History: List of aviation accidents by year
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1982
- 24 June 1982 - British Airways Flight 009. A British Airways Boeing 747-200 en route from London Heathrow LHR EGLL to Auckland International Airport AKL NZAA flies into volcanic ash loosing all engines. The flight crew manages to restart engines and land the plane safely
1989
- 10 March 1989 - Air Ontario Flight 1363 was an Air Ontario flight operated by a Fokker F28 Fellowship airplane, registered C-FONF which crashed near the city of Dryden, Ontario during take-off just hundreds of meters from the airport because ice and snow was accumulating on the airplane's wings.
2009
- 15 January 2009 - US Airways Flight 1549. The incidents which involves a US Airways Airbus A320 en route from from New York La Guardia LGA KLGA to Charlotte Douglas International CLT KCLT. The aircraft hit a flock of birds and lost both engines in the process. The pilot decided to ditch the plane in the frozen Hudson River. All the passangers and the whole crew survived.
- 1 June 2009 - Air France Flight 447. The accident involved an Air France Airbus A330 en route from (Rio de Janeiro Galeão Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport GIG SBGL)) to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport CDG LFPG. The plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew. The investigation concluded that the aircraft crashed due to an aerodynamic stall. This stall was preceded by inconsistent readings from the pitot tubes of the aircraft.
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