Notable Accidents and Incidents
- A Hawker 800 crashed on July 31, 2008, while preparing to land at the regional airport in Owatonna, Minnesota. The crash killed eight people, including casino and construction executives.
- A Hawker 850XP crashed on February 4, 2011, while taking off at the regional airport in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq. The crash killed seven people, including VIP working for QTEL/Asiacell.
- A Hawker 800XP which has not released the nose landing gear made an emergency landing on February 11, 2011 on Vnukovo airport in Russia. The plane sat on the "belly", without any injuries.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable, accidents and/or incidents:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)