2016 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2016.

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Deadliest crash

The deadliest crash of this year was a government official flight, namely the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash, which crashed into the Black Sea near Sochi, Russia on 25 December killing all 92 people on board. The deadliest civil aviation crash of the year was EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320 which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May, killing all 66 people on board.

Events

January
2 January
  • Indian aerial surveillance detected gunmen entering an Indian Air Force base at Pathankot, and their security forces exchange fire with them in a housing area. Four gunmen and two Indian security personnel are killed. Gunfire erupts again two hours later, and Indian helicopters fire on gunmen. Indian security declares the base secure 14 hours later.[2]
3 January
  • Indian Security forces killed two militants discovered still hiding on the base from the previous day.[2]
  • An agreement between Ethiopia and the United States was announced to close a redundant United States UAV base at Arba Minch Airport in September 2015.[3]
4 January
  • A day after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran it suspended civilian flights between the two countries raising doubts about religious pilgrims visiting each other's countries.[4]
  • The owner of a drone that was over private property is suing the owner of the property who shot it down, believing it to be spying on him and his family. The drone operator is looking to the U.S. judicial system to clarify the boundaries between private property rights end and federal jurisdiction.[5]
5 January
  • Two United States Air Force Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters were evacuating wounded Afghan troops, when one hit a wall, and the other aborted the mission under heavy fire. One American was killed and two wounded becoming the first U.S. casualties in Afghanistan in 2016.[6]
7 January
8 January
9 January
  • Tracey Curtis-Taylor completed a solo flight from England to Australia, in the Stearman open-cockpit biplane Spirit of Artemis. During the 100-day, 21,000 km (13,000 mi) flight, begun on 1 October 2015, she flew over 23 countries to recreate the first solo flight by Amy Johnson between the two countries by a woman in 1930.[10]
10 January
12 January
13 January
14 January
15 January
16 January
17 January
  • After successfully putting the Jason-3 satellite in orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket touched down on a floating platform in the Pacific, off California softly enough to land successfully, but fell over when a leg collapsed. It is SpaceX's third failed attempt to land a Falcon 9 first stage at sea, although a Falcon 9 successfully landed on land.[21]
  • Saudi-led coalition aircraft attacked a police facility in Sana'a, Yemen used by both security forces and Houthi rebels, killing 26 and injuring 15.[23]
21 January
  • A Saudi-led coalition air strike against a facility at Ras Isa on Yemen's Red Sea coast distributing petroleum products to rebels in Yemen destroyed trucks and started a fire, killing between nine and 16 people and injuring at least 30.[24]
22 January
26 January
28 January
  • Iran agreed to buy 12 A380, 16 A350-1000, 45 A330, and 45 A320-family aircraft from Airbus in a $27 billion deal but requires United States export licenses, where some Airbus parts are manufactured. Iran does not plan on delivery of them until ca. 2020 as airport expansions and more urgent civil aviation needs come first.[28]

February
1 February
2 February
7 February
  • An unidentified aircraft hit a medical technology college in Derna, Libya, killing four. A coalition of Islamic militant groups hold the area against the Islamic State.[31]
8 February
10 February
15 February
  • Villagers and rebels in Somalia said a U.S. UAV crashed there while the United States said that all of its UAVs were accounted for.[36]
17–18 February
18 February
  • The US government allowed Boeing to enter into talks with airlines in Iran. Replacing Iran's aging fleet would be a significant sale for Boeing, although the company requires additional United States government approvals before selling aircraft.[38]
19 February
20 February
21 February
22 February
  • Russia requests permission to make surveillance flights over the United States under the 2002 Treaty on Open Skies using Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft equipped with high resolution digital cameras. US Government debates between it being a small concession to keep the treaty signed by 34 countries viable or a violation of its spirit to allow surveillance unanticipated at the time.[43]
24 February
25 February
26 February
27 February
  • Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit a market outside Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 30 and injuring at least 30 more.[48]
29 February

March
3 March
4 March
  • SpaceX launches a satellite into space using an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket, but the rocket's first stage landing on the "autonomous space port droneship" floating platform is too hard for a successful recovery.[53]
  • The U.S. FAA rejected the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) April 2014 recommendation to establish licensing and safety standards for commercial balloon operators subject to safety inspections similar to those for commercial airplane and helicopter operators prompting the NTSB to respond that the rejection was unacceptable and that its recommendation remains open.[54]
5 March
  • U.S. airstrikes by manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles against an Al-Shabaab training camp in Raso, Somalia, kills over 150 personnel.[39]
7 March
8 March
9 March
12 March
  • A South African family contacted authorities in South Africa the previous week to report debris their son found on a Mozambique beach on 30 December 2015 which they took to South Africa. Aviation officials will examine it to see if it is from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.[59]
  • The Israeli Air Force attacked four Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a rocket attack the previous evening. Two Palestinian children are killed by an air-to-ground missile that hits their family home.[60]
13 March
  • The accident investigation into the 25 March 2015 crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 leads French authorities to call for stricter international monitoring of pilot mental health and guidelines under which doctors would report pilots whose psychological condition might put flight safety at risk. The French also urge German authorities to limit legal penalties on doctors breaching patient confidentiality in good faith to report psychological problems with pilots and to define "imminent danger" to flight safety.[61]
14 March
15 March
16 March
17 March
  • Saudi Arabia announced its coalition will reduce operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen, maintaining only "small" teams to advise, train, and equip Yemeni forces, but will still provide air support to Yemeni forces.[63]
19 March
  • Flydubai Flight 981, a Boeing 737-8KN aborts two landings in poor visibility at Rostov-on-Don Airport. During the second go-around, it crashes after an abrupt and rapid descent from an altitude of 4,050 ft (1,230 m), killing all 62 occupants. It is Flydubai's first fatal accident in seven years of operation.
21 March
  • A South African archaeologist finds debris on a beach in South Africa. The next day, a Malaysia official announced that the debris bears an aircraft engine company logo and will be examined for any connection to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.[67]
22 March
27 March
  • Suspected U.S. UAV strikes hit two villages in Yemen with air-to-ground missiles, killing eight al Qaeda members. Later in the day, a U.S. aircraft bombed a former Yemeni government intelligence building in Yemen's Abyan Governorate that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula used, killing 14.[69]
  • The Portuguese regional airline Portugália is rebranded as Tap Express.
28 March
  • Unidentified aircraft thought to belong to the Saudi-led coalition attack rebel targets in Yemen's Hadhramaut region southeast of Mukalla.[70]
29 March
31 March
  • Heavy airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition supportan offensive by Iraqi forces to take the Islamic State-held city of Hīt, Iraq. The coalition made 17 airstrikes in the Hīt area preparing for the offensive the previous week.[73]
  • An airstrike by a U.S. UAV near Jilib, Somalia, hit a vehicle carrying senior Al-Shabaab leader Hassan Ali Dhoore and two other Al-Shabaab members.[74]

April
2 April
3 April
4 April
5 April
6 April
  • A United States government panel recommended replacing the FAA ban on UAVs flying over people with limits them to flying higher than 6.1 m (20 ft) over people and no closer than 3.0 m (10 ft) if taking off or landing.[85]
8 April
  • SpaceX lands the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket nine minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on an "autonomous spaceport drone ship" floating platform in the Atlantic, off Florida, following several unsuccessful attempts.[86]
  • Jetpack International vice president Nick Macomber crashes headfirst during a jet pack test flight in Denver, Colorado, falling 20 ft (6.1 m) after a malfunction. He is released from a hospital the next day.[87]
10 April
  • Unidentified aircraft conduct airstrikes around Raqqa, Syria, killing dozens of Islamic State personnel and civilians.[88]
11 April
12 April
  • A Russian Mil Mi-28N attack helicopter crashes in Syria in bad weather, killing both crew. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the helicopter was not shot down. Reports of Russian helicopter operations in Syria since late March lead Western military analysts to conclude that Russia's "withdrawal" of aviation forces in March was the replacement of jets with attack helicopters more suited to supporting the Syrian Arab Army against rebel forces.[79]
  • Russian aircraft fly in close proximity to the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) in the Baltic for a second day. A Kamov Ka-27 helicopter makes seven low laps around the ship that the ship's commanding officer criticizes as "unprofessional" and 40 minutes later, two Sukhoi Su-24 jets make 11 low-level passes matching a simulated attack profile.[89]
13 April
14 April
17 April
18 April
  • U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announces that U.S. forces assisting Iraqi armed forces in recapturing Mosul from the Islamic State will use AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.[93]
  • A Comair Boeing 737-800 operated for British Airways became the first jet with seating for over 100 passengers to land at the Saint Helena Airport on Saint Helena during a route proving flight in advance of scheduled services, however wind shear prevented a third landing, indicating that it remains dangerous for large commercial aircraft.[94][95]
19 April
  • Four United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II close air support aircraft of the 51st Fighter Wing patrol the South China Sea west of Luzon from Clark Air Base in the Philippines, an unusual mission for the A-10. It is to be the first of a series of joint South China Sea air patrols by U.S. and Philippine forces. The People's Republic of China claims the patrolled areas as internal waters and condemned a "Cold War mentality."[96]
  • A pro-Syrian-government aircraft belonged to either the Syrians or the Russians attacked the main market in Maarat al-Nu'man, Syria, with two air-to-ground rockets while crowded with people shopping for produce, killing at least 37 civilians.[97]
20 April
  • United States Central Command reveals that authority to order airstrikes that might endanger civilians, originally given only to its top commander, has been delegated to its commander in Baghdad and his deputies.[98]
21 April
22 April
  • Syrian Arab Air Force raids on rebel-held parts of Aleppo kill at least 19 people. Additional government airstrikes in Idlib Governorate also kill people in areas under rebel control.[103]
  • U.S. Central Command announces that between 10 September 2015 and 2 February 2016 its airstrikes in Iraq and Syria killed 20 civilians and injured 11 more. The airstrikes killed two civilians in Kabisa, Iraq, on 10 September 2015; eight in Atshanah, Iraq, while hitting an Islamic State mortar position on 5 October 2015; one in Ramadi, Iraq, during a strike against Islamic State combat personnel on 12 November 2015; one near Raqqa, Syria, on 10 December 2015; five in Ramadi while hitting an Islamic State checkpoint on 12 December 2015; one in Tishreen, Syria, on 24 December 2015; one in Mosul, Iraq, on 11 January 2016; and one in Al Ghazli, Syria, on 2 February 2016. Previously, the United States Department of Defense acknowledged killing 15 civilians and wounding 15 more in Iraq and Syria.[98]
23 April
  • Syrian Arab Air Force airplanes attack rebel areas of Aleppo for a second day, hitting a residential area and a market in the city's Tareeq al-Bab district, killing at least 12 people.[104]
  • Piloted by Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 completed the ninth leg of an around-the-world flight, landing at Moffatt Field in Mountain View, California, after a flight from Kalaeloa, Hawaii, of 62 hours 29 minutes, covering 4,086 km; 2,539 mi (2,206 nmi) at an average speed of 65.39 km/h (35.31 kn).[105][106]
24 April
  • The Syrian Arab Air Force attacks rebel areas in Aleppo for the third day in a row, killing 16 people.[107]
  • Saudi-led coalition Ground forces begin an offensive against al-Qaeda in southern Yemen, advancing toward Mukalla and surrounding areas. Coalition aircraft attack targets in Mukalla, hitting the city's cultural center and Riyan Airport.[108]
25–26 April (overnight)
  • An air-to-ground missile suspected to have been from a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle kills three prominent al-Qaeda leaders in Zinjibar, Yemen.
