** Four members of Black September hijack Sabena Flight 571, a Boeing 707 with 86 other people on board flying from Vienna, Austria, to Tel Aviv, Israel.

** The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all six on board.

** Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.

** Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

** A Boeing 737 military jet crashes into a mountain north of Dubrovnik, Croatia.

** Paris and Rome-bound TWA Flight 800 ( Boeing 747 ) explodes off the coast of Long Island, New York, killing all 230 on board.

** An Aeroperú Boeing 757 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff from Lima Airport, killing all 70 on board.

** A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashes in the Potomac River as it approached Marine Corps Base Quantico, killing all seven people on board.

** A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border, killing 143.

** United Airlines Boeing 737 from Washington National to Chicago Midway crashes short of the runway, killing 43 of 61 passengers and 2 people on the ground.

** A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.

** A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.

** An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all life on board.

** United Airlines Flight 227 a Boeing 727-22, crashes short of the runway and catches fire at Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah.

** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria ; 176 people are killed.

** Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes into the ocean near Bombay, killing 213.

** Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashes in Cranbrook, British Columbia, killing 44 of the 50 people on board.

** PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California ; 144 are killed.

** VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727 passenger jet, crashes into forest Fortaleza, killing 137.

** Pan Am Flight 759 ( Boeing 727 ) crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.

** NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.

** A Mexicana Boeing 727 jetliner crashes at Maravatio, Mexico, killing 173.

** The Boeing 767 airliner makes its first flight.

** The maiden flight of the Boeing 367-80 ( or Dash 80 ), prototype of the Boeing 707 series.

** First flight of the Boeing 707, the first commercially-successful jet airliner

** Order 2011-11-30: selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., to provide essential air service ( EAS ) at six communities at the following annual subsidy rates: Brainerd, Minnesota, $ 959, 865 ; Fort Dodge, $ 1, 798, 693 ; Iron Mountain, $ 1, 707, 841 ; Mason City, $ 1, 174, 468 ; Thief River Falls, Minnesota, $ 1, 881, 815 ; and Watertown, $ 1, 710, 324, for the two-year period beginning when Great Lakes inaugurates full EAS at all six communities

** Order 2011-11-30: selecting Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd., to provide essential air service ( EAS ) at six communities at the following annual subsidy rates: Brainerd, Minnesota, $ 959, 865 ; Fort Dodge, $ 1, 798, 693 ; Iron Mountain, $ 1, 707, 841 ; Mason City, $ 1, 174, 468 ; Thief River Falls, Minnesota, $ 1, 881, 815 ; and Watertown, $ 1, 710, 324, for the two-year period beginning when Great Lakes inaugurates full EAS at all six communities

** Frank D. Moates ( 707 )

** Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.

** TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.

** Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and crew on board.

** Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard ; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.

** The Super Dimension Fortress Macross ( 1982 – 1983 ): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.

** South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes near Dubuque, Iowa.

** Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt.

** An Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak-42D crashes into Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Macedonia.

** An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes in the Azores island of São Miguel.

** A fire breaks out in the Bannerman's Castle in the Hudson River ; most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower levels.

** Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot ; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.

** An airplane carrying prominent Ustashe general Jure Francetić crashes.

** Howard Hughes nearly dies in a test flight of the Hughes XF-11 and crashes it in a suburban Beverly Hills neighborhood because of a propeller malfunction.

** Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.

** A Long March 3 rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing as many as 50.

** Faucett Flight 251 in route from Lima to Rodriguez Ballon airport crashes into a mountain near Arequipa ; all 123 people on board are killed.

** A Russian Tupolev 154 jetliner crashes into a mountain as it approaches the airport at Spitsbergen, Norway, killing all 141 people on board.

** Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

** A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner ( Swissair Flight 111 ) crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva ; all 229 people on board are killed.

** Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board ( the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history ).

** A U. S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging four nuclear bombs.

** Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.