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11. Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 was a regularly scheduled flight from New Orleans to New York City that crashed on June 24, 1975, while on approach to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 of the 124 people on board. [1]: 1 The crash was determined to be caused by wind shear caused by a microburst, but the failure of the ...
17 July. TWA Flight 800, was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, at about 8:31 p.m. EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris.
Delta Air Lines cancelled all flights out of LaGuardia Airport through October 30 at 8 p.m. EDT. [63] The three major airports serving New York City, JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark, were closed as of 8 p.m. on October 29. [64] More than 8,000 flights were canceled by 4 p.m. EDT for the day of October 30.
At least nine people sustained minor injuries after an escalator at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City caught fire early Wednesday morning, authorities said.. More than 900 ...
Ground fatalities. 6. On December 16, 1960, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 bound for Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City collided in midair with a TWA Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation descending toward LaGuardia Airport. [1] The Constellation crashed on Miller Field in Staten Island and the DC-8 in ...
July 24, 2024 at 8:41 AM. NEW YORK (AP) — A terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was briefly evacuated Wednesday because of an escalator fire, officials said. The fire at ...
LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA, ICAO: KLGA, FAA LID: LGA) / l ə ˈ ɡ w ɑːr d i ə / is a civil airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City. Covering 680 acres (280 ha) as of July 1, 2024, [3] the facility was established in 1929 and began operating as a public airport in 1939. It is named after former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
The JFK air cargo complex is a Foreign Trade Zone, which legally lies outside the customs area of the United States. [335] JFK is a major hub for air cargo between the United States and Europe. London, Brussels and Frankfurt are JFK's three top trade routes. [336] The European airports are mostly a link in a global supply chain, however.