26 April
  • The Yemeni government announces that their ground troops had retaken Mukalla, adding that Saudi-led coalition airstrikes combined with artillery fire had driven al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) from the city.
  • The Government of Saint Helena announces an indefinite delay to Saint Helena Airport opening to commercial traffic because of dangerous winds encountered by Comair Boeing 737-800 on 18 April. The airport was to open in May,[109] with scheduled commercial services beginning in October 2017.[110]
27 April
28 April
  • The Russian Ministry of Defense denies their involvement in the 27 April attack on a hospital in Aleppo, Syria.[111]
29 April
  • Airstrikes against rebel-held areas in Aleppo, Syria, by unidentified aircraft destroy a medical clinic and hit other targets. Airstrikes against rebel-held areas and rebel mortar barrages have combined to kill more than 200 people in Aleppo during the preceding week.[112]
  • Russia and the United States announce a renewed ceasefire scheduled to begin at midnight on 29–30 April in two parts of Syria where fighting in violation of the 27 February ceasefire escalated in April. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the ceasefire applies to Latakia Governorate and will last 72 hours, while the United States Department of State later announces that it also includes East Ghouta outside Damascus and has no expiration date. The agreement excludes Aleppo, where the heaviest fighting since the 27 February ceasefire happened.[113]
  • A Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma helicopter operated by CHC Helikopter Service loses its main rotor in flight while carrying oil workers from the Gullfaks B oil field in the North Sea to Bergen Airport, Flesland, in Norway, and crashes on Norway's Skitholmen islet between the islands of Turøy and Toftøy, killing all 13 occupants.
  • United States Central Command, United States Army commander Joseph Votel, announced a U.S. Department of Defense investigation into a United States Air Force airstrike against a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on 3 October 2015 did not find a war crime because they hit the hospital by mistake. 16 American military personnel faced disciplinary action.[112]
30 April
  • Nearly 30 airstrikes hit rebel areas of Aleppo, Syria. It is the ninth day of lethal bombardments in the city, and they have killed nearly 250 people since beginning on 22 April.[114]

May
3 May
5 May
  • Amazon announced it will buy up to 30 percent of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings's stock and Atlas will buy 20 Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft, lease them to Amazon for ten years, and operate them for Amazon.com for seven years via a subsidiary. Operations are expected to begin during the latter half of 2016 and grow to 2018. It doubles Amazon'sfleet from 20 to 40 Boeing 767-300s.[116]
6 May
  • Four Islamic State members were killed near Ar-Rutbah, Iraq in attack on their vehicle, including the "military emir" of Anbar Governorate, Abu Wahib, seen in Islamic State videos, which was announced on 9 May by the United States.[117]
  • SpaceX makes a second successful landing of Falcon 9 rocket's first stage, on a platform floating in the Atlantic off Florida after launching from Cape Canaveral, after putting a Japanese satellite in orbit.[118]
7 May
9 May
11 May
12 May
  • Malaysia announced that debris from an engine cowling with a partial Rolls-Royce logo found in March on the coast of South Africa and an interior panel from an aircraft cabin found on Rodrigues were "almost certainly" from Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.[123]
  • A U.S. special operations team assisting a Ugandan assault team calls in an airstrike against an Al-Shabaab checkpoint west of Mogadishu, Somalia suspected of extorting money from travelers, killing five.[124]
  • Flown by Bertrand Piccard, Solar Impulse 2 arrives at Tulsa International Airport in Oklahoma, completing the eleventh leg of the first solar-powered aerial circumnavigation. The flight, begun on 11 May at Phoenix Goodyear Airport in Arizona, covered 1,569 km (975 mi) in 18 hours 10 minutes at an average speed of 53.67 mph (86.37 km/h).[125]
13 May
15 May
  • Turkish military sources said U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and Turkish Army artillery killed 27 Islamic State personnel planning to fire rockets into Turkey from seven locations in northern Syria, near the border, which are destroyed.[128]
17 May
18 May
19 May
20 May
  • Russia proposed joint Russian and U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against Jabhat al-Nusra convoys carrying weapons and reinforcements to Syria from Turkey. The U.S. responded that it had no plans to expand cooperation in Syria beyond existing flight-safety communications.[132]
21 May
  • A U.S. airstrike involving several UAVs hits a vehicle near Ahmad Wal in Pakistan, reportedly killing Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour and the driver. It is the first U.S. UAV strike in that part of Pakistan.[133]
  • An airstrike allegedly conducted by aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition flying into Syria from Turkey hit the Islamic State-held town of Arshaf, Syria, killing seven members of a family and as many as 10 total.[134]
  • Solar Impulse 2 arrived at Dayton International Airport in Ohio with André Borschberg flying, completing the twelfth leg of the first solar-powered aerial circumnavigation which begun at Tulsa International Airport in Oklahoma, covering 1,112 km (691 mi) in 16 hours 34 minutes at an average speed of 67.14 km/h (41.72 mph).[135]
22 May
23 May
25 May
  • The brother of a taxi driver killed in the 21 May U.S. UAV strike that killed Taliban leader Akhtar Mansour filed a police report in Balochistan, Pakistan, requesting his brother's death be investigated, noting that the United States claimed responsibility.[140]
  • Russia announced a hiatus in airstrikes in Syria against Jabhat al-Nusra to allow rebels not affiliated with the group to distance themselves.[141]
  • Solar Impulse 2 is flown by Bertrand Piccard from Dayton International Airport in Ohio, to Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, completing the thirteenth leg of the first solar-powered circumnavigation. The flight covers 1,044 km (649 mi) in 16 hours 49 minutes at an average speed of 62.17 km/h (38.63 mph).[142]
  • U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Peter V. Neffenger testified that 740 million people will pass U.S. airport TSA checkpoints during the summer travel season, 97 million more than in 2013, and that TSA's 45,000 people are insufficient to prevent excessively long lines, despite cancelling 1,600 layoffs and hiring 768 agents. Part-time TSA employees will be made full-time, and trusted traveler programs will increase enrolment from 9.5 to 25 million.[143]
26 May
  • A U.S.-led coalition attack in Fallujah, Iraq, killed Maher al-Bilawi, the Islamic State forces commander in the city.[144]
  • An American Airlines vice president and airport authorities in three cities ask U.S. Congress for action to reduce lines at U.S. airport security checkpoints. Programs increasing efficiency and security were eliminated without compensating for longer processing times."[145]
27 May
  • Korean Air Flight 2708 Boeing 777-300 aborted its takeoff due to an engine failure and fire at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan and during the evacuation twelve of the 319 people were injured.
