1974 – Lufthansa Flight 540, a 747-130 registered D-ABYB, crashed as it climbed out of Nairobi, Kenya. The crash occurred because the pilots left the slats in the retracted position.
1967 – TWA Flight 128, a Convair 880 registered N821TW, crashed on approach to Cincinnati, killing 70 of the 82 on-board. The aircraft fell 9,357ft short of the runway due to the crew attempting a night, visual no-glidescope approach in poor weather.
1964 – Linjeflyg (yes, it’s spelled correctly) Flight 277, a Convair CV-340 registered SE-CCK, crashed on approach to Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport in Sweden, killing 31 of the 43 on-board. The pilots had begun descent too early and confused wrong lights for runway lights and hit some telephone poles.
1953 – American test pilot Scott Crossfield becomes the first man to exceed Mach 2 in his D-558-2 Skyrocket.
1948 – American balloon reaches a record height of 26 miles.
1919 – The first municipal airport in the US opens in Tucson, Arizona.
Here is a video of a balloon carrying am arm-chair to a height of 18.7 miles…not as high as the 26-mile milestone (no pun!) set in 1948. Incredible footage.
Source: NYC Aviation
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