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On 4 June 1967, a Canadair C-4 Argonaut passenger aircraft owned by British Midland Airways operating as British Midland Flight 542 crashed near the centre of Stockport, Cheshire, England. Of the 84 people on board, 72 were killed. It is the fourth-worst accident in British aviation history. [1]
20 March – British Midland Airways Vickers Viscount G-AVJA crashed on take-off from Ringway Airport, Manchester, Lancashire. The aircraft was operating a training flight. During a simulated engine failure control was lost and the aircraft rolled inverted and dived into the ground. Three of the four crew were killed. [120]
The aircraft was a British Midland-operated Boeing 737-4Y0, [a] registration G-OBME, [3] on a scheduled flight from London Heathrow Airport to Belfast International Airport, Northern Ireland, having already flown from Heathrow to Belfast and back that day. The 737-400 was the newest design from Boeing, with the first unit entering service less ...
British Midland operated its final Viscount flight on 20 February 1988, 21 years after the airline had first operated the type. [5] That year, British Midland also became the first to operate the British Aerospace (BAe) ATP for which it had been the launch customer. The BAe ATP was the airline's last turboprop type.
4 June – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashed in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. 5 June – The General Post Office introduced the Machin series of definitive stamps. The Arnold Machin design would be one of the most reproduced works of art in history with approximately 320 billion copies ...
A Southwest Airlines plane was struck by a bullet moments before its scheduled takeoff from Dallas Love Field airport in Texas on Friday night, according to the airline.
Seventeen British soldiers, a British civil servant, and two Arab policemen were killed in a mutiny by Yemeni Arab police in Aden. [ 125 ] [ 126 ] The police were reportedly upset over the recent suspension of four Arab colonels in the police force, and order was restored after the colonels were reinstated.
A deputy US marshal was arrested in the United Kingdom, accused of drunkenness onboard a flight from the United States to the UK, according to the US Marshal Service and London’s Metropolitan ...