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This is a list of aviation-related events from 2001:

Events

• April: The unmanned aircraft Global Hawk flies automatically from Edwards AFB in the US to Australia non-stop and unrefuelled. This is the longest point-to-point flight ever undertaken by an unmanned aircraft, and took 23 hours and 23 minutes.
• September 11 - 4 jet-liners, 2 each of American Airlines and United Airlines, are hijacked and crashed in the September 11 terrorist attacks, killing more than 3,000 people.

• British Midland begins transatlantic flights from Manchester after a failed attempt to gain transatlantic flights from London Heathrow Airport.
• British Airways aborts a plan to take over KLM due to technical issues in the open skies treaty between the U.S. and the Netherlands.

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