1998 U.S. military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1996 Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64
1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
1994 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot)
1994 Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, PM 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 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
1993 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo planes produced
1993 Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32
1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1993 George Mickelson, Gov of, South Dakota, and 7 others, die in a plane crash
1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
1992 El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
1992 Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163
1992 Plane crash at Perris Valley Airport California, kills 16 parachutists
1991 Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies
1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
1991 John Tower, (Sen-R-Tx), dies in a plane crash at 65
1991 John Heinz, (Sen-R-Pa), dies in a plane crash, dies at 52
1991 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash
1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band, killed in a plane crash
1990 Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die
1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1989 Mickey Leland, (Rep-D-Tx), and 15 others dies in plane crash in Ethiopia
1989 Stanley David Griggs, astronaut (STS 51-D), dies plane crash at 59
1988 Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1987 Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1987 Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
1986 52 die in plane and helicopter collision over Grand Canyon
1986 Stephen D Thorne, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33
1986 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane
1985 U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1985 Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13
1984 Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
1983 U.S.S.R. vetoes United Nations resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
1981 Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
1981 PM Maurois nationalizes banks/plane/steel industry in France
1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1979 Thurmon Munson, New York Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
1978 PSA Boeing 727 and a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
1977 14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
1977 Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 29
1977 Ronnie Van Zant, singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash
1977 Stevie Gaines, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Band), killed in plane crash
1977 Cassie Gaines, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies in a plane crash at 28
1977 Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr. Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
1973 Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
1973 Ozark AL plane knocked out of air by lightning, St. Louis-36 die
1972 Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38
1972 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue)
1971 "Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington
1971 Audie Murphy, WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash at 46
1970 9 Jews are convicted in Leningrad of hijacking a plane
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1969 Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
1969 Rocky Marciano, former heavyweight champ, dies in a plane crash at 45
1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
1968 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
1968 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
1968 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34
1968 USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world
1967 Carl Cunningham, rocker (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash
1967 Jimmy King, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1967 Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash at 26
1967 Phalin Jones, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash
1967 Ron Caldwell, rocker (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1967 June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36
1964 U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1964 Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman for the Chicago Cubs, dies in plane crash at 22
1963 Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy), dies in a plane crash at 30
1961 Beginning of a trend, a U.S. commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1960 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 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down U.S. RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1960 Arnon Ohad, co-pilot, El Al, plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane
1959 1st phone call between auto and plane
1959 Big Bopper, rocker, dies in plane crash at 28
1959 Buddy Holly, rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crash at 22
1959 Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), killed in plane crash at 17
1957 Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash
1956 France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
1956 Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1955 Bulgaria shoots down a plane heading for Israel (58 die)
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1955 U.S. air patrol plane shot down above Bering sea
1954 U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan
1954 U.S. plane shot down above Siberia
1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707)
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1954 Julie Carmen, born in Mount Vernon, New York, actress, Gloria, Last Plane Out
1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1953 Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1950 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane
1949 USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
1948 Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to U.S. from England
1947 1st telephone conversation between a moving car and a plane
1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca
1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1946 Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
1944 During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
1944 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure
1943 Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane
1943 Leslie Howard, actor (Romeo and Juliet), Nazis shot down his plane at 50
1943 German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta
1943 Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!", Fantasy Island
1942 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1942 Carole Lombard, actress, (Bolero), and mom killed in plane crash at 32
1941 D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane
1940 Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan)
1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
1939 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1939 Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1935 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph
1935 Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
1935 Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55
1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1931 Knute Rockne, football player and coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1928 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1914 German plane drops bombs on Dover England
1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1912 U.S. Army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1911 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
1907 France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane
1905 Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Stage Show, Mahogany
1891 Alfred Plane, U.S. sharp shooter, Olympics gold 1912, 20
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