Aviation accidents can occur on private aircrafts; on U.S. or international commercial planes; on charter planes; on sight-seeing planes; on corporate planes; and on air medical planes and jets. Although every type of plane, including private planes, must be piloted by a licensed professional, mistakes can still be made and things can still go wrong.
In fact, aircraft accidents occur thousands of times per year as a result of problems including: Pilot and co-pilot error; pilot incapacitation; equipment failure and faulty equipment; cabin fire; design flaws; fuel problems; maintenance problems including a failure of the plane owner/operator to follow required maintenance schedules or a failure of aircraft mechanics to provide quality repairs and servicing; mistakes made by air traffic controllers; bird strikes; bad weather.
Boston-based photographer Leslie Jones took incredible photos that shows aviation accidents in the 1920s and 1930s.
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| Army aeroplane crashes into water, circa 1920 |
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| Plane dives into Nahant Harbor. Two Harvard students die, January 8, 1923 |
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| Army plane crashes outside of Washington D.C., February 1928 |
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| Bonney Gull crashes to earth and kills inventor at Curtis Field, New York, May 5, 1928 |
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| East Boston Airport- Travelair biplane hits muddy swamp. Pilot Bob Goldberg and actress Maude Vesta shaken up, May 31, 1928 |
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| Navy plane hits house, Quincy, Massachusetts, March 24, 1928 |
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| The Eagle crashes at Lewiston, Maine, September 1928 |
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| Airplane accident in Charles River, August 1929 |
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| Airplane, Flash wrecked at Old Orchard, Maine, 1929 |
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| Army plane crashes, East Boston Airport, July 1929 |
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| Plane goes into Spot Pond, Massachusetts, July 1929 |
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| Plane crash at East Boston Airport, May 1930 |
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| Plane crash at Hadley Field. One boy dies after two steal plane, October 3, 1930 |
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| Plane crash, Camp Devens, 1930 |
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| Plane dives into harbor. Monoplane was piloted by Paul Herman of Winthrop and was rescued by Richard Couden of Portland, Maine (East Boston), May 18, 1930 |
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| Marine Lt. W.O. Bruce's plane hits building after going out of control at National air races in Cleveland, Ohio. The pilot escaped by parachute, August 30, 1931 |
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| Monoplane Esa before rescue by SS Stavanger, September 25, 1931 |
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| Plane crashes into house, Valley Stream, New York, July 27, 1931 |
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| Ruth Nichols crashes in St. John, New Brunswick. She was hospitalized after attempting to fly the Atlantic taking Lindy's trail, June 1931. |
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| Ruth Nichols crashes in St. John, New Brunswick. She was hospitalized after attempting to fly the Atlantic taking Lindy's trail, June 1931 |
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| Shell oil plane nose down at East Boston Airport, 1933 |
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| U.S. Navy plane Anacostia crashes in Washington D.C., circa 1934 |
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| Plane dives into Boston Harbor, 1935 |
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| US Army plane taken on joy ride by mechanics, June 2, 1936 |
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| Peter J. Cummings killed when plane goes down over Milton, August 1937 |
(Photo © Leslie Jones)
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