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The crash killed eight of the nine crew on board; the co-pilot, Captain Joseph L. Church, parachuted to safety. The crash was believed to have been caused by overstressing the wings and/or airframe during an exercise designed to test the pilot's reflexes. This was the fourth crash involving a B-52 in eleven months. [5] [6] [7]
5. On August 16, 1987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, about 8:46 pm EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), resulting in the deaths of all six crew members and 148 of the 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground.
A massive pileup occurred on Interstate 94 on Monday morning just west of Kalamazoo, Michigan, forcing the highway's eastbound lanes to be shut down amid lake-effect snow squalls. Video from the ...
TWA Flight 841was a scheduled passenger flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, en route to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airportin Minneapolis, Minnesota. On April 4, 1979, at or around 9:48 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (01:48 UTC), while flying over Saginaw, Michigan, the Boeing 727-31airliner began a sharp ...
In the annually released data, MSP states: Pedestrian-involved crashes increased by 11% – from 1,897 incidents in 2022 to 2,114 incidents in 2023. Pedestrian deaths increased by 6% – from 173 ...
UPDATE (5:18 p.m.): The crash scene on I-5 northbound near the Old Fairhaven Parkway has been partially cleared, though the on-ramp from Old Fairhaven Parkway is partially blocked, according to ...
30 March. A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, 59-2576, of the 341st Bombardment Squadron, 4038th Strategic Wing, [ 73] Dow Air Force Base, Maine, explodes in flight at 2115 hrs. with the wreckage falling near Denton, North Carolina. Debris was scattered over a ten-mile (16 km) area, setting fires in woods and fields.
Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [ 14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City, Texas, USA; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union. 565.