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Eventos
enero
- Enero 1
- Desde mediados de diciembre de 2014 , el Estados Unidos -Led coalición contra el Estado Islámico ha llevado a cabo 13 ataques aéreos dirigidos al grupo alrededor de una base ocupada por 300 militares estadounidenses en Irak ' s de Al Anbar . [1]
- 3 de enero
- Ataques aéreos paquistaníes en la Tirah valle en Pakistán ' s Agencia Khyber destruyen cuatro militantes islámicos escondites y un atacante suicida centro de formación, causando la muerte de 31 militantes. [2]
- 4 de enero
- Un ataque con misiles aire-tierra de un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense contra un complejo en el área de Datta Khel en Waziristán del Norte , Pakistán, mata a siete militantes islámicos e hiere a otros cuatro. [2]
- El ejército de Pakistán afirma que los ataques aéreos y terrestres contra militantes islámicos en el país han matado a 1.200 militantes desde que las fuerzas armadas pakistaníes comenzaron una campaña militar contra ellos el 15 de junio de 2014 . [2]
- 5 de enero
- Un ataque con misiles aire-tierra lanzado por un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense en Waziristán del Norte , Pakistán , mata a Ubaidullah, un líder de al-Qaeda en el subcontinente indio . [3]
- 6 de enero
- El Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos anuncia que está investigando informes de que los ataques aéreos de la coalición liderada por Estados Unidos contra objetivos del Estado Islámico en Irak y Siria han causado bajas a civiles y ha concluido que 13 de los 18 informes de bajas civiles, nueve en Irak y nueve en Siria - entre el 8 de agosto de 2014 y el 30 de diciembre de 2014 no son creíbles. Dos a fines de diciembre de 2014 se consideraron creíbles, y las investigaciones de los tres restantes solo se encuentran en sus etapas iniciales. [4]
- El inspector general del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos publica una auditoría que encuentra "poca o ninguna evidencia" de que los drones de vigilancia Predator B operados por la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de los Estados Unidos hayan cumplido las expectativas o hayan realizado operaciones de vigilancia efectivas durante sus casi diez años de operación. La auditoría encuentra que el costo de operar los drones es cinco veces mayor de lo estimado; que las aeronaves están plagadas de problemas de mantenimiento y en realidad vuelan sólo el 22 por ciento de las horas previstas para ellas; y que los drones han contribuido a la detención de menos del dos por ciento de las personas que cruzan ilegalmente la frontera de México a Arizona y solo el 0.1 por ciento de las que cruzan ilegalmente de México a Texas . Un funcionario de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza cuestiona los hallazgos, alegando que los drones son más efectivos de lo que se describe en la auditoría y que contribuyeron "directamente" a la incautación de 50,000 libras de marihuana por valor de $ 122,000,000 a lo largo de la frontera mexicana en 2013. Aduanas y Fronteras Protection vuela nueve drones de vigilancia Predator B desde bases en Arizona, Florida , Dakota del Norte y Texas. [5] [6]
- La Administración Federal de Aviación de los Estados Unidos (FAA) emite sus primeros permisos para el uso de vehículos comerciales no tripulados en las industrias agrícola e inmobiliaria . Los permisos van a Advanced Aviation Solutions de Spokane , Washington , para la "exploración de cultivos", ya Douglas Trudeau de Tierra Antigua Realty en Tucson , Arizona , para mejorar las imágenes aéreas de los edificios. Los 11 permisos anteriores de la FAA, todos emitidos en 2014 , se habían otorgado a empresas de las industrias del petróleo , películas y vertederos . [7]
- 7 de enero
- Después de un Pacific Aerospace P-750XL llevar a 13 personas - un piloto, seis paracaidistas , y seis turistas que planean realizar inmersiones en tándem con los paracaidistas - sufre una avería mecánica a una altitud de 2.000 pies (610 metros) sobre Nueva Zelanda ' s Isla Norte , las 13 personas se lanzan en paracaídas a un lugar seguro antes de que la aeronave se estrelle en el lago Taupo . [8]
- Los buzos y un vehículo submarino no tripulado descubren y fotografían la sección de cola del vuelo 8501 de Indonesia AirAsia que descansa sobre el fondo del mar de Java . Es el primer descubrimiento de una pieza importante de los restos del Airbus A320-216 desde que desapareció del radar el 28 de diciembre de 2014 durante un vuelo desde Surabaya , Indonesia , a Singapur .
- 8 de enero
- El Departamento de Defensa de EE. UU. Anuncia que la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos cerrará sus bases en Inglaterra en RAF Mildenhall , RAF Alconbury y RAF Molesworth para 2021, pero también basará los cazas F-35A Lightning II en el Reino Unido en RAF Lakenheath de Inglaterra después de el F-35A entra en funcionamiento en la Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. en 2016. [9]
- 9 de enero
- En respuesta a una Unión Europea dictaminando que Cyprus Airways deberá pagar más de 65 millones de euros que recibió ilegalmente como parte de una ayuda de estado de paquetes de 103 millones de euros que se le da en 2012 y 2013, Chipre ' s Ministro de Finanzas , Harris Georgiades , y el ministro de Comunicaciones y Obras , Marios Demetriades , anuncian que la aerolínea ya no es económicamente viable y dejará de operar inmediatamente y cerrará. Demetriades también anuncia planes para reemplazarlo con una nueva aerolínea que también utilizará el nombre y el logotipo de "Cyprus Airways". [10]
- 10 de enero
- La primera pieza importante de los restos del vuelo 8501 de Indonesia AirAsia, una pieza de la sección de cola del Airbus A320-216, sale a la superficie desde el fondo del mar de Java. [11]
- SpaceX ' intento de s en el mundo ' s primer aterrizaje vertical de un cohete recuperable a bordo de una barcaza en el mar falla cuando las aletas de la rejilla de su Falcon 9 cohete ' s primera etapa se quedan sin fluido hidráulico justo antes de aterrizar y los elevadores se rompe subir sobre golpeando la barcaza. El cohete había sido lanzado desde Cabo Cañaveral , Florida . SpaceX anuncia planes para hacer otro intento en febrero de 2015 utilizando una mayor cantidad de fluido hidráulico. [12]
- 12 de enero
- Una erupción volcánica en Tonga envía cenizas al cielo, provocando la cancelación de todos los vuelos internacionales hacia y desde el país. Los vuelos no se reanudan hasta el 14 de enero. [13] [14]
- Los buzos recuperan el registrador de datos de vuelo de los restos del vuelo 8501 de Indonesia AirAsia en el fondo del mar de Java. [15]
- 13 de enero
- Los buzos recuperan el registrador de voz de cabina de Indonesia AirAsia Vuelo 8501 ' s restos en el fondo del mar de Java. [15]
- 14 de enero
- Un vehículo operado a distancia del buque de rescate y apoyo submarino de la Armada de Singapur MS Swift Rescue ubica y fotografía el fuselaje del vuelo 8501 de Indonesia AirAsia en el fondo del mar de Java a dos kilómetros (1.25 millas terrestres ; 1.1 millas náuticas ) del área donde se encuentra la cola. Se ha encontrado una sección. [16] [17] [18]
- 15 de enero
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense realiza un ataque con misiles aire-tierra contra un complejo en Wocha Darra en Waziristán del Sur , Pakistán, matando a cinco militantes islámicos e hiriendo fatalmente a otros dos. [19] El 23 de abril, el gobierno de los Estados Unidos revelará que el ataque mató inadvertidamente a dos rehenes, el estadounidense Warren Weinstein y el italiano Giovanni Lo Porto , retenidos en el complejo. [20]
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado no identificado sobrevuela brevemente el Palacio del Elíseo en París , provocando una alarma por parte de las fuerzas de seguridad francesas. [21]
- 16 de enero
- Los separatistas prorrusos de la República Popular de Donetsk en el este de Ucrania anuncian que han capturado la terminal principal del aeropuerto internacional de Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev en Donetsk , Ucrania, de manos de las fuerzas del ejército ucraniano después de meses de combates. El ejército ucraniano afirma que aún conserva parte de la terminal. [22]
- 18 de enero
- Los helicópteros Israel I disparan misiles contra dos vehículos terrestres en la gobernación de Quneitra, en el sur de Siria , matando hasta diez personas, incluidos al menos seis miembros de Hezbollah y un general iraní . [23] [24]
- Un Antonov An-26 de la Fuerza Aérea Siria ( nombre de informe de la OTAN "Curl") se estrella en la base aérea de Abu adh Dhuhur en Siria, matando a las 30 personas a bordo. El Gobierno de Siria dice que se estrelló debido a la niebla, pero el Frente al Nusra afirma haberlo derribado. [25]
- Según los separatistas prorrusos, decenas de personas mueren en ataques aéreos ucranianos en Horlivka , Ucrania . [26]
- 19 de enero
- Indonesia AirAsia X , una aerolínea creada como una empresa conjunta de AirAsia X e Indonesia AirAsia para brindar un servicio de larga distancia desde el Aeropuerto Internacional Ngurah Rai de Bali , realiza su primer vuelo, desde Bali a Taipei , Taiwán .
- Dos misiles aire-tierra disparados por un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense golpean un complejo en el área de Shahi Khel del valle de Shawal en Waziristán del Norte, Pakistán, matando al menos a cuatro militantes islámicos, incluido Adam Yahiye Gadahn . Es la cuarta huelga de este tipo en 2015. [20] [27]
- 20 de enero
- Los precios del combustible para aviones se han reducido casi a la mitad en los 12 meses anteriores, pero esto no ha llevado a las aerolíneas a reducir sus tarifas. Los contratos de combustible a largo plazo significan que las aerolíneas no esperan disfrutar de los precios más baratos del combustible hasta el verano de 2015. [28]
- Un Olimp Aérea Antonov An-2 (designación OTAN "Colt") que lleva cuatro empleados de la Kazakhmys empresa minera y una tripulación de tres accidentes en Kazajstán 20 km (12,5 millas) de su destino, la mina Shatyrkul . El accidente mata a los tres miembros de la tripulación y a tres de los cuatro pasajeros. [29]
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado Spreading Wings S900 sobrecargado que aparentemente volaba de México a los Estados Unidos con más de 6 libras (2,7 kg) de metanfetamina de cristal se estrella en el estacionamiento de un supermercado en Tijuana , México. Los UAV están emergiendo como una nueva forma para que los cárteles de la droga ingresen de contrabando drogas ilegales a Estados Unidos desde México. [30]
- 21 de enero
- Las autoridades de Adén , Yemen , cierran el aeropuerto internacional de Adén para protestar contra los ataques de las milicias hutíes contra el presidente de Yemen Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi y otros funcionarios del gobierno de Yemen . [31]
- 22 de enero
- El presidente de Yemen, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, y todo su gabinete renuncian bajo la presión de la milicia hutí, que toma el control del gobierno yemení. Hadi había otorgado a Estados Unidos permiso para volar vehículos aéreos no tripulados (UAV) sobre Yemen para realizar vuelos de vigilancia contra al-Qaeda en la Península Arábiga (AQAP) y había aprobado ataques de UAV estadounidenses contra objetivos de AQAP en Yemen. Los hutíes son hostiles a AQAP pero también a Estados Unidos, lo que cuestiona si los vuelos de vehículos aéreos no tripulados estadounidenses y las huelgas en Yemen pueden continuar después de la renuncia de Hadi. [32]
- Las fuerzas del ejército ucraniano se retiran de la nueva terminal en el aeropuerto internacional de Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev en Donetsk, Ucrania, dejándola en manos de separatistas prorrusos después de meses de combates. [33]
- 23 de enero
- SkyMall, LLC, y varias compañías afiliadas responsables de publicar el catálogo de la aerolínea SkyMall , que se encuentra en los bolsillos de los asientos de los aviones desde 1990 , solicitan la protección por bancarrota del Capítulo 11 y solicitan una subasta a fines de marzo de 2015 para comenzar el proceso de liquidación de la mercancía restante. El creciente acceso a los medios electrónicos para realizar compras durante los vuelos que las aerolíneas han proporcionado a los pasajeros ha hecho que el catálogo no sea rentable. [34] [35] [36]
- 24 de enero
- Después de que las autoridades consideraran amenazas de bomba en Twitter contra dos aviones en vuelo sobre los Estados Unidos: el vuelo 1156 de Delta Air Lines , que volaba desde Portland , Oregón , a Atlanta , Georgia , con 180 pasajeros a bordo, y el vuelo 2492 de Southwest Airlines , que transportaba a 86 pasajeros desde Milwaukee. , Wisconsin , a Atlanta: para ser creíble, el Comando de Defensa Aeroespacial de América del Norte revuelve aviones de combate desde la Base Conjunta de la Guardia Nacional McEntire en el condado de Richland , Carolina del Sur , para escoltarlos a Atlanta, con un par de cazas escoltando cada avión hasta que aterrice de manera segura. en el Aeropuerto Internacional Hartsfield-Jackson . Una búsqueda después de que los aviones de pasajeros aterrizan no encuentra bombas en ninguno de los aviones. [37]
- 25 de enero
- Después de dos intentos fallidos de lanzamiento, Tom Bradley de los Estados Unidos y Leonid Tiukhtyaev de Rusia partieron con éxito en el " Globo Two Eagles " desde Saga , Japón , para un vuelo a través del Océano Pacífico hacia un destino indeterminado en América del Norte , con la esperanza de batir los récords de distancia y resistencia para el vuelo más largo en un globo lleno de gas. [38]
- Un agente de Cirrus Aircraft , Lue Morton, está transportando un Cirrus SR22 desde California a Hawai cuando su avión se queda sin combustible a 250 millas de Maui . El tanque de combustible auxiliar de la aeronave experimenta problemas de transferencia de combustible y Morton despliega el sistema de paracaídas Cirrus Airframe para lanzarse de manera segura al océano. Allí es recogido por la Guardia Costera de Estados Unidos . [39] [40]
- 26 de enero
- Un empleado del gobierno de los Estados Unidos que vuela un pequeño vehículo aéreo no tripulado cuadricóptero recreacionalmente temprano en la mañana en Washington, DC , pierde el control del mismo. Se estrella en los terrenos de la Casa Blanca , lo que activa una alerta de seguridad. [41]
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado de la Agencia Central de Inteligencia de EE. UU. Realiza un ataque con misiles aire-tierra en la gobernación de Ma'rib , Yemen, contra un automóvil que transportaba a tres hombres sospechosos de ser miembros de Al Qaeda en la Península Arábiga , matando a los tres. [42]
- Un F-16 Fighting Falcon de la Fuerza Aérea Helénica que participaba en un ejercicio de entrenamiento de la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte se estrella al despegar de la Base Aérea de Los Llanos en Albacete , España . Golpea cinco aviones estacionados, matando a sus dos tripulantes y nueve militares franceses en tierra. Otras veinte personas en el suelo sufren heridas. [43] [44]
- Tres balas impactaron en el vuelo 215 de FlyDubai , un Boeing 737-800 con 154 personas a bordo, mientras aterrizaba al final de la tarde en el aeropuerto internacional de Bagdad en Bagdad , Irak. [45]
- 27 de enero
- De los 954 ataques aéreos de la coalición contra las fuerzas del Estado Islámico hasta el momento, 705 han afectado a la ciudad siria de Kobane y sus alrededores. Los aviones estadounidenses han realizado la gran mayoría de los ataques. [46]
- A raíz de las balas que alcanzaron el vuelo 215 de FlyDubai en el aeropuerto internacional de Bagdad el 26 de enero, Air Arabia , Emirates , Etihad Airways , FlyDubai, Royal Jordanian Airlines , Middle East Airlines y Turkish Airlines suspenden el servicio al aeropuerto. Iraqi Airways continúa volando allí. [47]
- American Airlines informa que debido a los precios más bajos del petróleo, espera gastar $ 5,000,000,000 menos en combustible para aviones en 2015 que en 2014 . [48]
- 28 de enero
- Aviones israelíes atacan objetivos de Hezbollah en el Líbano durante un intercambio de fuego de artillería y misiles entre Hezbollah e Israel a través de la frontera israelí con el Líbano. [24]
- En respuesta a dos cohetes disparados desde Siria contra territorio israelí el día anterior, aviones israelíes atacaron posiciones de artillería del ejército sirio en los Altos del Golán . [49]
- Jordania propone un intercambio de prisioneros que sienta precedentes con el Estado Islámico para llevar a casa a un piloto de la Real Fuerza Aérea de Jordania cuyo avión se estrelló en Siria el 24 de diciembre de 2014 . [50]
- La Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos anuncia que Boeing construirá el próximo Air Force One . El avión será un Boeing 747-8 que entrará en funcionamiento en 2023. [51]
- 29 de enero
- Un avión de la Fuerza Aérea de Chad lanza bombas en apoyo de las tropas del Ejército de Chad que atacan a las fuerzas de Boko Haram en la aldea de Malumfatori en el estado de Borno , Nigeria . El ataque de Chad es la primera acción contra Boko Haram en suelo nigeriano por parte de fuerzas militares no nigerianas. [52]
- 30 de enero
- Durante un vuelo a través del Océano Pacífico desde Japón a México en el " Globo de las Dos Águilas ", Tom Bradley de los Estados Unidos y Leonid Tiukhtyaev de Rusia registraron 5.260 millas (8.467 km) desde su partida, de manera extraoficial, según las reglas establecidas por la Fédération Aéronautique. Internationale - rompiendo el récord de distancia para un vuelo en un relleno de gas del globo de 5.209 millas (8.388 km) Situado en el de noviembre de 1981 por Ben Abruzzo , Larry Newman , Ron Clark, y Rocky Aoki a bordo del globo Double Eagle V . [53]
- 31 de enero
- Un avión de entrenamiento SIAI Marchetti SF.260 FH de la Fuerza Aérea de Filipinas se estrella en el mar frente a Nasugbu , Batangas , Filipinas , matando a sus dos pilotos. [54]
- Un presunto ataque con misiles aire-tierra de un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense contra un automóvil en al-Saeed en la gobernación de Shabwah en Yemen mata a tres hombres sospechosos de ser miembros de al-Qaeda en la Península Arábiga. [55]
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense realiza un ataque con misiles aire-tierra contra un automóvil cerca de Dinsoor , Somalia , matando al jefe de operaciones externas de Al-Shabaab , Yusef Dheeq. Es al menos el tercer ataque con vehículos aéreos no tripulados militares que Estados Unidos ha llevado a cabo en Somalia desde septiembre de 2014 . [56]
- Dos aviones de combate de la Fuerza Aérea de Chad bombardean posiciones de Boko Haram en Gamboru , Nigeria. [57]
- Tom Bradley y Leonid Tiukhtyaev aterrizan su globo Two Eagles en el Océano Pacífico a cuatro millas (6.5 km) de Baja California a 300 millas (483 km) al norte de Cabo San Lucas , México, completando su viaje de 6.646 millas (10.702 km) desde Japón en 160 horas 38 minutos. Su vuelo rompe los récords anteriores para un globo lleno de gas para ambas distancias, establecido en noviembre de 1981, cuando Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman, Ron Clark y Rock Aoki en un vuelo de 5,209 millas (8,388 km) a bordo del globo Double Eagle V - y resistencia - ambientada en agosto de 1978 por Abruzzo, Newman y Maxie Anderson durante un vuelo transatlántico en el globo Double Eagle II que duró 137 horas y 6 minutos. [58] [59]
- Finales de enero
- Durante la última semana de enero, los directores ejecutivos de American Airlines , Delta Air Lines y United Airlines se reunieron con el secretario de Transporte de los Estados Unidos, Anthony Foxx , la secretaria de Comercio de los Estados Unidos, Penny Pritzker , y otros funcionarios del gobierno de los Estados Unidos para solicitar que el Estados Unidos comienza negociaciones de gobierno a gobierno con Qatar y los Emiratos Árabes Unidos para investigar los supuestos subsidios gubernamentales y el exceso de capacidad en las rutas que Emirates , Etihad Airways y Qatar Airways vuelan entre esos países y los Estados Unidos. Proponen que se modifiquen los acuerdos de " cielos abiertos " para crear lo que ellos llaman acuerdos de "cielos limpios" que harán que las aerolíneas estadounidenses sean más competitivas con las tres aerolíneas del Golfo Pérsico en las rutas internacionales de larga distancia. JetBlue se opone a la iniciativa de la coalición American-Delta-United, alegando que ella y otras aerolíneas estadounidenses más pequeñas se han beneficiado de los acuerdos existentes de "cielos abiertos". [60]
febrero
- La Fédération Aéronautique Internationale establece los primeros criterios de evaluación para los intentos oficiales de formación de un traje de alas de récord mundial. Los registros anteriores se retiran, y los intentos de registros futuros se juzgarán de acuerdo con los nuevos criterios.
- 1 de febrero
- Dos helicópteros militares chadianos pasan dos horas atacando posiciones de Boko Haram en Gamboru , Nigeria . [57]
- La Junta Suiza de Investigación de Accidentes, responsable de la investigación de accidentes de aviación en Suiza , pasa a llamarse Junta Suiza de Investigación de Seguridad en el Transporte .
- 3 de febrero
- El Estado Islámico publica un video de su personal matando al piloto de la Real Fuerza Aérea de Jordania , el teniente Muath al-Kasasbeh, quemándolo hasta matarlo mientras está en una jaula. La televisión estatal de Jordania afirma que el video se hizo un mes antes. El Estado Islámico capturó a al-Kasasbeh, el único piloto de la coalición que ha capturado hasta ahora, en Siria el 24 de diciembre de 2014 cuando su avión se estrelló mientras atacaba sus posiciones. [61]
- 4 de febrero
- El vuelo 235 de TransAsia Airways , un ATR 72-600 con 58 personas a bordo, experimenta una avería del motor justo después del despegue del aeropuerto Songshan de Taipei en Taipei , Taiwán . Después de despejar un edificio de apartamentos, el avión gira bruscamente hacia la izquierda a baja altitud, y la punta de su ala izquierda choca contra un taxi en el viaducto de Huangdong y la barandilla del viaducto antes de estrellarse contra el río Keelung en Taipei. Entre las personas en el avión, el accidente mata al menos a 35, con otros ocho desaparecidos y los 15 sobrevivientes heridos. Dos personas en el taxi también sufren heridas. Las cámaras de varios vehículos que circulan por el viaducto registran el accidente.
