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On This Day: February 20

Aviation events for February 20

1915: During the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, Allan Loughead is allowed to launch an air service and flies 600 passengers across the bay during 50 days. The 10-minute flight costs $10 per passenger.
 
1924: In Dakar, Lieutenant-Colonel Tulasne, Captain Gama and Lieutenant Michel complete the first trip across the Sahara desert and back, piloting Breguet-14 airplanes.
 
1942: Lieutenant Edward O’Hare becomes America’s first World War II flying ace after shooting down five Japanese heavy bombers.
 
1959: The Avro CF-105 Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is canceled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
 
1962: Piedmont retires the last of its DC-3 aircraft on the 15th anniversary of its first scheduled flight.
 
1962: John Glenn becomes the first US astronaut to orbit the earth in Mercury Atlas 6 program on the “Friendship 7” spacecraft.
 
1963: Austrian Airlines receives the first of five Sud-Aviation SE.210-VIR Caravelles, their first jet aircraft.
 
1968: A standard Learjet 25 sets a new “time-to-climb” record by climbing to 40,000 feet in 6 minutes 29 seconds.
 
1972: A USAF Lockheed HC-130H Hercules piloted by a crew commanded by Lt. Comdr. Ed Allison sets a new world record for unrefuelled flight by turboprop aircraft. It flies a distance of 14,052.94 km (8,732.5 mi.) between the Taiwanese base of Ching Chuan Kang AB and Scott AFB, Illinois.
 
1986: Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km).
 
1998: TWA retires the last of its Boeing 747 “jumbo jets” The newer and more efficient Boeing 767 is now the airline’s main intercontinental aircraft.
 
2005: British Airways Flight 268, a Boeing 747-400 departed Los Angeles enroute to London Heathrow, experiences failure of the #2 engine just after takeoff. Instead of returning to the airport, they continued on, making it all the way to England where emergency was declared and a landing in Manchester took place. Though the FAA was upset about their flying an “unairworthy” aircraft, all is forgiven.
 
United Airlines Boeing 777-222 (N772UA) at  Madrid - Barajas, Spain
2021: United Airlines Flight 328 (UA328) N772UA, from Denver International Airport (DEN) to Honolulu, Hawaii; the Boeing 777-222 aircraft operating the route on that date suffered nominally contained engine failure shortly after takeoff, that resulted in a debris field at least 1 mile long over the Commons Park suburb of Broomfield, Colorado and surrounding area. Falling debris from the affected engine cowling was recorded by eyewitnesses using smartphone cameras and a dash cam. Debris also fell through the roof of a private home, and significantly damaged a parked vehicle.
 
 
 

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