On that same day , an appalled Change_sentiment world witnessed a historic tragedy - the `` Challenger '' Space Shuttle disintegrated in mid-air while on its ascent into space .

Braniff International Airways Flight 542 , a Lockheed L-188 Electra , registration N9705C , was a scheduled domestic flight from Houston , Texas , bound for New York with scheduled stops in Dallas and Washington , D.C. On September 29 , 1959 , 23 minutes into the 41-minute flight from Houston to Dallas Love Field , the aircraft disintegrated Change in mid-air approximately southeast of Buffalo , Texas , killing Killing everyone on board .

This aircraft , another Electra , had disintegrated Change in mid-air after losing Earnings_and_losses its wings in a similar fashion to the Braniff aircraft .

the exhall mid-air collision Catastrophe happened on saturday 19 february 1949 over the village of exhall when a british european airways douglas dc-3 / douglas dakota collided Catastrophe in clear weather with a royal air force avro anson unk .

On 29 November 1987 , the aircraft flying Self_motion that route exploded Attack in mid-air upon the detonation of a bomb Attack planted Placing inside an overhead storage Preserving bin in the airplane 's passenger cabin by two North Korean agents .

It remained Presence the deadliest single-aircraft accident until the crash Catastrophe of Japan Airlines flight 123 on 12 August 1985 , and the deadliest aviation accident without survivors until the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision on 12 November 1996 .

The previous crash Catastrophe involving ADC happened on 7 November 1996 ; 143 people were killed Killing when a Boeing 727 went down near Ejirin , losing Earnings_and_losses control Control after taking Action evasive action to avoid a mid-air collision .

It also stated Statement there was no explosion mid-air and all damage was a result of the crash Catastrophe .

at dawn on 30 september 1980 , four iranian f-4e phantom jets refueled Self_motion mid-air near the iran-iraq border .