, ME, USA. 28 passengers and 3 crewmembers were onboard. The plane slid off the right side of the runway just after landing. All gear collapsed. The plane stopped next to the runway, in snow. A pilot and three passengers received minor injuries.

The Boeing 767-300 freighter operated by Atlas Air on behalf of Amazon Prime took off from Miami, Florida, USA, for a cargo flight to Houston, Texas, USA. 3 crewmembers were onboard. The plane crashed during its approach to Houston airport. All the three people onboard were killed.

The Convair C-131 Samaritan operated by Conquest Air Cargo took off from Nassau, Bahamas, for a cargo flight to Miami, Florida, USA. 2 crewmembers were onboard. The plane was about 10 NM (18km) East of the coast of Florida when both engines failed forcing the crew to ditch the aircraft in the Atlantic ocean. One of the pilots floating in a life raft was lifted to a rescue helicopter, the other pilot was killed.

The Dassault Falcon 50 business jet operated by Air American Flight Services, Inc., was substantially damaged when it overran the end of the runway during its landing at Greenville Downtown Airport, Greenville, South Carolina, USA. The plane took off from Clearwater, Florida, USA, for a passenger flight to Greenville. 2 passengers and 2 crewmembers were onboard. The two crewmembers were fatally injured in the accident, and the two passengers received serious injuries. Air traffic control personnel reported that the airplane touched down normally at a normal touchdown point on runway. They saw the airplane's sole thrust reverser on the center (No. 2) engine deploy. The controllers then watched as the airplane did not decelerate as it continued down the runway. An airport security video captured the airplane's touchdown and confirmed that the No. 2 thrust reverser and the airbrakes were deployed. The video also showed the airplane as it continued down to the end of the runway and then went over an embankment. First responders reported that all three engines were operating at full power for at least 20 minutes after the accident with, one engine running until about 40 minutes after the accident. Initial examination of the accident site, runway, and tire track evidence showed that the airplane departed the left edge of runway 19 near the departure end, traveled across the flat grassy area at the end of the runway, continued down a 50-foot embankment, and came to rest on the airport perimeter road about 425 feet from the runway. There was no fire. Fuel was observed leaking from the wings at the accident site.

The Short SD-330 operated by Air Cargo Carriers on behalf of UPS took off from Louisville, KY, USA for a freight flight to Charleston, WV, USA. 2 crewmembers were onboard. The plane crashed during landing. Both crewmembers perished. After an uneventful flight, the plane started a VOR approach to Charleston airport. The plane impacted the runway about 340 feet past the runway threshold, in a left bank. The left wing hit the ground and broke off. Then the aircraft went off to the left of the runway into a hill and has been destroyed. No fire erupted. The main wreckage came to rest in the ravine off the runway about 100 feet below the runway on its left side. All parts except left wing and left gear are together, some parts of the stabilizer have broken off and are close to the fuselage, the right hand wing has folded over the aircraft. The left wing and left gear remained on the runway. Weather reports at the time of the accident indicate a calm wind, and a low ceiling with overcast clouds at 500 ft.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-10 operated by Fedex Federal Express took off from Memphis, TN, USA for a cargo flight to Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA. 2 crewmembers were onboard. The plane crash landed at Fort Lauderdale airport and the left hand engine burst in flames. There were no injury, but the aircraft received substantial damage. The plane performed an uneventful flight and approach normally to Fort Lauderdale airport. Crew members reported that the approach was stable and a normal landing occurred. They also reported that there had been no problem with the landing gear during the flight. Investigation shows that 12 seconds after the aircraft touched down normally on the runway, the left main gear collapsed. This lead the left engine and left wingtip to contact the ground, causing a rupture of the fuel lines and the left wing fuel tank. Fuel from the left wing ignited as the aircraft rolled down the runway, the fire continued after the aircraft came to a stop partway off the runway. A few seconds later, an explosion occurred in the vicinity of the left hand engine. Both flight crew members escaped through the right hand cockpit window using the escape rope and did not report any injuries. The aircraft had accumulated 84,589 flight hours in 35,606 flight cycles since its manufacture in 1972.

