On the afternoon of Sunday, March 12, 1950, these supporters boarded an Avro 690 Tudor V plane ... crash, which claimed the lives of 80 people - 75 passengers and five crew - was the world's worst ...

It was the deadliest plane crash in the U.S. since Nov. 12, 2001, when a jet slammed into a New York City neighborhood just after takeoff, killing all 260 people on board and five on the ground.

But just short of its final destination at Llandow Airfield in the Vale of Glamorgan, the plane crashed - killing 80 of the 83 people on board. It was, at the time, the world's worst air disaster.

He said its safety record was good. It was the worst plane crash in Canada since March 1989, when 24 people aboard an Air Ontario jet were killed near Dryden, Ontario. Transport Minister David ...

A Single-Engine Plane Crashes Near a Pennsylvania Airport and All 5 Aboard Are Taken to Hospitals A single-engine airplane carrying five people crashed and burst into flames Sunday in the parking ...

Radio transmissions indicated the pilot reported an “open door” just before the crash. By Sara Ruberg and ... All five people on the plane were taken to Lancaster General Hospital, a hospital ...

Two recent plane crashes have stoked worries among ... the quarter down by half in a regulatory filing. The crashes were some of the worst aviation incidents in the past 25 years, Bastian said ...