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Aero Flight 311, often referred to as the Kvevlax air disaster, was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by Aero O/Y (now Finnair) between Kronoby and Vaasa in Finland. The aircraft, a Douglas DC-3 , crashed in the municipality Kvevlax ( Finnish : Koivulahti ), nowadays part of Korsholm ( Finnish : Mustasaari ) on 3 January 1961 ...
They receive the 1961 Bendix Trophy for their flight. May 26 – A U.S. Air Force B-58 Hustler flies from New York City to Paris in a record 3 hours, 19 minutes, 41 seconds, covering the 4,612-mile (7,427-km) distance at an average speed of 1,386 miles per hour (1,205 knots; 2,232 km/h). [2] Its crew will receive the Mackay Trophy for the ...
Flight 311 may refer to: Aero Flight 311, plane crash in 1961; Thai Airways International Flight 311, plane crash in 1992 This page was last edited on 6 July ...
February 3: Garuda Indonesia flight 542 (a Douglas C-47A-20-DK, registration PK-GDY) disappeared off Madura Island on a scheduled domestic passenger flight, from Surabaya-Juanda Airport to Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Airport. Five crew members and 21 passengers were lost in the accident. The wreckage was never found. [3]
In November 1961, it was announced that the airplane's crew had escaped Bolivia. They were tried in absentia, and in 1967, the case's prosecutor asked for ten years of prison for each crew-member. Ultimately, none of the five men on the airplane returned to Bolivia and four of them remain at large.
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These photos from the Star-Telegram show long-gone rides, historic moments and fun memories from the 1960s into into 2010s. ... Six Flags opened in 1961 in Arlington. These photos from the Star ...
3 January 1961: Aero Flight 311, a DC-3 that was being flown by alcohol-intoxicated and sleep-deprived pilots crashed in Kvevlax, Finland (Koivulahti in Finnish), with the loss of all 25 on board. [5]