Occurrences : Flight ALM Flight 980 with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 : "ALM Flight 980 was a flight scheduled to fly from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, New York to Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, on 2 May 1970. After several unsuccessful landing attempts, the aircraft's fuel was exhausted and it made a forced water landing (ditching) in the Caribbean Sea 48 km (30 mi) off St. Croix, with 23 fatalities and 40 survivors." , Flight American Airlines Flight 1 with a Boeing 707 : "American Airlines Flight 1 was a domestic, scheduled passenger flight from New York International (Idlewild) Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport), New York to Los Angeles International Airport, California that crashed shortly after take-off on 1 March 1962. All 87 passengers and eight crew died in the crash." , Flight American Airlines Flight 587 with a Airbus A300 : "American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300, crashed into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York City, New York, shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on November 12, 2001. This is the second deadliest U.S. aviation accident to date, after American Airlines Flight 191. With 260 fatalities on board and 5 on the ground, this accident has the third highest death toll of any accident involving an Airbus A300." , Flight Avianca Flight 671 with a Lockheed Constellation : "Avianca Flight 671 was a flight using a Lockheed Constellation that crashed and burned on landing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on January 21, 1960, killing 37 people, making it the worst accident in Jamaican aviation history. This was the first accident for the Colombian national airline Avianca. The aircraft was a Lockheed L-1049E Super Constellation that was used by Avianca for its Bogota-Montego Bay routes." , Flight Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 with a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar : "Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a Lockheed L-1011 Tristar 1 jet that crashed into the Florida Everglades on the night of December 29, 1972, causing 101 fatalities (77 initial crash survivors, two died shortly afterward). The crash was a result of the flight crew's failure to recognize a deactivation of the autopilot during their attempt to troubleshoot a malfunction of the landing gear position indicator system." , Flight LOT Flight 7 with a Ilyushin Il-62 : "LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashed near Okęcie Airport in Warsaw, Poland on 14 March 1980, due to mechanical failure as the crew aborted a landing and attempted to go-around. All 87 crew and passengers died." , Flight Swissair Flight 111 with a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 : "Swissair Flight 111 (SR-111, SWR-111) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. This flight was also a codeshare flight with Delta Air Lines. On 2 September 1998 the aircraft used for the flight, registered HB-IWF, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport at the entrance to St." , Flight TWA Flight 800 alternative theories with a Boeing 747 : "TWA Flight 800 alternative theories allege that the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800) was due to causes other than those determined by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the official investigative agency. The NTSB stated that the probable cause of the crash of TWA 800 was an explosion of flammable fuel/air vapors in a fuel tank, most likely from a short-circuit. The most prevalent TWA 800 alternative theories state that the crash was due to either a U.S." , Flight Northwest Airlines Flight 6231 with a Boeing 727 : "The Harriman State Park plane crash was a fatal crash of a Boeing 727 which took place on December 1, 1974 near Stony Point, New York. The flight, designated Northwest Airlines flight 6231, had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts football team in Buffalo, New York. All three crew members aboard were killed when the aircraft struck the ground following a stall and rapid descent caused by the crew's reaction to erroneous airspeed readings caused by atmospheric icing." and Flight TWA Flight 800 with a Boeing 747 : "Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800), a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20:31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, killing all 230 persons on board. TWA 800 was a scheduled international passenger flight from New York to Rome, with a stopover in Paris." .Source : DBPedia, licensed under GFDL