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    Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 (FT739/FTL739) was a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliner that disappeared on March 16, 1962, over the western Pacific...
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  • Flying Tiger Line, also known as Flying Tigers, was the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States and a major military charter operator during...
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    disappearance of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 in 1962. The airplane was named Hugo de Groot and registered as PH-LKM. The "E" in the flight number stood for...
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    disappearance BSAA Star Tiger disappearance Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 Hawaii Clipper Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Flight 19 "Boeing 707-323C - Varig...
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    another instance of a 727 disappearance Varig Flight 967 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 Wright, Tim (September 2010). "The 727 that...
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    disappearance, behind Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and Flying Tiger Line Flight 739. The Avro York was a military trooping flight for the British Air Ministry from...
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    1951 Atlantic C-124 disappearance (category Aviation accidents and incidents caused by in-flight fires)
    Douglas C-54D disappearance 1956 Atlantic R6D-1 disappearance Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 14...
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    fuselage and flight recorders were discovered two years later. Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 – Disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1962. Despite one of...
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  • Turkey's Adana Airport, killing all 11 on board. March 16 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation chartered by the United...
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    original on November 7, 2012. Retrieved July 22, 2011. "Flying Home from India" (PDF). Flight Magazine. XIX (20). London: Reed Business Information: 316...
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    Ariel disappearance BSAA Star Tiger disappearance Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 Hawaii Clipper Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Citations Civil Aviation Authority...
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    November 1967. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Flying Tiger Line-739)". Aviation Safety Network. 16 March 1962. Retrieved 27 May 2013...
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    on their way to the World Championships. On 16 March 1962, Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed Super Constellation, inexplicably disappeared over...
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  • Tshombe begins negotiations to rejoin the Congo. March 16 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation chartered by the United...
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  • British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths. 1962 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappears in the western Pacific Ocean with all 107 aboard missing...
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  • Province, Turkey, killing all 11 people on board. March 16 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation chartered by the United...
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    operations and marginal reforms the regime will last.": 262  16 March Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappeared approximately 300 miles (480 km) west of Guam. The...
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  • Francisco. Flying Tigers Line Flight 739 – mid-ocean. Korean Air Flight 007 – Shot down over the Sea of Okhotsk in Soviet airspace. Asiana Airlines Flight 991...
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  • N6915C Lockheed Constellation Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 N6921C Lockheed 1049 Super Constellation Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 N7000P Piper PA-24-250 Comanche...
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    Nobel Prize laureate for his discovery of the Compton effect Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed Constellation airliner carrying 96 Army personnel...
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    Daedalus in October 1965, and routine service flying continued until April 1993, including a helicopter SAR Flight of 772 Naval Air Squadron, the Southampton...
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    as a flying testbed before being retired in late 1947. On 22 February 1940, the first Preston-built Hampden, P2062, conducted its maiden flight. English...
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    maiden flight of the DHC-2 Beaver was in Downsview, Ontario; it was flown by Second World War flying ace Russell Bannock. After completing its flight test...
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    No. 50 Squadron, two Vulcans continued flying with the RAF in air displays as part of the Vulcan Display Flight, based at Waddington but administered through...
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    Johnnie Johnson (RAF officer) (category British World War II flying aces)
    in Tiger Moth N6635. On 15 March and 24 April, he passed a 50-minute flight test followed by two night flights the following day. The chief flying instructor...
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  • to provide flying experience for naval officers. The current squadron was created on 6 Dec 2001 from the Royal Naval Flying Training Flight. It operates...
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    was also in line with an Air Ministry policy of naming new general reconnaissance aircraft after explorers. Jones 2002, pp. 6–7. Flight 18 May 1950,...
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  • STOL transport version of Type 736 Avro 738 – staged weapon system Avro 739 – low-level supersonic strike aircraft to OR.339 Avro 740 – proposed 70-seat...
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    alongside the larger flying boats. After the outbreak of the Second World War, the Anson was soon found to have become obsolete in front-line combat roles. Large...
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    Squadron 728 Naval Air Squadron 736 Naval Air Squadron 738 Naval Air Squadron 739 Naval Air Squadron 759 Naval Air Squadron 771 Naval Air Squadron 778 Naval...
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