A computer animation of USAir Flight 1016 shows it departing Columbia for the short trip to Charlotte. There were sunny skies as the DC-9 left Columbia.

On July 2, 1994, USAir Flight 1016 crashed as it sought to land in Charlotte, killing 37 passengers. . The crash was the fourth in five at the airline from 1989 to 1994.

July 2, 1994 USAir Flight 1016 plane crash The plane had broken into three parts, much of it covered in jet fuel. Once crews got the fire out, Kelly’s team went into search and rescue mode.

One baby girl, flying in her mother’s lap, was killed on board USAir Flight 1016 on July 2. Another one survived. Where the surviving little girl, Denise Peppers, was flying is still unclear.

Saturday, July 2, 1994, was hot and humid when USAir Flight 1016 took off from Columbia, SC to Charlotte, NC. The plane carried the usual mix of passengers, including a couple embarking on their ...

It is the 25th anniversary of the (hopefully) last domestic airliner crash caused by a thunderstorm downburst: specifically of USAir Flight 1016 on approach to Charlotte-Douglas International ...

Investigators of the crash of USAir Flight 1016 are piecing together a chilling chronology of every traveler’s worst nightmare: a sudden and vicious storm that erupts just as a plane is ...

The National Transportation Safety Board said Friday that the airborne wind-shear warning system on USAir Flight 1016, which crashed July 2 in Charlotte, N.C., killing 37 people, was useless becaus… ...