BDKLEZ From Ireland, joined Jun 2005, 1735 posts, RR: 16 Reply 1, posted (7 years 17 hours ago) and read 5246 times:
The village of Kegworth is now rather well known after the British Midland air disaster in 1989 when this B734 crashed onto the motorway embankment just short of the runway after it had only just previously passed very low indeed over the town.
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Trespassers will be shot; survivors will be shot again!
TheSonntag From Germany, joined Jun 2005, 3347 posts, RR: 30 Reply 10, posted (7 years 16 hours ago) and read 5093 times:
Ãœberlingen, Germany - the city above which a Tu154 and a 757 collided. One year later the father of a child killed in the Tu154 killed the air traffic controller. A tragedy.
Ramstein - Famous for the desaster of the Frecce Tricolori which killed more than 70 people at an air show in the late 80s.
American762 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 175 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (7 years 16 hours ago) and read 5079 times:
Glen Cove/Oyster Bay Cove - Avianca
Long Island Sound (not a town so much) TWA 800
Pango Pango, Samoa. Pan Am 707 Clipper Radiant
Karachi, Pakistan. Pan Am 747 Clipper Empress of the Seas. (Not a crash but an extremely famous hijacking that took place on the ground)
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Pan Am has a place of its' own. You call it the world, we call it home.
United787 From United States of America, joined May 2005, 2346 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (7 years 15 hours ago) and read 4916 times:
Roselawn, Indiana
American Eagle 4184 ATR-72 crash on October 31, 1994.
I was living in Champaign, Illinois at the time and I remember being outside in that horrible storm, when I came back inside I turned on the TV and found out about that accident.
When I drive down I-65 (which is rare) and pass Roselawn, I will always think of that crash, infact, I passed there on October 31, 2004, the 10 year anniversary coming back from a wedding.
Also, Sioux City, Iowa forever linked with the UA DC-10.
Quoting Spartanmjf (Reply 6): Tenerife will always mean an air disaster to anyone who has seen the pictures of the wreckage of two 747 jumbo jets.
100% Agree. This is the only really famous place (though not a town) related to an air desaster.
I never heard anybody talking about the "East Moriches Crash", or "Pegy's Cove Crash", or "Sioux City Crash". They talk about "TWA800 Crash" or "Swissair MD-11 Crash", or "United DC10 Crash" ...
On the other, I don't hear often people taking about "KLM/PanAm ground collision" ... most of them talk about " the Tenerife Disaster".
The other Air disaster famous for its location is "The Lockerbie disaster".
DeltaRules From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3623 posts, RR: 11 Reply 20, posted (7 years 15 hours ago) and read 4871 times:
BOS has had a few at the airport, hasn't it? The DL DC-9 that hit the seawall comes to mind. Wasn't that where the World DC-10 went into the water as well?
I agree with all of those. Those are towns that are defined by the communities they happened it. I can drop those names and everybody will know what crash I am talking about. There is a good point about Tenerife not being a community and it is true that a location doesn't always have to be a city to evoke a memory of a crash....just mention Grand Canyon, Everglades and you think of that DC-6 Connie collision, The L-1011 or Valujet.
I would add one more, Dallas Texas. There have been multiple crashes there but you mention crash and Dallas and everybody pictures that Delta L-1011 tail next to the water tank..
Quoting Petmbro (Reply 3): Arlington, VA and the pentagon.
Don't agree with those 9/11 is going to be defined by the Pentagon and the WTC...not by the Arlington and Shanksville will be forgotten and just be known as that "Field in Penn."
OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.
25 Spinkid: Pan Am Flight 759 on July 9,1982. The death toll was 154 (145 on the plane, 9 on the ground). The airliner crashed after experiencing severe wind she
26 PanAm747: Not really a city, but a district in the city - "North Park" is the section of San Diego where PSA 182 crashed in 1978. The actual site is long rebuil
27 Stirling: The Everglades Crash.... There was actually two. My mind automatically thinks of the older one. (Even though it is not a city as requested by the OP..
28 Navairjax: How about the Eastern Electra that plunged into the harbor after flying into a flock of birds (I believe they were starlings) early 1960s. Rockaway,
29 JoseMEX: Mejorada del Campo, near MAD, where an AV 747 crashed in 1983. (MEX a.netters: Writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia died on that crash; he was on his way to B
31 Fly2CHC: Does a mountain made famous count? If so, Mt Erebus, Antarctica for the 1978 (?) Air New Zealand DC-10 crash.
32 Alias1024: The Grand Canyon would have been pretty famous without the midair. I don't think it is the most popular national park because two aircraft ran into e
33 WesternA318: Mexico City, Mexico Western Airlines DC-10-10
34 MasseyBrown: It wasn't a crash, just an unpowered landing, but the Gimli Glider at Gimli, Manitoba ought to qualify.
35 Glareskin: First of all: definitely Tenerife and Lockerbie are the names that became famous by the disasters. And in the meanwhile probably Shanksville PA and "t
36 TripleDelta: Vrbovec, Croatia On September 10th 1976, a BEA Trident 2E and Inex-Adria DC-9 collided at FL330 over ZAG VOR. 176 fatalities on both aircraft, marking
37 AirbusA6: I think Munich has to be high on the list, after the 1958 Airspeed Ambassador crash there that wiped out half the famous 'Busby Babes' Manchester Unit
38 Jeremy: Romulus, Michigan Northwest MD-80. Only one survivor.
39 Skyman: Amsterdam B-747 crashes into town after departure Ueberlingen, Germany: The midair-collision which destroyed trust in ATC Teneriffe: The worlds most
40 EGTESkyGod: To me, (and I'm surprised its not mentioned) Gonesse is famous for the most notorious crash in history. RIP those killed on 25th July 2000. Also, the
41 AlexPorter: Kahului, Pittsburgh, Cali, Carrollton, Cove Neck - respectively incidents involving an Aloha 732, a USAir 733, an AA 752, an ASA Brasilia, and an Avia
42 IBERIA747: Yup, that accident occured in November 1983, and just a couple of weeks later (Dec 7th, 1983), an Iberia 727 and an Aviaco DC9 collided on the runway
43 KingAir200: I always think about NW 255 when I drive across that bridge. How about Southern's N97S that crashed in Huntington, WV with the Marshall football team
44 Jeremy: Does anybody know the status of the girl who did survive this crash?
45 AzoresLover: This was the Eastern L-1011 crash. IIRC, he was to be holding at 2000 feet while the crew was troubleshooting a landing gear light indicator. The cre
46 AlexPorter: Apparently married and reclusive from the media. Didn't movement from one of the pilots cause the control stick to move, disengaging the autopilot?
47 DeltaGuy767: SAN- PSA-727/Cessna-172 crash 70's From BDL and BAF, DeltaGuy767
48 AzoresLover: You are correct. That started a very gradual descent, which the pilots were too preoccupied with the light bulb to notice.
49 Mainliner: I believe you're thinking of Saudia flt. 163, an L1011. Very tragic indeed; due to the poor response of the crew in dealing with the emergency.
51 KingAir200: I think they hit a railroad bridge first, or was it I-94? I can't remember So, I guess I think about it when I drive across the I-94 bridge, which is
52 Cornish: I live in Staines, near Heathrow. For many years until Lockerbie, the Staines crash of a BEA Trident in 1972 was the worst civil air disaster in the U
53 Hmmmm...: Two small towns that stand out in my mind simply because, not being from the United States, I know of these places only through knowledge of air disat
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