Sixty-two people survived which air disaster of 1937?
"Hindenburg disaster The ""Hindenburg"" disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The German passenger airship LZ 129 ""Hindenburg"" caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. On board were 97 people (36 passengers and 61 crewmen); there were 36 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen, 1 worker on the ground). The disaster was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness reports from the landing field, which were broadcast the next day. A variety of hypotheses have been"
"Air Disaster Alliance/Foundation and the ""Alumitec – Airboat Hero Award"", from the American Airboat Search and Rescue Association. In all, 75 survived the crash—67 of the 163 passengers and 8 of the 10 flight attendants. Despite their own injuries, the surviving flight attendants were credited for helping other survivors and several quick-thinking actions such as warning survivors of the danger of striking matches due to jet fuel in the swamp water and singing Christmas carols to keep up hope and draw the rescue teams' attention, as flashlights were not part of the standard equipment on commercial airliners at the time."
"a sharp and loud thumping sound. The first officer reported to the control tower that a problem had occurred on board the flight. The aircraft then stalled and crashed into the runway threshold, bursting into flames. All but one of the 97 passengers and all of the six crew members perished, a total of 102 people. The sole survivor of the accident was 28-year-old Youcef Djillali, who was found in a coma with multiple injuries. However, he regained consciousness the next day. Doctors said that his injuries were not life-threatening. The final report was published with the following: The following"
"Carlos Páez Rodríguez Carlos ""Carlitos"" Miguel Páez Rodríguez (born October 31, 1953) known as ""“the man of the iron spirit”"" is one of the 16 survivors who spent 72 days in the Andes following a plane crash, during which time he resorted to cannibalism in order to stay alive. He was 19 years old at the time of the crash. He is the son of Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaró. The crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 occurred on October 13, 1972. He was portrayed by Bruce Ramsay and John Malkovich (as the older Carlos, the narrator at the"
"the operation was almost profitable. In the mid-1930s work started to build an airship designed specifically to operate a passenger service across the Atlantic. The ""Hindenburg"" (LZ 129) completed a successful 1936 season, carrying passengers between Lakehurst, New Jersey and Germany. 1937 started with the most spectacular and widely remembered airship accident. Approaching the Lakehurst mooring mast minutes before landing on 6 May 1937, the ""Hindenburg"" burst into flames and crashed. Of the 97 people aboard, 36 died: 13 passengers, 22 aircrew, and one American ground-crewman. The disaster happened before a large crowd, was filmed and a radio news reporter"
"and three granddaughters, Mía, Justina and Violeta. In 2003, Páez published the book ""After the tenth day"" which became a great success and has gone through 14 printings. Carlos Páez Rodríguez Carlos ""Carlitos"" Miguel Páez Rodríguez (born October 31, 1953) known as ""“the man of the iron spirit”"" is one of the 16 survivors who spent 72 days in the Andes following a plane crash, during which time he resorted to cannibalism in order to stay alive. He was 19 years old at the time of the crash. He is the son of Uruguayan artist Carlos Páez Vilaró. The crash"
"flight attendants survived the crash, while 125 perished. Nearly 60 people were taken to a hospital, some with critical injuries, but others managed to escape with few injuries and 15 were able to continue their journeys. Some survivors said they owed their lives to a flight attendant who managed to open the emergency exit in the rear of the aircraft. The ITAR-Tass news agency in Russia reported that many children were among the passengers who were flying to a holiday on Lake Baikal, near Irkutsk, about east of Moscow. Besides Russian citizens, who were the majority of passengers, there were"
"JAT Flight 367 JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 aircraft (registration YU-AHT) which exploded shortly after overflying NDB Hermsdorf (located in or around Hinterhermsdorf, in the present-day municipality of Sebnitz), East Germany, while on route from Stockholm to Belgrade on 26 January 1972. The aircraft, piloted by captain Ludvik Razdrih, broke into three pieces and spun out of control, crashing near the village of Srbská Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). Of the 28 on board, 27 were killed upon ground impact and one Yugoslav crew member, Vesna Vulović, survived. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 was"
