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Events

January
 During the month, the Government of Italy gives permission for armed U.S. unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) to fly strike missions from Naval Air Station Sigonella on Sicily – where the
United States has based unarmed surveillance UAVs since 2001 – against Islamic State
targets in Libya, but only if they are "defensive," meaning that they are flown to protect U.S.
special operations forces operating in and near Libya or rescuers attempting to retrieve downed
U.S. pilots. Italy continues to prohibit U.S. offensive strikes from Italian territory, and also
reserves to itself the right to veto any U.S. mission.[1]

2 January

Indian aerial surveillance platforms detect a group of gunmen entering an Indian Air Force base
at Pathankot, India, and Indian Air Force security forces exchange fire with them in a housing
area. Four of the gunmen and two Indian Air Force security personnel are killed. Gunfire erupts
again two hours later, and Indian helicopters fire on gunmen in the base later in the day. Indian
security forces finally declare the base secure in the late afternoon, 14 hours after the intrusion
began.[2][3][4]

3 January

Combat again breaks out at India's air base at Pathankot after security forces discover two
militants still hiding on the base. Security forces reportedly kill the militants.[4]
An official at the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa announces that by mutual agreement
with the Government of Ethiopia the United States had shut down its military unmanned aerial
vehicle base at Arba Minch Airport in Arba Minch in southern Ethiopia in September 2015. The
two countries had agreed that the base, which had opened in 2011, was no longer necessary. It
is the first public announcement that the base had been closed.[5][6]

4 January

Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority suspends all civilian flights between Saudi Arabia and
Iran. The move, which comes a day after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran,
raises doubts about the future ability of Islamic pilgrims from Iran to visit Mecca and of Shiite
pilgrims from Saudi Arabia to visit religious sites in Iran.[7]
John Boggs files suit against William Merideth for shooting down his unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) in Bullitt County, Kentucky, with a shotgun as the UAV hovered over Merideth's property,
asserting that the drone was in public airspace when it was shot down and requesting $1,800
in damages and clarification as to how high above private property public airspace begins.
Merideth had claimed the UAV was spying on his family and violating his privacy. The case
promises to spur the U.S. judicial system to clarify where private property rights end and federal
jurisdiction begins in U.S. airspace, with a significant potential impact on future private and
commercial UAV operations.[8][9]

5 January

When two United States Air Force Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters attempt to evacuate
wounded Afghan military personnel near Marjah, Afghanistan, one strikes a wall and is
disabled and the other is ordered to abort the mission under heavy ground fire. One American
is killed and two wounded in the incident; they are the first U.S. casualties in Afghanistan in
2016.[10]

7 January

Iran claims that an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition operating against rebel forces in Yemen
struck its embassy in Sana'a overnight. Local residents and press observers report no signs of
 damage at the embassy.[11]
A report by the inspector general of the United States Department of Transportation to the U.S.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) expresses a concern that airline pilots have become so
reliant on automation technology to fly their aircraft that they have lost the skills necessary to
take manual control of an airliner in order to deal promptly and effectively with unforeseen
events. The FAA responds that it will require enhancements in pilot training for the manual
flight of aircraft, and the Air Line Pilots Association endorses the need for well-trained aircrew
aboard airliners.[12][13]

8 January

West Air Sweden Flight 294, a Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-200PF (registration
SE-DUX) on a domestic cargo flight in Norway carrying mail and packages from Oslo to
Tromsø, suddenly goes into a steep descent after a brief Mayday call and crashes near
Akkajaure, Sweden, killing its crew of two.[14]

9 January

Tracey Curtis-Taylor completes a solo flight from Farnborough Airport in Farnborough, England,
to Sydney, Australia, in the Boeing-Stearman Model 75 open-cockpit biplane Spirit of Artemis.
During the 100-day, 21,000-kilometre (13,000 mi) flight, begun on 1 October 2015, she has
flown over 23 countries and made 50 refueling stops. The flight recreates the 1930 Croydon-to-
Darwin flight of Amy Johnson, the first solo flight between the United Kingdom and Australia by
a woman.[15][16]

10 January

As a show of force after a 6 January nuclear weapons test by North Korea, a Guam-based U.S.
Air Force B-52H Stratofortress flies to South Korea, where it circles over Osan Air Base flanked
by a U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon and a Republic of Korea Air Force F-15 Eagle before
returning to Guam.[17]

12 January

An unarmed Iranian unmanned aerial vehicle flies near the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles
de Gaulle and directly over the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S
Truman (CVN-75) as they operate in international waters in the Persian Gulf. Iran will
announce the flight and release purported video from it on 29 January – implying that the video
had been taken earlier that day rather than on 12 January – and a United States Fifth Fleet
spokesman will respond by calling the flight "abnormal and unprofessional."[18]
An air-and-bus bridge begins operating as a pilot program to help 8,000 Cuban immigrants
stranded in Costa Rica since Nicaragua closed its border to them on 13 November 2015 by
allowing them to fly out of Costa Rica and reach Mexico, from which they can emigrate to the
United States. The first flight of the air-and-bus bridge departs Liberia, Costa Rica, during the
evening as part of regional agreement to help the Cubans bypass Nicaragua.[19]

13 January

An Israeli Air Force aircraft strikes a group of Palestinians – members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade – on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip near the Israeli border fence, killing one and
injuring three others. The Israel Defense Force claims that they were planting explosives with
which to target Israeli soldiers patrolling the border on the other side of the fence.[20]

14 January
 Air France officially retires the Boeing 747 from its fleet with Flight 744, a scenic flight by a
Boeing 747-400 with 432 people on board, including 380 paying passengers, in formation with
12 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jets of the French Air Force's Patrouille de France aerobatic team.
The airliner takes off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and makes a clockwise circuit that
takes it over Lyon, Geneva, Marseille, Montpellier, Bordeaux, and Deauville before returning to
Charles de Gaulle Airport, offering passengers scenic views of Mont Blanc, Normandy, and
Mont Saint-Michel along the way. The Boeing 747 had been part of the Air France fleet since
1974 and the 68 Boeing 747s the airline had operated had carried 250 million passengers. In
the future plans to use its Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s for long-haul flights.[21][22][23]
Two United States Marine Corps Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters of Marine Heavy
Helicopter Squadron 463 (HMH-463), each carrying six Marines, collide and crash in a fireball
late in the evening over the Pacific Ocean north of Oahu just off Haleiwa, Hawaii, and crash,
leaving all 12 Marines missing.[24] The United States Coast Guard will call off the search for the
Marines on 19 January,[25] and the Marine Corps officially will declare them dead on 20
January.[26]

15 January

A late-evening U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle-launched air-to-ground missile strike kills three
suspected al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula members as they drive in a car in Yemen's
Shabwa Governorate.[27]
SpaceX successfully fires the engines of the first stage of Falcon 9 rocket it had used to launch
a satellite into orbit and then landed successfully on land in December 2015, the first time in a
history a rocket stage had made a soft, controlled landing. The firing of the engines
demonstrates the feasibility of reusing the rocket stage, an important step in the development of
reusable rockets that make space launches less expensive.[28]

16 January

Speaking at the conclusion of a missile exercise at Skwierzyna, Poland, involving U.S. and
Polish military forces, Polish Minister of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz says that the
Government of Poland wants a permanent presence of North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) and U.S. military forces in Poland, including MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air
missiles.[29][30]

17 January

After successfully launching the Jason-3 satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket touches down on a landing platform in
the Pacific Ocean 200 miles (320 km) off California softly enough to land successfully, but
topples over when of its landing legs fails to lock in place and collapses. It is SpaceX's third
attempt to land a Falcon 9 first stage at sea; the two previous attempts, both in 2015, also had
been unsuccessful, although SpaceX had made history's first successful landing of a reusable
rocket stage – also of a Falcon 9 – on land in December 2015.[28]
Just before midnight, aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition strike a police facility in Sana'a, Yemen,
used by both security forces and the Houthi rebels as an assembly point, killing 26 people and
injuring 15. The dead and wounded are all policemen and Houthi rebels.[31]

21 January

An air strike by the Saudi-led coalition against a rebel-held facility at Ras Isa on Yemen's Red
Sea coast used to load tanker trucks with refined petroleum products for distribution in rebel-
 held areas of Yemen destroys trucks and starts a large fire, killing at least nine and perhaps as
many as 16 people and injuring at least 30.[32]

22 January

Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition strike targets across Yemen, killing dozens of people. Houthi
rebels in Saada Governorate report that the strikes kill 26 people in Dahyan, including the
driver of a Doctors Without Borders ambulance. Strikes against rebel weapon depots on the
mountain of Nahdeen kill another 22 people, and strikes in Hodeida targeting trucks carrying
smugged oil from the port there to rebel forces kill another 10 people. Strikes also target
gatherings of Houthis and rebel Yemeni Army units allied with them in Al Jawf Governorate,
Dhamar, ad Taiz.[33]
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service announces that after the 2016 season it will end its
support of the use of ultralight aircraft to lead whooping cranes on their migration from
Wisconsin to the Florida Gulf Coast each autumn in Operation Migration. A conclusion by
experts in whooping crane biology that human intervention such as ultralight flights impairs the
ability of the cranes to learn the parenting skills necessary to raise chicks in the wild prompts
the decision to end support.[34]

26 January

The United States Department of the Treasury announces the lifting of major U.S. trade and
travel restrictions on Cuba. The new regulations allow code sharing between U.S. and Cuban
airlines, airplane-leasing deals in the United States for Cuba, and permission for U.S. airline
crews to travel to Cuba.[35]

28 January

Iran agrees to buy 118 airliners – 73 wide-body and 45 narrow-body – from Airbus in a deal
worth $27,000,000,000. The purchase consists of 12 A380, 16 A350-1000, 45 A330, and 45
A320-family aircraft. The deal is contingent on Airbus receiving export licenses from the United
States, where 10 percent of parts for Airbus aircraft are manufactured. Iran, which first plans to
focus on expansion of its airports and more urgent civil aviation needs, does not plan to take
delivery of the airliners until ca. 2020.[36]

February
1 February

Two evening airstrikes by U.S. aircraft operating as part of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) intervention in Afghanistan level the Islamic State of Afghanistan "Voice
of the Caliphate" radio station, knocking it off the air during its nightly illegal propaganda
broadcast from Nangarhar Province's Achin District. The strikes combined with Afghan Army
ground operations kill 29 Islamic State supporters, including eight who worked for the radio
station and an associated Internet operation.[37][38]

2 February

Daallo Airlines Flight 159, an Airbus A321-100 (registration SX-BHS) with 81 people on board
flying from Mogadishu, Somalia, to Djibouti City, Djibouti, experiences an explosion which sets
one passenger on fire and blows a hole in the fuselage, through which the burning passenger
is sucked from the plane at an altitude of 4,300 m (14,000 ft). The airliner returns to Mogadishu
 and lands safely. The burned body of the man sucked from the plane is found near Balad,
Somalia; two other people on board the plane suffer minor injuries.

7 February

A strike by unidentified aircraft hits a medical technology college in Derna, Libya, killing four
people. The area is held by a coalition of Islamic militant groups who have been defending it
from the Islamic State.[39]

8 February

Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau announces that Canada will withdraw its six CF-18
Hornets from bombing missions against the Islamic State within two weeks, but will extend its
non-combat air support to the U.S.-led air campaign against the Islamic State until 31 March
2017, using one CC-150 Polaris aerial refueling aircraft and up to two CP-140 Aurora
reconnaissance planes.[40]
A panel of the International Civil Aviation Organization proposes history's first worldwide
standards for carbon dioxide emissions for aircraft; the standards would apply to all new aircraft
designs beginning in 2020 and to all newly delivered aircraft beginning in 2023. Environmental
groups criticize the standard for not addressing emissions by existing aircraft or new aircraft
designed before 2020 or delivered before 2023.[41]

10 February

During a flight from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic to Moscow with 355 passengers on
board, an Orenair Boeing 777-200 (registration VP-BHB) experiences an engine failure and
smoke in the cabin.[42] The crew shuts down the malfunctioning engine, the smoke ceases,
and the aircraft performs an emergency landing in Punta Cana during which a tire bursts and
sparks appear.[42] The passengers and crew evacuate via evacuation slides with no
injuries.[42]
The president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), Paul Rinaldi, tells
the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure that NATCA supports
a United States House bill that would create a federally chartered corporation to operate the air
traffic control system in the United States and transfer 38,000 U.S. federal government workers,
including 14,000 NATCA air traffic controllers who work for the U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration, to the new corporation.[43]

15 February

Villagers and rebel forces in southwestern Somalia claim that a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) has crashed in a village there. The United States responds that all of its UAVs have
returned safely from their missions and are accounted for.[44]

17–18 February

Turkish Air Force jets bomb Kurdish camps in northern Iraq hours after a suicide car bomb
killed 28 people in Ankara, Turkey, on 17 February.[45]

18 February

The United States government grants Boeing a license allowing the company to enter into talks
with airlines in Iran about sales of airliners. Iran's aging airliner fleet and lack of Boeing 777s
raises the possibility of significant sales for Boeing, although the company will require
 additional approval from the United States government ensuring the legitimacy of any
transactions before actually selling Iran any aircraft.[46]

19 February

Flying from bases in the United Kingdom, United States Air Force F-15 Eagles strike an Islamic
State camp on the outskirts of Sabratha, Libya, killing Islamic State leader Noureddine
Chouchane and 48 other Islamic State personnel.[47][48]
In a ceremony in a hangar in Mojave, California, Sir Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic's
new VSS Unity, a SpaceShipTwo-class rocket-powered suborbital spaceplane.[49]

20 February

The Government of Serbia claims that the 19 February U.S. airstrike in Sabratha, Libya, killed
two Serbian diplomats. The United States Department of Defense responds that it does not
believe the Serbians were at the targeted location during the airstrike and that the condition of
their bodies is inconsistent with death in the airstrike.[50]

21 February

British Royal Navy test pilot Eric "Winkle" Brown dies at the age of 97 at East Surrey Hospital
in Redhill, England. Surviving 11 plane crashes and the 1941 sinking of the escort aircraft
carrier HMS Audacity (D10), he is credited with flying 487 different types of aircraft, more than
anyone else in history, and with making 2,407 aircraft carrier landings, also a world record, as
well as with making the first carrier landing in history, landing a de Havilland Sea Vampire
aboard HMS Ocean (R68) in 1945. Although he had retired in 1970, he had continued flying
until 1994.[51][52]

22 February

Russia requests permission to fly surveillance flights over the United States under the Treaty
on Open Skies using Tupolev Tu-154 (NATO reporting name "Careless") aircraft equipped with
new, high-powered digital cameras. The request prompts a debate within the United States
Government over whether it is a small concession worth making in order to keep the treaty
viable or a violation of the spirit of the treaty that would allow surveillance unintended when the
treaty was signed in 1992. The treaty, signed by 34 countries, has been in force since 2002.[53]

24 February

Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter on a domestic flight in Nepal
from Pokhara Airport in Pokhara to Jomsom Airport in Jomsom, crashes and burns near Dana
in Myagdi District ten minutes after takeoff, killing all 23 people on board.

25 February

In the morning, Turkish Army Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters attack a group of Kurdistan
Workers Party personnel as they travel through a mountainous area near the İdil district of
Turkey's Şırnak Province, killing nine of them.[54]
In the evening, Turkish Air Force jets based at Diyarbakir, Turkey, strike Kurdistan Workers
Party logistical centers, ammunition depots, and shelters in northern Iraq,[55]

26 February
 An Air Kasthamandap PAC 750XL (registration 9N-AJB) with 11 people on board crash-lands
at Chilkhaya, Nepal, killing both crew members and injuring all nine passengers.
An Azur Air Boeing 767-300 makes a safe emergency landing in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, during
a flight from Moscow to Phuket, Thailand, after an indicator shows low engine oil pressure.[56]
Solar Impulse 2, grounded at Kalaeloa Airport in Kalealoa, Hawaii, since 3 July 2015 due to
battery damage caused by overheating during its attempt to become the first manned solar-
powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth, makes it first test flight after repairs. Taking off
from Kalealoa Airport, Solar Impulse 2 flies over the Pacific Ocean for 90 minutes, reaching an
altitude of 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) before returning. The Solar Impulse team plans to resume
the circumnavigation in late April 2016 with a flight from Hawaii to Phoenix, Arizona.[57][58]

27 February

Airstrikes attributed to the Saudi-led coalition targeting advancing rebel forces hit a market area
in the Nehm region outside Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 30 people and injuring at least 30
more.[59]

29 February

An American tourist turns over to authorities in Mozambique what appears to be part of the skin
of a Boeing 777 horizontal stabilizer found over the preceding weekend on a sandbar in the
Indian Ocean just off the country's coast, raising expectations that it will turn out to be debris
from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 missing since 8 March 2014.[60]
In the United States, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces
that it has awarded a $20 million contract to Lockheed Martin to develop a quiet supersonic
demonstration passenger aircraft using Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST). NASA hopes
that the new technology, which allows aircraft flying at supersonic speeds to make only a soft
thump instead of a loud and damaging sonic boom, will prompt the development of a new
generation of "low-boom" supersonic transports that can fly over populated areas at supersonic
speeds.[61]
The United States has conducted 135 airstrikes in Yemen since its air campaign there began,
five of them since 1 January. The strikes have killed more that 650 al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula personnel and 105 civilians.[62]

March
3 March

A man finds a 40-by-40-centimeter (about 15.5-by-15.5-inch) square-shaped piece of debris

with a blue border on a beach on Réunion in the Indian Ocean in almost the same place he
found a flaperon from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 in July 2015. He turns it in to authorities the
following day, raising hopes that it is also from Flight 370, missing since 8 March 2014.[63]

4 March

SpaceX successfully launches a satellite payload into space using an upgraded Falcon 9
rocket, but its attempt to land the rocket's first stage on a floating platform – termed an
"autonomous space port droneship" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk – is only partially
successful: although the first stage lands on the platform, the landing is too hard for a
successful recovery.[64]
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) responds to the U.S. Federal Aviation
Administration's (FAA) November 2015 rejection of the NTSB's April 2014 recommendation
 that the FAA establish licensing requirements and safety standards for commercial balloon tour
operators and make them subject to FAA safety inspections, regulating them in a manner
similar to the way it regulates commercial airplane and helicopter tour operators. In its
response, the NTSB informs the FAA that it finds the rejection unacceptable and that its
recommendation remains open.[65][66][67][68]

5 March

A series of U.S. airstrikes by manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles against an Al-
Shabaab training camp in Raso, Somalia, kills over 150 Al-Shabaab personnel.[48]

7 March

African Parks Network announces that the remains of its employee, American anti-poaching
pilot Bill Fitzpatrick, have been recovered from a crash site in Cameroon. Fiztpatrick had
disappeared on 22 June 2014 during a flight to a job in Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the
Republic of the Congo. Local residents had discovered the wreckage of Fitzpatrick's plane in
April 2015, but the remote site and dense vegetation in the area had made it difficult for
helicopters to land there and bureaucratic procedures of the Government of Cameroon also
had delayed the recovery of Fitzpatrick's remains.[69]
Boeing announces that it has filed a patent for a self-cleaning airplane lavatory which can
sanitize itself in three seconds using far-ultraviolet light. The lavatory also features a hands-free
faucet, soap dispenser, trash flap, toilet lid, toilet seat, and hand dryer, and Boeing reports that it
also is designing a hands-free door latch and is studying the design of a hands-free system to
lift and close the toilet seat so that all surfaces are exposed to the far-ultraviolet light during the
cleaning cycle. Once Boeing offers the new lavatories to customers, it is expected to take years
for airlines to update their fleets with them.[70]

8 March

U.S. Special Operations Forces conduct a joint U.S.-Somali helicopter raid against al-Shabaab
in Somalia. The United States Department of Defense announces that U.S. forces play only an
advisory role and do not accompany the Somali forces on the raid, although the helicopters
employed are U.S. military helicopters flown by U.S. crews.[71]

9 March

A True Aviation Antonov An-26 cargo plane (registration S2-AGZ) carrying a cargo of shrimp
suffers the failure of an engine shortly after takeoff from Cox's Bazar Airport in Cox's Bazar,
Bangladesh, and crashes into the Bay of Bengal five minutes after takeoff while attempting to
return to the airport, killing three of the four people on board and critically injuring the only
survivor.
Amazon.com announces that it has agreed to lease 20 Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft from Air
Transport Services Group as a first step toward operating its own fleet of planes, part of a larger
effort to reduce its shipping costs and its reliance on FedEx and the United Parcel Service.[72]

12 March

A South African family announces that it contacted aviation authorities in South Africa during
the previous week to report a piece of debris their teenaged son had found on a beach in
Mozambique on 30 December 2015 which they had taken home to South Africa. Aviation
officials plan to examine it to see if it is from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.[73]
In response to a rocket attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip the previous evening, the Israeli Air
Force conducts airstrikes against four Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip. In one of the airstrikes, an
 air-to-ground missile strikes a family home on the perimeter of one of the sites, killing two
Palestinian children.[74]

13 March

As a result of the accident investigation into the 25 March 2015 crash of Germanwings Flight
9525, French aviation authorities call for stricter international monitoring of the mental health of
pilots as well as guidelines under which doctors would be required to report pilots whose
psychological condition might put flight safety at risk. In their report, the French also urge
German authorities to limit the legal penalties imposed on doctors who breach patient
confidentiality in good faith in order to report psychological problems among pilots and to
clearly define the types of health issues in airline pilots that can represent an "imminent
danger" to flight safety.[75]

14 March

In response to a suicide car bomb explosion in Ankara, Turkey, that killed at least 37 people the
previous day, Turkish Air Force jets strike at least 18 Kurdistan Workers Party positions in
northern Iraq, including ammunition depots, bunkers, and shelters.[76]

15 March

Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition conduct two airstrikes on a busy market in Mastaba in
Yemen's Hajja Governorate, killing at least 119 people and wounding 47.[77][78]
An Ecuadorian Air Force IAI Arava carrying 22 members of the Ecuadorian Army for parachute
training and an air force crew of three crashes in Hacienda la Palmira near Shell Mera,
Ecuador, killing all on board.[79][80][81][82]

16 March

New United States Department of the Treasury regulations go into effect that among other
things allow increased travel to Cuba by American citizens and allow U.S. airlines to open
offices in Cuba. The changes are expected to improve the market for commercial air travel
between the United States and Cuba.[83]

17 March

Saudi Arabia announces that its military coalition will scale back its operations against Houthi
rebels in Yemen – maintaining only "small" teams of coalition forces on the ground to advise,
train, and equip Yemeni forces – but will continue to provide air support to Yemeni forces
battling the rebels.[78]
Boasting that Russia's 167-day intervention in Syria saved the regime of Syrian President
Basher al-Assad from defeat at a coast of only $480 million, Russian President Vladimir Putin
says that Russia could restore its military presence in Syria in a metter of hours if necessary
and will maintain a powerful surface-to-air missile force there. He warns that Russia will
respond with force if any rebel group breaks the Syrian ceasefire and or any attacks against
Russian forces still in Syria occur, and suggests that Russia will intervene militarily in Syria
again if it believes the Assad regime is in danger of losing power.[84]

19 March

Flydubai Flight 981, a Boeing 737-8KN (registration A6-FDN), aborts two landing attempts in
poor visibility at Rostov-on-Don Airport in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, making a go-
around after each attempt. During its second go-around, it suddenly goes into a rapid descent
 from an altitude of 4,050 feet (1,230 meters) and crashes, killing all 62 people on board. It is the
first fatal accident in Flydubai's seven-year history.
Unidentified aircraft strike Islamic State-held Raqqa, Syria, killing at least 39 – and perhaps as
many as 43 – people and reportedly injuring at least 50 others. Different observers report the
attacking aircraft as either Russian Federation Air Force or Syrian Air Force jets.[85]
Unidentified aircraft strike Islamic State targets in Palmyra, Syria, killing seven Islamic State
personnel during a Syrian Arab Army offensive to retake Palmyra.[85]

21 March

A South African archaeologist finds a piece of debris on a beach in southern South Africa. The
following day, Malaysia's Minister of Transport, Liow Tiong Lai, will announce the discovery
and that the debris bears an aircraft engine manufacturer's and logo and will be examined to
determine whether it is from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.[86]

22 March

Two terrorist bombs detonate at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, killing at least 11
people and injuring around 100 others. The airport will remain closed until 3 April, with flights
re-routed to nearby cities. A third bomb later explodes at Maelbeek (or Maalbeek) metro station
in the City of Brussels, killing another 20 people and injuring another 130. The Islamic State
claims responsibility for all three bomb blasts.[87][88][89]
U.S. aircraft conduct a strike against an al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula training camp in the
mountains of Yemen. The United States Department of Defense announces that the attack
killed "dozens" of the group's personnel.[62]

27 March

Suspected U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle strikes hit courtyards in two villages in Yemen with
air-to-ground missiles, killing eight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula members. Later in the
day, a U.S. aircraft bombs a former Yemeni government intelligence building in Yemen's Abyan
Governorate that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is using as a base, killing 14 members of
the group.[90]
The Portuguese regional airline Portugália is rebranded as Tap Express.

