Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/May in aviation/May 5
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- 2004 - Air France and Netherlands-based KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) merge, the two airlines are now known as Air France-KLM.
- 1983 - Richard Boddy, pilot of an Eastern Airlines TriStar barely avoids disaster when he is able to land at Miami International Airport, after getting one engine back to life after both engines had stopped working during a flight to the Bahamas.
- 1968 - a Grumman Gulfstream II becomes the first executive jet to cross the Atlantic
- 1930 - 5-24 - Amy Johnson flies from Croydon, England, to Darwin, Australia in a de Havilland Gipsy Moth
