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USAir Flight 5050

2Fatalities
61Survivors
63On board

Accident details

What happened

A Boeing 737 overruns the runway at LaGuardia Airport attempting to abort takeoff after a tire on a nosewheel bursts due to a mistrimmed rudder; two passengers die.

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