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This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 8, 1957 Pan Am Flt. 7, a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu; small pieces of wreckage are found a week later by the U.S. Navy. Carbon monoxide poisoning is a suspected cause of the crash.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 8, 1961 Imperial Airlines Flt. 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation, crashes on landing at Byrd Field near Richmond, Virginia; all 74 passengers—mostly new US Army recruits, die of carbon monoxide asphyxiation.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 8, 1963 Aero (now Finnair) Flight 217, a DC-3, crashes before landing in poor visibility at Mariehamn Airport in the autonomous territory of Åland, killing 22 out of 25 passengers.

This Day in Aviation History.. Nov. 8, 1965 American Airlines Flt. 383, a 727, crashed on approach to Greater Cincinnati airport; of the 62 people on board, one flight attendant and three passengers survive. *Controlled Flight into Terrain in deteriorating weather conditions.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 8, 1978 The first flight of the Bombardier Challenger 600 took off at Montreal.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 8, 1983 A TAAG Angola 737 is shot down just after takeoff from Lubango Airport, in Angola; all 130 on board die. *Angolan authorities reported the cause of the crash is officially considered to be a mechanical failure.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 7, 2018 Sky Lease Cargo Flight 4854, a Boeing 747-400, overran the runway on landing at Halifax Stanfield Airport, Nova Scotia. The cause of the accident was attributed to pilot fatigue.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 7, 2001 Concorde Resumes Flights: The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumed operations following its post-2000 grounding and modifications.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 7, 1910 The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio in the United States by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 7, 1976 First flight of the Dassault Falcon 50.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 7, 1996 ADC Airlines Flight 086 was a Nigerian domestic flight from Port Harcourt to Lagos. The crew of the Boeing 727-231 operating the flight lost control of the aircraft while avoiding a mid-air collision on approach.

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This day in Aviation History... Nov. 6, 1963 TCA DC-8 Flt. 861 was taking off from London Heathrow Airport and as the aircraft passed 132 knots the captain pulled back on the control column thought there was no response from the elevators and aborted the take off.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 6, 1967 TWA Flight 159, a Boeing 707, overruns the runway at Greater Cincinnati Airport and catches fire; all on board escape the aircraft. *TWA sued Delta for the loss of the Boeing 707 aircraft, and reached a settlement of $2,216,000.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 5, 1967 Cathay Pacific Flt. 033 was a flight from Hong Kong to Saigon, Bangkok, and Calcutta. the Convair 880M overran the runway on takeoff from Hong Kong International Airport following a loss of control after the right nosewheel blew.

This day in Aviation History... Nov. 5, 2000 Cameroon Airlines flight UYC070, a Boeing 747‑200, landed at Paris‑Charles de Gaulle Airport and veered off the runway, crossing a drainage ditch and sustaining severe damage.

This Day in Aviation History... Nov. 5, 1997 Virgin Atlantic Flight 024, an A340 from Los Angeles, California, to London, United Kingdom. was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport after the left main landing gear failed to deploy.