• In 1987, pilot Henry Dempsey survived an incident in which he was sucked out of the aircraft when he fell against a door in the hold which opened. He managed to hang on until the plane made an emergency landing and suffered only minor injuries. •
Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 was a scheduled flight from
Logan International Airport to
Bangor International Airport in the
United States on 25 August 1985. On final approach to
Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport, the
Bar Harbor Airlines Beechcraft Model 99 crashed short of the runway, killing all six passengers and two crew on board. Among the passengers was
Samantha Smith, a thirteen-year-old American schoolgirl who had become famous as a "Goodwill ambassador" to the
Soviet Union and had been cast on the television show
Lime Street. •
Henson Airlines Flight 1517 crashed on September 23, 1985, when pilot errors led to a
CFIT. • Holmström Air flight, a Beechcraft 99 crashed May 8, 1989 at Oskarshamn, Southern Sweden on final approach to Oskarshamn airport. The investigation found that the accident was probably caused by the pilot's inability to compensate for the rapid nose pitch-up that occurred when the wing flaps were deployed, engines running at high power and with the plane too aft-heavy. The plane pitched sharply up, stalled and fell to the ground. The crash and subsequent fire killed all 16 onboard including the two pilots. The passengers were made up of politicians and their aides working for the National telecom planning committee as well as two young students. • A Beechcraft 99 operated by
Wiggins Airways crashed immediately after takeoff from
Manchester–Boston Regional Airport,
New Hampshire, on January 26, 2024, amid stormy winter conditions. ==See also==