At least 15 people were killed when a passenger plane belonging to Venezuelan state-owned airline Conviasa crashed near an airport in Bolivar State late Monday morning.
Delta Air Lines has announced new flights to Las Vegas-McCarran and Washington-Reagan National from Hartford/Springfield Bradley International Airport beginning this Fall.
Concorde breaks the sound barrier, West Coast Airlines Flight 956 becomes the first fatal DC-9 crash, NASA is born, and the F-86 and XP-59 take their first flights.