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 The London police force begins a pilot program using body cameras to record behavior and document evidence during responses to incidents 2013 Event The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William, completed his last shift as a search and rescue helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force; he will now focus on Royal and community work 2013 Event Former President George W. Bush's airplane, a Gulfstream IV, on its way to Dallas' Love Field , was diverted safely to Louisville International AIrport when the pilot smelled smoke 2003 Death William McCool, astronaut, pilot of Columbia, STS-107, dies at 41 2001 Death Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer/pilot, ", Gift from the Sea, ", dies at 94 1999 Event EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot 1996 Death W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot, dies at 82 1996 Death Alfred William Bill Bedford, test Pilot, dies at 75 1996 Death Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81 1996 Death Harald James Penrose, pilot, dies at 92 1996 Death Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93 1996 Death John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50 1996 Death Ronald George Woodman, pilot, dies at 82 1996 Death David W. Howe, test pilot, dies at 77 1996 Death Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7 1996 Death Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot, dies at 83 1995 Death Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75 1995 Death Jack Mann, pilot/hostage, dies at 81 1995 Death Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74 1995 Death Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91 1995 Death James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot, dies at 74 1994 Event 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers 1994 Death Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84 1994 Event 1st Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace (King Hussein pilot) 1994 Death Nicholas Warner, test Pilot, dies at 51 1994 Death Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot, dies at 92 1994 Death Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72 1993 Death Joseph Towers, U.S. pilot, dies 1993 Death Milton "Milt" Thompson, U.S. NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67 1993 Death Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash 1993 Death Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician, dies 1992 Event 1964 "Gilligan's Island" TV pilot 1st shown on TV (TBS) 1991 Death Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73 1991 Event Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn) 1989 Death Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84 1989 Event Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines 1989 Event Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists 1988 Death Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot, dies at 75 of cancer 1987 Death Thomas G Lanphier, Jr., U.S. WW II pilot, dies at 71 1987 Event West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia 1987 Event Mathias Rust, 19, W. German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in U.S.S.R. 1986 Event NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated 1985 Death Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), dies at 69 1984 Event Syria frees captured U.S. pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson 1981 Death Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st U.S. woman free balloon pilot, dies 1980 Death Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70 1977 Event 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV 1977 Death Francis Gary Powers, U.S. U-2 pilot, dies at 47 1976 Event Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet 1976 Death Michael V. Love, U.S. test pilot, X-24, dies in F-4 crash at 37 1975 Death Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam 1975 Death John B McKay, U.S. test pilot (X-15), dies 1973 Death Eddie Rickenbacker, WW I fighter pilot, dies at 82 1973 Death Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot [Eagle of Flanders], dies at 78 1971 Event 29 pilot whales beach themselves and die at San Clemente Island, California 1970 Birthday Michael B Enyaer, writer, Pilot One 1970 Death Blanche Stuart Scott, U.S. pilot, dies at 84 1969 Event Stafford and Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface 1967 Death Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37 1965 Event Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" 1964 Event Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek 1964 Event Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) 1964 Event 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released 1963 Event NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km) 1963 Event NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km 1963 Event Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut 1963 Event 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely 1962 Death Rudolph Anderson, U-2 pilot, shot down over Cuba 1962 Event NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m 1962 Event NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m 1962 Event NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m 1962 Event NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m 1962 Event NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m 1962 Event NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m 1962 Event NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m 1962 Event NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m 1962 Event NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m 1962 Event NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m 1962 Event A NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m 1961 Event NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m 1961 Event NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m 1961 Death Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian pilot, dies 1961 Event NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m 1961 Event NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m) 1957 Birthday Jeff Hawkins, born in Huntington, New York, founder of Palm Computing, inventor of the Palm Pilot, founder of Handspring, inventor of Trio, author of, 'On Intelligence' 1957 Event 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline 1956 Birthday Kevin R Kregel, born in New York City, New York, Pilot/astronaut, STS-70, 78, 87 1956 Birthday Mark L Polansky, Paterson, New Jersey, pilot/astronaut 1955 Birthday Mike Smith, born in Britain, British DJ, radio presenter, racing car driver, pilot, businessman, Breakfast Show Presenter of BBC Radio One 1986 - 1988, used on-air nickname 'Smithy' 1955 Event 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced 1954 Death Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot, dies at 54 1954 Event 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina 1953 Event Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea 1950 Event 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines 1949 Birthday Norah Ellen O'Neill, airline pilot, Flying Tigers 1948 Death Samuel S Hinds, actor (Raven, Test Pilot), dies at 73 1947 Event 73rd Kentucky Derby: Eric Guerin aboard Jet Pilot wins in 2:06.8 1945 Birthday John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot 1944 Death Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies 1944 Death Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot/writer (Small Prince), dies at 44 1944 Death Wolfgang Redlich, German major/pilot, dies in battle 1944 Death Robert H