  • The U.S.-led coalition has conducted 20 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Fallujah, Iraq, since 24 May, killing 70 Islamic State personnel.[144]
  • Russia warns that it will escalate its air campaign in Syria if the United States does not respond positively to its long-standing proposal to conduct joint airstrikes in Syria.[146]
  • A U.S. airstrike kills Abdullahi Haji Da’ud, Al-Shabaab's top commander, as he travels in southern Somalia.[147]
  • A Vietnamese man, Minh Quang Pham, is sentenced to 40 years in prison for providing material support to al-Qaeda in a 2011 plot to bomb Heathrow Airport in London.[148]
  • A World War II-era P-47 Thunderbolt crashes into the Hudson River off Edgewater, New Jersey, killing its pilot.[149]
  • SpaceX successfully lands the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket after launching a communications satellite into orbit on a platform in the Atlantic 422 mi (679 km) off the coast of Florida, the fourth such landing.[150]
29 May
  • Lufthansa announced it is suspending service to Venezuela on 18 June, as Venezuela owed it millions of United States dollars in ticket revenues and that Venezuela's currency controls make it difficult to convert ticket sales revenue to dollars. They hope to restore service in the near future.[151]
30 May
  • Heavy late-evening strikes by three unidentified aircraft – reported to be Russian – against buildings around the National Hospital in Idlib, Syria, kill at least 23 and perhaps as many as 50 people and injure about 250 others. Over the preceding weekend, Russian and Syrian aircraft conducted hundreds of attacks against rebel areas in Aleppo, Syria.[146]
  • LATAM Airlines Group announces that its subsidiary airlines will suspend service to Venezuela, making it the second airline company to do so. Venezuela's currency controls make it difficult for airlines to convert ticket sales revenue to United States dollars to cover the cost of operating in Venezuela. LATAM plans for its subsidiary airlines to cease service between Caracas, Venezuela, and São Paulo, Brazil, first, with suspension of service between Caracas and Lima, Peru, and between Caracas and Santiago, Chile, to halt by 31 July.[152]
31 May
  • The U.S. Transportation Security Administration reported that anticipated delays at U.S. airport security checkpoints on the Memorial Day weekend did not happen. Wait times averaged under 10 minutes nationwide, and the majority of the 10.3 million passengers waited under 30 minutes. The longest wait was in Kansas City, Missouri on 26 May, of 75 minutes.[153]

June
  • 88 of Iran's 250 commercial aircraft are grounded over a lack of spares due to sanctions imposed since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that prevent replacement purchases.[154]
1 June
2 June
3 June
4 June
5 June
6 June
7 June
  • Two Chinese Chengdu J-10 fighters intercepted a U.S. Air Force Boeing RC-135 electronic surveillance airplane over the East China Sea in what the U.S. described as an "unsafe" manner. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded that their pilots did nothing unsafe, and protested "frequent close reconnaissance on China's coast by U.S. military aircraft."
  • U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator Peter V. Neffenger testified that it reduced delays at its airport checkpoints by faster screening of passengers at seven airports. The program's success over the Memorial Day weekend spurred TSA to expand it to 13 more. He expected 768 new TSA agents during June and if approved, will make 2,784 part-time workers full-time.[163]
9 June
10 June
  • Luminati Aerospace's solar-powered VO-Substrata UAV makes its first public test flight over Long Island, New York, for about 20 minutes with a pilot on board, although it is configured for unmanned flight. It is the prototype for a fleet they hope to provide Internet service to over 4 billion people worldwide with from late 2016.[165]
  • United States Department of Defense officials announced that in late May 2016 President Barack Obama granted U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan expanded powers to assist Afghan forces against the Taliban including authorization to order airstrikes supporting Afghan offensive operations against the Taliban if the attacks are expected to have a "strategic effect." Previously, these had been authorized only to defend U.S. personnel, Afghan forces facing serious danger, or in counterterrorism operations.[166]
  • The F-35 Lightning II makes its international airshow debut when two Royal Netherlands Air Force F-35A aircraft perform at the Luchtmachtdagen 2016 airshow at Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands.[139]
  • The United States Department of Transportation permits American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue, Silver Airways, Southwest Airlines, and Sun Country Airlines to provide scheduled airline services between the United States and Cuba for the first in over 50 years, joining the 46 non-U.S. airlines that serve Cuba. The airlines are to make 155 round-trips per week between five U.S. cities (Chicago, Illinois; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Miami, Florida; Minneapolis, Minnesota ; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and nine Cuban destinations (Camagüey, Cayo Coco, Cayo Largo del Sur, Cienfuegos, Holguín, Manzanillo, Matanzas, Santa Clara, and Santiago de Cuba) beginning in late 2016 or early 2017. Havana is expected to be added later in the summer of 2016. U.S. law still prohibits tourist travel but it permits other types of travel, including family visits, official business, journalist visits, professional meetings and educational and religious activities.[167]
11 June
12 June
  • A man throws a homemade explosive device made from a beer bottle at the Terminal 2 check-in ticketing counter at Shanghai Pudong International Airport at Shanghai, China which explodes, injuring four with flying glass. He then slashes his own throat with a knife, injuring himself seriously.[170]
  • An unauthorized unmanned aerial vehicle flying near Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, closed the airport for 69 minutes.[171]
  • Airstrikes ascribed to Russian aircraft hit Syria's Idlib Governorate, including one attack on a market which kills at least 21 people, and another in Maarrat al-Nu'man kills six in an apartment building.[172]
12–13 June (overnight)
  • An airstrike on a ground vehicle in Yemen's Shabwa Governorate kills three al-Qaeda members in the vehicle. The strike is suspected of having been conducted by a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle.[173]
13 June
  • The U.S. FAA charged Amazon with shipping hazardous materials as air cargo, without training employees to handle it, or declaring, packaging, or labelling it properly, and that drain cleaner leaked at a United Parcel Service facility affecting nine workers. The FAA alleged they violated hazardous materials regulations on 24 occasions between February 2013 and September 2015 and demanded a fine of $350,000.[174]
14 June
  • The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) asked pilots in to avoid flying near walrus haul-out sites along the Chukchi Sea in Alaska as aircraft were frightening walruses into stampeding, and injuring or killing one another and nearby humans. Although the FAA does not plan formal restrictions around the sites, harassing walrusesremains illegal under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Earlier in 2016, the FAA instructed airplane pilots to fly no closer than 0.80 km (0.5 mi) to walrus haul-outs and no lower than 2,000 ft (610 m) and helicopter pilots to fly no closer than 1.6 km (1 mi) and no lower than 910 m (3,000 ft).[175]
15 June
  • The Government of Egypt announces the discovery and imaging of the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804 Airbus A320-232 in the Mediterranean which crashed on 19 May 2016, killing all 66 on board.[176]
  • After successfully launching a satellite into orbit, an engine fails on the first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, causing it to descend too quickly toward the floating platform on which it was to land and resulted in what Musk termed its "rapid unscheduled disassembly." Musk adds that corrections for the problem could be ready by late 2016.[177]
16 June
17 June
18 June
19 June
  • Aircraft supporting a Syrian government ground offensive against Islamic State forces holding Tabqa air base strike the nearby city of Al-Thawrah, Syria, with cluster munitions, reportedly killed 10 people.[186]
  • During a parachute failure test, the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable space launch system lands intact in West Texas, its fourth suborbital flight. During the unmanned flight, the capsule and rocket separated and controllers tested if the capsule can land safely with a parachute failure. Using wings and firing its engine to slow its descent, the rocket lands about seven minutes before the capsule. Both landings are successful.[187]
  • The Terrafugia Transition roadable airplane receives exemptions from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration as a "light sport aircraft." The administrative action opens the possibility of a flying car for consumer use for the first time. Provided that their roadable aircraft overcomes regulatory barriers, the manufacturers said they could enter the consumer market in the next decade.[188]
20 June
  • Solar Impulse 2 is flown by Bertrand Piccard from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Seville Airport in Seville, Spain on the 15th leg of its solar-powered circumnavigation. This leg will cover 5,736 km (3,564 mi) and take at least 90 hours.[189]
21 June
  • After a 10-hour flight from Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, a Canadian Kenn Borek Air de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter lands at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, at the Geographic South Pole in Antarctica to evacuate two workers who had fallen ill. It is only the third flight there during the Antarctic winter in the 60 years since the station opened in 1956 and normally, no flights occur from February to October each year. The airplane returned to the Rothera station the following day with the patients.[190][191]
  • The Obama administration released U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations for using UAVs by hobbyists in the United States, who are required to keep them in sight, to operate only in daylight, to fly no higher than 120 m (400 ft), and they are prohibited from operating over strangers or the District of Columbia. The regulations also limit them to 25 kg (55 lb). The FAA expects 2.5 million UAVs to be sold to hobbyists in the United States during 2016 and 7 million in 2020. U.S. commercial UAV operators must be vetted by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and pass an aeronautical knowledge examination at an FAA-approved test center, but do not address over-the-horizon operations by commercial UAVs. The FAA reports that there are 10,602 registered commercial UAVs in the United States and projects that 600,000 UAVs intended for commercial use will be sold in the United States during 2016 and that 2.7 million will be sold for commercial use in 2020.[192]
  • Boeing announced a tentative agreement for Iran Air to buy Boeing 737s and Boeing 777s airliners to replace its pre-1979 Boeings in the first major U.S. trade deal in Iran following the 2015 Iran-United States nuclear accord. It still faces political and regulatory hurdles, but the first new airliners could be in Iran in October 2016. The deal could be worth $25 billion, depending on how many are new or leased.[193]
22 June
23 June
  • Airstrikes combined with mortar attacks kill eight people in Aleppo, Syria.[195]
  • Solar Impulse 2 lands at Seville Airport in Seville, Spain, completing the 15th leg of its solar-powered circumnaviation without using any fossil fuel. The nonstop transatlantic flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, begun on 20 June, covered 6,261.2 km (3,890.5 mi) in 71 hours 8 minutes at an average speed of 88.0 km/h (54.7 mph).[196]
  • An Air Serbia Airbus A330 lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City after a nonstop flight from Belgrade, Serbia, inaugurating their first transatlantic route and Serbia's first nonstop service to the United States since Jat Airways, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's national airline discontinued the route in 1992.[197]
  • Aeroméxico was the third airline announcing the suspension of service to Caracas, Venezuela, whose currency controls make it difficult to convert ticket sales revenue to United States dollars to cover operating costs.[198]
24 June
  • A U.S. Department of Defense spokesman announced U.S. airstrikes against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan during the previous week. The strikes follow a decision by President Barack Obama earlier in June to expand U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan to assist Afghan forces during offensive operations.[199][200]
