American Airlines (AA), on February 29, 1984, ordered 167 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft, marking the largest commercial jetliner order in history at that time.
What happened today in Aviation
The Sknyliv air show catastrophe happened on Saturday, July 27, 2002, at the Sknyliv airport near Lviv, Ukraine, when a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 of the Ukrainian Falcons crashed
The supersonic aircraft crashed into a hotel in Gonesse, France, shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 passengers as well as 4 people on the ground.
All 34 passengers on board a Turkish military plane CASA CN 235 CARGO died in a crash in the country’s southeas. Know more
Evelyn Bryan Johnson, a record-breaking pilot born just six years after the Wright brothers’ inaugural flight, died at the age of 102.
The Sukhoi Superjet (SSJ) 100 airliner crashed into a cliff on Mount Salak ten years ago today, on May 9, 2012. 45 died
Kingfisher Airlines began operations in 2003. United Breweries Group, located in Bengaluru, owned it. Know more here
The regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation issued AirAsia (India) Pvt. Ltd an air operating permit on May 7th, 2014.
In 1949, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) began weekly service between San Diego and Oakland, California. Know more