27–28 March (overnight)

Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition strike rebel targets in the suburbs of Aden, Yemen.[91]

28 March

Unidentified aircraft thought to belong to the Saudi-led coalition strike rebel targets in Yemen's
Hadhramaut region southeast of Mukalla.[91]

29 March

A man claiming to be wearing an explosive belt hijacks EgyptAir Flight 181 – an Airbus A320-
200 (registration SU-GCB) with 61 other people on board on a domestic flight in Egypt from
Alexandria to Cairo – and forces it to fly to Larnaca International Airport in Larnaca, Cyprus,
which is closed to all traffic after the hijacked airliner's arrival. The man is arrested and no one
aboard the airliner is harmed.[92]
A chartered Aero Teknic Mitsubishi MU-2 flying in bad weather crashes into the Gulf of St.
Lawrence on approach to Îles-de-la-Madeleine Airport in the Magdalen Islands in Quebec,
 Canada, killing all seven people on board. Canadian television commentator and former
Minister of Transport Jean Lapierre, his wife, two of his brothers, and a sister are among the
dead. They had been traveling to Lapierre's father's funeral in eastern Quebec.[93]

31 March

Heavy airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition support the beginning of an offensive by Iraqi military
forces to take the city of Hīt, Iraq, from the Islamic State. Over the previous week, the coalition
has conducted 17 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in the Hīt area in preparation for the
offensive.[94]
An airstrike by a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle 32 km (20 mi) from Jilib, Somalia, hits a ground
vehicle carrying senior Al-Shabaab leader and al-Qaeda member Hassan Ali Dhoore and two
other Al-Shabaab members.[95]

April
2 April

Since it began in October 2015, the U.S.-led coalition in Operation Tidal Wave II has conducted
over 200 airstrikes against Islamic State oil wells, oil refineries, oil pipelines, and tanker trucks.
Tidal Wave II is intended to degrade the Islamic State's finances.[96]

3 April

The Government of Australia announces that debris apparently from the interior of Malaysian
Airlines Flight 370 – a Boeing 777 missing since March 2014 – found by hotel guests on
Mauritius during the previous week will be examined to ascertain whether or not it is from the
missing airliner. It would be the first piece of the debris from the aircraft's interior to be
recovered.[97]
Supported by Russian Federation Air Force airstrikes, Syrian Arab Army troops on the
offensive against Islamic State forces retake Qaryatain, Syria.[98]
A U.S. airstrike against a senior al-Qaeda operational meeting in Syria's Idlib Governorate at
the headquarters of Jund al-Aqsa, which fights alongside the Nusra Front in the Syrian Civil
War, kills 21 Islamic militants, including senior al-Qaeda member Abu Firas al-Souri.[98]
On a limited basis, flight operations resume at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, for the
first time since the terrorist bombings there on 22 March. Only three flights, all Brussels Airlines
departures, operate from the airport during the day.[89]

4 April

During takeoff from Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, Batik Air Flight 7703,
a Boeing 737-8GP(WL) (registration PK-LBS) carrying 56 people, collides with a TransNusa
Air Services ATR 42-600 (registration PK-TNJ) being towed to a hangar with four people on
board. The Boeing 737's left wing slices off the ATR 42's vertical stabilizer and outer left wing,
and the Boeing 737's badly damaged left wing bursts into flames. All aboard both aircraft
evacuate safely.[99]
Supported by heavy airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition targeting Islamic State forces and
position, Iraqi government forces enter the city of Hīt, Iraq, a week after operations to retake it
from the Islamic State began.[100]
The Syrian Arab Army releases video revealing that Russian Kamov Ka-52 Alligator (NATO
reporting name "Hokum B") attack helicopters are operating in Syria. The video – purportedly
 the first video of the Ka-25 in combat ever made public – shows Ka-25s firing rockets at Islamic
State forces in Syria near Qaryatain.[101]
A Bell 206 sightseeing helicopter crashes in the Smoky Mountains near Sevierville,
Tennessee, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, killing all five people on board.[102]
Alaska Air agrees to buy Virgin America for $2,600,000,000; including debt and aircraft leases,
the deal is worth about $4,000,000,000. The combined airline will have 1,200 daily departures
and hubs in Anchorage, Alaska; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco
and Los Angeles, California. Virgin America had operated since 2007.[103]

5 April

Traveling from his sanctuary in Turkey to mediate a dispute between the Nusra Front and other
Islamist groups in Syria, Al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Refai Taha is killed by an air-to-ground
missile fired by a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle when his car stops for fuel near Idlib, Syria.[104]
A surface-to-air-missile fired from rebel-held territory in Syria near Aleppo shoots down a
Syrian Arab Air Force reconnaissance plane. Its pilot ejects.[105]
Morecambe Bay Community Primary School in Morecambe, England, launches a helium
balloon carrying a toy stuffed dog named Sam, a GoPro camera, and a GPS navigation device
from the grounds of a hotel in Morecambe as part of a school science project. Ascending at 6
metres (20 feet) per second, the balloon reaches an altitude of 24 km (15 mi) without incident,
but bursts during its descent and plummets to the ground, landing in a field in Burnley, 48 km
(30 mi) from its launch site, where the camera and GPS device are recovered. Sam is missing
from the wreckage, prompting a search for the stuffed animal within a radius of 64 to 80 km (40
to 50 mi) of the landing site.[106]

6 April

A panel commissioned by the United States government recommends that the U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration lift its ban on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or "drones") flying over
people and issue new regulations that require only that UAVs fly no lower than 20 feet (6.1
meters) above people and come no closer to people than 10 feet (3.0 meters) while taking off or
landing.[107]

7 April

Two hours into a flight to search for a skiff missing in the Pacific Ocean with three men aboard,
the crew of a United States Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol plane spots the word "HELP" spelled
out on a beach on uninhabited Fanadik Island in the Federated States of Micronesia. It was
created by the three men, who soon are rescued by a small boat from the island of Pulap.[108]

8 April

After several unsuccessful attempts, SpaceX successfully lands the first stage of its Falcon 9
rocket on a platform – which SpaceX refers to as an "autonomous spaceport drone ship" –
floating in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The landing occurs nine minutes after liftoff.[109]
Jetpack International vice president Nick Macomber crashes headfirst into the ground during a
routine test flight of a jet pack he is flying in Denver, Colorado, falling 20 feet (6.1 meters) to the
ground after the jet pack malfunctions. He is injured, but is released from a hospital the
following day.[110]

10 April
 Unidentified aircraft conduct airstrikes around Raqqa, Syria, killing dozens of Islamic State
personnel and civilians.[111]

11 April

Two Russian Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer") jets make numerous low-level
passes in close proximity to the United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Donald
Cook (DDG-75) while the ship is conducting deck landing drills with an allied military helicopter
in the Baltic Sea, forcing Donald Cook to suspend flight operations until the Su-24s leave the
area. The ship's commanding officer criticizes one of the passes, made while the helicopter is
refueling on Donald Cook's flight deck, as unsafe.[112]

12 April

A Russian Mil Mi-28N (NATO reporting name "Havoc") attack helicopter crashes in Syria,
killing its two-man crew. The Russian Ministry of Defense announces that the helicopter was
not shot down and blames the crash on bad weather. The increasing number of reports of
Russian helicopter operations in Syria since late March have led Western military analysts to
conclude that Russia's supposed withdrawal of its military aviation forces from Syria in mid-
March was in reality merely the replacement of some Russian Federation Air Force jets there
with attack helicopters more suitable to the support of Syrian Arab Army ground operations
against rebel forces.[101]
Russian aircraft fly in close proximity to the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Donald
Cook (DDG-75) in the Baltic Sea for a second straight day. First, a Kamov Ka-27 (NATO
reporting name "Helix") helicopter makes seven low circles around Donald Cook (DDG-75) in
what the ship's commanding officer criticizes as an "unprofessional" manner. Forty minutes
later, two Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer") jets make 11 close-range, low-level
passes which Donald Cook's crew assesses as fitting a simulated attack profile.[112]

13 April

A Sunbird Aviation Britten-Norman BN-2T Turbine Islander crashes 1 km (0.62 mi) short of the
runway at Kiunga, Papua New Guinea, killing all 12 people on board.

14 April

United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announces that the United States will begin
to send combat aircraft to the Philippines on regular and more frequent rotations and will
conduct more air patrols jointly with Philippine forces in the South China Sea in order to help
reduce growing tensions between the Philippines and the People's Republic of China over
their competing claims in the South China Sea.[113]

17 April

Air France resumes flights to Iran after an eight-year hiatus with a flight from Paris to Imam
Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, beginning a three-times-per-week service. Air France
joins Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines in providing commercial air passenger service between
Europe and Iran.[114]
In the first incident of its kind in the United Kingdom, the pilot of a British Airways Airbus A320
with 127 people on board reports that an object that he believes to be an unmanned aerial
vehicle struck the front of his plane at an altitude of 1,700 feet (520 meters) over Richmond
Park, London, while his airliner was on approach to land at Heathrow Airport.[115][116] On 21
April, British Minister of State for Transport Robert Goodwill will announce that the object the
airliner hit may have been a plastic bag.[116]
18 April

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announces that U.S. forces sent to assist the Iraqi
armed forces in recapturing Mosul from the Islamic State will include AH-64 Apache attack
helicopters.[117]
Making an implementation flight to test the route, ground operations, and handling, ahead of the
beginning of scheduled airline services at Saint Helena Airport, a Boeing 737-800 operated by
Comair for British Airways becomes the first passenger jet capable of seating 100 or more
passengers to land on Saint Helena. High winds prevent the airliner from landing until its third
attempt, indicating that wind shear conditions at the airport are dangerous for large commercial
aircraft.[118][119]

19 April

Four United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II (nicknamed "Warthog") close air support
aircraft of the 51st Fighter Wing fly a patrol over the South China Sea west of Luzon from Clark
Air Base in the Philippines. The maritime patrol mission is an unusual one for the A-10, but the
U.S. Department of Defense announces that it is only the first of a planned series of joint South
China Sea air patrols by U.S. and Philippine forces with goals of "air- and maritime-domain
awareness, personnel recovery, combating piracy, and [the] assurance [that] all nations have
access to the regional air and maritime domains in accordance with international law." The
People's Republic of China, which claims the areas to be patrolled as its internal waters,
condemns the planned patrols as reflecting a "Cold War mentality."[120]
A pro-Syrian-government aircraft strikes the main market in Maarat al-Nu'man, Syria, with two
air-to-ground rockets while it is crowded with people shopping for fruits and vegetables, killing
at least 37 people. It is unclear whether the attacking jet belonged to the Syrian Arab Air Force
or the Russian Federation Air Force.[121]

20 April

United States Central Command reveals that the authority to order airstrikes that might
endanger civilians, originally given only to its top commander, has been delegated to its
commander in Baghdad and his deputies.[122]

21 April

After a delay of almost 10 months, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) takes off from Kalaeloa
Airport in Kalaeloa, Hawaii, bound for Mountain View, California, on the ninth leg of its round-
the-world flight to resume its attempt to become the first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the
world and the first aircraft to do so without using a drop of fossil fuel. The flight, with Bertrand
Piccard at the controls, is expected to take about 62 hours. Solar Impulse 2 had been at
Kalaeloa since completing the eighth leg of its flight on 3 July 2015, delayed first by repairs
necessitated by damage caused by an overheated battery and then by the need to wait for
spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when periods of daylight become long enough for the plane
to charge its batteries in flight.[123][124]
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismisses an American
Civil Liberties Union lawsuit seeking access under the Freedom of Information Act to details of
the Central Intelligence Agency's program of lethal airstrikes using unmanned aerial vehicles
(or "drones") outside of the ongoing War in Afghanistan and Iraqi Civil War. The court finds that
releasing such details to the public "could reasonably be expected to damage national
security," and that "[t]he agency's explanations as to why the records are classified are both
'logical' and 'plausible' and uncontroverted by evidence in the record."[125]
Doug Hughes is sentenced to four months in prison for an unauthorized gyrocopter flight from
Pennsylvania he made on 15 April 2015 that ended with a landing on the United States Capitol
 Building grounds in Washington, D.C. He made the flight to protest the influence of money in
American politics.[126]

22 April

Syrian Arab Air Force raids on rebel-held parts of Aleppo kill at least 19 people. Additional
government airstrikes in Idlib Governorate also kill people in areas under rebel control.[127]
U.S. Central Command announces that between 10 September 2015 and 2 February 2016 its
airstrikes in Iraq and Syria killed 20 civilians and injured 11 more. The airstrikes killed two
civilians in Kabisa, Iraq, on 10 September 2015; eight in Atshanah, Iraq, while hitting an Islamic
State mortar position on 5 October 2015; one in Ramadi, Iraq, during a strike against Islamic
State combat personnel on 12 November 2015; one near Raqqa, Syria, on 10 December 2015;
five in Ramadi while hitting an Islamic State checkpoint on 12 December 2015; one in
Tishreen, Syria, on 24 December 2015; one in Mosul, Iraq, on 11 January 2016; and one in Al
Ghazli, Syria, on 2 February 2016. In a previous announcement, the United States Department
of Defense had acknowledged killing 15 civilians and wounding 15 more during earlier
airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.[122]

23 April

Syrian Arab Air Force planes strike rebel-held areas of Aleppo for a second straight day. They
hit a residential area and a market in the city's Tareeq al-Bab district, killing at least 12
people.[128]
Piloted by Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 completes the ninth leg of its around-the-world
flight attempt, landing at Moffatt Field in Mountain View, California, after a nonstop flight from
Kalaeloa, Hawaii, of 62 hours 29 minutes, covering 4,086 km (2,206 nmi) at an average speed
of 65.39 km/h (35.31 kn) and reaching a maximum altitude of 8,634 m (28,327 ft).[129][130]

24 April

Syrian Arab Air Force planes strike rebel-held areas in Aleppo for the third straight day, killing
16 people.[131]
Ground forces of the Saudi-led coalition begin a ground offensive against al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula forces in southern Yemen, advancing toward Mukalla and surrounding
areas. Coalition aircraft supporting the offensive strike targets in Mukalla, hitting the city's
cultural center and Riyan Airport.[132]

25–26 April (overnight)

An air-to-ground missile strike suspected to have been made by a U.S. unmanned aerial
vehicle kills three prominent al-Qaeda leaders in Zinjibar, Yemen.

26 April

The Yemeni government announces that Yemeni ground troops have retaken Mukalla from al-
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) forces, adding that heavy airstrikes by the Saudi-led
coalition combined with artillery fire had driven many AQAP members out of the city.
The Government of Saint Helena announces an indefinite delay to the opening of Saint Helena
Airport to commercial traffic because of the problem the Comair Boeing 737-800 had
encountered in landing on 18 April due to dangerous winds. The airport had been scheduled to
open in May,[133] but scheduled commercial air service will not begin until October 2017.[134]

27 April
 Airstrikes by unidentified aircraft against rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria, collapse a hospital
operated by Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross, killing
at least 50 people, including patients and at least six hospital staff members. A dentist and two
medical doctors, one of them one of the area's last pediatricians, are among the dead.[135][136]

28 April

The Russian Ministry of Defense denies Russian involvement in the 27 April airstrike against a
hospital in Aleppo, Syria.[135]

29 April

Airstrikes against rebel-held areas in Aleppo, Syria, by unidentified aircraft destroy a medical
clinic and hit other targets. Airstrikes against rebel-held areas and rebel mortar barrages have
combined to kill more than 200 people in Aleppo during the preceding week.[136]
Russia and the United States announce a renewed ceasefire in two parts of Syria where
fighting in violation of the 27 February ceasefire has escalated during April and that it is
scheduled to begin at midnight on 29–30 April. The Russian Ministry of Defense announces
that the ceasefire applies to Latakia Governorate and will last 72 hours, while the United States
Department of State later announces that it also includes East Ghouta outside Damascus and
has no expiration date. The agreement excludes Aleppo, where the heaviest fighting since the
27 February ceasefire has broken out.[137]
A Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma helicopter (registration LN-OJF) operated by CHC
Helikopter Service loses its main rotor in flight while carrying oil workers from the Gullfaks B oil
field in the North Sea to Bergen Airport, Flesland, in Bergen, Norway, and crashes on Norway's
Skitholmen islet between the islands of Turøy and Toftøy, killing all 13 people on board.
The commander of United States Central Command, United States Army General Joseph
Votel, announces that a U.S. Department of Defense investigation into a United States Air
Force airstrike against a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on 3
October 2015 did not amount to a war crime because American military personnel responsible
for the strike attacked the hospital by mistake while attempting to support Afghan troops and
U.S. Army Special Forces in combat against Taliban forces. The incident resulted in 16
American military personnel facing disciplinary action for their role in it, but the investigation
found that their misjudgments did not involve any criminal intent.[136]

30 April

Nearly 30 airstrikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria. It is the ninth day of lethal
bombardments in the city, and they have killed nearly 250 people since beginning on 22
April.[138]

May
3 May

With André Borschberg at the controls, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) arrives at Phoenix
Goodyear Airport outside Goodyear, Arizona, completing the tenth leg of its attempt to become
the first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using
a drop of fossil fuel. The flight, begun on 2 May at Mountain View, California, covers 1,112 km
(691 mi) in 15 hours 52 minutes at an average speed of 70.10 km/h (43.56 mph), reaching a
maximum altitude of 6,706 m (22,001 ft).[139][140]

5 May
 Amazon.com and Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings announce a deal in which Amazon.com will
acquire up to 30 percent of Atlas's stock and Atlas will acquire 20 Boeing 767-300 cargo
aircraft, lease them to Amazon.com for ten years, and operate them for Amazon.com for seven
years via its Atlas Air subsidiary. Operations are expected to begin during the latter half of 2016
and grow to their maximum planned size by 2018. It is Amazon.com's second investment in an
air cargo carrier – its first was announced on 5 March – and it doubles the size of
Amazon.com's air cargo fleet from 20 to 40 aircraft, all Boeing 767-300s.[141]

6 May

A U.S. airstrike against a ground vehicle driving near Ar-Rutbah, Iraq, kills four Islamic State
members, including the "military emir" of Anbar Governorate, Abu Wahib, notorious for his
appearances in Islamic State videos. The United States Department of Defense will announce
his death on 9 May.[142]
For the second time, SpaceX successfully lands the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a
platform floating in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station which placed a Japanese satellite in orbit. The first successful landing had occurred
four weeks earlier, on 8 April 2016.[143]

7 May

Turkish Air Force F-4 Phantom II and F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft strike Kurdistan Workers
Party shelters, ammunition depots, and weapon positions in northern Iraq, including in the
Qandil Mountains, where the group's headquarters is located.[144]

9 May

Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition against a rebel military camp in Yemen's Amran
Governorate kill at least 10 Yemeni rebels and wound more than 15 others.[145]

11 May

In a freedom-of-navigation operation in the South China Sea, the United States Navy guided
missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG-110) steams within 22 km (12 nmi) of Fiery
Cross Reef, which the People's Republic of China claims as its territory along with adjacent
waters which the United States views as international waters. In response, China scrambles
three jet fighters, which join three Chinese ships in monitoring the destroyer.[146]
Iran's Minister of Defense, Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, announces that Iran has taken
delivery of at least one S-300 surface-to-air-missile system from Russia, the first of five to be
delivered under a 2007 contract.[147]

12 May

Malaysia's Minister of Transport, Liow Tiong Lai, announces that two pieces of debris found in
March – an engine cowling piece with a partial Rolls-Royce logo discovered on the southern
coast of South Africa and an interior panel piece from an aircraft cabin found on Rodrigues –
"almost certainly" are from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 missing since March
2014.[148]
After a Ugandan assault team comes under fire while attempting to secure an Al-Shabaab
checkpoint west of Mogadishu, Somalia, suspected of being used by the group to extort money
from travelers, a U.S. special operations team assisting the Ugandans calls in a U.S. airstrike
against the checkpoint. The strike kills five Al-Shabaab personnel.[149]
 Flown by Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) arrives at Tulsa International
Airport outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, completing the eleventh leg of its attempt to become the first
solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using a drop
of fossil fuel. The flight, begun on 11 May at Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Phoenix, Arizona,
covers 975 miles (1,569 km) in 18 hours 10 minutes at an average speed of 53.67 mph
(86.37 km/h), reaching a maximum altitude of 22,001 feet (6,706 meters).[150]

13 May

Airstrikes suspected of having been conducted by Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft reportedly kill
at least 12 people in Idlib, Syria, and injure at least 38 others. One report places the death toll
at 15. Additional strikes reportedly occur around Zaara, Syria. The Syrian government's official
Syrian Arab News Agency claims that the strikes targeted Nusra Front strongholds in Idlib
Governorate and Hama, and that they killed 30 members of the militant group.[151]
United States Air Force General Lori Robinson, previously the commander of the U.S. Air
Force's Pacific Air Forces, takes command of United States Northern Command, becoming the
first woman to command a U.S. unified combatant command. She simultaneously becomes the
commanding officer of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.[152]

15 May

According to Turkish military sources, airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition and a Turkish Army
artillery bombardment combine to kill 27 Islamic State personnel in northern Syria about 10
kilometers (6.2 miles) from the Turkish border as they prepare to fire rockets into Turkey. The
strikes and bombardment destroy five "fortified defence posts" and two "gun posts".[153]

17 May

At least two Chinese Shenyang J-11 fighters intercept a United States Navy Lockheed EP-3
signals reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea in international airspace east of
Hainan Island. The following day, a U.S. Department of Defense official says that the Chinese
aircraft came within 50 feet (15 meters) of the EP-3 and that the interception was unsafe. China
responds that its fighters maintained a safe distance.[154]
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announces that there were 764 reports of unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs, or "drones") sighted near airplanes in the United States in 2015, and
that it has begun a research program to explore ways of detecting (UAVs) that are operating
near airports. It also announces that the initial investigation of drone detection technology had
taken place earlier in May 2016 at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport in
Queens, New York, employing a technology used by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The experiment tested the technology's capability to detect five kinds of UAVs, including
common rotorcraft and more advanced fixed-wing UAVs.[155]

18 May

A Silk Way Airlines Antonov An-12 cargo plane suffers an engine failure shortly after taking off
from Dwyer Airport in southern Afghanistan and crashes, killing seven of its nine-member crew.
Saab debuts its new JAS 39 Gripen E fighter in a rollout at Linköping, Sweden.[156]

19 May

EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320-232 (registration SU-GCC) on a flight from Paris to Cairo,
crashes into the Mediterranean Sea south of Karpathos, killing all 66 people on board.
 In response to a U.S. Defense Department accusation on 18 May that Chinese fighter aircraft
made an unsafe interception of a U.S. Navy reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea
on 17 May, the People's Republic of China demands that the United States cease
reconnaissance flights in the vicinity of China.[154]

20 May

Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu proposes that Russia and the U.S.-led coalition
conduct joint airstrikes in Syria against Jabhat al-Nusra and against ground convoys carrying
weapons and reinforcements into Syria from Turkey. The U.S. Department of State responds
that no agreement to conduct joint airstrikes exists, and the U.S. Department of Defense
informs the press that it has no plans to expand cooperation with Russia in Syria beyond
existing flight-safety communications intended only to deconflict coalition and Russian air
operations.[157]

21 May

A U.S. airstrike involving several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) hits a ground vehicle
driving on a road near Ahmad Wal in Pakistan's Balochistan province, reportedly killing Taliban
leader Akhtar Mansour and the driver of the vehicle. It is the first U.S. UAV strike in that part of
Pakistan.[158]
An airstrike allegedly conducted by aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition flying into Syria from Turkey
hits the Islamic State-held town of Arshaf, Syria, near Mare', killing seven members of one
family and perhaps as many as 10 people in total.[159]
Flown by André Borschberg, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) arrives at Dayton
International Airport in Dayton, Ohio,[160] completing the twelfth leg of its attempt to become the
first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using a
drop of fossil fuel. The flight, begun early in the day at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa,
Oklahoma,[160] covers 691 miles (1,112 km) in 16 hours 34 minutes at an average speed of
41.72 mph (67.14 km/h), reaching a maximum altitude of 21,000 feet (6,400 meters).[160][161]