- El Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos informa que Estados Unidos ha llevado a cabo 943 de los 1.022 ataques aéreos contra el Estado Islámico en Siria desde que comenzó la campaña el 8 de agosto de 2014 . Los otros socios de la coalición —Australia , Bahrein , Canadá , Dinamarca , Francia , Jordania, los Países Bajos , Qatar , Arabia Saudita , los Emiratos Árabes Unidos y el Reino Unido— han realizado los otros 79. [62] [63]
- 5 de febrero
- En represalia por el asesinato del teniente piloto Muath al-Kasasbeh, la Real Fuerza Aérea de Jordania lleva a cabo la Operación Muath el Mártir, que involucra a decenas de aviones jordanos que bombardean bases del Estado Islámico, campos de entrenamiento y almacenes de armas y municiones. Los aviones que regresan sobrevuelan la ciudad natal de al-Kasasbeh, Aye , mientras que el rey Abdullah II de Jordania hace una visita de condolencias al padre de al-Kasasbeh allí. [62] [64] [65]
- Un ataque con bomba de barril por helicópteros del gobierno sirio en un mercado en Ghouta , Siria, mata al menos a 40 personas. [66]
- 6 de febrero
- Jordania expande su campaña aérea contra el Estado Islámico en Irak por primera vez, ya que la Real Fuerza Aérea de Jordania ataca objetivos en Mosul temprano en la mañana. [67]
- El Estado Islámico afirma que la rehén estadounidense Kayla Mueller fue asesinada, la única víctima en una redada de la Real Fuerza Aérea de Jordania que duró una hora contra un almacén de armas en Raqqa , Siria, durante las oraciones islámicas . El gobierno de los Estados Unidos y el gobierno de Jordania descartan la afirmación, citando la improbabilidad de que el personal del Estado Islámico identifique a la aeronave atacante como jordana, de que Mueller sea la única víctima en la destrucción de un edificio en el que el Estado Islámico la tiene prisionera, y del Estado Islámico reteniéndola en un almacén de armas. [68]
- 7 de febrero
- Los Emiratos Árabes Unidos envían un escuadrón de cazas F-16 Fighting Falcon a Jordania para operar desde una base allí y participar en ataques aéreos contra objetivos del Estado Islámico. El anuncio marca un regreso de la Fuerza Aérea de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos a la campaña aérea de la coalición anti-Estado Islámico después de que suspendiera la participación a fines de diciembre de 2014 cuando el Estado Islámico capturó al piloto de la Real Fuerza Aérea Jordana derribado Muath al-Kasasbeh en espera de las mejoras que exigía en la capacidad de las fuerzas armadas de los Estados Unidos para rescatar a los pilotos de la coalición del territorio controlado por el Estado Islámico. [69]
- 8 de febrero
- El jefe de la Real Fuerza Aérea de Jordania, el general de división Mansour al-Jabour, anuncia que Jordania ha destruido 56 centros de entrenamiento, cuarteles militares, almacenes y depósitos de armas del Estado Islámico en ataques aéreos diarios desde el 5 de febrero, y que seguirán más ataques aéreos. Agrega que aviones de la coalición anti-Estado Islámico han realizado 5.500 salidas, incluidos 2.000 vuelos de reconocimiento, hasta ahora en la campaña aérea, que comenzó en Irak en agosto de 2014 y se expandió a Siria en septiembre de 2014, en la que Jordan había participado en 946 de ellos, y que 7.000 militantes islámicos han sido asesinados. [70]
- Alpinistas chilenos anuncian que han descubierto los restos de LAN Chile Vuelo 210 , un Douglas DC-3 con 24 personas, entre ellas ocho miembros de la chilena de fútbol (fútbol) equipo de Club de Deportes Green Cross , que desapareció sobre las montañas de los Andes en Chile durante un vuelo doméstico de Osorno a Santiago el 3 de abril de 1961 . Los restos se encuentran en los Andes a una altitud de aproximadamente 10,500 pies (3,200 metros) a unas 215 millas (360 kilómetros) al sur de Santiago. [71]
- 9 de febrero
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense realiza un ataque con misiles aire-tierra contra un automóvil en la provincia de Helmand , Afganistán , matando a ocho personas, incluido Abdul Rauf Aliza , el principal reclutador de la filial del Estado Islámico en Afganistán. [72] [73]
- 10 de febrero
- El personal de mantenimiento de la paz de las Naciones Unidas y las fuerzas militares francesas utilizan helicópteros para bombardear las posiciones del Frente Popular rebelde para el Renacimiento de África Central en apoyo de las tropas terrestres que buscan expulsar a los rebeldes de la ciudad de Bria en la República Centroafricana . Los rebeldes se retiran de Bria, perdiendo siete de los muertos. [74]
- 11 de febrero
- Los observadores informan que los ataques de la Fuerza Aérea Siria contra áreas controladas por los rebeldes en los suburbios del este de Damasco han matado al menos a 183 personas en los diez días anteriores. Los objetivos han incluido Ghouta y los mercados de Douma . [66]
- La Agencia Espacial Europea 's Intermedio eXperimental vehículo , un grupo experimental de reentrada de vehículos a menudo referido como el 'avión espacial europea', realiza su primer vuelo, una misión suborbital de 100 minutos en el que se pone en marcha desde el Centro Espacial de Guayana en Kourou , Guayana francesa y aterriza en el Océano Pacífico a unos 3.000 km al oeste de las Islas Galápagos (1.863 millas terrestres; 1.620 millas náuticas). [75] [76]
- 13 de febrero
- Reacondicionado después de estar almacenado en el "cementerio" de la Base de la Fuerza Aérea Davis-Monthan en Arizona desde 2008, el B-52G Stratofortress Ghost Rider vuela desde Davis-Monthan a la Base de la Fuerza Aérea Barksdale en Shreveport , Louisiana , y regresa al servicio activo. Es la primera vez que la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos devuelve un B-52 que había estado almacenado a largo plazo al servicio activo. [77]
- 15 de febrero
- El portaaviones de la Armada francesa Charles de Gaulle (R91) llega al Golfo Pérsico para participar en la Opération Chammal , el componente francés de la campaña aérea en Irak contra el Estado Islámico. El despliegue es en respuesta a los tiroteos de Charlie Hebdo en París en enero de 2015. Charles de Gaulle opera bajo el mando estadounidense, la primera vez en la historia que Francia ha puesto a Charles de Gaulle bajo mando extranjero. Charles de Gaulle operará en el Golfo Pérsico durante ocho semanas. [78] [79]
- La Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) da a conocer sus regulaciones propuestas para el uso comercial de vehículos aéreos no tripulados (UAV) que pesen 55 libras (25 kg) o menos en los Estados Unidos, requiriendo que los operadores comerciales de UAV registren cada UAV, pasen una prueba de aptitud escrita y pagar una tarifa, pero no para demostrar competencia en el vuelo de un UAV; Requerirían que los UAV vuelen a no más de 100 millas por hora (161 km / h), permanezcan por debajo de una altitud de 500 pies (152 metros) y eviten sobrevolar a cualquier persona que no esté involucrada en su operación, lo que excluye el uso de UAV en Entrega de mercadería puerta a puerta a los clientes. Después de un período de revisión que durará hasta 2017, la FAA espera que las reglas entren en vigor y que más de 7.000 empresas reciban permisos de vehículos aéreos no tripulados en los Estados Unidos entre 2017 y 2020. [80]
- El presidente Barack Obama emite una orden ejecutiva que requiere que las agencias del gobierno de los Estados Unidos revelen públicamente dónde operan los UAV y cómo protegen la información personal recopilada durante los vuelos de UAV, así como también publicar un informe anual sobre sus operaciones de UAV. La orden también ordena al Departamento de Comercio de los Estados Unidos que trabaje con empresas privadas y fabricantes de vehículos aéreos no tripulados para desarrollar un código de conducta voluntario para la recopilación y protección de la información personal recopilada durante los vuelos comerciales de vehículos aéreos no tripulados. [80]
- 16 de febrero
- Los F-16 Fighting Falcons de la Fuerza Aérea Egipcia atacan campamentos, áreas de entrenamiento y depósitos de armas del Estado Islámico en Libia después de que el ala libia del Estado Islámico publicara un video que muestra a su personal decapitando a una docena de cristianos coptos en una playa en Libia; Se cree que los muertos se encuentran entre los 21 cristianos coptos, la mayoría de ellos egipcios , asesinados de esta manera. El Gobierno de Egipto anuncia las huelgas, la primera vez que ha admitido públicamente haber emprendido una acción militar en Libia durante la segunda Guerra Civil Libia . [81] En un ataque coordinado, la Fuerza Aérea Libia ataca objetivos del Estado Islámico en Derna , Libia. [81]
- 17 de febrero
- Un avión militar dirigido a las fuerzas de Boko Haram bombardea por error un funeral en Abadam Faransa , Níger , matando a 37 personas e hiriendo a otras 20. Los lugareños culpan a la Fuerza Aérea de Nigeria por el ataque, pero Nigeria niega tener aviones que realicen bombardeos en el área. [82]
- La administración Obama anuncia que el gobierno de los Estados Unidos permitirá la exportación generalizada de vehículos aéreos no tripulados armados a los aliados de los Estados Unidos. Para recibir drones construidos en Estados Unidos, los gobiernos extranjeros tendrán que presentar un caso sólido para adquirirlos, acordar un conjunto de principios de "uso adecuado" creados por Estados Unidos, prometiendo usar los UAV para la defensa nacional u otras situaciones en las que la fuerza está permitido por el derecho internacional, no debe utilizar los UAV "para llevar a cabo vigilancia ilegal o [para] aplicar la fuerza ilegal contra sus poblaciones nacionales", y dar su consentimiento para que los estadounidenses supervisen el uso de los UAV. [83]
- 21 de febrero
- Un jet de la Fuerza Aérea de Nigeria bombardea posiciones de Boko Haram alrededor de Baga , Nigeria, mientras las tropas nigerianas retoman Baga de Boko Haram. [84]
- 22 de febrero
- El portaaviones francés Charles de Gaulle comienza a lanzar ataques aéreos contra objetivos del Estado Islámico en Irak. [78]
- 24 de febrero
- Durante la oscuridad previa al amanecer, las autoridades francesas detectan al menos cinco vehículos aéreos no tripulados no identificados que vuelan ilegalmente sobre los puntos de referencia de París , incluida la Torre Eiffel , Les Invalides , la Embajada de los Estados Unidos , la Place de la Concorde y la Tour Montparnasse . [85]
- 25 de febrero
- Helicópteros de asalto apoyan un ataque de las tropas filipinas contra las fuerzas de Abu Sayyaf en una batalla de un día cerca de Patikul en la provincia de Sulu en Filipinas . [86]
- En las horas previas al amanecer, las autoridades francesas, por segundo lugar nocturno consecutivo, vieron al menos cinco vehículos aéreos no tripulados no identificados que volaban ilegalmente a una altitud de 100 a 300 metros (328 a 984 pies) sobre los puntos de referencia de París, incluida nuevamente la Torre Eiffel, Les Invalides, la Embajada de los Estados Unidos y la Place de la Concorde, así como sobre varias vías importantes. Los vuelos en dos noches consecutivas avivan los temores en París de una inminente violencia terrorista. [87] Más tarde ese mismo día, la policía francesa arresta a tres periodistas de Al-Jazeera por volar un UAV ilegalmente sobre el Bois de Boulogne en el oeste de París. [88]
marcha
- 2 de marzo
- Los ataques de aviones de la Fuerza Aérea iraquí apoyan el comienzo de una ofensiva de las fuerzas del ejército iraquí y de las milicias sunitas y chiítas para recuperar Tikrit del Estado Islámico . [89]
- 3 de marzo
- Un vuelo de Turkish Airlines (THY726) que transportaba a 238 personas sobrepasa una pista y se estrella mientras intenta aterrizar en un aeropuerto de Nepal en medio de una densa niebla. Nadie está gravemente herido. [90]
- 5 de marzo
- Un Ejército Árabe Siria ataque aéreo en Siria 's Idlib gobernación mata Nusra delantero alto comandante Abu Hammam al-Shami . [91]
- Aterrizando durante una tormenta de nieve en el aeropuerto LaGuardia en Queens , Nueva York , el vuelo 1086 de Delta Air Lines , un McDonnell Douglas MD-88 que transportaba a 132 personas, patina al final de la pista 13, se estrella contra una valla perimetral y se detiene en una tierra terraplén a lo largo de Flushing Bay . Veinticuatro personas a bordo sufren heridas. [92] [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99]
- El actor de cine estadounidense Harrison Ford aterriza en un accidente con el clásico Ryan ST-3KR Recruit que está pilotando en el campo de golf Penmar en Venice , California , después de que sufriera una falla en el motor poco después del despegue del aeropuerto municipal de Santa Mónica en Santa Mónica , California. Está hospitalizado con lesiones que no ponen en peligro su vida. [100] [101]
- 8 de marzo
- Aviones de la coalición liderada por Estados Unidos atacan un recinto del Frente Nusra en Idlib , Siria , matando al menos a nueve miembros del personal del Frente Nusra. [102]
- Un ataque aéreo de la coalición liderada por Estados Unidos contra una refinería de petróleo del Estado Islámico en las afueras de Tell Abyad , Siria, matando a 30 miembros del personal del Estado Islámico y trabajadores de la refinería. [103]
- El general del ejército de los Estados Unidos Martin Dempsey llega por vía aérea a bordo del portaaviones de la Armada francesa Charles de Gaulle (R91) , que opera en el Golfo Pérsico para participar en la Opération Chammal , el componente francés de la campaña aérea en Irak contra el Estado Islámico. convirtiéndose en el primer presidente del Estado Mayor Conjunto en visitar un portaaviones francés. Charles de Gaulle ha lanzado entre 12 y 15 salidas diarias en apoyo de la Opération Chammal. [79]
- Desde que la coalición liderada por Estados Unidos comenzó los ataques aéreos contra objetivos del Estado Islámico en Irak y Siria en los siete meses anteriores , ha realizado 2.738 ataques. Estados Unidos ha llevado a cabo 2.203 y el Reino Unido ha realizado alrededor de 160.
- 9 de marzo
- Solar Impulse 2 (registro HB-SIB) comienza su intento de convertirse en el primer avión con energía solar en volar alrededor del mundo y el primer avión en hacerlo sin usar una gota de combustible fósil, completando la primera etapa del viaje: un vuelo. de 441 kilómetros (274 millas) desde Abu Dhabi en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos hasta el Aeropuerto Internacional de Muscat en Muscat , Omán , a una velocidad de avance promedio de 33,88 km / h (21,04 mph) en 13 horas 1 minuto (incluido poco más de una hora dando vueltas al aeropuerto esperando que los vientos amaine para permitir un aterrizaje), alcanzando una altitud máxima de 6.383 metros (20.941 pies). André Borschberg pilota esta etapa del vuelo. [104] [105]
- Dos helicópteros argentinos Eurocopter AS350B3 Écureuil (matrículas LQ-CGK y LQ-FJQ) involucrados en el rodaje de la serie de televisión de realidad francesa Dropped , cada uno con un piloto y cuatro pasajeros, chocan en el aire a una altitud de unos 100 metros (328 pies). segundos después del despegue en Villa Castelli , Argentina , se estrelló a unos 15 metros (50 pies) de distancia y estalló en llamas. Las 10 personas a bordo de los dos helicópteros, los dos pilotos argentinos y los ocho pasajeros franceses, mueren. Entre los muertos se encuentran los atletas franceses Florence Arthaud , Camille Muffat y Alexis Vastine . [106] [107]
- 10 de marzo
- Pilotado por Bertrand Piccard , Solar Impulse 2 realiza el segundo tramo de su vuelo alrededor del mundo, desde el Aeropuerto Internacional de Muscat en Omán hasta el Aeropuerto Internacional Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel en Ahmedabad , India . El vuelo dura 15 horas y 20 minutos a una velocidad terrestre promedio de 96,85 km / h (60,14 mph), alcanza una altitud máxima de 8.874 metros (29.114 pies) y cubre 1.485 kilómetros (922 millas), estableciendo un nuevo récord mundial de vuelos sin escalas. distancia recorrida por un avión de energía solar. [108] [109] [110]
- Volando en una densa niebla, un helicóptero UH-60 Blackhawk del Ejército de los Estados Unidos que transportaba a una tripulación de la Guardia Nacional del Ejército de cuatro y siete efectivos del Cuerpo de Marines de los Estados Unidos se estrella en el estrecho de Santa Rosa de Florida cerca de la isla Okaloosa , matando a los 11 hombres a bordo. [111]
- 11 de marzo
- El Gobierno de los Estados Unidos anuncia que enviará pequeños vehículos aéreos no tripulados desarmados a Ucrania junto con otras ayudas no letales para ayudar al Gobierno de Ucrania en la lucha contra los separatistas prorrusos. [112] [113]
- 12 de marzo
- El Departamento de Defensa de Estados Unidos anuncia que Estados Unidos ha llevado a cabo su cuarto ataque con vehículos aéreos no tripulados en Somalia desde septiembre de 2014 , golpeando un automóvil cerca de Bardera , Somalia, con un misil aire-tierra . Afirman que el ataque mató a tres miembros del personal de al-Shabaab , incluido el comandante de al-Shabaab, Adan Garaar . [114]
- 13 de marzo
- Operando contra los rebeldes del Ejército de la Alianza Nacional Democrática de Myanmar en la región de Kokang de Myanmar , un avión de la Fuerza Aérea de Myanmar cruza la frontera hacia la República Popular de China y arroja una bomba en un campo de caña de azúcar cerca de Lincang en Yunnan , matando a cuatro personas y hiriendo a otros nueve. China insta a Myanmar a investigar el bombardeo y tomar medidas para garantizar la seguridad de la zona fronteriza china. [115]
- Las Fuerzas Armadas de Pakistán anuncian que han probado el primer vehículo aéreo no tripulado armado autóctono de Pakistán , el NESCOM Burraq , y que puede operar en cualquier clima y disparar misiles aire-tierra guiados por láser . Anuncian que planean usar UAV Burraq para atacar a militantes islámicos en el noroeste de Pakistán. [116]
- Las Fuerzas Armadas de Pakistán anuncian que sus ataques aéreos en el noroeste de Pakistán, cerca de la frontera con Afganistán, han matado a 48 militantes islámicos en las últimas 24 horas. [116]
- 14 de marzo
- Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea Siria bombardean áreas controladas por los rebeldes en Douma , Siria , matando al menos a 20 personas e hiriendo a más de 100. [117]
- 16 a 17 de marzo (durante la noche)
- Un ataque con cloro gaseoso en Sarmin , Siria, mata al menos a seis personas y enferma a decenas más. Los activistas de derechos humanos culpan a los helicópteros militares sirios del ataque, pero el Gobierno de Siria niega su participación y culpa del ataque a los rebeldes sirios. [118]
- 17 de marzo
- El Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos informa que ha perdido contacto con un vehículo aéreo no tripulado MQ-1 Predator estadounidense desarmado sobre el noroeste de Siria. El Gobierno de Siria afirma que sus fuerzas de defensa aérea han derribado un "avión de vigilancia estadounidense hostil", aparentemente en referencia al Predator. Es la primera vez que Siria afirma haber derribado un avión estadounidense de cualquier tipo desde que la coalición liderada por Estados Unidos inició ataques aéreos contra objetivos del Estado Islámico en Siria en septiembre de 2014 . [119]
- 18 de marzo
- Con André Borschberg a los mandos, Solar Impulse 2 realiza la tercera etapa de su vuelo alrededor del mundo, sobrevolando la India desde Ahmedabad hasta Varanasi . El vuelo dura 13 horas y 15 minutos, recorre 1.215 kilómetros (755 millas) a una velocidad media de 91,70 km / h (57,95 mph) y alcanza una altitud máxima de 17.000 pies (5.182 metros). [120] [121]
- 18 a 19 de marzo (durante la noche)
- Los aviones Hércules C-130 de la Fuerza Aérea Iraquí arrojan cientos de miles de folletos sobre Mosul , Irak , prometiendo a los residentes que las fuerzas militares iraquíes los liberarían del control del Estado Islámico, instándolos a colaborar contra las fuerzas del Estado Islámico y pidiéndoles que tomen nota de las personas. cooperando con el Estado Islámico. [122]
- 19 de marzo
- Volado por Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 vuela la cuarta etapa de su vuelo alrededor del mundo, desde Varanasi, India, hasta Mandalay , Myanmar . El vuelo dura 13 horas 29 minutos, recorre 1.398 kilómetros (868 millas) a una velocidad media de 103,68 km / h (64,39 mph) y alcanza una altitud máxima de 27.000 pies (8.230 metros). [123] Durante el vuelo, la aeronave establece un récord mundial de velocidad terrestre para vuelos tripulados con energía solar, alcanzando una velocidad máxima de 216 km / h (135 mph). [109]
- Un jet de la Fuerza Aérea Yemení operado por rebeldes hutíes dispara misiles aire-tierra en el palacio del depuesto presidente de Yemen Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi en Adén , Yemen. El ataque no hiere a nadie, pero es una escalada significativa en la rebelión hutí contra el Gobierno de Yemen . [124]
- La Administración Federal de Aviación de EE. UU . Emite un certificado de aeronavegabilidad experimental a Amazon.com , lo que permite a la compañía probar un prototipo de su avión no tripulado de entrega en terrenos privados en el estado de Washington , restringiendo los vuelos a una altitud de no más de 400 pies (122 metros). . [125]
- Un argentino Beechcraft King Air se estrella en una laguna después de despegar del Aeropuerto Internacional de Punta del Este en la Laguna del Sauce , Uruguay , quemaduras, y queda parcialmente sumergido, matando a las 10 personas a bordo. [126]
- 20 de marzo
- Los enfrentamientos entre las fuerzas leales al derrocado presidente de Yemen, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, y las leales al ex presidente Ali Abdullah Saleh en el aeropuerto internacional de Adén en Adén , Yemen , matan al menos a seis personas. [127]
- Los rebeldes hutíes llevan a cabo dos ataques aéreos más contra el palacio en Adén, Yemen, donde se encuentra Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. Él está ileso y el palacio no sufre daños. [127]
- Richard White ataca a los oficiales de la Administración de Seguridad en el Transporte (TSA) en el Aeropuerto Internacional Louis Armstrong de Nueva Orleans en Nueva Orleans , Louisiana , con una lata de aerosol para avispas y un machete . Un ayudante del alguacil de la parroquia de Jefferson le dispara antes de que pueda infligir lesiones graves a alguien, aunque un oficial de la TSA sufre una herida menor cuando es golpeada por uno de los disparos del ayudante destinados a White. White muere a causa de sus heridas la tarde siguiente. [128]
- 22 de marzo
- Después de que un helicóptero del gobierno sirio sufre un mal funcionamiento técnico y hace un aterrizaje forzoso de emergencia cerca de Maarrat al-Nu'man en la gobernación de Idlib en Siria , las fuerzas rebeldes matan a uno de sus tripulantes y capturan a otros cuatro. Falta un sexto tripulante. [129]
- 23 de marzo
- Al decir que un ancla de hormigón que cayó al mar durante la construcción de una nueva base aérea para las fuerzas militares estadounidenses en Hekono , Okinawa , había dañado el coral , el gobernador de Okinawa, Takeshi Onaga, ordena al Ministerio de Defensa japonés que detenga todos los trabajos en la base aérea. . La nueva base está destinada a permitir la reubicación de las fuerzas estadounidenses de la Estación Aérea del Cuerpo de Marines Futenma en Ginowan , en las afueras de Naha , Okinawa. [130]
- 24 de marzo
- El vuelo 9525 de Germanwings : un Airbus A320-200 (matrícula D-AIPX) que volaba desde el aeropuerto de Barcelona-El Prat en Barcelona , España , al aeropuerto de Düsseldorf en Düsseldorf , Alemania , se estrella cerca de Prads-Haute-Bléone , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , Francia . La evidencia recuperada tanto de la voz de la cabina como de los registradores de datos de vuelo sugiere que el copiloto, Andreas Lubitz, estrelló intencionalmente la aeronave después de evitar que el capitán regresara a la cabina. Las 150 personas a bordo mueren.
- Cuatro aviones militares rusos - dos bombarderos Tupolev Tu-22M 3 ( nombre de informe de la OTAN "Backfire") y dos aviones de combate Sukhoi Su-27 (nombre de informe de la OTAN "Flanker") - vuelan sobre el Mar Báltico con sus transpondedores apagados, lo que provocó que el Norte Organización del Tratado del Atlántico para reunir a los cazas de la Fuerza Aérea Danesa y la Fuerza Aérea Italiana de Lituania para identificarlos. La Fuerza Aérea Sueca también codifica a los cazas para interceptar e identificar el avión ruso. [131]
- Según los informes, los helicópteros del gobierno sirio llevan a cabo un ataque con cloro gaseoso contra los rebeldes en Binish , Siria, según activistas sirios de derechos humanos, que también afirman que 30 personas son trasladadas al hospital con problemas respiratorios. [132]
- 25 de marzo
- Los aviones estadounidenses realizan sus primeros ataques en apoyo de la estancada ofensiva terrestre iraquí para tomar Tikrit del Estado Islámico. Es la primera participación estadounidense directa en la ofensiva. [133]
- 26 de marzo
- Una fuerza de 100 aviones de la Real Fuerza Aérea Saudita comienza a atacar en Yemen contra las fuerzas insurgentes hutíes que avanzan desde el norte hacia el sur de Yemen. Aviones sauditas atacan el aeropuerto internacional de Saná controlado por los hutíes en Saná , destruyen cuatro aviones de la Fuerza Aérea yemení en la base aérea de Dailami en Saná, bombardean la base aérea de Al Anad en la gobernación de Lahij , apuntan al líder hutí en la gobernación de Saada y el palacio presidencial ocupado por los hutíes en Adén y las bases hutíes alrededor de Adén. Los ataques matan al menos a 23 personas e hieren al menos a 47 más. Bahrein informa que ha contribuido con 12 aviones de la Real Fuerza Aérea de Bahrein a la operación, y se cree que Jordania ha comprometido aviones de la Real Fuerza Aérea de Jordania . [134] [135]
- 27 de marzo
- Después del accidente del vuelo 9525 de Germanwings, la Agencia Europea de Seguridad Aérea emite una recomendación temporal para que las aerolíneas se aseguren de que al menos dos miembros de la tripulación, incluido al menos un piloto, estén en la cabina en todo momento del vuelo. [136]
- 28 de marzo
- Los ataques aéreos por parte de la Arabia Saudita llevado Árabe coalición contra los rebeldes Houthi se intensifican en todo el Yemen, muchos de ellos golpeando Houthi de defensa aérea y de comando, control y comunicaciones sitios. Un ataque contra un depósito de municiones hutíes en las afueras de Adén mata o hiere a decenas de personas. [137]
- 29 de marzo
- Después de despegar de Mandalay, Myanmar, la noche anterior, Solar Impulse 2 completa el quinto tramo de su vuelo alrededor del mundo, aterrizando en el Aeropuerto Internacional Chongqing Jiangbei en Chongqing en la República Popular China . El piloto Bertrand Piccard aterriza con éxito la aeronave en condiciones difíciles debido a los fuertes vientos y el intenso tráfico aéreo en el aeropuerto, y debido a los retrasos en el aterrizaje, Solar Impulse 2 está en el aire durante 20 horas y 29 minutos. El vuelo cubre 1.459 kilómetros (906 millas). [109] [138]
- El vuelo 624 de Air Canada , un Airbus A320-211 (matrícula C-FTJP) con 138 personas a bordo, aterriza cerca de la pista en la nieve y con poca visibilidad en el Aeropuerto Internacional de Halifax en Halifax , Nueva Escocia , Canadá . Atraviesa un conjunto de antenas, pierde su tren de aterrizaje, corta la línea eléctrica que suministra toda la electricidad del aeropuerto y se detiene sobre su vientre, sufriendo graves daños. Todos a bordo sobreviven, pero 23 personas sufren heridas.
- 30 de marzo
- Los República Popular China 's de la Fuerza Aérea del Ejército Popular de Liberación (PLAAF) lleva a cabo un ejercicio sobre el Pacífico occidental, por primera vez, sus aviones volando sobre el Canal de Bashi entre Luzón y Taiwán para llegar a la zona de ejercicios. Es la primera vez que la PLAAF se ha ejercitado hasta ahora desde la costa de China. [139]
- Un ataque aéreo de la coalición liderada por Arabia Saudita contra una posición militar hutí establecida dentro del campo de refugiados de Mazraq para personas desplazadas en la gobernación de Hajjah en Yemen es el ataque más letal hasta ahora en la campaña aérea de la coacción liderada por Arabia Saudita en Yemen, matando al menos a 29 y quizás hasta 40 personas e hiriendo a otras 200. Otros ataques aéreos de la coalición afectaron a posiciones de defensa aérea y depósitos de municiones de la Guardia Republicana Yemení pro-hutí alrededor de Saná. [140]
- Yemenia suspende las operaciones de vuelo debido al conflicto militar en su base de operaciones, el Aeropuerto Internacional de Sana'a en Sana'a , Yemen.
