Arrow Air Flight 1285R

When

12 Dec 1985

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

48.91° N, 54.57° W

Description

December 1985 aviation accident in Newfoundland, Canada

Deaths

256

Injured

0

Cause

atmospheric icing

1985 aviation accident in Canada

Arrow Air Flight 1285R was an international charter flight carrying U.S. Army personnel from Cairo, Egypt, to their home base in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, US, via Cologne, West Germany, and Gander, Newfoundland. On the morning of Thursday, 12 December 1985, shortly after takeoff from Canada's Gander International Airport en route to Fort Campbell, the Douglas DC-8 serving the flight stalled, crashed, and burned about…

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Arrow Air Flight 1285R, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Neufundland, Kanada”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “авиакатастрофа самолёта Douglas DC-8 около Гандера (Ньюфаундленд), погибли 256 человек, из которых 248 были американскими миротворцами”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Canadá, un avión DC 8-63, que hacía el vuelo 1285 de Arrow Air, se estrella a los pocos minutos de despegar del aeropuerto de Gander”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “طائرة الرحلة 1285 التابعة لشركة أرو إير، وهي من نوع دوغلاس دي سي 8، تتحطم بعد إقلاعها من مطار غاندر الدولي في نيوفاوندلاند”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アロー航空1285便離陸失敗事故。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page