Despite later cancelling its flights, the Irish carrier Ryanair claimed it had made a test flight through ash over Scotland and challenged a ruling some flights should be grounded.
American astronaut Alan Shepard made a suborbital flight later that year, and John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.
Luckily, the far-sighted BBC South Africa Bureau Chief had already made reservations on a flight to Johannesburg first thing the next morning.
Starchaser 3 made a short but dramatic flight last March when instead of climbing to high into the sky as planned it veered off course, crashed and set fire to the surrounding moorland.
In fact, never before at US Airways have flight attendants made a contract deal ahead of the pilots.
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He never made the top flight as a player, but built enough of a reputation for himself to get a job with Swansea in the third tier.
Winds had put Friday's flight in question, and those conditions made for a less-than-smooth ride for the six-person flight crew on NASA's carrier plane.
If the flight was made during a Carrington storm, this dose could be as much as 20mSv.
It was a squadron of Army Air Force bombers from the airfield on Tinian Island, across the channel, and they cast their furious vibrations down upon us as they gained altitude and made a slow banking turn in their flight toward Japan.
Pre-planning extends to knowing the physical location of the airport you fly into, too, as it relates to the city center, says Malin, who's made the mistake of choosing a cheaper flight into a satellite airport that required more transit time to reach the city center.
Last year, a Russian-made Sukhoi Superjet-100 slammed into a volcano during a demonstration flight, killing all 45 people on board.
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That trip usually takes about two days, but after tests with three previous cargo vessels, the trip was made for the first time with a manned flight and set a new record.
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Instructor Steven Lewis, 38, made a mayday call 20 minutes into the training flight from Blackpool Airport.
"Lawn Chair Larry, " who in 1982 famously took flight in a homemade contraption made of a patio chair and 45 helium-filled balloons.
As part of the sentencing hearing, four passengers and a crew member aboard Flight 253 made statements, telling the judge the event had forever changed their lives.
Alec had a tantrum, he was kicked off a flight, he punished himself by deactivating his beloved Twitter account and then he made a winning appearance on Saturday Night Live spoofing the whole thing.
We calmly received our boarding passes and made it to our seats for a restful, uneventful flight.
The Vulcan made its maiden flight in 1952 before acting as a deterrent during the Cold War and seeing active service in the Falklands War.
Authorities say the Nigerian man tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear as a flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, made its final approach to Detroit.
The daredevil skydiver and helicopter pilot has made a career out of pushing the boundaries of human flight, always seeking to go faster, higher, further.
In 1947, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, an eight-engine flying boat, built by Howard Hughes, made its one and only flight of just over a mile in Los Angeles harbor.
The Afghan national airline made headlines in February 2000 when a plane on a domestic flight ended up at Stansted airport in Britain.
Japanese officials said flight data from a Boeing 787 jet that made an emergency landing has shown no evidence that its battery was overcharged, a finding that dovetails with a U.S. probe.
With regulars like Charlie Adam, Stephen Crainey and Matt Gilks left out, Holloway gave six players their first Premier League start in a line-up which has made only 12 top-flight starts between them this season.
These numbers are made up for demonstration purposes, but whenever an airline cancels a flight that they are not obligated to incur costs for in terms of stranded passengers, and flies them later on existing flights, they reduce their operating costs while still capturing the revenue.
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I'm reminded very much -- if you look at the quite similar parallel cases between Abdulmutallab and Richard Reid, obviously spaced some years apart, but each trying to do harm to a transatlantic flight using similar chemicals, decisions were made by the previous administration after looking at all of the factors involved to enter Richard Reid into our civil justice system.
Speed, who made his 500th top-flight appearance at the weekend, signed a two-year deal with Bolton when he arrived in the summer from Newcastle.
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And that was a crucial occurrence for flight 93, that's what made the difference for flight 93.
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