On This Day in Aviation History: October 31st

:arrow: On This Day in Aviation History: October 31st

2003 - British Airways’ first Concorde, G-BOAC, makes its final flight...

2000 – The first resident crew of the International Space Station launches aboard a Soyuz rocket...

2000 – A chartered Antonov AN-26 operated by ACA-Ancargo Air explodes after taking off in Northern Angola...

2000 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006, a Boeing 747-400, crashes on takeoff in Taiwan...

1999 – Egypt Air Flight 990, a 767-300, crashes off the coast of Nantucket...

1996 – TAM Flight 402, a Fokker 100 crashes shortly after takeoff...

1994 – American Eagle Flight 4184, an ATR-72 crashes on approach to Chicago O’Hare Airport (ORD)...

1979 – Western Airlines flight 2605, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 crashes in Mexico City...

1973 – Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) escape from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin after a hijacked helicopter lands in the prison’s exercise yard to pick them up.

1963 - The seeds of the so-called “British Invasion” are planted as American TV personality Ed Sullivan has a chance encounter with an up-and-coming British band calling themselves The Beatles while passing through Heathrow Airport...

1956 – The US Navy R4D-5 Skytrain Que Sera Sera, commanded by Rear Admiral George Dufek, becomes the first airplane to make a landing at the South Pole.