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October 13


 * 2012 –Syria bans Turkish civilian aircraft from flying over its territory.


 * 2011 – Airlines PNG Flight 1600, a de Havilland Canada DHC-8, crashes near the mouth of the Gogol River, Papua New Guinea, killing 28 of 32 on board.


 * 2003 – OH-58D Kiowa (93-0991) from C Troop, 1–17th Cavalry Regiment crashes inside Iraq, pilots survive.


 * 1996 – First flight of the Bombardier Global Express


 * 1992 – Antonov An-124 Ruslan, SSSR-82002, believed destined for Aeroflot, on test flight by Antonov/Aviastar, suffers nose cargo door failure during high-speed descent (part of test program) resulting in total loss of control. Airframe comes down in forest near Kiev, killing eight of nine crew.


 * 1984 – Landed: Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41-G at 16:26:33 UTC KSC. Mission highlights: Earth Radiation Budget Satellite deployment; First flight of two women in space Ride and Sullivan; First spacewalk by US woman, Kathryn Sullivan; First Canadian in space Marc Garneau.


 * 1982 – A JASDF McDonnell-Douglas F-4EJ Phantom II, 47-8343, crashes into the Sea of Japan near Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.


 * 1977 – Lufthansa Flight 181, a Boeing 737, is hijacked by four Palestinian members of the PFLP, who kill the captain; subsequently, German police commandos from GSG 9 storm the aircraft, killing three of the hijackers and capturing the fourth, with no other casualties.


 * 1976 – A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).


 * 1973 – Aeroflot Flight 964, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashed while on approach to Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, Soviet Union. All 122 passengers and crew on board were killed.


 * 1972 – Aeroflot Flight 217, an Ilyushin Il-62, crashes on approach to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, USSR. All 174 passengers and crew on board are killed.


 * 1972 – 1972 Andes flight disaster / Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild Hiller FH-227D, T-571, c/n 572, carrying a rugby union team from Montevideo to a match in Santiago, Chile, crashes in a remote region of the Andes on the Chile-Argentina border. Of the 45 on board, 12 died in the crash, five died by the following morning, and one died from his injuries a week later. The survivors were eventually forced to resort to cannibalism to live, feeding off the bodies of the dead that had been preserved by the freezing temperatures. On 12 December, the remaining survivors sent three of their own to find help. After sending one of the party back to the crash site to preserve rations, the remaining two found help. The 14 survivors remaining at the crash site were rescued in a mission that ended on 23 December. The story would spawn a critically acclaimed book in 1974, along with several film adaptations.


 * 1964 – Queen Elizabeth was flown from London to Ottawa on the first Air Canada DC 8 sporting the new tiles and paint scheme.


 * 1962 – First flight of the Dassault Balzac V


 * 1956 – The first CP-121 Tracker was delivered to the RCN for duty on HMCS Bonaventure.


 * 1955 – A Boeing B-47B-40-BW Stratojet, 51-2231, of the 320th Bombardment Wing, crashes while taking off from March Air Force Base, California. Capt. Edward A. O'Brien Jr., pilot, Capt. David J. Clare, co-pilot, Major Thomas F. Mulligan, navigator, and Capt. Joseph M. Graeber, chaplain are all killed.


 * 1954 – Royal Navy Lt. B. D. Mcfarlane has extraordinary escape when his Westland Wyvern TF1, VZ783, 'X', of 813 Squadron, suffers power failure on take-off from HMS Albion in the Mediterranean Sea due to unforeseen tendency of the turboprop engine to suffer fuel starvation in high-G catapult launch. Aircraft goes into water off the bow, is cut in half by the ship, pilot ejects underwater using Martin-Baker Mk.2B ejection seat, survives with slight injuries.


 * 1950 – First flight of the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation


 * 1949 – First flight of the Tupolev Tu-14


 * 1943 – The Italian royal government declares war on Germany. Its air force will be constituted as the Italian Co-Belligerent Air Force and fight on the Allied side for the remainder of World War II, while Italian aircraft which fight for Benito Mussolini’s Italian Social Republic on the Axis side will be constituted as the Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana (National Republican Air Force).


 * 1943 – Nine Japanese four-engine bombers attack Attu. It is the last Japanese air raid against the Aleutian Islands.


 * 1931 – Canadian pilot Godfrey Dean performs the first loop in an autogyro, at Willow Field, near Philadelphia.


 * 1930 – First flight of the Junkers Ju 52


 * 1923 – Alexis Maneyrol – French Aviator is killed at Lympne Air Races, Kent.


 * 1922 – First flight of the de Havilland DH.27 Derby


 * 1920 – First flight of the Naval Aircraft Factory TF


 * 1919 – Convention relating to the Regulation of Aerial Navigation signed in


 * 1914 – The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts air-to-air combat for the first time, as a naval airplane joins three Imperial Japanese Army airplanes in an attempt to attack a German reconnaissance plane during the Siege of Tsingtao. The German aircraft escapes.


 * 1913 – Imperial German Air Force-Lt. Koening is killed in crash near Neuendorf Aerodrome near Berlin. Lts Soren and Rohstadt are injured while taking a flight between Berlin and Stuttgart


 * 1902 – Over Paris, Hungarian-born French diplomat Herlad de Bradsky and electrical engineer Paul Morin fly an airship of their own design on its first test flight. At an altitude of about 600 feet (183 m), the gondola separates from rest of the airship and the two men fall to their deaths.