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    The 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash of Sunday 3 June 1973 destroyed the second production model of the Russian supersonic Tupolev Tu-144. The aircraft...
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    the viability of the Tu-144 for regular use; these factors, together with repercussions of the 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, projections of high operating...
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    The 1978 Yegoryevsk Tu-144 crash occurred during a test flight of a Tupolev Tu-144 on 23 May 1978. The aircraft suffered a fuel leak, which led to an in-flight...
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    aircraft, the American Lockheed C-5A Galaxy. The crash of the Soviet Tu-144, see below, overshadowed the 1973 show, otherwise characterized by "There was nothing...
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    June 1973 a supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashed during an aerial display at the Paris Air Show, in an incident known as the 1973 Paris Air Show crash. On...
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    Concorde (category Air France–KLM)
    simpler wing design. The Tu-144 required braking parachutes to land. The Tu-144 had two crashes, one at the 1973 Paris Air Show, and another during a pre-delivery...
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  • Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 crash, a Tupolev Tu-134 crashed near the village of Gabare, Bulgaria, killing all 73 people on board. April 20 – Korean Air Lines Flight...
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  • that dove and crashed while demonstrating vertical takeoffs. June 3 – Paris Air Show (Paris, France) – The first production Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner...
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  • fatalities. 3 June 1973 - A Tupolev Tu-144 breaks up during the Paris Air Show, killing all 6 crew and 8 people on the ground. 11 July 1973 - Varig Flight...
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    regular service have been Concorde and the Tupolev Tu-144. The last passenger flight of the Tu-144 was in June 1978 and it was last flown in 1999 by NASA...
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    6 km from Goussainville, the site of the crash of the supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 during the 1973 Paris Air Show. Among the places worthwhile to visit in...
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    was the site of the crash of a supersonic Russian Tupolev Tu-144 which had been performing aerobatic manoeuvres in the Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport...
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  • Egyptair (redirect from Egypt Air)
    1973, EgyptAir Flight 741 crashed on approach to Nicosia International Airport, killing all 37 people on board. On 10 July 1974, SU-AXB a Tupolev Tu-154...
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    monoplane crashed on to the biplane, both machines falling to earth a mass of broken planes and tangled wires. Dr. Andrew Cook (2007). European Air Traffic...
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    aircraft crashed at the Paris air show in front of 250,000 people, including designer Alexei Tupolev. All six people on board the Tupolev Tu-144 died, and...
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  • Mikhail Vasilyevich Kozlov (category 1973 deaths)
    the Tu-144, he was one of very few pilots to fly the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner, and was given the honor of flying it at the 1973 Paris Airshow...
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  • demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show and crashes at Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, striking 15 houses. The crash kills its entire crew of six...
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    emphysema. The crash of Aeroflot Flight 141 and a subsequent fire killed 62 passengers and four crew out of the 100 people on board. The Tupolev Tu-154 was approaching...
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  • Tu-154M tail number 101, carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, crashed in April 2010, killing him and everyone on board. The remaining Tu-154M...
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  • Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic aircraft crashes at the Paris air show; 14 are killed. 11 July – Varig Flight 820 Boeing 707 crashes near Orly Airport, Paris, resulting...
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    "ASN Accident Description (Air India-101)". Aviation Safety Network. 24 January 1966. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "Air Algerie crash wipes out entire families"...
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    Party show, 'dump' oil, Nixon", by Joseph Rosenbloom and David Richwine, Boston Globe, December 17, 1973, p.1 "Oil Drums Dumped as Protesters Crash Boston's...
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    Airliner (redirect from Air liner)
    flew on 4 December 1919, shortly after it was displayed at the 1919 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget. It was ordered by the Belgian firm Sabena, a further...
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    Santa Ana air show disaster took place in Bogotá, Colombia, killing the pilot plus 52 people on the ground. Since then, several other crashes have resulted...
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    circuit at an average of 962 km/h. Of these 18 records, one was broken by a Tu-144 in 1983, five were superseded or discontinued and 12 still stood in 2010...
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    Tu-144. However, the seats were present in the prototype only, and were only available for the crew and not the passengers. The Tu-144 that crashed at...
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    IAI Kfir (category Aircraft first flown in 1973)
    June 2019). "Paris Air Show 2019: IAI offering Kfir NG to Colombia, expects to return Sri Lanka and Ecuador jets to service". Jane's 360. Paris. Archived...
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  • Libyan Airlines (redirect from Libyan Air)
    orders with aircraft manufacturers. In June 2007 (2007-06), at the Paris Air Show, the carrier signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Airbus...
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    Lockheed U-2 (redirect from Lockheed TU-2S)
    no retirement is planned. On 20 September 2016, a TU-2S trainer crashed upon takeoff from Beale Air Force Base, killing one pilot and injuring the other...
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  • TAROM (redirect from Romanian Air Transport)
    Tupolev Tu-154 On 4 November 1957, a TAROM Ilyushin Il-14P (YR-PCC) operating a government flight from Bucharest to Moscow via Kiev, crashed short of...
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