22 May

Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi announces that Iraqi Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons are
bombing Islamic State targets in Fallujah, Iraq, at the beginning of a drive by Iraqi military and
security forces and militias allied with them to retake the city from the Islamic State.[162]

23 May

U.S. airstrikes support Iraqi military and security forces and militias allied with them moving into
Fallujah, Iraq. A U.S. spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition announces that coalition aircraft
have struck 21 Islamic State targets in and around Fallujah since 17 May.[163]
An Iraqi Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon destroys an Islamic State bomb-making factory in
Fallujah, Iraq, and hits Islamic State rocket launchers in the city.[163]
The first two Dutch Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft – both Royal Netherlands Air
Force F-35A models – arrive in the Netherlands, landing at Leeuwarden Air Base. They are the
first examples of the F-35 to arrive in Europe.[164]

24 May

Iraqi Air Force and U.S. aircraft strike Islamic State targets in and around Fallujah, Iraq.[165]

25 May
 The brother of a taxi driver killed in the 21 May U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle strike that also
killed Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour files a police report in Balochistan, Pakistan, requesting
that his brother's death be investigated and noting that the United States claimed responsibility
for the attack.[166]
Russia announces that is suspending airstrikes in Syria against Jabhat al-Nusra to allow
rebels not affiliated with the group to distance themselves from it.[167]
With Bertrand Piccard at the controls, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) flies from Dayton
International Airport in Dayton, Ohio, to Lehigh Valley International Airport in Hanover
Township, Pennsylvania, completing the thirteenth leg of its attempt to become the first solar-
powered aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using a drop of
fossil fuel. The flight covers 649 miles (1,044 km) in 16 hours 49 minutes at an average speed
of 62.17 km/h (38.63 mph), reaching a maximum altitude of 15,000 feet (4,600 meters).[168]
U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Peter V. Neffenger says in
testimony before the United States Congress that a projected 740 million people will pass
through TSA security checkpoints at U.S. airports during the 2016 summer travel season, 97
million more than the 643 million who did in 2013, that the 45,000-strong TSA workforce is not
large enough to prevent excessively long lines at the checkpoints, and that the recent
cancellation of plans to lay off 1,600 TSA employees and hire 768 more will be insufficient to
reduce lines. He reports that he plans to convert part-time TSA employees into full-time ones
and to increase the number of enrollees in trusted traveler programs from 9.5 million to 25
million as ways of reducing airport security waits.[169]

26 May

An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Fallujah, Iraq, kills Maher al-Bilawi, the commander of
Islamic State forces in the city.[170]
An American Airlines vice president, Kerry Philipovitch, and executives from the airport
authorities of Chicago, Illinois, Syracuse, New York, and Tucson, Arizona, testify before the
U.S. Congress asking it to take action to reduce security lines at Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) checkpoints at U.S. airports. Philipovitch says, "We have never seen TSA
wait times that affect airlines and passengers throughout the United States like we’ve seen in
recent months...More needs to be done, and fast. Programs that had been in place to drive
efficiency and increase security throughout were eliminated without adding commensurate
resources required to support longer passenger processing times."[171]

27 May

Korean Air Flight 2708, a Boeing 777-300 (registration HL7534), suffers an engine failure
during its takeoff roll at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan, that results in a fire. The flight crew
aborts the takeoff, and the 319 people aboard evacuate the aircraft. Twelve of them are injured
in the incident.
The U.S.-led coalition has conducted 20 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Fallujah,
Iraq, since 24 May, killing 70 Islamic State personnel.[170]
Russia warns that it will escalate its air campaign in Syria if the United States does not respond
positively to its long-standing proposal to conduct joint airstrikes in Syria with the Russian
Federation Air Force.[172]
A U.S. airstrike kills Abdullahi Haji Da’ud, Al-Shabaab's top commander, as he travels in
southern Somalia.[173]
A Vietnamese man, Minh Quang Pham, is sentenced in New York City to 40 years in prison for
providing material support to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in a 2011 plot to bomb
Heathrow Airport in London.[174]
 A World War II-era P-47 Thunderbolt crashes into the Hudson River off Edgewater, New
Jersey, killing its pilot.[175]
SpaceX successfully lands the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a platform at sea, the fourth
time it has made such a landing. The landing, made aboard a platform in the Atlantic Ocean
422 miles (679 km) off the coast of Florida after launching a communications satellite into orbit,
is particularly challenging because of the distance the rocket travels to deliver its payload and
the large amount of energy required, subjecting the first stage to extreme speeds and re-entry
heating.[176]

29 May

Lufthansa announces that it will suspend service to Venezuela beginning on 18 June, saying
that Venezuela owes it millions of United States dollars in ticket revenues and that Venezuela's
currency controls make it difficult to convert ticket sales revenue to dollars that can be sent
abroad. Lufthansa adds that it hopes to restore service to Venezuela in the near future.[177]

30 May

Intense late-evening strikes by three unidentified aircraft – reported by some observers to be

Russian – against buildings around the National Hospital in Idlib, Syria, kill at least 23 and
perhaps as many as 50 people and injure about 250 others. Over the preceding weekend,
Russian Federation Air Force and Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft had conducted hundreds of
strikes against rebel-held areas in Aleppo, Syria.[172]
LATAM Airlines Group announces that its subsidiary airlines will suspend service to
Venezuela, making it the second airline company to do so. Venezuela's currency controls make
it difficult for airlines to convert ticket sales revenue to United States dollars to cover their costs
of operating in Venezuela. LATAM plans for its subsidiary airlines to cease service between
Caracas, Venezuela, and São Paulo, Brazil, first, with suspension of service between Caracas
and Lima, Peru, and between Caracas and Santiago, Chile, to halt by 31 July.[178]

31 May

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration reports that the major delays expected at its
security checkpoints at U.S. airports over the 2016 Memorial Day weekend did not materialize.
From 26 May through 30 May, wait times in security lines averaged less than 10 minutes in
regular security lines nationwide, with the majority of the 10.3 million passengers having a wait
time of less than 30 minutes. The longest wait was at Kansas City, Missouri, where passengers
waited 75 minutes on 26 May.[179]

June
With international sanctions having largely prevented Iran from purchasing new airliners or
spare parts for its commercial aircraft since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, 88 of Iran's 250
commercial aircraft are grounded due to a lack of spare parts.[180]

1 June

The French Navy survey ship Laplace detects signals in the Mediterranean Sea believed to be
from the flight recorder of EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320-232 which crashed on 19
May.[181]

2 June
 In an extremely unusual coincidence, two U.S. military flight demonstration squadrons suffer
crashes on the same day. A United States Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 Fighting Falcon
crashes in Colorado Springs, Colorado, just after the Thunderbirds perform a flyover for the
2016 graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy; its pilot ejects safely.
Hours later, a United States Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet crashes in Smyrna, Tennessee,
while practicing for an air show, killing its pilot.[182]

3 June

The United Nations Security Council agrees to request formally that the Syrian government
allow airlifts of food and medical supplies to civilians in besieged, rebel-held areas of Syria.
Plans call for United Nations representatives to make the request in Damascus, Syria, on 5
June. The Syrian government has not permitted deliveries of humanitarian aid to besieged
areas despite a 1 June deadline set by an international task force for it to permit full ground
access to the areas.[183]
The U.S. Navy announces that Carrier Air Wing Seven aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S.
Truman (CVN-75) has begun launching airstrikes against Islamic State targets from the
Mediterranean Sea during the day. It is the first time that aircraft from a U.S. aircraft carrier have
struck targets in the Middle East from the Mediterranean since the beginning of the Iraq War in
2003.[184]
A Guardian Air Dassault Falcon 20 air ambulance arrives at Saint Helena Airport to make the
first medical evacuation flight in the history of Saint Helena. It departs the following morning,
taking a critically ill baby and its mother to Cape Town, South Africa.[185]

4 June

Turkish officials sink a 36-year-old Airbus A300 in the Aegean Sea off Kuşadası, Turkey, to
serve as an artificial reef and recreational dive site. The fourth aircraft sunk off the Turkish coast
recently, it reportedly is the largest aircraft ever sunk for use as a reef or dive site.[186]

5 June

During a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to London, England, Malaysian Airlines Flight 1,
an Airbus A380 with 378 people on board, encounters severe turbulence over the Bay of
Bengal. Some passengers and crew suffer minor injuries. The airliner returns safely to Kuala
Lumpur.[187]
United States Secretary of State John Kerry warns the People's Republic of China not to
declare to an air defense identification zone over the South China Sea, saying that to do so
would be a "provocative and destabilizing act."[188]

6 June

Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov announces that Russia will intensify its airstrikes in
the area around Aleppo, Syria, in support of Syrian government forces defending against a
Jabhat al-Nusra offensive there.[189]

7 June

Two Chinese Chengdu J-10 (NATO reporting name "Firebird") fighters intercept a U.S. Air
Force Boeing RC-135 reconnaissance plane in international airspace over the East China Sea
in what the United States Pacific Command describes the next day as an "unsafe" manner. The
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responds that the Chinese pilots did nothing unsafe and
protests what it calls "frequent close reconnaissance on China's coast by U.S. military aircraft."
 In testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs, U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Peter V.
Neffenger says that it is reducing passenger delays at TSA security checkpoints at airports in
the United States by focusing on speeding the processing of passengers at seven major
airports (Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas;
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia; John F. Kennedy
International Airport in New York City; Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles,
California; Miami International Airport in Miami-Dade County, Florida, California; Newark
Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey; and O'Hare International Airport in
Chicago, Illinois). He adds that the success of the program over the 2016 Memorial Day
weekend has spurred TSA to expand it to airports at Boston, Massachusetts; Denver,
Colorado; Detroit, Michigan; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Houston, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada;
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Orlando, Florida; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Phoenix, Arizona; San
Francisco, California; and Seattle, Washington; and at New YorkCity's LaGuardia Airport. He
informs the committee that he expects 768 newly trained TSA agents to join the lines during
June, and, if the United States Congress approves it, will shift 2,784 part-time TSA workers to
full-time work.[190]

8 June

Airstrikes against rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria, kill 15 civilians.[191]

9 June

According to the Al Sumaria television network, an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition on this
date against an Islamic State headquarters in Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq near the
border with Syria wounds the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and several other
Islamic State personnel. The following day, a spokesman for the coalition announces that the
coalition cannot confirm the strike or any injury to al-Baghdadi.[192]

10 June

Over eastern Long Island, New York, Luminati Aerospace's solar-powered VO-Substrata
aircraft makes its first test flight open to the public, flying from an airfield at Calverton, New York,
for about 20 minutes with a pilot at the controls, although it is also configured for unmanned
flight. It is the prototype for a fleet of solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles Luminati
Aerospace hopes to build starting in late 2016 that will fly at altitudes of more than 60,000 feet
(18,000 meters) and provide Internet service to over 4,000,000,000 people worldwide.[193]
United States Department of Defense officials announce that in late May 2016 President
Barack Obama granted U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan expanded powers to assist
Afghan military and security forces in combat against the Taliban. Among them is the authority
to order U.S. airstrikes in support of Afghan offensive operations against the Taliban in limited
circumstances in which the strikes are expected to have "strategic effect." Previously, U.S.
airstrikes in Afghanistan had been authorized only to defend U.S. personnel, protect Afghan
forces facing serious danger, or conduct counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda or the
Islamic State.[194]
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II makes its international airshow debut when two Royal
Netherlands Air Force F-35A aircraft perform during the Luchtmachtdagen 2016 airshow at
Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands.[164]
The United States Department of Transportation grants permission to six U.S. airlines –
American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines, and Sun
Country Airlines – to provide the first scheduled airline service between the United States and
Cuba in over 50 years, joining 46 non-U.S. airlines that already serve Cuba. The airlines are to
provide 155 round-trip flights per week between five U.S. cities (Chicago, Illinois; Fort
 Lauderdale, Florida; Miami, Florida; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
and nine Cuban destinations (Camagüey, Cayo Coco, Cayo Largo del Sur, Cienfuegos,
Holguín, Manzanillo, Matanzas, Santa Clara, and Santiago de Cuba). Flights are expected to
begin in the autumn of 2016 and early in the winter of 2016–2017. A decision on flights by U.S.
airlines to Havana is expected later in the summer of 2016. Although U.S. law still prohibits
tourist travel to Cuba, it permits a dozen other categories of travel, including family visits, official
business, journalist visits, professional meetings and educational and religious activities, and
the United States government has relaxed oversight of travel to the point that U.S. travelers are
allowed to design their own "people-to-people" cultural exchanges in Cuba that in essence
permit leisure travel under the guise of a cultural exchange.[195]

11 June

An estimated 2,000 people gather outside Ramstein Air Base in Germany to protest the base's
alleged role in supporting the U.S. "drone war," the U.S. practice of using unmanned aerial
vehicles to strike terrorist targets.[196]
With André Borschberg at the controls, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) flies from Lehigh
Valley International Airport in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, to John F. Kennedy
International Airport in New York City, completing the 14th leg of its attempt to become the first
solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using any
fossil fuel. The flight covers 164.5 miles (264.7 km) in 4 hours 41 minutes at an average speed
of 56.55 km/h (35.14 mph), reaching a maximum altitude of 3,002 feet (915 meters).[197]

12 June

A man throws a homemade explosive device made out of a beer bottle at the ticketing counter
in the check-in area of Terminal 2 at Shanghai Pudong International Airport at Shanghai,
China; it explodes, injuring four people with flying glass. He then slashes his own throat with a
knife, injuring himself seriously.[198]
An unmanned aerial vehicle operating without permission near Dubai International Airport in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, forces the airport to close for 69 minutes.[199]
Airstrikes ascribed to Russian aircraft hit Syria's rebel-held Idlib Governorate. A series of them
against targets in Idlib, including one that hits a popular market, kills at least 21 people, while a
strike in Maarrat al-Nu'man that collapses an apartment building kills six others.[200]

12–13 June (overnight)

An airstrike on a ground vehicle in Yemen's Shabwa Governorate kills three al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula members in the vehicle. The strike is suspected of having been conducted
by a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle.[201]

13 June

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) charges Amazon.com with shipping a
hazardous material as air cargo, alleging that the company shipped a caustic drain cleaner
without properly declaring, packaging, or labeling it, including emergency response information
with it, or training employees in how to handle it, and that a package of the drain cleaner leaked
at a United Parcel Service facility and came in contact with nine workers. The FAA asks that
Amazon.com be fined $350,000 for the incident. The FAA alleges that Amazon.com violated
hazardous materials regulations on 24 other occasions between February 2013 and
September 2015.[202]

14 June
 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asks pilots in to avoid flying too low over
walrus haul-out sites along the Chukchi Sea coast of northern Alaska because of the danger of
frightening the walruses into stampeding and injuring and killing one another and nearby
humans. Although the FAA says it does not plan to establish formal flight path and altitude
restrictions on flights near walrus haul-out sites, it reminds pilots that harassing walruses is
illegal under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Earlier in 2016, the FAA had
instructed airplane pilots to fly no closer than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to walrus haul-outs and no
lower than an altitude over 2,000 feet (610 meters) and helicopter pilots to fly no closer than
one mile (1.6 km) and no lower than 3,000 feet (0.91 km).[203]

15 June

The Government of Egypt announces that it has found and made images of the wreckage of
Egyptair Flight 804 on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. The Airbus A320-232 had crashed
on 19 May 2016, killing all 66 people on board.[204]
After it successfully launches a satellite into Earth orbit, the first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9
rocket fails to make what would have been the fifth successful landing of a reusable booster
rocket when one of its booster engines fails, causing it to descend far too quickly toward the
floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida on which SpaceX intended it to land. The
rapid descent causes it to make what SpaceX founder Elon Musk deems the "hardest impact"
ever by a Falcon 9 first stage and results in its destruction – what Musk terms its "rapid
unscheduled disassembly." Musk adds that upgrades to correct the problem could be in service
by the end of 2016.[205]

16 June

The cockpit voice recorder from Egyptair Flight 804 is recovered from a depth of about 9,800
feet (3,000 meters) in the Mediterranean Sea.[206]

17 June

Two Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter aircraft scramble to intercept two Chinese fighters
over the East China Sea near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands (called the Diaoyu
Islands in China). In July, the People's Republic of China will criticize the Japanese pilots'
actions during the encounter.[207]
Syrian Arab Air Force strikes on rebel targets in Aleppo, Syria, during the evening kill at least
seven people, with one report placing the death toll at nine. According to Doctors Without
Borders, one of the strikes puts Aleppo's biggest hospital out of service.[208]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights releases images which suggest that the Russian
Federation Air Force used cluster bombs in a raid against U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near Al-
Tanf, Syria, earlier in the week that killed two people and wounded four. The images show what
appears to be the tail section of a Russian RBK-500 cluster bomb.[209]
The flight data recorder from Egyptair Flight 804 is recovered from a depth of about 9,800 feet
(3,000 meters) in the Mediterranean Sea.[210] Later in the day, the Government of Egypt
announces that the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder had suffered
extensive damage prior to their recovery, necessitating repairs that will delay processing of the
information they recorded.[211]
At a conference of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Washington, D.C.,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Administrator Charles Bolden announces
plans for the X-57 Maxwell, a 14-motor, all-electric airplane. The program is intended spur the
development of more energy-efficient and cleaner general aviation aircraft.[212]

18 June
 Touring Fallujah, Iraq, the day after the Government of Iraq declared victory in its operation to
retake Fallujah from the Islamic State, Lieutenant General Abdelwahab al-Saedi, the Iraqi Army
commander of the operation, tells the press that an estimated 300 to 700 Islamic State
personnel had been in the city when the operation began and that most had been killed by
airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.[213]
A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman announces that during a video teleconference the
Department of Defense had "expressed strong concerns" to the Russian Miniistry of Defense
about the Russian Federation Air Force's use of cluster bombs in a raid in Syria earlier in the
week.[209]

19 June

Aircraft supporting a Syrian government ground offensive against Islamic State forces holding
Tabqa air base strike the nearby city of Al-Thawrah, Syria, with cluster munitions, reportedly
killed 10 people.[214]
During a parachute failure test, Blue Origin lands its New Shepard reusable space launch
system in West Texas, the fourth time the same Blue Origin rocket has made a suborbital flight
into space and landed intact. During the unmanned flight, New Shepard's capsule and rocket
separate and controllers deliberately induce a parachute failure to test the capsule's ability to
land safely after the failure of one of its three parachutes. The rocket, using wings and firing of
its engine to make its descent, lands about seven minutes before the capsule, and both
landings are successful.[215]
The Terrafugia Transition roadable airplane receives exemptions from the U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration as a "light sport aircraft." The administrative action puts the United
States on track to legalize a flying car for consumer use for the first time. Provided that their
roadable aircraft overcome various regulatory barriers, manufacturers of such aircraft expect
them to enter the consumer market over the next decade.[216]

20 June

With Bertrand Piccard at the controls, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) departs John F.
Kennedy International Airport in New York City to begin the 15th leg of its attempt to become
the first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using
any fossil fuel. Plans call for the nonstop transatlantic flight to Seville Airport in Seville, Spain,
to cover 3,564 miles (5,736 km) and take at least 90 hours.[217]

21 June

After a 10-hour flight from Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, a Canadian
Kenn Borek Air de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter lands at Amundsen–Scott South Pole
Station at the Geographic South Pole in Antarctica to evacuate two workers there who have
fallen ill. It is only the third flight to the station to take place during the Antarctic winter during the
60 years since the station opened in 1956; generally, no flights to the station occur from
February to October each year. After a layover at the Amundsen-Scott station, the plane makes
a 10-hour return flight to the Rothera station the following day with the patients on board. It is
only the third time that anyone has been evacuated from the South Pole during the Antarctic
winter.[218][219]
The Obama administration releases U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations for
the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or "drones") by hobbyists in the United States.
They require drone pilots to keep their UAVs in sight, to operate them only in daylight, and to fly
them no higher than an altitude of 400 feet (120 meters), and prohibit their operation over
strangers. The regulations also require that hobbyists' UAVs weigh no more than 55 pounds
(25 kg) and prohibit them from flying over the District of Columbia. The FAA reports that 2.5
 million UAVs will be sold to hobbyists in the United States during 2016 and that 7 million will
be sold in 2020. The new regulations require U.S. commercial UAV operators to be vetted by
the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and to pass an aeronautical knowledge
examination administered at an FAA-approved test center, but do not address over-the-horizon
operations by commercial UAVs; the FAA reports that there are 10,602 registered commercial
UAVs in the United States and projects that 600,000 UAVs intended for commercial use will be
sold in the United States during 2016 and that 2.7 million will be sold for commercial use in
2020.[220]
The Boeing Company announces a tentative deal in which Iran Air, which is seeking to
upgrade its aging fleet of pre-1979 Boeing aircraft with new Boeing 737s and Boeing 777s, has
signed an agreement expressing its "intent" to buy airliners from Boeing in the first major U.S.
trade deal with Iran following a 2015 nuclear accord between Iran and the United States. The
deal is expected to face political and regulatory hurdles, but if it proceeds on schedule the first
new Boeing airliners are expected to arrive in Iran in October 2016. Depending on the number
of new aircraft purchased and the number of leased and older aircraft ultimately included in the
transaction, the deal could be worth up to $25,000,000,000.[221]

22 June

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau announces that a piece of aircraft debris found in a pile
of seaweed and wood in the Indian Ocean off Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia
on 9 June is not from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 missing since March 2014
with 239 people on board.[222]

23 June

Airstrikes combine with mortar attacks to kill eight people in Aleppo, Syria.[223]
Flown by Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) lands at Seville Airport in
Seville, Spain, completing the 15th leg of its attempt to become the first solar-powered aircraft
to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using any fossil fuel. The nonstop
transatlantic flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, begun on 20
June, covers 3,890.5 miles (6,261.2 km) in 71 hours 8 minutes at an average speed of
88.0 km/h (54.7 mph), reaching a maximum altitude of 27,999 feet (8,534 meters).[224]
An Air Serbia Airbus A330 lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City after
a nonstop flight from Belgrade, Serbia, inaugurating the airline's first transatlantic route and
Serbia's first nonstop airline service to the United States by a local airline since Jat Airways,
the national airline of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, discontinued the route in
1992.[225]
Aeroméxico announces that it is suspending service to Caracas, Venezuela, due to the
complicated economic situation in Venezuela. It is the third airline to halt service to Venezuela.
Venezuela's currency controls make it difficult for airlines to convert ticket sales revenue to
United States dollars to cover their costs of operating in Venezuela.[226]

24 June

A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman announces that U.S. forces have conducted
airstrikes against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan during the previous week. The strikes
follow a decision by President Barack Obama earlier in June to expand U.S. airstrikes in
Afghanistan to assist Afghan forces in offensive operations against the Taliban.[227][228]

25 June
 Airstrikes reportedly made by Russian planes kill at least 30 people in the Islamic State-held
town of Qourieh in Syria's Deir ez-Zor Governorate. One report puts the death toll a 46.[229]

26 June

A National Army of Colombia Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name "Hip") helicopter crashes in
mountainous terrain in Caldas Department in central Colombia, killing all 17 people on board.
Its wreckage is not found until the following day.

