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On This Day: 2013

Aviation events for 2013

January 16: The FAA issues an Emergency Grounding Order for the 787.
 
January 27: OLT Germany ceases operations.
 
March 27: World Airways ceases operations.
 
April 13: Lion Air Flight 904 crashes short of the runway at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia. All 101 passengers and 7 crew on board survived the accident. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 737-8GP, registration PK-LKS, operated by Lion Air and owned by Avolon. Read more...
 
April 29: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747 freighter, stalls and crashes shortly after takeoff from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, due to load shifting, killing all seven crew members on board.
 
April 30: A National Air Cargo B747-400F crashes at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Seven aboard are killed in the crash that is caught on video.
 
June 3: First flight of the PW1100G Geared Turbofan on a B747SP testbed.
 
July 6: Asiana Flight 214, a Boeing 777-200 crashes at SFO with 291 passengers and 16 aboard. There were three fatalities.
 
August 14: UPS Airlines Flight 1354, an Airbus A300 freighter, crashes short of the runway on approach to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing the two crew on board.
 
August 20: The first flight of the production AT-6 Texan II COIN variant(N630LA) at Wichita, KS.
 
September 16: First flight of the Bombardier CSeries100.
 
September 17: The first flight of the Boeing 787-9 from Paine Field, in Washington. The flight lasted five hours and fifteen minutes and landed at Boeing Field.
 
September 25: An unmanned F-16 breaks the sound barrier.
 
October 16: Lao Airlines Flight 301, an ATR-72, crashes shortly before landing at Pakse International Airport under adverse weather conditions, killing all 44 passengers and 5 crew on board.
 
November 12: Global Aviation Holdings, Inc., the largest commercial provider of charter air services to the US Military and a major provider of worldwide commercial global passenger and cargo air transportation services, announced that the Company and its subsidiaries, including its two operating airlines World Airways and North American Airlines, have filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
 
November 17: Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363, a Boeing 737, crashes at Kazan International Airport, Russia during a go-around, killing all 50 people on board.
 
November 29: LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470, an Embraer 190, en route from Maputo International Airport, Mozambique to Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Angola crashes into Bwabwata National Park in northern Namibia, killing all 33 people on board.
 
December 9: American Airlines and US Airways merge to form the largest airline with over 6700 daily flights to over 336 cities in 56 countries.
 
 
 

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