International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

The Cameroonian Air Force was founded in 1960 the year of independence from France. There are around 600 troops in the air force.

It is owned by Air France and the U. S. Finance company AIG.

Major established companies that fly to Croatia include the domestic Croatia Airlines ( member of the Star Alliance ), Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways.

At some point during the war he left France and joined the United States Air Force as a paratrooper, although some sources claim that this is a myth.

Air Djibouti, partly government-owned and partly owned by Air France, provides domestic service to six centers and flies to a number of overseas destinations.

* 1994 – Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969.

The national carrier of France is Air France, a full service global airline which flies to 20 domestic destinations and 150 international destinations in 83 countries ( including Overseas departments and territories of France ) across all 6 major continents.

* Air France Flight 296

In 1994 Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked by Islamic terrorists with the suspected intent to crash the plane over Paris.

* 1976 – Air France Flight 139 ( Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris ) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.

* 2000 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.

* 1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130.

* 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

* 1962 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes in bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing 113.

* 1992 – Air Inter Flight 148 crashes near Strasbourg, France, killing 82 passengers and five crew members.

Other passenger carriers include Skymark Airlines, Skynet Asia Airways, Air Do, Star Flyer and Fuji Dream Airlines.

Air Malawi Limited is the national airline of Malawi which operates regional passenger service.

* 1964 – Pacific Air Lines Flight 773, a Fairchild F-27 airliner, 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.

* 1935 – Arland D. Williams, Jr., American passenger on Air Florida Flight 90 ( d. 1982 )

Arafat narrowly escaped death again on 7 April 1992, when an Air Bissau aircraft he was a passenger on crash-landed in the Libyan Desert during a sandstorm.

** 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.

* October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14, 000 ' in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina / Chile border.

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

Most of the mercenaries escape by a commandeered Air India passenger jet ; 6 are later arrested.

Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

Since SUVs are considered light trucks in North America, and often share the same platform with pick-up trucks, at one time, they were regulated less strictly than passenger cars under the two laws in the United States, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act for fuel economy, and the Clean Air Act for emissions.

Memphis International Airport has seen declining passenger and aircraft movements due to cutbacks by Delta Air Lines at the airport.

It is served by two passenger airlines: United Airlines and Air Marshall Islands.

San Salvador City was put on a black out and the Salvadoran Air Force took off to Honduras ( El Salvador lacked sufficient military air equipment, resorting to the use of passenger airplanes with attached vessels strapped to their sides as bombers ) attacked targets inside Honduras, who had a better equipped air force but Hondurans were caught off guard by the Salvadorans.

The famous Radom Air Show takes place at Radom-Sadków Airport, a military airport located 3, 5 kilometers from the center of Radom, which in the future will be adopted for passenger use.

In 1929, Earhart was among the first aviators to promote commercial air travel through the development of a passenger airline service ; along with Charles Lindbergh, she represented Transcontinental Air Transport ( TAT ) and invested time and money in setting up the first regional shuttle service between New York and Washington, DC.

In late 2005 / early 2006, Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic came forward about their involvement in large price-fixing schemes for cargo and passenger surcharges in which 21 airlines were involved since 2000 ( amongst which were British Airways, Korean Air, and Air France-KLM ).

The Heron is painted as G-AOXL of Morton Air Services, which was the aircraft that flew the last passenger flight from Croydon on 30 September 1959.

Freight divisions of passenger airlines operating their own or leased freighter aircraft, some shut down or merged with others. Air India Cargo Airbus A310 plane.

Following the war, frequencies were increased and more routes were opened, which necessitated the conversion of three South African Air Force Envoys to passenger layout.

Arctic Circle Air Service, Grant Aviation and Hageland Aviation offer passenger flight service.

Arctic Circle Air Service, Grant Aviation and Hageland Aviation offer passenger flight service.

Between 2 and 4 September 2011 on labor day weekend, the Blue Angels flew for the first time with a 50 – 50 blend of conventional JP-5 jet fuel and a camelina-based biofuel at Naval Air Station Patuxent River airshow at Patuxent River, Maryland.

Following his selection, Schmitt spent his first year at Air Force UPT learning to become a jet pilot.

* 1982 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet crashes into Washington, D. C .' s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.

Attention was also focused on the Air Force, with the pre-coup strength of 400 personnel and ten Northrop F-5 ' Freedom Fighter ' jet fighters planned to be supplemented with large-scale purchases of Mirage III fighters from France.

Lithuanian Air Force jet trainer Aero L-39ZA

Air space is patrolled by jet fighters from other NATO members, which are based out of the city Šiauliai ( Zokniai Airport, known as the Aviation base ) ( see Baltic Air Policing ).

On January 12, 1981, a group calling itself Volunteer Organization for the Revolution claimed responsibility for blowing up six fighter jet planes in a Puerto Rico Air National Guard base at a loss of $ 40 million.

A jet of the national airline, Air Senegal International.

* 1983 – Cold War: Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace.

Due to a missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles, independent scientists of the National Solar Observatory ( NSO ) and the Air Force Research Laboratory ( AFRL ) now ( 2011 ) predict that the next 11-year solar sunspot cycle, Cycle 25, will be greatly reduced or may not happen at all.

The development of jet aircraft, specifically the B-47 Stratojet, was a key component in building the Strategic Air Command ’ s bombing capacity.

Chilean radars supplied the British with information of Argentine jet movements in Tierra del Fuego, from where the Argentine Air Force launched raids on targets in the Falklands.

After eight weeks of refresher flight training and qualification in the F9F Panther jet fighter at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, Williams was assigned to VMF-311, Marine Aircraft Group 33 ( MAG-33 ), based at the K-3 airfield in Pohang, South Korea.

After considering various specifications for such an advanced jet bomber in late 1946, the Air Ministry issued a request in January 1947 for an advanced jet bomber that would be at least the equal of anything the U. S. or the USSR had.

One of the most famous was Whitcomb's personal work on the re-design of the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, a U. S. Air Force jet fighter that was demonstrating performance considerably worse than expected.

* January 28 – A U. S. Air Force jet training plane that strays into East Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt ; all 3 crew men are killed.

* November 1 – Mortar fire from North Vietnamese forces rains on the Bien Hoa Air Base, killing four U. S. servicemen, wounding 72, and destroying five B-57 jet bombers and other planes.

** Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.

* June 22 – An Air France Boeing 707 jet crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board.