25 June
  • Airstrikes reportedly made by Russian airplanes kill 30 to 46 people in the Islamic State-held town of Qourieh in Syria's Deir ez-Zor Governorate.[201]
26 June
27 June
28 June
  • A three-person suicide team with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide bombs blew themselves up in the arrival and departure areas and in a nearby parking lot at the Istanbul Atatürk Airport international terminal in Turkey, killing at least 44 and injuring more than 230. Flight operations were temporarily suspended, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounds all flights to and from Istanbul.[203][204]
29 June
29–30 June (overnight)
  • U.S., British and Iraqi airplanes and attack helicopters attacked two large convoys of ground vehicles fleeing Fallujah, Iraq. The strikes destroyed at least 150 vehicles and kill about 250 people but the Iraqi armed forces said that the strikes destroyed 798 vehicles including eight car bombs and kill hundreds of Islamic State combat personnel, with the U.S.-led coalition responsible for 117 of the vehicles and three of the car bombs and Iraqi aircraft destroying the rest. A U.S.-led coalition spokesman said coalition aircraft avoiding attacking portions of the convoys it thought included civilians. U.S. aircraft in the attack were diverted from supporting Syrian rebel forces attempting to capture Bukamal, Syria, which lacking air support, were defeated.[206][207]
30 June
  • United States Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that earlier in the week the United States offered intelligence to Russia to improve Russian targeting of terrorist groups in Syria if Russia agreed to stop attacks on civilians and those rebel groups that agreed to a ceasefire, and to use its influence with the Syrian Government to get Bashar al-Assad to join the ceasefire. The United States offer excluded joint military planning, joint targeting, or coordination of Russian and U.S. airstrikes or other U.S. operations in Syria.[208]
  • U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircraft deploy outside the United States for the first time when three F-35A aircraft of the 56th Fighter Wing land in the United Kingdom.[205]

July
1 July
2 July
  • Israeli aircraft attack four Hamas training sites in the Gaza Strip, damaging buildings but harming no one. The strike is in response to a rocket attack against Israel from the Gaza Strip the previous day that damaged an empty kindergarten building without killing or injuring anyone.[212]
  • Airstrikes against rebel-held Jeiroud, Syria – suspected of being Syrian government strikes conducted in retaliation for the killing of a captured Syrian Arab Air Force pilot by rebels in the area the previous day – kill at least 25 people. One report puts the death toll at 31, and another says seven medical personnel were killed in at least 40 air attacks against the town.[210]
3 July
  • U.S.-led coalition Airstrikes support a U.S.-backed Syrian rebel offensive against Islamic State positions near Manbij, Syria, but the attack is repelled.[213]
4 July
  • China protests "provocative actions" by two Japan Air Self-Defense Force fighters on 17 June intercepting two Chinese fighters over the East China Sea near the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands (called the Diaoyu Islands in China), saying that the Chinese fighters were on a routine patrol when the Japanese aircraft locked onto them with fire control radar and adding that the Chinese planes took "tactical measures" before the Japanese aircraft left.[179][214]
  • A U.S. airstrike in Yemen's Shabwa Governorate kills two members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.[209]
5 July
  • Japan denies that its aircraft engaged in provocative or dangerous activities while intercepting Chinese fighters over the East China Sea on 17 June, adding that its aircraft intercepted Chinese military aircraft about 200 times between 1 April and 30 June 2016, up from about 80 times during the same period in 2015.[179][214]
7 July
8 July
  • On the last day of a widely violated three-day Syrian Arab Army ceasefire, jets from either the Syrian Arab Air Force or the Russian Federation Air Force attacked Darkush, Syria, a vacation spot during the Eid al-Fitr holiday weekend, killing at least 23.[216]
  • Islamic State forces down a helicopter near Palmyra, Syria, killing two Russians. Russia says it was a Syrian Mil Mi-25 on a training mission when they were diverted against an Islamic State ground attack, which they thwarted before being downed by a U.S.-made BGM-71 TOW missile. However independent experts said the downed helicopter was a Russian armed forces Mil Mi-35M attack helicopter on a combat mission, and was very unlikely to have been downed with a BGM-71.[217]
9 July
  • A U.S. air-to-ground missile attack from an unmanned aerial vehicle in Afghanistan targeting members of the Islamic State-Khorasan Province group killed five Islamists including Umar Narai, also known as Khalifa Umar Mansoor, the leader of the Tariq Gidar Group behind the 2014 Peshawar school massacre.[218]
  • U.S.-led coalition airstrikes helped Iraqi ground forces recapture Qayyarah Air Base in Mosul District in the Nineveh Governorate in Iraq, from the Islamic State. The Iraqi counterterrorism forces commander credits coalition airstrikes with destroying 60 Islamic State car bombs.[219]
  • The United Nations begins a humanitarian aid airlift using a World Food Programme chartered airplane to an estimated 275,000 people in Syria's Al-Hasakah Governorate cut off from food and other supplies for six months. The first flight delivered 40 t (88,000 lb; 40,000 kg) of food, to Kamishly Airport in Qamishli.[220] At least 25 flights were planned between Damascus, Syria, and Qamishli over the course of a month, to deliver over 1,000 t (2,200,000 lb; 1,000,000 kg) of food, medicine, and other supplies to Kamishly Airport.[221]
10 July
  • Syrian government air raids against a neighborhood in Aleppo and a diesel market in Turmanin reportedly kills 10 people, while the air raids on Turmanin destroy several tanker trucks and kill between eight and 14 people.[222]
  • At the Farnborough International Airshow Boeing said they saw strong interest in a new mid-range airliner seating between 200 and 270, creating a new, larger market beyond that of the Boeing 757 and Airbus A321neo. It would cost $10 to $15 billion to develop and be the company's biggest potential product development over the next decade.[223]
11 July
12 July
13 July
14 July
  • Airstrikes on rebel-held districts of Aleppo, Syria, reportedly kill 12 people.[232]
  • The Islamic State reportedly shot down a Syrian Arab Air Force jet near the military airport at Deir ez-Zor, Syria, killing its pilot, and a video they released purportedly shows the pilot's body which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports had been crucified.[232]
  • United States Secretary of State John Kerry met with President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Moscow over a U.S. proposal supported by United Nations officials to integrate U.S. and Russian operations against the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria and to halt Syrian government and Russian attacks on civilians and moderate Syrian rebel forces that signed a February 2016 ceasefire agreement. The proposal seeks Russian pressure on the Syrian government to ground military aircraft and restrict Russian attacks to Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra targets, and for previously rare U.S. attacks on Jabhat al-Nusra to increase along with strikes against Islamic State targets in Syria. They would share intelligence and planning for leadership targets, headquarters, camps, depots, and supply lines, with other targets off-limits to both countries, with a liaison body to assist in compliance, and to go into effect by 31 July.[233] The following day, the two countries announced that they had reached an agreement, but no details were made public.[234]
  • Airbus and Boeing have their lowest airliner sales at the Farnborough Air Show in six years, with deals for about 400 aircraft worth about $50 billion, half of the previous year's sales. American, European, and Persian Gulf carriers made almost no deals, and only Asian carriers made large orders. No orders are made for the Boeing 777, Airbus A330neo, or Bombardier C-Series, and Airbus A380 production was greatly reduced. Industry analysts blame reduced sales on uncertainty over the global economy and on the United Kingdom's 23 June 2016 vote to leave the European Union.[235]
15–16 July (overnight)
17 July
18 July
  • Airstrikes against Islamic State areas in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition killed 15 people in Manbij and six in nearby Tokhar.[239] The United States announced that during the day the coalition conducted 18 airstrikes, destroying 13 Islamic State fighting positions, two car bombs, and seven other Islamic State vehicles.[240]
  • The pilot and copilot of Air Transat Flight 725 Airbus A310, are arrested at Glasgow Airport in Scotland for being drunk as they prepare to fly to Toronto, Ontario in Canada. The airline suspends them the next day.[241]
  • After launching a Dragon spacecraft, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket returned to a soft landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, landing about eight minutes after liftoff. It was the second successful landing by a Falcon 9 first stage on land.[242]
  • The Obama administration agreed to pay 2.6 million euros to relatives of Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto who was killed in a Central Intelligence Agency unmanned aerial vehicle attack in Pakistan in January 2015. On 16 September 2016, the United States government confirmed the settlement publicly.[243]
19 July
  • The U.S.-led coalition attacked Islamic State-held territory in northern Syria against an offensive against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated 56 civilians died, but other reports put the toll as high as 212. The Islamic State said 160 civilians were killed in Tokhar, and the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said French aircraft attacked Tokhar killed 120 civilians. The SDF disputes this, saying that the strikes killed Islamic State personnel that were being tallied as civilian deaths.[240] The U.S. military announces that its aircraft made 18 attacks in the Manbij area in the previous 24 hours – out of 450 in the area since May and is investigating allegations of civilian casualties.[244][245] In late August, United States Central Command said the Tokhar strike conducted by U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II and B-52H Stratofortress aircraft using 230 kg (500 lb) laser-guided bombs against a mortar killed 85 militants and 10 civilians, but Syrian activists said that all or most of the 95 dead were civilians.[246]
  • Since the U.S.-led coalition's air campaign in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State began in August 2014, U.S. aircraft made over 10,500 attacks while the rest of the coalition combined made 3,200.[247]
20 July
  • A network router fails in Southwest Airlines' computer system and back-up systems fail to activate, causing a 12-hour outage that cripples the airline's flight operations throughout the United States. Normal operations do not resume fully until 24 July, during which time Southwest cancelled about 2,300 of approximately 19,500 scheduled flights.[248]
22 July
23 July
23–24 July (overnight)
24 July
25 July
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an "endangerment finding", a scientific assessment describing a danger to the environment that determines that emissions from airplane engines including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide pose health risks and contribute to climate change. It is the first step in a years-long process toward commercial aircraft engine emission regulations by the United States government.[253]
26 July
  • A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle-launched air-to-ground missile strike in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province kills the Islamic State leader Hafiz Saeed Khan which the United States Department of Defense announced on 12 August.[254]
  • Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the world and the first to do so without using any fossil fuel. Bertrand Piccard completes the final leg, flying nonstop from Cairo International Airport in Egypt, to Al Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates – where its round-the-world flight had begun on 9 March 2015 having covered 2,692 km (1,673 mi) in 48 hours 37 minutes at an average speed of 55.4 km/h (34.4 mph).[255] Flown alternately by Piccard and André Borschberg, Solar Impulse 2 made the 42,428 km (26,364 mi) trip in 17 legs over 505 days, spending 558 hours 7 minutes in the air at an average speed of 76.0 km/h (47.2 mph).