- Irán afirma que un ataque con misiles de un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense el 23 de marzo mató a dos miembros del Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria de Irán que actuaban como asesores en la ofensiva terrestre iraquí para tomar Tikrit del Estado Islámico. Estados Unidos niega haber realizado ataques aéreos que pudieran haber resultado en sus muertes. [141]
- 31 de marzo
- Desde el 1 de enero, Airbus ha registrado pedidos brutos de 121 aviones, mientras que Boeing ha reservado 116. Sin embargo, después de cancelaciones y conversiones, Boeing tiene 110 pedidos netos desde el 1 de enero en comparación con los 101 de Airbus. Desde el 1 de enero, Airbus ha entregado 134 aviones a clientes , incluido un A350 y cuatro A380 . [142]
- American Airlines ha registrado $ 1,200,000,000 en ganancias desde el 1 de enero, su trimestre más rentable en la historia. [143]
- Los precios históricamente bajos del combustible para aviones han ahorrado a las aerolíneas en los Estados Unidos $ 3.300.000.000 en costos de combustible desde el 1 de enero. [143]
abril
- 2 de abril
- Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea Siria bombardean a las fuerzas del Frente Nusra en el sur de Siria después de capturar el último cruce fronterizo en funcionamiento entre Siria y Jordania . [144]
- 3 de abril
- Aviones de la coalición liderada por Arabia Saudita atacan a los rebeldes hutíes que avanzan sobre Adén , Yemen , y lanzan armas desde el aire hacia los defensores de Adén. Es el primer lanzamiento desde el aire desde que la coalición intervino en Yemen. [145]
- 4 de abril
- Un helicóptero Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin (matrícula 9M-IGB) se estrella en Semenyih , Malasia , y estalla en llamas, matando a las seis personas a bordo. Entre los muertos se encuentran el jefe de gabinete del primer ministro de Malasia , Azlin Alias, y el político malayo Jamaluddin Jarjis .
- 6 de abril
- Aviones de la Fuerza Aérea de Kenia atacan posiciones de al-Shabaab alrededor de Gadondhawe y Dhasheeg , Somalia , destruyendo dos de los campamentos del grupo. [146]
- 7 de abril
- Un Sukhoi Su-27 ruso ( nombre de informe de la OTAN "Flanker") intercepta un Boeing RC-135 U de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos sobre el Mar Báltico . A los pocos días, el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos emite una queja sobre el comportamiento del piloto ruso, alegando que voló su Su-27 a seis metros (20 pies) del RC-135U. [ cita requerida ]
- Un rayo cae sobre el vuelo 671 de Icelandair , un Boeing 757 , unos 90 segundos después de que despega del aeropuerto internacional de Keflavik en Reykjavik , Islandia , para un vuelo de 3.740 millas (6.023 kilómetros) a Denver , Colorado . Hace un agujero en la nariz del avión. Sin darse cuenta del daño, los pilotos completan el vuelo de siete horas y media a Denver sin más incidentes. Nadie a bordo resulta herido. [147] [148]
- Un Cessna 414 que transportaba a siete personas se estrella en el condado de McLean , Illinois , a dos millas al este del Aeropuerto Regional Central de Illinois , matando a todos a bordo. Entre los muertos se encuentran Aaron Leetch, subdirector atlético de la Universidad Estatal de Illinois , y Torrey Ward , entrenador asociado del equipo de baloncesto masculino Illinois State Redbirds . Los dos hombres habían regresado al estado de Illinois después del Torneo de Baloncesto de la División I de Hombres de la NCAA . [149]
- 8 de abril
- Los Hornets CF-18 de la Real Fuerza Aérea Canadiense realizan el primer ataque aéreo de Canadá de la campaña aérea liderada por Estados Unidos en Irak y Siria contra el Estado Islámico, alcanzando una guarnición del Estado Islámico cerca de Raqqa , Siria. [150]
- 10 de abril
- Un hombre empuñando un cuchillo ataca e hiere levemente a un soldado francés que patrulla dentro del aeropuerto de Orly en las afueras de París , Francia . El hombre escapa, lo que lleva a las autoridades francesas a iniciar una búsqueda. [151]
- La Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos deja en tierra toda su flota de 445 aviones de entrenamiento T-6A Texan II debido a preocupaciones sobre un posible mal funcionamiento en la línea de aceite de los motores. La inspección de todas las aeronaves para detectar el defecto no se completará hasta el 14 de abril. [152]
- El vuelo 144 de British Airways, atendido por un Airbus A321 , realiza un aterrizaje de emergencia en Bakú , Azerbaiyán debido al incendio del motor, los pasajeros y la tripulación no resultan heridos. [153]
- 11 de abril
- Los ataques aéreos del gobierno sirio en áreas controladas por los rebeldes de Alepo y el fuego de artillería rebelde contra áreas controladas por el gobierno de la ciudad se combinan para matar al menos a 30 personas. [154]
- 12 de abril
- Un ataque aéreo del gobierno sirio cerca de una escuela en un barrio de Alepo controlado por los rebeldes mata al menos a nueve personas. [154]
- Un ataque con misiles aire-tierra de un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense en Yemen mata a Al Qaeda en la Península Arábiga, el líder principal Ibrahim al-Rubaish . [155]
- 13 de abril
- El Departamento de Justicia de los Estados Unidos presenta documentos legales en un tribunal federal en Portland , Oregon , indicando que los pasajeros a los que se les niegue el embarque en un avión recibirán una carta en la que se les informará que están en la Lista secreta de No-Fly y les brindará la opción de solicitar más información, que el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos proporcionará si se dispone de suficiente información no clasificada para una respuesta, así como la presentación de información para impugnar su inclusión en la lista. Anteriormente, los viajeros a los que se les negaba el embarque podían apelar su denegación de embarque ante el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos , pero no se les decía si estaban o no en la Lista de No-Volar, un procedimiento que un juez federal había declarado inconstitucional en junio de 2014. Cerca de 47.000 las personas están en la lista de exclusión aérea; unos 800 de ellos son estadounidenses. [156]
- El vuelo 448 de Alaska Airlines , un Boeing 737-900 con destino al Aeropuerto Internacional de Los Ángeles en Los Ángeles , California , con 170 pasajeros y seis miembros de la tripulación a bordo, regresa al Aeropuerto Internacional de Seattle-Tacoma en SeaTac , Washington , después de solo 14 minutos de vuelo. aire después de que el piloto escuche golpes desde el interior de la aeronave. La fuente de los golpes resulta ser un agente de rampa que se había quedado dormido en la bodega de carga de la aeronave después de ayudar a cargar el equipaje. Sale ileso de la bodega de carga después de aterrizar. [157] [158] [159]
- 14 de abril
- El vuelo 162 de Asiana Airlines , un Airbus A320-200 (matrícula HL7762) con 82 personas a bordo, pierde altura en la aproximación final al aeropuerto de Hiroshima en Mihara , Japón , golpea una antena localizadora del sistema de aterrizaje por instrumentos y patina sobre la pista sobre su cola. girando 180 grados antes de detenerse. Su tren de aterrizaje colapsa y sufre daños en su ala izquierda y motor izquierdo. Nadie muere, pero 20 de las personas a bordo sufren heridas.
- Las fuerzas de Al-Qaeda en la Península Arábiga toman el aeropuerto de Riyan en las afueras de Mukalla , Yemen , sin encontrar resistencia. [160]
- SpaceX ' segundo intento en el mundo s ' primer aterrizaje vertical s de un cohete recuperable a bordo de una barcaza en el mar falla cuando la primera etapa de los Falcon 9 tierras de cohetes en la barcaza amarrada n el Océano Atlántico "demasiado duro para la supervivencia", según al fundador, director ejecutivo y diseñador jefe de SpaceX, Elon Musk . El cohete había sido lanzado desde Cabo Cañaveral , Florida . [161]
- 15 de abril
- Ruskin , Florida , portador de letra Doug Hughes hace un vuelo inesperado y no autorizada de aproximadamente una hora de Gettysburg Aeropuerto Regional de fuera de Gettysburg , Pennsylvania , a los terrenos del edificio del Capitolio de Estados Unidos en Washington, DC , en una, una sola persona pequeño autogiro rodamiento el logotipo del Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos , alegando que hizo el vuelo para entregar una carta sobre la corrupción en el financiamiento de campañas a cada uno de los 535 miembros del Congreso de los Estados Unidos . La policía del Capitolio de los Estados Unidos lo arresta a punta de pistola tan pronto como aterriza. [162] [163]
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado se conecta con la sonda de combustible de un petrolero aéreo por primera vez en la historia cuando el Demostrador del sistema aéreo de combate no tripulado Northrop Grumman X-47B de la Armada de los Estados Unidos (UCAS-D) Salty Dog 502 se conecta con éxito con la sonda de combustible de un buque cisterna Boeing KC-707 de Omega Aerial Reabastecimiento de combustible sobre la bahía de Chesapeake . El camión cisterna no transfiere combustible al X-47B. [164] [165]
- 18 de abril
- Milicianos leales al presidente exiliado de Yemen asedian la base aérea de Al-Annad en Yemen, apoyados por ataques de la Real Fuerza Aérea Saudita . La base, en poder de los rebeldes hutíes, alguna vez jugó un papel clave en los ataques de vehículos aéreos no tripulados estadounidenses contra al-Qaeda en la Península Arábiga. [166]
- 19 de abril
- Las redadas de la Fuerza Aérea Siria en tres ciudades en el sur de Siria matan al menos a 16 personas. [167]
- Oxfam acusa a la coalición liderada por Arabia Saudita que realiza ataques aéreos en Yemen de golpear una de sus instalaciones en la gobernación de Saada que estaba cargada con suministros humanitarios a pesar de que Oxfam había notificado a la coalición la ubicación y el propósito de la instalación. [168]
- El portaaviones de la Armada de los Estados Unidos USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) sale del Golfo Pérsico en su camino hacia un despliegue frente a Yemen en respuesta al conflicto allí. La medida la aleja de realizar ataques aéreos contra el Estado Islámico en Irak y Siria. [169]
- 20 de abril
- Un ataque aéreo llevado a cabo por la coalición liderada por Arabia Saudita contra un depósito de armas en Saná , Yemen, mata al menos a 25 personas e hiere a más de 350. Al parecer, es el ataque aéreo más mortífero en Saná desde que la coalición intervino en Yemen el 26 de marzo. [168]
- El Washington Post informa que uninforme del Inspector General del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos ha acusado al Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) de los Estados Unidos de desperdiciar hasta $ 41 millones al enviar inmigrantes ilegales a casa en vuelos chárter que a menudo están llenos solo entre un 40 y un 80 por ciento y haciendo volar a los detenidos varias veces entre las mismas ciudades sin documentar las razones para trasladarlos. Recomienda usar menos vuelos completos, pero ICE argumenta que a veces es más caro tener aviones chárter inactivos mientras esperan cargas completas de pasajeros que mantenerlos volando con cargas parciales de pasajeros. [170]
- 21 de abril
- Después de despegar del Aeropuerto Internacional Chongqing Jiangbei en Chonqing , China , la noche anterior, Solar Impulse 2 , con Bertrand Piccard a los mandos, completa el sexto tramo de su vuelo alrededor del mundo, aterrizando en el Aeropuerto Internacional Nanjing Lukou en Nanjing . Porcelana. Solar Impulse 2 está en el aire durante 17 horas 22 minutos y alcanza una altitud máxima de 14.000 pies (4.267 metros). El vuelo cubre 1.344 kilómetros (835 millas) a una velocidad promedio de 77,4 km / h (48,1 mph). El vuelo tiene lugar después de un retraso de tres semanas relacionado con el clima en Chongqing. [109] [171]
- Los ataques aéreos de 24 horas en Yemen cesan cuando el Gobierno de Arabia Saudita anuncia que pondrá fin a su campaña aérea contra los rebeldes hutíes en Yemen, Operación Tormenta Decisiva , que ha llevado a cabo ataques aéreos de castigo a diario desde que comenzó el 26 de marzo. Aunque los ataques aéreos continuarán, la intervención comenzará a enfatizar el socorro humanitario, las operaciones antiterroristas y una solución política al conflicto en Yemen en una nueva operación llamada Operación Restaurar la Esperanza. [172]
- 22 de abril
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado que transporta rastros de material radiactivo es descubierto en el techo de la residencia del Primer Ministro de Japón Shinzo Abe en Tokio , Japón . [173]
- Horas después del anuncio saudí del final de la Operación Tormenta Decisiva, los aviones de la coalición liderada por Arabia Saudita reanudan los fuertes ataques aéreos en Yemen. Los objetivos incluyen los sitios de comando rebelde Houthi alrededor de Taiz y Houthi y otras fuerzas rebeldes alrededor de Adén . [174]
- Un ataque con misiles aire-tierra aparentemente llevado a cabo por un vehículo aéreo no tripulado estadounidense golpea un automóvil que viajaba en Mukalla , Yemen, matando a siete miembros de Al Qaeda en la Península Arábiga . [174]
- Aviones del gobierno sirio bombardean posiciones rebeldes en Harasta y Douma , matando a 11 personas, así como un hospital en Dayr Hafir y las aldeas que rodean Dayr Hafir en la gobernación de Alepo , matando a otras 15 a 23 personas e hiriendo a 40. [175]
- Un vehículo aéreo no tripulado reposta en el aire por primera vez en la historia cuando el Demostrador del Sistema Aéreo de Combate No Tripulado Northrop Grumman X-47B de la Armada de los EE. UU. (UCAS-D) Salty Dog 502 toma más de 4,000 libras (1,814 kg) de combustible de un buque cisterna Boeing KC-707 de los Servicios de Reabastecimiento Aéreo Omega sobre la Bahía de Chesapeake antes de regresar a su base en la Estación Aeronaval de Patuxent River , Maryland . El vuelo lleva el programa X-47 de la Marina de los EE. UU. A una conclusión exitosa. [176]
- 23 de abril
- Los ataques aéreos de la coalición liderada por Arabia Saudita contra las fuerzas rebeldes golpean seis ciudades en Yemen. [177]
- 24 de abril
- El portaaviones de la Armada estadounidense USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) abandona aguas cercanas a Yemen para regresar al Golfo Pérsico y la campaña aérea en Irak y Siria contra el Estado Islámico. [178]
- 25 de abril
- Según informes de los medios árabes, los aviones de la Fuerza Aérea israelí realizan ataques aéreos cerca de las montañas Qalamoun en Siria, al norte de Damasco , contra los sitios de Hezbollah y las divisiones del ejército árabe sirio en posesión de misiles de largo alcance. El Gobierno de Israel no responde a los informes. [179]
- El vuelo 1878 de Turkish Airlines , el Airbus A320-200 Gümüşhane (registro TC-JPE), rueda hacia la derecha justo antes de aterrizar en el aeropuerto Atatürk de Estambul en Estambul , Turquía . Se produce un golpe de cola , seguido de un aterrizaje brusco en el tren de aterrizaje de estribor y daños sustanciales en el ala de estribor . La tripulación realiza un recorrido , durante el cual el ala dañada se incendia. Al aterrizar después de la vuelta, el tren de aterrizaje de estribor colapsa y la aeronave gira casi 180 grados y se desliza fuera de la pista. Las 102 personas a bordo evacuan sin lesiones a través de toboganes de evacuación y el departamento de bomberos del aeropuerto extingue el incendio.
- 26 de abril
- Después de que el clima se despeja lo suficiente como para permitir las operaciones de helicópteros, los rescatistas en Nepal comienzan a transportar a los sobrevivientes desde el campamento base del Monte Everest , donde una avalancha mató al menos a 19 personas durante un gran terremoto el día anterior, a una altitud de 17,700 pies (5,395 pies). metros). [180]
- Después de que las tropas israelíes observan a cuatro hombres que intentan colocar una bomba en la cerca entre el territorio sirio y los Altos del Golán ocupados por Israel , un avión de la Fuerza Aérea israelí realiza un ataque con misiles aire-tierra contra los hombres y los mata. [181]
- The Saudi-led coalition conducts airstrikes in Yemen against rebel forces and facilities in Sana'a, Dhamar, Ma'rib, Aden, the Shabwa Governorate, Hajjah, Saada, Ibb, and Lahij. The strikes in Sana'a hit a military base serving as an arms depot and weapons being moved near the presidential palace, while in Aden they hit rebel troops engaged in street fighting against forces loyal to ousted President of Yemen Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.[182]
- 27 April
- Three helicopter pilots working in rotation use a small helicopter to rescue about 100 people trapped at Mount Everest's Base Camp 1, at an altitude of 19,600 feet (5,974 meters), and Base Camp 2, at an altitude of 21,300 feet (6,492 meters), and carry them to safety in groups of four and five, completing the evacuation of the mountain in the aftermath of 25 April earthquake in Nepal. On 26 and 27 April combined, helicopters reportedly airlift 150 to 170 people off Mount Everest.[183]
- According to Arab media reports, Israeli Air Force airstrikes again hit Hezbollah sites and Syrian Arab Army divisions near the Qalamoun Mountains. Israel denies the reports, blaming any attacks that did happen on the combatants in the Syrian Civil War.[179]
- 28 April
- Throughout the day, Indian military helicopters airlift people injured in 25 April earthquake from remote parts of Nepal to Kathmandu for treatment at General Birendra Military Hospital.[184]
- The arrival of international rescuers and aid workers in large numbers in Nepal combined with poor weather overwhelms the facilities at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu causing back-ups in air traffic, with up to ten aircraft at a time waiting on the tarmac at New Delhi, India, for permission to take off and proceed to Kathmandu.[184]
- A glitch in the iPad application FliteDeck – used by American Airlines pilots to view flight plans – that causes the application to display duplicate charts for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, and stop functioning forces American to ground dozens of flights. Groundings and delays continue into 29 April before the airline resolves the problem.[185][186]
May
- 1 May
- On the day of the announcement of Operation Jalisco – a Mexican Army operation to take back control of the state of Jalisco in western Mexico from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel narcotics-trafficking organization – gunmen shoot down a Mexican military helicopter, which makes an emergency landing. Initially, three soldiers are reported killed and 10 soldiers and two police officers injured in the incident;[187] later reports place the death toll at six.[188]
- 1–2 May (overnight)
- According to claims by the activist group Syrian Civil Defense, Syrian government helicopters conduct a chlorine gas attack against Nareb and Saraqib in Idlib Governorate, killing one child and injuring about 40 people. The Government of Syria does not respond to the claim.[189]
- 2 May
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria on 30 April and 1 May killed at least 52 civilians in their homes in Bir Mahli. United States Central Command responds that it has no information with which to substantiate this claim, but would investigate it further. According to Central Command, the two days of strikes had destroyed seven Islamic State positions and one Islamic State ground vehicle near Kobanî.[190]
- Syrian Air Force aircraft kill 13 civilians in strikes against rebel positions in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.[189]
- 3 May
- Runway damage forces the Government of Nepal to close Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu – Nepal's only international airport and only airport capable of handling jetliners – to large aircraft delivering aid following the 25 April earthquake. Cracks have appeared in the main runway, which was designed to handle medium-sized jetliners but not the large jets arriving in the aftermath of the earthquake.[191]
- 4 May
- The United Nations requests that the Saudi-led coalition halt its air attacks in Yemen, particularly those against Sana'a International Airport in Sana'a, to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to the country. Although the Government of Saudi Arabia announces that it is considering the request, the coalition conducts heavy airstrikes during the day against targets in Yemen, including 150 strikes against Aden International Airport in Aden and additional air attacks against Hodeida International Airport in Hodeida, Sana’a International Airport, and rebel sites and forces in Ma'rib Governorate and Sa'dah.[192]
- 5 May
- Houthi rebel forces in Yemen fire artillery rockets and mortar rounds into southern Saudi Arabia, prompting the Saudi state airline, Saudia, to cancel flights into Saudi Arabia's Najran area.[193]
- Saudi attack helicopters fire on Houthi rebels near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.[193]
- 7 May
- The People's Republic of China announces that it reserves the right to establish an air defense identification zone over the South China Sea, saying that a decision to do so will depend on its assessment as to whether aviation safety there is threatened.[194]
- The Government of Saudi Arabia offers to suspend airstrikes for five days for a "humanitarian pause" in its campaign against rebel forces in Yemen to allow aid to reach refugees in Yemen, and also suggests that the suspension could last longer if rebel forces abide by a ceasefire and do not use it to gain additional territory.[195]
- 8 May
- A Pakistan Army Aviation Corps Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name "Hip") transport helicopter crashes in the Naltar Valley in northern Pakistan while carrying international diplomatic personnel to the opening of a chair lift at a ski resort, killing eight of the 20 people on board. Among the dead are the ambassador from Norway, Leif Holger Larsen, the ambassador from the Philippines, Domingo Lucenario, Jr., and the wives of the ambassador from Indonesia and the high commissioner from Malaysia. The ambassadors from Indonesia, the Netherlands, Poland, and Romania and the high commissioners from Malaysia and South Africa are injured.
- The Government of Saudi Arabia announces that it will treat all of Yemen's Saada Governorate as a military target and advises civilians there to evacuate by nightfall.[196][197] Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition drop leaflets over the governorate urging civilians to leave and assuring them that roads in the governorate would remain safe from attack until 19:00 local time.[197]
- The Saudi government announces that it will begin a five-day ceasefire in its air campaign in Yemen at 23:00 local time on 12 May to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to refugees, but adds that it will resume air attacks before the five-day period is over if Yemeni rebel forces continue their attacks.[196]
- To commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day – when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Western Allies at the end of World War II in Europe on 8 May 1945 – the Arsenal of Democracy Flyover takes place over Washington, D.C.. Fifty-six aircraft of the World War II era take part; aircraft types represented are the Piper L-4 Grasshopper, Boeing PT-17 Stearman, Fairchild PT-19, North American AT-6 Texan, Beech AT-11 Kansan, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, North American B-25 Mitchell, Consolidated PBY Catalina, Douglas SBD Dauntless, General Motors FM-2 Wildcat, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, North American P-51 Mustang, Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Douglas C-53 Skytrooper, Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, General Motors TBM Avenger, Douglas A-26 Invader, Vought F4U Corsair, and Boeing B-29 Superfortress.[198][199][200] One Avenger suffers a mechanical malfunction as it passes the review area over the National World War II Memorial and makes an immediate emergency landing at nearby Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.[199]
- 9 May
- An Airbus A400M Atlas cargo aircraft on a test flight crashes just after takeoff from San Pablo Airport in Seville, Spain, killing four people and seriously injuring two. Germany and the United Kingdom ground their A400M aircraft pending an investigation of the crash.
- Airstrikes in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition hit several areas in the city of Sa'dah in Saada Governorate, including the government compound and a market, as well as targets in 'Amran Governorate and Hajjah Governorate.[201] The Government of Saudi Arabia announces that the coalition has conducted 130 airstrikes over the previous 24 hours, including attacks on hospitals and schools the Saudis claim the rebels are using as storage sites for weapons.[202]
- The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, Johannes van der Klaauw, asserts that Saudi Arabia's designation of all of Yemen's Saada Governorate as a military target and the Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes against the city of Sa'dah violate international humanitarian law.[201][202]
- Russia celebrates the 70th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender to the Soviet Union on 9 May 1945 with a Victory Day Parade in Moscow that includes a flyover by 150 aircraft. Participating aircraft types are the Mil Mi-26, Mil Mi-17, Mil Mi-24, Mil Mi-28, Mil Mi-35, Kamov Ka-52, Kazan Ansat, Mikoyan MiG-29, Mikoyan MiG-31, Sukhoi Su-24, Sukhoi Su-25, Sukhoi Su-27, Sukhoi Su-30, Sukhoi Su-34, Sukhoi Su-35, Ilyushin Il-76, Ilyushin Il-78, Tupolev Tu-22M3, Tupolev Tu-95, Tupolev Tu-160, Antonov An-124 Ruslan, and Antonov An-22. Also appearing are Yakovlev Yak-130s from the new aerobatic group Crimean Wings and Sukhoi Su-27s and Mikoyan MiG-29s of the Russian Knights and Swifts aerobatics teams.
