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1958 in aviation

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1958.

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Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

  • Trans-Pacific Airlines changed its name to Aloha Airlines.
  • November 4 – Shortly after take0off from Dyess Air Force Base outside Abilene, Texas, a USAF B-47 Stratojet carrying a nuclear bomb caught fire. It reached an altitude of 1,500 ft (460 m) before it crashed, killing one of its four crewmen. High-explosive material in the bomb exploded, creating a crater 6 ft (1.8 m) deep and 35 ft (11 m) in diameter, but no nuclear explosion occurred.[37]
  • November 6 – Rebels hijacked a Cubana de Aviación Douglas DC-3 with 29 people on board during a domestic flight in Cuba from Manzanillo to Holguín and forced it land at a rebel-held airfield in Cuba.[38]
  • November 25 – The English Electric P.1B, the first fully developed prototype of the English Electric Lightning, exceeded Mach 2 for the first time.[39]
  • November 26 – A USAF B-47 Stratojet with a nuclear bomb aboard was destroyed by fire while on the ground at Chennault Air Force Base near Lake Charles, Louisiana. High-explosive material in the bomb detonated, contaminating the bomber's wreckage and the surrounding area with radioactivity, but with no nuclear explosion.[40]

December

First flights

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

November

December

Entered service

January

April

May

June

August

  • Boeing 707 with Pan American World Airways

November

December

Retirements

April

June

Deadliest crash

The deadliest crash of this year was KLM Flight 607-E, a Lockheed Super Constellation, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean west of Galway, Ireland, on 14 August, killing all 99 people on board.

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