28 July
  • Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft drop leaflets on Aleppo, Syria, informing residents that the Government of Syria will allow them to depart the city via three safe corridors while rebel soldiers wishing stop fight would be granted safe passage through a fourth corridor.[256]
29 July
30 July
  • A hot-air balloon operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides caught fire and crashed in a field in Maxwell, Texas, killing all 16 people on board in the deadliest ballooning accident in U.S. history and second-deadliest in world history, exceeded only by a Luxor crash in Egypt in February 2013 that killed 19.[54][259]
  • Skydiver Luke Aikins became the first to jump from an airplane into a net on the ground without a parachute. Jumping from an altitude of 7,600 m (25,000 ft), he landed safely after a two-minute freefall in a 30 m × 30 m (100 ft × 100 ft) net at the Big Sky Ranch in California.[260]
31 July
  • Responding to attempts to break the siege of Aleppo, Syrian government helicopters bomb the rebel-held neighborhood of Bustan al-Basha. Later that day, Russian Federation Air Force or Syrian Arab Air Force jets bomb the eastern part of the city. Residents burn tires to create black smoke to reduce visibility against attacking aircraft.[261]

August
  • Delta complained to the U.S. General Services Administration in August that JetBlue's use of foreign codeshare partners on government contract routes violated the Fly America Act which requires those flying on official business paid for by the U.S. government to use U.S. carriers. Delta, American Airlines and United claimed to be at a disadvantage against codeshare partner subsidies, but the GSA argued otherwise.[262]
1 August
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  • Syrian rebels shoot down a Russian Mil Mi-8 helicopter in Syria's Idlib Governorate during fighting around Aleppo, Syria, killing all five on board. Russia claims the helicopter had been carrying humanitarian goods to Aleppo.[263]
  • At the request of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA), U.S. manned and unmanned aircraft made two strikes against Islamic State forces in Sirte, Libya, destroying a tank and two other vehicles. They are the first strikes requested by the GNA and the first direct U.S. military intervention in the Libyan Civil War. President Barack Obama approved these strikes, but United States Africa Command commander General Thomas D. Waldhausen is authorized to approve future strikes.[264][265]
2 August
  • IndiGo Flights 6E-813 and 6E-136, each with at least 100 people on board, narrowly avert a mid-air collision over Guwahati, India, when Flight 6E-813 makes a steep dive to avoid Flight 6E-136 coming from the opposite direction, but six people are injured.[266]
  • Syrian or Russian airstrikes killed 11 people in Atarib, Syria. Residents of Aleppo, Syria, burned tires to create black smoke to interfere with airstrikes.[104]
  • The United States Air Force announced that its first F-35A Lightning II squadron, the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah is operational. The United States Marine Corps's F-35B variant had previously been declared operational.[267]
3 August
  • After air traffic control at Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, instructed Emirates Flight 521 Boeing 777-31H from Thiruvananthapuram, India to abort its landing, the airliner crashed on the runway. All 300 occupants evacuated with 14 injured while the airplane is destroyed by fire and explosions, killing a firefighter. It is the airline's first hull loss and most serious accident. The airport is closed for 5+1⁄2 hours, and incoming flights are diverted, causing widespread disruption in the area.
4 August
  • A Pakistani helicopter carrying seven civil engineers from Pakistan to Russia crashed in Afghanistan where the Taliban took them hostage leading the Pakistan Army request U.S. assistance in their recovery.[268]
  • Amazon unveiled Prime One, the first of 11 being flown, of an eventual 40 leased Boeing 767 cargo airplanes to be branded as "Prime Air," for carrying Amazon Prime customer goods. Prime One is the first in Prime Air livery. Its tail number, N1997A, was highlighted in a marketing gimmick as 1997 is a prime number. Amazon will bring the remaining aircraft into service over the next several years.[269][270]
5 August
  • ASL Airlines Hungary Flight 7332 Boeing 737-476SF cargo aircraft slid off a runway at Il Caravaggio International Airport in Italy while landing in bad weather conditions. It crashed through a perimeter fence onto a highway, narrowly avoiding oncoming cars but destroying several in an adjacent parking lot. Neither crew members are injured. The airport closed for three hours, and flights diverted to Milan, Italy.
  • Black Lives Matter protesters temporarily block a road into Heathrow Airport outside London.[271]
  • A declassified, redacted copy of the Obama administration's May 2013 Presidential Policy Guidance on UAV airstrike guidelines is released to the American Civil Liberties Union after a July 2016 court order. It requires that a target be a "continuing and imminent" threat to Americans, that capture is not feasible, there is "near certainty" of their location, that no civilians be injured or killed, and that relevant domestic and international laws be obeyed.[272]
6 August
8 August
  • Delta's computer problems forced it to canceled 2,300 flights over three days, delaying tens of thousands of passengers and cost Delta $100 million in revenue.[275][276]
9 August
  • The Saudi-led coalition resumed airstrikes in Yemen following a Yemeni Civil War ceasefire that began on 11 April. They attack a potato processing plant in a Yemeni Army camp in Sana'a, killing 14 to 16 people and at least 10 others are injured.[277][278]
10 August
11 August
  • Russian Federation Air Force attacks on Islamic State-held Raqqa in Syria killed 20 to 24 civilians and six others who may or may not have been civilians.[279]
  • Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced that Turkish Air Force airstrikes will resume against the Islamic State with the U.S.-led coalition and suggested joint operations with Russia. Turkey paused operations after downing a Russian aircraft in November 2015 which strained their relationship.
12 August
13 August
  • A Taliban offensive against Lashkar Gah was thwarted by U.S. air support defending Afghan forces.[283]
  • A Royal Saudi Air Force airstrike on a school in Sa'dah killed 10 children and injured 28. Local reports have the children taking exams at the time, while a Saudi coalition spokesman claimed the children were rebel recruits at a training camp.[278]
14 August
15 August
  • A Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Yemen, killed 19 and injured 24. It is at least the fourth attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital since the Yemeni Civil War began in March 2015 by the coalition.[288][289]
  • Six people were killed in a light airplane crash in Alabama, United States.[290]
16 August
  • Russian Tupolev Tu-22M bombers attack the Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham in Syria from near Hamadan in Iran, the first time Russia's attacks on Syria were made from Iran. The U.S. military is informed of the mission in advance as per the agreement to deconflict Syrian air operations. The Iranian bases reduced the distance the bombers fly from 2,000 km (1,200 mi) when flying from Russia, to 640 km (400 mi), increasing payload and sortie frequency.[291] The Iranians confirmed the Russians used an Iranian base the next day, but claim it was only to refuel.[292]
  • Syrian activists reported an airstrike against a field hospital in Syria's Aleppo Governorate that injured one person just after the hospital had been evacuated.[292]
  • Air Djibouti relaunches flight operations, using a Boeing 737-400. It is the first time the airline has flown since 2002.
