This Week in Aviation History: Glenn Miller's Plane Crash
Filed in archive Aviation History on December 12, 2007
This week in aviation history features the final moon mission and the first passenger jet to land in Vietnam.
December 7, 1972: America's final moon mission, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
December 9, 1993: U.S. astronauts completed repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope.
December 10, 2004: A U.S. passenger jet landed in Vietnam, the first one to do so since the Vietnam War ended nearly three decades earlier.
December 15, 1944: Band leader Glenn Miller disappeared in a plane crash over the english channel.
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