1960 - 1969 |
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01/18/1960 | Capital Airlines Viscount crashes after encountering icing |
03/17/1960 | Lockheed Electra crashes after design flaw causes the wing to detach |
10/04/1960 | Lockheed Electra crashes after hitting a flock of Starlings, Boston Massachusetts |
12/16/1960 | Midair collision between a United Airlines DC-8 and TWA Constellation, New York |
02/15/1961 | Eighteen members of the U.S. figure skating team killed at Brussels, Belgium |
05/10/1961 | Detonation of a nitrocellulose bomb brings down airliner |
03/01/1962 | American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes into Jamaica Bay due to rudder malfunction |
05/22/1962 | Bomb explodes aboard a Continental Boeing 707, Unionville, Missouri |
06/03/1962 | An Air France B707 fails to take off |
03/05/1963 | Country western singer, Patsy Cline killed, Camden, Tennessee |
12/08/1963 | Lightning strikes Pan American airliner, Elkton, Maryland |
05/07/1964 | Passenger shoots both pilots causing the plane to crash, San Ramon, California |
07/31/1964 | Country western singer, Jim Reeves killed, Nashville Tennessee |
12/24/1964 | Cargo plane strikes simmit after taking off from San Francisco International Airport |
05/20/1965 | B707 attempts to land at too steep and fast of an approach |
07/08/1965 | Movie stunt flyer Paul Mantz is killed while filming "The Flight of the Phoenix" |
11/11/1965 | United Air Lines B727 crashes due to excessive sink rate while landing |
02/04/1966 | All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 crashes due to excessive sink rate, Tokyo, Japan |
03/05/1966 | Giving view of Mt. Fuji to passengers ends in disaster |
07/19/1967 | Midair collision between a B727 and a Cessna 310, Hendersonville, North Carolina |
11/20/1967 | TWA Convair crashes short of the runway at Cincinnati Airport |
12/10/1967 | Wreckage of singer Otis Redding's Beech 18H |
03/06/1968 | Air France B707 crashes while attempting to land in the West Indies |
04/08/1968 | British Overseas Airways loses an engine after taking off, London, England |
05/03/1968 | Electra crashes after attempting to penetrate a line of thunderstorms, Dawson, Texas |
08/10/1968 | Piedmont Fairchild-Hiller crashes on approach to Charleston, West Virginia |
11/22/1968 | Japan Air Lines DC-8 ditches in the ocean, 2.5 miles short of the runway, S.F. California |
08/31/1969 | Boxer Rocky Marciano killed, Newton Iowa |
09/09/1969 | Midair collision between a DC9 and Piper at Fairland, Indiana |
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