Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including…
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 14:13 EST (19:13 UTC) from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling…
Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled passenger international flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France, which crashed on 1 June 2009. The Airbus A330, operated by Air France, stalled and did not recover, eventually crashing into the Atlantic Ocean at 0214 UTC, killing all 228 passengers, aircrew and cabin crew on board…
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On 1 September 1983, the South Korean airliner serving the flight was shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor. The Boeing 747 airliner was en-route from Anchorage to Seoul but deviated from its original…
FINAL REPORT (EXCERPTS) AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION INTO M/s BHOJA AIR FLIGHT BHO-213, BOEING 737-236A, REG # AP-BKC CRASHED ON 20th APRIL 2012 NEAR BBIAP, ISLAMABAD Synopsis On 20th April 2012, M/s Bhoja Air Boeing 737-236A Reg # AP-BKC was scheduled to fly domestic Flight BHO-213 from Jinnah International Airport (JIAP) Karachi to Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIAP)…
Farther, faster, higher For German women, it was not easy to even attempt record flights during the years between the Wars. Under the terms of the Versailles Treaty, Germany was prohibited from having aircraft that might conceivably be employed for military purposes. Fliers were generally restricted to gliders or small sport planes, and they were…
Accident summary Date: January 25, 1990 Summary: Fuel exhaustion caused by pilot and ATC error Site: Cove Neck, New York, U.S; N40°52′48″; W 073°29′43 Passengers: 149 Crew: 9 Fatalities: 73 Injuries (non-fatal): 85 Survivors: 85 Aircraft type: Boeing 707-321B Operator: Avianca Registration: HK-2016 Flight origin: El Dorado International Airport Stopover: José María Córdova Int’l…
A centennial salute to courageous, controversial Billy Bishop March 1917: The First World War I has been grinding on for 31 long months, more than 2 million Allied soldiers are dead, and no end to the carnage is in sight. Manned flight – a new and romantic phenomenon when the war began-has evolved from a…
With the end of World War I, peacetime aviation seemed poised for an exhilarating leap forward. The great challenge – and the great obstacle – that dominated the thinking of the men who built airplanes and those who flew them was the Atlantic Ocean. Like some menacing beast from an ancient myth, it lay in…
The earth’s relationship to the rest of the solar system and the position of the stars in the sky help to locate any position on its surface. Its revolution on its axis produces the changes from light to darkness and its orbit around the sun produces the seasons, for the earth is tilted at an…
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