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Joe @jpr747
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This Day in Aviation History... June 14, 1985 TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727, is hijacked by Lebanese militants. One passenger is murdered during the three-day ordeal.
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This day in Aviation History... June 14, 1919 British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown completed the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight. They flew a Vickers Vimy twin-engine bomber 1,890 miles from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 14, 1972 Japan Airlines Flt. 471, a flight from Bangkok, Thailand to New Delhi, India. The Douglas DC-8 crashed outside of the New Delhi airport. *Controlled Flight into terrain. The exact cause of the accident remains disputed.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 14, 1985 TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727, is hijacked by Lebanese militants. One passenger is murdered during the three-day ordeal.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 14, 2013 First Flight of the Airbus A350 XWB (registration F-WXWB) at Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, Toulouse, France.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 13, 1927 New York City celebrated Charles Lindbergh’s historic solo trans-Atlantic flight with a massive ticker-tape parade, showering the streets with an estimated 750,000 pounds of ticker tape.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 13, 1980 The final Concorde to be built and the last to fly was Concorde 216, delivered to British Airways on June 13, 1980 as G‑BOAF AeroTime. This aircraft completed BA’s supersonic fleet to seven, joining the other six in service.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 13, 1990 A Boeing 767-200ER set a new record for the longest nonstop commercial flight, covering 9,253 miles from Seattle to Nairobi in just over 17 hours. The aircraft was later delivered to Royal Brunei Airlines.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 13, 1996 Garuda Indonesia Flight 865, a DC-10, aborts takeoff due to an engine failure and crashes into a threshold at Fukuoka Airport, Japan. *Runway overrun due to engine failure.
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The calm after a thunderstorm..
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This Day in Aviation History... June 12, 1961 KLM Flight 823, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes while on approach to Cairo International Airport.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 12, 1972 American Airlines Flight 96, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, suffers explosive decompression when one of its cargo doors fails in flight; the crew manages an emergency landing at Detroit, Michigan and all 67 on board evacuate safely.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 12, 1994 First flight of the Boeing 777, the first computer-designed commercial aircraft.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 12, 2025 Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashes after takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, India, becoming the first hull loss of a Boeing 787 and the deadliest aviation accident of the 2020s.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 11, 1926 The first flight of the Ford Trimotor, an all-metal monoplane which competes with the three-engine Fokker and becomes a pioneer American airliner. It is known affectionately as the "Tin Goose".
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This Day in Aviation History... June 11, 1971 British pilot Shelia Scott makes the first flight by a light plane from equator to equator via the North Pole. Flying in a Pipper Aztec D, she covers 34,000 miles.
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This Day in Aviation History... June 11, 2009 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 5414, a Canadair CRJ-200ER, makes an emergency landing at Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta Airport, Georgia, after an undercarriage malfunction. The aircraft is substantially damaged.
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This day in Aviation History... June 10, 1989 First female USAF test pilot. Capt Jacquelyn S Parker graduated from the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB CA.
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