The Beechcraft 1900C operated by Aeropanamericano took off from Miami Executive Airport, Florida, USA, for a ferry flight to Providenciales International Airport, Turks and Caicos Islands. Two crewmembers and two passengers were onboard. The plane was destroyed during collision with terrain, following a loss of engine thrust during initial climb. The two foreign certificated pilots and two passengers were fatally injured. The airplane had undergone routine maintenance in Miami and was returning to Venezuela. The twenty-one-seat airplane was powered by two 1,100 horsepower turboprop engines, equipped with four-blade. Review of maintenance records revealed that the left engine propeller had been due for overhaul. It was removed and replaced with an overhauled propeller prior to the accident flight and the accident flight was the first flight after the overhauled propeller was installed on the left engine. Review of radar and communication data from the Federal Aviation Administration revealed that the flight was cleared for takeoff at 1436:45. At 1438:15, one of the pilots reported an "engine failure" to air traffic control. The controller asked the pilot if he would like to return to the airport and the pilot replied affirmative. The controller then offered a 180-degree turn to runway 9R and the pilot requested a left traffic pattern to runway 27L, which the controller approved; however, the airplane subsequently impacted a utility pole and terrain about 2 miles west of the runway. A postcrash fire consumed a majority of the cockpit and cabin. Witnesses observed the airplane flying low, with the left wing down and the left propeller turning slower than the right propeller, before the airplane impacted the utility pole. The airplane came to rest upright in a field against several trees. The beginning of a debris path was observed near a severed utility pole where scrape marks across the adjacent road were consistent with left wingtip contact. Additionally, sections of left propeller blades were located near the utility pole and along the debris path, consistent with the left propeller impacting the utility pole as the left wingtip was scraping the ground. The debris path extended about 240 feet, on a magnetic heading of 240 degrees, to the main wreckage.

The Airbus A300-600F operated by UPS took off from Louisville, KY, USA, for a cargo flight to Birmingham, AL, USA. 2 crewmembers were onboard. The plane crashed half-mile short of Birmingham’s runway in open terrain and burst into flames. Both occupants were killed. The accident occurred while the plane was on approach to Birmingham's runway 18. The plane touched down in an isolated grassy field on the outskirts of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, near the intersection Airport Road/Tarrant Huffman Road about half-mile short of the runway. The aircraft crashed, struck a massive hardwood tree and broke up. The nose of the plane was detached from the body. The plane skidded, leaving a trail of debris, and burst into flame. A piece of the fuselage and an engine are visible on the crest of the hill. At the time of the accident, weather conditions were rainy with low clouds. No people on the ground or houses on the ground were affected.

The Boeing 777-200 operated by Asiana Airlines took off from Seoul, South Korea, for a passenger flight to San Francisco, CA, USA. 291 passengers and 16 crewmembers were onboard. During landing, the plane touched down short of runway impacting the edge separating the runway from the San Francisco Bay, and crashed. 3 people were killed in the accident, 10 people were seriously injured, and 120 people were injured. The majority of survivors escaped without injuries. The aircraft was on a normal approach and the crew was cleared for a visual approach to runway 28L at San Francisco airport. There were no reports of windshear and no adverse weather conditions. During the approach there were remarks in the cockpit about being high on the approach, then on the glide path and some time later being below glidepath. The pilot began to pull back on the yoke to reduce rate of descent assuming the autothrottles would maintain the speed set to 137 knots. A lateral deviation developed taking the attention of the crew. 35 seconds prior to impact the automated 500 feet call sounded, shortly afterwards the landing checklist was completed. 18 seconds prior to impact the automated 200 feet call out sounded, 9 seconds prior to impact the automated 100 feet call out sounded, immediately afterwards the first comment for speed was heard. All PAPIs were red (indicating the plane was well below the glidepath) and the speed had decayed into the red/black marked range (well below the normal approach speed), the captain realised the autothrottles were not maintaining the target speed, at that point the pilot flying had already started to move the levers forward. About 3 seconds before impact the call for go-around occurred. A second call for go-around was heard 1.5 seconds before impact, this call came from a different crew member. The plane then impacted the edge separating the runway from the San Francisco Bay. Following first impact with the ground at high angle of pitch the aircraft lost gear and tail section, skidded along the runway, the tail and right wing rose to about 45 degrees, the left wing entangled with ground sending the aircraft in a spin and separating the engines, the aircraft turned around counterclockwise by nearly 360 degrees with the tail coming down again and stopped, burst into flames and burned out. The aircraft came to a rest left of the runway about 490 meters/1600 feet past the runway threshold. The tail plane, gear and engines separated. All passenger seats remained inside the aircraft cabin, only 3 flight attendant seats were ejected from the aircraft with the flight attendants seated in them. The fatalities are three young passengers.