"""We're goin' down!"" before the transcript ends. The CASA 212 crashed in the Koh-i-Baba mountain range. Five of the people aboard ""Blackwater 61"" were killed, including both pilots who had been ejected from the aircraft. The crash's sole survivor, 21-year-old Specialist Harley Miller, had survived the crash with a broken rib, abdominal and lung trauma, and minor head injuries. He survived for 8-10 hours before succumbing to his injuries, compounded by the freezing temperatures and shortage of oxygen. Recovery efforts were hampered for several reasons. Blackwater did not have the infrastructure in Afghanistan capable of tracking or keeping account of"
"37 to Bremen, Germany. Intercepted just short of the target, the B-24 came under attack from JG 1's Messerschmitt Bf 109s. ""Leutnant"" Heinz Knoke (who finished the war with 31 kills) shot down the Liberator. Post and all but two of the 11 men aboard were killed. Knoke reported: ""The fire spread out along the right wing. The inboard propeller windmilled to a stop. And then, suddenly, the whole wing broke off. At an altitude of 900 metres there was a tremendous explosion. The bomber had disintegrated. The blazing wreckage landed just outside Bad Zwischenahn airfield,"" which would later be"
"included in ""Ripped Apart"", a Season 6 (2007) episode of the Canadian TV series ""Mayday"" (called ""Air Emergency"" and ""Air Disasters"" in the U.S. and ""Air Crash Investigation"" in the UK and elsewhere around the world). This special episode examined aviation emergencies that were caused by pressurization failure or explosive decompression. BOAC Flight 781 BOAC Flight 781 was a de Havilland Comet passenger jet operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation that on 10 January 1954 crashed into the sea near Elba Island, off the Italian coast, after suffering an explosive decompression at altitude. All 35 people on board were killed."
"and their design prevented their moving once they began making foam. Also, buildup of paint on the coupling threads of nearby fire hydrants prevented hoses from being attached. A back-up foam water tender drove in closer and discharged its foam effectively, but the fire had already gained hold by then. The aircraft was carrying 116 passengers and 11 crew. Five people were killed in the accident: stewardess Barbara Jane Harrison and four passengers. All five were determined to have died of ""asphyxia due to inhalation of fire fumes"". Survivors included the pop singer Mark Wynter, who was travelling to Australia"
"four major sections; the front of the airplane, including the cockpit and the unoccupied first class passenger cabin, came to rest in the middle of Wallace Neel Road. The rear section of the fuselage, including the tail and the rear-mounted engines, came to rest in the carport of a house. Of the 52 passengers on board, 37 died due to blunt force trauma, burns from the fire, or carbon monoxide inhalation. An additional 14 passengers suffered serious injuries, and one had minor injuries. Of the five crew members, both pilots suffered minor injuries, two flight attendants were seriously injured and"
"wings separated from the rest of the plane. The left wing and fuselage were broken into several pieces, and a fire ignited, partially burning the wreckage. The radio operator, two flight attendants and 61 of passengers (including six children) were killed in the accident. Seventeen of the survivors sustained injuries. The causes of the accident were described as follows: A secondary cause of the accident was the failure of METAR to provide weather reports at 20:00, 20:15 and 20:30 when the bad weather intensified, which would have helped assist the flight to determine if it should have continued with the"
"Maritime Central Airways Flight 315 Maritime Central Airways Flight 315 was an international charter flight from London, England to Toronto, Ontario with refueling stops in Reykjavík, Iceland and Goose Bay, Newfoundland. On August 11, 1957, the aircraft operating this flight, a Douglas DC-4, crashed in bad weather near Issoudun, Quebec, killing all 79 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest aviation accident in Canadian history, and is currently the fifth-deadliest as of 2016. Flight 315 departed London Heathrow International Airport for Reykjavík at 21:48 GMT. Then, after stopping in Reykjavík for 66 minutes to refuel, it proceeded"
"Northwest Airlines Flight 255 Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport on August 16, 1987, at about 8:46 p.m. EDT (00:46 UTC August 17), killing all six crew members and 148 of its 149 passengers, along with two people on the ground. The sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl, Cecelia Cichan, who sustained serious injuries. The aircraft involved in the crash was a twin-engine McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration number ""N312RC"") a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft. The jet was manufactured"
"and tail became detached. The wreckage came to rest 300 metres from the initial impact point and was consumed by a fuel-fed fire. The front of the aircraft fractured behind the cockpit and rotated through 180 degrees, so that it was inverted when it came to rest. Of the 32 occupants of the aircraft only the two pilots, the one and only flight attendant, and one passenger out of twenty nine survived by escaping from the wreckage before it was destroyed by fire. The aircraft that crashed was a de Havilland Canada DHC-8-102. The aircraft was first flown in 1988."
