Collisions Involving Commercial Airliners - Tenerife Airport Disaster, Gol Transportes Aereos Flight 1907, United Airlines Flight 736 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Tenerife airport disaster, Gol Transportes Aereos Flight 1907, United Airlines Flight 736, 2002 Uberlingen mid-air collision, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, 1960 New York air disaster, 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, American Airlines Flight 28, Aeromexico Flight 498, 1948 Gatow air disaster, Eastern Air Lines Flight 537, 1965 Carmel mid-air collision, Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, First mid-air collision of airliners, Cubana de Aviacion Flight 493, Golden West Airlines Flight 261, 1955 Cincinnati mid-air collision, All Nippon Airways Flight 58, Eastern Airlines Flight 45, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2254, Aeroflot Flight SSSR-65856, British European Airways Flight 142. Excerpt: Gol Transportes Aereos Flight 1907 (ICAO: GLO 1907) was a Boeing 737-8EH, registration PR-GTD, on a scheduled passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil to Rio de Janeiro. On September 29, 2006, just before 17:00 BRT, it collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. All 154 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing 737 were killed when the aircraft broke up in midair and crashed into an area of dense rainforest, while the Embraer Legacy, despite sustaining serious damage to its left wing and tail, landed safely with its seven occupants uninjured. The accident, which triggered a crisis in Brazilian civil aviation, was the deadliest in that country's aviation history at the time, surpassing VASP Flight 168, which crashed in 1982 with 137 fatalities near Fortaleza. It was subsequently surpassed by TAM Airlines Flight 3054, which crashed on July 17, 2007 with 199 fatalities. It was also the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 737 (all series) aircraft at that time. It was subsequently surpassed by Air India Express Fl...