As investigators corrected the victims in the debris of an American Airlines regional jet and a US military helicopter, who collided near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport last night, we turn towards the Tribune’s archives.
There is a look at commercial passenger aircraft accidents that shocked Chicago.
May 31, 1936
15 people – A transcontinental and western airliner carrying 12 passengers and three crew members, 6045 S. A tree and house hit the Kilborn Avenue. All 15 survived.
“Why, the aircraft is almost an accurate fit for that much,” an observer told the tribune. “There could have been a lot of terrible things and no.”
December 4, 1940
A United Airlines DC -3 stopped snow -laden and wings on its windshield and crashed into a house in 6350 S in King Avenue. City.
Due to the accident, the Civil Aeronautics Board recommended that stall-warning equipment be installed on airplanes to tell the pilots that when they are going very slow to stay and are going to be very slow and in ways to reduce icing Urge research.
March 10, 1948
A delta air lines DC -4 crashed and burnt on takeoff from Midway Airport. A gust lock, which was aimed at preventing air damage to the control surfaces of the tail when on the ground. Twelve out of 13 people died on board.
“The witnesses at the airport stated that the huge aircraft flew into a northern air and there was a clear area.” “The first indication of trouble was provoking and explosion when the aircraft hit the earth.”
17 July, 1955
A Braniff Airways Twin-Engineer 340 tried to land at the Midway Airport in Fog, a 15-foot-tall gas station sign in the northwest corner of the airport was killed and crashed, 22 were killed and 21 were injured.
The accident was one of the several accidents that motivated the city and federal governments to restrict the blockages and height of buildings near the airports.
August 5, 1955
Captain George A. Stone, a stratchrozer’s pilot was credited, when all 68 people crashed into the same area as a Braniff accident.
The tribune reported, “Stone told the Northwest Orient Airlines officials that the aircraft failed to reverse as they made a normal landing after the flight from Miniapolis,” the Tribune said.
September 1, 1961
A loose bolt caused a third tail segment of a tweet planetary aircraft after the takeoff from the Midway Airport and crashed into a farm ground near the west suburban Clarenden Hills. All 78 people died.
September 17, 1961
Wing alearons cause an inappropriately installed device to promote electricity that caused the Northwest Orient Airlines Electra to crash after the takeoff from the International Airport. The aircraft bound to Florida, rolled to the right, then landed, first attacked the 34,000-volt power line, then a railway embankment.
The tribune reported that the last different words from the cockpit were.
All 37 people died.
August 16, 1965
A United Airlines flew into Lake Michigan, about 20 miles east of Lake Forest to land in O’Hare to land in 727 night. Due to the error of a tool, the aircraft clearly landed with the crew through its prescribed height of 6,000 feet thinking that it was at 16,000 feet. All 30 people died.
27 December, 1968
From a jet, the Wingtip Turbulance, which had just taken away, a North Central Airlines Convire 580 lost control and hit a hanger in O’Hree. Eight died and 27 others were injured, in which many people were on the ground.
The accident and others inspired the federal aviation administration to require more gaps between jet aircraft on takeoff and landing.
8 December, 1972
A combined jet west of the 70th place, reaching the midway airport for landing, killed forty -five people when crashed in bungalows. The aircraft survives eighteen.
As a result of the accident, some bizarre principles about sabotage were revealed that Watergate was one of the victims of the conspiracy Howard Hunt and was carrying $ 10,000 cash in a briefcase.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found no evidence of foul play and blamed the accident by the pilot on errors, which failed to withdraw the aircraft in the vital phase of the dynasty, or the air break, which caused the aircraft stall and Stalls and stalls were made and crash at a distance of 1.5 miles from the runway.
December 20, 1972
Two aircraft collided on a fog-green runway in O’Hera, killing 10 out of 138. All the victims initially survived the collision, but some were away from the burning North Central Airlines DC -9 jet.
The poor communication between the controllers and the crew of the Delta Air Lines Convire 880, due to which the delta aircraft was being used for a takeoff by north central aircraft for a taxi beyond a runway. Federal officials recommended the use of less toxins and better lights in the airline cabin due to the upcoming fire.
May 25, 1979
At the beginning of the Memorial Day Weekend, an American Airlines for Los Angeles crashed from the DC -10 O’Here Airport just 31 seconds after the takeoff. It is still the deadliest passenger airline accident on American soil – 271 people aboard the aircraft and two more on the ground.
A passenger manifested by the airline has never been released, but the bill and Corin Borches were two of the victims. Today. He launched a Facebook group and published a book about his experiences, called “Safe Landing: A Family Journey of the Crash of American Airlines Flight 191”.
The victims were dedicated to the Lake Park in Des Plains in 2011, which was less than 2 miles from the accident site.
October 31, 1994
An American Eagle ATR 72 crashed in an Indiana region at a distance of 60 miles in the south -east of Chicago, while after dealing with rain in a holding pattern for O’Hre. All 68 people were killed.
The preliminary investigation indicated the driver team to be lost after the ice on the wing behind the day-hijring devices.
The accident caused a temporary return of that type of aircraft from service in the northern until the wing icing problem can be solved.
December 8, 2005
A south-west airlines aircraft exited the runway at the midway airport to get into a snow storm, collapsed in cars at Central Avenue and a 6-year-old boy died in a car.
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