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2009 U.S. Airways plane ditches in the Hudson River - all 155 passengers survive
2003 Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116 2000 Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem 1992 Ghana Airways inaugurates flights to JFK Airport, New York City 1991 Pan American World Airways ceased operations 1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20% 1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die 1987 British Airways begins trading stocks 1986 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed 1983 British Airways incorporates 1982 Laker Airways collapse owing 270M pounds ($351M) 1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 1970 Caledonian Airways takes over British United Airways 1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 1961 Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms 1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline 1942 Michael Bishop, CEO, British Midland Airways 1939 British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC 1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways) 1926 Imperial Airways begins England-India mail and passenger service 1924 Imperial Airways forms in Britain 1922 Australian Qantas airways begins service 1920 Henry Marking, CEO, British Airways 1914 Rose Stainton, CEO, British Airways 1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, born in Long Island, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways |
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