27 June

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sends an apology in writing to Russian president
Vladimir Putin for the Turkish Air Force's downing of a Russian Federation Air Force aircraft
over Syria in November 2015.[230]

28 June

A three-person suicide team armed with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide bombs attacks the
international terminal at Istanbul Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, blowing themselves up in
the terminal's arrival and departure areas and in a nearby parking lot. The attack kills at least
44 people and injures more than 230 others. All flights into and out of the airport are temporarily
suspended after the attack, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounds
all flights to and from Istanbul.[231][232][233][234]

29 June

Iran announces that it has suspended all commercial flights to Istanbul Atatürk Airport.[233]
After a nonstop transatlantic flight from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, three
Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II aircraft arrive at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom,
making the first landing in the United Kingdom by any variant of the F-35. A Royal Air Force F-
35B lands first, followed by two United States Marine Corps F-35Bs that accompanied it on the
flight. Supporting the flight are two United States Air Force KC-10A Extender tankers, a U.S.
Marine Corps KC-130J Super Hercules tanker, and a Royal Air Force C-130J Super Hercules
search-and-rescue plane.[235]

29–30 June (overnight)

U.S. and British planes and Iraqi planes and attack helicopters attack two large convoys of
ground vehicles carrying Islamic State combatant personnel and their families attempting to
flee Fallujah, Iraq. The strikes destroy at least 150 vehicles and kill about 250 people; the Iraqi
armed forces claim that the strikes destroy 798 vehicles including eight car bombs and kill
hundreds of Islamic State combat personnel, with the U.S.-led coalition responsible for 117 of
the vehicles and three of the car bombs and Iraqi aircraft destroying the rest. A spokesman for
the U.S.-led coalition says that coalition aircraft attempted to avoid striking portions of the
convoys it thought included civilians. The U.S. aircraft participating in the attack had been
called away from supporting Syrian rebel forces attempting to capture Bukamal, Syria, from the
Islamic State and, lacking air support, the Syrian rebels are defeated.[236][237]

30 June

United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announces that earlier in the week the
United States offered to share intelligence with Russia to improve Russian targeting of terrorist
groups in Syria if Russia agrees to cease airstrikes against civilians and against rebel groups
that have agreed to a ceasefire and to use its influence with the Government of Syria to force
 the regime of Bashar al-Assad to sign on to the ceasefire. The United States offer does not
include joint military planning, joint targeting, or coordination of Russian airstrikes with U.S.
airstrikes or other U.S. operations in Syria.[238]
U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircraft deploy outside the United States for the first time when
three F-35A aircraft of the 56th Fighter Wing land at RAF Fairford in the United Kingdom after a
nonstop transatlantic flight supported by a U.S. Air Force KC-10A Extender tanker.[235]

July
Tunisair inaugurates its first transatlantic service, operating between Tunis and Montreal.

1 July

A U.S. airstrike in southern Yemen kills two members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula.[239]
A Syrian Arab Air Force fighter aircraft crashes near Jeiroud in a rebel-held part of Syria during
what the Government of Syria claims was a training flight. Rebels capture and interrogate its
pilot, then shoot him to death.[240]
A Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations Ilyushin Il-76 aerial firefighting plane (registration
RA-76840) crashes in the Kachugskiy District near Lake Baikal in Russia while fighting a forest
fire, killing all 10 people on board. Its wreckage will be found on 3 July.
The Obama administration releases a report claiming that between 2009 and the end of 2015
the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States armed forces have carried out a
combined 473 airstrikes using unmanned aerial vehicles (or "drones") against terrorist targets
in countries where it defines the United States as not being at war – not named in the report,
but including Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen – killing between 2,372 and 2,581
"combatants" and inadvertently killing between 64 and 116 civilians. The report excludes
deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, which are countries in which the administration deems
the United States to be at war. Critics of the report claim that it underestimates civilian
casualties; the Long War Journal puts the civilian death toll at 212, the New America
Foundation estimates it at 219, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism claims it is at least
325.[241]

2 July

Israeli aircraft strike four Hamas training sites in the Gaza Strip, damaging buildings but
harming no one. The strike is in response to a rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip
the previous day that damaged an empty kindergarten building without killing or injuring
anyone.[242]
Airstrikes against rebel-held Jeiroud, Syria – suspected of being Syrian government strikes
conducted in retaliation for the killing of a captured Syrian Arab Air Force pilot by rebels in the
area the previous day – kill at least 25 people. One report puts the overall death toll at 31, and
another report claims that seven medical personnel are among those killed in at least 40 air
attacks against the town during the day.[240]

3 July

Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition support an offensive by U.S.-backed Syrian rebel forces
against Islamic State positions near Manbij, Syria, but the Islamic State succeeds in repelling
the rebel attack.[243]

4 July
 China protests the "provocative actions" of two Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighter aircraft on
17 June when they intercepted two Chinese fighters over the East China Sea near the
Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands (called the Diaoyu Islands in China), claiming that the
Chinese fighters were on a routine patrol when the Japanese aircraft locked onto them with fire
control radar and adding that the Chinese planes took "tactical measures" before the Japanese
aircraft left the area.[207][244]
A U.S. airstrike in Yemen's Shabwa Governorate kills two members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula.[239]

5 July

Japan denies that its aircraft engaged in any provocative or dangerous activities while
intercepting two Chinese fighters over the East China Sea on 17 June, adding that its aircraft
scrambled to intercept Chinese military aircraft about 200 times between 1 April and 30 June
2016, up from about 80 times during the same period in 2015.[207][244]

7 July

The United States Department of Transportation announces that it has tentatively awarded
eight U.S. airlines – out of 12 that applied for them – nonstop flights between the United States
and Havana, Cuba, with the awards to be finalized at the end of July and service to begin
during the autumn of 2016. The flights are: Alaska Airlines from Los Angeles, California;
American Airlines from Miami, Florida, and Charlotte, North Carolina; Delta Airlines from
Atlanta, Georgia, Miami, and New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport; Frontier
Airlines from Miami; JetBlue from Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida, and John F. Kennedy
International; Southwest Airlines from Fort Lauderdale and Tampa, Florida; Spirit Airlines from
Fort Lauderdale; and United Airlines from Newark, New Jersey, and Houston, Texas. The
flights will provide the first scheduled commercial air service between the United States and
Havana since the early 1960s. Among rejected routes is a proposed United Airlines service
from Washington, D.C.[245]

8 July

On the last day of a three-day ceasefire declared by the Syrian Arab Army but widely violated,
unidentified jets belonging to either the Syrian Arab Air Force or the Russian Federation Air
Force strike rebel-held Darkush, Syria – a vacation spot for Syrians – during the Eid al-Fitr
holiday weekend, killing at least 23 people.[246]
Islamic State forces shoot down a helicopter near Palmyra, Syria, killing two Russian pilots on
board. Russia claims the helicopter was a Syrian Mil Mi-25 helicopter the Russians were flying
on a training mission when they were diverted to take action against an Islamic State ground
attack, which they thwarted before they were shot down by a U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW missile.
News reports and independent experts, however, claim that the downed helicopter actually was
a Mil Mi-35M attack helicopter belonging to the Russian armed forces and operating on a
combat mission, and that whatever shot it down was very unlikely to have been a BGM-71
TOW.[247]

9 July

A U.S. air-to-ground missile strike by an unmanned aerial vehicle in Afghanistan targeting

members of the Islamic State-Khorasan Province group kills five Islamist militants including
Umar Narai, also known as Khalifa Umar Mansoor, a leader of the Tariq Gidar Group who
masterminded a 2014 attack by the Pakistani Taliban on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, that
killed 148 people and injured 114.[248]
 Supported by airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition, Iraqi ground forces recapture Qayyarah Air
Base in the Qayyarah subdistrict of Mosul District in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, from the
Islamic State. The commander of Iraqi counterterrorism forces credits the coalition airstrikes
with destroying 60 Islamic State car bombs. With a runway capable of handling heavy cargo
planes and room for many helicopters, the newly captured air base promises to allow the
support of further Iraqi advances into Islamic State-held territory.[249]
Using a plane chartered by the World Food Programme, the United Nations begins an airlift of
humanitarian aid to an estimated 275,000 people in Syria's Al-Hasakah Governorate who have
been cut off from food and other supplies for six months. The first flight delivers 40 metric tons
of food, arriving during the evening at Kamishly Airport in Qamishli.[250][251] Plans call for the
plane to make at least 25 flights between Damascus, Syria, and Qamishli over the course of a
month, delivering over 1,000 metric tons of food, medicine, and other relief supplies to
Kamishly Airport.[252]

10 July

Syrian government air raids strike a rebel-held neighborhood in Aleppo and a diesel fuel
market in Turmanin. The Aleppo strike reportedly kills 10 people, while the air raids on
Turmanin set several tanker trucks on fire and kill at least eight and perhaps as many as 14
people.[253]
In a briefing ahead of the opening of the Farnborough International Airshow, the chief executive
officer of Boeing's commercial aircraft unit, Ray Conner, says that his company is seeing strong
interest among airlines in a new mid-range airliner that could seat between 200 and 270
passengers and have a range of between 8,300 and 9,400 km (4,500 and 5,100 nmi), creating
a new, larger market beyond that of the Boeing 757 and Airbus A321neo. The first all-new
Boeing aircraft since the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the new airliner would cost $10,000,000,000
to $15,000,000,000 to develop and be the company's biggest potential product development
over the next 10 years.[254]

11 July

With André Borschberg at the controls, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) departs Seville
Airport in Seville, Spain, to begin the 16th leg of its attempt to become the first solar-powered
aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using any fossil fuel. Plans
call for the two-day nonstop solo flight to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, to pass
over the Mediterranean Sea, Tunisia, Algeria, Malta, Italy, and Greece.[255]
A Portuguese Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft crashes just after takeoff
from Montijo Air Base, Lisbon, Portugal, killing its entire three-man crew.[256]

12 July

Fedor Konyukhov departs Northam, Western Australia, to begin an attempt to circumnavigate

the world solo in a hot-air balloon. He will complete the journey on 23 July.[257]
After nearly 45 years, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation announces it has closed its
investigation of the 24 November 1971 hijacking of Northwest Airlines Flight 305 by a man
identifying himself as "Dan Cooper" – and misidentified by the press as "D. B. Cooper," the
name by which he goes down in history – who parachuted from the airliner with $200,000 he
had demanded and was never seen or heard from again. The "D. B. Cooper" skyjacking is the
only unsolved American aircraft hijacking case.[258]

13 July
 The day after the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled against the People's Republic of China
in Philippines vs. China regarding a territorial dispute with the Philippines in the South China
Sea, two Chinese civilian aircraft fly to Chinese-claimed islands in the South China Sea, one
each landing at Mischief Reef and Subi Reef. Both return to China later in the day.[259]
An airstrike hits a market in rebel-held Ariha, Syria, killing at least nine and perhaps as many
as 12 people. Another airstrike targeting a market in rebel-held Al-Rastan, Syria, kills reportedly
kills 16 people and wounds dozens.[260]
Flown by André Borschberg, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) lands at Cairo International
Airport in Cairo, Egypt, completing the 16th leg of its attempt to become the first solar-powered
aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using any fossil fuel. The
nonstop flight from Seville Airport in Seville, Spain, began on 11 July and passes over the
Mediterranean Sea and portions of southern Europe and North Africa, covering 2,326 miles
(3,743 km) in 48 hours 50 minutes at an average speed of 73.7 km/h (45.8 mph) and reaching a
maximum altitude of 8,534 m (27,999 ft). Solar Impulse 2 passes over the Giza pyramid
complex before landing at Cairo International.[255]
At a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, Russian diplomats propose to the representatives of
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries that all aircraft flying over the
Baltic Sea do so with their transponders on as a way of improving air safety. Although NATO
requires all aircraft flown under its command to fly with their transponders on, the aircraft of
NATO member countries do not always turn them on when flying separately from NATO control,
and Russian aircraft also have flown with them off. The NATO representatives welcome the
proposal and promise to study it.[261]
Citing a need to strike back against those responsible for terrorist attacks in France in January
2015 and November 2015, President of France François Hollande announces that the French
Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will deploy to the Middle East to participate in
operations against the Islamic State.[262]

14 July

A series of airstrikes on rebel-held districts of Aleppo, Syria, reportedly kill 12 people.[263]

The Islamic State reportedly shoots down a Syrian Arab Air Force jet near the military airport at
Deir ez-Zor, Syria, killing its pilot. The Islamic State releases a video purportedly showing the
pilot's body strung up on a pole, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that his
body had been crucified.[263]
United States Secretary of State John Kerry meets in Moscow with President of Russia
Vladimir Putin to discuss a U.S. proposal supported by senior United Nations officials to
"integrate" U.S. and Russian air operations against Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra targets
in Syria and halt Syrian government and Russian air attacks against civilians and moderate
Syrian rebel forces that are parties to a widely violated February 2016 ceasefire agreement.
The proposal calls for Russia to pressure the Syrian government to ground all Syrian military
aircraft and restrict Russian airstrikes to Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra targets, and for U.S.
airstrikes against Jabhat al-Nusra – previously conducted only rarely to avoid direct U.S.
involvement in the Syrian Civil War – to expand alongside strikes against Islamic State targets
in Syria. Under the proposal, Russia and the United States – via a Joint Implementation Group
headquartered in Amman, Jordan – would share intelligence and strike planning for Jabhat al-
Nusra leadership targets, headquarters, training camps, logistical depots, and supply lines,
with other areas off-limits to airstrikes by either country, and a "liaison body" would ensure that
Russia and the United States inform one another at least a day in advance of planned strikes
against agreed-upon targets. The proposal calls for implementation of an agreement by 31
July.[264] The following day, Kerry and Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov announce after
day-long talks that the two countries have reached an agreement that could reduce civilian
casualties and improve targeting of terrorist groups, but they reveal no details to the public.[265]
 Airbus and Boeing experience their lowest airliner sales totals at the Farnborough Air Show in
six years, securing deals for about 400 aircraft worth about $50,000,000,000, only half their
sales at the previous year's show. American, European, and Persian Gulf carriers make almost
no deals, and only carriers in Asia make large orders. No orders materialize for the Boeing 777,
Airbus A330neo, or Bombardier C-Series, and Airbus A380 production rates are greatly
reduced. Industry analysts blame the reduced sales on uncertainty over the future of the global
economy and on the United Kingdom's 23 June 2016 vote to leave the European Union,
popularly known as the "Brexit."[266]

15–16 July (overnight)

A group of military officers in Turkey – mostly from the Turkish Air Force, Turkish Army armored
forces, and police and security organizations – attempts a coup d'état against the government
of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In Ankara, Esenboğa International Airport closes. In
Gölbaşı, just outside Ankara, pro-coup military helicopters attack the police special forces
headquarters, the police air force headquarters, and the headquarters of Türksat, leaving 42
dead and 43 injured. Pro-coup helicopters also attack the parliament building in Ankara; the
Turkish government declares a no-fly zone over the city and a pro-government Turkish Air
Force F-16 Fighting Falcon shoots down a pro-coup helicopter in the area. In Istanbul, pro-
coup military forces move into Istanbul Atatürk Airport, forcing it to close and all flights there to
be cancelled, and Turkish Air Force jets fly low over the city, generating sonic booms. In
Marmaris, two or three helicopters attack a hotel where Erdoğan had been vacationing and
discharge troops who exchange gunfire with police officers, killing two and injuring eight of the
police. At Incirlik Air Base, from which United States Air Force aircraft are operating as part of
the American-led intervention in Syria, authorities close all access and cut power to the base,
but normal operations there are restored within 24 hours. The coup attempt soon is defeated,
and one Turkish military Black Hawk helicopter, escorted by Hellenic Air Force F-16s, makes
an emergency landing at Alexandroupoli Airport in Alexandroupoli, Greece, where Greek
authorities arrests its eight occupants – who request political asylum – for making an illegal
landing; their helicopter is returned to Turkey on 17 July.

17 July

Israel fires two MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles at an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
that flies from Syria into airspace over the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The UAV turns
away and flies back into Syria.[267]
According to Syrian rebels, the Syrian military conducts a rare air raid along the border with
Jordan, striking the village of al-Shajara, Syria, held by Shuhada al-Yarmouk, group thought to
be aligned with al-Qaeda.[267]
Libyan militia forces fighting against the United Nations-backed Government of Libya shoot
down a French helicopter in Libya, killing three French soldiers on board. On 19 July, the
Libyan government will announce that the helicopter had been shot down by an Islamist militia;
on 20 July the Government of France will make its first public admission that French special
forces are operating in Libya, and President of France François Hollande will announce that
the three dead soldiers were carrying out "dangerous intelligence operations" when their
helicopter was shot down.[268]
An experienced pilot is killed after crashing while performing at an airshow in Cold Lake,
Alberta, Canada. He was flying a North American T-28 Trojan.[269]

18 July

Airstrikes against Islamic State-held areas in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition kill 15 people in
Manbij and six people in nearby Tokhar.[270] United States Central Command announces that
 during the day the coalition conducted 18 airstrikes, destroying 13 Islamic State fighting
positions, two car bombs, and seven other Islamic State ground vehicles.[271]
The pilot and copilot of Air Transat Flight 725, an Airbus A310 with about 250 passengers on
board, are arrested at Glasgow Airport for being drunk as they prepare to fly the aircraft from
Glasgow, Scotland, to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The airline suspends them the next
day.[272][273]
After launching a Dragon spacecraft, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket returns to
make a soft landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, landing about
eight minutes after liftoff. It is only the second time a Falcon 9 first stage has made a successful
landing on land, and it is the first such landing since 21 December 2015.[274]
The Obama administration agrees to pay 2.6 million euros to the relatives of Italian aid worker
Giovanni Lo Porto, who was mistakenly killed in a Central Intelligence Agency unmanned
aerial vehicle strike in Pakistan in January 2015. On 16 September 2016, United States
government officials will confirm the settlement publicly.[275]

19 July

The U.S.-led coalition strikes Islamic State-held territory in northern Syria to help counter an
Islamic State ground offensive against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 56 civilians die in the strikes, while
other reports put the death toll as high as 212; for example, the Islamic State claims that U.S.
strikes kill 160 civilians in Tokhar, and the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
claims a strike by French aircraft against Tokhar kills 120 civilians. An SDF spokesman
disputes the claims of civilian deaths, saying that the strikes have killed large numbers of
Islamic State personnel, and that the Islamic State has simply buried them quickly and falsely
claimed that civilian deaths have occurred.[271] The U.S. military announces that U.S. aircraft
have conducted 18 strikes in the Manbij area over the previous 24 hours – out of 450 in the
area since May – and that it is launching an investigation to determine whether the allegations
of civilian casualties are true.[276][277] By late August, United States Central Command will
report that it has concluded that the Tokhar strike – conducted by U.S. Air Force A-10
Thunderbolt II and B-52H Stratofortress aircraft using 500-pound (227-kg) GBU-31 and GBU-54
laser-guided bombs to knock out a mortar position – killed 85 Islamic militants and 10 civilians,
while Syrian activists claim that all or most of the 95 dead were civilians.[278]
Since the U.S.-led coalition's air campaign in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State began in
August 2014, U.S. aircraft have carried out over 10,500 strikes and the rest of the coalition
combined has conducted 3,200.[279]

20 July

A network router fails in Southwest Airlines′ computer system and back-up systems fail to
activate, causing a 12-hour outage that cripples the airline's flight operations throughout the
United States. Normal operations will not resume fully until 24 July, by which time Southwest
will have cancelled about 2,300 of the approximately 19,500 flights scheduled during the
period.[280]

22 July

An Indian Air Force Antonov An-32 with 29 people on board disappears over the Bay of Bengal
during a flight from Tambaram, India, to Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.

23 July
 Fedor Konyukhov lands near Bonnie Rock, Western Australia, setting a new world record for
the fastest around-the-world flight in a hot-air balloon and becoming the second person in
history – after Steve Fossett in 2002 – to pilot a balloon around the world solo. He also sets a
new speed record for an around-the-world balloon flight, completing it in 11 days, breaking the
record Fossett set during his 2002 flight by two days. Departing Northam, Western Australia, on
12 July, he has flown over Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Ocean, South America, the
Cape of Good Hope and the Southern Ocean before landing at Bonnie Rock, covering a
distance of 34,820 km (21,640 mi) and reaching altitudes of 10,000 meters (33,000
feet).[257][281]

23–24 July (overnight)

Syrian government airstrikes hit five medical clinics in Syria's Aleppo Governorate – four in
Aleppo and one in Atarib – and a blood bank in Aleppo. The strikes kill at least five
people.[282][283]

24 July

Flown by Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) departs Cairo International
Airport in Cairo, Egypt, to begin the 17th and final leg of its attempt to become the first solar-
powered aircraft to fly around the world and the first aircraft to do so without using any fossil
fuel. Plans call for a two-day nonstop solo flight to Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi in
the United Arab Emirates, where the journey had begun on 9 March 2015.[284]

25 July

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issues an "endangerment finding" – a scientific

assessment describing a danger to the environment – that determines that emissions from
commercial airplane engines including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide pose health
risks to Americans and contribute to climate change. It is a first step in what could be a years-
long process leading to the regulation of commercial aircraft engine emissions by the United
States government.[285]

26 July

A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle-launched air-to-ground missile strike in Afghanistan's

Nangarhar Province kills the Islamic State leader Hafiz Saeed Khan. The United States
Department of Defense will announce his death on 12 August.[286]
Solar Impulse 2 (registration HB-SIB) becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the
world and the first aircraft to do so without using any fossil fuel. Flown by Bertrand Piccard, it
completes the final leg of its journey, flying nonstop from Cairo International Airport in Cairo,
Egypt, to Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates – where its
round-the-world flight had begun on 9 March 2015 – covering 1,673 miles (2,692 km) in
48 hours 37 minutes at an average speed of 55.4 km/h (34.4 mph) and reaching a maximum
altitude of 27,999 feet (8,534 meters).[287] Flown alternately by Piccard and André Borschberg,
Solar Impulse 2 has made the 42,428 km (26,364 mi) trip in 17 legs over 505 days, spending
558 hours 7 minutes in the air at an average speed of 76.0 km/h (47.2 mph) and reaching a
maximum altitude of 29,114 feet (8,874 meters).

28 July

Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft drop leaflets over Aleppo, Syria, informing residents that the
Government of Syria will allow them to escape the surrounded city via three safe corridors and
 that rebel soldiers wishing to lay down their arms would be granted safe passage through a
fourth corridor.[288]

29 July

According to the International Air Transport Association, commercial air traffic to and from
Venezuela has dropped 30 by percent since the Venezuelan bolívar began a steep decline in
value in 2013 despite a rapid increase in air travel almost everywhere else in the world.
International air carriers have accumulated about $4,000,000,000 in almost worthless bolívars
which the Government of Venezuela prohibits them from converting into hard currency,
prompting various airlines since 2014 – including Aeroméxico, Air Canada, Alitalia, LATAM,
and Lufthansa – to cease service to Venezuela and others to reduce flights or provide service
with smaller planes; only Venezuelan airlines are permitted to pay for fuel with bolívars, all
other carriers being required to pay in United States dollars. Simón Bolívar International Airport
in Caracas, long a major hub for airlines serving South America, has been replaced in that role
by airports such as El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, which now handles
three times as many passengers as Caracas, and Jorge Chávez International Airport in Callao,
Peru, which has enjoyed a 35 percent increase in passengers over the previous two years.
Caracas has become so dangerous that Copa Airlines crews are prohibited from leaving their
hotel rooms when staying there, massive shipments of cocaine originating in Caracas have
been interdicted in the airport's terminal, and gunfights between police and criminals occur
every few months in the airport's parking lots.[289]
A medical transport plane crashes in northern California in the United States. All four people on
board the Piper PA-31 Navajo die.[290]

30 July

A hot-air balloon operated by the company Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides catches fire
and crashes in a field in Maxwell, Texas, killing all 16 people on board. It is the deadliest
ballooning accident in U.S. history and the second-deadliest in world history, exceeded only by
a hot-air balloon crash in Egypt in February 2013 that killed 19 people.[65][66]
Skydiver Luke Aikins becomes the first person in history to jump from an airplane into a net on
the ground without wearing a parachute. Jumping from an altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600
meters), he lands safely after a two-minute freefall in a 100-by-100-foot (30.5-meter-by-30.5-
meter) net at the Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, California.[291]

31 July

In response to a rebel offensive attempting to break the Syrian government's siege of Aleppo,
Syria, that begins during the day, helicopters drop barrel bombs on the city's rebel-held
neighborhood of Bustan al-Basha. Later in the day, jets – presumably of the Russian
Federation Air Force or Syrian Arab Air Force – bomb rebel-held areas in the eastern part of
the city. During the day, people in rebel-held areas of the city burn tires to create plumes of
black smoke in an attempt to interfere with visibility for attacking aircraft.[292]

August
During the month, Delta Air Lines sends a letter of protest to the U.S. General Services
Administration, complaining that GSA's award to JetBlue Airways of the U.S. government
contract routes from New York City to Dubai and from New York City to Milan, Italy, in 2015
violates the 1981 Fly America Act – which requires U.S. federal government employees, their
families, and federal consultants and contractors to travel aboard U.S. carriers when on official
business paid for by the U.S. government – because JetBlue has no aircraft that can fly that far
 and will book its passengers to those destination on its codeshare partner Emirates, a United
Arab Emirates (UAE) airline based in Dubai. Delta joins American Airlines and United Airlines
in arguing that they should be selected for such routes to reduce the disadvantage they face
when competing with Emirates, the UAE's Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, and Qatar's Qatar
Airways, all of which receive substantial subsidies from their governments. The GSA responds
that JetBlue offers cheaper prices that Delta, American, and United and that its selection does
not violate the Fly America Act, regardless of its use of foreign codeshare partners for the
routes.[293]

1 August

The Government of Singapore restructures its Air Accident Investigation Bureau to establish
the Transport Safety Investigation Bureau as an independent government agency responsible
for investigating aviation and marine accidents and incidents in Singapore.
Syrian rebels shoot down a Russian Mil Mi-8 (NATO reporting name "Hip") helicopter in Syria's
Idlib Governorate during fighting around Aleppo, Syria, killing all five people on board. Russia
claims the helicopter was returning to its base after delivering a cargo of humanitarian goods to
Aleppo. It is the deadliest single incident for the Russian military since it began its intervention
in Syria in September 2015. Videos show rebels abusing the bodies of the dead Russian crew
and passengers.[294]
At the request of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA), U.S. manned and unmanned
military aircraft conduct two strikes against Islamic State forces in Sirte, Libya, destroying a T-
72 tank and two other ground vehicles. They are the first strikes requested by the GNA and the
first direct U.S. military intervention in the Libyan Civil War. President Barack Obama approves
the strikes, but United States Africa Command commander General Thomas D. Waldhausen
receives the authority to approve future strikes. The United States Navy amphibious assault
ship USS Wasp (LHD-1) is operating off Libya, carrying United States Marine Corps AV-8B
Harrier aircraft and helicopters.[295][296]

2 August

IndiGo Flights 6E-813 and 6E-136 – each with at least 100 people on board – narrowly avoid a
mid-air collision over Guwahati, India, when Flight 6E-813 goes into a steep dive to avoid
Flight 6E-136, approaching from the opposite direction, 25 seconds before a likely collision.
The emergency maneuver leaves six people on board Flight 6E-813 injured.[297]
Airstrikes attributed to the Syrian Arab Air Force or Russian Federation Air Force kill 11 people
in Atarib, Syria. People in rebel-held portions of Aleppo, Syria, burn tires to create plumes of
dark black smoke in an attempt to interfere with airstrikes.[128]
The United States Air Force announces that its first squadron of F-35A Lightning II aircraft – the
34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah – is combat-ready. The F-35A is the second
variant of the F-35 to be declared ready for combat, following the United States Marine Corps's
F-35B variant. The U.S. Air Force is the largest customer for the F-35, planning to buy 1,763 F-
35A aircraft.[298]

3 August

After air traffic control at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE),
instructs Emirates Flight 521 – a Boeing 777-31H (registration A6-EMW) arriving from
Thiruvananthapuram, India – to abort its landing and conduct a go-around, the airliner instead
crashes on the runway and catches fire. All 300 people on board evacuate the airliner with 14
suffering non-life-threating injuries. A firefighter dies during the rescue operation after the crash,
and the plane is destroyed by the fire and a series of explosions that follow the evacuation of
the passengers and crew; it is the first hull loss and most serious accident in the airline's
history. The airport closes for 5½ hours after the crash, and several incoming flights divert to
 Sharjah International Airport outside Sharjah, UAE, and Al Maktoum International Airport in
Jebel Ali, UAE. Emirates flights experience widespread disruption throughout the airline's
system.