- 11 May
- Australia urges the People's Republic of China not to establish an air defense identification zone over the South China Sea, adding that such an action would raise deep concerns among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).[203]
- Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition strike suspected rebel weapon depots on the outskirts of Sana'a, Yemen.[204]
- Rebel antiaircraft artillery shoots down a Royal Moroccan Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon taking part in a reconnaissance mission over a mountainous region along the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It is the second coalition plane lost during operations over Yemen and the first to be shot down by rebel forces.[204]
- An air-to-ground missile strike, presumably by American unmanned aerial vehicles, hits Islamic militants in Mukalla, Yemen, who had recently taken possession of the city's presidential residence, killing four members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.[205]
- Human Rights Watch accuses the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen of blocking air and sea routes into Yemen, "keeping out fuel needed for the Yemeni population's survival, in violation of the laws of war.".[205]
- 12 May
- A United States Marine Corps Bell UH-1Y Venom helicopter with six U.S. Marines and two Nepalese soldiers aboard disappears while delivering humanitarian aid to people in Nepal's Dolakha District on the day of a second major earthquake in Nepal.[206] A Nepali Army helicopter discovers its wreckage on 15 May in rugged, heavily forested terrain at an altitude of approximately 11,000 feet (3,353 meters) with no sign of survivors.[207]
- A Syrian government helicopter drops a barrel bomb onto a crowded bus depot in Aleppo, destroying buses, cars, and motorcycles and killing at least 28 and perhaps as many as 50 people.[208]
- The Saudi-led coalition conducts airstrikes in Yemen targeting three rebel weapon depots in Sana'a, as well as three airstrikes against bases for Yemen Army units loyal to rebel forces. Coalition aircraft also hit Houthi rebel positions in Aden. At 23:00 local time, it begins a previously announced, unilateral five-day ceasefire to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to people in Yemen.[205]
- 13 May
- Although the ceasefire in Yemen begun the previous day generally holds, the Saudi-led coalition conducts an airstrike against Houthi rebels attempting to reinforce their forces in Aden.[209]
- 14 May
- On the second full day of the ceasefire in Yemen, an attack helicopter belonging to the Saudi-led coalition attacks a truck in northern Yemen, killing nine people.[210]
- The U.S. Government Accountability Office reports that the United States Air Force and United States Army provide insufficient training to their unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pilots and have too few pilots for the number of UAV missions flown, forcing some pilots to skip training in order to operate UAVs on actual missions. It also reports that only 35 percent of U.S. Air Force UAV pilots complete all of their training, that Air Force UAV training squadrons at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, are manned at just 63 percent of authorized levels, that Air Force UAV pilots are trained mostly in surveillance and reconnaissance without receiving training in other mission areas such as interdiction, that most U.S. Army UAV pilots do not complete their training because they are assigned to other duties too often, that the Army does not have a method of keeping track of the training records of its UAV pilots, and that some UAV instructors themselves lack sufficient UAV training.[211][212]
- 15 May
- Seventeen-year-old Canadian Raymond Wang wins first prize in the 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for designing a system of fin-like devices that can be installed in the air inlets of a Boeing 737 to reduce disease transmission aboard airliners by creating a virtual "wall of air" around each passenger. Wang estimates the modification, which can be installed overnight at a cost of $1,000 (USD) per aircraft, can reduce the concentration of airborne pathogens by 55 times and increase the availability of fresh air to passengers by 190 percent.[213]
- 16 May
- Black Hawk helicopters and MV-22 Ospreys insert U.S. Delta Force personnel into Syria at Al-Amr, near Deir al-Zour, for an early morning ground raid, immediately coming under fire from Islamic State forces. The Delta Force troops kill about a dozen Islamic State personnel including senior commander Abu Sayyaf, capture his wife, and seize laptop computers, cell phones, and archaeological and historic items without suffering any casualties, after which the aircraft successfully extract them.[214]
- A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle-launched air-to-ground missile strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan, against a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan compound kills five Islamic militants.[215]
- Two Turkish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons shoot down a Syrian aircraft that violates Turkey's airspace. The Government of Turkey claims the aircraft was a helicopter, while the Government of Syria asserts that it was an unmanned aerial vehicle.[216]
- 17 May
- A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey carrying 21 U.S. Marines and one United States Navy hospital corpsman crashes on landing at Bellows Air Force Station in Waimanalo, Hawaii, and catches fire, killing one Marine and injuring the other 21 people aboard, all of whom are sent to hospitals.[217]
- 18 May
- The Saudi-led coalition resumes airstrikes in Yemen early in the morning – targeting rebel positions and tanks in Aden – after the expiration at 23:00 local time on 17 May of the coalition's unilateral five-day ceasefire to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to people in Yemen.[218] Strikes later in the day hit additional targets in Aden, including Aden International Airport, and in Saada Governorate.[219]
- 20 May
- People's Liberation Army Navy radio operators challenge a United States Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft eight times as it flies over the South China Sea with a team of CNN journalists aboard, ordering it to leave what the People's Republic of China claims to be its territorial waters, a claim which includes most of the South China Sea. The P-8A's crew replies each time that they are flying over international waters and continue their flight. The Chinese challenges increase concerns that tensions between China and the United States over freedom of navigation in the South China Sea will lead to a violent confrontation.[220]
- 21 May
- United States Central Command announces the results of its four-month investigation into allegations that airstrikes in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State by the U.S.-led coalition have killed civilians, reporting that the strikes have killed at least two civilians since they began in 2014. The two dead civilians were two children probably killed during strikes against Harem, Syria, on 5 and 6 November 2014. It also reports that it continues to investigate the killing of one other civilian in Syria and two civilians in Iraq.[221]
- The U.S.-led coalition has conducted 2,458 airstrikes in Iraq and 1,593 strikes in Syria since August 2014, mostly against Islamic State targets.[221]
- 22 May
- Air Lituanica ceases flight operations. It will file for bankruptcy on 8 June.
- 24 May
- A Syrian military helicopter crashes while taking off from an airbase at Kweiras in Aleppo Governorate, killing its entire crew. Syrian government television claims it crashed due to technical problems, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights asserts that Islamic State forces shot it down.[222]
- On American television, United States Senator John McCain says that 75 percent of U.S. air combat missions against the Islamic State over Iraq and Syria return to base without firing their weapons or dropping any bombs because of a lack of U.S. special operations forces on the ground to provide targeting information.[223]
- 25 May
- Anonymous phone threats, perhaps from the same source, prompt searches of six international flights in the United States: United States Air Force fighter aircraft escort Air France Flight 22 – an Airbus A330-200 – to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York, after someone says a chemical weapon is aboard; an American Airlines flight arriving there from Birmingham, England, and a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight arriving there also receive threats; a United Airlines jet arriving from Madrid is evacuated at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey; and two Delta Air Lines airliners, one flying from Paris to Boston and the other from London to Newark, receive threats. Searches of the six aircraft find no threats.[224]
- 27 May
- An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition strikes a headquarters for police commandos in Sana'a, Yemen, where hundreds of people have gathered to prepare to fight on the rebel side against forces loyal to Yemen's ousted president, killing at least 45 people and wounding at least 286.[225]
- 28 May
- Eastern Airlines begins flight operations, flying charter flights from Miami International Airport in Miami, to José Martí International Airport in Havana. A new airline, it uses the trademarks of the original Eastern Air Lines, which had gone out of business in 1991 in aviation#1991; the new Eastern's ownership group had purchased the intellectual property, including trademarks, of the original Eastern in 2009.
- 30 May
- After a 39-day stay at Nanjing, Solar Impulse 2 departs Nanjing Lukou International Airport with André Borschberg at the controls for the seventh leg of its attempt to become the first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world, a planned 144-hour non-stop flight to Honolulu, covering 9,132 kilometers (5,674 miles).[226][227][228]
- Syrian government airstrikes in northern Syria kill at least 85 people. In the deadliest of the strikes, Syrian government helicopters drop two barrel bombs on a farmers market in Islamic State-held al-Bab early in the morning just as farmers and customers are arriving at the market, killing at least 50 people and injuring at least 20. Later in the morning, a raid on Aleppo kills 12 people, and another raid on the Zawiya Mountain area kills 14.[229]
June
- 1 June
- Deteriorating weather along its route forces Solar Impulse 2 to cut short its planned 144-hour non-stop flight from Nanjing Lukou International Airport in Nanjing to Honolulu. Instead, pilot André Borschberg diverts to Nagoya Airfield in Nagoya, landing there after a flight of 44 hours 9 minutes, covering 2,852 kilometers (1,771 miles) at an average speed of 64.6 km/h (40.1 mph), and reaching a maximum altitude of 28,000 feet (8,634 meters).[226][227][228]
- United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announces that he has reassigned the acting administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, Melvin Carraway, after media reports that TSA inspectors had failed to detect mock explosives and weapons smuggled through TSA checkpoints at airports in the United States in 67 out of 70 tests by undercover agents, a greater than 95 percent failure rate.[230]
- 2 June
- A spokesman for Almaz-Antey, the manufacturer of the Russian Buk surface-to-air missile system, announces that it has concluded that an older version of the system exported to Ukraine and not in service with the Russian armed forces shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014, implying that the Ukrainian armed forces must have shot it down. Russian officials previously had alleged that a Ukrainian Air Force aircraft shot down the airliner.[231]
- A computer automation problem grounds 150 United Airlines flights – about eight percent of United's morning schedule – nationwide in the United States for about 40 minutes until the airline can ensure that all flights depart with proper dispatching information.[232]
- Landing his de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, retired de Havilland Canada test pilot George Neal sets the world record for oldest active licensed pilot at the age of 96 years 194 days. Neal had held a Canadian pilot's license since 1936 and flown 15,000 hours on 150 different aircraft types.[233][234]
- 3 June
- Solar Impulse 2 pilot André Borschberg announces that the aircraft will be delayed in Japan for at least a week while damage to its left aileron caused by wind gusts on the ground at Nagoya Airfield is repaired.[235]
- United States Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells France Inter radio that airstrikes in Iraq and Syria by the U.S.-led coalition have killed 10,000 Islamic State combat personnel over the previous nine months. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest does not dispute the figure, adding that 1,000 ISIS combat personnel had been killed in airstrikes related to the siege of Kobane alone.[236]
- Syrian government airstrikes hit Islamic State targets in al-Shaddadah, Syria.[236]
- In the United States, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces that it has funded eight new studies covering a wide range of topics related to its plans to develop a quiet, "low-boom" supersonic demonstration passenger aircraft that will make only a soft thump instead of a loud and damaging sonic boom when flying at supersonic speeds, allowing it to fly over populated areas at such speeds.[237]
- 5 June
- Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition strike Houthi and other rebel positions in Yemen in Sana'a, Ibb, Ataq, and the Dhi Na'im District.[238]
- 7 June
- At least three predawn airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit the rebel-held headquarters of the Yemeni armed forces in Sana'a, badly damaging it and killing at least 22 people. The strikes also damage several nearby homes.[239]
- 8 June
- Syrian government aircraft conduct two raids against a public square in the village of Janoudiyeh in Idlib Governorate, killing at least 49 and perhaps as many as 60 people.[240]
- Air Lituanica files for bankruptcy. It had ceased flight operations on 22 May.
- 8–9 June (overnight)
- The Saudi-led coalition conducts heavy airstrikes against rebel positions in Aden, Ataq, and Saada, Yemen.[241]
- 9 June
- A series of airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition against targets in Sana'a hit the rebel-held Yemeni Ministry of Defense building and the homes of Yemeni military leaders allied with the Houthi rebels. Another 121 coalition aircraft strike rebel targets in eight other Yemeni governorates. The strikes kill dozens of people.[241]
- 10 June
- The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issues an "endangerment finding" suggesting that aircraft engines may "contribute to the air pollution that causes climate change and endangers public health and welfare,"[242] its first move to start the process of regulating greenhouse gas emissions by airliners in the United States. The endangerment finding does not cover military aircraft or smaller commercial aircraft such as turboprops, but the EPA describes it as the initial step in adoption within the United States of international carbon dioxide emission standards for airliners that the International Civil Aviation Organization plans to promulgate in early 2016.[242]
- 11 June
- The Syrian government reports that one of its combat jets has crashed in eastern Daraa Governorate. The Southern Front claims to have shot it down.[243]
- 12 June
- A U.S. Central Intelligence Agency unmanned aerial vehicle strike in Yemen's Hadhramaut Governorate kills Nasir al-Wuhayshi, second-in-command of al-Qaeda and leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The United States Department of Defense will confirm his death on 16 June.[244][245]
- 13 June
- Two United States Air Force F-15 Eagles conduct an airstrike in Libya targeting Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the leader of the Signed In Blood Battalion and former senior member of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. dropping several 500-pound (227-kg) bombs. The Government of Libya announces the next day that the strike has killed Belmokhtar and several other Islamic militants, although the United States does not immediately confirm his death.[246][247]
- 15 June
- A U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, kills Islamic State operative Ali Awni al-Harzi.[248][249]
- 16 June
- A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle conducts an air-to-ground missile strike in Al-Shaddadah, Syria, that kills Islamic State operative Tariq bin al-Tahar bin al-Falih al-'Awni al-Harzi, the brother of Ali Awni al-Harzi, who a U.S. airstrike killed the previous day in Iraq.[248][250]
- Airstrikes in Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition hit rebel targets in Sana'a and in Hajjah, Saada, Jawf, and Shabwa governorates.[251]
- 18 June
- Over Moorslede, Belgium, wingsuit fliers set a new formation record, with a formation of 42 people.
- 22 June
- Two-time Academy Award-winning composer James Horner dies when the Short S.312 Tucano he is piloting crashes in central California in a remote region of the Los Padres National Forest about 60 miles (97 km) north of Santa Barbara. Horner was the sole occupant of the plane.[252][253]
- 25 June
- A Promech Air de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter carrying tourists from the cruise ship MS Westerdam on a Holland America Line sightseeing excursion over southeastern Alaska crashes into the face of a granite cliff near Ella Lake, 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Ketchikan, killing all nine people on board.[254]
- 28 June
- After a 27-day stay in Nagoya, Japan, to await favorable weather, Solar Impulse 2 departs Nagoya Airfield with André Borschberg at the controls for the eighth leg of its attempt to become the first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world, a planned non-stop solo flight by Borschberg of over four days to Honolulu, Hawaii.[255][256]
- SpaceX's planned third attempt to guide a Falcon 9 rocket booster to a soft landing on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida fails to take place after the rocket explodes during its boost phase two minutes after launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.[257]
- 30 June
- An Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, just after takeoff from Soewondo Air Force Base, striking a busy road, homes, and a hotel. The crash kills all 122 people on the plane and 19 people on the ground.[258][259][260][261]
- United Airlines announces what it calls the largest investment in alternative fuels by a U.S. airline, buying a $30 million stake in Fulcrum BioEnergy. The two companies plan to build as many as five factories near United Airlines hub cities to convert garbage into jet fuel.[262]
- As part of an intensified air campaign against Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. armed forces have conducted 106 airstrikes in June, more than double the number in May. Since 1 January, the U.S. armed forces and international forces have carried out 305 airstrikes in Afghanistan.[263]
July
- 1 July
- A new terminal for international civilian flights, Terminal 2, opens at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea.[264]
- During attacks by Islamic militants in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian F-16 Fighting Falcons and AH-64 Apaches conduct airstrikes against concentrations of militants in the Sheikh Zuweid area.[265]
- The United States Department of Justice confirms that it is investigating whether large airlines in the United States have colluded to keep air fares high by limiting routes and affordable seats. Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, and United Airlines confirm that they are among the airlines under investigation. Air fares in the United States are at a 12-year high even though airlines have saved billions of dollars in fuels costs thanks to historically low jet fuel prices.[143]
- 2 July
- Dawn raids by Egyptian Air Force aircraft on Egyptian territory in the Sinai Peninsula just south of Rafah kill 23 Islamic militants.[266]
- Two days of Syrian government airstrikes against rebel forces begin during a rebel offensive against Aleppo, Syria.[267]
- 3 July
- Iraqi jets drop hundreds of thousands of leaflets over Mosul, Iraq. Issued in the name of the Iraqi Army, the leaflets promise that the Government of Iraq soon would drive Islamic State forces out of Mosul.[268]
- Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition against rebel targets in Yemen kill at least six people in Sana'a's al Jaraf neighborhood and at least 10 people in Bayt al-Faqih, according to Houthi rebels. Coalition aircraft also strike the Ministry of Communications building in Sana'a and a military base and weapons depot on Faj Attan mountain overlooking Sanaa. Some reports also attribute an explosion at the public library in Hodeida that kills eight Houthis to an airstrike.[269]
- Colombian wingsuit flying multiple-record holder Jhonathan Florez dies in a BASE jumping training accident at Engelberg, Switzerland.[270]
- With André Borschberg at the controls, Solar Impulse 2 completes the eighth leg of its attempt to become the first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world, landing at Kalaeloa Airport in Kalaeloa, Hawaii, outside Honolulu, after a nonstop, solo flight from Nagoya Airfield in Nagoya, Japan. The flight lasts 117 hours 52 minutes, covers 7,212 kilometers (4,478.6 miles) at an average ground speed of 61.19 kilometers per hour (38.99 miles per hour), and reaches a maximum altitude of 8,634 meters (28,326 feet).[255][256] The flight sets new world records for non-stop distance and flight duration by a manned, solar-powered aircraft. Borschberg also sets a new world duration record for an unrefueled solo airplane flight, breaking the previous record of 76 hours 43 minutes set by Steve Fossett in January 2006 during a flight in a single-seat jet.[271]
- 4 July
- During the morning, Syrian Air Force aircraft conduct 15 strikes against rebel positions in support of a major offensive by the Syrian Arab Army and Hizbollah against rebel forces in al-Zabadani, Syria.[272]
- Egyptian airstrikes kill 25 Islamic militants near Sheikh Zuweid in the northern Sinai Peninsula.[273]
- 4–5 July (overnight)
- At least 16 airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition hit Islamic State targets in Raqqa, Syria, in what the coalition describes as "one of the largest deliberate engagements we have conducted to date in Syria." The Islamic State claims that the strikes killed 10 people and wounded 10 others.[274]
- 5 July
- A U.S. airstrike near Aleppo, Syria, kills David Drugeon, the leader of the Khorasan Group.[275]
- Suspected drug traffickers open fire on a patrolling Mexican Navy helicopter as it approaches a group of their vehicles near Falcon Lake in Tamaulipas, Mexico. The helicopter crew returns fire, killing six people on the ground.[188]
- Aboard a lawn chair tied to over a hundred helium balloons, Daniel Bloria reaches an estimated altitude of 14,000 feet (4,267 meters) during an unauthorized flight over Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He plans to parachute into the infield of the Stampede Grandstand at Stampede Park during the Calgary Stampede's chuckwagon races, but instead comes down southeast of Stampede Park and is arrested. Accused of endangering flights at Calgary International Airport, Boria will be fined for his stunt in March 2017.[276][277]
- 6 July
- An Iraqi Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 (NATO reporting name "Frogfoot") returning from a raid against Islamic State forces in Iraq's Al Anbar Governorate with a bomb on board that had failed to drop accidentally releases the bomb over a residential area of Baghdad, killing at least eight people on the ground. Some reports place the death toll at 12.[278] Later reports place the casualty figures at 76 dead and 38 injured in two airstrikes on markets during the day.[279]
- A large airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting rebel forces in Yemen strikes a marketplace in Fayoush, a suburb of Aden, killing 45 civilians and wounding 50 others. The strike is one of many during the day that hit targets in Sana'a and elsewhere in nine of Yemen's governorates.[280]
- A U.S. airstrike in northwestern Syria kills Muhsin al-Fadhli, the leader of the Khorasan Group, as he travels in a ground vehicle.[275]
- 7 July
- An air-to-ground missile strike by a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle kills more than two dozen Islamic militants in Afghanistan's Nangahar Province. Islamic State spokesman Shahidullah Shahid is among the dead. Islamic militant Gul Zaman also dies in a strike on either 6 or 7 July.[281]
- 8 July
- A U.S. airstrike kills Muhsin al-Fadhli, the leader of the Khorasan Group, as he rides in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria. The United States Department of Defense does not announce his death in the strike until 21 July.[282]
- At the request of United Airlines after a router malfunction occurs in its reservation system, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration imposes a 1-hour 49-minute ground-stop on all United flights. The temporary grounding affects 4,900 United flights and 400,000 passengers worldwide and causes major delays at United's hubs at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, and Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado.[283]
- 9 July
- An eruption of Mount Raung in East Java, Indonesia, forces the closure of five airports on Java, Bali, and Lombok through 10 July because of volcanic ash in the atmosphere, greatly disrupting air traffic in the area as flights at the airports are cancelled through late in the day on 10 July. Coming when many Australians travel to Bali on vacation and many Indonesians travel for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, the airport closures strand thousands of travelers.[284]
- An air-to-ground missile, suspected of being fired from a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle, kills four members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as they ride in a car in Mukalla, Yemen.[285]
- 10 July
- A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle strike in the Achin District of Afghanstan's Nangahar Province kills at least 30 Islamic militants. Although some reports claim the leader of the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed Khan, is among the dead,[286] he in fact survives.
- A United Nations-backed ceasefire of approximately one week – scheduled to end at the conclusion of Ramadan on 17 July – begins at midnight in Yemen to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to people in need in the country. Within an hour, the ceasefire is broken as fighting breaks out in Taiz and the Saudi-led coalition responds with airstrikes against rebel forces in the area.[285]
- The U.S.-led coalition conducts 34 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, with 17 strikes in each country. Twelve of the strikes in Syria target Islamic State forces around al-Hasakah. In Iraq, four of the strikes hit targets near Mosul, while the other 13 strikes target Islamic States forces in or near seven other cities.[287]
- The Airbus E-Fan makes a 74-kilometer (46-mile) flight from Lydd, Kent, England, to Calais, France, in approximately 37 minutes, flying at an altitude of around 1,000 meters (3,280 feet), becoming the first twin-engine, all-electric plane to cross the English Channel. The flight is made on the same route as that Louis Bleriot used made when he made the first crossing of the English Channel in an airplane on 25 July 1909, but in the opposite direction.[288]
- 11 July
- The Saudi-led coalition conducts airstrikes against rebels in Aden, Sana'a, and Taiz, Yemen. A spokesman for the coalition explains that the coalition had never agreed to honor the one-week United Nations ceasefire imposed on 10 July because the government of deposed Yemeni president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi had not sent the coalition instructions to honor it.[289]
- Syrian Arab Army helicopters drop barrel bombs on a residential area and a crowded market in al-Bab, Syria, killing at least 28 people.[287]
- 11–12 July (overnight)
- The Saudi-led coalition conducts airstrikes in Yemen's Al Bayda Governorate – killing a family of eight riding in several vehicles – and in Taiz, killing two civilians. A coalition spokesman says that the coalition would not honor the ceasefire begun on 10 July because of a lack of Houthi rebel commitment to it and because no United Nations observers had arrived in Yemen to monitor it.[290]
- 12 July
- The U.S.-led coalition conducts 29 airstrikes against 67 Islamic State targets in Ramadi, Iraq, in preparation for a major ground offensive against Islamic State forces in al Anbar Governorate by Iraqi Army forces, Iraqi police, Shiite militias, and local Sunni tribal forces that begins the following day.[291]
- The Saudi-led coalition conducts airstrikes in several governorates of Yemen. The strikes destroy a conference hall used by Houthi rebels in Sana'a, killing at least 12 people; damage a cement factory in 'Amran Governorate, killing three and wounding 10; and strike rebel targets in Saada Governorate and Lahj Governorate.[292]
- 13 July
- An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting rebel forces in Yemen hits slums in the Sawan neighborhood of Sana'a several hundred meters from a rebel military camp, killing 25 civilians and wounding 50.[293]
- 14 July 2015
- Following several days of "preparatory airstrikes" by the Saudi-led coalition, pro-government forces in Yemen take control of Aden International Airport in Aden from Houthi rebels.[279]
- Intense fighting breaks out between Ukrainian Army troops and rebel forces of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic over the destroyed Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev International Airport in Donetsk, Ukraine.[294]
- 15 July
- To deter Europeans from travelling to fight for the Islamic State or returning to Europe from the Middle East to conduct terrorist attacks in Europe, the European Parliament passes the "Passenger Name Record" proposal requiring airlines to transfer passenger data such as seat numbers and payment information to law enforcement authorities for flights into and out of the European Union. The proposal must undergo a further period of negotiation with the governments of individual European Union member countries before becoming law.[295]
- A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle fires an air-to-ground missile at an al-Shabaab force near Bardhere, Somalia, as it advances toward a joint U.S.-African Union ground force. The strike kills or wounds several al-Shabaab personnel; and senior al-Shabaab commander Ismael Jabhad is among the dead.[296]
- Twelve days after Solar Impulse 2 arrived at Kalaeola, Hawaii, completing the eighth leg of its attempt to become the first solar-powered aircraft to fly around the world, the Solar Impulse team announces that it will not attempt the ninth leg of the flight until at least April 2016 due to irreversible battery damage caused by overheating during the first day of its flight to Hawaii from Nagoya, Japan. In the meantime, the team will store Solar Impulse 2 in a University of Hawaii hangar at Kalaeloa Airport in Kalaeloa while it makes repairs to the aircraft and researches and tests new cooling methods to prevent a recurrence of the damage.[297]
- 16 July
- Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition support a drive by Kurdish forces that besieges Islamic State forces in al-Hasakah, Syria.[298]
- 18 July
- The Commander, United States Pacific Fleet, Admiral Scott H. Swift, rides aboard a United States Navy P-8A Poseidon as it flies a patrol mission over the South China Sea. Swift makes the flight in order to witness the capabilities of the P-8A, but observers believe that his presence aboard the P-8A will rankle China, which claims most of the South China Sea as its territorial waters.[299]
- 19 July
- Aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition drop leaflets over Islamic State-held Raqqa, Syria, which serves as the de facto capital of the Islamic State. The leaflets promise that "freedom will come" to the area.[300]
- 20 July
- A strike by a United States Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter targeting Taliban insurgents in the Baraki Barak District of Afghanistan's Logar Province mistakenly hits an Afghan National Army outpost instead, killing eight and wounding five Afghan soldiers. Some reports put the death toll as high as 14.[263]
- Lockheed Martin announces a deal to buy helicopter maker Sikorsky Aircraft from the United Technologies Corporation for $9,000,000,000. The move will make Lockheed Martin a producer of helicopters for the first time.[301]
- 21 July
- FedEx, the world's largest air cargo carrier, announces that it will buy 3,000,000 U.S. gallons (2,497,751 imperial gallons; 11,355,000 liters) of biofuels per year from Red Rock Biofuels beginning in 2017. Although it is only a fraction of the 90,000,000 U.S. gallons (74,932,530 imperial gallons; 340,650,000 liters) of jet fuel that FedEx uses each year, FedEx says that it is a first step toward its goal of using alternative fuels for 30 percent of its jet fuel by 2030. Southwest Airlines, the largest domestic air carrier in the United States, had signed a biofuel deal with Red Rock Biofuels in 2014.[302]
- 22 July
- A Royal Saudi Air Force transport plane becomes the first aircraft to land at Yemen's Aden International Airport since March, carrying humanitarian aid for people in Aden. It is the first flight in what officials in Aden hope will become a regular series of military transport flights to assist people in Yemen.[303]
- 23 July
- Significant fighting erupts between Islamic State and Turkish military forces for the first time as they exchange gun and artillery fire near the Kilis border crossing on the Turkey-Syria border. The Turkish Air Force scrambles four F-16 Fighting Falcons to the area to support Turkish ground troops.[304]
- In a major reversal of policy, the Government of Turkey announces that it will allow the United States to use Incirlik Air Base in Turkey as a base for airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria; previously, it had allowed U.S. aircraft to use Incirlik as a base only for surveillance flights over Syria. Basing at Incirlik will allow U.S. aircraft to move more quickly and efficiently against Islamic State targets in northwestern Syria.[304]
- Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition carry out airstrikes in Dar Saad, Yemen, north of Aden.
