US Airways Plane Crashes In Hudson River.
The Deadliest Plane Crash – Two fully loaded 747 jumbo jets collide on a fog-shrouded runway on the island of Tenerife, March 1977
Texas—A FedEx cargo plane that crashed during landing Tuesday at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport hit the ground in a grassy area short of the runway, an airport official said.
The Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 from Istanbul was carrying 135 passengers and missed the runway as it came in to land at the airport. There are conflicting reports of the death toll, with some media outlets saying that up to seven people have been killed and 20 injured.
A Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed in Brussels after take off. The pilot said he had heard a loud noise before the plane crashed and was torn into two at the end of the runway. The plane was heading to Bahrain today (25 May 2008). The flight crew survived the crash with light injuries and they were taken to hospital. Fortunately the plane did not catch fire when it hit the ground. The rescue team howeever covered the wings with fire proof foam, because it was still full of kerozene.
An Air Force C-5 cargo jet carrying 17 people crashed and broke into pieces today while trying to make an emergency landing at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
TACA flight 390 operating from El Salvador to Tegucigalpa, suffered an accident upon landing at Toncontin Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. According to the latest news, “The plane inexplicably circled the city twice and it ran out of runway because it landed more than halfway down” the length of the strip, airport manager Carlos Ramos told the Channel 7 television network. Upon landing it could not stop before the end of the runway and crashed into a ravine, and a road, finally coming to rest broken into three parts while its nose crashed into the roadside embankment.
A China Airlines plane goes up in the flames after landing at Naha airport on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, August 20, 2007.