17 August
18 August
  • Doctors Without Borders announced the evacuation of its staff from six hospitals in northern Yemen, due to continued "indiscriminate" Saudi-led coalition attacks and "unreliable" assurances from high-ranking coalition officials, even after it provided hospital GPS coordinates.[289]
19 August
  • Two Syrian Arab Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 aircraft near Hasakah, Syria, where Syrian aircraft had bombed U.S. and coalition special operations forces on the ground were intercepted by U.S.-led coalition fighters and according to a U.S. Department of Defense spokesman, "encouraged" to leave the area "without further incident."[294]
21 August
22 August
  • A U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, Afghanistan, announced that Embraer A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft flown by Afghan pilots have deployed to Kunduz, Afghanistan, to operate against Taliban forces attempting to capture the city.[298]
  • An Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman announced that Russian aircraft with no longer use bases in Iran, apparently due to the publicity and that Russian use of Hamadan Airbase was "temporary, based on a Russian request" and "finished for now." From 16 August, Russian Tupolev Tu-22M bombers, Sukhoi Su-34 strike aircraft and Sukhoi Su-30SM and Sukhoi Su-35S fighters made at least three attacks on Syria from Hamadan.[299]
23 August
  • The Nigerian Army said in multiple announcements that a Nigerian Air Force's "most unprecedented and spectacular air raid" on 19 August had killed Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, the fourth time they have said so, along with three other top commanders and 300 Boko Haram personnel, as members of the group prayed in a Sambisa Forest village in Nigeria's Borno State. They later amended that to say he was injured. None of the reports were verified.[300][301]
24 August
  • Turkish Air Force and U.S. aircraft support Free Syrian Army troops in capturing Jarabulus from the Islamic State.[302]
  • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they cleared their forces of wrongdoing in two airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. A 20 July 2014 airstrike that killed seven members of a family at the refugee camp in Bureij was justified as the house was also a Hamas military command-and-control center while three members of the family were Hamas members, and an airstrike on 1 August 2014 in Rafah that killed 15 family members was also justified because the house was likewise a Hamas command-and-control center and that international law permits attacks on houses used for military purposes. The IDF also found that the deaths of 12 family members in Rafah on 21 July 2014 were from Palestinian mortar fire, not an Israeli airstrike.[303]
26 August
  • The Russian government asked the Turkish government for information on its air operations over Syria. A Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman explained that they wished "to prevent air incidents because it will be the first time when Turkish warplanes will intensively bomb targets in Syria and [they] may meet Russian warplanes"[304]
27 August
28 August
  • Russia lifted its ban on charter flights to Turkey which were imposed after Turkey downed a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 near the Turkish/Syrian border in November 2015. On 29 August, the Association of Tour Operators of Russia executive director announced that charter flights will commence on 4–5 September.[308]
  • Iranian state television airs video of a Russian-supplied mobile S-300 surface-to-air missile system deployed around the nuclear site at Fordo, Iran.[309]
  • After police at Los Angeles International Airport in California, detained a man dressed as Zorro with a plastic sword, a report of shots fired caused a panic in which police evacuated terminals, people ran onto the airfield, and flights were halted. Harmless loud noises were found to be mistaken for shots, and Zorro is released to meet an arriving passenger.[310]
  • Darrell Ward, a star in the reality television series Ice Road Truckers, and his pilot died when their Cessna 182 Skylane crashed on a highway while trying to land at Rock Creek, Montana, after flying from Missoula, Montana.[311]
29 August
  • Iranian state television reports that their Nazir radar system is operational, which it claims can detect stealth aircraft, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicles flying at altitudes of over 3,000 m (9,800 ft).[309]
  • The first nationwide regulations for unmanned aerial vehicles went in effect in the United States. They apply to commercial UAVs under 55 lb (25 kg) including payload, require that they fly only during daylight, remain within their operator's sight, not fly over people not involved in their operation, fly no higher than 120 m (400 ft), and not exceed 160 km/h (100 mph). An FAA waiver is required to exceed these limits. They also require that UAV operators pass a written test for an FAA certification to operate UAVs. The FAA has received about 3,000 requests for certification, although UAV pilots still do not need a license. They do not apply to UAVs operated by hobbyists and do not address flights over private property, although the FAA recommends getting prior permission from property owners, and specific permission for taking photographs or video.[312]
30 August
  • The Islamic State announces that its chief spokesman, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, was killed in an airstrike. The U.S. Department of Defense reported that he was targeted in a "precision strike" in Al-Bab, Syria, with an AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missile fired by an unmanned aerial vehicle but would not confirm his death.[313] On 31 August, Russia claimed that an attack by a Sukhoi Su-34 killed as many as 40 Islamic State personnel on 30 August, including Adnani, but offered no evidence.[314]
  • Joe Sutter, the chief engineer leading the 2,700 engineers who designed the Boeing 747 in the 1960s, died at the age of 95.[315]
31 August

September
1 September
2 September
  • Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Izzah claimed it downed a "Russian helicopter" with a BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile as the helicopter was landing northwest of Hama, Syria.[322] According to one report, it was a Syrian government helicopter from Russia or France, and two occupants were killed.
3 September
  • Iraqi Air Force fighter dropped leaflets on Shirqat and Zuwiyah in Iraq asking for support of Iraqi forces and their allies advancing into the area against the Islamic State.[323]
4 September
  • A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle fired an air-to-ground missile at an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula gathering in Yemen's Shabwah Governorate, killing six people.[324]
  • Syrian Arab Army forces supported by Russian airstrikes encircled Aleppo, Syria, cutting the rebels off from reinforcements.[325]
5 September
  • Since 3 September, U.S. aircraft conducted about 20 strikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq, centering on Nineveh Province and Mosul but also in Anbar Province, at least 25 strikes against Islamic State targets in northern and eastern Syria, at least 20 strikes against Islamic State targets in Sirte, Libya and several counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan.[324]
  • Two U.S. airstrikes against Al-Shabaab are made to defend African peacekeeping forces in Tortoroow, Somalia.[324]
6 September
  • During a visit, President Barack Obama pledged an additional $90 million in aid to Laos toward cleaning up an estimated 80 million unexploded bombs remaining from the U.S.'s Vietnam War air campaign when the United States dropped around 270 million cluster bombs on Laos to cut Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army supply lines.[326]
  • A Syrian government aircraft drops a barrel bomb with chlorine gas on the rebel Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo. According to Syrian Civil Defense, 120 people were hospitalized with breathing problems as a result.[327] The next day, medical workers treated 70 people for breathing problems and two died on 7 September.[328]
  • A Mexican police helicopter crashed in Mexico's Michoacán state during a police operation to capture leaders of criminal groups and drug cartels in Apatzingán, including the Knights Templar Cartel, killing three police officers and the pilot. Initial reports that the helicopter was shot down prompted an investigation into the cause of the crash.[329]
7 September
  • A U.S. airstrike near Raqqa, Syria, killed Islamic State minister of information Wael Adel Salman al-Fayad, also known as Abu Mohamed Furqan. The United States Department of Defense announced the successful strike on 16 September.[330]
  • A Syrian government airstrike in the rebel-held al-Sukkari neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria kills at least 10 civilians.[328]
8 September
10 September
  • Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on a well in Beit Sadaan, Yemen kill at least 30 people and wound at least 17, according to the United Nations, while Houthi rebels said that the strikes killed or wounded 100 people. Later strikes killed those who helped the wounded from earlier strikes.[335][336]
  • A ceasefire is announced between the United States and Russia preceding a negotiated settlement to end the Syrian Civil War. A ceasefire between the Syrian government and opposition groups is to begin at sunset on 12 September. If it holds for seven days, the agreement calls for the protection of civilians from airstrikes, for the United States and Russia to coordinate airstrikes against Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and the Islamic State, and for the Syrian Arab Air Force to resume missions only over yet-to-be-selected areas with no rebel forces, among other terms.[337][338]
  • Syrian Arab Air Force jets attack a market in Idlib, Syria, killing at least 36 people, and several neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria, killing at least 45 people.[337] The day's airstrikes killed over 100 people, all civilians, and injured more than 100.[339]
11 September
12 September
  • A ceasefire in the Syrian Civil War under an agreement between Russia and the United States went into effect at sundown, but is immediately violated. Among the violations is a barrel-bomb attack against a neighborhood of Aleppo by Syrian government helicopters.[341]
14 September
  • Iraqi Air Force aircraft dropped leaflets on cities in Iraq's Nineveh Governorate to inform civilians of a planned offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State and asks civilians to stop fighting for the Islamic State, avoid Islamic State bases and help the anti-Islamic State coalition target the bases, and support advancing Iraqi troops and their allies.[323]
  • Based on a United States Navy investigation into a fatal crash while the Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron practised for an air show on 2 June, the split S maneuver will be cancelled from their shows, dive recovery rules with airspeed limitations will be instituted, performances will be made at a higher altitude, and an altitude radio check will be performed at the start of each flight. The Blue Angels' training, maintenance and culture will undergo a safety review after the air show season ends, schedules will be adjusted to ensure adequate rest, and aerial maneuvers will be reviewed to improve safety.[342]
16 September
  • The United States Air Force announced the grounding of 13 of its own F-35A Lightning IIs and two belonging to the Royal Norwegian Air Force due to fuel tank insulation problems which also affect 42 undelivered F-35As.[343]
  • Bulgaria's national airline Bulgaria Air announced that it will make commercial flights to the United States for the first time since the 1990s, beginning in March 2017.
17 September
  • A U.S.-led coalition airstrike on Syrian Arab Army forces in Syria's Deir ez-Zor Governorate mistook them for Islamic State forces, killing 62, and wounding 100 before ceasing their attack when alerted to their error. It was the first such incident between U.S.-led coalition and Syrian forces. Russia called an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting over concerns of U.S. support for the Islamic State, which would constitute a ceasefire violation. The United States expressed regret over the strike.[344]
18 September
  • U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on a highway in Afghanistan's Urozgan Province near Tarinkot supporting Afghan forces against the Taliban mistakenly killed eight Afghan police officers, and a second strike killed those helping the first strike's victims.[345]
  • Syrian Arab Air Force or Russian Federation Air Force warplanes attacked rebel-held neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo, Syria, killing at least one person and injuring several others while another attack in Syria's Daraa Governorate killed eight.[346]
  • Iranian state television announced a reduction in the number of airliners it would purchase from Airbus in January, from 118 to 112.[154]
19 September
20 September
  • Bulgaria Air confirms the lease of 14 new Boeing 737 aircraft to replace the Airbus A320s it operates in a deal valued at more than $8 billion.
