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    Air France Flight 117 was a multi-leg international scheduled flight from Paris-Orly Airport via Lisbon, the Azores, Guadeloupe and Peru to Santiago, Chile...
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  • Flight 117 may refer to: Air France Flight 117, crashed on 22 June 1962 Singapore Airlines Flight 117, hijacked on 26 March 1991 This disambiguation page...
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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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    the Boeing 707-437 operating the flight accidentally flew and crashed into Mont Blanc in France, killing all 117 people on board. Among the victims...
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    Air France Flight 212 was a Boeing 707-328C, registration F-BLCJ, that crashed into the northwestern slope of La Soufrière Mountain, in Guadeloupe on...
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  • deadliest accident of the airline occurred on June 1, 2009, when Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330-203, flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed...
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  • on board. TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727-231, was hijacked shortly after takeoff on June 14, 1985. One person was killed. Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked...
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    Singapore Airlines Flight 117 was a Singapore Airlines flight that was hijacked en route by four Pakistani terrorists on 26 March 1991. The aircraft landed...
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  • DC-4-fleet". www.rzjets.net. "Modern Air Convair CV-990A in Air France colours on stand at London Heathrow (photo)". Flight International: 656. 27 April 1967...
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    Guadeloupe, behind Air France Flight 212 and Air France Flight 117, and was the 11th deadliest involving a Twin Otter. Investigation by the French Bureau of Enquiry...
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    Justin Catayée (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
    hero of World War II. He was born in Cayenne, French Guiana, and died in the crash of Air France Flight 117 into a mountain in Guadeloupe on 22 June 1962...
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    proceed with the F-117 development program. A total of five prototypes would be produced; the first of which performed its maiden flight during 1981 at Groom...
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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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    It was, at the time, the worst single-plane disaster. June 22: Air France Flight 117, a 707-328 (F-BHST), crashed into a hill while attempting to land...
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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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    dedicated corporate version of the BK 117; it was furnished with a Honeywell-built SPZ-7000 digital automatic flight control system and a cocoon-type interior...
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    Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed near Gossi, Mali...
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  • the border fence. 14 January Air France retired the Boeing 747 with a send-off formation flight with the Patrouille de France aerobatic team, which departed...
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    A flight attendant, traditionally known as a steward (MASC) or stewardess (FEM); or air host (MASC) or hostess (FEM), is a member of the aircrew aboard...
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    reassembly and flight testing. Groom performed radar profiling, F-117 weapons testing, and training of the first group of frontline USAF F-117 pilots.: 161 ...
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  • Paul Niger (category 20th-century French poets)
    of his ancestors”. Niger was one of those killed in the crash of Air France Flight 117. Herbert Mnguni, Mbukeni (1998). Education as a Social Institution...
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    Concorde (category Air France–KLM)
    1977. Air France and British Airways remained the sole customers with seven airframes each, for a total production of twenty. Supersonic flight more than...
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  • accident to that date. June 22 – Air France Flight 117, a Boeing 707 operating an international multi-leg flight from Paris, France, to Santiago, Chile, crashed...
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  • Thumbnail for Delta Air Lines Flight 191
    Delta Air Lines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled Delta Air Lines domestic service from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Los Angeles with an intermediate...
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    Aerial refueling, also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring...
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    and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets. Kite flying in China dates back to several hundred...
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    Ballone, with AN/FPS-117(V) 123rd Remote Radar Station Flight, in Capo Frasca, with AN/FPS-117(V) 131st Remote Radar Station Flight, in Jacotenente, with...
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    The French Air and Space Force (French: Armée de l'air et de l'espace, lit. 'Army of Air and Space') is the air and space force of the French Armed Forces...
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    STS-117 (ISS assembly flight 13A) was a Space Shuttle mission flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis, launched from pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center on June...
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  • a year after Britain actually gave up its rule of India. 1962 – Air France Flight 117 crashes on approach to Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe...
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