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    northwestern Peninsular Malaysia. With all 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard presumed dead, the disappearance of Flight 370 was the deadliest incident involving...
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    Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KE007/KAL007) was a scheduled Korean Air Lines flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On September 1,...
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  • Air Lines ♠ Eastern Air Lines Evergreen International Airlines Federal Express Iberia ♠ Iran Air ♠ Japan Air Lines ♠ Japan Asia Airlines ♠ Kabo Air Lufthansa...
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    air tankers) Government of Quebec Norcanair (Operated 1 Fairchild F-27, former Hughes Airwest aircraft) Nordair (Operated 1 Fairchild Hiller FH-227)...
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  • flight attendant and three passengers survive. November 11 – United Air Lines Flight 227, a Boeing 727, crashed short of the runway during landing at Salt...
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  • Congo Air Force of the Democratic Republic of the Congo  Ecuador Ecuadorian Air Force  Gambia Gambian National Guard  Iran Imperial Iranian Air Force...
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    Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene...
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    Britons and one each originating from Iran, Israel, Indonesia, Ireland, and Canada. The youngest person on Flight 175 was Christine Hanson, aged two and...
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  • crashed in the Alborz Mountains, near Sari, Iran. All on board perished. 12 February 2002 – Iran Air Tours Flight 956, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashed into the...
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    Force. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force used them during the Iran–Iraq War. Iran claimed their F-14s shot...
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  • Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on 8 March 2014, after departing from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing, with 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board...
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  • retirement in 2022.  India Indian Air Force  Iran Iranian Air Force  Israel Israeli Air Force  United States United States Air Force (Operates 707-based E-3...
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  • 537 mi; 8,288 nmi). The longest ever scheduled passenger flight was Air Tahiti Nui's flight TN64 using a Boeing 787-9, flying non-stop from Faa'a International...
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  • international destinations, and international flights. It is owned by the Hanjin Group. The present-day Korean Air traces its history to March 1, 1969, when...
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    passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision. As...
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    Pakistan Air Force, Azerbaijani Air Force and the Nigerian Air Force.  Azerbaijan Azerbaijani Air and Air Defence Force – 10  Iran Iran Air Force – 25...
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    290: On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655, an Iranian civilian Airbus A300-200 airliner, was shot down by two surface-to-air missiles from the U.S. Navy...
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    United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001...
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    Aviation Week, 21 November 2011. "Air Force F-22 resumes normal flight operations". Air Combat Command Public Affairs. U.S. Air Force. 4 April 2013. Archived...
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    HESA Karrar (category Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force)
    of Iran Air Defense Force Hezbollah Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft: Unmanned 2014-2015 General characteristics Crew: none Capacity: 227 kg...
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  • November 11, 1965: United Airlines Flight 227, a 727-100, departed LaGuardia Airport in New York City for a flight to San Francisco via Cleveland, Chicago...
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    pilots, ten cabin crew, and 227 passengers (152 of whom were Chinese citizens).: 1, 12, 30  Flight 370 was cleared by air traffic control to proceed on...
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    anti-aircraft weapons. The announcement also came two weeks after the Iran-US RQ-170 incident. The Air Force responded by clarifying that the purchase was initiated...
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    for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran. Oxford University Press. p. 139. ISBN 9780195042580 Moin, p. 227 Moin, pp. 229, 231 Bakhash, pp. 115–16 Bakhash...
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    90-minute maiden flight was made at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, California, on 2 February 1974. Its actual first flight occurred accidentally...
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    Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. The aircraft had taken off from Dover 21 minutes earlier and reported an in-flight emergency ten minutes into the flight. All...
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  • International Air Lines Group: Edelweiss Air Swiss AviationSoftware Swiss Aviation Training Swiss WorldCargo SWISStours On European flights, Swiss serves...
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    Northrop F-5 (section Iran)
    IRIAF F-5s were heavily involved, flying air-to-air and air-to-ground sorties. Iranian F-5s took part in air combat with Iraqi MiG-21s, MiG-23s, MiG-25s...
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    table below shows the Iraqi Air Force at the start of the Persian Gulf War, its losses, damaged aircraft, flights to Iran and remaining assets at the...
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