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Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20: 31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.
It opened at the American Airlines Theatre on 13 January and ran until 3 July 2011.
* On 26 July 1993, Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt.
* On 17 July 1996 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747 – 131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, killing 230.
On 4 July 1948 a Scandinavian Airlines Douglas DC-6 on a flight from Amsterdam to RAF Northolt collided with a RAF Avro York coming from Malta over Northwood.
* July 1973: Red Army members led a hijacking of Japan Airlines ( JAL ) plane over the Netherlands.
The airline was established on 20 July 1989, trading with the name Zagal ( formally, Zagreb Airlines ), and started operations using a single Cessna 402 aircraft on cargo services for UPS.
After the first democratic elections held in Croatia, Zagal changed its name to Croatia Airlines on 23 July 1990.
The crash of Flight 90, coupled with Air Florida's high financial leverage and reliance on foreign currency trading for profits, led the company to declare bankruptcy and cease operations on July 3, 1984, despite an effort by new head Donald Lloyd-Jones ( an alumnus of American Airlines ) to save the company.
* On 1 July 2010, Austrian Airlines announced that they will be resuming flights to Baghdad beginning in winter 2010.
On 19 July 2006, the first direct chartered all-cargo flight since 1949 operated by China Airlines landed in Shanghai from Taipei.
China Airlines and its Mandarin Airlines subsidiary would offer 29 return flights in the month of July to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Xiamen, while Eva Air would offer 7 flights per week initially from Taiwan Taoyuan and Songshan airports.
* Beverly Lynn Burns, American Airlines stewardess class of 1971 ; first woman Boeing 747 Captain in the world July 1984
In July 2006, Williams proposed to girlfriend Tara Fowler, an American Airlines flight attendant.
On 12 April 2006 Geoff Dixon, CEO of the Qantas Group, announced that the group would be focusing its two-brand strategy, Qantas and Jetstar brands, and as such Australian Airlines brand would cease to exist from July 2006.
On 31 July 2007, Libyan Airlines became a subsidiary of the state owned Libyan Afriqiyah Aviation Holding Company ( LAAHC ), together with Afriqiyah Airways.
JetBlue carried 23. 44 % of all passengers for the 12-month period ending July 31, 2011 ; other leading carriers include US Airways ( 13. 27 %), Delta Air Lines ( 11. 86 %), and American Airlines ( 11. 47 %).
In July 2001, the LTTE carried out a devastating suicide attack on Bandaranaike International Airport, destroying eight of the air force's planes ( 2 IAI Kfirs, 1 Mil-17, 1 Mil-24, 3 K-8 trainers, 1 MiG-27 ) and four Sri Lankan Airlines planes ( 2 Airbus A330s, 1 A340 and 1 A320 ), dampening the economy and causing tourism, a vital foreign exchange earner for the government, to plummet.
On July 16, 2007, Continental Airlines announced that it would seek government approval for nonstop flights between Newark and Shanghai in 2009.
In July 2012, United Airlines announced resumption of flights to Taipei and Paris.
The top five airlines in terms of market share from July 2011-June 2012 are Southwest Airlines ( 71. 65 %), Alaska Airlines ( 6. 13 %), JetBlue Airways ( 5. 09 %), US Airways ( 2. 84 %) and Hawaiian Airlines ( 2. 49 %).
Boeing 737-500 from Lithuanian Airlines in Frankfurt, July 2005.

July and Cargo
* BETA Cargo: 1 Following the loss of flight license on July 10th, 2012 the remaining DC-8 and Boeing 707 were put on storage
:: 315th Air Division ( Combat Cargo ), 25 January 1951-1 July 1957.
A Cargo Club supermarket-style retail warehouse, part of the Nurdin and Peacock group, which opened in July 1994.
In July 1978, when Nippon Cargo Airlines first began, it operated within a single room inside All Nippon Airways's space in the Kasumigaseki Building.
As of July 2006, Rickenbacker is the world's 126th busiest cargo airport according to Air Cargo World.
However, it was not until 1 July 2001, when Singapore Airlines Cargo was incorporated, taking over the air-freight operations of Singapore Airlines as a separate subsidiary.
As of July 2010, the company has applied to CAA of Sri Lanka to renew its AOC and resume international cargo operations under the name Lankan Cargo.
The Tampa Cargo fleet consists of the following aircraft ( at 31 July 2012 ):
In July 2009, Kuzu Airlines Cargo formally changed its name to ULS Airlines Cargo under a new operator's certificate.
In order to optimize the use of its aircraft, TRIP announced on July 27, 2011 the creation of TRIP Cargo, the cargo division of TRIP Linhas Aéreas.
In July 2003, a US investment group headed by John Dasburg ( now Chairman, Chief Executive and President of the airline ), completed a management buy-out of the airline using financing provided by Boeing Capital and subsequently changed the name to ASTAR Air Cargo on 30 June 2003.
Ajay Virmani initially acquired 50 % of Canada 3000 Cargo in July 2001 and bought the remaining half in February 2002.
On July 2010 the Cargojet Regional Cargo operation was sold to SkyLink Express.
Centurion Air Cargo was then formed in July 1999, taking over the operating certificate of Challenge Air Cargo.