The Boeing 707-321B experimental aerial tanker plane, operated by Omega Aerial Refueling Services Inc, took off from Port Hueneme-Point Mugu NAS, CA, USA, for a test flight. The plane was expected to come back to its departure airport after the flight. 3 crewmembers were onboard. The four-engine plane crashed on takeoff, and has been destroyed. The three crewmembers sustained minor injuries. Omega Aerial Refueling Services Inc, was operating the airplane as a local public use flight. The flight crew indicated that they delayed their takeoff due to high wind conditions. Once the winds were within limits, they reported that startup was normal. Prior to take off, they decided to add 5 knots to their rotation speed, and power up slowly and as smoothly as possible. The captain was the flying pilot. The first officer called critical engine failure recognition speed (V1) reference speed at 141 knots, and rotation speed (Vr) at 150 knots. The captain rotated the airplane, and it then lifted off about 7000 feet (2130 meters) down the 11000-foot runway (3350 meters). About 20 feet (6 meters) above ground level, the number two engine (left inboard) throttle lever slammed back to the idle position. The airplane stopped climbing, and the captain adjusted the pitch slightly down to hold V2 speed. Witnesses observed the airplane lift off, and something shiny go up and over the left wing. They also observed a fireball on the left side of the airplane. The flight crew reported that the airplane began to drift to the left and descend. The captain lowered the pitch slightly and leveled the wings just prior to the airplane contacting the runway. He informed the other crew members that they were going to put it back down. He placed the throttle levers in the idle position, and activated the speed brakes. The airplane departed the left side of the runway surface; the crew reported a couple of impacts and then one final violent impact prior to the airplane coming to rest in a wetland marsh. The flight crew had to force the cockpit door open due to debris that had piled up against it. They noted significant damage from the forward galley aft, and a large fire in the vicinity of the left wing. They opened the left main cabin door, and deployed the slide. They exited into the mud, and made it to dry land and away from the burning wreckage. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wings, fuselage, and empennage from impact forces and post crash fire. The main wreckage came to rest in a wetland marsh left of the runway overrun, and caught fire. Fire consumed the top of the cabin and the cockpit. The main wreckage consisted of the cockpit, cabin, right wing with the number three (right inboard) engine partially attached, empennage, and the inboard half of the left wing, which sustained thermal damage and was under water. Scattered debris aft of the main wreckage included the nose gear, remnants of the burned outboard left wing, right main landing gear truck, and number four (right outboard) engine.

The Gulfstream G650 belonging to Gulfstream Aerospace (the Gulfstream manufacturer) took off from Roswell International Air Center Airport, New Mexico, United States of America, for a test flight. Four crewmembers (two pilots and two flight test engineers) were onboard. The plane crashed just after the lift-off, killing all the four occupants. The airplane was one of five G650’s engaged in flight testing as part of the model’s FAA and EASA certification program. The aircraft - operating as Gulfstream Test 31 - had spent the morning, approximately 2.5h, conducting takeoff-performance and brake testing. It was then just another takeoff: the plane was cleared for takeoff on runway 15. On its take-off roll the aircraft had just gotten airborne when the right wingtip struck the ground, causing the aircraft to lose altitude, collapsing the gear, skidding on the runway and catching fire. The plane skidded and came to a stop a few yards away from the control tower. The fire has completely destroyed the plane. Two Gulfstream pilots and two Gulfstream flight-test engineers died in the crash. The winds were under 10kts at the time of the accident.

