Earth systems YEAR 2001 .... air plane DATA generating EVENTS

 

   Earth systems YEAR  2001  

.... air plane DATA generating EVENTS

.... DATABASE translated by Herb Zinser 

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2001

• January 23 – Yemenia Flight 448, a Boeing 727, is hijacked 15 minutes after takeoff from Sana'a International Airport, Yemen; the crew makes an emergency landing at Djibouti; the hijacker is subdued with no casualties to the 91 passengers or 10 crew members on board.
• January 25 – RUTACA Airlines Flight 225, a Douglas DC-3, crashes shortly after takeoff from Tomás de Heres Airport, Venezuela, as a result of an engine failure; all 24 passengers and crew are killed.
• January 31 – In the 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident, Japan Airlines Flight 907, a Douglas DC-10, and Japan Airlines Flight 958, a Boeing 747, narrowly avoid colliding by a margin of 36 feet (11 meters) near Yaizu, Japan.
• February 27 – Loganair Flight 670A, a Short 360 operating a postal flight, crashes shortly after takeoff from Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, as a result of a double engine failure; both crew members are killed.
• March 3 – Thai Airways International Flight 114, a Boeing 737-400, is destroyed by an explosion while on the tarmac at Don Mueang Airport, Thailand, prior to boarding; one flight attendant is killed in the explosion.
• March 24 – Air Caraïbes Flight 1501, a DHC-6 Twin Otter, crashes into a house whilst on approach into Saint Barthélemy Airport, Guadeloupe; all 19 passengers and crew, as well as one person on the ground, are killed.
• March 29 – In the 2001 Avjet Aspen crash, an Avjet charter flight, a Gulfstream III jet with 15 passengers and three crew, crashes on approach into Aspen, Colorado, killing all on board.
• May 17 – In the 2001 Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40 crash, a Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes into mountains en route to Gorgan Airport, Iran amid poor weather conditions; all 30 passengers and crew are killed, including Iran's Minister of Roads and Transportation, Rahman Dadman.
• July 4 – Vladivostok Air Flight 352, a Tupolev Tu-154, enters a flat spin on approach to Irkutsk Airport in Irkutsk, Russia, crashes down onto its belly and bursts into flames in a wooded area, killing all 145 aboard.
• August 24 – Air Transat Flight 236, an Airbus A330, makes an emergency landing in the Azores after running out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean; some tires blow out upon landing, causing a fire that is extinguished by emergency personnel on the ground; none of the 293 passengers or 13 crew on board the aircraft is seriously injured.
• August 29 – Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261, a CASA CN-235, suffers port engine failure and crashes onto the N-340 road while attempting to make an emergency landing at Ruiz Picasso International Airport, killing four of 43 on board; the pilot initially survives, but dies several hours later.
• September 11 attacks:
  • September 11 – American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767-200ER with 92 people on board, is hijacked after taking off from Boston, and is flown into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City; all on board are killed as well as around 1600 people on the ground and in the building; the collapse of both towers brings the total death toll from the two crashes to at least 2,763, the deadliest disaster involving commercial aircraft.
  • September 11 – United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767-200 with 65 people on board, is hijacked after taking off from Boston and is flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City; all on board are killed as well as around 900 people on the ground and in the building; the collapse of both towers brings the total death toll from the two crashes to at least 2,763, the deadliest disaster involving commercial aircraft.
  • September 11 – American Airlines Flight 77, a Boeing 757-200 with 64 people on board, is hijacked after taking off from Dulles International Airport and is flown into the Pentagon; all on board are killed as well as 125 people in the building and on the ground.
  • September 11 – United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757-200 with 44 people on board, is hijacked after taking off from Newark, New Jersey; passengers struggle with the hijackers, and the aircraft crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all on board.
• September 15 – TAM Airlines Flight 9755, a Fokker 100 operating a domestic flight in Brazil, suffers an uncontained engine failure near Belo Horizonte; debris shatters three windows causing decompression of the aircraft; one passenger is partially blown out of the cabin and later dies, but the other 87 passengers and crew survive.
• October 4 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812, a Tupolev Tu-154, is shot down by the Ukrainian military over the Black Sea; all 66 passengers and 12 crew members are killed.
• October 8 – In the Linate Airport disaster, Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 686, an MD-87, crashes into a Cessna business jet on takeoff from Milan, Italy, then swerves into a baggage handling building and catches fire; all 110 people on board the MD-87 and all four in the Cessna are killed, as well as four people on the ground.
• November 12 – American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300, crashes into a Queens neighborhood in New York City when the plane's vertical tail fin snaps off just after takeoff due to overuse of the rudder by the first officer during a wake turbulence encounter; all 251 passengers and nine crew members on board are killed as well as five people on the ground.
• November 24 – Crossair Flight 3597, an Avro RJ100, crashes near Bassersdorf, Switzerland, while attempting to land in Zürich; 24 of the 33 people on board lose their lives.
• December 22 – On board American Airlines Flight 63, a Boeing 767, a passenger, Richard Reid, attempts to detonate explosives hidden in his shoes, but fails and is subdued by two flight attendants and passengers; the aircraft lands safely in Boston.