The main Ethiopian Airlines maintenance hangar on a cloudy day at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopian services all of its aircraft at in Addis headquarters, along with a number of other airlines located across the region.
The Air Florida Flight 90 disaster takes 78 lives in Washington DC, and an Uzbekistan Yak-42 crashes in Tashkent. In happier news, Igor Sikorsky makes the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight, Shuttle Endeavour launc...