2015 Event TransAsia Airways suspends flights and begins retraining all its pilots in compliance with orders from Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration after the crash of Flight 235 into the Keelung River three days ago 2014 Event Flight schedules will return to normal at Air France by September 30th after the pilots' union agreed to end a strike that began on September 15th; negotiations to settle contested issues are still ongoing 2013 Event In Wisconsin, two planes carrying nine skydivers collide in midair; the skydivers used their parachutes to steer themselves clear of the debris, and the two pilots survived with minor injuries 2010 Event China leads an investigation into its commercial pilots upon learning over 200 of them falsified their resumes 1989 Event Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines 1989 Event Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired 1989 Event Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines 1989 Event Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots 1989 Event Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines 1987 Event 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) 1972 Event 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer 1970 Event Milwaukee Brewers (former Seat Pilots) 1st game, lose to Angels 12-0 1970 Event Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, headed by Bud Selig, purchases the Seattle Pilots for $10,800,000 Although negotiations were conducted over a period of months, it was not until March 13 when a federal bankruptcy referee declared the Pilots bank 1970 Event Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee 1969 Event Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473 1969 Event Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games 1969 Event Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals 1968 Event AL expansion draft, Kansas City pick Roger Nelson and Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st 1968 Event Seattle's AL club is named Pilots 1961 Event Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots 1945 Death Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies 1945 Birthday Margaret Impert, Horseheads, New York, actress, Maggie, Spencer's Pilots 1944 Event Nazi occupiers make it punishable to give aid to allied pilots 1944 Event Hitler begins attack on English/U.S. "terror pilots" 1943 Event Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots 1941 Event Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore 1938 Birthday Britt Leach, actor, Mickey-Spencer's Pilots 1926 Event Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots and planes 1911 Event Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego
