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September 5

• 2005 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 737 crashes in Indonesia killing at least 117.

• 1948 - a US Navy Martin JRM Mars sets a new cargo record of 62,262 lb (28,242 kg)

• 1923 - US Army bombers carry out anti-shipping exercises, sinking the obsolete battleships USS Virginia and USS New Jersey.

• 1862 - after a dramatic take-off, aeronaut Coxwell and English physicist Glaisher reach 9,000 m.