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The " Cornfield Bomber " is the nickname given to a Convair F-106 Delta Dart of the United States Air Force 's 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron which made an unpiloted landing in a farmer's field in Montana in 1970. Suffering only minor damage after the pilot had ejected from the aircraft during a training mission gone awry, the aircraft was ...
Delta Air Lines purchased Pan Am Shuttle (including several Boeing 727s) for $113 million, thereby securing Delta's position as the third largest U.S. airline. Delta relaunched the service under the Delta Shuttle brand on September 1, 1991. 2000–2010. Delta Shuttle began introducing new Boeing 737-800 aircraft in August 2000 to replace its ...
Comair Flight 5191 (marketed as Delta Connection Flight 5191 under a codeshare agreement with Delta Air Lines) was a scheduled United States domestic passenger flight from Lexington, Kentucky, to Atlanta, Georgia. On the morning of August 27, 2006, at around 06:07 EDT (10:07 UTC ), [2] : 1 the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet 100ER crashed ...
Peter Weber (television personality) Jim Whitehurst. Collett E. Woolman. Categories: Delta Air Lines. American aviation businesspeople. People by company in the United States.
The aircraft was equipped with three General Electric CF6-50C engines. It entered into commercial flight service with Scandinavian Airlines in January 1976. Investigation. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the accident. Investigators first thought a probable cause of the crash could be hydroplaning since there was bad ...
Deltalina was born in Heidelberg, Germany to a family of the military and is of German ancestry on her father's side and Puerto Rican ancestry on her mother's side. An alumna of Stone Mountain High School, class of 1992, she was hired by Delta in 1997 upon her first attempt to join the airline. She resided in Melbourne, Florida in 1997 and ...
Passengers Sixteen of the dead were Americans. Brazilian actress Leila Diniz was also among those killed, as was the sole Indian passenger on the flight, Dr. K.K.P. Narasinga Rao, a senior official of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. One of the cabin attendants killed in the crash was the sister of San'yūtei Enraku V. Sequence of events The flight was on the ...
Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashed on approach to Nha Trang Airport on 14 November 1992 during Cyclone Forrest. The aircraft was a Yakovlev Yak-40 registered VN-A449, a three-engined jet airliner built in the Soviet Union in 1976. One passenger survived, while the other 24 passengers and six crew were killed.