2015 Event Officials find that Andreas Lubitz, co-pilot of downed Germanwings Flight 4U 9525, had mental and physical health problems that he hid from the airline; a doctor's note was found excusing him from work on the day that he crashed the plane 2014 Event Indonesia's search team finds plane wreckage and the remains of three people who were aboard AirAsia Flight 8501, which disappeared on December 28th; the findings confirm that the flight crashed in the waters between Indonesia and Singapore 2014 Event Rescuers continue searching for missing AirAsia Flight 8501, which disappeared en route to Singapore from Indonesia on December 28th; the plane carried 162 people 2014 Event Investigators will conduct a deep-sea sonar scan in the Indian Ocean for the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; satellite communication attempts have provided clues to the plane's likely trajectory before it disappeared eight months ago 2014 Event Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 is hit by a missile while flying over eastern Ukraine, the location of heavy fighting by pro-Russian separatists; the origin of the missile is not yet known; all 298 people aboard the plane were killed in the attack 2014 Event The Malaysian government has released the last transmission from Malaysian Air Flight 370; the data confirm that the plane was last located over the eastern Indian Ocean; over a year of mapping and search may be needed before remnants might be found 2014 Event An Australian geophysical company has identified a large aluminum deposit that appeared around the time of the Malaysian Air Flight 370 disappearance on March 8th, suggesting that the plane may have crashed in the Bay of Bengal and not the Indian Ocean 2013 Event The biggest version of Boeing's Dreamliner plane, the 787-10, debuts at the Paris Air show; over 100 orders, worth over $30 billion, are placed 2013 Event At Belgium's Brussels Airport, armed robbers steal untraceable, raw diamonds worth $50 million from a plane within minutes, and without alarming passengers 2012 Event A solar plane, called The Solar Impulse, lands in Morocco after completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun 2011 Event First Air fails in an attempt to land a Boeing 737 in poor conditions; 12 of 15 people die after the plane crashes near Canada's Resolute Bay 2011 Event A Caribbean Airlines Boeing 737 plane crashed and split in to at the Chaddi Jagan International Airport; no one was injured 2010 Event A new long-range unmanned plane named Taranis is unveiled by the U.K. Ministry of Defense 2010 Event Presidential elections take place in Poland after the death of President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash April 10, 2010 2010 Event Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Acting President of Poland after a plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials crashes, leaving no survivors 2010 Event Australian researchers discover the first plane taken to Antarctica in 1912 2009 Event The engine on an airbus A320 plane catches fire at Paris-Orly airport, eight people are injured 2009 Event U.S. Airways plane ditches in the Hudson River - all 155 passengers survive 2002 Death Paul Wellstone, Senator-D-Minnesota 1991 - 2002, died in a plane crash in Minnesota at age 58 2001 Death Aaliyah, actress, model, singer, appeared in film, 'Romeo Must Die', successful album, 'One in a Million', dies in Marsh Harbour, The Bahamas, at age 22, in a plane crash 1998 Event U.S. military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20 1997 Event Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die 1997 Event Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80 1996 Death Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64 1996 Death Walter Hyatt, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business', dies at 46 in a plane crash 1994 Event American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15 1994 Event 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot) 1994 Event Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed) 1994 Death Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (first female prime minister in Africa), assassinated, the day after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down, killing him and the president of Burundi 1994 Event United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5 1993 Event Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18 1993 Death Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32 1993 Event Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die 1993 Death George Mickelson, Governor of South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash 1993 Death Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38 1992 Event El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die 1992 Event Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163 1992 Event Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists 1991 Event Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies 1991 Event 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston 1991 Death John Tower, Senator-R-Texas 1961 - 1985, dies in a plane crash at 65 1991 Death John Heinz III, Senator-R-Pennsylvania 1977 - 1991, dies in a plane crash at age 52 1991 Event 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash 1991 Death 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash 1990 Event Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die 1990 Event C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13 1989 Death Mickey Leland, Representative-D-Texas 1979 - 1989, and 15 others die in plane crash in Ethiopia 1989 Death Stanley David Griggs, astronaut (STS-51-D), dies plane crash at 59 1988 Death Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash 1987 Event West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia 1987 Event Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) 1987 Death Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29 1986 Event 52 die in plane and helicopter collision over Grand Canyon 1986 Death Stephen D Thorne, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33 1986 Event Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane 1985 Event U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody 1985 Death Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13 1984 Event Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane 1983 Event U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane 1981 Death General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash 1981 Event Prime Minister Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France 1980 Event Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81 1979 Death Thurmon Munson, New York Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 1978 Event PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die 1977 Event 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash 1977 Death Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash 1977 Death Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28 