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February 10

• 1995 - Two Peruvian Sukhoi Su-22Ms are shot down by a pair of Ecuadorian Mirage F.1JAs. Almost simultaneously, a Peruvian Cessna A-37B is also shot down by an Ecuadorian Kfir C.2.

• 1995 - the prototype Antonov An-70 is destroyed after a mid-air collision with an An-72 chase plane. All seven aboard are killed in the crash.

• 1993 - McDonnell Douglas produces its 10,000th aircraft

• 1982 - Air Florida Flight 90 Boeing 737 crashes soon after take-off from Washington DC's National Airport, into the Potomac river, killing 70 passengers plus people on the 14th Street Bridge. Many of the passengers actually died frozen by the river's iced waters. The plane's anti-freeze solution was not adequate for the weather that day, and the plane's engines had ice on them before taking off.

• 1952 - Maj George A. Davis Jr is awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously, after attacking a group of 12 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s that were about to bounce other US aircraft. He shot down two before being shot down himself.

• 1941 - Britain uses paratroops for the first time in an attack on Tragino