2009 – A Libyan Air Force Mikoyan MiG-23 Flogger crashes while taking part during an airshow for the Third Libyan Aviation Exhibition, LAVEX 2009 held at Mitiga International Airport, Tripoli, Libya. The aircraft travelling at low-level hit a one-storey house in the suburb of Souq Al-Jumaa in Tripoli killing the 2 crew and injuring two civilians.
2008 – Qantas Flight 72 an Airbus A330-300 makes an emergency landing in Exmouth, Australia following a rapid descent that leaves over 70 people injured, 14 of them seriously.
2003 – OH-58D Kiowa (92-0578) crashes inside Iraq, pilots survive.[1]
2002 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-112 at 19:45:51 UTC. Mission highlights: ISS assembly flight 9A: S1 truss.
1982 – BA-55 a Belgian Air Force Dassault Mirage 5BA crashed into a quarry at Bierset, pilot killed.
1963 – First flight of the Learjet 23 prototype, the very first Learjet built.
1961 – 1961 Derby Aviation crash occurred in the Canigou mountainside en-route London – Perpignan, killing all 34 aboard.
1944 – The RCAF’s No. 6 Group struck at Dortmund; they lost only two out of a record 293 bombers.
1944 – Luftwaffe night fighter ace Oberstleutnant Helmut Lent is fatally injured when his Junkers Ju 88G-6 night fighter crashes during a landing approach after a routine transit flight. He dies two days later, with his score at 110 kills, 103 of them at night.
1935 – United Airlines Trip 4, a Boeing 247D, crashes near Silver Crown, Wyoming due to pilot error; all 12 on board die.
1934 – First flight of the First prototype Tupolev ANT-40RT which becomes Tupolev SB
1932 – First flight of the Stipa-Caproni, a prototype aircraft employing Luigi Stipa’s “intubed propeller” concept, a forerunner of jet propulsion.
1926 – The Boeing FB-5 (production version) makes its first flight.
1909 – Glenn Curtiss becomes the first American to hold an FAI airplane certificate.
1908 – Edith Ogilby Berg became the first American woman airplane passenger when she flew with Wilbur Wright.
1903 – Samuel Pierpont Langley conducts the first tests of his full-sized man-carrying version of his earlier model aerodromes. The pilot, Charles Manly, nearly drowns when the machine slides off its launch apparatus atop a houseboat and falls into the Potomac River.
1849 – Frenchman Francisque Arban flies over the Alps in a free balloon (Marseille-Subini near Turin).
