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September 8

  • 2015 - British Airways Flight 2276 rejected takeoff due to an engine failure, the aircraft came to a stop and all passengers and crew evacuated safely with only 14 minor injuries, the aircraft, a Boeing 777-236ER was badly damaged in the incident.
  • 2012 – A Russian Army Mil Mi-35 crashed into a mountain in bad weather near North Cuacauss republic of Dagestan, all four on board killed.
  • 2009 – Russian airline KD Avia suspends flights.
  • 2007 – Bangalore plane crash occurred when a Partenavia P.68 C aircraft, owned by Joy Alukkas Group, crashed into Gowdanapalya Lake, near Bangalore, INDIA. All four aboard the plane were killed, including three pilots: flying officer Santosh Kumar, Sunil Joseph and Mohammed Shabbeer who died instantaneously, and Co-pilot K Shanmugam who died in NIMHANS hospital.
  • 2005 – Two (2) EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft landed at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock, Arkansas. This marks the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
  • 2004 – The unmanned NASA spacecraft Genesis crashes when its parachute fails to deploy, destroying some of the solar wind samples it was carrying back to earth.
  • 2004 – CH-46E Sea Knight 153372 Shot down by RPG Fire South of Camp Fallujah, crashes and is burned out near Al-Buaisa. All four crew members injured.
  • 2000 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-106 at 8:45:47 a.m EDT. Mission highlights: ISS supply.
  • 1999 – The Helios Prototype flew for the first time at Dryden. The Helios is a research aircraft developed to demonstrate the ability to reach and sustain horizontal flight at 100,000 feet altitude on a single-day flight, and to maintain flight above 50,000 feet altitude for at least four days, both on electrical power derived from non-polluting solar energy. The flight concluded prematurely after a small parachute, designed to keep the aircraft within a restricted airspace zone over the lakebed in case of a loss of control, unexpectedly deployed after an apparent electrical system failure.
  • 1994 – USAir Flight 427, a Boeing 737, crashes while attempting to land at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, killing all 133 people on board. Investigations showed that a fault in the Boeing 737 rudder was to blame for the crash.
  • 1989 – Partnair Flight 394, a Convair 580, crashes into the North Sea after its tail section falls off in mid-air. All 55 people on board perish. The cause is blamed on counterfeit aircraft parts.
  • 1980 – Oleg Grigoriyevich Kononenko, 42, a civilian test pilot selected for cosmonaut training in June 1980, to become a pilot for the Buran space shuttle, is KWF in the crash of a Yakovlev Yak-38A during take-off from the aircraft carrier Minsk in the South China Sea.
  • 1970 – US Marine Corps Capt. Patrick G. Carroll, 27, of El Toro, California, ejects safely Tuesday moments before his McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk crashes in a remote area 20 miles N of Big Bear, California in Lucerne Valley at 1528 hrs. The impact touches off a 30-acre brushfire in Lovelace Canyon, south and west of the Lucerne Valley, which was still burning the following day. Eight retardant-dropping fire bombers are diverted from another blaze near Devore, California in the Cajon Pass to help contain the burn. A total of 12 California Division of Forestry and other trucks are also dispatched to the site to fight the fire. The pilot, who was flying N over Big Bear Lake on a navigation training flight, suffered an undetermined malfunction, said a public information spokesman at MCAS El Toro, California. He was seen as he ejected by a gas company serviceman, James Kennedy, who picked him up and drove him to near-by Sky-High Ranch. Carroll, a Vietnam veteran, is picked up by a rescue helicopter from George Air Force Base, California, and was not injured. Firefighters were hindered by rough, rocky terrain and a truck that overturned on an access road, blocking the path for over an hour. Fire crew were lifted to the site by helicopter or had to walk in 1 1/2 miles from Highway 18 near the Lucerne Valley. CDF officials expected the blaze to be contained by 1800 hrs., 9 September, unless winds developed.
  • 1974 – TWA Flight 841, a Boeing 707, breaks up after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold and plunges into the Ionian Sea, killing all 88 on board.
  • 1968 – First flight of the SEPECAT Jaguar
  • 1967 – NASA launches the lunar lander Surveyor 5. Eventually it shoots and transmits 19,049 photographs back to Earth.
  • 1960 – President Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
  • 1952 – The first of 35 Fairchild C-119 Boxcar aircraft were taken on RCAF strength.
  • 1944 – The first German V-2 rockets explode in London and Antwerp.
  • 1943 – German aircraft attack Allied convoys south of Sicily, sinking a tank landing craft and damaging other ships.
  • 1943 – 131 U. S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortresses conduct a bombing raid against the headquarters of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring at Frascati, Italy, killing 485 civilians.
  • 1943 – Italy’s surrender to the Allies is proclaimed.
  • 1939 – Five French Air Force Curtiss H75 fighters engage a squadron of German Messerschmitt Bf 109 s and shoot down two. They are the first French air-to-air victories of World War II, as well as the first by any of the Western Allies.
  • 1939 – First flight of the Vultee 48, a prototype of the P-66 Vanguard
  • 1920 – The final leg is added to the US transcontinental airmail service, across the Rocky Mountains from Omaha to Sacramento.
  • 1914 – Imperial Russian Army pilot Pyotr Nesterov attempted an aerial ramming against an Austro-Hungarian reconnaissance Albatros B.II with his Morane-Saulnier. He most likely tried to hit it with his landing gear but accidentally used his propeller instead. As a result, both planes crashed killing Nesterov and the two in the opposing plane over Zhovkva, Ukraine.
  • 1909 – Samuel Cody flies from Aldershot to Farnborough and back (46 miles in 1 h and 3 min). The first recorded cross-country flight in the United Kingdom.
  • 1856 – The first Canadians to fly are A. E. Kierzkowski and A. X. Rambau, who flew in Eugene Godard’s balloon.
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