Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/November in aviation/November 21

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November 21

• 1989 - a British Airways Boeing 747 narrowly misses crashing into the Penta hotel near Heathrow Airport

• 1981 - Aeroflot is banned from flying to the United States, after an earlier Aeroflot flight that overflew American military installations, straying from its supposed flight path.

• 1970 - US aircraft begin the first major bombing campaign of North Vietnam since 1968. 300 aircraft attack the Mu Gia and Ban Gari passes.

• 1917 - 21-24 - the Zeppelin LZ59 makes a 6,757 km journey through Africa in 96 hours (average speed 71 km/h).

• 1914 - Three RNAS Avro 504s bomb the Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen.

• 1783 - in a flight lasting 25 minutes, de Rozier and d'Arlandes take the first untethered ride in a Montgolfière in Paris, the first human passengers carried in free flight by a hot-air balloon.