- Allegiant Air Flight 426, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 with 144 people on board flying from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, arrives over its destination, Hector International Airport in Fargo, North Dakota, low on fuel and finds the airport temporarily closed for training by the United States Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron. After a discussion between the pilot and tower about how Allegiant Air should have known about the closure and options for Flight 426 to circle or divert to another airport, the Allegiant Air pilot announces that he has insufficient fuel for either option, declares a fuel emergency, and lands safely at Hector International.[305]
- 24 July
- Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition target Houthi and other rebel positions in Yemen as ground fighting rages in Marib Governorate, Taiz, and north of Aden. In Taiz Governorate, dozens of the airstrikes hit a residential area of Mokha, flattening many homes, starting a large fire, and killing at least 80 civilians and injuring at least another 150.[306][307]
- Turkish Air Force jets bomb Islamic State targets in Syria for the first time, as three Turkish F-16 Fighting Falcons conduct early-morning strikes on two Islamic State headquarters and a gathering of Islamic State combat personnel. The strikes come two days after Islamic State forces fatally shot a Turkish soldier along the Turkey-Syria border.[308]
- The United States Department of Transportation announces that it has begun an investigation into possible price gouging by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines during a disruption of passenger rail service in the northeastern United States after the fatal derailment of an Amtrak passenger train on 12 May. The investigation covers flights at 11 airports located between Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., including six of the busiest airports in the United States. The Department of Transportation says that it is its first such investigation in at least 12 years and that it may even be unprecedented.[309]
- 24–25 July (overnight)
- Turkish Air Force jets attack both Islamic State targets in Syria and weapons depots and camps of the Kurdistan Workers Party (KPP) in Iraqi Kurdistan. The strikes against the PKK end a two-year ceasefire between Turkey and the PKK, which the Turkish government declares null and void after repeated PKK violations.[310]
- 25 July
- The Saudi-led coalition announces that it will begin a five-day ceasefire in Yemen at 23:59 Yemen time on 26 July, although it reserves the right to respond with force to rebel violations of the ceasefire. Deposed President of Yemen Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi had requested the ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid to reach people in Yemen.[307]
- 27 July
- On the second full day of the Saudi-led coalition's five-day humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen, the coalition conducts airstrikes near al-Anad Air Base in Yemen's Lahj Governorate and north of Aden in response to ground fighting that had broken out within minutes of the ceasefire taking effect. Two of the airstrikes around al-Anad mistakenly kill 15 troops allied with the coalition.[311]
- 28 July
- Turkish Air Force jets bomb Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) positions in Turkey's Şırnak Province in after PKK forces fire on Turkish ground troops there.[312]
- 29 July
- Aircraft wreckage which appears to be a flaperon – part of the flap system – of a Boeing 777 is found washed up on a beach on Réunion in the Indian Ocean, raising hopes that it is the first piece of wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to be found since the aircraft vanished in March 2014.[313][314]
- An Israeli unmanned aerial vehicle strikes a car in Hader, Syria, with an air-to-ground missile. Various reports place the death toll in the strike at two (both militiamen who supported the Syrian government regime of Bashar al-Assad), three (all innocent villagers), and five (two members of Hezbollah and three pro-Assad militiamen).[315]
- 30 July
- Facebook announces that it will begin testing the full-size version of its Aquila unmanned aerial vehicle later in the year. The 1,000-pound (454-kg) aircraft has a wingspan of 140 feet (42.7 meters) and is designed to fly for up to 90 days at an altitude of up to 90,000 feet (27,432 meters) and use laser optics to bring Internet connectivity to parts of the world where conventional connectivity is impractical.[316][317]
- 31 July
- U.S. aircraft strike Jabhat al-Nusra forces in Syria ins response to a Jabhat-al-Nusra attack against Division 30, a U.S.-trained Syrian opposition group. It is the first time U.S. aircraft have conducted an airstrike in Syria to protect forces the United States has trained.[318]
- An Embraer Phenom 300 (registration HZ-IBN) crashes into a car auction warehouse while attempting to land at Blackbushe Airport in Yateley, Hampshire, England after a flight from Milan–Malpensa Airport in Milan, Italy, and catches fire. The crash leaves all four occupants of the aircraft dead[319] and destroys a number of cars.
- A Colombian Air Force CASA CN-235 carrying Colombian military personnel suffers engine failure and crashes at Codazzi, Colombia, killing all 11 people on board.[320]
- The United States Marine Corps announces that the F-35B Lightning II, its version of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, is combat ready and "ready for worldwide deployment." It is the first version of the F-35 to become operational.[321]
- Over Ottawa, Illinois, during Skydive Chicago, an international team of 164 skydivers jumping from seven planes at an altitude of 19,700 feet (6,005 meters) and travelling head-down at speeds of up to 240 mph (386 km/hr) form a flower-shaped formation for a few seconds. They set a new world record for the largest formation skydive, breaking the previous record set by a team of 138 skydivers in 2012. It was the team's 13th attempt to break the 2012 record.[322]
August
- Yemenia resumes flights to Yemen with a flight from Saudi Arabia to Aden International Airport in Aden.
- 3 August
- During Syrian Air Force airstrikes on Ariha, Syria, a Syrian jet crashes into a crowded marketplace, killing at least 27 and perhaps as many as 30 people and injuring at least 55 and perhaps over 60 people.[323]
- The United States Department of Defense announces that over the preceding weekend the United States has begun operating armed aircraft from Turkey's Incirlik Air Base over Syria. Previously, the Government of Turkey had allowed the United States to operate only unarmed surveillance aircraft from Incirlik.[318]
- The independent monitoring group Airwars reports that airstrikes in Iraq and Syria by the U.S.-led coalition have killed 459 civilians and over 15,000 Islamic State personnel since they began in Iraq on 8 August 2014 and in Syria on 23 September 2014, and that 57 airstrikes killed civilians and caused 48 "friendly fire" deaths. In the 5,800 airstrikes the coalition has conducted, the United States has confirmed that coalition airstrikes have killed only two civilians and injured two others, although its investigations of other reported civilian deaths continue.[324]
- On the day that the comment period on the complaint to the U.S. Government by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines that Qatar and the United Arab Emirates violate "open skies" agreements by subsidizing Emirates, Etihad Airways, and Qatar Airways on routes between those countries and the United States and through overcapacity on those routes, Atlas Air Cargo, FedEx, Hawaiian Airlines, and JetBlue go on record as opposing the American-Delta-United coalition's complaint, claiming in a letter to United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and United States Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker that they and other smaller U.S. carriers have benefited from the existing "open skies" agreements and that American, Delta, and United are trying to coerce Qatar and the United Arab Emirates into reducing the access of Eirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways to the U.S. market.[325]
- 4 August
- Les Munro, the last surviving pilot who participated in Operation Chastise, the 1943 "Dambuster" raid by the Royal Air Force's No. 617 Squadron, dies in New Zealand at the age of 96.[326]
- Japan announces that it is suspending construction of a new airbase on Okinawa intended to replace Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Naha to allow time for discussion between central and local government officials of the new base and the future of the U.S. military presence on Okinawa.[327]
- The United States conducts its first airstrike in Syria from Turkish soil, an air-to-ground missile strike by an unmanned aerial vehicle operating from Turkey's Incirlik Air Base. The U.S. Department of Defense announces the strike the following day.[328]
- A Colombian government UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter involved in a counter-narcotics operation against the Clan Úsuga criminal organization crashes into the side of a mountain in northwestern Colombia, killing 16 policemen.[329]
- 5 August
- Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak announces that a flaperon found on a beach on Réunion in the Indian Ocean on 29 July is from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 which vanished in March 2014.[330]
- 6 August
- Malaysia's Minister of Transportation, Liow Tiong Lai, announces that more aircraft debris – including a window and some aluminum foil – that may be from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been discovered washed up on Réunion.[330]
- At least 17 people, including 12 Afghan Army soldiers, die in the crash of a helicopter in Afghanistan's Zabul Province.[331][332]
- A Pakistani military helicopter crashes in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, resulting in at least 11 deaths.[333]
- 11 August
- Dutch prosecutors announce that investigators probing the July 2014 crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 have identified possible Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile parts mixed in with the airliner's wreckage. Ukraine and many in the West have accused pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine with shooting down the airliner using a surface-to-air missile system supplied by Russia, which Russia and the rebels deny.[334]
- 12 August
- A suspected U.S. air-to-ground missile strike by an unmanned aerial vehicle kills five al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula members as they ride in a car on a coastal highway east of Mukalla, Yemen.[335]
- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announces that pilot sightings of unmanned aerial vehicles have increased from 238 in all of 2014 to "more than 650" between 1 January and 9 August 2015. Monthly sightings have increased from 16 during June 2014 and 36 during July 2014 to 138 – some at altitudes of up to 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) – during June 2015 and 137 during July 2015.[336]
- 15 August
- The internationally recognized government of Libya asks what it calls the "Arab brother states" to conduct airstrikes against Islamic State forces in Sirte, Libya.[337]
- A major air traffic control system software malfunction causes the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center in Leesburg, Virginia – which controls airspace above an altitude of 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) over a 165,000-square-mile (430,000-square-kilometer) area centered on Washington, D.C. – to stop functioning for several hours, causing airlines to delay or cancel hundreds of flights and disrupting air travel throughout the United States and especially along the United States East Coast. New York City-area airports experience delays, and at Washington Dulles International Airport in Fairfax County, Virginia, 154 flights are delayed and five percent are cancelled by early evening. The disruption hits Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, and Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Baltimore, Maryland, particularly hard; dozens of their flights – about 25 percent – are canceled. Some stranded passengers do not reach their destinations until the next day.[338] Overall, the outage delays 492 flights and prompts the cancellation of 476, cutting traffic at Baltimore-Washington to 70 percent, at Reagan National to 72 percent, and at Washington Dulles to 88 percent of normal, and Washington Dulles continues to experience two-hour delays the following day.[339][340]
- 16 August
- Trigana Air Service Flight 267, an ATR 72-300 with 54 people aboard on a domestic flight in Indonesia from Sentani Airport in Jayapura to Oksibil crashes into a mountain in the Bintang highlands region of the Indonesian province of Papua on New Guinea.[341] All on board die, making it the deadliest accident in the history of Trigana Air Service, as well as the deadliest accident to date involving an ATR 72.[342]
- In one of the deadliest airstrikes of the Syrian Civil war, Syrian government aircraft bomb a market in rebel-held Douma, killing at least 80 and perhaps as many as 100 people and injuring 300.[343]
- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records an unprecedented 12 reported instances of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) interfering with air traffic over the United States in a single day. Commercial and general aviation pilots and aircrews report close mid-air encounters with UAVs over California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas. A boom in sales of small, largely unregulated, privately owned UAVs has led to a rapid increase in such incidents; only two years earlier, encounters between UAVs and conventional air traffic were unheard of.[344]
- 17 August
- Pakistani airstrikes in North Waziristan destroy an ammunition cache and kill 50 Islamic militants. Additional airstrikes in the Khyber Agency kill another 15 militants.[345]
- French authorities call off an unsuccessful 10-day search employing a plane, helicopters, and a ship covering a 4,000-square-mile (10,360-square-kilometer) area of the Indian Ocean in Réunion's coastal waters and along Réunion's beaches looking for additional debris from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.[346]
- 18 August
- A U.S. airstrike kills the second-in-command of the Islamic State, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, better known as Hajji Mutazz, as he rides in a ground vehicle near Mosul, Iraq.[347]
- 20 August
- Two Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft carrying parachutists rehearsing for a nearby air show collide over Červený Kameň, Slovakia, at an altitude of about 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) and crash. The accident kills seven people – two crewmembers aboard each plane and three parachutists aboard one of them – but the other 31 people aboard the two planes parachute to safety. Five of them are treated for injuries. One of the dead crew members is former Slovak ice hockey player Michal Česnek.
- 20–21 August
- After four rockets are fired from Syrian territory into northern Israel on 20 August, Israeli Air Force aircraft join Israeli Defense Forces artillery in striking more than a dozen military installations in southern Syria over the course of two days. An Israeli airstrike on the morning of 21 August strikes a ground vehicle 10 miles (16 km) inside Syria, killing five people riding in it that Israel claims were members of an Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine rocket-launch crew.[348]
- A wave of airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting rebel forces during heavy fighting in Taiz, Yemen, over the course of two days beginning on 20 August kill as many as 65 people.[349]
- 21 August
- The United Kingdom conducts its first military action in Syria, using a Royal Air Force unmanned aerial vehicle to conduct an air-to-ground missile strike against a car in Raqqa, killing three Islamic State members, two of them British citizens. Prime Minister David Cameron will announce the strike publicly on 7 September.[350]
- 22 August
- A Hawker Hunter T7 performing aerobatics at the Shoreham Airshow at Shoreham Airport in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, crashes onto the A27 road, striking several ground vehicles. The crash destroys eight ground vehicles and kills at least 11 people – including two players from the English football team Worthing United F.C. – and injures 16 others. It is the deadliest air show accident in the United Kingdom since a crash at the 1952 Farnborough Airshow which killed 31 people.[351][352]
- 23 August
- Thomson Airways Flight 476, an airliner with 189 passengers aboard approaching Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, at the end of a flight from London Stansted Airport, takes evasive action to avoid a missile traveling toward it; the missile misses the airliner by about 1,000 feet (300 meters), and the plane lands safely. An investigation concludes that the missile – also witnessed by another Thomson Airways plane approaching Sharm el-Sheikh – was an Egyptian armed forces missile that had strayed from a military exercise. The aircraft's passengers are not informed of the incident, and the press does not report it until 6 November.[citation needed]
- 26 August
- Airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition support an offensive by Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces that takes ten villages in Iraq's Kirkuk Governorate from the Islamic State.[353]
- Russia and Syria sign a treaty which among other things grants Russia a permanent airbase in Syria at Khmeimim. Russia will ratify the treaty on 7 October 2016.[354]
- 27 August
- In response to the Taliban's seizure of the Musa Qala District in Afghanistan's Helmand Province the previous day, U.S. aircraft conduct multiple strikes against Taliban forces in the district. Over a dozen U.S. airstrikes have taken place in the district between 25 and 27 August.[355]
- 30 August
- The Saudi-led coalition conducts an airstrike against a building in Yemen's Hajjah Governorate, killing 36 people. Local residents claim the dead were civilians working in a bottling plant, but the coalition responds that the raid killed people at a site the Houthi rebels use to make improvised explosive devices and train recruits.[356]
- Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition strike a house near a military base in Sana'a, Yemen, killing four people.[356]
- 31 August
- In violation of U.S. Federal Aviation Administration rules, American Airlines mistakenly flies an Airbus A321S, a version of the Airbus A321 that is not ETOPS-certified for long flights over water, from Los Angeles, California, to Hawaii, not discovering the error until the airliner had made half the flight. The plane completes the flight to Hawaii, then returns empty to Los Angeles. The airline makes computer software changes that it says will prevent future mix-ups between the A321S and Ameerican's fleet of ETOPS-certified A321H airliners.[357]
September
- During the month, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration expands its prohibition of the flying of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the Washington, D.C., area from within a 15-mile (24.2-km) radius of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport – put in place after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 – to within a 30-mile (48.3-km) radius of the airport. A lack of publicity for the expansion of the no-fly area leads to many UAV hobbyists remaining unaware of it until late December.[358]
- During the month, the United States quietly closes its military unmanned aerial vehicle base at Arba Minch Airport in Arba Minch in southern Ethiopia. It will not publicly announce the closure of the base, which had operated since 2011, until January 2016.[359]
- 1 September
- United States Government officials acknowledge that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Joint Special Operations Command are engaged in a joint lethal unmanned aerial vehicle campaign targeting terrorism suspects in Syria independent of the U.S.-led coalition air campaigns against the Islamic State there.[360]
- 3 September
- The Paris prosecutor in France announces that a technician from Airbus Defence and Space in Spain had confirmed that a flaperon found washed up on Réunion in the Indian Ocean on 29 July was from the Boeing 777 that disappeared in March 2014 while operating as Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. Airbus Defence and Space had manufactured the flaperon for Boeing.[361]
- 5 September
- In response to an attack in Yemen by Houthi rebels the previous day that killed 60 soldiers of the Saudi-led coalition including 45 Emiratis, United Arab Emirates Air Force jets conduct heavy predawn raids on Houthi positions in Ma'rib Governorate, a land-mine-making plant in Sa'dah Governorate, and military camps and weapon depots in Sana'a and Ibb.[362]
- Over eastern Senegal, Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines Flight 71, a Boeing 737-8FB (registration 3C-LLY) flying from Dakar, Senegal, to Cotonou, Benin, collides with a Senegal Airlines Hawker Siddeley HS125-700A air ambulance (registration 6V-AIM) flying from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Dakar. The Boeing 737 suffers only minor damage and diverts to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, where it lands safely. Aboard the air ambulance, the collision apparently disables everyone on board, and it flies on autopilot beyond Dakar, finally crashing in the Atlantic Ocean about 110 kilometers (59 nautical miles; 68 statute miles) off the coast of Senegal, presumably when it runs out of fuel. All seven people aboard the air ambulance die.
- 6 September
- At least 11 Afghan counternarcotics police officers are killed and four others are injured in the Garmsir District of Afghanistan's Helmand Province in what the Government of Afghanistan claims was an international airstrike. Some reports place the death toll as high as 28. The United States denies any international involvement, countering that international coalition aircraft struck targets in Maiwand District in Kandahar Province but none in Helmand Province during the day.[363]
- The Iraqi Air Force uses F-16 Fighting Falcons it acquired in July to conduct its first strikes against Islamic State forces, hitting Islamic State positions in Iraq.[364]
- Strikes by aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition targeting Houthi and other rebel positions in northern Yemen accidentally kill 20 people attending a wake for a person the Houthis had killed.[365]
- After Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacks near Dağlıca in Turkey's Hakkâri Province kill 16 Turkish soldiers and wound six others, the Turkish Air Force conducts airstrikes against PKK targets in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq and against Islamic State targets in Syria. The following day, the Government of Turkey will announce that four F-16 Fighting Falcon and three F-4 Phantom II aircraft carried out the raids against the PKK targets, striking six caves, two storage facilities, three shelters, and 12 anti-aircraft machine guns.[366]
- 7 September
- Pakistan uses an unmanned aerial vehicle to conduct an air-to-ground missile strike for the first time, when a NESCOM Burraq unmanned combat aerial vehicle uses a laser-guided missile to kill three suspected terrorists in the Shawal Valley in northwestern Pakistan.[367]
- President of France François Hollande announces that France will begin aerial reconnaissance missions over Syria on 8 September and is considering conducting airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria.[368]
- 8 September
- Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition bomb boats off the coast of Yemen. According to India's Ministry of External Affairs, aircraft attack two boats on a voyage from Somalia to Yemen carrying a combined 20 Indian crewmen, leaving seven of the crewmen missing. The Yemen Coast Guard reports that warplanes attacked five boats, leaving it unclear whether the two reported incidents are separate events.[369]
- The left engine of British Airways Flight 2276, a Boeing 777-236ER (registration G-VIIO), catches fire while the aircraft waits to take off from McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada, for a flight to London. All 170 people on board escape the plane via inflatable evacuation slides; 14 of them suffer minor injuries.[370]
- United Airlines announces that its chief executive officer, Jeff Smisek, and two other senior company officials have resigned amid a U.S. Government corruption probe. The probe is looking into allegations that United operated a money-losing nonstop flight – nicknamed the "chairman's flight" – between Newark, New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport and Columbia, South Carolina, from September 2012 until 1 April 2014 in order benefit David Samson, who was the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey during that period. Samson owned a vacation home near Columbia in Aiken, South Carolina, and was influential in decisions related to infrastructure improvements and cheaper lease rates at Newark Liberty that United desired.[371][372][373]
- 9 September
- Aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition strike targets in Sana'a, Yemen, reportedly killing six civilians and wounding ten.[369]
- 13 September
- After a convoy of four Egyptian tour company vehicles carrying Mexican tourists stops to hold a barbecue near the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, Egyptian security forces mistake the group of 22 people for Islamic militants. An Egyptian airplane and helicopters attack the tour group, and Egyptian ground forces fire on its members as they try to flee. The attack kills eight Mexicans and four Egyptians and injures eight Mexicans and two Egyptians.[374]
- Colombia claims that two Venezuelan Air Force jets violated its airspace on 12 September, claiming that they flew nearly 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) into Colombia and passing over two military bases.[375]
- 14 September
- President of France François Hollande announces that France will begin airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria. It previously had limited its airstrikes to Islamic State targets in Iraq.[376]
- During a qualifying race at the National Championship Air Races at Reno Stead Airport in Reno, Nevada, Tom Aberle sets a new biplane speed record, reaching 284.454 miles per hour (485.058 km/hr) in his custom biplane Phantom.[377][378]
- 15 September
- A South African Beechcraft King Air 200 becomes the first aircraft in history to land at Saint Helena's new Saint Helena Airport. The plane is visiting the island to conduct a series of flights to calibrate the airport's radio navigation equipment.[379][380]
- 16 September
- Commercial satellite imagery reveals that eight Russian military helicopters have arrived at Bassel Al-Assad International Airport outside Latakia, Syria. Russia has improved the airport to support military operations and moved military equipment to it over approximately the previous two weeks.[381][382]
- 18 September
- Four Russian Federation Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO reporting name "Flanker") fighters arrive at Bassel Al-Assad International Airport outside Latakia, Syria. A United States Intelligence Community official describes the Russian military build-up at the airport as the first major expeditionary deployment of Soviet or Russian forces outside of territory formerly constituting the Soviet Union since the conclusion of the Soviet–Afghan War in February 1989.[382]
- Gunfire from a sheriff's helicopter kills a man leading police on a car chase in San Bernardino County, California. It is the seventh such incident since sheriff's deputies began receiving training in using weapons from helicopters in the mid-1980s and the first since a shooting in Apple Valley, California, in 2001.[383]
- A Venezuelan Air Force Sukhoi Su-30MK2 flying a drug interdiction mission crashes in Venezuela near the border with Colombia, killing its two-man crew, after an "illicit aircraft" is detected entering Venezuelan airspace from Colombia.[citation needed]
- 18–19 September (overnight)
- Turkish Air Force jets strike Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq, killing at least 55 PKK members.[384]
- 19 September
- Israeli Air Force jets strike targets in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip against Israeli territory the previous evening.[385]
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces that he has approved a Russian Ministry of Defense plan to establish a Russian military air base in neighboring Belarus. Russia has not had a full-fledged air base there since Russian forces withdrew from Belarus after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Russia plans to base Russian Federation Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO reporting name "Flanker") fighters at the base.[386]
- 21 September
- An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition attempting to hit a rebel-controlled building in the al-Hasba neighborhood of Sana'a, Yemen, instead destroys an adjacent house, damaging several other buildings and killing at least 15 people. All the dead are members of the same family.[387]
- 23 September
- Iran's Tasnim News Agency reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran Army has unveiled the Mohajem 92, a new unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) manufactured by the "self-suffiency department" of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. Tasnim reports that the new UAV is a reconnaissance vehicle with a range of 500 kilometers (310 miles) and a maximum speed of 200 km/hr (125 mph).[388]
- 25 September
- The Government of Ukraine announces that it will ban all Russian airlines from landing at airports in Ukraine beginning on 25 October and that it is banning Russian aircraft carrying military personnel or military cargo from flying through Ukrainian airspace. The Government of Russia responds with an announcement that it will retaliate by banning Ukrainian airlines from landing at airports in Russia.[389]
- Turkish Air Force jets strike Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) camps in the Gara region of northern Iraq. Turkey claims that the raids kill 19 PKK members.[390]
- 27 September
- France conducts its first airstrikes in Syria, with six jets destroying an Islamic State training camp near Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria which the Government of France says posed a threat to France and to Syrian civilians. Previously France had limited its airstrikes to Iraqi territory.[391]
- Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit arms facilities in several governorates of Yemen, killing 38 Houthi rebels. The Houthis claim that the strikes killed 22 civilians and wounded 13.[392]
- 28 September
- Taliban forces seize much of Kunduz, Afghanistan, despite the efforts of attack helicopters supporting Afghan government security forces in the city.[393]
- Two air-to-ground missiles strike tents in which a wedding reception is taking place in al-Wahijah in southwestern Yemen, killing 131 people. It is one of the deadliest incidents of the Yemeni Civil War. Yemeni officials blame the Saudi-led coalition for the airstrike, but a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition denies involvement, saying that the coalition had not conducted air operations in the area in three days.[394][395]
- The last airworthy Avro Vulcan makes its final air show appearance at the Yorkshire Air Show in Yorkshire, England.[396]
- 29 September
- A U.S. airstrike against Taliban forces supports an Afghan government counterattack to drive the Taliban out of Kunduz.[397]
- 30 September
- Russia conducts airstrikes in Syria for the first time, targeting rebel forces. Russia claims that the strikes hit Islamic State military vehicles, communications centers, weapons caches, and ammunition and fuel depots and the Assad regime's Syrian Arab News Agency claims that the strikes targeted Islamic State forces around Homs, but United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter says that the strikes occurred in areas in which the Islamic State does not have a presence and a Syrian opposition leader reports that the strikes targeted civilians and killed 37 people.[398]
October
- SATA International is rebranded as Azores Airlines.
