An Iranian Air Force C-130 crashes, Apollo 9 returns to Earth after 10 days in orbit, the first female Canadian gets her pilot’s license, South African Flight 806 and a BOAC Viscount 818 crash in separate incidents, and more...
Laker Airways goes out of business, crashes of British European Airlines and Birgenair flights, FedEx closes a hub for the first time, the Airline Deregulation Act is introduced and more...
In the biggest breakthrough yet toward discovering the cause of the crash, French investigators have successfully downloaded the entire record of data from the recently retrieved flight data and voice recorders of Air France Fl...