• On November 19, 1977, TAP Portugal flight TP425 tragically crashed while attempting to land at Madeira Airport in Funchal, Portugal. The aircraft, a Boeing 727-282 registered as CS-TBR, was …
• On November 18, 1983, Aeroflot flight SU6833, a Tupolev Tu-134A registered as CCCP-65807, was hijacked during a domestic flight from Tbilisi to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) with a planned …
• N322F was delivered on September 27, 1965. On November 17, 1965, Flying Tiger Line completed one of the most ambitious and technically advanced airline-operated flights in history—a pole-to- …
• National Airlines flight NA967 (using a Delta DC-7B) was a scheduled passenger service operating under a three-way interchange agreement between National Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Ameri …
• Pan Am flight PA708 was a scheduled cargo flight operated by a Boeing 727-21 (registration N317PA, named "Clipper München") that crashed on final approach to Berlin Tegel Airport on November …

October Events:

• Air Canada Rouge officially retired its Boeing 767-300 ER fleet in October 2020 as part of a broader pandemic-driven restructuring. The final revenue flight was ROU1985, departing Athens, Gr …
• Metrojet flight 7K9268 (ICAO: KGL9268), operated by the pictured Airbus A321-231 registered as EI-ETJ, was destroyed by a terrorist bombing over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on October 31, 2015, …
• Singapore flight SQ006 crashed into construction equipment on takeoff at Taipei on October 31, 2000. Singapore Airlines Flight SQ006, operated by Boeing 747-412 9V-SPK, tragically crashed on …
• On October 30, 1941, Northwest Airlines flight NW5, operated by a Douglas DC-3A-269 registered as NC21712, crashed near Moorhead, Minnesota, just east of Fargo-Hector Field, killing 14 of th …
• On October 30, 1941, American Airlines flight AA1, a Douglas DC-3-277B registered as NC25663 and named "Flagship Erie", crashed near Lawrence Station, in Southwold Township, Ontario, Canada, …

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