The Fairchild C-123 Provider cargo aircraft, operated by All West Freight originated at Palmer Wolf Lake Airport,AK, USA and was destined for Unalakleet, AK, USA. The plane crashed at the southern flanks of Mount Healy, Alaska, USA, about 1NM from the Denali National Park, about 180 miles north of Anchorage. The aircraft burst into flames on impact and disintegrated. Three crewmembers were onboard. All of them perished in the accident. The flight was to carry a large generator to Unalakleet. The flight was performed according to visual flight rules, no flight plan had been filed, the crew was not in contact with air traffic control and no radar services were provided. Numerous witnesses observed the plane flying slow and low (about 300-500 feet above the ground), flaps and gear were retracted, the engines were working. Cloud base was at about 3500-4000 feet. They observed the airplane pitch up to nearly vertical, roll left and nose dive toward the ground. A witness took two pictures, the first picture showed the airplane in straight and level flight, the second a few seconds later shows the airplane inverted in a near vertical descent just above the tree line. The airplane impacted sloped wooded terrain adjacent to the park highway at an elevation of 2158 feet, the wreckage area is confined within 250 by 300 feet (75 by 90 meters). A post impact fire consumed most of the cockpit area, fuselage, inboard sections of the wings (around fuel tanks), both flaps, and damaged a majority of the tail section and outboard sections of the wings. The post impact fire also started a small forest fire around the main wreckage and to an area adjacent to the accident site. The generator came to rest upright in the center of the wreckage consistent with its position in the cargo bay. The owner of All West Freight, who was also a pilot of the C-123, was among those that were onboard.

The Beechcraft 1900C cargo plane, operated by Alaska Central Express, took off from Sand Point Municipal Airport, AK, USA, bound for Anchorage, AK, USA. Two crewmembers were onboard. The plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing both crewmembers. The cargo plane was carrying a load of fish and mail. It was destroyed when it crashed into the water shortly after takeoff. Sand Point is an island on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, about 550 miles southwest of Anchorage.

The United States Coast Guard Hercules HC-130H took off from Sacramento, California, United States of America, for a search mission, and was supposed then to come back to Sacramento. But the plane was missing after a reported mid-air collision between the HC-130 and a US Marine Corps Bell AH-1 Super Cobra. 9 people perished in the accident: the 7 occupants of the HC-130 died, as well as the two occupants of the helicopter. The HC-130 mission was part of a search for a 12-foot vessel that had been missing for two days.The Cobra helicopter was heading to San Clemente island on a training mission out of Camp Pendleton with two crew. Both aircraft collided in flight. The wreckage of the HC-130 and the Cobra helicopter were found a few days after the accident, but no signs of crash victims.

Continental Connection Flight, operated by Colgan Air, departed Newark-Liberty International Airport, NJ on a domestic flight to Buffalo Airport, NY. 44 passengers and 5 crewmembers were onboard. The airplane, a DHC-8, crashed into a neighborhood six miles short of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. It struck a house in Clarence Center, starting a huge fire. All the people onboard were killed. There is also one casualty on ground. After a seemingly routine flight, the Dash 8 Q400 turboprop plane endured a 26-second plunge before smashing into a house. The commuter plane was on approach to runway 23. The plane slowed to an unsafe speed as it approached the airport, causing an automatic stall warning. The pilot pulled back sharply on the plane's controls and added power instead of following the proper procedure of pushing forward to lower the plane's nose to regain speed. He held the controls there, locking the airplane into a deadly stall. The plane altitude was too low to exit the stall. The weather conditions at the time of the accidents were not so bad, but icing conditions were prevailing. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the captain's inappropriate response to the activation of the stick shaker, which led to an aerodynamic stall from which the airplane did not recover. Contributing to the accident were: The flight crew's failure to monitor airspeed in relation to the rising position of the low-speed cue, The flight crew's failure to adhere to sterile cockpit procedures, The captain's failure to effectively manage the flight, and Colgan Air's inadequate procedures for airspeed selection and management during approaches in icing conditions.

The Airbus A320 operated by US Airways jet en route to Charlotte, N.C, USA, from New York City, USA, crashed into the Hudson River off the west side of Manhattan with 150 passengers and five crew members. All of the people on board had managed to escape alive. Within three minutes of take-off the plane was in trouble. A loud bang came from close to the wings on both sides as it hit a flock of geese, and smoke and fire began to appear from the engines. The plane's pilot reported a bird strike and declared an emergency. As the Airbus A320 quickly banked south, the plane lost power and rapidly dropped altitude, heading towards the icy waters of the Hudson river. The crew attempted a ditching. It was a slow contact with the water, and the plane remained in one part, and rapidly stopped in the water. The A320 was then rapidly submerged in the icy waters up to the windows. Rescue crews pulled passengers in yellow life vests from the plane. Several boats surrounded the scene.

