2008 – Southwest Airlines grounds 44 aircraft for inspections, days after the FAA accuses as many as 117 of its 737s to fly without proper airworthiness certificates.

2007 – Continental Airlines increases their Boeing 787 order from 20 to 25, adding five of the 787-9 series.

1980 – A pair of B-52 Stratofortress aircraft make an around-the-world nonstop trip in 42.5 hours.

1979 – Atlantic Southeast Airlines is founded.

1975 – An Air Vietnam Douglas DC-4 (XV-NUJ) is shot down by a surface-to-air missile in Pleiku, Vietnam, killing all 26 souls aboard.

1950 – An Airflight Limited Avro 689 Tudor V (G-AKBY, nicknamed “Star Girl”) crashes while on approach to Llandow’s runway 28 in Sigingstone, Wales. While attempting to correct a lower-than-normal approach, the pilot’s correction causes a stall causing 80 of the 83 aboard to perish. The blame was placed on improper loading, creating a a center of gravity issue and the subsequent low angle of attack while trying to land.

1948 – Northwest Airlines Flight 4422, a Douglas DC-4 (NC95422) returning to the United States from Shanghai, China, crashes into Mount Sanford in Alaska, killing all 30 on-board. Though the crash was witnessed by several locals, it became buried in snow and lost for near half a century. Removal of wreckage was only allowed by Parks Departments officials in 1999, and remains found of one passenger was also found and positively identified through DNA testing.

1932 – Newark Airport receives installation of landing aid equipment to assist with night landings.

1908 – The U.S. Aerial Experiment Association’s first aircraft, the Red Wing, makes its first flight. This flight ends in a crash, from which pilot Thomas Baldwin, survives.