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2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers
1996 New York Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374 1996 New York Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals 1996 Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89 1995 Emillio and Gloria Estefan's boat hits and kills a jet skiier 1994 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92 1992 NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75 1992 New York Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games 1992 El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die) 1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches 1992 F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths) 1991 Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds 1991 U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 1989 Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84 1989 U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean 1988 New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die 1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel 1987 James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies 1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis 1985 Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (New York Jet record) to Wesley Walker 1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta 1984 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends 1983 U.S. jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon 1983 Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet 1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27 1981 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 1980 Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120' 1978 Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut 1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City 1976 Quarterback Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet 1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet 1975 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) 1973 Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse 1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 1972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) 1972 N.Y. Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colts (44-34) 1971 Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die 1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes 1969 Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 1969 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City) 1969 New York Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos 1969 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft 1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1968 New York Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21 1968 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan 1967 Clifton C Williams, Jr., astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash 1966 Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet 1966 Elliot McKay See, Jr., astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash 1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) 1964 Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash 1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter 1963 Jet Li, born in Beijing, China, Li Lianjie, Chinese martial artist, actor, international film star, appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, with Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, Wushu champion, studied Changquan, among other arts 1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet 1959 USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter 1959 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) 1959 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301) 1958 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 1958 PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris 1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically 1955 1st magnesium jet airplane flies 1954 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707) 1953 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service 1953 Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet 1953 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight 1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet 1952 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet 1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet 1951 Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson 1951 1st North Pole jet crossing 1951 1st jet passenger trip made 1950 In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place 1950 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip 1949 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight 1948 Jet Black, rocker, Stranglers-Dreamtime 1947 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh 1947 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 1947 XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California 1944 Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies 1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor 1944 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262 1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight 1944 Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59 1943 Emerson Boozer, NFL running back, New York Jet, sportscaster 1943 1st jet fighter is tested 1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight 1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight 1942 Tony Meehan, born in New End, England, born Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan, musician, drummer, founding member of the Shadows with Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris 1940 Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan) 1939 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry 1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion 1939 Jet Harris, born in London, rock bassist, Drifters 1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream 1929 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca 1925 Mel Torme, born in Chicago, Illinois, jazz singer "Velvet Fog", Jet Set, Night Court 1925 Mai Zetterling, Sweden, actress, Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm 1907 Frank A. Whittle, England inventor, jet engine 1902 William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp 1902 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer 1898 Jay C. Flippen, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, actor, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay |
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