Related Research Articles
On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie".
Carroll is a city in, and the county seat of, Carroll County, Iowa, United States, along the Middle Raccoon River. The population was 10,321 in the 2020 census.
United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine due to an unnoticed manufacturing defect in the engine's fan disk, which resulted in the loss of all flight controls. Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 112 died during the accident, while 184 people survived. Thirteen of the passengers were uninjured. It was the deadliest single-aircraft accident in the history of United Airlines.
A belly landing or gear-up landing occurs when an aircraft lands without its landing gear fully extended and uses its underside, or belly, as its primary landing device. Normally the term gear-up landing refers to incidents in which the pilot forgets to extend the landing gear, while belly landing refers to incidents where a mechanical malfunction prevents the pilot from extending the landing gear.
Cincinnati Municipal Airport – Lunken Field is a public airport in Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 mi (4.8 km) east of Downtown Cincinnati. It is owned by the city of Cincinnati and serves private aircraft, including the fleets of local corporations. It serves a few commercial flights and is the second-largest airport serving Cincinnati after Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which is the area’s primary airport. It is known as Lunken Airport or Lunken Field, after Eshelby Lunken. It is bounded by US Route 50 to the west, US Route 52 and the Ohio River to the south, the Little Miami River to the east, and Ohio Route 125 to the north. The airport is headquarters and hub for Cincinnati-based public charter airline Ultimate Air Shuttle, serving 5 destinations in the eastern United States with 16 peak daily flights. Lunken is also home to small charter airline Flamingo Air and its aviation school.
In an internal combustion engine, fuel starvation is the failure of the fuel system to supply sufficient fuel to allow the engine to run properly, for example due to blockage, vapor lock, contamination by water, malfunction of the fuel pump or incorrect operation, leading to loss of power or engine stoppage. There is still fuel in the tank(s), but it is unable to get to the engine(s) in sufficient quantity. By contrast, fuel exhaustion is an occurrence in which the vehicle in question becomes completely devoid of usable fuel, with results similar to those of fuel starvation.
Spair Airlines Flight 3601 (PAR-3601) was a cargo flight between Ekaterinburg, Russia, and Malta International Airport, Malta. On 19 August 1996, the aircraft crashed into a corn field 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) northeast of Belgrade International Airport's runway in Yugoslavia, killing all 11 people on board.
US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States. On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, losing all engine power. Given their position in relation to the available airports and their low altitude, pilots Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles decided to glide the plane to ditching on the Hudson River near Midtown Manhattan. All 155 people on board were rescued by nearby boats. There were no fatalities, although 100 people were injured, some seriously. The time from the bird strike to the ditching was less than four minutes.
Lake County Executive Airport, formerly Lost Nation Airport, is a public use airport in Lake County, Ohio, United States. Located approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-northeast of the central business district of the City of Willoughby, it was owned and operated by that city until October 8, 2014, when it was transferred to Lake County and the Lake County Port and Economic Development Authority. The airport's name was changed from Lost Nation Airport to Lake County Executive Airport, alternately "Lake County Executive Airport at Lost Nation Field," in March 2020.
The hijacking of Southern Airways Flight 49 started on November 10, 1972, in Birmingham, Alabama, stretching over 30 hours, three countries, and 4,000 miles (6,400 km), not ending until the next evening in Havana, Cuba. Three men, Melvin Cale, Louis Moore, and Henry D. Jackson Jr., successfully hijacked a Southern Airways Douglas DC-9 that was scheduled to fly from Memphis, Tennessee, to Miami, Florida, via Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama, and Orlando, Florida. The three were each facing criminal charges for unrelated incidents. Thirty-five people, including thirty-one passengers and four crew members, were aboard the airplane when it was hijacked. The hijackers' threat to crash the aircraft into a nuclear reactor led directly to the requirement that U.S. airline passengers be physically screened, beginning January 5, 1973.
The 1959–60 Minneapolis Lakers season was the 12th season for the franchise in the NBA and final season in Minneapolis. The Lakers finished in third-place in the NBA Western Division with a record of 25–50, 21 games behind the St. Louis Hawks. In their final season in the Twin Cities, the Lakers made the playoffs and defeated the Detroit Pistons two games to none in the Western Division semifinals, before losing the West Finals to the Hawks, four games to three. The Lakers roster had 5 1st overall picks, Elgin Baylor, Hot Rod Hundley, Chuck Share, Ray Felix, and Frank Selvy, the most among any NBA teams in a season.
On 13 October 2011, Airlines PNG Flight 1600, a Dash 8 regional aircraft on a flight from Lae to Madang, Papua New Guinea, crash-landed in a forested area near the mouth of the Guabe River, after losing all engine power. Only 4 of the 32 people on board survived. It is the deadliest plane crash in the history of Papua New Guinea.
Great Lakes Air was an American fixed-base operator and charter airline based in Mackinac County Airport in St. Ignace, Michigan.
Ural Airlines Flight 178 was a scheduled passenger flight by Ural Airlines from Moscow–Zhukovsky to Simferopol, Crimea. On 15 August 2019, the Airbus A321 operating the flight carried 226 passengers and seven crew. The flight suffered a bird strike after taking off from Zhukovsky and crash landed in a cornfield, 5 kilometres away from the airport. All on board survived; 74 people sustained injuries, but none were severe.
Delta Air Lines Flight 89 was a scheduled flight from Los Angeles International Airport to Shanghai Pudong International Airport. On January 14, 2020, the Boeing 777-232ER conducting the flight had engine problems shortly after takeoff; while returning to the origin airport for an emergency landing, it dumped fuel over populated areas adjacent to the city of Los Angeles, resulting in skin and lung irritation in at least 56 people on the ground and triggering a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigation. The aircraft landed safely with no injuries to passengers or crew.
References
- ↑ Carroll Daily Times Herald, January 18, 1960. "The plane rolled to a stop four-tenths of a mile north of 18th street and a couple hundred yards east of Grant Road."
- ↑ David Aldridge (January 24, 2000). "The Lakers' plane crash that wasn't". ESPN . Retrieved October 10, 2024.
- ↑ Scott Ostler; Steve Springer (January 6, 1987). "The Night Lakers' Plane Went Down in Iowa Cornfield". The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved October 10, 2024.
- ↑ "Minneapolis Lakers' plane forced down". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Associated Press. January 19, 1960. p. 24. Retrieved October 10, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Frank Deford (February 9, 2011). "The Deadly Plane Crash That Nearly Killed A Sport". NPR . Retrieved October 10, 2024.
- ↑ Jerry Zgoda (January 20, 2020). "Sixty years later, pilot's account of Minneapolis Lakers' plane crash in Iowa cornfield lives on". The Minnesota Star Tribune . Retrieved October 10, 2024.
- ↑ Jerry Crowe (April 11, 2010). "In 1960, the Lakers had their worst trip ever". The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved October 10, 2024.
- ↑ Jimmy Golen (May 24, 1992). "1960: Lakers' brush with death". The Daily Times . Associated Press. p. C6. Retrieved October 10, 2024– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Wayne Drehs (March 28, 2001). "We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it". ESPN . Retrieved October 10, 2024.
- ↑ Tim Gallagher (January 16, 2010). "Fifty years later, western Iowa remembers harrowing incident". Sioux City Journal . Retrieved October 10, 2024.
