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A computer animation of USAir Flight 1016 shows it departing Columbia for the short trip to Charlotte. There were sunny skies as the DC-9 left Columbia. Germany to declare national emergency on ...

The report was issued as the National Transportation Safety Board began public hearings into a fiery accident that killed 37 of the 60 people aboard USAir Flight 1016 from Columbia, S.C., to ...

A computer animation of USAir Flight 1016 shows it departing Columbia, South Carolina for the short trip to Charlotte. There were sunny skies as the DC-9 left Columbia. Computer animation of USAir ...

A lot has changed since then. Chief Transportation Correspondent and Pilot Maycay Beeler remembers USAir flight 1016 with two professionals who worked the crash scene. “The plane broke into ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - It’s been 25 years since USAir Flight 1016 crashed in Charlotte. On July 2, a flight carrying 52 passengers and five crew members went down when the plane was met by ...

Investigators of the crash of USAir Flight 1016 are piecing together a chilling chronology of every traveler’s worst nightmare: a sudden and vicious storm that erupts just as a plane is ...

WASHINGTON — The National Transportation Safety Board concluded yesterday that USAir Flight 1016 crashed in Charlotte, N.C., on July 2 because air traffic controllers failed to pass along ...

It is the 25th anniversary of the (hopefully) last domestic airliner crash caused by a thunderstorm downburst: specifically of USAir Flight 1016 on approach to Charlotte-Douglas International ...