1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed. From a dive at high altitude, the aircraft ...
Efforts have begun to airlift more than 2,500 people, most of them tourists, from Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, Nepal where they have been stranded for days with all commercial flights grounded due to bad weather. Lukla is ...