1977 Death Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29 1977 Death Eve Meyer, actress and pin-up model, dies in a plane crash at 46 1973 Death Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30 1973 Event Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die 1972 Death Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38 1972 Event 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism 1972 Event Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue) 1971 Event "Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington 1971 Death Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46 1970 Event 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane 1970 Event Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30 1969 Event Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 1969 Death Rocky Marciano, former heavyweight champ, dies in a plane crash at 45 1969 Event PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland 1968 Event Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1 1968 Event PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane 1968 Death Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 1968 Event USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world 1967 Death Carl Cunningham, rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash 1967 Death Jimmy King, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash 1967 Death Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26 1967 Death Phalin Jones, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash 1967 Death Ron Caldwell, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash 1967 Death June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36 1964 Event U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany 1964 Death Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman for the Chicago Cubs, dies in plane crash at 22 1963 Death Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30 1961 Event Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba 1960 Event Disaster on U.S.S.R. (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin and team (165 die-unconfirmed); U.S.S.R. claims killed in plane crash 1960 Event 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo 1960 Event U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane 1960 Birthday Arnon Ohad, co-pilot, El Al, plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam 1960 Event Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane 1959 Event 1st phone call between auto and plane 1959 Death Big Bopper, rocker, dies in plane crash at 28 1959 Death Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash at 22 1959 Death Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), killed in plane crash at 17 1957 Event Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash 1956 Event France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella 1956 Death Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash 1956 Event Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph 1955 Event Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight 1955 Event Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die) 1955 Event Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die 1955 Event U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea 1954 Event U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan 1954 Event U.S. plane shot down above Siberia 1954 Event 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707) 1954 Event Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m 1954 Birthday Julie Carmen, born in Mount Vernon, New York, actress, Gloria, Last Plane Out 1953 Event Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane 1953 Event Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea 1950 Event Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane 1949 Event USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight 1948 Event Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel 1948 Event Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to U.S. from England 1947 Event 1st telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane 1947 Event 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh 1947 Event 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca 1946 Event Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight 1946 Event Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die 1944 Event During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane 1944 Event 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure 1943 Event Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane 1943 Birthday Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days 1943 Death Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo and Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50 1943 Event German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta 1943 Birthday Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!", Fantasy Island 1942 Event 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane 1942 Death Carole Lombard, actress, (Bolero), and mom killed in plane crash at 32 1941 Event D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow 1941 Event Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane 1940 Event Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane 1940 Event Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan) 1940 Event British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway 1939 Event 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry 1939 Event Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler 1939 Event Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde 1939 Event Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe 1939 Event Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants 1935 Event 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) 1935 Event Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane 1935 Event Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph 1935 Death Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36 1935 Death Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55 1934 Event 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it 1931 Death Knute Rockne, football player and coach, dies in a plane crash at 43 1929 Event 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) 1928 Event Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz) 1918 Event Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane) 1914 Event German plane drops bombs on Dover England 1914 Event 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed 1912 Event U.S. Army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane 1911 Event 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) 1909 Event Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army 1907 Event France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane 1905 Birthday Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader, Stage Show, Mahogany 1891 Birthday Alfred Plane, U.S. sharp shooter, Gold Medal 1912, 1920 Olympics
