Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/May in aviation/May 25
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- 2003 - Boeing 727 mysteriously disappears in Angola, along with pilot Ben Charles Padilla.
- 1986 - a prisoner in a Parisian jail escapes when his wife rescues him in a helicopter
- 1979 - an American Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago during take-off, killing all 269. DC-10s are grounded across the US.