Airships and blimps
Lighter-than-air craft with engines: rigid airships like the Hindenburg, and the blimps that carry cameras and advertising over stadiums. Balloons, which have no engine, are not included.
28 occurrences, 1902 to 2017 · 9 fatal, 79 deaths
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- Ditchings Deliberate landings on water, and what came after.
- Hijackings Aircraft seized in flight, from the 1960s hijacking wave onward.
- Bombs on board Aircraft destroyed or damaged by explosives and sabotage.
- Airframe icing Ice on the wings and tail: a few millimetres can be enough to stall.