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February 19

• 1985 - an Iberia Boeing 727 crashes in Bilbao, killing 148. The plane got tangled with some television equipment as it tried to land.

• 1985 - China Airlines Flight 006, a Boeing 747, miraculously survives a 30,000-foot (9,146 m) plunge over the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco.

• 1965 - Lufthansa signs up as the first customer for the forthcoming Boeing 737

• 1964 - French troops are airlifted to Gabon to put down a coup by the army.

• 1934 - the United States Army Air Corps begins flying US airmail after the government cancels all existing airmail contracts due to alleged improprieties by the previous administration during the negotiations of those contracts.