"1954 Prestwick air disaster The 1954 Prestwick air disaster was the crash, in the early hours of Christmas Day 1954, of ""Cathay"" a British Overseas Airways Corporation Boeing 377 Stratocruiser on landing at Prestwick Airport, Scotland; 28 of the 36 on board were killed. The Stratocruiser was on a flight from Heathrow Airport, England to New York, United States with scheduled stop-overs at Manchester Airport, in Northern England and Prestwick Airport in Scotland. Due to the bad weather it was decided to fly directly to Prestwick and the flight was delayed while it waited for a Manchester passenger to be"
"between the start of the fire and the crash was four minutes and 30 seconds. The only survivor was one passenger, a 27-year-old man, who was badly injured. The other 110 persons aboard the aircraft were killed. The aircraft was destroyed and partially burned in the crash. Aeroflot Flight 3519's initial flight was in 1979. At the time of takeoff and the crash, the weather was calm, with visibility at more than , very few clouds, and a temperature of . The weather did not have a role in the crash. Of the 104 passengers aboard, five were children. There"
"of the energy of the crash, lessening the impact on the aircraft. The mud of the Everglades may have blocked wounds sustained by survivors, preventing them from bleeding to death. However, it also complicated the survivors' recuperation, as organisms in the swamp caused infection, with the potential for gas gangrene. Eight passengers became infected; doctors used hyperbaric chambers to treat the infections. All the survivors were injured; 60 received serious injuries and 17 suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalization. The most common injuries were: fractures of ribs, spines, pelvises, and lower extremities. Fourteen survivors had various degrees of"
"a lost aircraft and crew. They were given another B-24, ""Green Hornet"", notorious among the pilots as a defective ""lemon."" (Aircraft records show several B-24s with the name: ""Green Hornet"" and ""The Green Hornet""; in this case the name was verified from Zamperini's diary before the mission.) On 27 May 1943, while on the search, mechanical difficulties caused the bomber to crash into the ocean south of Oahu, killing eight of the 11 men aboard. The three survivors were Zamperini and his crewmates, pilot Russell Allen Phillips and Francis McNamara; with little food and no water, they subsisted on captured"
"altitude, while veering to the right. Two minutes later, the plane clipped an apartment building in Elizabeth, setting it on fire; it then crashed to the ground and burst into flames, narrowly missing an orphanage. Of the 63 people on board (59 passengers and 4 crew members), 29 perished, while most of the survivors were injured, many seriously. Four residents in the apartment building were also killed. Among the passengers was actress Mildred Joanne Smith, who suffered severe injuries, including a broken back. The official investigation by the Civil Aeronautics Board concluded that a failure in the propeller governor of"
"a delicatessen. Six people on the ground were killed. The only initial survivor of the crash was 11-year-old Stephen Lambert Baltz (born January 9, 1949) of Wilmette, Illinois. He was traveling unaccompanied as part of his family's plans to spend Christmas in Yonkers with relatives. Baltz was thrown from the plane into a snowbank where his burning clothing was extinguished. Although alive and conscious, he was badly burned and had inhaled burning fuel. He died of pneumonia the next day. A plaque in the hospital's chapel memorializing the crash's victims displays four U.S. dimes and five U.S. nickels found in"
"two flight attendants) and forty-two passengers (forty adults and two infants) on board the aircraft. Forty-four were Pakistani citizens; and the others were two Austrians and one Chinese.<ref name=""dawn/list""></ref> The dead included Pakistani singer-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed who was travelling with his second wife Nayha Junaid; a member of Chitral's traditional royal family, his wife and family. Two sky marshals and one Aircraft Maintenance Engineer were also among the passengers. The captain was reported to be an experienced pilot with over 12,000 flight hours during his career. He was also a type-rated instructor for ATR aircraft. Investigators retrieved the aircraft's flight"
"One firefighter was slightly injured when an explosion threw him out the door and down to the tarmac. The cause of the explosion was not determined, but heat-induced overpressure and rupture of an aerosol spray can or therapeutic oxygen cylinder are suspected. Toxic smoke and fire caused the deaths of 53 passengers and two cabin crew, 48 of them from smoke inhalation. 78 passengers and four crew escaped, with 15 people sustaining serious injuries. One passenger, a man rescued 33 minutes after the outbreak of fire, was found unconscious in the aisle, but died in the hospital 6 days later"
