fuckyeahwrecks
transportation gone awry
**planes, trains, automobiles, airships, streetcars etc that have come to an unfortunate end. **
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Piedmont Airlines Flight 4560 - Newark, NJ - 5/18/2013 - no fatalities.
The de Havilland Dash 8 had landing gear troubles and performed a belly landing at EWR.
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This Day In Wrecks
1972: Alitalia Flight 112, bound for Palermo out of Rome, crashes into Mt. Longa while in contact with Palermo approach. The DC-8 breaks up on the slope, killing all 115 people on board. Pilot error is cited as the cause.
A video with color footage of the wreckage can be found here, but it also contains graphic imagery that is not the focus of FYW, so click with caution.
Some conspiracy theories about bombs are also discussed here (there were accusations of Mafia involvement), if you can read Italian.
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This Day In Wrecks
1960: A U-2 spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers is brought down in Soviet airspace and captured; while the Russians claim to have shot the plane down, it will later be reported the plane crashed after being flipped by a close flyby of a Sukhoi Su-9, or a missile exploding near the plane. The US tries to cover-up their involvement by claiming the plane belonged to NASA and strayed off course while doing research, but they are unsuccessful. Above, Nikita Khrushchev surveys the collected wreckage.
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National Air Cargo Flight 102 - Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan - 4/29/2013 - 7 fatalities (no survivors).
The 747-400 crashed while taking off for a cargo flight to Dubai. The video above shows clearly a high angle of attack, stalling of the wings, and eventual crash of the plane.
To me, it looks like the pilot did the right thing and pitched the nose down to try to gain speed and level the wings, he just ran out of space to work with. The cause of the crash is being investigated, possibly a load shift.
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This Day In Wrecks
1918: Manfred von Richthofen, also known as The Red Baron, is shot down behind Australian lines near Amiens, France during a battle. The fighter ace pilot, a member of the Luftstreitkräfte with 80 air combat victories, is fatally wounded by anti-aircraft fire from the ground; he manages to land his Fokker Dr.I but dies almost immediately after. The plane, pictured above with members of the Australian Flying Corps, was picked apart by souvenir hunters in spite of its minimal damage.
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This Day In Wrecks
2002: After a missed approach, Air China Flight 129 descends below the minimum altitude while attempting to land again at Gimhae Airport in Busan, South Korea. The pilots lose sight of the runway in the rain and the plane crashes into a hill. Only 37 of the 166 on board the Boeing 767 survive.
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The Talk Page at Wikipedia for the Lion Air crash has me cracking up.
Side note, opinions from fellow aviation enthusiasts about counting AV Herald as a more reliable source than most mainstream media reports for aviation incidents?
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Photo reblogged from Shawarmas and Jets
Here’s what a T-6 looks like after you lose hydraulic pressure and have to land gear up. I was not flying. This baby will be airborne in a few weeks.
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This Day In Wrecks
1933: An Imperial Airways flight bound for Croyden crashes near Diiksmuide, Belgium after catching fire. All 15 people aboard the Argosy II Aircraft, named City of Liverpool, are killed, including a man who fell or leapt from the plane before it went down. Speculation would later arise that this man, Dr. Albert Voss, was a drug smuggler and had sabotaged the plane while trying to escape arrest.
There are some fantastic scans of newspaper articles pertaining to the crash on this site.
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This Day In Wrecks
1955: Pan Am Flight 845/26 is forced to ditch in the Pacific after taking off from Portland when the no. 3 engine detaches from the wing. Four are killed and the Stratocruiser Clipper United States sinks, but the USS Bayfield picks up 19 survivors.
The above link is a summary of an appeals court hearing concerning a legal battle between the family of deceased first officer Angus Gustavus Hendrick, Jr., and the Franklin Life Insurance Company. I was unable to find pictures of the crash (another well-known Pan Am ditching and the later Pan Am Flight 845 incident with a 747 crowd the image results) so here is a FYW first - legalese.
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Photo reblogged from Breaking News
Small jet crashes into homes in Indiana, kills 2
A small, private jet crashed into three homes in South Bend, Ind., killing at least two people after a failed landing attempt Sunday afternoon, officials said.
Four people were on board the plane that reported electrical problems while attempting to land at South Bend Regional Airport, according to an FAA spokesperson. Two people on board the plane were killed and two others were injured, according to preliminary reports.
Photo: The front end of a Hawker Beachcraft Premier jet sits in a room of a home on Iowa Street in South Bend, Ind., Sunday, March 17, 2013. (Mike Hartman / South Bend Tribune via AP) -
Ace Air Flight KO-51 - Dillinghamn, AK - 3/8/2013 - 2 fatalities (no survivors).
The Beech 1900 cargo flight was on approach to the airport. An investigation into the crash has begun.
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Plane crash 1977 in Kälvesta
It’s all good in teh old hood
Linjeflyg Flight 618 - Kälvesta, Sweden - 1/15/1977 - 22 fatalities (no survivors).
The VIckers 838 Viscount stalled and crashed due to ice buildup. This crash killed Swedish table tennis champion Hans Alsér.
