Accidents and Incidents
- On 26 August 1982 a Boeing 737-200 operating as Southwest Air Lines Flight 611 overran the runway at Ishigaki Airport and was destroyed. None of the 138 passengers and crew were killed but some were injured during the emergency evacuation.
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Famous quotes containing the words accidents and/or incidents:
“We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)
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—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)