Fun Trivia : Aviation Disasters

Structure Sub-topic of: Aviation Quizzes Interesting Questions, Facts and Information There are a total of 10 general entries. Special Topics The Colgan 3407 Air Disaster Commercial Air Disasters 1988-98 Aviation Mishaps and Misadventures The Gimli Glider The Tenerife Disaster The "Star Dust" Mystery of 1947 Forty-Five Crashed, Sixteen Survived

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Aviation Disasters

In 1977, an Boeing 737 aircraft named Landshut, otherwise known as Lufthansa flight 181, was hijacked and flown to Mogadishu in Somalia. The plane survived and continued in service until 1985, when it was sold by Lufthansa to which Brazilian airline?

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TAF Linhas Aereas. West German special forces mounted a successful mission which resulted in the resue of all hostages. In 2008, as a result of severe damage in service with TAF, the Boeing 737 was withdrawn from service.



In 1976, an Air France Flight was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists when flying out of Athens. Where did the hijackers demand to be flown?

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Entebbe Airport. Idi Amin Dada, the then dictator of Uganda, supported the Palestinians and let them land in Uganda. In a famous (though controversial) operation, Israeli special forces launched a raid which resulted in the successful rescue of the hostages and the deaths of the terrorists.



Air France Flight 8969 was a hijacking that took place in 1994. The hijackers intended to crash the plane into which famous French monument?

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Eiffel Tower. The hijackers hijacked the plane to protest the banning of headscarves in French schools. In a successful operation, French forces attacked the aircraft when it landed at Marseille, killing all four terrorists.



Air France had three deadly crashes that happened between 2000-2010. One was Air France Flight 447 and another was Air France 358: what was the third?

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Air France Flight 4590. Air France Flight 4590 is widely known as the Concorde crash. After this incident in 2000, all Concordes of Air France and British Airways were withdrawn from service.



A fatal crash in Brazil occurred in 2007 when TAM Airlines Flight 3054 skidded off the runway and slammed into a TAM Express building. What airport was this at?

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Sao Paulo Congonhas. After this incident, A320s (the aircraft used for TAM 3054) were banned from Congonhas, along with 737s and Fokker 100s due to the inadequate length of the runway.



A mid air collision occurred above the Amazon in 2006 when a Boeing 737 and an Embraer business jet collided at 37,000 feet. What commercial operator owned the 737?

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Gol Linhas Aereas. The winglet of the Embraer sliced off more than half of the wing of the Gol aircraft, sending it into a spin dive. The Embraer landed safely.



In 1986, an Aeromexico DC-9 collided with a private plane above Cerritos, Los Angeles. What was the doomed Aeromexico jet's flight number?

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498. This crash is the second mid-air collision in California, after PSA Flight 182. Both crashed into suburban neighbourhoods.



An SAS McDonnell Douglas crashed near a major city in the US at night in the 1960s. Which city was this?

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Los Angeles. The aircraft practically landed on the water on final approach to LAX. A third of the people on the aircraft died.



Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 crashed in Scandinavia after losing power to both engines due to the intake of ice. Where did it take off from?

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Stockholm Arlanda. Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 crashed due to the Auto Thrust Restoration, a safety feature designed to stop pilots throttling down to dangerous measures on final approach.