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2006 United Airlines emerges from bankruptcy

2004 Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148

2002 China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure

2002 China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112

2001 American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure

2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer

1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon, Panama, 21 killed

1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die

1992 Braniff Airlines goes out of business

1992 American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%

1991 Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei

1991 L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13

1991 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23

1991 25 die as United Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs

1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25

1991 Eastern Airlines shuts down operation

1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines

1989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route

1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines

1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired

1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights

1989 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors

1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112

1989 Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots

1989 Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through

1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy

1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike

1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines

1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test

1988 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess

1988 United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s

1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver

1987 Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)

1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes

1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million

1982 50 die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain

1982 Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy

1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275

1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275

1978 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183

1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka

1978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris

1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace

1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later

1972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45

1972 U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage

1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later

1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes

1970 American Airlines' 1st flight of a Boeing 747

1964 ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation

1962 Caribbean Air Transport Me NV (CLTM Airlines) forms

1962 American Airlines 707 plunges nose 1st into Jamaica Bay New York killing 95

1959 American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65

1958 John Paul Morse, Marshall, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1995 United Airlines

1953 American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service

1953 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet

1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board

1935 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM

1930 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service

1928 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service

1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco and LA

1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates

1923 Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms

1922 Freddie Laker, CEO, Laker airlines

1920 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)

1919 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)



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