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On This Day: June 3

Aviation events for June 3

1785: Jean-Pierre Blanchard experiments with a parachute, releasing a silk parachute 20 feet in diameter, loaded with weight over England. Later he drops dogs attached to parachutes from his balloon.
 
1936: The British Air Ministry awards a contract to Hawker for 600 Hurricane Mk. 1 fighters, the first of a new breed of high-speed, eight-gun interceptors for the RAF. This is the biggest peacetime order placed in Britain to date.
 
1962: Air France Flight 007, a 707-300, crashed while attempting to takeoff from Paris's Orly Airport. The crash killed 130 people aboard; two stewardesses survived. It was, at the time, the worst single-plane disaster.
 
1973: The first crash of a supersonic transport aircraft occurs as a Tupolev Tu-144 goes down during a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show.
 
2012: A Dana Air (9J) crashed into a building in Lagos, Nigeria .Cconfirmed that 146 passengers and seven crew members were killed when the Boeing MD-83s crashed. According to a statement on Lagos-based 9J’s website, the aircraft’s registration number was 5N-RAMand it was operating flight 9J-992 from Abuja to Lagos when the crash occurred.
 
2013: First flight of the PW1100G Geared Turbofan on a B747SP testbed.
 
 
 

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