4 August

A Pakistani helicopter manned by seven Pakistani civil engineers flying from Pakistan to
Russia for routine maintenance crash-lands in Afghanistan's Logar Province. The Taliban takes
either six of its occupants or all seven of them hostage, according to various reports. The
Pakistan Army requests U.S. military assistance in recovering the captured Pakistanis,[299]
Amazon.com unveils Prime One, a Boeing 767 which is the first of the company's 40 leased
cargo planes – all Boeing 767s – branded as "Prime Air," a new air cargo service tasked with
delivering goods to Amazon Prime customers. Although Prime Air already is operating 11 of
the Prime Air aircraft, Prime One is the first to operate in Prime Air livery. Its tail number,
N1997A, is selected as an Amazon prime marketing gimmick because 1997 is a prime number.
Prime One makes its first flight in the new livery the following day at the Seafair festival in
Seattle, Washington. Amazon plan to phase the remaining aircraft into service over the next
several years.[300][301]

5 August

ASL Airlines Hungary Flight 7332, a Boeing 737-476SF cargo aircraft, slides off a runway at Il
Caravaggio International Airport in Bergamo, Italy, while landing in bad weather conditions. It
crashes through a perimeter fence and rolls onto a four-lane highway, narrowly avoiding
collisions with cars on the highway and destroying several cars in an adjacent parking lot. Both
people aboard the aircraft are uninjured. The airport is closed for three hours after the crash,
with incoming flights diverted to Milan–Malpensa Airport in Milan, Italy.
Black Lives Matter protesters block a roadway into Heathrow Airport outside London,
temporarily bringing ground traffic into the airport to a halt.[302]
In response to a July 2016 court order to release to the American Civil Liberties Union a May
2013 Presidential Policy Guidance (PPG) document laying out the Obama administration's
guidelines for airstrikes by unmanned aerial vehicles (popularly called "drones"), the United
States government releases a declassified, redacted version of the PPG. It requires "near
certainty" that the terrorist target is at the targeted location, that no civilians be injured or killed
in the strike, that the target poses a "continuing and imminent" threat to Americans, that capture
of the target is not feasible, and that all relevant domestic and international laws are
obeyed.[303]

6 August

The People's Republic of China's People's Liberation Army Air Force announces that it has
conducted combat air patrols over disputed areas in the South China Sea – the Spratly Islands,
Scarborough Shoal, and nearby areas – "to enhance combat capabilities to deal with various
security threats" as well as to protect China's sovereignty and maritime interests. It says the
flights include bombers, fighters, early warning aircraft, and reconnaissance planes, and that at
least some of the aircraft are capable of refueling in mid-air, but it does not say when the flights
occurred. In July 2016, after a 12 July 2016 ruling against its South China Sea territorial claims
by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, it also announced that it had made such flights and that
doing so would become "regular practice."[304]
A series of airstrikes by unidentified aircraft destroy a hospital operated by Doctors Without
Borders in Millis in Syria's Idlib Governorate, killing 13 people and injuring at least six. A United
States Department of Defense spokesman announces that U.S. aircraft have not conducted
any airstrikes near Idlib Governorate.[305]
8 August

Delta Air Lines experiences computer problems that force it to cancel 451 of its nearly 6,000
daily flights, delaying tens of thousands of passengers.[306] Before the airline recovers, it
cancels 2,300 flights over three days.[307] On 2 September, Delta will announce that the
cancellations cost it $100 million in revenue, or two percent of passenger unit revenue, a metric
for unit revenue as it relates to a carrier's flight capacity and distance flown which dropped
9.5% in August.[307]

9 August

The Saudi-led coalition conducts its first airstrikes in Yemen since a much-violated ceasefire in
the Yemeni Civil War began on 11 April 2016. The coalition's aircraft strike a potato processing
factory inside a Yemeni Army maintenance camp in Sana'a, killing at least 14 people working
there. One estimate puts the death toll at 16. At least 10 other people are injured.[308] The
strikes begin a stepped-up effort by the coalition after five months of relative calm in the air
campaign in Yemen.[309]

10 August

According to Syrian activists, Syrian government helicopters drop barrel bombs on rebel-held
areas of Aleppo, Syria, killing at least two people.[310] Khaled Harah, one of the best-known
members of Syrian Civil Defense for his rescue of a baby from a collapsed building in 2014 and
his testimony before the United Nations Security Council about violence in Aleppo, is buried in
the rubble of a building and killed. The following day, activists will claim that some people on
the ground suffered breathing problems after the attack and allege that at least one of the barrel
bombs contained chlorine gas; the Syrian government will deny that it used any chemical
weapons.[310] On 13 August, the Syrian American Medical Society will claim that a bomb
dropped by a jet during the day contained chlorine gas and killed three people.[311]
An Iraqi Air Force helicopter crashes in Iraq's Maysan Governorate southwest of Amarah while
attempting an emergency landing after a technical malfunction, injuring all nine people on
board.[312]

11 August

Airstrikes on Islamic State-held Raqqa, Syria, kill at least 20 civilians and perhaps as many as
24 civilians and six other people whose military or civilian status could not immediately be
determined. According to Syrian activists, Russian Federation Air Force jets are responsible for
the strikes.[310]
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announces that the Turkish Air Force will
resume airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria as part of the U.S.-led coalition and
offers to carry out joint operations against the Islamic State with Russia. Turkey had
discontinued airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria after shooting down a Russian
Federation Air Force aircraft in November 2015 and subsequently experiencing tension in its
relationship with Russia.
JetBlue Flight 429, an Airbus A320 bound from Boston, Massachusetts, to Sacramento,
California, encounters severe turbulence over South Dakota. It diverts to Rapid City, South
Dakota, where 20 passengers and two crew members are hospitalized with injuries.[313]

12 August

Airstrikes against rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo, Syria, kill at least 18 people. The
strikes – suspected of having been conducted by the Syrian Arab Air Force or Russian
 Federation Air Force.[311] – hit the only hospital for women and children in Kafr Hamrah, killing
at least four people and burying at least 10 others who are pulled alive from the rubble; a
market in Urum al-Kubra, killing at least six people; and the village of Hayan, killing at least 10
people. Prayers are cancelled for the day in Idlib because of the intensity of the airstrikes.
Mohammad Hassan Chaudhary, a 20- or 21-year-old (sources differ) schizophrenic man who
allegedly has no flight training, steals a privately owned Piper PA-38 Tomahawk at Markham
Airport in Markham, Ontario, Canada, and crashes it near Landsdowne Place mall in
Peterborough, Ontario. The incident sparks concerns about security at private airports in
Canada, as Chaudhary, wbo dies in the crash, stole the aircraft with relative ease, and the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigate the matter as a "national security
issue."[314][315][316]

13 August

A member of the provincial council of Afghanistan's Helmand Province claims that an ongoing
Taliban offensive to capture Lashkar Gah would have surrounded the city if not for the recent
addition of U.S. airstrikes in support of Afghan forces defending the area.[317]
A Royal Saudi Air Force airstrike in northern Yemen hits a school in Sa'dah, killing 10 children
and injuring 28 others. Local reports state that the children were students taking exams at the
time of the strike, while a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition claims that the strike hit a rebel
training camp and the children were rebel recruits.[309]

14 August

Aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition conduct airstrikes in support of an offensive by Kurdish

peshmerga troops against Islamic State forces in Iraq east of Mosul that captures five villages.
One of the strikes destroys a car bomb.[318]
Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition conduct airstrikes in support an offensive by pro-government
troops in Yemen against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula forces that captures Zinjibar and
Jaʿār. The strikes kill more than 40 Islamic militants and destroy several of their ground
vehicles.[319]
Boko Haram releases a video in which one of the girls the group kidnapped in 2014 from a
school in Chibok, Nigeria, claims that Nigerian Air Force strikes against Boko Haram have
killed some of the girls. The video also shows what purportedly are the bodies of kidnapped
schoolgirls allegedly killed in an air raid.[320]
Reports 45 minutes a part of shots fired in two different terminals at John F. Kennedy
International Airport in Queens, New York, lead to a panic in which thousands of people are
evacuated from the terminals and all air traffic at the airport is grounded. After police find no
signs of any shots having been fired, a senior law enforcement official announces that it
appears that loud cheering, clapping, and banging by people watching television coverage of
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt competing in the 100-meter dash during the 2016 Summer
Olympics had been misinterpreted as the sounds of a fight and gunfire.[321]

15 August

An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition hits a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen's
Hajjah Governorate, killing 19 people injuring 24. It is at least the fourth airstrike by the coalition
against a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen since the Yemeni Civil War began in
March 2015.[322][323]
Six people were killed in a small plane crash in Alabama, United States.[324]

16 August
 Russian Federation Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M (NATO reporting name "Backfire") bombers fly
from a base near Hamadan, Iran, to hit Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham targets in
northern and eastern Syria. It is the first time that Russian aircraft conduct strikes against
targets in Syria from bases in Iran. Russian fighters based in Syria join the bombers over Syria.
The Russians inform U.S. military forces of the bombers' flight over Iraqi and Syrian territory in
advance in accordance with an agreement to deconflict air operations over Syria with the
United States. The bombers previously had made 2,000 km (1,200 mi) flights from bases in
Russia to strike Syrian targets, but the use of Iranian bases reduces the distance to 640 km
(400 mi), allowing them to carry larger payloads and use less fuel and allowing Russia to
intensify its air campaign against rebel forces in Syria.[325] The following day, an Iranian
lawmaker will confirm that Russian aircraft are using Iran's Shahed Nojah Air Basem adding
that Russian fighter aircraft are using the base only to refuel.[326]
Syrian activists report an airstrike against a field hospital in rebel-held Daret Azzeh in Syria's
Aleppo Governorate just after the hospital's staff and patients had evacuated it. Reportedly
scoring a direct hit on the hospital, the strike injures one person.[326]
Air Djibouti relaunches flight operations, using a Boeing 737-400. It is the first time the airline
has flown since 2002.

17 August

Unidentified aircraft conduct airstrikes against rebel-held Idlib, Syria, killing 17 people and
injuring at least 30 others.[326]
Syrian Arab Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer") aircraft conduct the
Syrian government's first airstrikes against forces of the Kurdish People's Protection Units
(YPG) in Syria's Hasakah Governorate near Hasakah, killing several Kurds. The bombs fall
near U.S. and coalition special operations forces working on the ground with the YPG but inflict
no casualties on them. As the strike begins, the U.S. military contacts Russian forces in Syria to
inform them that U.S. aircraft would respond if forces of the U.S.-led coalition were under attack;
the Russians reply that the Syrians are conducting the strike. Coalition forces on the ground are
unable to contact the Syrian jets, and U.S. fighter aircraft scrambled to intercept the Syrians
arrive as the Syrian jets leave the area. The incident prompts the U.S.-led coalition to maintain
increased combat air patrols over the area and to warn the Syrian government not to interfere
with coalition ground forces in the future.[327][328][329]
The Russian Ministry of Defense announces that Russian aircraft have conducted airstrikes
against rebel targets in eastern Syria from bases in Iran for the second straight day, flying from
a base southwest of Tehran.[326]
The Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 hybrid airship makes its first flight, a 30-minute flight at
Cardington Airfield in Bedfordshire, England. Although larger airships existed in the early 20th
century, the 302-foot-long (92-meter-long) Airlander 10 is the world's largest existing
operational aircraft at the time of the flight.[330]

18 August

Doctors Without Borders announces that it is evacuating its staff from six hospitals in northern
Yemen, saying that the Saudi-led coalition's bombing of the area is "indiscriminate" and the
coalition's assurances of protection for health workers are "unreliable." The group explains that
airstrikes have continue to target its hospitals despite its provision of the GPS coordinates of its
hospitals to the coalition and two meetings with high-ranking military officials of the coalition
over the last previous eight months in which the officials promised that aerial bombing of
hospitals would end.[323]

19 August
 Two Syrian Arab Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer") aircraft attempt to
transit the area near Hasakah, Syria, where Syrian aircraft had come close to bombing U.S.
and coalition special operations forces on the ground while attacking Kurdiish forces the
previous day. Fighter aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition intercept them and, according to a U.S.
Department of Defense spokesman, "encouraged" the Syrian aircraft to leave the area "without
further incident."[329]

21 August

After a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip lands in Sderot, Israel, Israeli Air Force aircraft join Israel
Defense Forces tanks in bombarding the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. As the evening
progresses, Israeli aircraft strike at least 30 targets belonging to Hamas, the Islamic Jihad
Movement in Palestine, and other militant groups in the Gaza Strip. The strikes slightly injure
two people.[331]
United States Army Lieutenant General Stephen J. Townsend, the new commander of
Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve – the military command responsible
for the U.S.-led coalition's operations against the Islamic State – announces that U.S. and
allied forces will intensify airstrikes against Islamic State targets in support of planned
offensives by Syrian rebel ground forces against Raqqa, Syria, and by Iraqi government ground
forces against Mosul, Iraq.[332]

22 August

A U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, Afghanistan, announces that Embraer A-29 Super Tucano
light attack aircraft flown by U.S.-trained Afghan pilots have deployed to Kunduz, Afghanistan,
to operate against Taliban forces conducting an offensive to capture the city.[333]
A spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that Iran no longer will
permit Russian aircraft to use bases in Iran, apparently because of Iran's displeasure with the
publicity given the Russian deployment of aircraft to Iran by Russia's public announcement of it.
The spokesman says that the Russian use of Hamadan Airbase outside Hamadan, Iran, was
"temporary, based on a Russian request" and was "finished for now," adding that "Russia has
no base in Iran." Since beginning strikes against rebel targets in Syria on 16 August, Russia
had operated Tupolev Tu-22M (NATO reporting name "Backfire") bombers, Sukhoi Su-34
(NATO reporting name "Fullback") strike aircraft, Sukhoi Su-30SM (NATO reporting name
"Flanker C") fighters, and Sukhoi Su-35S (NATO reporting name "Flanker E") fighters from
Hamadan, launching at least three strikes into Syrian territory.[334]

23 August

The Nigerian Army claims that "the most unprecedented and spectacular air raid" by the
Nigerian Air Force against a village in the Sambisa Forest in northeastern Nigeria's Borno
State on 19 August as members of Boko Haram met for morning prayers mortally wounded the
group's leader, Abubakar Shekau – the fourth time Nigerian forces have claimed to have killed
him – and killed three other top Boko Haram commanders. A separate Nigerian Air Force
announcement claims that the strike killed 300 Boko Haram personnel. Neither of the reports
can be verified, and later in the day Nigerian forces claim merely to have seriously wounded
Shekau in the strike.[335][336][337][338]

24 August

Turkish Army forces enter Syria to assist Free Syrian Army troops in capturing Jarabulus from
the Islamic State. Turkish Air Force and U.S. aircraft conduct airstrikes in support of the
offensive.[339]
 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announce that they have cleared their forces of wrongdoing in
two airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip that killed civilians during the 2014 Israel–Gaza
conflict. They find that a 20 July 2014 airstrike that killed seven members of one family at the
refugee camp in Bureij was justified because the house was in use as a Hamas military
command-and-control center and because the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and
three members of the family who were Hamas members; that a 1 August 2014 airstrike against
a house in Rafah that killed 15 members of one family also was justified because the house
was in use by Hamas as a military command-and-control center; that international law permits
attacks on houses used for military purposes; and that one of the dead family members in the 1
August strike was a senior Hamas commander. The IDF also finds that the deaths of 12
members of a family in Rafah on 21 July 2014 were due to Palestinian mortar fire rather than an
Israeli airstrike.[340]

25 August

A weeklong search in the Federated States of Mirconesia for a couple aboard a missing
sailboat ends when a United States Navy helicopter investigating a report from the previous
evening of a light seen on uninhabited Fayu Atoll discovers a large "SOS" drawn in the sand
and spots the couple waving. The couple is rescued by boat on 26 August.[341]

26 August

Russian news media report that the Russian government has asked the Turkish government for
information on Turkish air operations over Syria. A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of
Defense explains that Russia wishes to use the information "to prevent air incidents because it
will be the first time when Turkish warplanes will intensively bomb targets in Syria and [they]
may meet Russian warplanes in midair."[342]

27 August

Syrian warplanes attack a funeral in Al-Nayrab, Syria, with a barrel bomb, then return to strike
with another barrel bomb after rescue workers arrive. The attacks reportedly kill more than two
dozen people.[343]
The Turkish Air Force conducts airstrikes against Kurdish targets in Al-Amarna, Syria, south of
Jarabulus.[344]
The left engine of Southwest Airlines Flight 3472 (registration N766SW) – a Boeing 737-700
flying from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Orlando, Florida, with 104 people on board – explodes
at an altitude of 30,700 feet (9,400 meters), damaging the engine nacelle and tearing a gash in
the airliner's fuselage. The aircraft makes an emergency landing at Pensacola, Florida, without
injury to anyone on board.[345][346][347]

28 August

Russia lifts its ban on charter flights to Turkey. The ban had been in place since Turkey shot
down a Russian Federation Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer") near the
Turkish border with Syria in November 2015. On 29 August, the executive director of the
Association of Tour Operators of Russia will announce that the first charter flights will take
place on 4–5 September.[348]
Iranian state television airs video of a Russian-supplied mobile S-300 (NATO reporting name
"SA-10 Grumble") surface-to-air missile system deployed around the nuclear site at Fordo, Iran.
It is not clear whether the system is fully operational or that it will remain at the site.[349]
Just after police at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, detain a man in
the terminal carrying a plastic sword and dressed as Zorro, a report of shots fired leads to a
 panic in which police evacuate terminals, people run onto the airfield, and flights to and from
the airport are halted. The loud noises mistaken for shots turn out to be harmless, and the man
dressed as Zorro, who tells police he had come to meet an arriving passenger, is released.[350]
American reality television personality Darrell Ward, a star of the television series Ice Road
Truckers, and his pilot are killed when their Cessna 182 Skylane Skylane (registration N9936T)
crashes on a highway and catches fire while trying to land at an airstrip at Rock Creek,
Montana, at the end of a flight from Missoula, Montana.[351]

29 August

Iranian state television reports that Iran has put into operation the Nazir radar system, which it
claims can detect radar-evading aircraft, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and unmanned
aerial vehicles flying at altitudes of over 3,000 meters (9,800 feet).[349]
The first nationwide regulations governing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (popularly
known as "drones") go into effect in the United States. They apply only to commercial-purpose
UAVs weighing 55 pounds (25 kilograms) or less including payload, and require that the UAVs
fly only during daylight, remain within sight of their operators, not fly directly over people not
involved in their operation, fly no higher than an altitude of 400 feet (120 meters), and fly no
faster than 160 km/h (100 mph); operations outside these parameters require a waiver from the
U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). They also require that UAV pilots pass a written
test of aeronautical knowledge administered by the FAA to receive an FAA certification to
operate UAVs – the FAA has received about 3,000 requests for such certifications – although
UAV pilots are not required to possess a formal license. The regulations do not apply to
privately owned UAVs operated by hobbyists. They also do not address the operation of UAVs
over private property, although the FAA recommends that UAV operators receive the
permission of property owners before operating UAVs over their property and specific
permission to take photographs and videos over their property if the UAVs are to be used for
those purposes.[352]

30 August

The Islamic State announces that its chief spokesman, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, has been
killed in an airstrike. The U.S. Department of Defense reports that it targeted Adnani in a
"precision strike" in Al-Bab, Syria, with an AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missile fired by an
unmanned aerial vehicle but says it cannot confirm his death.[353] On 31 August, Russia will
claim that a strike by a Russian Federation Air Force Sukhoi Su-34 (NATO reporting name
"Fullback") killed as many as 40 Islamic State personnel on 30 August, one of whom was
Adnani, but offers no evidence for its claim.[354]
Joe Sutter, the American engineer known as the "father of the 747" who served as chief
engineer for the design and development of the Boeing 747 in the 1960s, leading a team of
4,500 people including 2,700 engineers, dies at the age of 95.[355]

31 August

An airstrike in Saada, Yemen, by the Saudi-led coalition kills at least 16 civilians.[356]

According to one report, the dead are an imam and 15 members of his extended family.[357]
The first scheduled commercial air service between the United States and Cuba in over 50
years begins with JetBlue Airways Flight 387 – an Airbus A320 – making a flight from Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara, Cuba. It is also the first scheduled commercial passenger
jet flight between the two countries in history, propeller-driven airliners having been in use
when flights ceased in the early 1960s. Among passengers on the first flight are United States
Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and JetBlue Chief Executive Officer Robin
Hayes.[358][359]
 The United States Department of Transportation announces that it has selected Alaska
Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, Spirit
Airlines, and United Airlines to provide scheduled airline service to Havana, Cuba, requiring
them to begin service within 90 days. The airlines are to provide the service from Atlanta,
Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, Florida;
Houston, Texas; Los Angeles, California; New York City; and Newark, New Jersey.[359]
A private Cessna aircraft hired by a woman so that her boyfriend could celebrate his birthday
by seeing New Orleans, Louisiana, from the air and carrying the woman, her boyfriend, and a
pilot, crashes into Lake Pontchartrain after flying into a rainstorm. The crash kills the woman's
boyfriend and the plane's pilot, but her boyfriend pushes her from the plane moments before the
crash, saving her life. A private boat rescues her from the lake and she is taken to a
hospital.[360]
A mid-air collision over a remote area near Russian Mission, Alaska, between a Hageland
Aviation Cessna 208B Grand Caravan carrying three people and a Renfro's Alaskan
Adventures Piper PA-18 Super Cub carrying two people kills everyone aboard both planes.[361]
Mid-air collisions are rare in the United States and usually happen near airports.[362]

September
1 September

Suspected Syrian government airstrikes kill at least 25 civilians in Syria's Hama

Governorate.[363]

2 September

The Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Izzah claims to have shot down a "Russian helicopter" with a
BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile during the day as the helicopter was landing outside Rahbat al-
Khattab northwest of Hama, Syria.[364] According to one report, the helicopter was Russian- or
French-made and operated by the Syrian government, and two people aboard it were killed.

