On this day, Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, was killed in a crash of a MiG-15 UTI aircraft.
27 March
1977
49 years ago
Collision of Jumbo Jets
On this day, in dense fog on the runway of Aeropuerto de Tenerife Norte on Tenerife, a KLM Boeing 747 collided with a Pan Am Boeing 747. 583 people were killed and 61 survived. It is the deadliest aviation disaster in history.
27 March
1999
27 years ago
Shooting Down of an F-117
On this day, during NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav forces shot down an American stealth aircraft, the Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk.
