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Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was born on March 12th, 1923. Schirra received his wings in 1948 and joined Fighter Squadron 71 (VF-71) at Quonset Point, Rhode Island where he flew the F8F Bearcat, F-80 Shooting Star, and F9F Panther fighter...
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April 28, 1988; Flight 243, a Boeing 737-200, departed from Hilo International Airport, at 13:25 HST, bound for Honolulu, with five crew members and 90 passengers on board. After the 737 had reached its cruising altitude of 24,000 feet, at...
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April 28th 1937 – The first commercial flight across the Pacific is made as a Pan-American Boeing 314 Clipper seaplane arrives in Hong Kong.Pan Am's "Clippers" were built for "one-class" luxury air travel. The highest level of luxury was considered...
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April 21 1982 – Falklands Islands - British SAS troops had been unwisely deployed from HMS Antrim, and RFA Tidepool to Fortuna Glacier on South Georgia island in the face of expected bad weather. The next day, a call for...
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On April 20th, 1978, Korean Air Lines Flight 902 (KAL 902) was shot down by the Soviet air defence near Murmansk, Soviet Union, after Flight 902 violated Soviet airspace and failed to respond to Soviet ground control and interceptors.Captain Alexander...
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