1933: Dr. Albert Forsythe and Charles Alfred “Chief” Anderson land at Atlantic City to complete the first return flight to the West Coast by African-American pilots.

1934: Nelly Diener becomes Europe’s first air stewardess.

1945: a U.S. Army B-25D bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in heavy fog, killing 11 people in the building and all three of the plane’s crewmen.

1950: The first scheduled passenger service flown by a gas-turbine powered airliner (turboprop) is British European Airway’s (BEA) Vickers V. 630 Viscount.

2003: First flight of the Adam A700 AdamJet.

2009: Air Cargo Germany makes its first revenue flight.

2010: Airblue Flight 202, operated with an Airbus A321, crashes in the Margalla Hills near Islamabad.

2010: Boeing C-17 Globemaster III 00-0173 of the United States Air Force crashed near Elmendorf Air Force Base killing all four people on board.