The Day the Music Died: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash. Also, a US Marines jet slices down a cable car in Italy, Lufthansa launches the first regular transatlantic...
An Air New Zealand 767-300ER was forced to make an emergency landing after a series of explosions in one of the aircraft's engines drew scares among passengers.
Three members of an Australian Broadcasting Corporation news team were killed on Thursday evening when their helicopter crashed near Lake Eyre in South Australia, police said on Friday.