Iseley, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle 1944 Death Heinrich zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German major/pilot, shot down 1943 Death Edward H "Butch" O'hare, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle 1943 Event Lt Charles Hall, becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down Nazi plane 1943 Death Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash 1943 Birthday Nicholas Warner, test Pilot 1942 Event Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times 1941 Death Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28 1941 Event Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot 1940 Death Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, dies at 44 1940 Birthday Dany Saval, born in Oakland California, actress, Boeing Boeing, Moon Pilot 1938 Birthday Michael V. Love, U.S. test pilot, X-24 1937 Death Amelia Earhart Putnam, Dutch pilot/1st female to fly Atlantic, dies at 40 1934 Event Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport 1933 Birthday Bruce A Peterson, U.S. test pilot, M2, HL-10 1933 Birthday Walter Paulis, mineworker/pilot/Dutch MP, CDA 1932 Birthday Einar K Enevoldson, U.S., Nasa test pilot, X-24B 1932 Birthday F Gregory Neubeck, USAF pilot 1931 Birthday John A Manke, U.S. test pilot, HL-10 1931 Birthday Lachlan Macleay, USAF/pilot 1931 Event Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st U.S. women to earn a glider pilot license 1930 Event Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent 1930 Birthday William H Dana, born in Pasadena, California, test pilot, X-15 1930 Event 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, New York to California), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days 1930 Birthday William H Dana, pilot, X-15 1930 Birthday Neil Armstrong, born in Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker, Gemini 8, Apollo 11 1930 Event 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot 1930 Birthday Michael James Adams, USAF pilot, X-15 1929 Birthday William Joseph "Pete" Knight, astronaut/test pilot, X-15 1929 Death Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies at 36 1926 Birthday Milton "Milt" Thompson, U.S. NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, X-15 1924 Birthday Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot, X-15 1924 Birthday Robert Michael White, New York City, test pilot, X-15 1924 Birthday Brian Trubshaw, British test pilot 1923 Birthday Lord Laing, English biscuit manufacturer/pilot/multi-millionaire 1923 Birthday Chuck Yeager, U.S. test pilot, 1st man to break sound barrier 1923 Birthday Chalmers Goodlin, U.S. test pilot, XS-1 1922 Birthday Arthur R Hawkins, U.S. pilot/captain, WW II, downed 14 Japanese planes 1922 Birthday John B McKay, U.S. test pilot, X-15 1922 Birthday Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot 1922 Birthday Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot, downed 352 Russian aircrafts 1922 Birthday Neville Duke, English test pilot 1921 Birthday A Scott Crossfield, U.S. Test pilot, XS-1 1921 Birthday Leonard Overton, British glider pilot, Arnhem 1944 1921 Birthday Peter Twiss, test pilot 1921 Event Bessie Coleman reaches France as U.S. 1st black pilot 1921 Birthday Joseph Albert Walker, Washington D.C., test pilot, X-15 1920 Birthday Alfred William Bedford, test pilot 1920 Birthday Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman 1920 Birthday James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot 1920 Birthday Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker 1919 Death John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27 1918 Event Douglas Campbell is 1st U.S. ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane) 1918 Event S. Potter becomes 1st U.S. pilot to shoot down a German seaplane 1918 Event 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson 1917 Death Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot, dies at 22 1917 Event French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft 1916 Death Victor Chapman, U.S. legionaire/WW I pilot, killed 1916 Death Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed 1916 Event U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker 1916 Event U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft 1915 Birthday Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot 1915 Event Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit 1915 Birthday Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot 1914 Birthday Jack Mann, pilot/hostage 1914 Birthday Ronald George Woodman, pilot 1914 Birthday W G G Duncan-Smith, fighter pilot 1914 Event 1st scheduled airline flight, St. Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot) 1913 Event 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France) 1913 Birthday Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot 1912 Birthday Henry L "Hank" Miller, U.S. pilot/Lieutenant-Admiral, WW II-Pacific 1912 Event Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel 1912 Birthday Adolf Galland, fighter Pilot 1912 Birthday Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot 1911 Event Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot 1911 Event Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot 1910 Birthday Stephen Jurika, Jr., U.S. pilot/captain, WW II, Santa Cruz, Navy Cross 1910 Death Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies 1910 Birthday Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot 1910 Event Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude 1910 Event Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from New York to Philadelphia 1910 Birthday William I Martin, U.S. pilot/Vice-Admiral, WW II 1910 Event Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot 1910 Birthday Douglas R S Bader, British pilot, WW II 1910 Birthday David McCampbell, U.S. pilot/captain, WW II-Pacific-downed 34 Japanese planes 1908 Birthday Gerben Sonderman, Dutch test pilot, Fokker 1908 Birthday Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot, BI-1 1908 Event French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip 1907 Birthday Janet Harmon Bragg, U.S. pilot/columnist, Chicago Defender 1905 Birthday Fitzhugh Lee, U.S. pilot/Vice-Admiral, WW II, Navy Cross 1905 Birthday John S "Jimmy" Thach, U.S. pilot/admiral, WW II 1904 Birthday Harald James Penrose, pilot 1904 Birthday Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot 1903 Birthday Amy Johnson, British pilot 1903 Birthday Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot 1903 Birthday James S. Russell, U.S. pilot/admiral, WW II Pacific Ocean 1902 Birthday Charles Lindbergh, born in Detroit, Michigan, pilot, 1st fly solo across Atlantic 1901 Birthday Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot 1900 Birthday Prosper Cocquyt, Belgian brewer/pilot 1898 Birthday Jay C. Flippen, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, actor, Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay 1896 Birthday Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, La marcia su Rome 1894 Birthday Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot, Eagle of Flanders 1894 Birthday Georges Guynemer, French WW I pilot 1893 Birthday Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot 1892 Birthday John Alcock, English pilot, 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean 1892 Birthday Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot/air pioneer 1892 Birthday Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot 1877 Birthday Helene Dutrieu, comedienne/stuntwoman/1st Belgian female pilot 1864 Event Battle at Pilot Knob (Ft. Davidson), Missouri: 1700 killed/injured 1492 Event Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus
