2015 Event Clues in the crash of a Germanwings flight during clear weather Tuesday suggest that the co-pilot locked the pilot out of the cabin before deliberately downing the jet in the French Alps; investigations of the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, are ongoing 2014 Event Flight recorder signals from the missing Malaysia Air jet are no longer detectable; the flight, which disappeared on March 8th, may be located in a zone of over 57,000 square km of water about 2,200 km to the northwest of Perth, Australia 2013 Event A Boeing 787 Dreamliner is grounded by Qatar Airways; a minor technical issue is reported, increasing pressure on Boeing to address possible electrical problems with its lastest new jet 2013 Event Iran releases a new Qaher-313 combat jet which they claim can evade radar detection 2012 Event The black box is recovered from the Russian passenger jet that carried 44 passengers and crashed in the Indonesian province of West Java, leaving no survivors 2011 Event U.S. airlines continue increasing fares as a result of the high cost of jet fuel 2000 Event A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers 1996 Event New York Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374 1996 Event New York Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals 1996 Death Frank A Whittle, inventor of the Jet engine, dies at 89 1995 Event Emillio and Gloria Estefan's boat hits and kills a jet skiier 1994 Death Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92 1992 Event NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75 1992 Event New York Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games 1992 Event El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die) 1992 Event Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches 1992 Event F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths) 1991 Event Former New York Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds 1991 Event U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 1989 Death Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84 1989 Event U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean 1988 Event New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die 1988 Event 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel 1987 Death James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies 1987 Event 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis 1985 Event Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (New York Jet record) to Wesley Walker 1985 Event 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta 1984 Event 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends 1983 Event U.S. jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon 1983 Event Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet 1982 Event National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27 1981 Event 2 U.S. Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 1981 Event Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 1980 Event Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120' 1978 Event Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut 1977 Event Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City 1976 Event Quarterback Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet 1976 Event Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet 1975 Event 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) 1973 Event Observers aboard Concorde jet observe 72-minute solar eclipse 1972 Event Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 1972 Event Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632) 1972 Event N.Y. Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colts (44-34) 1971 Event Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die 1970 Event Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes 1969 Event Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 1969 Event Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City) 1969 Event New York Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos 1969 Event 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 Event 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1968 Event New York Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21 1968 Event 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan 1967 Death Clifton C Williams, Jr., astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash 1966 Death Charles A Bassett II, astronaut, dies at 34, in a crash of T-38 jet 1966 Death Elliot McKay See, Jr., astronaut, dies at 38 in T-38 jet crash 1964 Event Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) 1964 Death Theodore C Freeman, astronaut, dies at 34 in a T-38 jet air crash 1964 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter 1963 Birthday 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 Event 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet 1959 Event USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter 1959 Event 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) 1959 Event 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301) 1958 Event 1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111 1958 Event PanAm flies 1st transatlantic jet trip - New York to Paris 1957 Event Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically 1955 Event 1st magnesium jet airplane flies 1954 Event 1st coml jet transport plane built in U.S. tested (Boeing 707) 1953 Event 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service 1953 Event Eastern Airlines enters jet age, uses Electra prop-jet 1953 Event 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight 1953 Event Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet 1952 Event 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet 1952 Event 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet 1951 Event Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson 1951 Event 1st North Pole jet crossing 1951 Event 1st jet passenger trip made 1950 Event In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place 1950 Event 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip 1949 Event 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight 1948 Birthday Jet Black, rocker, Stranglers-Dreamtime 1947 Event 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh 1947 Event 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 1947 Event XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California 1944 Death Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies 1944 Event 1st British jet fighter used in combat, Gloster Meteor 1944 Event 1st jet fighter used in combat, Messerschmitt 262 1944 Event Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight 1944 Event Air Force announces production of 1st U.S. jet fighter, the Bell P-59 1943 Birthday Emerson Boozer, NFL running back, New York Jet, sportscaster 1943 Event 1st jet fighter is tested 1942 Event Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st U.S. jet, makes maiden flight 1942 Event Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight 1942 Birthday 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 Event Caproni-Campini CC-2, experimental jet plane, maiden flight (Milan) 1939 Event 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry 1939 Event Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion 1939 Birthday Jet Harris, born in London, rock bassist, Drifters 1934 Event Wiley Post discovers jet stream 1929 Event 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca 1925 Birthday Mel Torme, born in Chicago, Illinois, jazz singer "Velvet Fog", Jet Set, Night Court 1925 Birthday Mai Zetterling, Sweden, actress, Witches, Offbeat, Jet Storm 1907 Birthday Frank A. Whittle, England inventor, jet engine 1902 Birthday William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp 1902 Birthday Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer 1898 Birthday Jay C. Flippen, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, actor, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay
