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Embraer 120 Accident history
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311, crashed in Brunswick, Georgia on April 5, 1991. The crash claimed the lives of all twenty-three people on board, including former U.S. Senator John Tower of Texas and astronaut Sonny Carter. This was due to propeller control failure.
- Continental Express Flight 2574, broke up in flight on September 11, 1991, killing all of the passengers and crew members. The media stated that initially people speculated that a bomb had destroyed the aircraft; the NTSB discovered that missing screws on the horizontal stabilizer led to the crash.
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, crashed in a field near Carrollton, Georgia on August 21, 1995. Of the twenty-nine people on board, ten were killed. This was due to failure of a propeller blade and subsequent severe engine vibration and failure.
- Comair Flight 3272 crashed in Michigan on January 9, 1997. All of the passengers and crew died, the probable cause was in-flight icing.
- Airnorth VH-ANB took off approximately 10.10am (ACST) on March 22, 2010, from Darwin International Airport on a routine training flight when it apparently banked sharply to the left and crashed into the nearby bushland at RAAF Base Darwin.
The aircraft does have some history of mechanical failure (although, not an unusual amount for 200+ airframes over 25 years of service), however the publicly released circumstances of this accident are still suggestive of a training related problem until the CVR/FDR can be read.