2012 Event The black box is recovered from the Russian passenger jet that carried 44 passengers and crashed in the Indonesian province of West Java, leaving no survivors 2010 Event In Sichuan, China, massive flooding sweeps two passenger train carriages into the river 1993 Event Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die 1990 Event Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die 1989 Event Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in U.S.S.R., kills 100s 1986 Event Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane 1981 Event Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 1979 Event 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed 1977 Event Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins 1976 Event Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco 13h14m) 1975 Event 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35 1972 Event Passenger train derails killing 48 (Rust Stasie South Africa) 1972 Event 2 passenger trains collide head-on killing 76, Seville, Spain 1972 Event Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire 1970 Event Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey 1969 Event Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach el 1965 Event 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die 1962 Birthday Wesley Snipes, born in Orlando, Florida, actor, New Jack City, Passenger 57 1962 Birthday Wesley Snipes, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Passenger 57, Money Train 1960 Event 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czechoslovakia) 1958 Event 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 1958 Event Queen Juliana christens passenger ship Rotterdam 1957 Event Passenger train and oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die 1957 Event 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline 1957 Event Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000 1955 Event Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die 1953 Event 1st helicopter passenger service, New York City 1953 Event 1st passenger to fly commercially around the world < 100 hours 1953 Event Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea 1952 Event 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet 1952 Event BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route) 1951 Event 1st jet passenger trip made 1950 Event 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip 1949 Event Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland 1949 Event 128 die as fire guts Canadian passenger steamer Noronic in Toronto 1947 Event 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched 1947 Event Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline 1944 Birthday Ted Templeman, born in Santa Cruz, musician, record producer, guitarist, vocalist, drummer, produced 'The Doobie Brothers' for Warner Brothers, 'Montrose', Carly Simon's 'Another Passenger', Van Halen's first album 1941 Event Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet 1939 Event Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die 1939 Event German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship 1939 Event German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 Event German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia 1939 Event Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service 1938 Event "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic 1938 Event 1st passenger ship equipped with radar 1936 Event Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu 1935 Event Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive 1934 Event Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for New Jersey catches fire, 133 die 1934 Event Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha 1930 Event Eastern Airlines begins passenger service 1928 Event Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) 1928 Event Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between San Francisco and LA 1926 Event Imperial Airways begins England-India mail and passenger service 1920 Event French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die 1919 Event 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London) 1919 Event America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City) 1919 Event 1st U.S. air passenger service starts 1915 Event Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 killed) 1914 Death Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo 1913 Event British passenger ship Volturno catches fire in Atlantic (136 kill) 1913 Event German passenger ship Imperator runs aground 1912 Event Over 1,500 people die when the British passenger ship, RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg 1911 Event 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba 1910 Event Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard, found June 6, 1983 in Queensland 1910 Event 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in U.S. history 1908 Event Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) 1908 Event Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane 1908 Event 1st passenger flight in an airplane 1907 Event Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, estimated 150 died 1906 Event Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches 1886 Event 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC 1876 Event 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die 1849 Event 1st passenger train service to Peekskill New York (New Haven Railroad) 1831 Event 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run 1830 Event 1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland) 1830 Event 1st regular steam train passenger service starts 1828 Event Construction begins on B and O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st U.S. passenger RR 1807 Event 1st railway passenger service began in England
