On his orders, the IDF performed a long-range undercover raid to rescue passengers of an airliner hijacked by militants belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's Wadie Haddad faction and the German Revolutionary Cells ( RZ ), and had been brought to Idi Amin's Uganda.

On September 1, 1983, the Korean Air Flight 007, a South Korean civilian airliner, flew over Sakhalin and was shot down by the Soviet Union, just west of Sakhalin Island, near the smaller Moneron Island ; the Soviet Union claimed it was a spy plane.

" On two occasions, 15 November 1942, and 19 April 1943, the camouflaged airliner had been attacked by Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighters ( a single aircraft and six Bf 110s, respectively ) while en route ; each time, the pilots escaped via evasive tactics.

* On January 13, 1975, several men, including Carlos the Jackal, made an unsuccessful attempt to destroy an El Al airliner.

On March 17, 1960, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710, a Lockheed Electra turboprop airliner flying from Chicago to Miami lost a wing due to aerodynamic flutter and crashed in southern Indiana near Tell City.

* On 4 February 1952, a C-47 ( registered OO-CBA ) with sixteen occupants ( twelve passengers, four crew ) crashed near Kikwit following the mid-air break-up of a propeller, which resulted in vital parts of the airliner being destroyed by debris.

* On November 1, 1955, United Airlines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B airliner, exploded over nearby Longmont while en route to Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington from Stapleton, killing all 44 persons aboard.

On February 27, 2006, at the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, in an airliner cargo area ( accessible only to authorized personnel ), threatening graffiti was found.

On 15 January 2008, Judge Kennedy issued an order awarding $ 6 billion USD in damages to the families and owners of the airliner.

On 1 September 1953, Thibaud and 41 others died in the crash of an Air France Lockheed Constellation airliner.

* On August 22, 2006, Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612, a Tu-154 airliner with 160 passengers and 10 crew on board en route from Anapa to Saint Petersburg, crashed near Donetsk in Ukraine.

On a typical airliner, for example, the spoilers are a series of panels on the upper surface of the wing which deploy upwards to disrupt airflow over the wing, thus adding drag.

* On March 3, 2009, a Perimeter Airlines ( Aviation ) Metroliner airliner flying back from St. Theresa Point with 10 people on board, " belly landed " due to problems with its landing gear.

On October 2, 1996, shortly after takeoff just past midnight, the Boeing 757 airliner crew discovered that their basic flight instruments were behaving erratically and reported receiving contradictory serial emergency messages from the onboard computer, such as rudder ratio, mach speed trim, overspeed, underspeed and flying too low.

On 1 April 2008, MHI established Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation as a subsidiary to develop and produce the MRJ or Mitsubishi Regional Jet, a 70 to 90 passenger regional airliner.

On 12 November 1986, the two North Korean agents traveled from Pyongyang, North Korea, on an airliner, to Moscow, Russian SFSR.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Scowcroft was in the an E-4B aircraft, also known as the National Airborne Operations Command Center ( NAOC ,) on the tarmac waiting to takeoff and fly to Offutt Air Force Base, when the first hijacked airliner hit the World Trade Center ( WTC ).

On 25 February 1985 the airline introduced the 34-seat Saab 340, a more modern regional airliner ; Kendell was the first airline in the southern hemisphere to operate the Saab 340, with further aircraft of that type being added over the following years.

On 31 March 1992, a Boeing 707 of Kabo Air, a Nigerian company, made an emergency landing after a dangerous event almost unprecedented in the history of airliner flight.

On 1 September 1983 the PVO shot down Korean Air Flight 007 after they correctly believed that the civilian airliner had illegally crossed into restricted Soviet airspace but mistook it for a spy plane.

On the night of 10 October 1985, there were tense hours on NAS II when the Italian Carabinieri, Italian Air Force, and the American Navy SEALs came close to firing upon one another following the interception by Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters of an Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner carrying the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, which had been commandeered by members of the PLO on 7 October.

On an airliner this would be all the flying and control surfaces behind the rear pressure bulkhead.

