More than a century of aviation would not be complete without a string of headliner mysteries. Whether it is the disappearance of some aircraft or unknown reasons why aircraft have crashed, several stories have captivated the world over the years because of their complex conundrums. While many of these perplexing occurrences have involved military units or air force aircraft from all over the world, thankfully, less has happened to commercial and passenger flights. Regardless, the mysteries of some situations have never been solved several decades after they occurred.
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February 29th, 2008. It was the day that Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that it had been selected by the U.S. Air Force to provide the KC-45A aerial refueling tanker for the KC-135 tanker replacement program. Most notably, this jet would be based on the A330 commercial airframe, produced by EADS – which, these days, would be Airbus’ Defence and Space division.Unfortunately, the celebrations wouldn’t last long for Airbus and Northrop Grumman.Just days later, Boeing would launch a full-scale counteroffensive to convince the Air Force that it had selected the wrong aircraft. In the end, Boeing was successful in overturning the Northrop Grumman deal, having its 767-based tanker win instead. It’s been quite awhile since this whole ordeal took place – long before our website and YouTube channels existed. So we thought it would be interesting to take a look back for today’s video!