Milestones in U. S. Naval Aviation

19 May: Noted ocean explorer Dr. Robert Ballard locates the wreck of CV-5 USS Yorktown at a depth of 16,650 feet near Midway Island. She sits, proudly upright, in remarkably clear water. Read about the Ballard Yorktown expedition at the National Geographic website.

1999

The Carrier Project created

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2001

11 September: Terrorists take over four commercial airliners, crashing two into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The fourth airliner crashes into a field in Pennsylvania when the passengers, alerted by cell- and sky-phone, rush the terrorists and attempt to retake the aircraft. The World Trade Center and several nearby buildings are destroyed, the Pentagon is severely damaged. Almost three thousand people are killed in the aircraft and the buildings. The terrorists are later identified as Islamic extremists.

2002