Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
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2010 – Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise Flight 514, operated by Tupolev Tu-154 M RA-85684 suffered a complete electrical failure in flight. A successful emergency landing was made at Izhma Airport, Russia but the aircraft overran the runway. All 81 passengers and crew escaped uninjured. The aircraft involved was repaired in 2011.
2009 – Air India Flight 829, a Boeing 747-437, registration VT-ESM, suffers a fire in No.1 engine while taxiing for take-off at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, India. All 229 people are successfully evacuated from the aircraft via the emergency chutes. The aircraft is substantially damaged.
2001 – First flight of the Sukhoi Su-80
2000 –: A Beechcraft King Air on a flight from Perth, Western Australia to the Gwalia Gold Mine fails to land; instead flying on autopilot across Australia to Burketown, Queensland, where it eventually crashes after running out of fuel. The pilot and the seven passengers are killed.
1999 – September 12 – The 11th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Ravenna, Italy. Individual winners: first Krzysztof Wieczorek & Wacław Wieczorek (Poland), 2nd Janusz Darocha & Zbigniew Chrząszcz (Poland), 3rd Nigel Hopkins & Dale de Klerk (South Africa); team winners: first Poland, 2nd Czech Republic, 3rd France.
1997 – First flight of The Zeppelin NT, German semi-rigid airship.
1964 – First flight of the HAL HJT-16 Kiran
1957 – First flight of the Lockheed JetStar
1957 – Douglas C-124A Globemaster II, 51-5173, en route from Larson AFB, Washington, crashed while attempting a landing at Binghamton Airport, Binghamton, New York. On final approach, just before touchdown, the airplane struck an embankment and crashed on the runway. The plane was delivering 20 tons of equipment for Link Aviation. The crew of 9 survived.
1949 – First flight of the Avro 707 VX784
1949 – First flight of the Bristol Brabazon.
1946 – First prototype Bell XP-83, 44-84990, bailed back to Bell Aircraft Company by the USAAF as a ramjet testbed, and modified with an engineer’s station in the fuselage in lieu of the rear fuel tank and pylon for test ramjet under starboard wing, suffers fire in ramjet on flight out of Niagara Falls Airport, New York. Flames spread to wing, forcing Bell test pilot “Slick” Goodlin and engineer Charles Fay to bail out, twin-jet fighter impacting at ~1020 hrs. on farm in Amhurst, New York, ~13 miles from Niagara Airport, creating ~25 foot crater.
1936 – 4-5 – Beryl Markham makes the first east-to-west solo crossing of the Atlantic by a woman in a Percival Vega Gull, from Abingdon, Berkshire to Cape Breton Island
1936 – Louise Thaden becomes the first woman to win the prestigious coast-to-coast Bendix trophy race.
1933 – Florence Gunderson Klingensmith (3 September 1904 – 4 September 1933) was an American Aviator of the Golden Age of Air Racing. She was also a founding member of the Ninety-Nines, a women’s pilot group. She was one of the first women to participate in Air Races with men. Unfortunately, she paid the ultimate price when she was killed in the 1933 National Air Race in Cleveland, Ohio.
1929 – First prototype, of three, Gloster Gorcocks, J7501, experimental single-seat, single-bay biplane interceptor, first delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment on 16 May 1928, breaks up in the air near Aldershot this date, the pilot bailing out successfully.
1924 – First flight of the Naval Aircraft Factory TS as the all-metal Curtiss F4C-1
1923 – Maiden Voyage of the first USA airship USS Shenandoah
1922 – Lt Jimmy Doolittle flies across the United States in under a day in a de Havilland DH.4. He takes 21 hours 19 min to fly from Pablo Beach, Florida to Rockwell Field, California.
1888 – Edward Hogan in Quebec makes the first parachute descents in Canada from a hot-air balloon.