3 September

Iraqi Air Force fighter aircraft drop leaflets to residents of Shirqat and Zuwiyah, Iraq. The leaflets
ask them to support and assist Iraqi forces and their allies advancing into the area during an
offensive against the Islamic State.[365]

4 September

A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle fires an air-to-ground missile at a gathering of al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula members in Yemen's Shabwah Governorate, killing six of them.[366]
Supported by Russian Federation Air Force strikes, Syrian Arab Army forces close off the
"Ramouseh corridor," completing an encirclement of rebel-held portions of Aleppo, Syria, and
cutting them off from reinforcement and supply.[367]

5 September

Since 3 September, U.S. aircraft have conducted about 20 strikes against Islamic State targets
in Iraq, centering on Nineveh Province and Mosul but also in Anbar Province; at least 25 strikes
against Islamic State targets in northern and eastern Syria, at least 20 strikes against Islamic
State targets in Sirte, Libya; and several counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan.[366]
 U.S. forces conduct two airstrikes in Tortoroow, Somalia, in defense of African peacekeeping
forces that had come under attack by Al-Shabaab.[366]

6 September

Visiting Laos, President Barack Obama pledges that the United States will provide $90 million
in additional aid to Laos to help in cleaning up an estimated 80 million unexploded bombs
remaining in that country after the U.S. air campaign there during the Vietnam War. Between
1964 and 1973, the United States conducted 580,000 bombing raids over Laos, dropping an
estimated 270 million cluster bombs, in an effort to cut off supplies passing through Laos to Viet
Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces operating in South Vietnam.[368]
A Syrian government aircraft drops a barrel bomb containing chlorine gas on the rebel-held
Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo. According to Syrian Civil Defense, 120 people are
hospitalized with breathing problems after the attack.[369] The following day, medical workers
claim that they treated 70 people for breathing problems and that two of them had died on 7
September.[370]
A Mexican police helicopter crashes in Mexico's Michoacán state, killing three police officers
and the pilot, during a police operation to capture leaders of criminal groups and drug cartels in
Apatzingán, including the Knights Templar Cartel. An initial report that the helicopter was shot
down by a criminal group later comes into question, prompting an investigation into the cause
of the crash.[371]

7 September

A U.S. airstrike near Raqqa, Syria, kills Islamic State minister of information Wael Adel Salman
al-Fayad, also known as Abu Mohamed Furqan. The United States Department of Defense will
announce the successful strike on 16 September.[372]
A Syrian government airstrike in the rebel-held al-Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, kills
at least 10 civilians.[370]

8 September

Afghan attack helicopters support Afghan ground troops opposing a Taliban ground offensive in
street-to-street fighting in Tarinkot, Afghanistan.[373]
An evening airstrike by unidentified aircraft against a meeting of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham
commanders in the village of Kafr Naha on the western outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, kills
commander Abu Omar Saraqib. The strike also reportedly kills or injures other senior members
of the group, including the commander Abu Muslem al-Shami.[374][375]
A Diamond DA20C with two people on board collides with a Beech F-33A carrying only a pilot
near West Georgia Regional Airport in Carroll County, Georgia, in mid-air killing all three
people on board the planes.[376]

10 September

A series of airstrikes by aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition on a water well in Beit Sadaan,
Yemen, kill at least 30 people and wound at least 17, according to the United Nations, although
Houthi rebels claim that the strikes kill or wound 100 people. Later strikes in the sequence of air
raids on the well reportedly kill first responders attempting to help the wounded from earlier
strikes.[377][378]
In Geneva, Switzerland, United States Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian Minister of
Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov announce a ceasefire agreement between the United States and
Russia intended to lead to a negotiated settlement that will end the Syrian Civil War. The
ceasefire between the Syrian government and opposition groups is to begin at sundown on 12
 September. If the ceasefire holds for seven days, the agreement as outlined by Kerry calls
among other things for the protection of civilians in Syria from airstrikes, for the United States
and Russia to make arrangements to conduct coordinated airstrikes in Syria against Jabhat
Fateh al-Sham and the Islamic State, and for the Syrian Arab Air Force to resume combat
missions only over yet-to-be-selected areas that contain no rebel forces.[379][380]
Syrian Arab Air Force jets strike a busy market in Idlib, Syria, killing at least 36 people, and
various neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria, killing at least another 45 people.[379] Airstrikes from
the day resulted in the deaths of over 100 people, all civilians, and the injuring of also more
than 100.[381]

11 September

As part of an effort to improve crowd control at the annual Hajj pilgrimage and avoid a repeat of
a disastrous stampede that killed hundred of people in September 2015, authorities in Saudi
Arabia deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor pilgrims ascending Mount Arafat, east of
Mecca, at the climax of the 2016 Hajj.[382]

12 September

A ceasefire in the Syrian Civil War under an agreement between Russia and the United States
goes into effect at sundown, but is almost immediately violated during the evening. Among the
violations is a barrel-bomb attack against a neighborhood of Aleppo by Syrian government
helicopters.[383]

14 September

Iraqi Air Force aircraft drop 7 million leaflets over Iraq's Nineveh Governorate – 2 million over
the center of Mosul, 500,000 each over Hamdaniya, al-Ba’aaj, al-Hazar, and Talafar, and
250,000 each over Bashiqa, Hamam Alil, al-Shura, al-Mahaliya, al-Hmidat, Bartila, al-
Namroud, Qahtaniyah, Til Abta, al-Ayaziya, and al-Qirwan. The leaflets inform civilians of a
planned offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State and asks civilians in the governorate
to stop fighting for the Islamic State, avoid Islamic State bases and help the anti-Islamic State
coalition target the bases, and support advancing Iraqi troops and their allies.[365]
Based on the results of a United States Navy investigation into a fatal crash while the Blue
Angels flight demonstration squadron was practicing for an air show on 2 June, the Blue
Angels receive orders to eliminate the split S maneuver from their shows until further notice, put
dive recovery rules with specific airspeed limitations in place, use a greater safety buffer
between aircraft and the ground for the remainder of the air show season, and make positive
radio confirmation with instruments that measure altitude prior to takeoff. The Navy also directs
that after the conclusion of the current air show season a safety team review the Blue Angels'
training, maintenance and culture; review their aerial maneuvers in order to increase safety;
and determine adjustments to future air show schedules to allow more rest for pilots and
support staff.[384]

16 September

The United States Air Force announces the grounding of 15 F-35A Lightning II aircraft – 13
belonging to the U.S. Air Force and two to the Royal Norwegian Air Force – due to "peeling
and crumbling" insulation inside their fuel tanks. The insulation problem also affects another 42
F-35A aircraft still in production.[385]
Bulgaria's national airline Bulgaria Air announces that it will make commercial flights to the
United States for the first time since the 1990s. It plans to begin its new transatlantic service in
March 2017.
17 September

Believing that they are attacking Islamic State forces, aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition – which
the Syrian government claims are two F-16 Fighting Falcons and two A-10 Thunderbolt IIs
flying into Syria from Iraq – mistakenly strike Syrian Arab Army forces in Syria's Deir ez-Zor
Governorate. The strike destroys approximately six ground vehicles according to a United
States Central Command estimate before Russia alerts Central Command that the strike is
targeting Syrian Arab Army forces; the aircraft then cease fire and the United States express
regret over the strike. Russia and Syria claim that the targeted forces were fighting against the
Islamic State and that the strike killed 62 Syrian soldiers and wounded 100. It is the first combat
engagement between the U.S.-led coalition and Syrian forces since the coalition began air
raids in Syria in 2014. Arguing that the strike is a ceasefire violation that may be evidence of
U.S. military support for the Islamic State in the Syrian Civil War, Russia calls an emergency
Saturday-evening meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the incident.[386]

18 September

The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan conducts two airstrikes against a highway in

Afghanistan's Urozgan Province on the outskirts of Tarinkot in support of Afghan forces in
combat against the Taliban. Local officials claim that the strikes mistakenly kill eight Afghan
police officers, with the second strike killing people who were attempting to help those injured
in the first strike; the coalition does not comment on the allegation. The strikes are among
several the coalition carries out during the day, including in Kabul Province.[387]
Warplanes – suspected of being Syrian Arab Air Force or Russian Federation Air Force aircraft
– strike rebel-held neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo, Syria, killing at least one person and
injuring several others. Another suspected Syrian or Russian airstrike in Syria's Daraa
Governorate kills eight people.[388]
Iranian state television announces that Iran is reducing the number of airliners it agreed to
purchase from Airbus in January from 118 to 112.[180]

19 September

The Syrian government declares an end to a week-long nationwide ceasefire in the Syrian
Civil War and the Syrian Arab Air Force conducts at least 35 airstrikes and barrel-bomb attacks
against rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo, Syria. One air raid strikes a ground convoy as it
unloads aid packages at a warehouse operated by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent west of
Aleppo, Syria, hitting the warehouse, destroying at least 18 of the convoy's 31 trucks, and
killing about 20 civilians, including at least 12 humanitarian aid workers, most of them truck
drivers. The United States claims that only Russian Federation Air Force or Syrian Arab Air
Force aircraft could have conducted the strike.[389]
United States Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James announces that the new bomber
under development by Northrop Grumman for the U.S. Air Force's Long-Range Strike Bomber
program will be named the B-21 Raider. The B-21 is expected to reach initial operational
capability in the mid-2020s.[390]

20 September

Bulgaria Air confirms the lease of 14 new Boeing 737 aircraft, which will replace the Airbus
A320s currently operated by the airline. The deal is valued at more than $8,000,000,000.
A military helicopter belonging to the Libyan National Army crashes near Tobruk, killing all
eight people on board, including the Libyan armed forces' commander-in-chief, Idris
Younis.[391]

21 September
 After the Russian Ministry of Defense claims that a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle was in the
vicinity of the 19 September airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy and warehouse outside
Aleppo, Syria, and implies that it could have conducted the attack, the U.S. Department of
Defense responds that no manned or unmanned aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition were in the
area at the time.[392] At the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry
accuses Moscow of inventing its "own facts"[392] to explain the air attack, which the United
States had blamed on the Russian Federation Air Force, adding that "We don’t get anywhere
by ignoring facts and denying common sense;"[392] he calls for Russia and Syria to
"immediately ground all aircraft" flying in areas of northwest Syria where the convoy was
hit.[392]
The United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control grants Airbus
and Boeing licenses to sell airliners to Iran. Airbus's license covers the first 17 A320s and
A330s that Iran agreed to purchase in a January; although based aboard, the company
required U.S. Government permission because at least 10 percent of the airliners' components
are manufactured in the United States. Boeing's license allows it to sell 80 airliners and lease
another 29 new Boeing 737s to Iran.[180]

22 September

Throughout the day, suspected Syrian Arab Air Force and Russian Federation Air Force aircraft
strike targets in rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria; twenty-one people die in evening air raids on
two Aleppo neighborhoods, and scores have died in airstrikes in the city since 19
September.[393] At the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry repeats his
21 September call for Syria and Russia to ground their aircraft in northeastern Syria, saying that
"the only way" for the Syrian ceasefire to succeed is "if the ones who have the air power in this
part of the conflict simply stop using it... . Absent a major gesture like this, we don’t believe
there is a point in making more promises, issuing more plans."[393] The U.S. Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, tells the United
States Senate Committee on Armed Services that "I would not agree that coalition aircraft
ought to be grounded...I do agree that Syrian regime aircraft and Russian aircraft should be
grounded...There's no reason to ground our aircraft...We’re not barrel-bombing civilians; we’re
not causing collateral damage."[393]
The World Trade Organization (WTO) rules that the European Union, France, Germany, Spain,
and the United Kingdom have failed to halt illegal subsidies to Airbus that the WTO had
ordered them to stop in 2011 despite reporting in late 2011 that they had done so. The WTO
adds that the subsidies – which total $22,000,000,000 over ten years – have cost the economy
of the United States tens of billions of dollars and cost Boeing nearly 400 potential airliner
sales in 2012 and 2013 alone. The ruling is a sweeping victory for the United States and its
aerospace industry, which has disputed European aircraft subsidies for 40 years and first filed
a complaint with the WTO about Airbus subsidies in 2004.[394]

23 September

After the Syrian government announces an offensive against rebel forces in and around
Aleppo, Syria, the previous evening, Syrian government aircraft pound rebel-held areas of
Aleppo during the day, conducting more than 70 strikes and dropping at least 100 bombs.
Observers describe the strikes during the day as the most intense of the Syrian Civil War.
Targets include at least three of the four Syrian Civil Defense in the eastern part of the city;
damaging fire trucks and ambulances; two of the centers are knocked out. More than 70 strikes
have hit the Aleppo area since 21 September; since the collapse of the ceasefire in Syria on 19
September, airstrikes have killed scores of people, including at least 30 in Aleppo.[395][396]

24 September
 Syrian and Russian airstrikes against rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo, Syria, continue
to escalate, reaching levels unseen previously in the five-year Syrian Civil War, with reports
indicating at least 92 people killed since dawn.[397] Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon suggests that the reported systematic use of incendiary weapons and "bunker
buster" bombs may be a war crime.[397]

25 September

Intense Russian and Syrian airstrikes in and around rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria, kill at
least 85 people, with observers claiming that attacking aircraft are employing white phosphorus
munitions, cluster munitions, and incendiary and "bunker buster" bombs. Since 19 September,
the strikes have destroyed so many ambulances that humanitarian aid workers and first
responders have great difficulty responding to reports of casualties. At the U.N. Security
Council, United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power accuses Russia of
"barbarism" and claims the strikes are a war crime, while the Permanent Representative of
Russia to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, responds that the collapse of the ceasefire is due
to transgressions by U.S.-backed rebel forces.[398]

26 September

In the first week since the collapse of the ceasefire in the Syrian Civil War, Syrian and Russian
aircraft have dropped at least 1,700 bombs on the rebel-held eastern portion of Aleppo,
Syria.[399]
The Russian government announces that it has radio location data implicating the Ukrainian
armed forces in the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in July
2014 and has ruled out the possibility that a surface-to-air missile fired from territory held by
pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine shot the airliner down.[400]

27 September

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration demonstrates its Next Generation Data
Communications (also called "Nexcom" or "Data Comm") system – a component of its Next
Generation Air Transportation System – to the media at Washington Dulles International Airport
in Virginia. The system, already installed at air traffic control towers at 45 airports in the United
States, is intended to replace the existing archaic U.S. system of communications between
airline pilots and control towers – which requires printing out flight plans in towers, discussion
by radio between towers and pilots, and pilots writing down flight plans by hand in the cockpit –
with all-digital communications, allowing improved speed and efficiency. The FAA plans to
install the system at 50 more U.S. airports before the end of 2016, and then to install it at en
route air traffic control centers across the United States, with a goal of achieving voiceless, in-
flight communications between air traffic controllers and airliner pilots throughout the country by
mid-2019. The FAA estimates that the new system will save air carriers $10,000,000,000 over
the next 30 years.[401][402]

28 September

An Afghan official announces that an early-morning airstrike against a residential building in

the Achin District in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province has killed 13 civilians. U.S.
military forces in Afghanistan acknowledge that they carried out a "counterterrorism airstrike" in
Achin and aare investigating whether any civilian casualties resulted from it.[403]
The United States conducts a predawn airstrike in northern Somalia in defense of troops from
Somalia's Puntland region who report that they have come under fire from al-Shabaab forces.
Post-strike photographs show two burned-out armored vehicles and a number of badly burned
bodies at the scene of the strike. A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman claims that the
 strike killed nine al-Shabaab members and a Puntland police officer says it killed more than a
dozen al-Shabaab personnel, while officials of Somalia's Galmudug autonomous region claim
that Puntland had tricked the United States into attacking Galmudug soldiers and that the strike
had killed 22 of them. The U.S. Department of Defense announces that it will investigate
whether the strike killed anyone other than al-Shabaab personnel.[404][405]
During the predawn hours, airstrikes hit two hospitals and a bakery in eastern Aleppo, Syria.
Both hospitals are put out of action, and two patients are killed.[399]
The United States Department of State announces that the United States is making
preparations to suspend all bilateral cooperation with Russia over Syria – including the sharing
of information between the United States and Russia to support airstrikes against terrorist
targets in Syria via a "Joint Implementation Center" – unless Russia takes steps to end the
ongoing Syrian and Russian ground and air assault against rebel-held eastern Aleppo and
moves to restore the ceasefire agreed to on 12 September. The announcement states that in a
telephone conversation earlier in the day with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey
Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry "made clear that the United States and its partners
hold Russia responsible for the situation, including the use of incendiary and 'bunker buster'
bombs in an urban environment, a drastic escalation that puts civilians at great risk" and
"informed [Lavrov] that the United States is making preparations to suspend U.S.-Russia
bilateral engagement on Syria – including on the establishment of a Joint Implementation
Center to coordinate [air]strikes on terrorist targets – unless Russia takes immediate steps to
end the assault on Aleppo and restore the cessation of hostilities."[406]
A Dutch team investigating the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine in July 2014
announces that it has concluded that the airliner was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired
by a Russian-made Buk missile system (NATO reporting name "Gadfly," U.S. Department of
Defense designation SA-11) smuggled from Russia into an area of eastern Ukraine held by
pro-Russian separatists a few hours before it fired at the airliner and returned to Russian
territory the following day. The Dutch team says that it has identified over 100 people linked to
the firing of the missile and that it will continue its investigation – extended into at least 2018 –
–in order to determine who ordered it fired. The U.S. Department of State notes that the Dutch
team's findings match those of American investigators, while the Russian ministries of defense
and foreign affairs dismiss some of the Dutch team's evidence and declare its investigation
biased and Russian separatists in Ukraine claim they have no access to sophisticated surface-
to-air missiles and blame the airliner's destruction on the Ukrainian armed forces.[400]
"Unauthorized...activity" by an unmanned aerial vehicle near Dubai International Airport in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), forces the airport to halt all arrivals and departures.
Arrivals resume after about 35 minutes and full operations after about 67 minutes. The incident
prompts UAE officials to announce plans to tighten the country's regulations regarding drone
operations. A similar incident had caused the airport to close on 12 June.[199]

29 September

United Nations officials condemn the 28 September U.S. counterterrorism airstrike in

Afghanistan's Achin District, saying it killed 15 civilians and wounded 12 others; they demand a
complete investigation of the incident. Although the United States and the Afghan government
claim that the strike targeted a residential compound used by Islamic State personnel, local
Afghan officials claim that it killed and injured only civilians. U.S. military officials respond that
they take "all allegations of civilian casualties very seriously" but add that the Islamic State
continues "to put innocent lives at risk by deliberately surrounding themselves with civilians
and dressing in female attire."[407]
The Government of Somalia accuses the United States Government of killing 13 Somali
soldiers in its 28 September airstrike against al-Shabaab forces and demands an explanation
from the United States.[405]
 Russia responds to U.S. criticism of its air campaign in eastern Aleppo, Syria, by saying that
the airstrikes are justified because the United States violated the ceasefire agreement of 12
September by failing to fulfill its promise to separate al-Qaeda- and Islamic State-linked forces
from other rebel forces and because the ceasefire agreement had become unacceptable
because it a;;owed "terrorist groups to take necessary measures to replenish supplies [and]
regroup forces."[408]

30 September

Russian and Syrian aircraft conduct heavy airstrikes against rebel-held residential areas in
eastern Aleppo, Syria, including the use of white phosphorus and cluster munitions; two more
hospitals are among the targets hit during the day. The World Health Organization estimates
that Russian and Syrian airstrikes have killed 338 people in Aleppo since 19 September. The
Syrian Network for Human Rights estimates that Russian airstrikes have killed 3,624 civilians
since they began on 30 September 2015, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
estimates that they have killed 3,804 civilians. A Russian government spokesman says that
Russia has no intention of reducing its involvement in the Syrian Civil War and has no
projected end date for its intervention.[409]
Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders summons the Russian ambassador to the
Netherlands to a meeting in The Hague to complain about Russian Government statements
criticizing the Dutch team investigating the July 2014 crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in
Ukraine. Koenders describes the Russian criticism as "unsubstantiated" and "unacceptable,"
adding, "Given the convincing nature of the evidence, Russia should respect the results that
have been presented, rather than impugning the investigation and sowing doubt."[410]

October
1 October

Iran's Tasnim News Agency and Press TV report that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
has built a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with lethal attack capabilities. Named
"Saegheh" ("Thunderbolt"), the new UAV reportedly is similar to a U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency RQ-170 Sentinel UAV that crashed in Iran in December 2011.[411]
Iraqi troops shoot down an Islamic State unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) measuring about one
foot (0.30 meters) long and one foot (0.30 meters) wide in Iraq and discover that it has an
explosive attached to its top.[412]
Syrian Arab Air Force or Russian Federation Air Force aircraft bomb a major hospital known as
"M10" in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria, for the second time in a week, killing or wounding
more than a dozen patients. Doctors at M10 report that the attack includes barrel bombs,
incendiary bombs, and cluster munitions. Syrian government and Russian aircraft have
dropped nearly 2,000 bombs on eastern Aleppo in less than two weeks.[413]
Belavia retires its last two Tupolev Tu-154s from scheduled service, one of the last airlines to
retire the Tu-154.

