1973 July 31st. USA, MA, Boston Airport, 88 people died: 1 survivor: The tower was apparently unaware that the Delta Airlines DC-9 had crashed until 6 minutes after it happened. Fire services received delayed information. The FAA did conclude, that had fire fighters been on the scene earlier and extinguished the blaze, more people might have been saved.

1975 June 24th. USA, New York, near JFK Airport: 113 people died, 11 survivors: airport firefighters arrived at the scene about 3 minutes after the crash, followed shortly thereafter by the New York City FD. The main fire was brought under control and extinguished just 5 minutes after the first units arrived. Personnel from a local medical clinic quickly arrived at the site to administer first aid to the survivors. Only 1 ambulance was available and it was used to transport 6 victims to an area hospital. The remaining survivors had to be transported to the hospital in a fire truck.

1985 August 12th. Japan: Boeing 747 crash, 520 people died, 4 survivors: an US Army helicopter about to lower rescue personnel was told to return to base. They were told, Japanese rescuers were on the way. But after the US machine left the scene no other choppers or personnel arrived, operations only resumed in the morning. From the testimony of Yumi Ochiai, an off duty stewardess and one of the survivors, it appears that several other survivors died during the night.

1992 January 20th. French, near Strasbourg: Airbus A-320, 88 people died, 8 passengers survived: "At the scene was total chaos. No one knew exactly where or how they could help. The first survivor to be taken away from the site was a little girl of eighteen months. And then, little by little, the survivors able to walk were evacuated. But it took hours to rescue the more seriously injured, and in the meantime at least 2 people had died. The army had known the exact location of the accident for some hours, but had not guided the rescuers there."