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October 7


 * 2012 – FlyMontserrat Flight 107, the Britten-Norman Islander VP-NOM, crashes shortly after takeoff from V. C. Bird International Airport on Antigua, killing three of the four people on board and injuring the lone survivor. It is the deadliest air accident in the history of Antigua and Barbuda.


 * 2009 – A Libyan Air Force Mikoyan MiG-23 Flogger crashes while taking part during an airshow for the Third Libyan Aviation Exhibition, LAVEX 2009 held at Mitiga International Airport, Tripoli, Libya. The aircraft travelling at low-level hit a one-storey house in the suburb of Souq Al-Jumaa in Tripoli killing the 2 crew and injuring two civilians.


 * 2008 – Qantas Flight 72 an Airbus A330-300 makes an emergency landing in Exmouth, Australia following a rapid descent that leaves over 70 people injured, 14 of them seriously.


 * 2003 – OH-58D Kiowa (92-0578) crashes inside Iraq, pilots survive.


 * 2002 – Launch: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-112 at 19:45:51 UTC. Mission highlights: ISS assembly flight 9A: S1 truss.
 * 1996 – First flight of the Boeing 777-200ER


 * 1995 – First flight of the Mitsubishi F-2


 * 1995 – First flight of the Learjet 45


 * 1989 – First flight of the Enstrom 480


 * 1982 – BA-55 a Belgian Air Force Dassault Mirage 5BA crashed into a quarry at Bierset, pilot killed.


 * 1963 – First flight of the Learjet 23 prototype, the very first Learjet built.


 * 1961 – 1961 Derby Aviation crash occurred in the Canigou mountainside en-route London – Perpignan, killing all 34 aboard.


 * 1944 – The RCAF’s No. 6 Group struck at Dortmund; they lost only two out of a record 293 bombers.


 * 1944 – Luftwaffe night fighter ace Oberstleutnant Helmut Lent is fatally injured when his Junkers Ju 88G-6 night fighter crashes during a landing approach after a routine transit flight. He dies two days later, with his score at 110 kills, 103 of them at night.


 * 1935 – United Airlines Trip 4, a Boeing 247D, crashes near Silver Crown, Wyoming due to pilot error; all 12 on board die.


 * 1934 – First flight of the First prototype Tupolev ANT-40RT which becomes Tupolev SB


 * 1932 – First flight of the Stipa-Caproni, a prototype aircraft employing Luigi Stipa’s “intubed propeller” concept, a forerunner of jet propulsion.


 * 1926 – The Boeing FB-5 (production version) makes its first flight.


 * 1919 – KLM is formed.


 * 1909 – Glenn Curtiss becomes the first American to hold an FAI airplane certificate.


 * 1908 – Edith Ogilby Berg became the first American woman airplane passenger when she flew with Wilbur Wright.


 * 1903 – Samuel Pierpont Langley conducts the first tests of his full-sized man-carrying version of his earlier model aerodromes. The pilot, Charles Manly, nearly drowns when the machine slides off its launch apparatus atop a houseboat and falls into the Potomac River.


 * 1849 – Frenchman Francisque Arban flies over the Alps in a free balloon (Marseille-Subini near Turin).