- 1 October
- Eight Russian Federation Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer") and Sukhoi Su-25 (NATO reporting name "Frogfoot") jets conduct a second day of airstrikes in Syria, claiming to have hit "terrorist staff" and an ammunition dump in Idlib and a headquarters near Hama. The Government of Russia claims the strikes are limited to Islamic State, Nusra Front, and similar terrorist targets, but Syrian activists and United States Government officials criticize the strikes as focusing on other Syrian rebels trying to unseat President of Syria Basher al-Assad.[399]
- Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi says that the Government of Iraq would welcome Russian strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, but Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov responds that Russia has no interest in expanding its air campaign beyond Syria.[399]
- U.S. and Russian officials hold a video teleconference in which they have their first discussion over how to avoid incidents in Syrian airspace during their separate air campaigns in Syria, covering such issues as which radio frequencies and what languages to use when deconflicting their operations.[400]
- Tracey Curtis-Taylor begins a 13,000-mile (21,000-kilometer) solo flight from Farnborough Airport in Farnborough, England, to Sydney, Australia, in the Boeing-Stearman Model 75 open-cockpit biplane Spirit of Artemis, intending to recreate the first solo flight between the United Kingdom and Australia by a woman, the 1930 Croydon-to-Darwin flight of Amy Johnson. Curtis-Taylor will arrive in Sydney on 9 January 2016.[401][402]
- Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University announce a joint venture in which Boeing will invest $7,500,000 over the next three years in a new Aerospace Data Analytics Laboratory that Carnegie Mellon will establish. The new laboratory is to investigate the use of artificial intelligence and "big data" in improving the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of modern airplanes.[403] Initially, the laboratory will involve more than 20 Carnegie Mellon faculty and student researchers exploring at least six Boeing-directed projects.[404]
- 1–2 October (overnight)
- Russian aircraft strike targets deep in Islamic State territory for the first time, with two strikes by Sukhoi Su-34 (NATO reporting name "Fullback") jets outside of Raqqa, Syria, hitting a training camp and a headquarters.[405]
- 2 October
- Aviastar Flight 7503, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (registration PK-BRM) crashes in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, soon after takeoff for a domestic flight from Andi Jemma Airport in Masamba to Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport in Makassar, killing all 10 people on board. Its wreckage is not found until 5 October.
- A United States Air Force C-130J Hercules crashes at Jalalabad Airport in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, killing all 11 people – six U.S. Air Force members and five civilians – on board. The Taliban claims to have shot it down, but the United States armed forces respond that enemy fire is highly unlikely to have caused the crash.[406]
- Strikes by Russian during the day focus on targets in the Syrian governorates of Hama, Homs, and Idlib, which Western analysts says confirms their view that Russia's priority in its air campaign in Syria is the destruction of Free Syrian Army units in northwestern Syria posing the most immediate threat to the Assad regime rather than the Islamic State and Nusra Front as Russia claims. A joint statement sign by the governments of France, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States urges Russia to cease targeting rebel groups in Syria other than the Islamic State and the Nusra Front.[405]
- U.S.-backed rebels in Syria ask the United States to provide them with surface-to-air missiles for defense against Russian airstrikes.[405]
- U.S. Government officials reveal that the United States Government has decided not to oppose the Russian air campaign in Syria directly in the belief that the Russians are immersing themselves in a "quagmire" there, and instead to increase pressure against the Islamic State by, among other things, conducting more airstrikes in Iraq west of the Euphrates River.[407]
- 3 October
- A predawn airstrike targeting Taliban forces in Kunduz, Afghanistan, mistakenly hits a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing at least 42 people.[408] A U.S. Air Force Lockheed AC-130 Spectre firing in support of Afghan troops and United States Army Special Forces is implicated in the strike. The United States armed forces have been striking Taliban forces in and around Kunduz since 29 September.[409][410]
- While Russian Federation Air Force jets are bombing rebel-held villages in Syria's Latakia Governorate, one of them violates Turkey's airspace. Two Turkish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons intercept it and escort it back to the Syrian border after it had spent five minutes over Turkey. The Russian government claims that the violation was a mistake due to bad weather, but the North Atlantic Treaty Organization claims that the violation was deliberate.[411][412]
- The Russian Ministry of Defense announces that Syria-based Russian aircraft have struck 20 targets in Syria over the previous 24 hours; the targets were in Hama and Idlib governorates and outside Raqqa. Russia claims that the strikes targeted the Islamic State and that the four-day-long Russian air campaign in Syria has "significantly decreased the fighting potential" of the Islamic State, causing "panic and desertion in [its] ranks," and that "more than 600 mercenaries have left their positions and are trying to get to Europe," although critics claim that many of the Russian strikes have targeted other Syrian rebels in areas from which the Islamic State was ejected a year-and-a-half earlier. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that the Russian air campaign has killed 39 civilians.[413]
- 4 October
- An unidentified MiG-29 (NATO reporting name "Fulcrum") – perhaps Syrian – locks its radar onto Turkish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons over the Syrian-Turkish border for more than five minutes.[412]
- 5 October
- Radars in Syria supporting Syrian missile systems illuminate Turkish Air Force aircraft near the Syrian-Turkish border for more than four minutes. Turkey also claims that an unidentified aircraft locked its radar onto eight Turkish aircraft.[412]
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization warns Russia to avoid further violations of Turkish airspace.[411]
- The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States armed forces have conducted airstrikes in and around Kunduz, Afghanistan, since 29 September, with two of the strikes within the city itself.[410]
- The pilot of American Airlines Flight 550, an Airbus A320 flying from Phoenix, Arizona, to Boston, Massachusetts, with 152 people on board, dies in mid-flight. The copilot lands the airliner safely at Syracuse, New York.[414]
- 6 October
- Syrian state television claims that Russian aircraft have struck Palmyra, Syria, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that 15 Islamic state members died in the airstrike. Russia reports that its aircraft flew 20 sorties over Syria during the day and struck 12 targets, but denies hitting Palmyra.[412]
- Russia and the United States agree to resume talks on how to prevent conflicts between their military aircraft operating over Syria.[415]
- A day after the death in flight of the pilot of American Airlines Flight 550, the copilot of a United Airlines Flight 1614 – a Boeing 787-8 flying from Houston, Texas, to San Francisco, California – passes out. The plane lands safely at Albuquerque, New Mexico.[416]
- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration proposes a $1,900,000 fine against SkyPan International, a company based in Chicago, Illinois, for conducting 65 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights to take videos and photographs – 22 over Chicago and 43 over New York City – between 21 March 2012 and 15 December 2014 between without required air traffic control clearance, equipment, or registration and certification. It is the largest fine ever imposed against a UAV operator for illegal flights, far exceeding the previous record fine of $18,700 levied against Xizmo Media of New York.[417]
- 7 October
- Russian airstrikes support a Syrian government ground attack against rebel forces defending the Syrian town of Kufranboudah.[418] The attack begins the first major air-and-ground offensive by Syrian forces in cooperation with the Russian Federation Air Force since the Russian air campaign in Syria began on 30 September.[419]
- Members of United States Congress meet with U.S. Federal Aviation Administration officials and experts to discuss ways to avoid collisions with airliners and privately owned unmanned aerial vehicles in the United States. Airline pilot reports of near-collisions with UAVs over the United States have risen to an average of three per day.[420]
- 8 October
- On China Airlines Flight 8, a Taiwanese woman gives birth to a child during a flight from Taipei, Taiwan, to Los Angeles, California. The flight is diverted to Anchorage, Alaska. The woman returns to Taiwan without her child after being denied entry into the United States.[421]
- 9 October
- Russia's Ministry of Defense announces that a Russian airstrike on an ammunition depot near Aleppo, Syria, has killed 100 Islamic militants, including two Islamic State field commanders.[422]
- Syrian government forces seize the villages of Atshan and Umm Hartein in central Syria amid intense Russian airstrikes in the region.[419]
- 10 October
- The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that Syria-based Russian aircraft have flown 64 sorties in the past 24 hours and struck 54 targets in Syria, including rebel command posts in Idlib Governorate and Aleppo Governorate.[419] The Syrian Observatory for Human Right reports that Russian warplanes have struck a headquarters of the Ahrar ash-Sham Islamist-Salafist group in Saraqib, Syria.[419]
- The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency claims that two F-16 Fighting Falcons of the U.S.-led coalition have violated Syrian airspace and bombed civilian infrastructure in Aleppo.[419]
- U.S. and Russian defense officials hold a 90-minute secure videoconference to discuss steps to "promote safe flight operations over Syria."[419]
- 11 October
- A Royal Air Force Westland Puma HC Mark 2 helicopter severs the mooring cable of an observation balloon and crashes while attempting to land at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's Resolute Support Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing five people and injuring five others.[423]
- In response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip targeting Israeli territory, the Israeli Air Force strikes two Hamas weapons manufacturing facilities in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority reports that the strikes cause the roof of a home to collapse, killing two civilians – the first Palestinian civilian deaths in an Israeli airstrike since 2014 – and injuring several other members of the family, and Israel launches an investigation into the reported civilian deaths.[424]
- A technical problem with Southwest Airlines' online system forces the airline to issue tickets and process passengers manually. By the evening, 450 of Southwest's 3,600 flights scheduled for the day have been delayed. Delays are expected to linger into the following day.[425]
- 12 October
- Russian aircraft intensify their strikes against rebel forces in central Syria as Syrian government and rebel ground forces contest control of the village of Kfar Nabudeh. The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that Russian Sukhoi Su-24M (NATO reporting name "Fencer"), Sukhoi Su-25SM (NATO reporting name "Frogfoot"), and Sukhoi Su-34 (NATO reporting name "Fullback") aircraft have struck 53 targets – including command centers, ammunition depots, fuel depots, and training camps – in Hama Governorate, Homs Governorate, Idlib Governorate, and Latakia Governorate over the past 24 hours, alleging that they were all Islamic State facilities.[426] Russian aircraft have flown 250 combat sorties in Syria since the Russian air campaign there began on 30 September.[427]
- The first 90 of a planned 300 U.S. military personnel arrive in Cameroon set up a base for unmanned aerial vehicles, which will fly reconnaissance missions targeting Boko Haram in neighboring Nigeria.[428]
- 13 October
- The U.S. military announces that U.S. and Afghan forces have completed a major, week-long air and ground operation to dismantle al-Qaeda operations in Afghanistan's Shorabak District, with U.S. aircraft conducting 63 strikes during the operation.[429]
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin says that in response to U.S. criticism that the Russian air campaign in Syria is targeting moderate rebels rather than only Islamic State targets as Russia claims, he has asked the United States to provide examples of targets it considers legitimate and for information on targets it does not want Russia to hit, but has received no response.[430]
- The Dutch Safety Board releases its report on the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014, in which it concludes that a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile brought the Boeing 777 down, blowing its cockpit off and causing it to break up in mid-air over Ukraine before crashing. It adds that the aircraft should not have flown over the war zone in eastern Ukraine, but also notes that 160 other aircraft did so safely on the day Flight 17 was shot down. Although the report does not attempt to determine who shot the airliner down, the Russian government dismisses it as biased and the result of "political orders" to reach the conclusion that it did.[431]
- Two Jetpack Dubai pilots – Yves Rossy and Vince Reffet – wearing jet packs deploy from a helicopter flying at 5,500 feet (1,676 meters) and fly in formation with an Emirates Airbus A380 flying at an altitude of 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) above Dubai, flying one on either side and both on one side of the airliner before breaking away after about ten minutes.[432][433] Their flight is documented by helmet-mounted cameras they are wearing and third-party videos showing the pair soaring and diving around the airliner; the videos will be released in early November 2015.[434][435][436][437]
- 14 October
- The U.S.-led coalition conducts two airstrikes against Islamic State targets in the Baiji area of Iraq as the Iraqi government announces that its armed forces have seized control of the largest oil refinery in Iraq, located near Baiji, after fighting with the Islamic State over it since June 2014. Aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition have conducted airstrikes in support of the Iraqi forces throughout the battle; at one point, U.S. aircraft dropped supplies to Iraqi forces besieged in the refinery.[438]
- A Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm AgustaWestland Wildcat HMA.2 helicopter of 825 Naval Air Squadron attached to the Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster becomes the first rotary-wing aircraft to land at Saint Helena Airport on Saint Helena.[439][440][441][442]
- 15 October
- Russian aircraft in Syria strike rebel targets in Aleppo, Hama, and Idlib governorates and in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta.[443] Russian airstrikes against northern Homs Governorate kills 59 civilians – including 33 children – with one strike against a house in Ghantou killing 46 members of one family.[citation needed]
- A U.S. airstrike in northwestern Syria kills Sanafi al-Nasr, the leader of the Khorasan Group. The United States Department of Defense will announce his death on 18 October. He becomes the fifth Khorasan Group leader killed in a U.S. airstrike in the past four months.[275]
- Prosecutors in Scotland announce two new suspects – both Libyan men – on 21 December 1988 in-flight bombing of Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.[444]
- 16 October
- Turkish Air Force jets shoot down an unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) near Deliosman in Turkey's Kilis Province after it flies nearly two miles (3.2 km) into Turkish territory from Syria. Both the Syrian government and Russia deny that the UAV is theirs.[445]
- According to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, there have been 5,352 incidents of lasers striking aircraft flying over the United States since the beginning of the year, an increase from 3,894 during all of 2014 and 283 in all of 2005.[446]
- 17 October
- An Airbus A321 operating as US Airways Flight 1939 – commemorating the year of the airline's founding – lands before dawn at the airline's hub in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completing a journey begun from Philadelphia on 16 October that stopped at all of US Airways' other hubs – at Charlotte, North Carolina; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Francisco, California. When it lands, the 76-year history of US Airways – which earlier had done business as All American Aviation, Allegheny Airlines, and USAir – comes to an end as it completes its merger with American Airlines. The merger leaves the United States with just four major domestic airlines – American, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines – down from ten in 2001; the four control 87 percent of the U.S. domestic market.[447]
- An airstrike in Yemen's Taiz Governorate by the Saudi-led coalition mistakenly hits an encampment of pro-government forces allied with the coalition, killing at least 20 and injuring another 20; the pro-government forces had just taken the encampment from Houthi rebels. Other airstrikes in Jawf Governorate kill 13 Houthis.[448]
- Jumping from 13,500 feet (4,115 meters) over Perris Valley Airport in Perris, California, an international team of wingsuit jumpers set a new world formation record, with 61 people forming a diamond formation. The formation travels about two miles (3.2 km) before landing.[449]
- 19 October
- Russian aircraft strike the First Coastal Division rebel group in Syria for the third time since the Russian air campaign began on 30 September, hitting its headquarters in Jabal Akrad. According to the First Coastal Division, the strike kills five of its members, including its chief of staff, Basil Zamo, as well as 15 civilians.[450]
- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces that it will begin to require the registration of privately owned recreational unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the United States Department of Transportation. United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announces that the FAA and Department of Transportation will set up a task force of U.S. government officials and industry representatives to make recommendations on a registion system by 20 November, with the United States Government hoping to have the system in place and functioning by 25 December. American hobbyists are projected to purchase 700,000 UAVs during 2015, up 63 percent from 2014.[451]
- 20 October
- The U.S. Department of Defense announces that the United States and Russia have signed an aviation safety agreement to keep their aircraft operating over Syria far enough apart to avoid hostile interactions and to ensure that they can communicate with one another if they approach one another too closely. Russian and U.S. aircraft come within 1,500 feet (457 meters) of one another over Syria. The agreement makes no provision for cooperation between the U.S. and Russia in targeting or other aspects of their air campaigns in Syria.[452]
- Lockheed Martin reports that robust sales of its F-35 Lightning II fighter have boosted its third-quarter financial results.[453]
- 21 October
- Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting Houthi rebels combined with indiscriminate shelling by artillery kill at least 20 people and wound 140 in Taiz, Yemen.[454]
- 22 October
- Residents of Yemen's Hajjah Governorate report that an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition against a small island in the Red Sea near the Midi District kills 10 fishermen.[454]
- 23 October
- Talks in Brussels, Belgium, between Russia and Ukraine to avert a ban of each other's airliners from their airports scheduled to take effect on 25 October end unsuccessfully, setting the stage for a halt to direct air travel between the two countries.[455]
- 25 October
- Ukraine bans Russian airliners from its airports, and Russia retaliates by banning Ukrainian airliners from its airports. The ban effectively ends direct air travel between the two countries,[455][456] adversely affecting an estimated 700,000 travelers annually.[457]
- The bankrupt Russian airline Transaero goes out of business.
- 27 October
- United States Navy surveillance aircraft accompany the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG-82) as she steams within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef in the South China Sea to challenge the People's Republic of China's claim to waters around an artificial island it has built on Subi Reef as its territorial waters. A guided-missile destroyer and a patrol boat of the People's Liberation Army Navy shadow Lassen, and China claims that the People's Liberation Army Navy Air Force also reacts, but Lassen concludes her patrol without incident.[458]
- After dark, an antiaircraft gun shoots down a Libyan helicopter carrying 23 people, including two senior commanders of the Libya Dawn group. It crashes in the Mediterranean Sea just off Al Maya, Libya. Rescuers recover the bodies of 14 of the helicopter's occupants and find no survivors.[459][460]
- The U.S. Department of Defense announces that it has awarded the contract for the U.S. Air Force's next-generation Long-Range Strike Bomber to Northrop Grumman, which beats out a joint Boeing-Lockheed Martin proposal to build the aircraft. The contract value is expected to exceed $55,000,000,000 over the life of the program, making it the largest military aircraft contract since Lockheed Martin won the Joint Strike Fighter contract in 2001.[461]
- 28 October
- A 74-meter (243-foot) unmanned United States Army aerostat making up part of the Joint Land-Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) breaks loose from its tether at Aberdeen, Maryland, and drifts over Pennsylvania, shadowed by two U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters. After several hours, in comes to earth in a ravine in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, but not before dragging its 6,000-foot (1,829-meter)-long heavy tether across the ground in the county for 20 miles (32 km), causing damage to electric lines and utility poles that cuts electric power to 35,000 people and forces the cancellation of classes at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. The following day, Pennsylvania State Police troopers fire about 100 shotgun blasts at the aerostat to deflate it.[462][463]
- 29 October
- The left engine of Dynamic Airways Flight 405, a Boeing 767-200ER with 101 people aboard bound for Caracas, Venezuela, leaks fuel and bursts into flames as the aircraft taxis for takeoff at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida. The airliner's passengers and crew evacuate via evacuation slides in six minutes; 17 of them are injured. The airport is closed for about two-and-a-half hours, resulting in the cancellation of 43 flights and delays to more than 200 others.[464]
- 30 October
- United States Army General John F. Campbell, commander of the Resolute Support Mission and of United States Forces-Afghanistan, reports that a multi-day operation announced on 11 October involving Afghan troops, 200 U.S. Special Forces troops, and 63 American airstrikes has destroyed an al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent training camp in the Shorabak District of Afghanistan's Kandahar Province covering 30 square miles (78 square kilometers) – probably the largest al-Qaeda training camp found during the war in Afghanistan – and another camp covering one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), killing about 160 al-Qaeda members.[465]
- 31 October
- Metrojet Flight 9268, an Airbus 321-231 operated by the Russian airline Kogalymavia bound for Saint Petersburg, Russia, breaks apart in midair near its cruising altitude of 31,000 feet (9,449 meters) 23 minutes after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, and crashes in the central Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.[466] The Islamic State claims to have brought the plane down, but does not describe how, and experts claim that the Islamic State has no weapons capable of hitting the airliner at the altitude at which it was flying when the incident occurred; after the crash, Air France-KLM, Emirates, and Lufthansa nonetheless announce that their airliners will avoid flying over the Sinai Peninsula.[467][468]
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that Russian airstrikes in Syrian have killed up to 27 civilians since they began on 30 September.[469]
November
- 1 November
- Air Arabia, Emirates, flydubai, Gulf Air, Jazeera Airways, and Qatar Airways announce that they will reroute their aircraft to avoid flying over the Sinai Peninsula in the wake of 31 October crash of Metrojet Flight 9268. British Airways and Etihad Airways say that they will continue to fly over the Sinai.[470]
- 2 November
- Russian Federation Air Force Sukhoi Su-25 (NATO reporting name "Frogfoot") aircraft bomb Islamic State positions on the outskirts of Palmyra, Syria, destroying a fortification, an underground bunker, and anti-aircraft artillery.[471]
- Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, begins a policy of closing its terminal nightly between 11:30 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The change is intended to prevent overnight stays in the terminal by homeless people. Previously, the terminal had been open 24 hours a day for many years.[472]
- 3 November
- Shaheen Air Flight 142, a Boeing 737-4H6 carrying 119 people on a flight from Karachi, skids off the runway while landing at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore, Pakistan, and crashes, injuring 10 of those on board.[473][474] On 13 November, the Government of Pakistan will charge the pilot with flying while unlawfully fatigued and intoxicated.[475]
- 4 November
- Volcanic ash from an eruption of Mount Rinjani on Lombok in Indonesia forces Ngurah Rai International Airport on Bali to close until 5 November, prompting the cancellation of 59 international and 47 domestic flights. Lombok International Airport in Mataram on Lombok also closes because of the ash.[476]
- The United Kingdom announces a halt to service at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, by British airlines out of concern that someone there may have smuggled a bomb aboard Metrojet Flight 9268 at Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport that destroyed the airliner.[477]
- The Government of Ireland announces that it will advise Irish airlines to avoid Sharm El-Sheikh.[477]
- An overloaded Antonov An-12 cargo aircraft (registration EY-406) operated by Allied Services, Ltd., carrying a crew of six and at least 12 passengers crashes into a farming village on an island in the White Nile shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan. The crash kills a combined 37 people aboard the plane and on the ground; two people aboard the plane survive.[478]
- A gunman firing at the street from an apartment window in San Diego, California, under the approach path to San Diego International Airport prompts the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to halt landings at the airport; the lack of arriving flights also affects departures, although departures continue during the incident. The gunman surrenders after more than five hours, by which time 30 arriving and departing flights have been cancelled and 30 other flights have been diverted to other airports.[479]
- 5 November
- President of France François Hollande announces that the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will deploy to the Persian Gulf to assist in the air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. He does not specify when the ship, in port at Toulon at the time, will deploy. Charles de Gaulle previously had deployed to the Persian Gulf from February to April.[480]
- The Scottish Criminal Review Commission rejects an application for a posthumous appeal of the conviction of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi for the mid-air bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988 submitted by a group of relatives of victims who believe that he was unfairly convicted of the crime.[481]
- Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom says that "more likely than not a terrorist bomb" destroyed Metrojet Flight 9268. In the evening, President Barack Obama says that it was "a possibility" that a bomb brought the plane down.[482]
- 6 November
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin halts all Russian airline flights between Russia and Egypt and orders the Russian government to take steps to ensure that the estimated 45,000 Russians vacationing in Russia are returned safely to Russia. More than 25 flights a day had traveled between Russia and Egypt prior to the flight ban.[483]
- Working with British Airways, EasyJet, Monarch Airlines, Thomas Cook Airlines, and Thomson Airways, British authorities begin the evacuation of approximately 20,000 British citizens stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh, controversially requiring them to leave all checked luggage – about 120 tons of it – behind to undergo extensive security screening before being shipped to them at home. On the first day, only eight of an originally scheduled 29 flights depart Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport for the United Kingdom, carrying about 4,000 people.[483]
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announces that it will enhance the security of airline flights between the Middle East and the United States, using unspecified measures.[483]
- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) informs the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that it has rejected 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. The FAA argues that such regulation is unnecessary, explaining that "Since the amount of ballooning is so low, the FAA believes the risk to all pilots and participants is also low given that ballooners understand the risks and general hazards associated with this activity." In March 2016, the NTSB will inform the FAA that it finds this response unacceptable and that its recommendation remains open.[484][485][486][487]
- Boeing announces that it has filed a protest over the October United States Department of Defense award of a contract to build the United States Air Force's Long-Range Strike Bomber to Northrop Grumman, claiming there were irregularities in the selection process.[488]
- 7 November
- Fifty-one Russian aircraft fly about 11,000 Russian tourists home from Sharm El-Sheikh and Hurghada, Egypt, as an airlift of Russian citizens stranded in Egypt begins. They are required to leave their checked baggage behind in Egypt for special screening and later shipment to Russia by cargo aircraft.[489]
- 8 November
- Venezuelan Minister of Defense General Vladimir Padrino López states on television that a United States Coast Guard intelligence plane – which he identifies as a Bombardier Dash 8 – violated Venezuela's airspace near the Los Monjes Archipelago on 6 November. The United States does not comment on his claim.[490]
- 9 November
- Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich announces that 25,000 Russians have been airlifted home from Egypt since 7 November, and that he expects it to take about two weeks to fly all remaining Russians in Egypt home. The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that during the day four Russian cargo planes have transported 130 tons of luggage to Russia that Russian tourists had left behind in Egypt for special security screening.[489]
- 10 November
- Execuflight Flight EFT1526, a Hawker 800 business jet, crashes into an apartment complex while on approach to land at Akron Fulton International Airport in Akron, Ohio. No one on the ground is injured, but all nine people – two pilots and seven passengers – aboard the plane die.[491]
- 11 November
- During the evening, lasers strike more than 20 aircraft flying over Ontario, Canada, Puerto Rico, and ten U.S. states – including aircraft flying over Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles, California, and New York City.[446]
- 12 November
- Aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition – including U.S. and Royal Air Force aircraft – strike Islamic State targets in support of an offensive by Kurdish peshmerga forces to take Sinjar, Syria.[492]
- Three U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles track Mohammed Emwazi – the Islamic State operative known as "Jihadi John" – as he gets into a ground vehicle in Raqqa, Syria, and fire two AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles at the vehicle. The next day, the U.S. Department of Defense announces that the strike destroyed the vehicle and that it is "reasonably certain" that Emwazi was killed.[493][494]
- Vincent Asaro is found not guilty of involvement in the December 1978 robbery of $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels newly flown in from West Germany from the Lufthansa cargo handling area at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City.[495] The robbery had been dramatized in the 1990 movie Goodfellas.[496]
- 13 November
- Two United States Air Force F-15 Eagles strike a building containing several people in a compound outside Derna, Libya. The strike is believed to have killed Abu Nabil al-Anbari, the leader of the Islamic State affiliate in Libya. It is the first time that the United States has struck an Islamic State target outside of Iraq and Syria.[497] The United States Department of Defense will confirm his death on 7 December.[498]
- The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports that 480 tons of luggage left behind in Egypt by Russian tourists for additional security screening since the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 has been flown to Moscow for delivery to its owners.[499]
- 14 November
- An unmanned aerial vehicle air-to-ground missile strike in the Khogyani District of Afghanistan's Nangahar Province kills 12 Taliban members.[500]
- Russian aircraft have conducted more than 1,600 sorties in support of Syrian Arab Army operations against rebel forces since the Russian air campaign in Syria began on 30 September, striking targets in six of Syria's 14 governorates. The air campaign has helped Syrian Arab Army forces to lift the rebel siege of Kuweires air base and capture two towns southwest of Aleppo, but otherwise has accomplished little, with rebel forces even capturing ground in some areas.[501]
- 15 November
- Two days after major Islamic State terrorist attacks in Paris which French President François Hollande describes as an "act of war," 12 French Air Force planes including 10 fighter aircraft take off from airfields in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and drop at least 30 bombs on Islamic State targets in Raqqa, Syria, hitting a command center, a recruitment and training center, an ammunition storage depot, and a training camp. Among the targets is a museum, medical facilities, and the city's sports stadium, which the Islamic State uses as its headquarters and as a prison. The French strikes knock out electrical power in the city of about 200,000 people.[502][503]
- 16 November
- The United States makes its first attack against the fleet of trucks the Islamic State uses to smuggle oil to finance itself when six United States Air Force aircraft – two AC-130 Spectres and four A-10 Thunderbolt IIs – based in Turkey attack a truck assembly area near Deir ez-Zor, Syria. The A-10s drop two dozen 500-pound (227-kg) bombs and strafe the trucks with 30-millimeter Gatling guns, while the AC-130s fire both 30-millimeter Gatling guns and 105-millimeter M102 howitzers, combining to destroy 116 of the 295 trucks in the assembly area. To reduce the number of civilian casualties, two U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagles fly over the area about an hour before the strike dropping leaflets warning the truck drivers to abandon their trucks and take cover, followed by strafing runs to reinforce the point. The attack is part of Operation Tidal Wave II, a new campaign to destroy the Islamic State's oil distribution network.[504]
- Russian aircraft support a Syrian Arab Army offensive against rebel forces in Syria's Aleppo Governorate.[505]
- Rosturizm reports that Russian aircraft have evacuated 70,000 Russians from Egypt and flown them back to Russia since the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 and that 5,000 remain in Egypt, about 3,000 in Hurghada and about 2,000 in Sharm El-Sheikh.[499]
- The Deputy Director of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Oleg Syromolotov, announces that Russia thwarted a plot by female suicide bombers prior to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to bring explosives on board an airliner in hand cream.[506]
- Prime Minister David Cameron announces that the United Kingdom will double its spending on aviation security.[507]
- 17 November
- The Government of Japan files lawsuit seeking an injunction to overturn the local government of Okinawa's cancellation of a previously issued approval for land reclamation work for the relocation of a U.S. airbase from U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, outside Naha, to a less-populated part of the island at Camp Schwab in Nago.[508]
- The director of the Russian Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov, announces that an improvised explosive device containing 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds) of explosive with the explosive power of about one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of TNT detonated aboard Metrojet Flight 9268 on 31 October, causing the airliner to break apart and crash, saying "We can say conclusively that this was a terrorist act." The Government of Russia offers a $50,000,000 reward for information about the attack, and President of Russia Vladimir Putin says that Russia would invoking its right to self-defense under the United Nations Charter and orders the Russian armed forces to intensify their air campaign in Syria where Russian aircraft conduct a "significant number of strikes" in the vicinity of Raqqa during the day.[509][510]
- Russian Federation Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M (NATO reporting name "Backfire"), Tupolev Tu-95 (NATO reporting name "Bear"), and Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name "Blackjack") aircraft flying from bases in Russia strike Islamic State targets in Raqqa, Syria. The Tu-22Ms drop bombs, while the Tu-95s and Tu-160s launch 34 land-attack cruise missiles.[citation needed]
- Russian military helicopters fly in personnel to Sadad, Syria, assist the Gozarto Protection Force, an Assyrian Christian militia, in fighting the Islamic State in the town.[citation needed]
- Ten French Air Force aircraft – Mirage 2000 and Dassault Rafale fighters – bomb Islamic State targets – including a command post and a recruitment center – in Raqqa early in the day, and the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle departs Toulon to deploy for operations targeting the Islamic State. The French Minister of Defense, Jean-Yves Le Drian, announces that when Charles de Gaulle arrives on station, France's force of fighter aircraft within range of the Islamic State will rise to 36 aircraft.[511][512]
- The United States has conducted 8,253 airstrikes against Islamic State targets since U.S.-led coalition began its air campaign against the Islamic State in August 2014, accounting for 95 percent of the coalition's strikes.[citation needed]
- Reuters reports that the Government of Egypt is detaining 17 people in connection with the destruction of Metrojet Flight 9268, including two employees of Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport suspected of helping terrorists plant a bomb on the plane, although Egypt's Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Civil Aviation deny it.[509][510]
- 18 November
- Since the U.S.-led coalition began its air campaign against the Islamic State in August 2014, its aircraft have dropped an average of 2,228 bombs per month at an average cost of $11,100,000 per day. The strikes have killed an estimated 20,000 Islamic State personnel.[513]
- A strike over pay and labor union rights by baggage handlers and other airport employees begins at seven major airline hubs in the United States. The strike – at John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport in New York City, Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida, Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – is expected to last until at least 19 November.[514]
- 19 November
- The United States has conducted more than 3,768 airstrikes in Iraq, with the tempo of strikes increasing.[515]
- 21 November
- A Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil sightseeing helicopter operated by Alpine Adventures crashes on Fox Glacier on the South Island of New Zealand, killing all seven people on board.
