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.
Army aeroplane crashes into water, circa 1920
Plane dives into Nahant Harbor. Two Harvard students die, January 8, 1923
Army plane crashes outside of Washington D.C., February 1928
Bonney Gull crashes to earth and kills inventor at Curtis Field, New York, May 5, 1928
East Boston Airport- Travelair biplane hits muddy swamp. Pilot Bob Goldberg and actress Maude Vesta shaken up, May 31, 1928
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