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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. The best war movies of all time ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...