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Chicago, Illinois - in the era of so-called machine politics. In his time in office, the 1968 Democratic National Convention visited Chicago, four major expressways were built, the Sears Tower became the tallest building in the world and O'Hare Airport was constructed which later became the busiest airport in the world. In 1983, Harold Washington became the first African American mayor of Chicago. Richard M. Daley, son of Richard J. Daley, became mayor in 1989. Important Historical Events French-Canadian explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet pass through the area that will become Chicago. 1673 French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, passes through Chicago en route to the mouth of the Mississippi River. 1682 French Jesuits establish Fort de Chicago, the area's first true European settlement. 1683 Jesuit missionary Francois Pinet founds.
Mandarin Airlines - Mandarin Airlines Mandarin Airlines is a subsidary of the China Airlines, established on June 1, 1991 and was originally a joint venture of China Airlines and the Koos Group. On October 16, 1991, shortly after its inception, Mandarin Airlines started direct flights from Taipei to Australia's Sydney. The next step was the opening of a direct air route to Canada's Vancouver on December 7. Thus, Mandarin Airlines became Taiwan's first airline to fly direct to Australia and Canada. The China Trust Group pulled out their investment in Mandarin Airline on October 31, 1992, turning the airline into a company wholly owned by China Airlines. Mandarin Airlines employs 623 employees (as of October 10, 2003). Accident Record Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 flew from Don Muang Airport in Bangkok,.
August 2003 - have debated carbon dioxide's role in global warming for over a decade, with most voices (though notably fewer within the US) calling it the biggest factor, while others call it negligible. [1] Occupation of Iraq: Americann and Iraqi officials are discussing the possibility of forming a large Iraqi militia or paramilitary force to help improve security in the country. [1] Terrorist: Terrorism group Jemaah Islamiyah has schemes, revealed in a 40-page manifesto (the Pupji book or General Guide to the Struggle of Jemaah Islamiyah), for a suicide bombing campaign designed to change Asia and the Pacific region into Islamic provinces. Jemaah Islamiyah is also shown to be a well-formed organization with a constitution, rules of operation, and leadership structure. [1] Afghanistan: Soldiers are killed in a remote region (near the town.
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Don Muang Airport - aircraft owned by a U.S carrier/s flying to this airport would have blown up over the Pacific Ocean on January 21, 1995 as part of the project's first phase. On August 22, 1999, Mandarin Airlines Flight 642, which was landing in Tropical Storm Sam at Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong on a route from Don Muang to Hong Kong, rolled upside down on the runway. The plane came to rest upside down. 3 of the passengers died. Don Muang International Airport has 2 Terminals. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 International Terminal 1 2 International Terminal 2 3 External Links International Terminal 1 Check-in Rows 1-4 China Southern Scandinavian Airlines System Thai Airways International Turkmenistan Airlines Check-in Row 5 Ethiopian Airlines Japan Airlines Malaysia Airlines Myanmar Airways International Pakistan International.
1977 - by Jimmy Carter. January 21 - President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders. February 7 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24. February 11 - A 20.2-kg lobster is caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean). February 18 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle goes on its maiden "flight" while sitting on top of a Boeing 747. March 4 - An earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500. March 9 - Appoximetely a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later. March 27 - Collision between KLM and PanAm Boeing 747's at Tenerife kills 583. May 23 - Scientists report using bacteria in lab to make insulin..
Afghanistan timeline January 17-31, 2002 - the White House to meet with U.S President George W. Bush. After their meeting, President Bush announced an initial $50 million line of credit to finance private-sector reconstruction projects in Afghanistan. President Bush said the United States will help Afghanistan create an army, but that he has no intention of allowing U.S. troops to join International peacekeeping operations. Afghan leader Hamid Karzai raised Afghanistan's new flag over at Kabul embassy in Washington, DC. The flag reflects the former black, red and green flag approved by the 1964 constitution as its national emblem. In the early 1990s, the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani changed the flag to green, white and black, while the Taliban used a white flag after taking power in 1996. A team of World Bank and International Monetary Fund experts.