2 October

After Kurdish forces shoot down an Islamic State unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in northern
Iraq, take it back to their outpost to examine it, and begin to take it apart, a bomb in the UAV
disguised as a battery explodes, killing two Kurdish soldiers and injuring two French
paratroopers. It is the first time the Islamic State succeeds in using a UAV to kill people.[412][414]
Bulgaria's Civil Aviation Administration says that it is interested in beginning passenger service
at the airports in Stara Zagora, Gorna Oryahovitsa, and Ruse, Bulgaria, in 2017, with a final
 decision on the service to be made in the coming months.
Bulgaria Air announces that it will add 10 ATR 72-500 airliners to its fleet to provide service on
domestic routes, replacing the airline's ATR 42s. The airline is to take delivery of its first ATR
72–500 in early 2017.[415]
Argentina's national airline Aerolineas Argentinas announces that it has converted its existing
order for Boeing 737-800 airliners to an order for the Boeing 737 MAX variant.[416]
In six flights flown by four C-17 Globemaster III and two C-130 Hercules aircraft provided by
United States Transportation Command, the United States Navy evacuates about 700 spouses
and children and a number of family pets from Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to Naval
Air Station Pensacola, Florida, as Hurricane Matthew approaches Guantánamo Bay. It is the
first major airlift of non-essential residents from the Guantanamo Bay base since September
1994.[417][418]

3 October

In support of Afghan Army and security forces fighting against Taliban ground offensives in
Afghanistan, Afghan Air Force aircraft conduct airstrikes around Kunduz, while in Lashkargah,
U.S. aircraft strike Taliban forces and United States Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters
operate in support of Afghan ground forces fighting to retake the city from Taliban
insurgents.[419]
The United States Department of State announces that it is withdrawing U.S. personnel from
Geneva, Switzerland, who had spent several weeks there planning the coordination of U.S.
and Russian airstrikes against terrorist forces in Syria. The withdrawal comes as the United
States abandons its efforts to work with Russia in Syria because of heavy civilian casualties
resulting from intense Russian Federation Air Force and Syrian Arab Air Force airstrikes
against rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria.[420]
Since the spring of 2015, U.S. aircraft have flown more than 1,000 aerial refueling sorties in
support of Royal Saudi Air Force aircraft engaged in combat in the Yemeni Civil War, providing
them with tens of millions of pounds of fuel.[421]

4 October

U.S. military officials in Kabul, Afghanistan, announce that one U.S. Army helicopter has fired
at Taliban insurgent forces in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in defense of Afghan ground forces
opposing a Taliban offensive there.[422]
Russia announces that it has added operational S-300 (U.S. DoD designation "SA-10," NATO
reporting name "Grumble") surface-to-air missile systems to its air defense forces in Syria,
where they join Russian S-200 (U.S. DoD designation "SA-5," NATO reporting name
"Gammon"), and Buk (U.S. DoD designation "SA-17," NATO reporting name "Grizzly") already
there.[423][424] The S-300 and S-400 missiles give Russian forces the capability to shoot down
aircraft at a range of up to 250 miles (400 km), covering almost all of Syria, all of Cyprus, and
significant portions of Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and the eastern Mediterranean Sea.[425]

6 October

Russia warns that it will view any airstrikes in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition against pro-
Syrian-government forces as a threat to Russian military personnel and that its surface-to-air
missile systems deployed in Syria would fire immediately at any aircraft appearing to pose a
threat to them.[424]
Finland notes what it suspects are two separate violations of its airspace by Russian Sukhoi
Su-27 (NATO reporting name "Flanker") fighters over the Gulf of Finland.[426]
 At a meeting in Montreal, Ontario, Canada, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
overwhelmingly ratifies a 15-year agreement to curb global-warming-related emissions from
civil airliners on international flights (domestic flights already are covered separately by the
Paris Agreement of December 2015, set to take effect in November 2016) by an estimated
2,500,000,000 tons between 2021 and 2035; it is the first international climate-change-related
pact to govern a single industry. Under the agreement, the maximum permissible emissions
level permitted for commercial airlines beginning in 2021 will be set at the level of emissions in
2020; after that, and through 2035, airlines that exceed the 2020 limit will have to buy carbon
credits from other industries to compensate for exceeding the emissions limit. Participation is
voluntary from 2021 through 2027, then mandatory from 2028 through 2035. The agreement is
expected to cost airlines $5,300,000,000 annually and as much as $23,900,000,000 in 2035.
Each of the ICAO's 191 member countries still must act on their own to put the agreement's
limits into effect; 65 countries – including China, the United States, and all 44 member
countries of the European Union's aviation conference – have agreed to participate, while
Russia plans not to participate in the voluntary phase and India has expressed reservations
about the agreement.[427]

7 October

The Government of Finland announces its suspicions that Russian Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO
reporting name "Flanker") fighters violated Finnish airspace over the Gulf of Finland the
previous day. Russia responds by denouncing the Finnish claim, asserting that its aircraft
remained over international waters.[426]
Estonia announces that a Russian Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO reporting name "Flanker") fighter
violated its airspace for less than a minute earlier in the day.[426]
Russia ratifies a treaty with Syria which among other things grants it a permanent airbase in
Syria at Khmeimim, effective retroactively to 26 August 2015, the date it was signed.[428]
The Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that a Russian military official said that Russian
forces in Syria are under orders to "shoot to kill" if they come under attack, presumably by
aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition.[428] It also reports that Russia is considering deploying Sukhoi
Su-25 (NATO reporting name "Frogfoot") aircraft to Syria. Russia had withdrawn all Su-25s
from Syria in March.[428]
United States Secretary of State John F. Kerry calls for Russia and Syria to face war crimes
charges for bombing civilian targets in Aleppo, Syria. Russian officials condemn the idea.[429]
Qatar Airways announces that it has made a deal with Boeing worth up to $18,600,000,000 to
buy up to 100 airliners. The deal includes purchasing 10 Boeing 777s and 30 Boeing 787s for
a combined $11,700,000,000 and up to 60 Boeing 737s for as much as $6,900,000,000. The
purchase of Boeing 737s marks the first Qatar Airways purchase of single-aisle airliners from
Boeing since 2001. Qatar Airways had expressed frustration with Airbus over delays in the
delivery of A320neo airliners it had ordered, but says it will continue to work with Airbus for
delivery of the A320neos despite its Boeing 737 order.
Belarus′ national airline Belavia officially retires its last Tupolev Tu-154M (NATO reporting
name "Careless") airliner.[430]
Bulgaria Air outlines Sofia Airport as its first international long-haul base, with flights to begin in
March 2017 using a pair of Airbus A330-200s offering service to Beijing, China; Bangkok,
Thailand; and New York City in the United States. Bulgaria Air also is contemplating service
from Sofia to Mumbai, India, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Airbus officials indicate that three unwanted SriLankan Airlines Airbus A350-900s may be
delivered instead to Bulgaria Air.
Turkey's regional carrier Borajet signs a long-term lease agreement with AerCap involving five
Embraer E-Jet E2s, consisting of three E190 E2s and two E195-E2s.[431]
8 October

The Saudi-led coalition conducts at least three airstrikes against the Grand Hall in Sana'a,
Yemen, as mourners gather for the funeral of the father of a senior Houthi official, killing 140
people and injuring 534 others. It is one of deadliest single attacks since the Saudi coalition
began its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War in March 2015. The Al-Arabiya satellite news
network airs a report saying that various Saudi military officials deny that the coalition
conducted the strike; Saudi Arabia often has denied involvement in airstrikes against civilian
targets during its intervention in Yemen.[432][433]
Russia vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution intended to bring the Russian and
Syran bombing of the rebel-held eastern portion of Aleppo, Syria, to an immediate end.[434]

9 October

An Afghan Army Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name "Hip") helicopter crashes in Baghlan
Province in northern Afghanistan, killing all eight Afghan Army soldiers on board. The Taliban
claims to have shot it down, but the Afghan Ministry of Defense says the crash resulted from a
technical failure.[435][436]
Saudi Arabia promises an investigation into the Saudi-led coalition's deadly 8 October airstrike
against a funeral in Yemen, adding that it will invite U.S. experts to take part.[433]
The United Nations estimates that airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition are responsible for 60
percent of the estimated 3,800 civilian deaths in Yemen since the airstrikes began in March
2015.[433]

10 October

Airbus announces that its Chief Operating Officer for Customers John Leahy will visit Bulgaria
in November, the first visit to southeastern Europe by an Airbus executive.
Air Madagascar announces the resumption services to China in 2017 with flights between
Antananarivo, Madagascar, and Guangzhou, China.[437]

11 October

Airstrikes targeting the rebel-held Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, kill at least 14
people, with one report placing the number of dead at 16. Activists report the use of "bunker
buster" bombs during the strikes.[438]
A Piper PA-34 Seneca carrying a student pilot and his flight instructor crashes into a utility pole
in East Hartford, Connecticut, and bursts into flames, killing the student and injuring the
instructor, who tells investigators that the crash occurred after a physical altercation in the
cockpit between the two men. The following day, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
announces that it believes that the crash was intentional and that it is transferring the crash
investigation to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.[439][440]

12 October

China Southern Airlines finalizes an order with Boeing for twelve Boeing 787-9 airliners,
becoming China's first Boeing 787 customer. The deal is worth up to $3,200,000,000, and
China Southern is to take delivery of the airliners between 2018 and 2020.[441][442]
The U.S. startup company Zipline uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to deliver blood to a
remote hospital in western Rwanda. Plans call for Rwanda to officially launch the world's first
nationwide UAV delivery service on 14 October, with Zipline's UAVs operating 24 hours a day
to make up to 150 deliveries a day. The 31-pound (14-kg) fixed-wing UAVs, which have an
operational range of 150 km (93 mi), fly below 500 feet (150 meters) to avoid commercial
 aircraft and drop packages to customers using disposable parachutes. Zipline plans to expand
its operations into eastern Rwanda in 2017.[443][444][445][446][447][448]

13 October

Airbus president Fabrice Brégier holds talks with Bulgarian Finance Minister Vladislav
Goranov wants that the national airline Bulgaria Air agrees to possibility order for two next
generation wide body airliners believed to be A350-900 worth up to $3,000,000,000. It is the
first time that Brégier and Goranov should visit in Sofia, to begin in November. A cooperation
deal is signed between Airbus and Bulgaria whereas the company's subsidiary head office is
located in Sofia, with its renewal program of this new models.
Former Premier of Alberta Jim Prentice is killed in the crash of a Cessna Citation family shortly
after take-off from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The other three people on the plane
also die.[449]

14 October

Malaysia's Minister of Defense, Hishammuddin Hussein, announces that Malaysia will send
fixed-wing combat aircraft and helicopters to the Philippines for the first time since March 2013.
The aircraft will support nearly 100 Malaysian troops in operations on Mindanao against the
Islamic State-affiliated Abu Sayyaf, Khalifa Islamiyah Mindanao, and Maute factions. The
deployment awaits the completion of final negotiations.
During the preceding two weeks, aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition have conducted 66 strikes
against Islamic State targets around Mosul, Iraq, in preparation for a ground offensive by Iraqi
Army and allied forces intended to recapture the city.[450]

15 October

The Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT), an investigative
body created by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, issues a statement that the coalition wrongly
bombed a funeral on 8 October in Sana'a, Yemen, killing more than 100 people. The JIAT finds
that the strike occurred because someone affiliated with the chief of staff of President of Yemen
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi had incorrectly assured the coalition that the funeral was a gathering
of armed Houthi rebel leaders and that the coalition's air operations center ordered the attack
without the approval of the coalition command and without following precautionary procedures
designed to avoid strikes against civilians.[451]
The Turkish Air Force conducts strikes against Islamic State targets in support of a ground
offensive by Syrian opposition groups intended take Dabiq, Syria, from the Islamic State.[452]
Syrian Arab Air Force and Russian Federation Air Force raids hit rebel-held neighborhoods in
eastern Aleppo, Syria, and an air attack probably by either Russian or Syrian aircraft in
Termanin, Syria, kills at least eight people and injures dozens of others.[452]
A United States Department of Transportation ban announced the previous day on Galaxy Note
7 smartphones aboard any airliner flying within, to, or from the United States goes into effect
throughout the country at 12:00 noon Eastern Daylight Time. Samsung Electronics already had
recalled the Galaxy Note 7 because of reports of it catching fire or exploding.[453]

16 October

Airstrikes by the Turkish Air Force and international coalition strike Islamic State targets in
Dabiq and Arshak, Syria, as Turkish-backed Syrian opposition ground forces capture Dabiq
from the Islamic State.[454]

17 October
 Aircraft and artillery of the U.S.-led coalition strike Islamic State targets around Mosul as a
ground offensive to take Mosul, Iraq, from the Islamic State by Iraqi Army and police forces and
Kurdish pesh merga forces begins.[455]
Syrian government and Russian airstrikes in eastern Aleppo, Syria, kill at least 36 people.[456]
The Russian government announces that Russia and the Syrian government will observe a
unilateral cease fire from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on 20 October for a "humanitarian pause" to
allow people to evacuate to Idlib Governorate from rebel-held areas in Aleppo.[456]

19 October

United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announces new rules to protect airline
passengers in the United States. They include an eventual requirement for airlines to refund
baggage fees when baggage is "substantially" delayed, rather than only when it is lost; a
requirement likely to go into effect in January 2018 for airlines to report the number of
mishandled bags as a proportion of checked bags rather than in relation to the number of
passengers carried; a requirement likely to go into effect by the end of 2016 for online airline
booking services to disclose any bias they have toward booking on particular airlines; an
eventual requirement for airlines to include regional airlines that operate as part of their
networks when reporting their on-time performance; and, for the first time, a requirement likely
to go into effect in 2018 for airlines to report the number of wheelchairs they mishandle. Foxx
notes that the U.S. Department of Transportation expects 700 million passengers to travel on 9
million airline flights in the United States during 2016.[457]

19–20 October (overnight)

Turkish Air Force jets carry out 26 strikes against positions of the Kurdish People's Protection
Units (YPG) in three villages – al-Hasiya, Um al-Qura, and Maarat Umm Hawsh – northeast of
Aleppo, Syria, that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces had recently captured from the
Islamic State. Turkey claims that the strikes destroy nine buildings, an armored vehicle, and
four other ground vehicles belonging to the YPG. Reports of the number of casualties vary from
14 plus dozens wounded, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, to 160 to 200
killed, according to the Turkish armed forces.[458]

20 October

Iraqi Army attack helicopters support ground forces attacking Islamic State positions in Bartella,
Iraq, during the offensive to retake Mosul. Islamic State gunfire damages one helicopter, but it
lands safely and its crew is evacuated.[459]
Kurdish peshmerga forces suffer increased casualties during the day in combat against the
Islamic State during the Mosul offensive. A statement by the Kurdish general command
ascribes the increase to a lack of air support, saying that support and air cover by the U.S.-led
coalition "were not as decisive as in the past."[459]
Russia and the Syrian government begin a three-day pause in their bombardment of rebel-held
eastern Aleppo, Syria, to allow the delivery of humanitarian supplies and the evacuation of
around 200 critically injured people. The ceasefire is longer than the eight-hour pause Syria
and Russia had announced on 17 October, but less than the five days requested by
international aid officials.[460]
The European Union warns Russia that it could face sanctions if its bombardment of civilians in
Aleppo, Syria, continues.[461]
American Airlines reports a drop of 56 percent in net income during the third quarter of 2016,
with net income between 1 July and 30 September of $737.000,000 representing a decline
from $1,700,000,000 from the same period in 2015. Planes flying less full and increased labor
costs are factors in the decline, as is a large tax bill. Overall revenue for the quarter was
 $10,600,000,000, a decline of 1.1 percent from the same period in 2015. American is the
world's largest airline.[462]
The French start-up company Skylights releases the second iteration of its Bravo wearable
headset device that allows airline passengers to view two-dimensional and three-dimensional
movies and virtual reality entertainment content in their seats. The company has conducted trial
runs of the technology over the previous year on European airlines, including Air France, KLM,
and XL Airways, and hopes that rentable Bravo devices will become a mainstream form of in-
flight entertainment aboard airliners around the world.[463]

21 October

A Skol Airlines Mil Mi-8 helicopter with at least 22 people on board crashes in Russia's
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, killing at least 19 people.
Amid growing complaints by the Iraqi Army and Kurdish peshmerga forces of inadequate air
support by the U.S.-led coalition for their ground offensive to retake Mosul, Iraq, from the Islamic
State, the United States Department of State envoy to the coalition, Special Presidential Envoy
for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Brett H. McGurk,
reports massive coalition airstrikes during the day in support of both forces. The airstrikes have
involved aircraft ranging from attack helicopters to United States Air Force B-52H Stratofortress
bombers. Iraqi ground forces also complain of insufficient aerial reconnaissance support by
coalition unmanned aerial vehicles. The coalition's air power reportedly has been spread thin
by the size and scope of the ground offensive.[464]
Bulgaria Air announces that it will begin round-trip service to Turkey, with flights between Sofia
Airport in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport in Turkey commencing in
January 2017. Turkish Airlines also will provide service between the two airports, with a
codeshare partnership between the two airlines expected to come in May 2017.
Turkish Airlines announces that it has suspended services to Najaf, Sulaymaniyah, and
Basrah, Iraq, because of the Iraqi and Kurdish offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State.
The Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden rules that unmanned aerial vehicles equipped
with cameras are a form of surveillance device requiring a special surveillance permit to
operate. The application process in Sweden for such permits is expensive, with no guarantee
that a license will be granted, and the ruling causes consternation among UAV owners and the
UAV industry in Sweden.[465][466]
Amid border tensions between Colombia and Venezuela, at least one and possibly two
Venezuelan Air Force fighter aircraft approach Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner
flying at an attitude of over 36,000 feet (11,000 meters) over western Venezuela en route from
Madrid, Spain, to Bogotá, Colombia, with 250 passengers aboard. The airliner makes a sharp
turn off course to the north in order to reach Colombian airspace quickly. In the wake of the
incident, Colombia suspends all flights by Colombian aircraft to and from Venezuela and orders
its aircraft to avoid flying over Venezuelan airspace, and President of Venezuela Nicolás
Maduro orders an investigation of the incident.[467][468]

22 October

The humanitarian pause in the bombardment of Aleppo, Syria, that Russia and the Syrian
government had declared on 20 October comes to an end during the evening as aircraft –
presumably belonging to the Russian Federation Air Force or Syrian Arab Air Force – bomb
rebel-held neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo.[469] A planned evacuation of injured people and
of civilians from eastern Aleppo – the main purpose of the pause – did not take place during the
pause.[470]

23 October
 Following diplomatic talks between the Government of Colombia and the Government of
Venezuela, Colombia lifts its suspension of flights by Colombian aircraft to, from, and over
Venezuela. It had instituted the flight ban after at least one Venezuelan Air Force fighter aircraft
approached an Avianca Boeing 787 Dreamliner over western Venezuela on the evening of 21
October, forcing the airliner to veer off course and into Colombian airspace.[468]
A Morton County, North Dakota, Sheriff's Department helicopter monitoring a protest at a
Dakota Access Pipeline construction site in North Dakota reports that an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) operated by the protestors has approached it in a threatening manner. Law
enforcement officers in North Dakota open fire on the UAV with "less than lethal" ammunition,
damaging it, after which its operator lands it. Protestors claim that police shot at the UAV
because they do not want their activities filmed.[471][472]

24 October

The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines announces that Singapore's low-cost carrier
Jetstar Asia Airways would consider developing Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport
into an operational base in 2017. It will be the first foreign airline to set up a base in the
Philippines. Ninoy Aquino International is also the base of Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific,
AirAsia Philippines, and Cebgo.
Airstrikes kill at least 13 people in Syria's Idlib Governorate.[470] In Moscow, Russian Deputy
Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov says that Russia is not planning another "humanitarian
pause" in Syria anytime soon because rebel forces did not "behave properly" during the 20–22
October pause.[470]
A Luxembourg-registered CAE Aviation Fairchild SA227-AT Merlin IVC (registration N577MX)
on a surveillance mission for the French Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes
crashes just after takeoff from Malta International Airport in Malta, killing its entire crew of
five.[473]

25 October

British Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling announces that the British government
had decided to endorse the addition of a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport after
decades of delay. The construction project, under consideration since the 1970s and not
expected to begin for years, will require the demolition of 738 homes in Harmondsworth,
Longford, and Sipson and cost an estimated £17,600,000,000. Prime Minister Theresa May
postpones a vote in Parliament on the matter until 2017, and the vote may not take place for as
long as a year.[474][475]
Disabled United States Army veteran Lisa McCombs, a sufferer of post-traumatic stress
disorder, files a lawsuit against American Airlines for a series of incidents between 25 and 27
October 2015 at Manhattan, Kansas, and Dallas, Texas, while she was on her way to Gulfport,
Mississippi, in which airline personnel refused to allow her to board aircraft operated by the
American Airlines Group subsidiary Envoy Air with her service dog and publicly humiliated and
intimidated her when she protested that her dog was pre-approved to travel with her aboard the
planes.[476]
Legendary American World War II, air show, and test pilot Bob Hoover dies at the age of
94.[477]

26 October

Russian or Syrian airstrikes against a residential area, an elementary school, and a middle
school in the village of Haas in Syria's Idlib Governorate kill at least 26 civilians, 15 to 20 of
them children.[478]
 Two Eritrean Air Force pilots defect to Ethiopia, flying their jet fighters from Eritrea to Mek'ele.
Ethiopian Air Force fighters escort them to Mek'ele after they enter Ethiopian airspace. It is the
first time that Eritrean pilots have defected to Ethiopia with their jets.[479]

27 October

The Government of Turkey issues warrants for the detention of 73 Turkish military pilots – two
colonels and 71 lieutenants – suspected of involvement in the 19 July 2016 attempted coup
d'état in Turkey, bringing 45 of them in for detention, and arrests another 29 military pilots that
already had been detained for their alleged participation in the coup d'état. Eighteen other
military pilots previously detained are released, although nine of them are placed on
probation.[480]
Eastern Air Lines Flight 3452, a Boeing 737-700 (registration N278EA) serving as the
campaign plane for the 2016 Republican Party nominee for vice president of the United States,
Governor of Indiana Mike Pence, skids off the runway while landing at La Guardia Airport in
New York City. The airport's engineered materials arrestor system bed stops the plane before it
reaches Grand Central Parkway. Neither Pence nor the other 47 people on board are
injured.[481]

28 October

The right engine of American Airlines Flight 383, a Boeing 767-300ER (registration N345AN),
suffers an uncontained failure during the airliner's takeoff roll at O'Hare International Airport in
Chicago, Illinois, with pieces of the engine flying from the aircraft; one of them strikes a United
Parcel Service building 3,000 feet (910 meters) away, but no one on the ground is injured. The
engine – a General Electric CF6 – then catches fire. The crew aborts the takeoff and brings the
plane to a stop 3,000 feet (910 meters) before the end of the runway and all 170 people and a
dog aboard the airliner exit via evacuation slides. Twenty people suffer minor injuries during
the evacuation.[482][483]
Fedex Express Flight 910, a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F cargo aircraft (registration
N370FE), suffers a landing gear collapse as it lands at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood
International Airport in Broward County, Florida. The plane skids to a halt and a fire breaks out
that destroys the left engine and wing. The aircraft's crew of three escapes.
The Government of Turkey announces that it expects the Turkish Air Force to take delivery of its
first six Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighters in 2018 and has decided to order more for
delivery in 2021 and 2022; U.S. officials familiar with the deal say the second order will be for
24 aircraft. Turkey plans eventually to purchase a total of 100 F-35A fighters.[484]

29 October

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operating without permission near Dubai International
Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), forces the airport to close for 84 minutes and
prompts UAE authorities to close nearby Sharjah International Airport for a similar amount of
time. It is the third time that an unauthorized drone flight has caused Dubai International Airport
to close in 2016, previous incidents having occurred on 12 June and 28 September.[485]
Strikes by aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition targeting a security complex in Houthi-rebel-held
Hodeidah, Yemen, kill at least 43 people and injure scores more; one report puts the death total
at 60. Most of the dead are inmates held in prisons in the complex. The coalition says that the
complex was a legitimate target because the Houthis were using it as a command-and-control
center for their military operations.[486]

30 October
 Airbus announces that the A320neo prototype could make to land in Bulgaria in November
2016, claims to be directly first to visit in southeastern Europe. The A320neo becomes the
second leg of the European destination, after Finland.[487]

31 October

An Alfa Indonesia PEN Turbo DHC-4T Turbo Caribou (registration PK-SWW) on a domestic
flight from Timika to Ilaga, Indonesia, crashes into the side of Ilaga Pass near Jita in Indonesia's
Papua province on New Guinea at an altitude of 12,800 feet (3,900 meters), killing all four
people on board. Its wreckage is found the next day.

November
1 November

China-based Donghai Airlines finalizes its order with Boeing for five Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
airliners.[488]

2 November

Bulgaria's Civil Aviation Administration announces that Plovdiv Airport will close to all
commercial traffic temporarily for runway work beginning in February 2017.
The Lebanese Civil Aviation Authority announces a ban on Samsung Galaxy Note 7
smartphones on its flights due to safety concerns based on the 15 October ban the U.S.
Federal Aviation Administration placed on them because of their tendency to catch fire or
explode.[489]

3 November

Airstrikes supporting Afghan government troops fighting to push Taliban forces out Kunduz,
Afghanistan, reportedly kill 30 civilians and injure 25 others in and around the city. One report
puts the death toll at up to 100 civilians.[490][491] U.S. military officials will acknowledge on 5
November that the airstrikes inflicted casualties on civilians, but do not estimate the number of
casualties.[491]

5 November

Bulgaria Air announces that the Airbus A320neo as its next generation candidate of narrow
body airliners, Airbus said in a directly press statement. French foreign trade minister Matthias
Fekl says renegotiations with the Balkan carrier as its order for up to six aircraft, any not it
finalizes agreement.
Philippine Airlines announces that it will withdraw the Airbus A320 from its fleet beginning in
2017.