  • A military helicopter belonging to the Libyan National Army crashes near Tobruk, killing all eight people on board, including the Libyan armed forces' commander-in-chief, Idris Younis.
21 September
  • After the Russian Ministry of Defense claims that a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle was in the vicinity of the 19 September airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy and warehouse outside Aleppo, Syria, and implies that it could have conducted the attack, the U.S. Department of Defense responds that no manned or unmanned aircraft of the U.S.-led coalition were in the area at the time.[349] At the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry accuses Moscow of inventing its "own facts" to explain the air attack, which the United States had blamed on the Russian Federation Air Force, adding that "We don't get anywhere by ignoring facts and denying common sense;" he calls for Russia and Syria to "immediately ground all aircraft" flying in areas of northwest Syria where the convoy was hit.[349]
  • The United States Government granted Airbus and Boeing licenses to sell airliners to Iran. Airbus's license covers the first 17 A320s and A330s that Iran agreed to purchase in a January. Airbus required U.S. Government permission because some components are manufactured in the United States. Boeing's license allows it to sell 80 and lease another 29 new Boeing 737s to Iran.[154]
22 September
  • Syrian Arab Air Force or Russian aircraft attack rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria killing 21 in evening air raids on two Aleppo neighborhoods.[350]
  • At the U.N. Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry repeats his 21 September call for Syria and Russia to ground aircraft in northeastern Syria, saying that "the only way" for the Syrian ceasefire to succeed is "if the ones who have the air power in this part of the conflict simply stop using it... . Absent a major gesture like this, we don't believe there is a point in making more promises, issuing more plans."[350]
  • The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the European Union, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom failed to halt subsidies to Airbus after the WTO ordered them to stop in 2011, despite claiming in late 2011 that they had done so. The WTO claims subsidies of $22 billion over ten years cost the United States economy tens of billions of dollars and Boeing nearly 400 airliner sales in 2012 and 2013 alone. The ruling is a victory for the United States and its aerospace industry, which has disputed European aircraft subsidies for 40 years and complained to the WTO about it in 2004.[351]
23 September
  • The Syrian government announced an offensive in and around Aleppo the previous evening. Their aircraft made more than 70 attacks and dropped at least 100 bombs in rebel-held areas of Aleppo, targeting Syrian Civil Defense centers, destroying two as well as damaging fire trucks and ambulances and at least 30 people in Aleppo died.[352][353]
24 September
25 September
26 September
  • In the first week since the ceasefire ended, Syrian and Russian aircraft dropped at least 1,700 bombs on Aleppo.[356]
  • The Russian government said it has radio location data implicating the Ukrainian armed forces in Malaysian Airlines Flight 17's destruction over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 which it said rules out a surface-to-air missile fired from pro-Russian separatist territory in the Ukraine that downed the airliner.[357]
27 September
  • The U.S. FAA demonstrated its Next Generation Data Communications (also called "Nexcom" or "Data Comm") system, part of its Next Generation Air Transportation System, to the media at Washington Dulles International Airport. They are in 45 airports in the United States, and replace the existing archaic communications system between airline pilots and control towers which relies on hand-written printed forms and radios and 50 more airports will have them by late 2016, to be followed by en route air traffic control centers across the United States, and by mid-2019, voiceless, in-flight communications should be the norm for all commercial air traffic. The FAA estimates savings to air carriers of $10 billion over 30 years.[358][359]
28 September
  • An Afghan official announced that an airstrike on a residential building in the Achin District in eastern Afghanistan has killed 13 civilians. U.S. military forces in Afghanistan acknowledge that they carried out a "counterterrorism airstrike" in Achin and are investigating if civilian casualties resulted from it.[360]
  • The United States conducted a predawn airstrike in northern Somalia, defending troops from Somalia's Puntland region who came under fire from al-Shabaab forces. A U.S. Military spokesman claimed nine al-Shabaab members were killed, while a Puntland police officer says it killed over a dozen, but officials of Somalia's Galmudug autonomous region claim that Puntland had tricked the United States into attacking Galmudug soldiers and that the strike killed 22. The U.S. Department of Defense announced an investigation.[361][362]
  • Airstrikes hit two hospitals and a bakery in eastern Aleppo. Both hospitals were out of action, and two patients were killed.[356]
  • The United States Department of State announced that the United States will suspend bilateral cooperation with Russia unless Russia ends the ongoing Syrian and Russian ground and air assault against eastern Aleppo and restores the 12 September ceasefire.[363]
  • A team from the Netherlands investigating the July 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 crash in the Ukraine announced that the airliner was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired by a Buk missile system smuggled from Russia into a pro-Russian separatist area of eastern Ukraine a few hours before it fired on the airliner, and was returned to Russia the next day. They identified over 100 people involved in the operation and are investigating who ordered that it be fired. The team's findings matched those of American investigators, while the Russians dismissed some of the evidence. They said that its investigation was biased while Russian separatists in Ukraine said they have no access to surface-to-air missiles and said the airliner's destruction was caused by the Ukrainian armed forces.[357]
  • Unauthorized flights by an unmanned aerial vehicle near Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, forced the airport to halt operations. Arrivals resumed after 35 minutes and full operations after 67 minutes. The incident prompts UAE officials to tighten the country's regulations regarding drone operations. A similar incident closed the airport on 12 June.[171]
29 September
  • United Nations officials condemn the 28 September U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan's Achin District, saying it killed 15 civilians and wounded 12 others and demanded an investigation. Although the United States and the Afghan government said that the strike targeted a residential compound used by Islamic State personnel, local Afghan officials said it killed or injured only civilians. U.S. military officials respond that they take "all allegations of civilian casualties very seriously" but said that the Islamic State "put[s] innocent lives at risk by deliberately surrounding themselves with civilians and dressing in female attire."[364]
  • The Government of Somalia accused the United States of killing 13 Somali soldiers in its 28 September airstrike against al-Shabaab forces and demanded an explanation.[362]
  • Russia responded to U.S. criticism of its air campaign in eastern Aleppo, by saying that the airstrikes are justified because the United States violated the ceasefire agreement of 12 September by failing to fulfill its promise to separate al-Qaeda- and Islamic State-linked forces from other rebel forces, and because the ceasefire agreement had become unacceptable as it allowed "terrorist groups to take necessary measures to replenish supplies [and] regroup forces."[365]
30 September
  • Russian and Syrian aircraft conducted heavy airstrikes against rebel-held residential areas in eastern Aleppo, with white phosphorus and cluster munitions. Two more hospitals were hit. The World Health Organization estimates that Russian and Syrian airstrikes have killed 338 people in Aleppo since 19 September. The Syrian Network for Human Rights estimates that Russian airstrikes have killed 3,624 civilians since they began on 30 September 2015, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimated 3,804 civilians killed. A Russian government spokesman says that Russia has no intention of reducing its involvement in the Syrian Civil War and has no projected end date for its intervention.[366]
  • Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders summons the Russian ambassador to the Netherlands to a meeting in The Hague to complain about Russian Government statements criticizing the Dutch team investigating the July 2014 crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine. Koenders describes the Russian criticism as "unsubstantiated" and "unacceptable," adding, "Given the convincing nature of the evidence, Russia should respect the results that have been presented, rather than impugning the investigation and sowing doubt."[367]

October
1 October
  • Iranian news sources reported that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps built an attack UAV named Saegheh (Thunderbolt), which is reportedly similar to a RQ-170 Sentinel UAV that crashed there in 2011.[368]
  • Iraqi troops downed an Islamic State UAV measuring about 0.30 m × 0.30 m (1 ft × 1 ft) in Iraq and found a bomb attached to its top.[369]
  • Syrian or Russian aircraft bomb a major hospital known as "M10" in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria, for the second time in a week, killing or wounding more than a dozen patients. Doctors at M10 report that the attack includes barrel bombs, incendiary bombs, and cluster munitions. Syrian government and Russian aircraft have dropped nearly 2,000 bombs on eastern Aleppo in less than two weeks.[370]
2 October
3 October
  • Afghan ground forces fought the Taliban with support from United States Army Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to hold Lashkar Gah, while U.S. airstrikes were made in Lashkargah and the Afghan Air Force made attacks near Kunduz.[376]
  • The United States abandoned its collaboration with Russia in Syria due to continued Russian Federation Air Force and Syrian Arab Air Force airstrikes against civilian populations in eastern Aleppo, Syria, withdrawing its coordination personnel in Geneva, Switzerland.[377]
  • From early 2015, U.S. aircraft flew over 1,000 aerial refueling sorties supporting Saudi aircraft in the Yemeni Civil War, providing tens of millions of pounds of fuel.[378]
4 October
  • U.S. military officials in Kabul, Afghanistan, announced that a U.S. Army helicopter fired at Taliban insurgents in Kunduz, Afghanistan, defending Afghan ground forces against a Taliban offensive.[379]
  • Russia announced that its S-300 VM surface-to-air missile systems had joined its air defense forces in Syria, which already had S-200, and Buk missile systems.[380] The S-300 missiles provide anti-aircraft coverage out to 400 km (250 mi), covering almost all of Syria, Cyprus, significant portions of Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and the eastern Mediterranean.[381]
6 October
  • Russia warned that airstrikes in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition on pro-Syrian-government forces would be fired on by its surface-to-air missile systems.[380]
  • Finland noted what it believes are two separate airspace violations by Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters over the Gulf of Finland.[382]
  • In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) overwhelmingly ratified a 15-year agreement to curb global warming emissions from airliners on international flights by an estimated 2.5 billion tons between 2021 and 2035. The December 2015 Paris Agreement, which would take effect in November 2016 covers domestic flights. The first international climate change pact to govern a single industry will set a baseline based on emissions in 2020, and from 2021 to 2035, airlines that exceed that limit must buy offset carbon credits from other industries, which is expected to cost the industry $5.3 billion annually and as much as $23.9 billion by 2035. Participation is voluntary from 2021 through 2027, but mandatory from 2028 through 2035 but ICAO's 191 member countries must still act on their own to put the agreement's limits into effect. 65 countries including China, the United States, and all 44 member countries of the European Union's aviation conference agreed to participate, while Russia refused to participate in the voluntary phase and India has reservations about the agreement.[383]
7 October
  • The Government of Finland announced that Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters violated Finnish airspace over the Gulf of Finland the previous day. Russia denounced the Finnish claim, claiming that its aircraft remained over international waters.[382]
  • Estonia announces that a Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter violated its airspace for less than a minute earlier in the day.[382]
  • Russia ratifies a treaty with Syria which gives it an airbase at Khmeimim, among other things, effective from 26 August 2015 when it was signed.[384]
  • A Russian military official was reported by the Russian newspaper Kommersant as having said that their forces in Syria were under orders to "shoot to kill" if attacked, presumably by U.S.-led coalition aircraft, and was considering redeploying Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft to Syria, which had been withdrawn in March.[384]
  • United States Secretary of State John F. Kerry calls for Russia and Syria to face war crimes charges for bombing civilians in Aleppo, Syria. Russian officials condemn the idea.[385]
  • Qatar Airways announced a deal with Boeing for up to 100 airliners, including 10 777s and 30 787s for $11.7 billion and up to 60 737s for as much as $6.9 billion. Qatar Airways was frustrated over Airbus A320neo airliner delivery delays, but will continue with A320neos deliveries despite the 737 order.
