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On This Day: October 20

Aviation events for October 20

1920: Flying his Nieuport Delage, Sadi Lecointe set a world speed record flying at 187.99-mph.
 
1950: U.S, paratroops cut off supplies from Pyongyang, Korea.
 
1953: a TWA Lockheed Constellation makes the first non-stop scheduled passenger flight across the United States.
 
1969: Finnair introduces an inertial navigation system on its aircraft, becoming the first airline to dispense with the need for a navigator aboard.
 
1970: A chartered Convair 240 carrying 26 people including members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd runs out of fuel and crashes in a forest at Gillsburg, Mississippi. Among the six dead are three band members and a manager, and the rest of the band members are injured.
 
1980: First dog fights of the Iran–Iraq War. An Iraqi Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 is shot down by Iranian F-4 Phantoms.
 
2010: Hamburg International ceases operations.
 
 
 

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