This Day in History

September 1
Northwest Airlines and JMC Airlines founded, incident with Korean Boeing 747 More...

September 2
Swissair’s MD-11 crash More...

September 3
Ladeco S.A. founded in Chile More...

September 4
the first flight of Fokker F.VII/3M, Ilyushin Il-62 of Cubana crashed More...

September 6
the first transport plane with jet engines More...

September 8
the first transcontinental airline More...

September 9
two midair collisions less than for 24 hours More...

September 11
the most bloody day in a history of civil aviation More...

September 13
Air Lithuania founded More...

September 14
attempt of skyjack of Aeroflot’s airliner More...

September 15
the first commercial flight of Tupolev Tu-104 More...

September 17
the first in the world mortal air accident, the first flights of Mil Mi-8 and Antonov An-140 More...

September 18
the first flight of Junkers G23, the first commercial flight of Douglas DC-8 More...

September 19
DC-10 of the French airlines UTA crashed in Niger More...

September 20
attempt of hijacking Tupolev Tu- 134, Lithuanian Airines founded More...

September 23
the first flights over the Alps and across the Mediterranean Sea More...

September 24
creates first led balloon, Cathay Pacific Airways and Cyprus Airways founded More...

September 25
midair collision in California More...

September 26
the worst air accident in Indonesia More...

September 28
the first global flight completed More...

September 29
the first flight more then 200 km/h, the first around-the-world flight by a dirigible More...

September 30
the commercial flights of Yakovlev Yak-40 began More...