- 23 November
- The search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 missing since March 2014, shifts to a remote part of the Indian Ocean southwest of Australia where an experienced British Boeing 777 captain, Simon Hardy, estimates that it may have made a controlled water landing and sunk largely intact. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau reports that the shift is occurring because of improved Southern Hemisphere spring weather in a 120,000-square-kilometer (46,000-square-mile) priority search area rather than because of Hardy's analysis. Although a flaperon from Flight 370 found in July 2015 washed up on a beach on Réunion was from Flight 370, the search for Flight 370 on the Indian Ocean floor, taking place more than 1,800 kilometers (1,100 miles) off the Australian coast since October 2014, has covered 70,000 square kilometers (27,000 square miles) without finding any trace of the airliner.[516]
- Dozens of Russian airstrikes support an offensive by Syrian government troops that captures the Syrian towns of Mahin and Hawwarin in western Homs Governorate from Islamic State forces.[517]
- Russian missile strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria disrupt civilian air traffic in the area, with airports in northern Iraq closed for a second straight day and aircraft arriving at or departing from Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, routed around a Russian-declared exclusion zone over the northeastern Mediterranean Sea.[517]
- Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle achieves a milestone in an unmanned test flight when it is launched to an altitude of 329,839 feet (100,536 meters) over West Texas, where its crew capsule and rocket booster separate. While the capsule descends to earth by parachute, the rocket booster descends separately, passing through 119-mph (192 km/hr) high-altitude crosswinds and navigating its way to a point 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) above its landing pad, fires its rocket engine to slow itself to 4.4 mph (7 km/hr), and touches down on the pad just 4.5 feet (1.4 meters) off center. The landing is considered a major step forward in the development of a fully reusable rocket booster that will allow cheap space travel.[518]
- 24 November
- Two Turkish Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons shoot down a Syria-based Russian Federation Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer") flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters (19,685 feet) which Turkey claims violated its airspace and did not respond to ten warnings ordering it to leave. It is the first time that an aircraft of a NATO member country has shot down an aircraft of the Soviet Union or Russia since a dogfight between United States Navy and Soviet aircraft in November 1952 during the Korean War.[519] Russia denies that the Su-24 was flying in Turkish airspace and claims that antiaircraft artillery shot it down while it was flying over Syria. Both crew members eject from the Su-24; Russia claims that Syrian rebels fire at the pilot in his parachute while he drifts to earth and kill him, while the navigator escapes. The plane itself crashes in Syria's Turkmen Bayırbucak region, where two Russian helicopters are sent to search for its two-man crew. One of them, a Mil Mi-8 (NATO reporting name "Hip") is forced to crash-land in neutral territory after coming under heavy ground fire from Syrian rebels, who hit it with an anti-tank guided missile, and one man on board – a naval infantryman – is killed; the rest of its crew is rescued.[520][521]
- Since its intervention in Syria began on 30 September, Russia has conducted over 4,000 airstrikes in Syria, where it has based at least 32 fixed-wing aircraft – including 12 Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer"), 12 Sukhoi Su-25 (NATO reporting name "Frogfoot") and four Sukhoi Su-34 (NATO reporting name "Fullback") strike aircraft and four Sukhoi Su-30 (NATO reporting name "Flanker-C") fighters – and 16 helicopters at Khmeimim Air Base near Latakia.[520]
- 25 November
- In the aftermath of Turkey shooting down one of its Syria-based Su-24s the previous day, Russia says that it will take new measures to protect its aircraft operating in Syria, including the deployment of S-400 (NATO reporting name "SA-21 Growler") surface-to-air missile systems to Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. The S-400s, with a range of 250 miles (403 km) will be only 20 miles (32 km) from the Turkish border.[521]
- After Russia cuts off all deliveries of natural gas to Ukraine, Ukraine retaliates by banning Russian airliners from flying in its airspace. The Ukrainian ban expands upon a 25 October Ukrainian prohibition of Russian airliners landing at Ukrainian airports.[522]
- The commander of the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, General John F. Campbell, announces that a mistaken U.S. Air Force AC-130 Spectre strike against a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz on 3 October resulted from errors made by the aircrew and United States Army Special Forces personnel on the ground, who mistook the hospital for a Taliban-held building several hundred yards (meters) away due to fatigue and a high operating tempo. He also announces that several American military personnel have been suspended over the incident and may face additional disciplinary measures.[523]
- 27 November
- Russian aircraft strike a flour mill and a bakery in Saraqib, Syria, that serve 50,000 people in Syria's Idlib Governorate[524]
- 28 November
- President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs sweeping economic sanctions against Turkey into law in retaliation for Turkey shooting down a Russian Federation Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name "Fencer") on 24 November. Included in the sanctions is a ban on air charter flights from Russia to Turkey.[525]
- 29 November
- Strikes by jet aircraft, presumed to be Russian, on rebel-held Ariha, Syria, hit a busy market, killing at least 18 people and injuring dozens; one report puts the death toll at 40 and the number of injured at over 70. It is one of the deadliest airstrikes since the Russian air campaign in Syria began on 30 September.[526]
- Israel's Minister of Defense, Moshe Ya'alon, announces that a Syria-based Russian military jet had recently mistakenly violated Israeli airspace, flying about one mile (1.6 km) into Israel, but the Israel Defense Force had not shot it down and it had returned to Syrian airspace after being contacted by Israeli forces.[527]
- The last Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, intended for delivery to the United Arab Emirates Air Force in 2017, takes off from the Boeing assembly plant at Long Beach, California, conducting a flyover of the facility before departing. Boeing, which delivered the U.S. Air Force's last C-17 in September 2013, plans to close the Long Beach plant by the end of 2015 – except for small sections left open for one to two more years to provide engineering support for C-17s – because of insufficient foreign orders for the C-17 to justify keeping the assembly line open.[528]
- 30 November
- A U.S. Air Force-funded University of Maryland Medical School study published in the Journal of Neurotrauma finds that rapid air evacuation of wounded personnel suffering from traumatic brain injury – previously assumed to have increased their chances of survival and recovery – leads to more inflammation of the brain and could cause more damage. Reduced air pressure in an airborne aircraft's interior is a major reason for the increased inflammation, as is overuse of 100 percent supplemental oxygen in such a lower-pressure environment.[529]
December
- During the month, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs releases a report that finds that Russian airstrikes against border crossings and highways in Syria used to deliver humanitarian supplies from Turkey – including one instance in which Russian aircraft struck a hub at the Bab al-Salameh border crossing where truck drivers collect humanitarian supplies for Syria three times in five days – have forced humanitarian agencies to reduce or halt aid to Syrian civilians living in areas of conflict between the Government of Syria and rebel forces. The report also states that Russian aircraft have struck 20 medical facilities, 10 bakeries, a grain silo, and a water treatment plant in Syria since the Russian intervention there began on 30 September.[524]
- 2 December
- A U.S. airstrike in Somalia kills senior Al-Shabaab leader Abdirahman Sandhere, also known as "Ukash." The United States Department of Defense will confirm his death on 7 December.[498]
- After more than 10 hours of debate, the British Parliament votes in favor of the United Kingdom beginning an air campaign against the Islamic State in Syria. British aircraft previously had only attacked Islamic State targets in Iraq in a campaign they had begun just over a year earlier.[530]
- 4 December
- The German Bundestag votes to expand Germany's role in combat against the Islamic State, approving among other things the basing of seven Luftwaffe planes – six Panavia Tornado reconnaissance aircraft and a tanker aircraft – at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to provide reconnaissance and refueling support to other aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition. Germany's constitution prohibits German aircraft from participating directly in airstrikes.[531][532]
- 6 December
- Airstrikes against Islamic State positions on the northern and eastern outskirts of Raqqa, Syria, kill at least 15 and perhaps as many as 32 Islamic State personnel and wound another 25 to 40. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that the attacking aircraft were from the U.S.-led coalition, while the Islamic State claims they were Russian planes.[533]
- 6–7 December (overnight)
- Four jet aircraft fire nine rockets at Syrian Arab Army positions in Ayyash in Syria's Deir ez-Zor Governorate, destroying three armored vehicles, four other military vehicles, two heavy machine guns, and an arms depot and killing three Syrian soldiers and wounding 13. On 7 December, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs blames the attack on the U.S.-led coalition, the first time it has claimed that the coalition has attacked its forces since the coalition's air campaign in Syria began 14 months earlier. A U.S. military spokesman replies the same day that no coalition airstrikes took place in the area, and that Russian aircraft struck the Syrian troops.[534]
- Aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition strike Islamic State oil wells in Syria's Deir ez-Zor Governorate, at least 34 miles (55 km) from the site of the strike on Syrian troops at Ayyash.[534]
- 7 December
- Unidentified aircraft strike the Sukkari neighborhood of rebel-held Aleppo, Syria, killing eight civilians. Rebel activists claim the aircraft were either Syrian or Russian.[534]
- A U.S. airstrike in Raqqa, Syria, kills Islamic State external operations leader Rawand Dilsher Taher. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- A U.S. airstrike in Hawija, Iraq, kills Khalil Ahmad Ali al-Wais, also known as Abu Wadhah, the Islamic State emir in Iraq's Kirkuk Governorate. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- 8 December
- A U.S. airstrike in Kirkuk, Iraq, kills Islamic State cell facilitator Abu Anas. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- Russian Federation Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M bombers (NATO reporting name "Backfire") flying from bases in Russia take part in cruise missile strikes against targets in Syria that also include cruise missiles fired by Russian Navy surface ships in the Caspian Sea and a Russian submarine in the Mediterranean Sea. Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu announces that Tu-22M bombers have flown 60 sorties against targets in Syria over the past three days.[536]
- Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition target rebel forces during fighting over a military base in Mocha, Yemen. The airstrikes and ground fighting kill a combined 35 people.[537]
- A medivac Bell 407 helicopter crashes near Fresno, California, killing all four occupants.[538]
- 9 December
- A U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, kills Yunish Khalash, also known as Abu Jawdat, the Islamic State's deputy financial amir in Mosul. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- A U.S. airstrike in Hawija, Iraq, kills Mithaq Najim, the Islamic State's deputy emir in Iraq's Kirkuk Governorate. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- Devastating Syrian government airstrikes against rebels hit Hamouria, Syria, reportedly killing 11 civilians.[539]
- 10 December
- A U.S. airstrike near Raqqa, Syria, kills Siful Haque Sujan, an Islamic State external operations planner. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- 11 December
- Firefighters respond within minutes when an Air China Boeing 737-800 taxiing at Fuzhou Changle International Airport in Fuzhou, China, reports sparks coming from one of its engines, but mistakenly douse a Fuzhou Airlines Boeing 737-800 instead when they see exhaust fumes emerging from its engines. The incident delays 30 flights at the airport; the Fuzhou Airlines plane the firefighters foamed is delayed 10 hours while undergoing a post-incident safety check.[540]
- 12 December
- A U.S. airstrike near Tal Afar, Iraq, kills Akram Muhammad Sa’ad Faris, also known as Akram Aabu, an Islamic State commander and executioner. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- 13 December
- Rebel forces in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, fire more than 40 mortar rounds into Damascus, killing three people and wounding 33, and Syrian government forces respond with airstrikes against Douma and Saqba, both part of Eastern Ghouta, which kill least 45 – and perhaps as many as 49 – people.[541][542]
- 14 December
- Syrian government attack helicopters strike Darayya, Syria.[542]
- The head of the investigation of the crash of Metrojet Flight 9268 run by Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation announces that Egypt has found no evidence of any "illegal or terrorist act." The announcement conflicts with the views of Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, all of which have expressed the belief that a bomb destroyed the airliner.[543]
- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces new regulations requiring that all unmanned aerial vehicles in the United States weighing between 0.5 and 55 pounds (0.23 and 25 kg) be registered with the FAA, with registration to begin on 21 December. The Consumer Electronics Association estimates that Christmas gifts in 2015 in the United States will include 700,000 new UAVs.[544]
- 16 December
- After rebel forces violate a seven-day ceasefire in Yemen on its first day, the Saudi-led coalition responds with airstrikes against rebels in Taiz and in the Sirwah District of the Ma'rib Governorate.[545]
- The United States and Cuba agree to allow U.S. airlines to provide scheduled service to Cuba for the first time since the early 1960s, with flights likely to begin sometime between March and June 2016. The agreement also allows the Cuban government airline Cubana de Aviación to provide scheduled service to the United States, although outstanding judgments against Cuba in U.S. courts make Cubana's airliners subject to seizure, meaning that Cubana will have to lease aircraft or share routes to avoid the risk of its aircraft being seized while on the ground in the United States.[546]
- 16–17 December
- After the Islamic State launches an offensive against Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces in Iraq north and east of Mosul, British, Canadian, French, and U.S. aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition conduct a 17-hour aerial bombardment of the attackers, killing at least 180 Islamic State personnel; peshmerga forces kill additional Islamic State personnel in ground combat. Immediately prior to the beginning of the offensive, an Islamic State unmanned aerial vehicle flies over peshmerga positions, apparently passing targeting information to Islamic State ground forces.[547]
- 18 December
- With Iraqi Air Force aircraft unable to support an Iraqi Army offensive against the Islamic State in Iraq south of Fallujah due to weather conditions, the Iraqi armed forces ask the U.S.-led coalition to provide the air support. U.S. aircraft conduct three strikes; two of them hit Islamic State forces, destroying two ground vehicles and four fighting positions. Due to a lack of communication between Iraqi and U.S. forces, however, the third strike hits an area recently overrun by Iraqi forces, killing 10 Iraqi soldiers. It is the first reported "friendly fire" incident in Iraq since the U.S.-led coalition began its air campaign against the Islamic State.[548]
- 19 December
- The People's Republic of China claims that 10 December flight of a United States Air Force B-52H Stratofortress over a Chinese-claimed artificial island in the South China Sea was a "serious military provocation" during which Chinese military personnel on the island went on high alert and issued warnings to the plane demanding that it leave the area. A United States Department of Defense spokesman says that the B-52H was not on a "freedom of navigation" mission and may merely have strayed off course.[549]
- An airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, kills the Lebanese militant Samir Kuntar. Hezbollah blames the airstrike on Israel, which neither confirms nor denies its involvement.[550]
- 20 December
- Russian aircraft conduct nine strikes against rebel-held Idlib, Syria, reportedly hitting a court house and an intelligence building and killing at least 36 people, with one report of 43 dead.[551]
- Human Rights Watch reports that Syrian government and Russian aircraft have been using cluster munitions that have killed dozens of civilians over the past several weeks.[551]
- 21 December
- Minutes after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a payload of 11 satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, into Earth orbit for Orbcomm, the rocket's first stage turns back toward Earth and makes a soft landing at its launching pad at SpaceX Landing Zone 1 at the Air Force station, using its engine thrust to slow itself for the landing. It is the first time in history that a rocket has launched a payload into orbit and then returned safely to the Earth, a capability that promises to lower the cost of space flight dramatically.[552]
- Mandatory registration with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration of privately owned unmanned aerial vehicles weighing between 0.5 and 55 pounds (0.23 and 25 kg) begins in the United States. UAVs purchased prior to 21 December must be registered by 19 February 2016, and those purchased on or after 21 December must be registered before their first flight.[553]
- 22 December
- The U.S. Department of Defense reports that 56 percent of all aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition operating against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria are returning from strike missions without having used their weapons, either because of weather or concerns over the possibility of unwarranted civilian casualties. The figure is a reduction from the 75 percent of aircraft reported returning with their weapons a few months earlier, a change officials attribute to better intelligence on the existence and location of targets.[554]
- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announces that Boeing has agreed to pay a $12 million fine to the United States Government and make changes in how it builds commercial aircraft to settle complaints that it had used substandard safety and quality processes, with up to $24 million in additional fines possible if Boeing does not adhere to the agreement through 2020. The agreement settles two enforcement cases and 11 other issues the FAA has brought to Boeing's attention in recent years involving such matters as missing a 2012 deadline to provide airlines with information on how to install devices on Boeing 747s and Boeing 757s to prevent fuel tank explosions and a 2013 complaint that Boeing had used improper fasteners on Boeing 777s and had not taken action to correct the problem over the following two years. It is the second-highest fine ever paid to in an FAA enforcement case and the highest by an aircraft manufacturer.[555]
- 23 December
- A mortar attack against Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, damages five aircraft, kills a woman who worked as a cleaner at the airport, and injures another cleaner. On 26 December, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons will claim responsibility for the attack.[556][557]
- After starting a Black Lives Matter rally at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, as a decoy, some of the group's protestors take a light rail train to Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, where they gather inside one of its two terminals, forcing two security checkpoints to close for about 45 minutes and blocking access to the terminal. They also obstruct roads leading to the airport, snarling ground traffic. No flights are cancelled, but a number of them are delayed.[558]
- 24 December
- Syrian government jets and attack helicopters strike Hamouriyeh, Syria – a rebel-held suburb of Damascus – killing at least 20 people. One report places the death toll at 23, with dozens more injured.[559]
- A U.S. airstrike in Syria kills terrorist leader Charaffe al Mouadan, who had ties to terrorists involved on 13 November 2015 attacks in Paris.[560] The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- 25 December
- The local government of Okinawa files suit against the central government of Japan to block the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, outside Naha, to Camp Schwab in Nago.[561]
- Thirteen airstrikes hit Syrian rebel targets in eastern Damascus. One of them, a Russian airstrike, kills several Syrian rebel officials including senior rebel commander Zahran Allouch as they meet to resolve a dispute between factions of the rebel Jaysh al-Islam coalition.[562]
- 26 December
- A U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, kills Abdel Kader Hakim, an Islamic State external operations leader. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- 27 December
- A U.S. airstrike near Mosul, Iraq, kills Tashin al-Haali, an Islamic State external operations facilitator. The U.S. Department of Defense will announce the strike on 29 December.[535]
- The Bild am Sonntag newspaper quotes Germany's Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Alexander Dobrindt, as saying that pilots in Europe should face unannounced drug, alcohol, and medicine testing, adding that the United States and Australia already conduct such tests.[563]
- 29 December
- A stolen Civil Air Patrol Cessna 172 Skyhawk crashes into an unoccupied commercial building in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, clipping another building where the pilot's wife works before crashing. On 1 January 2016, the pilot's family will claim he committed suicide in the crash and did not intend to harm his wife or anyone else.[564]
- 30 December
- Supported by the heaviest Russian aerial bombardment in southern Syria since the Russian air campaign in Syria began on 30 September, Syrian Arab Army troops fight their way into Sheikh Maksin against rebel forces. Rebels report at least 100 air raids targeting them during the previous two days.[565]
- A South African teenager finds a piece of debris on a beach in Mozambique and takes it home to South Africa. In March 2016, his family will turn the debris in to South African aviation officiaLs, who plan to examine it to see if it is from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 missing since 8 March 2014.[566]
- 31 December
- The People's Republic of China confirms that it is constructing a second aircraft carrier for its People's Liberation Army Navy. The Chinese Ministry of National Defense announces that the new carrier will displace 50,000 tons, have a ski jump ramp, and operate Shenyang J-15 fighter aircraft. It will be the first aircraft carrier constructed in China.[567]
- According to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, there were 764 reports of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or "drones") sighted near airplanes in the United States in 2015.[568] An estimated 700,000 UAVs were sold in the United States during the year, raising concerns about the threat they pose to other aircraft when operated improperly.[568]
- Cuba has seen dramatic growth in commercial airline flights during 2015, with 18 percent more than in 2014 in aviation#2014. Nearly 160,000 U.S. leisure travelers have flown to Cuba during 2015, as have hundreds of thousands of Cuban-Americans visiting family in Cuba, following a thaw in political relations between the United States and Cuba that began in December 2014. 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.[569]
Primeros vuelos
February
- 3 February - Embraer KC-390 - PT-ZNF[570]
- 6 February - Dassault Falcon 8X - F-WWQA[571]
- 6 February - Enstrom TH180 - N180TH[572]
- 27 February - Bombardier CS300 - C-FFDK
March
- 7 March - Kamov Ka-52K[573]
April
- 9 April - Flight Design C4 - D-EZFD[574]
May
- 7 May - Antonov An-178 - UR-EXP[575]
- 11 May Pilatus PC-24 - HB-VXA[576]
- 18 May Gulfstream G500 - N500GA
- 22 May Sikorsky S-97 Raider - N971SK
June
- 13 June - Airbus Helicopters H160 - F-WWOG[577]
July
- 1 July - Bell 525 Relentless - N525TA[578]
September
- 2 September – Windward Performance Perlan II[579]
- 14 September - Aero L-39NG[580]
- 25 September – Boeing KC-46 Pegasus
October
- 5 October - KAI KT-100 - 16-001[581]
- 27 October - Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion[582]
November
- 11 November - Mitsubishi Regional Jet[583]
December
- 19 December - Epic E1000 - N331FT
- 25 December - KB SAT SR-10[584]
Servicio ingresado
- 15 January – Airbus A350 with Qatar Airways
- 31 July – F-35B Lighting II, United States Marine Corps version of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 (VMFA-121); first version of the F-35 to enter service[321]
Jubilaciones
- 1 August – Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight by the United States Marine Corps; the last one to fly is a CH-46E model[585]
- 29 September – Boeing Vertol HH-46 Sea Knight by the United States Navy; the last one to fly is an HH-46E model[585]
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- ^ Unnikrishnan, Madhu, "U.S. Open Skies Policy Comes Under Scrutiny," Aviation Daily, 29 January 2015.
