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Amelia Earhart, although many believe she actually landed the plane successfully and/or survived a crash landing and eventually died from starvation/dehydration.
TWA Flight 800 happened near New York, and happened relatively recently, so that's the one outside of the 9/11 planes that I remember most. After that it must be MH370. Both creeped me out--and shocked a lot of other peopled too I'd wager--since airliners don't usually just fall out the sky.
I would have to go with Tenerife, just because of the sheer magnitude of having two 747 jumbo jets collide with each other. Add to that, the oddity of having an "air" crash where one of the planes is on the ground when the crash happens, and the other one is just barely off of it.
Beyond that, maybe the PSA crash in San Diego back in the late 1970s, or the American DC-10 crash in Chicago. I pick these because both of them featured photographs of the planes going down. Even in today's world where everyone has cell-phone cameras, it's still unusual for an air crash to be photographed as it happens. (I guess I'd need to add the Concorde crash, as that one was videoed going down as well.)
And if we wanted to expand our definition beyond "plane" crash to the that of the crash of any flying machine, then I'd say the Hindenburg wins, hands down. Photographs and video and radio commentary of the crash as it happened -- in the 1930s!!
To this day I remember the plane that crashed into the Potomac on January 13, 1982 because it was my sister's birthday and the survivors were surrounded by ice cold water. Several people were killed on the bridge that the plane hit before plunging into the Potomac. Some of them were so numb from the cold they couldn't even hold on to life preservers that were thrown to them. A brave man named Lenny Skutnick jumped in to save them. One of the passengers Arland Williams assisted the survivors only to drown himself. They renamed that bridge after him. The thought of going down in that freezing cold water was shocking to me as I've lived in Florida for many years.
Flight 800 that crashed in Long Island Sound in the mid 90's, the Tenerife crash that killed 583 people was shocking. My heart hurts for all the people who realized they were moments away from death.
In my lifetime as a millennial (speaking for my lifetime alone), 9/11 hands down but after that probably American #587 or TWA #800. I was 1 year old when PA #103 happened so I really don't remember it.
There were also a series of USAir crashes in the early 90s that had people calling them "US-Scare". I vividly remember some but recall there were quite a few of them.
I will go with the Concorde. The video of it in flames is hard to forget.
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