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has there been a commercial plane crash other then NY since flight 800?
I am asking in regards to the US not worldwide...
but since flight 800 it seems all commercial plane crashes in the US occurred in NY... excluding the two planes on 9/11 that ended up in PA and DC
TWA 800 shot down by a missile after taking off from JFK july 17 1996, do not tell me it wasn't shot down, EVERYONE that saw this, including friends and relatives of mine, know what they saw...
AA 11 first hijacked 9/11 plane taken off from Boston, being piloted into WTC 1
UA 175 second hijacked 9/11 plane taken off from Boston, being piloted into WTC 2 The day after my father (who responded to the attack, NYFD) said that there were secondary explosions, though I have avoided talking about this with him in detail because his near death experiences that day, and the loss of so many of his friends and FD colleges (but I believe more then the planes were at work that day)
(flight 77 and 93 9-11-2001 in DC and PA)
AA 587 taken off from JFK November 12, 2001 encountered air turbulence and pilots over use of rudders to correct snapped off tail fin. one of my brothers friend's father who was home asleep was never found, he was instantly vaporized. Being so close after 9/11 everyone feared another attack. Luckily I was an hour late to visit someone in Far Rockaway that day, or I would have been just blocks from the impact zone.
USAir 1549 took off from LGA and crash landed in the Hudson River, about 5 miles from the WTC site. Only the second time in history a ditch in water resulted in no casualties.
There have been many other small aircraft crashes in NY including one on oct 11th 2006 in where a Yankess's pitcher crashed his small aircraft into a building in NYC... while it was known this was a small plane, and an accident, the similarities of a plane crashing into a tall building in NYC brought back the fears of 2001 to many...
Are there any commercial airline crashes that I am missing since flight 800? Is this a phenomena that only affects NY or is it just because these crashes in NY were so historic or controversial, or just that they are local to me that I am unaware of remembering other crashes within the US...
I did not include overshot runways, and commuter flights like the American Eagle @ JFK May 13, 1999, I do not know if I should have or not, If I had included these the number I am sure would be much higher.
Continental Flight 1404 at Denver December 21, 2008 never left the ground.
Aside from the Continental commuter plane CRJ-100 on August 27, 2006 there was another commuter crash of a Continental Embraer Brasilia January 9, 1997 near MI
Also aside from the crash of Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 December 8, 2005 at Midway there is also this...
Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 runway crash-landing in Burbank, California in 2000
I would barely call Chalks a commercial airline, and the Grumman was a sea plane. Crashing enroute to Bimini, so it may not meet the qualifications of crashing in the US, and while not specified in my question, this would also fall under a commuter plane IMO, due to its size.
Air Midwest Flight 5481 January 8, 2003 Charlotte NC was also a commuter plane.
I guess for completeness commuter planes should be included, however I am still not convinced that planes that never left the ground should be included.
Thank you for your answers, you peaked an interest for me to continue to do some further research on this subject.
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- golftango29Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Continental 735 off the runway in Denver last month.
Delta Connection (Comair) CRJ100 in Lexington KY in 2006
Southwest 737 that overran the runway at Midway in 2005
Chalks Grumman that crashed in Miami 2005
US Air (Air Midwest) 1900D at Charlotte, NC in 2003
But this really has nothing to do with NY except that the NY area has three major international airports, so the chances that a crash occurs in or around the region is higher because of the traffic.
In my opinion the most devastating accidents in the US did not occur in NY. While AA587 was horrible, take a look at AA191 at ORD, USAir 427 outside of Pittsburgh, ValueJet 592 in the Everglades, Delta 191 at DFW, United 232 at Sioux City, Aeromexico 498 in Cerritos, CA, Alaska 261 off of Point Magu, CA and PSA 182 in San Diego CA. These are the accidents that stick out in my mind as the worst. I will not call 9/11 accidents because they were in controlled flight into those buildings.