- ^ Gardner, Frank, "Jordan pilot hostage Moaz al-Kasasbeh 'burned alive,'" BBC News, 3 February 2015, 15:44 EST.
- ^ a b Booth, William, and Taylor Luck, "Jordan hits Islamic State with airstrikes as king visits family of pilot burned alive," washingtonpost.com, 5 February 2015, 4:56 PM EST.
- ^ Anonymous, "US officials confirm suspension of UAE combat missions," Aljazeera, 5 February 2015, 03:29 GMT.
- ^ Laub, Karen, and Mohammed Daraghmeri, "Jordan hits Islamic State with airstrikes as king visits family of pilot burned alive," Associated Press, 5 February 2015, 2:31 PM.
- ^ Bradley, Matt, Suha Ma’ayeh, and Asa Fitch, "Jordan Strikes Islamic State in Syria," Wall Street Journal, 5 February 2015, 7:20 p.m. EST.
- ^ a b Al-Khalidi, Suleiman Al-Khalidi, "Syrian air attacks kill nearly 200 in Damascus suburbs: monitor," Reuters, 11 February 2015, 11:49 a.m. EST.
- ^ Booth, William, and Taylor Luck, "Jordan rages against Islamic State as military vows to expand airstrikes," 6 February 2015, 3:45 PM EST.
- ^ Anonymous, "Islamic State says airstrike killed US hostage, US skeptical," Associated Press, 6 February 2015, 10:58 p.m.
- ^ Lab. Karen, "Official: UAE Sends F-16s to Jordan to Fight Islamic State," Associated Press, 7 February 2015, 12:14 PM EST.
- ^ Daraghmeh, Mohammed, "Jordan says it launched 56 airstrikes against Islamic State," Associated Press, 8 February 2015, 9:25 AM EST.
- ^ Anonymous, "Chile mountaineers: We found plane missing for half century," Associated Press, 8 February 2015.
- ^ Ybarra, Maggie, "Mullah Abdul Rauf, former Gitmo detainee, killed by drone in Afghanistan," The Washington Times, 9 February 2015.
- ^ Baldor, Lolita C., "US official confirms IS recruiter killed in US drone strike," Associated Press, 10 February 2015 3:16 PM EST.
- ^ Dembassa-Kette, Crispin, "Peacekeepers kill seven rebels in Central African Republic fighting," Reuters, 10 February 2015, 4:29 p.m. EST.
- ^ Anonymous, "Europe launches space plane with eye on strategic goal," phys.org, 11 February 2015.
- ^ Anonymous, "Europe launches space plane, brings it back to earth," Agence France-Press, 11 February 2015.
- ^ Anonymous, "Air Force Resurrects B-52 Bomber From Boneyard for First Time," UPI, 23 February 2015.
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- ^ a b Whitlock, Craig, "," washingtonpost.com, 15 February 2015, 11:23 a.m. EST.
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- ^ Abubakar, Aminu, "Sources: Nigerian airstrike kills 37 mourners in Niger," CNN, 18 February 2015, 4:14 p.m. EST.
- ^ Ryan, Missy, "Obama administration to allow sales of armed drones to allies," washingtonpost.com, 17 February 2015.
- ^ Anonymous, "Nigerian Troops Retake Town as Boko Haram Attacks Villages," Associated Press, 21 February 2015, 1:55 p.m. EST.
- ^ Anonymous, "Unidentified drones seen flying over Paris landmarks," Al-Jazeera, 24 February 2015, 15:06 GMT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Philippine Troops Attack 300 Abu Sayyaf Militants, 7 Killed," Associated Press, 25 February 2015, 6:54 a.m. EST.
- ^ Mulholland, Rory, "Unidentified drones reappear over Paris for second night," The Telegraph, 25 February 2015, 8:53 a.m. GMT.
- ^ Adamson, Thomas, "3 Al-Jazeera Journalists Arrested for Flying Drone in Paris," Associated Press, 25 February 2015, 2:55 PM EST.
- ^ Anonymous, "Iraq launches offensive to take back Tikrit from ISIL," Al-Jazeera, 2 March 2015, 14:49 GMT
- ^ "Turkish Airlines plane crash-lands after overshooting runway", Telegraph, 4 March 2015, 03:52 GMT
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- ^ Whitcomb, Dan, and Piya Sinha-Roy "Actor Harrison Ford injured in small-plane crash in Los Angeles," Reuters, 6 March 2015, 7:03 a.m. EST.
- ^ Perry, Tom, and Suleiman al-Khalidi, "Air strike in Syria hits Nusra Front camp: monitor, sources," Reuters, 8 March 2015, 1:20pm EDT.
- ^ Perry, Tom, "Air strike on Islamic State-run refinery in Syria kills 30-monitor," Reuters, 8 March 2015, 6:45 p.m. EDT
- ^ Davies, Alex, "Solar-Powered Plane Begins Its Journey Around the World," wired.com, 9 March 2015, 6:05 p.m.
- ^ solarimpulse.com Leg 1
- ^ Pisarenko, Natacha, and Paul Byrne, "Argentina probes copter crash as France mourns dead athletes," Associated Press, 10 March 2015. 7:01 PM EDT.
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- ^ Amos, Jonathan, "Solar Impulse: Oman to India journey sets new record," BBC News, 10 March 2015, 14:00 EDT.
- ^ a b c d Amos, Jonathan, "Solar Impulse plane lands in China," bbc.com, 30 March 2015.
- ^ solarimpulse.com Leg 2
- ^ Botelho, Greg, "Military helicopter crash: Air search suspended for the night," CNN, 11 March 2015, 8:33 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "US to send Ukraine drones, more aid, but no lethal weapons," Associated Press, 11 March 2015.
- ^ Lamothe, Dan, "U.S. to send Humvees and unarmed drones to Ukraine — but still no weapons," washingtonpost.com, 11 March 2015.
- ^ Whitlock, Craig, and Kevin Sieff, "," washingtonpost.com, 13 March 2015, 3:05 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Air raid by Burma kills four in China", Reuters, 14 March 2015, 01:55 EDT
- ^ a b Craig, Tim, "Pakistan says it will deploy its own armed drone against terrorists," washingtonpost.com, 13 March 2015, 5:02 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous "Activists: Syrian Air Raids Pound Rebellious Damascus Suburb," Associated Press, 15 March 2015, 12:26 PM EDT.
- ^ Naylor, Hugh, "Chemical weapons attack alleged in Syria," washingtonpost.com, 17 March 2015.
- ^ Ryan, Missy, "U.S. loses track of drone over Syria," washingtonpost.com, 17 March 2015.
- ^ Amos, Jonathan, "Solar Impulse: Plane completes Ahmedabad to Varanasi leg," bbc.com, 18 March 2015.
- ^ solarimpulse.com Leg 3
- ^ Morris, Loveday, "," washingtonpost.com, 18 March 2015.
- ^ solarimpulse.com Leg 4
- ^ Almasmari, Hakim, Jason Hanna, and Jethro Mullen, "Yemen: Jet strikes palace grounds in deposed President's stronghold," cnn.com, 19 March 2015.
- ^ Scott, Alwyn, "UPDATE 3-U.S. regulators give Amazon go-ahead for drone tests," Reuters, 19 March 2015, 7:57 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Small Argentine Plane Crashes Near Uruguay Resort," Associated Press, 20 March 2015, 10:28 a.m. EDT.
- ^ a b Naylor, Hugh, "Fighting escalates in Yemen as Houthis launch airstrikes," washingtonpost.com, 19 March 2015.
- ^ Robertson, Campbell, "Assailant Shot at New Orleans Airport Is Dead," New York Times, 21 March 2015.
- ^ Anonymous, "Syrian Military Helicopter Crashes, Insurgents Capture Crew," Associated Press, 22 March 2015, 11:16 a.m. EDT.
- ^ Anpnympus, "Okinawa orders halt to work related to US base relocation," Associated Press, 23 March 201, 12:52 PM. Archived 14 April 2015 at archive.today
- ^ Anonymous, "NATO scrambles jets after Russian bombers spotted over Baltic Sea," Associated Press, 24 March 2015, 2:18 PM
- ^ Lucas, Ryan, "," Associated Press, 24 March 2015.
- ^ Norland, Rod, and Peter Baker, "Opening New Iraq Front, U.S. Strikes ISIS in Tikrit," New York Times, 25 March 2015.
- ^ al-Mujahed, Ali, "Egypt poised to join Saudi assault on Yemen rebels," washingtonpost.com, 26 March 2015.
- ^ Thorp, Gene, "Saudi Arabia enters Yemen conflict," washingtonpost.com, 26 March 2015.
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- ^ al-Mujahed, Ali, and Hugh Naylor, "Saudi-led airstrikes intensify in Yemen as possible coalition land attack looms," washingtonpost.com, 28 March 2015.
- ^ solarimpulse.com Leg 5
- ^ Rajagopalan, Megha, "China air force conducts drill in west Pacific Ocean," Reuters, 30 March 2015 5:28 a.m. EDT.
- ^ al-Mujahed, Ali, and Hugh Naylor, "Dozens killed in airstrike at refugee camp in Yemen," washingtonpost.com, 30 March 2015.
- ^ Anonymous, "Iran claims U.S. drone strike kills 2 Revolutionary Guard advisers in Iraq," Associated Press, 30 March 2015, 8:06 AM.
- ^ Anonymous, "Also in Business," Washington Post, 8 April 2015, p. A12.
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- ^ Mroue, Bassem, "Syrian rebels capture main border crossing with Jordan," Associated Press, 2 April 2015, 12:00 noon EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Saudi-Led Coalition Airdrops Arms to Yemeni Forces," Associated Press, 3 April 2015, 1:39 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Vogt, Heidi, "Kenya Strikes al-Shabaab Positions in Somalia After College Attack," Wall Street Journal, 6 April 2015, 1:19 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Landau, Joel, "Lightning hits Icelandair plane flying to Denver, flight continues despite hole in nose," nydailynews.com, 9 April 2015, 2:01 PM.
- ^ Keeney, Laura, "Denver-bound Icelandair flight from Reykjavik hit by lightning," The Denver Post, 8 April 2015, 12:50:09 PM MDT.
- ^ Botelho, Greg, and Ryan Scallan, "Illinois State coach among 7 dead in plane crash on way home from Final 4," cnn.com, 7 April 2015, 6:04 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Mullen, Jethro, cnn.com, "Canadian warplanes carry out first airstrike against ISIS in Syria," 9 April 2015, 2:25 a.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Soldier Patrolling Paris Airport Injured by Attacker's Knife," Associated Press, 10 April 2015, 4:01 PM EDT.
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- ^ Anonymous, "Senior al-Qaeda leader in Yemen killed in US strike," Aljazeera.com, 15 April 2015, 05:15 GMT.
- ^ Goldman, Adam, "U.S. to inform Americans whether they are on ‘no-fly’ list, and possibly why," washingtonpost.com, 14 April 2015, 5:48 PM EDT.
- ^ Blankstein, Andrew, "Nightmare: Alaska Airlines Flight Turns Around After Napping Worker Trapped in Cargo Hold," NBC News, 13 April 2015, 6:55 p.m.
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- ^ al-Mujahed, Ali, and Hugh Naylor, "Al-Qaeda seizes airport in eastern Yemen," washingtonpost.com, 16 April 2015.
- ^ Davenport, Christian, "SpaceX rocket hits barge, Elon Musk says, but ‘too hard for survival’," washingtonpost.com, 14 April 2015.
- ^ Fram, Alan, "Small aircraft lands on Capitol lawn; pilot in custody," Associated Press, 15 April 2015, 6:15 p.m. EDT. Archived 16 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Duggan, Paul, Ashley Halsey III, and Keith L. Alexander, "Gyrocopter pilot is charged with felony and sent back home to Fla.," washingtonpost.com, 16 April 2015.
- ^ Malenic, Marina, "X-47B engages tanker to prepare for refuelling test next week," IHS Jane's Defence Weekly, 19 April 2015.
- ^ Joseph Trevithick, "A Drone HAs Never Linked Up With a Tanker Until Now," War is Boring, undated.
- ^ "Yemen militia aligned with embattled president says it is besieging rebels at strategic base," Associated Press. 18 April 2015, 1:20 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Activists: Syrian government air raids kill at least 16," Associated Press, 19 April 2015, 10:07 a.m. EDT.
- ^ a b Al-Mujahed, Ali, and Hugh Naylor, "Dozens reported killed in airstrike in Yemen capital," washingtonpost.com, 20 April 2015.
- ^ LaGrone, Sam, "Confrontation avoided? Iranian ships and U.S. aircraft carrier both turn away from Yemen," usni.org, 20 April 2015, 6:09 p.m.
- ^ Hicks, Josh, "U.S. sends illegal immigrants home on expensive charter flights that are largely empty," washingtonpost.com, 20 April 2015.
- ^ solarimpulse.com Leg 6
- ^ Al-Mujahed, Ali, and Hugh Naylor, "Saudi Arabia says it will scale back its military campaign in Yemen," washingtonpost.com, 21 April 2015, 7:01 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Ripley, Will, "Drone with radioactive material found on Japanese Prime Minister's roof," cnn.com, 22 April 2015, 2:47 p.m. EDT.
- ^ a b Al-Haj, Ahmed, and Brian Rohan, "Airstrikes hit Yemen rebels after Saudis say operation over", Associated Press, 22 April 2015, 1:04 PM EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Activists Say at Least 32 Killed in Airstrikes Across Syria," Associated Press, 22 April 2015, 2:39 p.m. EDT.
- ^ LaGrone, Sam, "Navy Conducts Successful Test of Aerial Refueling with X-47B, UCAS-D Program Ending," usni.org, 22 April 2015, 11:53 p.m.
- ^ Al-Haj, Ali, "Saudi-led airstrikes bomb Yemen's Shiite rebels in 6 cities," 23 April 2015 3:16 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Lamothe, Dan, "Confrontation avoided? Iranian ships and U.S. aircraft carrier both turn away from Yemen," washingtonpost.com, 24 April 2015.
- ^ a b Eglash, Ruth, "Tensions rise on Israel-Syria border after infiltration attempt, airstrikes," washingtonpost.com, 27 April 2015.
- ^ Gowen, Annie, "," washingtonpost.com, 26 April 2015, 11:40 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Israel strike 'kills militants' on Golan Heights frontier," bbc.com, 27 April 2015
- ^ al-Haj, Ahmed, "Fighting Rages in Yemen's 3rd-Largest City, Strikes Continue," Associated Press, 26 April 2015, 12:40 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Holley, Peter, "Stranded Mount Everest climbers now rescued," washingtonpost.com, 28 April 2015, 5:00 a.m. EDT.
- ^ a b Lakshmi, Rama, Annie Gowen. and Anup Kaphle, "Rescuers in Nepal finding total devastation in remote villages," washingtonpost.com, 28 April 2015, 9:53 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "American Airlines planes grounded by iPad app error," bbc.com, 29 April 2015.
- ^ Eversley, Melanie, and John Bacon, "Travelers scramble after iPad issues delay American Airlines flights," usatoday.com, 30 April 2015, 2:06 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Partlow, Joshua, "Military helicopter shot down as drug violence surges in western Mexico," washingtonpost.com, 1 May 2015, 4:07 p.m. EDT.
- ^ a b Partlow, Joshua, "," washingtonpost.com, 6 July 2015, 6:15 p.m. EDT.
- ^ a b El Deeb, Sarah, "Activists: Suspected chemical attacks in Syria injure 40," Associated Press, 2 May 2015, 1:31 p.m. EDT.
- ^ El Deeb, Sarah, "US to look into claim airstrike killed 52 civilians in Syria," Associated Press, 2 May 2015, 2:11 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Gurubacharya, Binaj, "Nepal shuts airport to big jets; more bodies found," Associated Press, 3 May 2015, 6:10 AM EDT.
- ^ Al-Haj, Ahmed, "Airstrikes hit Yemen airports as Saudis ponder cease-fire," Associated Press, 4 May 2015, 3:31 p.m. EDT.
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- ^ Tweed, David, and Chris Blake, "China Reserves Right to Create Air Zone Over South China Sea," Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2015, 1:30 a.m. EDT.
- ^ Morello, Carol, "Saudi Arabia offers 5-day ceasefire in Yemen after talks with Kerry," washingtonpost.com, 7 May 2015.
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- ^ a b Castillo, Mariano, "U.N. rep accuses Saudi-led coalition of violating international law," cnn.com, 9 May 2015, 10:23 PM EDT.
- ^ Scott, Jason, "Australia Urges China Not to Create South China Sea Air Zone," Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2015, 10:22 p.m. EDT.
- ^ a b Cunningham, Erin, and Brian Murphy, "Intense clashes in Yemen endanger prospects of humanitarian cease-fire," washingtonpost.com, 12 May 2015.
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- ^ Mahr, Krista, and Ross Adkin "No sign of missing U.S. aid helicopter after second Nepal quake," Reuters, 13 May 2015.
- ^ Gowen, Annie, "Wreckage of U.S. military helicopter found in Nepal; no sign of survivors," washingtonpost.com, 15 May 2015, 2:50 PM EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Activists say at least 28 killed in Syria government attack" Associated Press, 12 May 2015, 3:51 p.m. EDT.
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- ^ Hattem, Julian, "," thehill.com, 14 May 2015. 6:33 PM EDT.
- ^ Fung, Brian, "The Army's drone pilots aren’t being trained because they’re too busy mowing lawns," washingtonpost.com, 15 May 2015, 11:41 AM EDT.
- ^ Brown, Emma, "Meet the teen who just won $75,000 for inventing a system to keep germs from spreading on airplanes," washingtonpost.com, 15 May 2015.
- ^ DeYoung, Karen, and Missy Ryan, "Senior ISIS leader killed in U.S. raid in Syria," washingtonpost.com, 16 May 2015, 9:13 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Mahsud, Ishtiaq, "Pakistan officials: US drone strike kills 5 militants," Associated Press, 16 May 2015, 3:47 PM EDT.
- ^ Perry, Thomas, Ayla Jean Yackley, Tulay Karadeniz, Seyhmus Cakan, and David Dolan, "Turkey says shot down helicopter, while Syrian TV says it was drone," Reuters, 16 May 2015, 7:51 p.m. EDT.
- ^ McAvoy, Audrey, "US Marine Osprey crashes in Hawaii; 1 dead, 21 injured," Associated Press, 18 May 2015, 2:38 AM EDT.
- ^ al-Haj, Ahmed, "Officials: Saudi-led coalition airstrikes resume in Yemen", Associated Press, 17 May 2015, 7:17 PM EDT.
- ^ al-Mujahed, Ali, and Erin Cunningham, "Bombing and clashes resume as Yemen heads for ‘catastrophe’," washingtonpost.com, 18 May 2015, 4:41 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Denyer, Simon, "Chinese warnings to U.S. plane hint of rising stakes over disputed islands," washingtonpost.com, 21 May 2015.
- ^ a b Ryan, Missy, and Karen DeYoung, "U.S. military confirms two civilian casualties in war against Islamic State," washingtonpost.com, 21 May 2015.
- ^ Mroue, Bassem, "Hezbollah Vows to Expand Involvement in Syria's Civil War," Associated Press, 24 May 2015, 3:46 PM EDT.
- ^ Jaffe, Greg, and Loveday Morris, "Defense Secretary Carter: Iraqis lack ‘will to fight’ to defeat Islamic State," washingtonpost.com, 24 May 2015, 4:24 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Anonymous threats against airliners prompt searches; all OK," Associated Press, 25 May. 2015 8:48 p.m. EDT.
- ^ al-Haj, Ahmed, "Rebels Say Saudi-Led Airstrikes Targeting Police Headquarters in Yemen's Capital Kill 45," Associated Press, 27 May 2015, 2:24 p.m. EDT.
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- ^ a b solarimpulse.com 2 Leg 7
- ^ Sly, Liz, "Syria airstrikes kill scores amid government setbacks," washingtonpost.com, 30 May 2015, 4:31 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Trott, Bill, and Eric Walsh, "Homeland security chief reassigns top TSA official," Reuters, 2 June 2015, 10:32 a.m. EDT.
- ^ Isachenkov, Vladimir, "Russian missile maker: MH17 shot down by Ukraine," Associated Press, 2 June 2015, 8:31 a.m. EDT.
- ^ Hedgpeth, Dana, "United Airlines resumes flights after they were grounded nationwide," washingtonpost.com, 2 June 2015.
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- ^ Lynch, Kerry, "George Neal Enters Guinness Record Book as Oldest Pilot," ainonline.com, 22 June 2015, 3:32 PM.
- ^ Anonymous, "Solar Impulse to be stuck for a week in Japan for repairs," Yahoo News, 4 June 2015.
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- ^ Anonymous, "Saudis say Scud missile from Yemen shot down," aljazeera.com, 7 June 2015, 02:57 GMT.
- ^ al-Haj, Ahmed, "Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen army headquarters kill 22," Associated Press, 7 June 2015, 11:45 AM EDT.
- ^ Mroue, Bassem, "49 dead after Syrian planes bomb village, activists say," Associated Press, 8 June 2015.
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- ^ Naylor, Hugh, "Syrian al-Qaeda branch accused of massacring minority Druze," washingtonpost.com, 11 June 2015.
- ^ Mullen, Jethro, "Al Qaeda's second in command killed in Yemen strike; successor named," cnn.com, 16 June 2015, 1:53 PM EDT.
- ^ Miller Greg, and Hugh Naylor, "Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen is said to be killed in U.S. drone strike," washingtonpost.com, 16 June 2015.
- ^ Ryan, Missy, "U.S. planes target al-Qaeda veteran in Libya," washingtonpost.com, 14 June 2015, 8:37 p.m. EDT.
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- ^ Schudel, Matt, "James Horner, Oscar-winning film composer, dies in plane crash at 61," washingtonpost.com, 24 June 2015, 8:02 a.m. EDT.
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- ^ Achenbach, Joel, and Christian Davenport, "Another major rocket failure for a space industry out to prove itself," washingtonpost.com, 28 June 2015, 8:05 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Quiano, Kathy, and Jethro Mullen, "Death toll rises to 53 after military plane crashes in Medan, Indonesia," cnn.com, 30 June 2015, 1333 GMT.
- ^ Bakkara, Binsar, "Little hope of survivors in Indonesian military plane crash," Associated Press, 30 June 2015, 12:30:58 a.m. MDT.
- ^ Quiano, Kathy, Jethro Mullen, and Catherine E. Shoichet, "Death toll hits 86 after military C-130 crashes in Indonesian town," cnn.com, 30 June 2015, 4:25 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Associated Press, "Police: 141 bodies recovered from Indonesia plane crash," 1 July 2015, 3:17 a.m.
- ^ Moore, Thad, "The future of air travel is garbage," washingtonpost.com, 30 June 2015.
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- ^ Chan-Kyong, Park, "North Korea opens new showcase airport terminal," Yahoo! News, 2 July 2015.
- ^ Michaelson, Ruth, "Isis in Egypt: Wave of attacks across country signals frightening upsurge in militant activity," independent.co.uk, 1 July 2015.
- ^ Rohan, Brian, "Egypt's warplanes strike back at militants in troubled Sinai," Associated Press, 2 July 2015, 4:35 p.m. EDT.
- ^ Anonymous, "Syrian forces close in on rebel-held Zabadani," bbc.com, 4 July 2015.
- ^ Rasheed, Ahmed, and Dominic Evans, "Iraqi jets drop leaflets over Mosul promising to recapture city," Reuters, 4 July 2015, 9:26 a.m. EDT.
- ^ Ghobari, Mohammed, Adrian Croft, and Hadeel Al Sayegh, "Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen cities kill 16 - Houthis," Reuters, 3 July 2015, 10:15 p.m. BST.
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