Today in 1910, air-to-ground radio transmission is born; 1913, the first loop-the-loop maneuver is performed; in 1939, the jet age begins with the first flight of the Heinkel 178; 2006, Comair 5191 crashes in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Efforts have begun to airlift more than 2,500 people, most of them tourists, from Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, Nepal where they have been stranded for days with all commercial flights grounded due to bad weather. Lukla is ...