July and operated
Dwan operated Flying A Studios in La Mesa, California from August, 1911 to July, 1912.
During July, 1887, he conducted successful tests on the Atlantic telegraph cable between Weston-super-Mare and Waterville, Nova Scotia operated by the Commercial Company, with a double Baudot installed in duplex, the Baudot transmitters and receivers substituted for the recorder.
The world's first GSM call was made by the Finnish prime minister Harri Holkeri to Kaarina Suonio ( mayor in city of Tampere ) on 1 July 1991 on a network built by Telenokia and Siemens and operated by Radiolinja.
Until 3 July 2011, when Arriva took over bus operations, there were approximately 500 buses in public transit service in Malta, most of them privately owned by the bus drivers themselves, and operated to a unified timetable set by the transport authority.
A new public transport network started on 3 July 2011 and is operated by the German-owned Arriva group.
It is owned and operated by the NASDAQ OMX Group, the stock of which was listed on its own stock exchange beginning July 2, 2002, under the ticker symbol.
It was officially established on July 1, 1946, as an upgraded replacement for the Army-Navy Staff College, which operated from June 1943 to July 1946.
* July 3 – A Caudron C-61 aircraft operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne crashes in Czechoslovakia.
* July 1 – U. S. President Grover Cleveland is operated on in secret.
On July 17, 2010, the U. S. Postal Service issued a se-tenant pair of 44-cent U. S. commemorative postage stamps, to honor the all-black professional baseball leagues that operated from 1920 to about 1960.
Treblinka I operated between June 1941 and July 23, 1944.
On 7 July 1948, a Silver City Bristol Freighter operated the first cross-Channel air ferry service, between Lympne near Folkestone in Kent and Le Touquet on France's northern Côte d ' Opale coast, with good road connections from and to London and Paris respectively.
However, Romanian sources assign most of the responsibility for the damage to the city to Soviet NKVD destruction battalions, that operated in Chișinău until 17 July 1941, when it was captured by invading Axis forces.
The postal service of for the protectorates of British East Africa and Uganda was called East Africa and Uganda Protectorates, and operated from April 1, 1903 to July 22, 1920.
The Waterloo & City Railway opened on 11 July 1898, and from the start was operated by the L & SWR.
Bankers Life Fieldhouse is owned and operated by the Capital Improvement Board, City of Indianapolis, Indiana and it's groundbreaking was on July 22, 1997 by Ellerbe Becket Architects & Engineers.
The Ennis railway station operated by government owned Iarnród Éireann is the most significant railway station in Clare today ; it was opened on 2 July 1859.
* July 1985: A British Airways Concorde operated the type's first-ever commercial flight from Gatwick.
* 6 July 2012: An Emirates Airbus A380 operated the type's first scheduled service from Gatwick to mark the airline's 25th anniversary at the airport, in the UK and Europe, as well as to test the aircraft's suitability for the airport.
* On 23 July 1968, El Al Flight 426 operated by a Boeing 707-358C on route from London to Tel Aviv via Rome, was hijacked by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine shortly after take-off from Rome-Fiumicino airport and forcibly diverted to Algiers.
In July 1917, a fire broke out in a pool hall operated by E. E.
In July 2000, " Downtown Pleasant Hill " finally opened, as a privately owned and operated outdoor shopping center designed to resemble a typical suburban Main Street.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory, originating at MSFC, was launched on July 3, 1999, and is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
The first NASA launch facility there ( Launch Complex 39 ) was designed and operated by MSFC, then in on July 1, 1962, the overall site achieving equal status with other NASA centers and was named the Launch Operations Center, later renamed the Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ).

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