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October 6

• 2005 - A small plane carrying cargo for FedEx, including six vials of research viruses, crashed in downtown Winnipeg. The only woman on board, the pilot, was killed but there were no injuries on the ground.

• 1981 - NLM Cityhopper Flight 431 encounters a tornado, loses a wing, breaks up in air, and crashes near Moerdijk, Netherlands.

• 1973 - Egypt and Syria launch air strikes on Israel, starting the Yom Kippur War. The conflict lasts 18 days

• 1923 - Curtiss R2Cs win first and second place in the Pulitzer air race, the winning aircraft setting a new airspeed record of 243.6 mph (392 km/h).

• 1922 - Lt John Macready and Lt Oakely Kelley set a flight endurance record of 35 hours 18 minutes in a Fokker T-2.