Earth systems YEAR 2003 .... air plane DATA EVENTS

 

   Earth systems YEAR  2003  

.... air plane DATA generating EVENTS

.... DATABASE translated by Herb Zinser 

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2003

• January 8 – Air Midwest Flight 5481, a Beechcraft 1900, crashes on takeoff from Charlotte, North Carolina, United States; all 19 passengers and two pilots are killed.
• January 8 – Turkish Airlines Flight 634, an Avro RJ100, crashes during its final approach to land at Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, in extensive fog. All of the five crew and 70 of the 75 passengers are killed, five passengers survive with serious injuries.
• January 9 – TANS Perú Flight 222, a Fokker F28, crashes while on approach to Chachapoyas Airport; all 46 on board die.
• March 6 – Air Algérie Flight 6289, a Boeing 737-200, veers off the runway on takeoff in Tamanrasset, Algeria; 96 of the 97 passengers and all six crew members die.
• May 8 – In the 2003 Congo air disaster, a Ukrainian Cargo Airways Ilyushin Il-76 suffers a rapid decompression after a cargo door opens mid-flight. The aircraft manages to return to Kinshasa, but not before between 17 and 200 civilians are sucked out to their deaths (casualty numbers vary depending on source).
• May 25 – A Boeing 727-200 is stolen from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Angola, possibly by two men known to the authorities, and disappears over the Atlantic Ocean; despite an extensive search effort, the aircraft has never been found.
• May 26 – UM Airlines Flight 4230, a Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes into the side of a mountain near the town of Maçka, Turkey. All 75 people are killed.
• May 29 – A man attempts to hijack Qantas Flight 1737, a Boeing 717, in Melbourne, Australia, intending to crash the plane in Tasmania. He is overpowered by the flight crew and passengers, but injures three people.
• June 22 – Air France Flight 5672, a Bombardier CRJ100ER operating a domestic flight from Nantes to Brest in France, crashes on approach to Brest-Guipavas Airport due to pilot error, killing one of the 24 people on board.
• July 8 – Sudan Airways Flight 139, a Boeing 737-200, crashes shortly after taking off from Port Sudan, Sudan. 116 of the 117 people on board the plane die; a two year old boy is the sole survivor.
• August 24 – Tropical Airways Flight 1301, a Let L-410 Turbolet operating a domestic flight in Haiti, crashes into a field shortly after taking off from Cap-Haïtien International Airport, due to a cargo door failure; all 21 people on board are killed.
• August 26 – Colgan Air Flight 9446, a Beech 1900D crashes into the sea just after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport, Massachusetts. Both pilots are killed.
• November 22 – A DHL Airbus A300 is struck by a missile near Baghdad, Iraq and loses hydraulic system function, but manages to land safely with only engine controls without any fatalities. This is the first non-fatal landing of an airliner without control surfaces.
• December 18 – FedEx Express Flight 647, a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10, veers off the runway upon landing after a landing gear collapse and catches fire at Memphis International Airport; two crew members and five passengers escape with only minor injuries.
• December 25 – UTA Flight 141, a Boeing 727, runs off the end of the runway upon takeoff at Cotonou, Benin, and crashes onto the beach on the Bight of Benin, killing 151 of the 163 occupants.