* 2002 Mombasa airliner attack: On 28 November 2002, two shoulder-launched Strela 2 ( SA-7 ) surface-to-air missiles were fired at a chartered Boeing 757 airliner as it took off from Moi International Airport.

): On American Airlines Flight 1238, en route from Los Angeles to Chicago, a man with severe mental problems stormed the cockpit 40 minutes before landing in Chicago, causing the plane to drop sharply and causing a panic.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi boarded United Airlines Flight 93 in Newark International Airport at gate A17 without incident, and sat in a first-class seat near the cockpit.

On the runway, the final cockpit checks were carried out and at 15: 02, they were contacted to tell them that their take-off clearance would expire at 15: 04.

On entering the cockpit, Captain Pearson saw what he was expecting to see: blank fuel gauges and a tagged circuit breaker.

On examination, it was learned that a new instrument was being used that automatically decoded the dots and dashes and displayed a pointer in the cockpit in front of the pilot.

* On the night of September 2, 1998 Swissair Flight 111, a scheduled flight from New York City to Geneva, declared a pan-pan after the crew noticed smoke in the cockpit.

On June 10, 2009, Jetstar Airways Flight 20 flying from Kansai International Airport to Gold Coast Airport experienced a small fire in the cockpit apparently caused by a fault in the heating system.

On a kayak, the spraydeck is secured to a rim surrounding the cockpit with a line or elastic string called a rand.

* On October 25, 2010, a United Airlines Boeing 777 made a successful emergency landing in the afternoon after the pilots reported smoke in the cockpit.

On some military airplanes ( C-5, E-3, KC-10 ) the Flight Engineer sits behind the co-pilot in the cockpit, facing sideways to operate a panel of switches, gauges and indicators, and on the Tupolev Tu-134 the flight engineer sits in the nose of the airplanes.

On 8 December 1941, when the Japanese launched the first air attacks on the Philippines, the obsolescent fighters proved completely inadequate for the task of air defense, too lightly armed and lacking both cockpit armor and self-sealing fuel tanks.

On the positive side he is loyal, trustworthy, brave, shrewd, thorough in his job duties, and a tough and skilled soldier in hand-to-hand combat or in the cockpit of a Starfury fighter.

On July 9, 1982 at 4: 07: 57 PM central daylight time, Flight 759, with seven crew members, one non-revenue passenger in the cockpit jumpseat, and 137 passengers ( a total of 145 on board ), began its takeoff from runway 10 at the New Orleans International Airport ( now Louis Armstrong International ), in Kenner, Louisiana.

HOTAS, an abbreviation for Hands On Throttle-And-Stick, is the name given to the concept of placing buttons and switches on the throttle stick and flight control stick in an aircraft's cockpit, allowing the pilot to access vital cockpit functions and fly the aircraft without having to remove his hands from the throttle and flight controls.

On July 1, 1998, JAL Express commenced operations from Osaka to Miyazaki and Kagoshima with two Boeing 737-400s, non-Japanese cockpit crew, and short-term contracted cabin attendants.

On the Tornado aircraft, Ferranti supplied the radar transmitter, inertial navigation system, LRMTS, TIALD pod, mission recording equipment, and cockpit displays.

On January 29, 2008 de Ferran announced that he will return to the cockpit and field a factory-backed LMP2 class Acura ARX-01b prototype in the American Le Mans Series.

* On October 13, 2007, a Boeing 727 making a trip from Kaduna to Abuja en route to Lagos suffered a cockpit fire.

On the flight deck, the display units are the most obvious parts of an EFIS system, and are the features which give rise to the name " glass cockpit ".

* On November 28, 2007 a Short 360 aircraft landing in Victoria International Airport reported that the cockpit landing gear light was not indicating that the gear had fully deployed.

On an open cockpit sailboat at a mooring, a tarpaulin may be run over the boom and tied to the rails to form a tent over the cockpit.

* On September 29, 2004 an asylum seeker entered the cockpit of Dornier 228 LN-BER and, in a suicide attempt, attacked the pilots with an axe.