Casualties of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: Plane passengers - and References Casualties Planes - World Trade Center - Pentagon Planes 265 people killed on four planes; 232 passengers, 25 flight attendants, 8 pilots. (Note that this total includes the 19 hijackers, who reportedly boarded the planes as passengers.) American Airlines flight 11 BOS-LAX (north tower of World Trade Center): 93 people: 82 passengers (including 5 hijackers), 9 flight attendants, 2 pilots John Ogonowski, 52, Dracut, Massachusets, captain Tom McGuinness, 42, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, first officer Barbara Arestegui, 38, Marstons Mills, Mass., flight attendant Jeffrey Collman, 41, Novato, Calif., flight attendant Sara Elizabeth Low, 28, Batesville, Ark., flight attendant Karen Martin, 40, Danvers, Mass., flight attendant Kathleen Nicosia, flight attendant Betty Ong, 45, Andover, Mass., flight attendant Jean Roger, 24, Longmeadow, Mass., flight attendant Dianne Snyder, 42, Westport, Mass., flight attendant.
List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by airline - Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 AeroPeru 2 Air Algerie 3 Air France 4 Air India 5 Air New Zealand 6 Alaska Airlines 7 All Nippon Airways 8 American Airlines 9 Avianca 10 British European 11 British Midland 12 China Airlines 13 Delta Airlines 14 Dominicana de Aviacion 15 Eastern Airlines 16 Egyptair 17 Ethiopian Airlines 18 Flash Airlines 19 Indian Airlines 20 Iran Air 21 Japan Airlines 22 JAT Yugoslav 23 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 24 Korean Air 25 Lufthansa 26 Luxair 27 Mandarin Airlines 28 Pacific Southwest Airlines 29 Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) 30 Philippine Airlines 31 Puerto Rico International Airlines 32 Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) 33 Scandinavian Airlines System 34 Singapore Airlines 35 South African Airways 36 Swissair 37 Trans World Airlines (TWA) 38 Turkish Airlines 39.
List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by location - 7 Indian Ocean 8 North America 9 Pacific Ocean 10 Philippine Sea 11 Sea of Okhotsk 12 South America 13 Strait of Hormuz 14 Taiwan Strait Africa Air France Flight 8969 - Hijacked after takeoff from Algiers and taken back in France KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 - KLM plane crashes into Pan Am plane during takeoff from Tenerife in the Canary Islands (Tenerife disaster) UTA Flight 772 - Blown up over the Sahara Desert by Libyan terrorists. Antarctica Air New Zealand Flight 901 - Crashed into Mount Erebus Asia All Nippon Airways Flight 61 - Hijacked and taken back over Tokyo, Japan Flash Airlines Flight 604 - Crashed off of Sharm el-Shaikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Indian Airlines Flight 814 - Hijacked on the way to India, and.
List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year - 1986 11 1988 12 1989 13 1994 14 1995 15 1996 16 1998 17 1999 18 2000 19 2001 20 2002 21 2003 22 2004 1956 November 1 - United Airlines Flight 629 (mass murder by Jack Gilbert Graham) 1958 February 6 - British European Flight 609 (Munich air disaster) 1972 January 26 - JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 June 18 - British European Flight 848 (Staines air disaster) June 24 - Prinair Flight 191 1974 March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Ermenonville air disaster) 1977 March 27 - KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 (Tenerife disaster) 1978 September 25 - PSA Flight 182 1979 May 25 - American Airlines Flight 191 November 28 - Air New Zealand Flight 901 1983 September 1 - Korean Air Flight 7 1985.
China Airlines Flight 611 - China Airlines Flight 611 China Airlines Flight 611 was flight that flew from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan to Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, China. The flight crashed, killing all aboard on 25 May 2002. On 25 May, the flight took off at 2:50pm local time for the 1 hour 20 minutes flight to Hong Kong. About 20 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft disappeared from radar screens, suggesting the aircraft had experienced an in flight breakup at FL350, near the Penghu Islands at Taiwan Strait, killing all 19 crew members and 206 passengers. 190 of the deceased are Taiwanese, 14 Hong Konger, 1 Singaporean, 9 Mainlanderss, and 1 Swede. 3 were infants. 114 were in a group tour organized by five.
China Airlines - China Airlines China Airlines (CAL, 中華航空, commonly abbreviated 華航) is the state-owned airline of the Republic of China and is based in Taipei, Taiwan (not to be confused with Air China, which is owned by the People's Republic of China). The airline flies out of Chiang Kai Shek International Airport. China Airlines currently flies to many destinations in Asia, Europe, North America and the South Pacific. Because of political obstacles due to the establishment of the three links, it does not have regularly scheduled flights into mainland China, and passengers to mainland China must to through Hong Kong, and transfer into another airline. In recent years, the airline has had to struggle with the negative public perception caused by a string of major crashes. Its main.
Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 - Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 Mandarin Airlines Flight 642 was a flight that flew from Don Muang Airport in Bangkok to Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong. At about 6:43 P.M. on 22 August 1999, B-150, the MD-11 was trying to land when a severe Tropical Storm Sam was 50km NE of the airport. During the final flare to land, the plane banked on its right, landed hard on its right main gear and the no.3 engine touched the runway. The right main gear separated and the right wing separated. The plane rolled upside down and skidded off the runway in flames. When it stopped, it was on its back and the rear of the plane was on fire, coming to rest on a grass area next.
American Airlines Flight 965 - American Airlines Flight 965 American Airlines Flight 965 was a flight that flew from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida to Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport in Cali, Colombia. The plane on the flight crashed into a mountain in South America on December 20, 1995. On that day, the flight used a Boeing 757 carrying 156 passengers and 8 crew members. At 9:40 PM, just five minutes before its scheduled arrival, the plane went down in the Andes, in the first fatal 757 incident in U.S. history, and at the time, the worst American air disaster since the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 seven years before. Only four passengers and a dog survived the crash. Cali's air traffic controllers had no radar to guide the 757's.
Charles de Gaulle International Airport - Paris area is Orly Airport. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Terminals 2.1 Terminal 1 2.2 Terminal 2 2.3 Terminal 3 (T9) 3 External Links History After seven years of construction, CDG began service on March 8, 1974. Terminal one was built to an avange-garde design consisting of a ten-floor high circular building surrounded by seven satellite buildings each with four gates. In 1975, a DC-10 of Turkish Airlines crashed immediately after take off from Charles de Gaulle, killing all its passengers. On 19 September, 1989, UTA Flight 772 exploded over the Sahara Desert while on the second leg of the Brazzaville-Ndjamena-Paris route, killing all on board On 24 December, 1994, Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked shortly after it took off from Algiers to Paris. It was flown to.
Chiang Kai-shek International Airport - two airports that serve Taipei. The other is Sungshan Domestic Airport, which is within the city limits and formerly served Taipei as its international airport before CKS's construction. Chiang Kai-shek International Airport is a major hub for China Airlines and EVA Air, and has the IATA Airport Code TPE. It is also one of two international airports on Taiwan, and is by far the busiest international air entry point into Taiwan. The airport is named after former President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek. The airport's name is referred to in Chinese as Chung-cheng (Zhongzheng), his given name at birth, without his surname. In a situation which is similar to Ronald Reagan-Washington National Airport, local officials in Taoyuan and other members of the pan-Green coalition often refer to it as.
Pakistan International Airlines - Pakistan International Airlines Pakistan International Airlines (also known as PIA), is Pakistan's national and international airline. Its IATA call code is PK. History PIA can trace its beginnings to the days when Pakistan still wasn't a nation. In 1946, Muhammed Ali Jinnah, also known as founder of Pakistan, realized the need of an airline network for the forming country. He called upon the help of Mr. M.A. Ispahani, who was an experienced industrialist. Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 747. On October 23 of that year, the airline operation, named Orient Airways was set up, registered in Calcutta. February of 1947, three DC-3 airplanes were bought over from a company in Texas, and in May of that year, the airline was granted a license to fly. Services were started in.
New Chitose Airport - July 24, 1999, All Nippon Airways Flight 61, which was flying from Tokyo International Airport in Tokyo, Japan to Chitose, was hijacked shortly after takeoff. The hijacker killed the pilot before he was subdued. The Boeing 747 landed safely. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Airlines 2 Routes 3 External Links Airlines Air Do (Hokkaido International Airlines) Air Nippon All Nippon Airways Cathay Pacific Airways China Eastern Airlines China Southern Airlines Continental Micronesia EVA Air Hokkaido Air System J-Air JALWays Japan Airlines Japan Airlines Express Japan Air System Korean Air Sakhalin Airlines Routes Chitose has direct service to most major airports in Japan, as well as flights to Guam, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenyang, Taipei, and Yujino-Sakhalinsk. The Chitose-Tokyo route is the world's busiest air route, handling over 40 round-trip widebody.
