Weird Aircraft Crashes

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Three people on board and 11 people on the ground were killed when a US Army Air Force B-25 crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in fog in 1945

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The pilot of the British Overseas Airways B-707-436 in 1966 decided to give the passengers a view of the mountain even though the plane was experiencing severe turbulence and crashed into Mt. Fuji

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The Pan International BAC-111 aircraft's double-engine failure during takeoff caused it to crash into a bridge in Hasloh, Germany in 1971 and shear off both wings

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The aircraft Grand Canyon Air Piper 32-300 crashed as a result of an unrestrained German Shepard interfering with the flight controls in 1976

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After a captain of Aeroflot Airbus A310-304, Mezhduretshensk, Russia in 1994, let his kid play with the plane's controls, the plane crashed

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In 1996, 3 drunk prisoners forced the Ethiopian Airlines B-767 to fly them to Australia without allowing them to refuel. The plane lost fuel and crashed.

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In 1997 the landing Azerbaijan Airlines Yakovlev 40 was hit by a stray bullet fired by training soldiers that hit an oxygen cylinder causing it to crash

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A very short runway was used for takeoff by the aircraft Comair Canadair CRJ-200ER in 2006 causing it to veer off the runway's end and crash

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In 2010 a traveler brought a crocodile aboard Filair Bandundu, in a sports bag. When it got away, the passengers ran to one end of the aircraft causing it to crash

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A single-engine Mooney M20J airplane from Maryland in 2022 crashed into a power transmission tower with the pilot and a passenger stranded inside the plane dangling 100ft above the ground

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