The Boeing 737 operated by Continental Airlines was a scheduled service from Denver, CO, USA, to Houston, TX, USA. 110 passengers and 5 crewmembers were onboard. During takeoff, the aircraft veered off the runway and caught fire. 38 people on board the plane have been injured. The plane was departing runway 34R of Denver International Airport. Forty-one seconds after takeoff, there became a bumping and rattling that started and that continued through the end of the recording. Four seconds later, one of the crew members called for the takeoff to be aborted as the Boeing 737 jet kept building speed down the runway. He noticed trouble at a speed of around 90-knots, but the plane kept accelerating to 119-knots. While the crew was braking the jet, the Boeing 737 veered off the runway, travelled down a ravine and caught fire. Tire marks were spotted at the 1,900 feet mark on the runway, some 700 feet before the plane veered left off the runway. Fire crews responding to the accident encountered a heavy fire on the right side of the jet but all the occupants were evacuated. Images of the aircraft show that it suffered severe structural damage. Its left engine and at least one undercarriage assembly detached. The right engine is badly smashed and the 737's fuselage has ruptured aft of the wing. Weather conditions at the time oh the accident were correct, with a good visibility, few clouds, but the wind was gusting to 28-36kt from the west.

Delta Flight 5191 was en route from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The plane crashed a mile from the airport shortly after take-off. The aircraft was largely intact afterward, but there was a fire following the impact. The flight was operated by a CRJ-100 regional jet belonging to Delta's commuter carrier, Comair. There were 46 passengers, three crew members and one off-duty crew member on board. Only the first officer survived. The plane took off from the wrong runway. The main runway at Lexington's airport is 7,000 feet long, while a daytime-only, general aviation runway is about 3,500 feet. The plane would have needed 5000 ft to take off. Aerial images of the crash site showed trees damaged at the end of the short runway and the nose of the plane almost parallel to the small strip. Moreover, ground scars mark the end runway, suggesting that the pilot would have pull up quickly to get airborne before the end of the runway. Aviation experts said that it appeared that the jet had enough speed to get airborne but was heavily damaged by the impact with the trees. The CRJ-100 jet appears to have been within 20 to 30 feet of clearing the trees and flying to safety. The 3-foot-long tip of the left wing, along with other pieces of the jet, were visible in the trees. There have been some indications that some of the taxiways were closed. The taxi route for commercial jets at Blue Grass Airport was altered a week before the accident. So perhaps, when the crew was taxiing out, it was dark and it was raining, perhaps they got a bit confused. The plane was doomed at the beginning of the take-off course. The crew could have rejected the take-off, but before they realized they were probably in trouble, they had probably eaten up 90 per cent of the runway. Moreover, the runway was wet: they would have needed even more distance to stop. In the tower, only one traffic controller was on duty, a violation of Federal Aviation Administration policy. He had cleared the jet for takeoff but then turned away to perform "administrative duties" as the plane went down the wrong runway.

After takeoff from Dover Air Force Base, the huge military cargo aircraft had indications of engine problems, and declared an in-flight emergency for a No. 2 engine flameout. It turned back to perform an emergency landing on the Dover Air Force Base. But it fell short of the runway, and crashed in a field. The C-5 Galaxy the broke in two just behind the cockpit. The cockpit came to rest pointing toward the runway with the fuselage settling perpendicular to the runway. The tail assembly ended up several hundred yards from the plane, and one of the engines was thrown forward by the impact. There was no evidence of fire. All 17 crew members aboard survived, but some suffered minor injuries. They survived because the plane hit the ground wings level. Had they hit the wing tip first, they would all be dead. Passengers aboard the plane said they sensed a power failure in the aircraft's engines. One of them reported that the engines sounded like at cruising altitude, which just does not happen in five minutes. Characteristics of the C-5 Galaxy The C-5 Galaxy, made by Lockheed, is one of the largest military aircraft in the world. It was first delivered to the military in 1970. Even with a payload of 263,200 pounds, the latest version can fly non-stop for 2,500 miles at jet speeds. This C-5 was assigned to the 436th Air Wing at Dover AFB, and was being operated by an Air National Guard unit.

A jetliner from Southwest Airlines was performing a passenger flight from Baltimore to Chicago, with 98 passengers and 5 crew members onboard, when it crashed after landing at Midway-Chicago International Airport. The nose landing gear collapsed after the aircraft touched down. Then, The plane went off the end of the runway and slammed through a fence before striking two vehicles. One person in a car was killed while 8 other people in both cars were injured. Onboard, two passengers were injured. The plane landed in very bad conditions: in extremely low visibility and on a short, snow-covered runway, during a snow storm.

