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This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 29, 1953 BCPA Flight 304, a Douglas DC-6 B, crashes into King's Mountain, southeast of Half Moon Bay, California, on its approach to San Francisco International Airport, killing all 11 passengers.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 29, 1998 While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines B-737 with 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 29, 2005 Ghana International Airlines launched with inaugural flight from Accra to London.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 29, 2006 ADC Airlines Flight 53, a Boeing 737, crashes near Abuja, Nigeria, killing 96 of the 105 people on board. *Take-off in bad weather, wind shear.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 29, 2018 Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people. *Loss of control in flight.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 28, 1972 First flight of the Airbus A300.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 28-30, 1977 Pan Am’s Boeing 747SP Clipper New Horizons made aviation history by flying a nonstop polar circumnavigation of the world in celebration of the airline’s 50th anniversary.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 28, 1989 Aloha IslandAir Flight 1712 crashed into terrain while on approach in Hawaii. All 20 occupants on board die.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 28, 1998 An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 28, 2006 Continental Airlines Flight 1883, a Boeing 757 with 154 people on board, mistakenly lands on a taxiway instead of a runway at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. It rolls to a stop without incident.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 28, 2016 American Airlines Flight 383 suffered an uncontained engine failure of engine #2 then caught fire during takeoff in Chicago. All 170 people survived, but 21 people were injured.

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This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 27, 1949 An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed into a mountain while attempting to land in the Azores. 48 die including French boxing star Marcel Cerdan and the young concert violinist, Ginette Neveu.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 27, 1960 Air Mali (1960–1985) is established.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 27, 1988 First flight of the ATR 72.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 27, 1993 Widerøe Flight 744, a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, crashes in Overhalla, Norway on approach to Namsos Airport, killing both pilots and four passengers.

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This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 26, 1958 Pan American World Airways marked the dawn of the “Jet Age” when its Boeing 707‑121 “Clipper America” departed New York’s Idlewild Airport for Paris Le Bourget, the first scheduled commercial jet service by an American airline.

This Day in Aviation History... Oct. 26, 1989 China Airlines Flight 204, a Boeing 737, crashes into the Chiashan mountain range after takeoff from Hualien Airport. Taiwan. All 54 on board perish.