"was common because of the lower wind speeds. The only person to survive the crash was Paul Olsen, one of the two radio operators. He was sitting in the aircraft's rear in one of the Catalina's side blisters. Upon impact he was ejected from the aircraft. Olsen stated that he did not recall anything from the accident and that he initially was unconscious. After waking up he tried calling to the other crew members. He then tried to walk around, but the pain in his foot made this impossible. The aircraft was still on fire and he dared not approach"
"of care"" and also breached their ""warranties of merchantability and fitness"". Claims were settled out-of-court in 2012. The Discovery Channel Canada / National Geographic TV series ""Mayday"" featured the incident in a Season 10 episode titled ""The Heathrow Enigma"". British Airways Flight 38 On January 17, 2008, British Airways Flight 38, flying in from Beijing Capital, crashed just short of the runway of its destination airport, London Heathrow. There were no fatalities. Of the 152 people on board, 47 people sustained injuries, one serious. It was the first time in the model's history that a Boeing 777-200ER was written off,"
"killed and 13 injured. Initially 43 perished, but two more later succumbed to their injuries. A public inquiry by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Ministry of Transport concluded that the ""essential"" cause remains unknown. The accident was caused by the stoppage of the No.3 engine while the No.4 engine was also stopped. What caused the initial failure of the No.4 engine is unknown. The cause of the subsequent number 3 engine stoppage was either an electrical failure in the fuel cutoff actuator circuit or the accidental operation of the cutoff switch. A 50th anniversary memorial service was held"
"began arriving. St Agnes pilot gig, the ""O and M"", was summoned to investigate multiple cannon shots. Her crew discovered the mast of the sinking ""Schiller"". The ""O and M"" rowed to pick up five survivors before returning to St Agnes for assistance. Steamers and ferries from as far away as Newlyn, Cornwall, assisted the rescue operation. Of her original 254 passengers and 118 crew, there were 37 survivors. The death toll, 335, made the disaster one of the worst in British history. The signal cannon is preserved in the Museum of the Isles of Scilly. In respect to the"
"on October 13, 1972. The story of the crash and rescue was first told in the 1974 book """" and more recently in the 2006 book """". The school also appeared in the documentary, """". Twelve of the 45 people on board the plane died in the crash, and more died of their injuries later. Another 8 perished in an avalanche. The remaining survivors endured hunger, crash-related injuries, altitude sickness, and temperatures that fell to 30 degrees below zero at night. On their eighth day in the mountains, they heard on the radio that the authorities had stopped searching for"
"officer was rescued when Commander Wiley swam to his aid, an action for which he was later decorated. Sixty-four survivors were picked up by the cruiser ""Richmond"", the ""Concord"" took 11 aboard and the ""Cincinnati"" saved six. Eyewitness Dorsey A. Pulliam, serving aboard the U.S.S. ""Colorado"", wrote about the crash in a letter dated 13 February 1935: In another letter, dated 16 February 1935, he wrote: The ""Macon"", after 50 flights since it was commissioned, was stricken from the Navy list on 26 February 1935. Subsequent airships for Navy use were of a nonrigid design. A depiction of the crash"
"Winter Hill air disaster The Winter Hill air disaster occurred on 27 February 1958 when the Silver City Airways Bristol 170 Freighter ""G-AICS"", traveling from the Isle of Man to Manchester, England, crashed into Winter Hill (also known as Rivington Moor) several hundred yards away from the Independent Television Authority's Winter Hill transmitting station. Thirty-five people died and seven were injured. The ICAO report states that the accident occurred at 09.15 in the morning. At this time, the weather was so severe that none of the engineers working in the ITA transmitting station were aware of the crash. Several feet"
"visibility of 4000 meters, and an airfield pressure of 1007 mB. Having received the radar vector to the “BK” DPRM, the crew began their approach to runway 21L. The crew reported their observations. The controller cleared the flight to land, and the crew acknowledged the transmission. Then at about 03:45, the aircraft crashed into a weaving mill building in an industrial area of the city, located 2 kilometers northeast of the end of runway 21L. The aircraft exploded on impact, and all 52 people on board were killed. The weaving mill was also destroyed, with 19 people killed on the"