Categoria: On This Day
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ON THIS DAY, IN AVIATION: October 13
1919 – Convention relating to the Regulation of Air Navigation signed.
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ON THIS DAY, IN AVIATION: October 12
2010 – A Eurocopter AS350 helicopter crashes in Antarctica, killing four people
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ON THIS DAY, IN AVIATION: October 6
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455, a Douglas DC-8, is bombed by anti-Castro militants and crashes near Bridgetown, Barbados, killing all 73 people on board.
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ON THIS DAY, IN AVIATION: October 5
1991 – An Indonesian military transport crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing 137.
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ON THIS DAY, IN AVIATION: October 4
1957 – Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, is launched into orbit.
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ON THIS DAY, IN AVIATION: September 28
1927 – Lt. Dick Bently of the South African Air Force arrived in South Africa after making the first solo flight from England. He had left London on the 1st of September.