The aircraft, on a scheduled cargo flight from Oakland, California, to Memphis International Airport, crashed while attempting to land on runway at Memphis. For undetermined reasons, the freighter's landing gear failed, and the aircraft skidded approximately 3,000 feet, off the runway, coming to rest at a 90° angle to the runway heading. The aircraft was consumed by fire. One crewmember was slightly injured, the other six escaped uninjured.

The aircraft crashed at 5:43am local time while attempting to land at Tallahassee Regional Airport on a cargo flight from Memphis, TN. With the Tallahassee Airport control tower closed due to the early-morning hour, the flight crew received clearance from Jacksonville Center for a visual approach to runway 09 at 5:36am. The first impact mark was on a tree, about 70 feet high and 3,100 feet from the runway threshold. The plane first hit the ground about 2,100 feet from the runway threshold, and the first piece of wreckage - a leading edge slat - was found approximately 200 feet from the initial tree-strike point. The aircraft's landing gear was down at the time of the accident. The 727 skidded to a stop about 1,000 feet from the end of the runway and caught fire. The flight crew escaped major injury.

The airplane was making a fire retardant drop on a 10,000 acre forest fire near Walker, California, when the wings separated from the fuselage. A

On November 12, 2001, about 09:16:15 eastern standard time, American Airlines flight 587, an A300-605R, N14053, crashed into a residential area of Belle Harbor, New York, shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York. Flight 587 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight to Las Americas International Airport, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with 2 flight crewmembers, 7 flight attendants, and 251 passengers aboard the airplane. The airplane's vertical stabilizer and rudder separated in flight and were found in Jamaica Bay, about 1 mile north of the main wreckage site. The airplane's engines subsequently separated in flight and were found several blocks north and east of the main wreckage site. All 260 people aboard the airplane and 5 people on the ground were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire. The investigation showed that the in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by the first officer's unnecessary and excessive rudder pedal inputs (while the aircraft was shaken by wake turbulence). Contributing to these rudder pedal inputs were characteristics of the Airbus A300-600 rudder system design and elements of the American Airlines Advanced Aircraft Maneuvering Program.

The plane was on a passenger flight from Las Vegas, NV to Burbank, CA. Arriving in Burbank, the crew was told to expect the visual approach to runway 08. Approximately 10 NM from the field, while descending to 3000 feet, the crew was instructed to maintain 230 knots until further advised. One minute later, the crew was cleared for the visual approach to runway 08, with an instruction to maintain 3,000 feet until passing the Van Nuys VOR (approx 6 NM from the runway). But the flight crew passed the VOR and failed to start their descent from 3000 feet. 3.9 NM from the runway threshold, at an airspeed of 230 knots and an altitude of 3000 feet, the crew began their descent to land. Due to the steep nature of the descent (nearly 7°, instead of the standard 3°), the crew received two "sink rate" warnings at approximately 400 ft AGL (Above Ground Level), and a "pull up" warning at 190 ft AGL. The aircraft touched down 2800 ft down the 6032 ft runway with a groundspeed of 181 knots. Despite using max reverse thrust, spoilers, and brakes, the crew was unable to stop the aircraft before the end of the runway. The plane broke through a blast fence at approximately 40 knots, skidded across Hollywood Way, and came to rest 38 ft from a gasoline station. The aircraft was evacuated via the escape slides. There is no fatality among the 142 people onboard.

The Emery Worldwide Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71F had just departed Sacramento Mather Airport, California, on a cargo flight to Dayton, Ohio. Shortly after takeoff, the crew reported serious pitch-control difficulties and requested an immediate return to the airport.

The aircraft was on a passenger flight from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to San Francisco, California, when the crew reported that they were encountering problems with the stabilizer trim. At 28,000 feet, the crew reported that they were unable to control the pitch of the aircraft. Descending through 23,000 feet, the crew reported that they had regained control, declared an emergency, and received vectors to land at Los Angeles International Airport. The last radio contact with the crew came as the aircraft passed 17,000 feet at an unusually slow speed of 119 knots. A park ranger, along with the pilots of a nearby aircraft, reported seeing the aircraft plummet into the Pacific Ocean in an inverted flight attitude. The probable cause is the loss of airplane pitch control resulting from the in-flight failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system jackscrew assembly's acme nut threads. The thread failure was caused by excessive wear resulting from Alaska Airlines' insufficient lubrication of the jackscrew assembly.