6 November

Slovakia-based Go2Sky announces it will add an Airbus A320 to its fleet in late December
2016, becoming the first Slovak operator of Airbus aircraft. The A320 will become the fifth
aircraft in its fleet.[492]
North Atlantic Treaty Organization jets have scrambled over 600 times since 1 January to
monitor Russian military air traffic around Europe.[493]

7 November
 Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State forces near Ayn Issa, Syria, destroy six
fighting position and seven ground vehicles, including two vehicles filled with explosives.[494]
A United States Department of Defense spokesman says that the United States is ready to
conduct more airstrikes against Islamic State forces in Libya if the Libyan Government of
National Accord requests them. The United States has conducted over 350 airstrikes against
the Islamic State in Libya since August, but none since 31 October.[495]

8 November

Seven airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition targeting six Islamic State tactical units near Ayn Issa,
Syria, destroy three fighting positions, a ground vehicle, and a car bomb facility.[496]

9 November

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that a strike by the U.S.-led coalition in
Heisha, Syria, kill at least 20 civilians and injure 30 others. The coalition says it will investigate
the claim of civilian casualties.[497]
United States Central Command announces that it has reexamined its estimate of the number
of civilians its airstrikes have killed in Iraq and Syria since its air campaign against the Islamic
State began in 2014 based on allegations by activist groups and that has added 64 deaths to is
estimate, bringing its estimate to a total of 119 civilians killed. It continues to investigate
allegations of additional civilian deaths.[498]

11 November

Bulgaria Air Chief Executive Officer Hristo Todorov requests that the wide body airliners
candidate – Airbus A330-200 and Boeing 767-300 will yet to be selected before the launch of
transatlantic service in 2017.
Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways officially retires the Airbus A330-300 from its fleet.
Computer problems at Sabre Corporation cause check-in and flight delays on Alaska Airlines,
American Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines, and Virgin America.[499]

13 November

Airstrikes targeting rebel-held areas in western Aleppo Governorate in Syria knock out a Syrian
Civil Defense center in Atareb and kill three people. In northern Idlib Governorate, an airstrike
kills a woman and her four children. In the western Ghouta region outside Damascus, an
airstrike on a mosque in Khan al-Shih kills two people. And an explosion attributed to an
airstrike at a crossing point between Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin District and rebel-held parts of
Aleppo Governorate kills at least eight—as perhaps as many as 12—people.[500]

15 November

Syrian government and Russian forces renew their offensive against rebels in Syria. Heavy
Syrian government airstrikes hit rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria. Russia denies that it has
struck Aleppo during the day, but announces that Russian aircraft and land-based and ship-
launched cruise missiles have struck Islamic State targets and positions of an al-Qaeda-linked
rebel group in Syria's Homs Governorate and Idlib Governorate, claiming that the targets were
industrial sites the groups were using to manufacture toxic substances used in weapons of
mass destruction. A Russian aircraft carrier sees combat for the first time in history during the
day, when the Russian Federation Navy carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, operating in the eastern
Mediterranean Sea, launches Sukhoi Su-33 (NATO reporting name "Flanker D") aircraft which
strike targets in Syria.[501]
 Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, closes to commercial traffic for several
hours – although a United States government aircraft carrying prison inmates to a federal
inmate transfer center is allowed to land – after a former Southwest Airlines employee who had
been fired in 2015 uses a rifle to kill another Southwest Airlines employee just outside the
airport, then shoots himself to death.[502][503]
At Centennial Airport in Denver, Colorado, Boom Technology unveils the engineering design
for its XB-1 Baby Boom supersonic technology demonstrator aircraft, a scaled-down version of
a 45-passenger supersonic airliner it hopes to produce and place in service by 2023. The Baby
Boom is expected to make its first flight in 2018.[504][505]

16 November

Syrian government airstrikes pound eastern Aleppo, Syria, badly damaging the city's last
remaining children's hospital; Russia denies any involvement in strikes against eastern
Aleppo, claiming to have conducted none there since 18 October. At least 87 people are killed
in Aleppo Governorate during the day. Russian air and cruise missile strikes continue in Idlib
Governorate, where 34 sites have been hit and six people killed and dozens wounded since 15
November.[506]

19 November

According to officials in Afghanistan, an airstrike by an unmanned aerial vehicle in Nangahar

Province in eastern Afghanistan kills eight Islamic State personnel including Mullah Bozorg, a
top Islamic State commander.[507]

20 November

After a U.S. military unmanned aerial vehicle spots Islamic State personnel beheading and
shooting civilians in the Mosul, Iraq, area, a U.S. laser-guided bomb is used to scatter the
executioners.[508]
Bulgaria Air confirms to acquire at least four Boeing 767-300 aircraft in giving instead of Airbus
A330-200 already to enter service in 2017. In addition, the airline agrees to ten Airbus A320
family in anticipation to join the fleet with bringing the operator of A320 family to fifteen.

21 November

The United States grants a license to Airbus to sell 106 airliners to Iran; it will announce that it
has granted the license the following day. Airbus required the license because at least 10
percent of the airliners' parts are manufactured in the United States. Previously, Airbus had had
a U.S. license to sell only 17 airliners to Iran.[509]

22 November

Approximately 250 pilots who fly cargo aircraft for ABX Air go on strike, claiming the airline is
violating their contract by giving them too many flight assignments. ABX Air says it views the
strike as illegal. The strike affects package deliveries by ABX Air's two biggest customers,
Amazon.com and DHL Express, as the 2016 Christmas shopping season begins.[510]
The Government of Canada announces that it will buy 18 F-18 Super Hornets from Boeing as a
stopgap measure and begin a process of as long as five years to determine how to replace its
aging fighter fleet, which consists of 77 McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornets, a decline from
what once had been a force of 138 CF-18s. The announcement is a blow to Lockheed Martin,
which had hoped to sell Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighters to Canada. Although
Canada plans to remain one of the countries contributing to the development of the F-35, it has
backed off its earlier plans to purchase F-35s.[511]
23 November

An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition "disables" the fourth of five bridges across the Tigris in
Mosul, Iraq, leaving only one bridge intact. Airstrikes had destroyed another bridge earlier in
the week and two in October. The destruction of the bridges has disrupted Islamic State supply
lines.[512]
Spain's national airline Iberia formally its last flight for the Airbus A340-300 from service.[513]
A U.S. federal judge in Cincinnati, Ohio, orders ABX Air pilots who had gone on strike the
previous day to return to work. Their union says that it will obey the judge's order.[514]

24 November

Turkey agrees to send a large firefighting aircraft to Israel to assist in aerial firefighting efforts
against major wildfires burning there. Russia, meanwhile, agrees to send two large firefighting
aircraft to Israel. Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy have sent a combined seven aircraft to
Israel to assist in firefighting.[515]
The U.S.-led coalition has conducted over 16,000 airstrikes against Islamic State targets since
beginning its air campaign against the Islamic State.[516]

25 November

The watchdog group Airwars announces that air and artillery strikes by the U.S.-led coalition
have combined to kill between 84 and 87 civilians and wound more than 160 other civilians in
and around Mosul, Iraq, since the coalition's ground offensive to clear Islamic State forces from
Mosul began on 17 October. A United States Central Command spokesman responds that "the
liberation of Mosul is an operation that is an order of magnitude larger and more complex than"
operations to liberate "any of the previous cities that have been liberated" from the Islamic
State, adding that U.S. military forces extensively review proposed strikes, using intelligence
and surveillance to verify targets before launching them and noting that coalition strikes have
destroyed dozens of Islamic State car bombs and tunnels in around Mosul.[517]
A U.S.-based Evergreen 747 Supertanker—the world's largest aerial firefighting aircraft, based
on the Boeing 747-400 – arrives in Israel to assist in battling major wildfires that have been
burning for four days. Azerbaijan also sends a firefighting plane and Egypt sends two
helicopters to help battle the fires.[518]

26 November

In the November 2016 Butig clash: Islamic State-affiliated militant organization Maute group
which passes in the occupied town of Butig in Lanao del Sur, Philippines. Philippine Air Force
SIAI-Marchetti SF.260 dropped 150 pounds (68 kg) bombs, all roads will close to the
public.[519]

27 November

Foreign Minister of Malaysia Anifah Aman says Malaysia will any deployment of both fixed
wing aircraft and helicopters to the Philippines, including Basilan. The reach agreement will
allow both Malaysian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to launch
an offensive in combat against Islamic State-affiliated Abu Sayyaf, resulting over the phase.
After a firefight begins between Islamic State-affiliated Syrian rebels and a reconnaissance unit
of the Israel Defense Forces′ Golani Brigade along the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria
in the Golan Heights, the Israeli Air Force spots a ground vehicle armed with a heavy machine
gun and destroys it with a rocket, killing four Syrian rebels. An Israeli military spokesman
 describes the incident as the "first substantial fight" between Israeli forces and an Islamic State
affiliate in the Syrian Civil War.[520]
Israel approves the purchase of 17 additional Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter
aircraft.[521]

28 November

The first scheduled commercial airline flight between the United States and Havana, Cuba,
since the early 1960s takes place as an American Airlines jet arrives at Havana's Jose Marti
International Airport from Miami, Florida. JetBlue initiates Havana service later in the day with a
flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.[522][523]
LaMia Airlines Flight 2933, an Avro RJ85 (registration CP-2933), crashes in Colombia after its
crew declares electrical and fuel emergencies. The crash kills 71 of the 77 people on board,
including 19 members of the Associação Chapecoense de Futebol football (soccer) team, and
leaves all six survivors injured. Prominent survivors include football team members Alan
Ruschel, Jakson Follmann, and Neto. Their teammate Danilo survives initially but later dies in
a hospital.

29 November

Iraqi forces advancing on Mosul call upon more than a dozen U.S. surveillance aircraft –
including MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper – and 43 U.S. combat planes – including United
States Air Force B-52H Stratofortresses, F-15 Eagles, and F-22 Raptors and United States
Marine Corps AV-8B Harriers—as well as electronic warfare aircraft and AH-64 Apache attack
helicopters for support against Islamic State targets. The aircraft fire more than 80 precision-
guided munitions and destroy four car bombs, four mortar systems and an Islamic State
compound, among other targets.[508]
United Airlines begins service between the United States and Havana, Cuba, with a flight from
Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey.[524]

30 November

Bulgaria Air officially announces that it will discontinue its wet-lease agreements for aircraft in
2017.[525]

December
1 December

A ski-equipped Lockheed LC-130 Hercules of the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift
Wing evacuates Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the second man to walk on the
moon, from the South Pole after he falls ill while there with a tour group. The LC-130 flies him to
McMurdo Station on Antarctica's Ross Island. He then flies on a Safair cargo plane to
Christchurch, New Zealand, where he arrives on 2 December for hospitalization.[526]
Delta Air Lines makes its first flight to Cuba in 55 years. The flight departs Miami International
Airport in Miami, Florida, and arrives at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana. Later in the
day, Delta inaugurates additional U.S.-Cuba routes with flights to Havana from New York City's
John F. Kennedy International Airport and from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in
Atlanta, Georgia.[527]
The United States Department of Defense announces that it has identified 54 additional civilian
deaths attributable to airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria between 31 March
and 22 October 2016, bringing to 173 the number of civilian deaths the United States claims
 have been the result of coalition airstrikes since the air campaign began in June 2014. The
announcement revises a July 2016 Department of Defense announcement of 55 civilian deaths
during the air campaign and a United States Central Command finding announced on 9
November 2016 that the campaign had killed 64 civilians.[528]

2 December

Bulgaria Air announces that it will start service to Bangkok, Thailand, from Sofia Airport in
Sofia, Bulgaria, starting in April 2017. It will become the first Bulgarian airline to offer service to
Southeast Asia.

4 December

Airstrikes in Syria's Idlib Governorate kill at least 50 people during the day, with one report
putting the death toll at 52. Observers suspect the Russian Federation Air Force or Syrian Arab
Air Force of having conducted the attacks. Dozens of the deaths occur in two strikes which
target rural marketplaces in Kafr Nabl and Maarrat al-Nu'man.[529]

5 December

A Russian Naval Aviation Sukhoi Su-33 (NATO reporting name "Flanker D") crashes into the
Mediterranean Sea after an arresting cable snaps while it is attempting to land on the Russian
Federation Navy aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. The pilot survives. It is the second aircraft
Admiral Kuznetsov has lost since beginning combat operations off Syria; the first was a
Mikoyan MiG-29K (NATO reporting name "Fulcrum D") which crashed in November.[530]

6 December

Bulgaria Air announces that a dry-lease term contract with White Airways to buy two Boeing
777 aircraft starting in 2017 to supplement the existing four Boeing 767-300. Foreign Minister of
Portugal Augusto Santos Silva claims that the Bulgaria – Portugal bilateral agreement
negotiations will be announced in spring 2017.[531]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweets that the United States Air Force contract to replace
the fleet of aging Boeing VC-25 aircraft that operate as Air Force One with two new aircraft
based on the Boeing 747-8 at a cost of $4,000,000,000 is too expensive and should be
canceled. The U.S. Air Force and Boeing counter that the old aircraft are in need of
replacement and that the special requirements for presidential aircraft inevitably lead to a high
price for them.[532]
The United States Department of Justice approves the purchase of Virgin America by Alaska
Airlines.[533]

7 December

After its pilot reports the failure of one of its engines, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661,
an ATR 42-500 (registration AP-BHO), crashes near Havelian, Pakistan, killing all 47 people
on board. Pakistani recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, actor, singer-
songwriter, preacher, and televangelist Junaid Jamshed is among the dead.

8 December

After U.S. pilots drop leaflets warning the drivers of Islamic State tanker trucks of the impending
attack, United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft destroy 168 of the trucks near
Palmyra, Syria, as part of Operation Tidal Wave II.[534]
10 December

Stara Zagora Airport in southern Bulgaria announces that much as paving the way for a
potential commercial passenger service will begin in May 2017.
Bulgaria's Civil Aviation Administration awards this Air Operator's Certificate to Stara Zagora,
Gorna Oryahovitsa, and Ruse with bring to start in 2017. Bulgaria Air said it will add five ATR
72-500s converted from ten airliners, many as possible order for an ATR 72-600 to be leased
initially.

11 December

Islamic State forces retake Palmyra, Syria, from the Syrian government. Unlike in March, when
Russian Federation Air Force strikes played a key and effective role against the Islamic State
in the Syrian government's recapture of Palmyra, Russian airstrikes on 10 and 11 December
are ineffective in stopping the Islamic State advance. Although human rights organizations
have accused the Russian Federation Air Force of intensive bombing of civilian targets during
the Syrian Civil War, Russia claims that its pilots were unable to respond effectively to the
Islamic State's advance on Palmyra because Russian pilots were unwilling to endanger
civilians.[535]
Iran Air finalizes a deal to buy 80 airliners from Boeing at a cost of $16,600,000,000. The deal
includes 50 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, 15 Boeing 777-300ERs, and 15 Boeing 777-9s. Iran Air plans
to take delivery of the first planes in 2018, with deliveries completed over the next decade.[536]

12 December

In the wake of 7 December crash of its Flight 661, Pakistan International Airlines grounds the
five ATR 42 and ATR 72 airliners in its fleet after the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority decides
to conduct "shakedown tests" of the airline's entire fleet of ATR aircraft.[537]
Supported by Syrian government and Russian airstrikes, Syrian government ground forces
reduce the rebel-held portion of Aleppo, Syria, to a small sliver of territory that is no more than a
tenth of what they used to control in the city, leaving the Syrian government poised to reconquer
the entire city.[538]
After hours of delay due to fog at their departure point outside Milan, Italy, the Israeli Air Force's
first two F-35 Lightning II fighters, flown by U.S. pilots, arrive at Nevatim Airbase in Israel. Plans
call for Israeli pilots to fly them for the first time the following day. Israel plans to acquire 50 of
the aircraft at a total cost of around $5,000,000,000.[539]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweets that the F-35 Lightning II's "cost is out of control.
Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after 20 January
[2017]," the day of the United States presidential inauguration. The stock price for the F-35's
manufacturer, Lockheed Martin falls over 4 percent at one point after Trump's tweet, and closes
for the day down 2.47 percent.[539][540]

13 December

A United States Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey crashes in the Pacific Ocean off Okinawa after a
hose connected to it during an aerial refueling exercise breaks and damages one of its
propellers. Its five-man crew is rescued, two of them with non-life-threatening injuries. It is the
first crash of an Osprey in Japan. Following the crash, the Government of Japan calls for an
end to Osprey flights in Japan, and on 14 December the U.S. military will ground all Ospreys in
Japan.[541]
The chairman of Pakistan International Airlines, Azam Saigol, resigns for "personal reasons."
He had been under pressure to resign due to concerns about the airline's safety record
following the 7 December crash of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661.[537]
14 December

A ceasefire agreement to allow Syrian rebels and civilians to evacuate the last part of Aleppo,
Syria, that the reels hold breaks down almost as soon as it begins, and, after a heavy storm
clears the area, airstrikes in support of Syrian government forces resume.[542]
Bulgaria Air says a finalize its agreement to buy four aircraft (via freighter configuration) for
establishing the cargo revenue operations with maiden flights scheduled for 2017. The cargo
unit will be called Bulgaria Air Cargo, which played a key role for logistics and mail support for
Europe and Asia from a hub at Sofia Airport. It also announced a cargo handing service should
be being consideration.
For the first time, Amazon.com makes a delivery to a customer using an unmanned aerial
vehicle. The Amazon Prime Air delivery takes place in the United Kingdom. The customer's
order – for an Amazon Fire TV device and a bag of popcorn – arrives 13 minutes after it was
placed.[543]

15 December

The Chinese Ministry of Defense reports that China's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, had
completed its first live-fire exercises "a few days" earlier. During the exercises, which included
air interception, sea-based attacks and air defense, reconnaissance, early warning and anti-
missile defense, Liaoning's Shenyang J-15 jets reportedly carried live ordnance and
successfully fired missiles at targets.[544]

18 December

Flying in poor weather and low cloud cover, an Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130H
Hercules carrying 12 metric tons of food supplies and cement crashes on New Guinea's Mount
Lisuwa while on approach to Wamena Airport in Wamena, Papua, Indonesia, killing all 13
people on board.
A Royal Air Force C-130J Hercules lands at Saint Helena Airport, becoming the first fixed-wing
military aircraft ever to land on Saint Helena.[545]

20 December

Bulgaria Air announces that sixteen additional regular, charter or seasonal destinations will be
introduced in 2017 with its arriving of wide body aircraft. Sofia Airport Chief Executive Officer
Hristo Shterionov said that the Sofia hub should potential new long haul destinations to include
the US and Asia.
Since the coalition air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria began in August
2014, coalition forces have conducted over 16,000 airstrikes at a cost of $12.5 million per day,
killing an estimated 50,000 Islamic State personnel. The coalition has launched an average of
56 strike sorties per day since the campaign began.[508]

22 December

After over four years of airstrikes against rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria, by the Syrian Arab
Air Force and Russian Federation Air Force, the Syrian government declares that its forces
have retaken the entire city. Targets for the airstrikes have included residential areas and
hospitals.[546]
An intoxicated Russian man, Ruslan Nurtdinov, rams his car into the terminal at Kazan
International Airport outside Kazan, Russia. Pursued by security personnel on foot, Nurtdinov
drives his car through the terminal, passing check-in desks, a baggage carousel, security
checkpoints, and departure gates before coming to a halt at a railway platform, where he is
 arrested. He claims that he is trying to meet his girlfriend, who was scheduled to arrive at the
railway platform.[547]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweets that he might reconsider the purchase of the F-35
Lighting II due to its expense and cost overruns and seek a cheaper alternative, and that he
"has asked Boeing to price out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet."[548]

23 December

Two men claiming to be supporters of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and to have a
hand grenade hijack Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209, an Airbus A320 (registration 5A-ONB) with
118 people on board, during a domestic flight in Libya from Sebha to Tripoli and force it to fly to
Malta International Airport in Malta where they demand political asylum in Europe so that they
can establish a political party that represents the former Gaddafi regime. They surrender to
Maltese authorities and no one is injured in the incident.[549]
Vesna Vulović, the sole survivor of the crash of JAT Yugoslav Airlines Flight 367 on 26 January
1972, dies in her apartment in Belgrade, Serbia, at age 66. After the airliner exploded and
broke into two pieces at an altitude of 33,330 feet (10,160 meters) over Czechoslovakia, she
fell to earth in the aircraft's tail section, setting a record for surviving the longest fall without a
parachute which still stands at the time of her death.[550]
Returning from a book-promotion trip to the United Kingdom, American actress and writer
Carrie Fisher suffers a major heart attack aboard United Airlines Flight 935, a Boeing 777-200
making a 10-hour-58-minute nonstop flight from London to Los Angeles, California. She will die
on 27 December at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles without ever
regaining consciousness.[551][552][553]

25 December

The Government of Malaysia says that conducting airstrike in the southern Philippines – mainly
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao by the Islamic State-affiliated Abu Sayyaf won't
captures of Basilan and Sulu. However, the two governments as with the Philippines
(Malaysia's neighboring border) discuss to a decision will be made.
A Russian military Tupolev Tu-154 (NATO reporting name "Careless") transport aircraft crashes
into the Black Sea just after takeoff from Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, for a flight
to Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia, Syria, killing all 92 people on board. Sixty-four members of
the Alexandrov Ensemble, better known internationally as the "Red Army Choir" – including its
director, Valery Khalilov – traveling to Syria to perform for Russian troops are among the dead,
as are nine journalists, three each from Channel One Russia, NTV, and Zvezda. Also killed is
Russian humanitarian Elizaveta Glinka, commonly known in Russia as "Doctor Liza," making
the trip to accompany a shipment of medicine to a hospital in Syria.[554]
Bulgaria Air announces that reducing 16 to 12 flights (five out of Sofia Airport, four out of Varna
Airport and three out of Burgas Airport) with unspecified date scheduled for 2017. Bulgarian
Transport Ministry's spokesman said that the ticket sales will be added, and the Sofia Airport
will be the long haul operational hub.

26 December

Bulgaria Air announces that its first Boeing 767-300 will be delivered in March 2017, followed
by three more to follow in May 2017.
Air Moldova announces that it will procure two more Airbus A320s which will enter service in
2017, bringing the airline's fleet of A320s to four.

29 December
 U.S. military officials report that a coalition airstrike targeting a van in a hospital compound
parking lot in Mosul, Iraq, carrying Islamic State personnel who had just left a recoilless rifle
position may have killed an undetermined number of civilians inadvertently. They announce
that an investigation of the incident will follow.[555]
A Cessna 525 Citation corporate jet (registration N614SB) with six people on board crashes
into Lake Erie during its initial climb after takeoff from Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport in
Cleveland, Ohio. The United States Coast Guard will call off the unsuccessful search for
survivors on 31 December.[556]

31 December

Bulgaria Air announces that the next candidate of the 2017 Best Airline in the Balkans and it is
expected in April 2017. The airline's Chief Executive Officer Hristo Todorov said it will begin
interview on ch-aviation.
Philippine Airlines announces that the accepting to join the Oneworld airline alliance in the
future. It will become the second airline in southeast Asia to join the alliance, following
Malaysia Airlines.
Coalition aircraft have destroyed over 1,200 Islamic State tanker trucks since October 2015 in
Operation Tidal Wave II.[534]
According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the Saudi-led coalition has
conducted 3,936 airstrikes in Yemen during 2016.[557]
U.S. airlines have cancelled only 1.17 percent of their flights during 2016, their best annual
performance in the 22 years the United States Department of Transportation has collected data
on the issue; their previous record low had been 1.24 percent in 2002. They also have lost or
misplaced luggage at a rate of 2.70 bags per 1,000 customers, the lowest rate since the
Transportation Department began collecting data in 1987, and have "bumped" ticketed
passengers from overbooked flights at a rate of 0.62 per 10,000 passengers, the lowest annual
rate since the Transportation Department began tracking the issue in 1995. U.S. airlines also
have shown improvements over 2015 in on-time arrival rates and in the number of customer
complaints in 2016.[558]

First flights

January
29 January –Boeing 737 MAX 8 – N8701Q[559]

February
6 February – Enstrom TH180 – N180TH[560]
9 February – Airbus A321neo – D-AVXB

March
2 March – AgustaWestland AW109 Trekker – I-AGGR[561]

April
 4 April – Skyleader UL-39 Albi – OK-UUH 01[562]
22 April – Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin – 51-0001[563]
28 April – Kamov Ka-62 – RA-62002[564]

May
17 May – Diamond Dart 450 – OE-VDA[565]
23 May – Embraer E190-E2 – PR-ZEY
31 May – HAL HTT-40[566]

July
21 July – Tecnam P2012 Traveller – I-PTFC[567]

August
17 August – Hybrid Air Vehicles Airlander 10 – G-PHRG[330]

October
26 October – Beriev A-100

November
4 November – Bombardier Global 7000 – C-GLBO[568]
21 November – Stratos 714 – N403KT[569]
24 November – Airbus A350-1000 – F-WWIL[570]

December
17 December – Gulfstream G600 – N600G[571]
20 December

Avicopter AC352[572]
Boeing BTX-1 – N381TX[573]

Entered service
25 January – Airbus A320neo with Lufthansa
28 June – Comac ARJ21-700 with Chengdu Airlines
15 July – Bombardier CS100 with Swiss Global Air Lines
2 August – Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II with the United States Air Force
14 December – Bombardier CS300 with airBaltic
Retirements
14 January

The Boeing 747 from the Air France fleet.

23 November

The Airbus A340 from the Iberia fleet. The last flight is by an A340-300 registered EC-GUP.

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