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January 18 1969 – United Airlines Flight 266 crashes into Santa Monica Bay resulting in the loss of all 32 passengers and six crew members.

The Flight 266 was scheduled to flight from Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California to General Mitchell International Airport, Milwaukee, Wisconsin via Stapleton International Airport, Denver Colorado. It has a total of 38 people on board as they are 32 passengers and 6 crews.

Approximately four minutes after takeoff, 11.5 west of LAX, it crashed into Santa Monica Bay, Pacific Ocean. The incident caused to the loss of the 38 people on board, all the passengers and crews. The incident was due to mechanical failure when two minutes into its flight, a fire warning in no.1 engine was reported by the pilot and shut it down. It departed with inoperable generators and afterwards the remaining generator overloaded and also shut down that result to the loss of electrical power.

United Airlines Aircraft: Douglas DC-3

During that time battery powered back up source was not required on commercial aircraft but because of the accident the Federal Aviation Administration require all transport category aircraft to have backup instrumentation installed and powered by independent source of the generators.

Other Events of January 18

1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.

World War I Aircraft: Nieuport 17 (Allied)

The Paris Peace Conference was a conference organized by the victors of the First World War to negotiate the peace treaties between the Allied and Associated Powers and the defeated Central Powers.

It was opened in the Palace of Versailles in France on the 18^th of January 1919 and it was attended by participants from 25 nations.

T-38 Talon: replaced after the infamous incident Diamond Crash that killed four members of the team’s six demonstration pilots.

1982 - U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds: "Diamond Crash" kills four team members.

Martin 4-0-4: Eastern had the largest fleet with 60 type in operation

1991 - Eastern Air Lines goes out of business after 62 years, citing financial problems.

Palomares Hydrogen Bombs Incident

January 17 1966 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping four 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares hydrogen bombs incident.The B-52G Bomber of the US Air Force Strategic Air Command runs into a KC-135 Stratotanker during mid-air refueling over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain.

Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm

“The great duel, the mother of all battles has begun. The dawn of victory nears as this great showdown begins.”- Saddam Hussein

January 17 1991 – Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning. Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.

The massive air campaign codenamed Operation Desert Storm was launched by the coalition the day after the deadline set in Resolution. It began when eight (8) United States AH-64 Apache helicopter and two (2) MH-53 Pave Low helicopters destroyed Iraqi radar sites near the Iraqi-Saudi Arabian border.