  • Bulgaria Air outlines Sofia Airport as its international long-haul base, with flights from March 2017 using a pair of Airbus A330-200s with service to Beijing, China, Bangkok, Thailand, and New York City and is considering services from Sofia to Mumbai, India, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
  • Airbus indicate that three unwanted SriLankan Airlines Airbus A350-900s may be delivered instead to Bulgaria Air.
  • Turkey's regional carrier Borajet signs a long-term lease agreement with AerCap involving five Embraer E-Jet E2s, consisting of three E190 E2s and two E195-E2s.[386]
8 October
9 October
  • An Afghan Army Mil Mi-17 helicopter crashes in northern Afghanistan, killing all eight soldiers on board. The Taliban claims to have downed it, but the Afghan Ministry of Defense says a technical failure caused the crash.[389][390]
  • Saudi Arabia promised an investigation into their coalition's deadly 8 October airstrike on a funeral in Yemen, and invited U.S. participation.[387]
  • The United Nations estimated that Saudi-led coalition airstrikes caused 60 percent of the estimated 3,800 civilian deaths in Yemen since March 2015.[387]
10 October
11 October
12 October
  • China Southern Airlines finalizes an order with Boeing for twelve Boeing 787-9 airliners, becoming China's first Boeing 787 customer in a deal is worth up to $3,2 billion, for delivery between 2018 and 2020.[395]
  • Zipline delivered blood to a remote hospital in western Rwanda with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Zipline planned to launch a nationwide 24 hour UAV delivery service on 14 October, using 15 UAVs, and hope to expand into eastern Rwanda in 2017. The 14 kg (31 lb) fixed-wing UAVs have a150 km (93 mi) range, fly below 150 m (500 ft) to avoid aircraft, and use disposable parachutes to drop packages.[396]
13 October
14 October
  • Malaysia's Minister of Defense, Hishammuddin Hussein, announced that pending completion of negotiations, Malaysia will send combat aircraft and helicopters to the Philippines to support Malaysian troops in operations on Mindanao against the Islamic State-affiliated Abu Sayyaf, Khalifa Islamiyah Mindanao, and Maute factions.
  • In the previous two weeks, U.S.-led coalition aircraft conducted 66 strikes against the Islamic State near Mosul, Iraq, preparing for a ground offensive to recapture Mosul.[398]
  • The Saudi-led coalition Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT), an investigative body in Riyadh, stated the coalition wrongly bombed a funeral on 8 October in Sana'a, Yemen, which killed 140 people. The strike occurred because an individual affiliated with the President of Yemen s chief of staff claimed Houthi rebel leaders were attending the funeral, and the coalition air operations center ordered the attack without approval while also ignoring precautionary procedures to avoid attacks on civilians.[399]
  • The Turkish Air Force conducted strikes against Islamic State targets to support a ground offensive by Syrian opposition groups intending seize Dabiq, Syria.[400]
  • Syrian Arab Air Force and Russian Federation Air Force raids hit rebel-held neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo, Syria, and an air attack probably by either Russian or Syrian aircraft in Termanin, Syria, kills at least eight people and injures dozens of others.[400]
  • A United States Department of Transportation ban announced the previous day affecting Galaxy Note 7 smartphones aboard airliners flying within the United States goes into effect at 12:00 noon Eastern Daylight Time. Samsung had recalled the Galaxy Note 7 because of reports of fires or explosions.[401]
16 October
  • The Turkish Air Force and international coalition attack Islamic State targets in Dabiq and Arshak, Syria, as Turkish-backed Syrian opposition ground forces capture Dabiq.[402]
17 October
  • U.S.-led coalition Aircraft and artillery attack Islamic State targets around Mosul, Iraq in preparation for a ground offensive by Kurdish pesh merga forces as well as Iraqi Army and police forces to retake Mosul from the Islamic State begins.[403]
  • Russian and Syrian government airstrikes in eastern Aleppo, Syria, kill at least 36 people.[404]
  • The Russian government announced that Russia and the Syrian government will observe a unilateral cease fire from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on 20 October for a "humanitarian pause" to allow people to evacuate to Idlib Governorate from rebel-held areas in Aleppo.[404]
19 October
  • United States Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx announced new rules to protect airline passengers in the United States, to be brought in over several years. Online airline booking services must disclose any biases toward particular airlines, likely to be required in late 2016. Statistics for mishandled bags will be compared to checked bags rather than the number of passengers, likely to be required from January 2018. Airlines must report the number of mishandled wheelchairs, likely to be in effect in 2018. Airlines will have to refund baggage fees if baggage is "substantially" delayed, rather than only if lost, to be required eventually. On-time performance reports will include regional airlines in their networks, also to be required eventually.[405]
19–20 October (overnight)
20 October
  • Iraqi Army attack helicopters support ground forces attacking Islamic State positions in Bartella, Iraq, during the offensive to retake Mosul. Islamic State gunfire damages one helicopter, but it lands safely and its crew is evacuated.[407]
  • Kurdish peshmerga forces suffer increased casualties during the day in combat against the Islamic State during the Mosul offensive. A statement by the Kurdish general command ascribes the increase to a lack of air support, saying that support and air cover by the U.S.-led coalition "were not as decisive as in the past."[407]
  • Russia and the Syrian government begin a three-day pause in their bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo, Syria, to allow the delivery of humanitarian supplies and the evacuation of around 200 critically injured people. The ceasefire is longer than the eight-hour pause Syria and Russia had announced on 17 October, but less than the five days requested by international aid officials.[408]
  • The European Union warns Russia of sanctions if its bombardment of civilians in Aleppo, Syria, continues.[409]
  • American Airlines reported a 56 percent drop in net income for the third quarter of 2016, from 1 July to 30 September, with a net income of $737.000,000. Airplanes flying below capacity, a large tax bill and increased labor costs contributed. Quarterly revenue was $10.6 billion, down 1.1 percent from 2015.[410]
  • The French company Skylights released the second version of its virtual reality Bravo headset. Trial runs ran the previous year with Air France and KLM.[411]
21 October
  • A Skol Airlines Mil Mi-8 helicopter with at least 22 occupants crashed in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, killing at least 19.
  • Amid ongoing complaints from Iraqi Army and Kurdish peshmerga forces of inadequate U.S.-led coalition aerial reconnaissance and air support for their ground offensive, massive coalition airstrikes were made during the day in support of both forces with aircraft ranging from attack helicopters to United States Air Force B-52H Stratofortress bombers. The coalition's air power reportedly has been spread thin by the scope of the ground offensives.[412]
  • Bulgaria Air announced services between Sofia in Bulgaria, and Atatürk International Airport in Turkey from January 2017. Turkish Airlines also provide the same service, with a codeshare partnership between both airlines expected in May 2017.
  • Turkish Airlines suspended services to Najaf, Sulaymaniyah, and Basrah, Iraq, because of military offensives.
  • The Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden ruled that unmanned aerial vehicles with cameras are surveillance devices requiring a special permit to operate.[413][414]
  • Amid border tensions between Colombia and Venezuela, Venezuelan fighters intercepted Avianca Flight 011 Boeing 787 Dreamliner over western Venezuela en route from Madrid, Spain, to Bogotá, Colombia. The airliner made a sharp turn to return to Colombian airspace. Colombia suspended flights by their aircraft to and from Venezuela and ordered them to avoid Venezuelan airspace, while President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro ordered an investigation.[415][416]
22 October
  • The humanitarian pause in the bombardment of Aleppo, that Russia and the Syrian government allowed on 20 October ended during the evening with Russian Federation Air Force or Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft bombing rebel neighborhoods in Aleppo.[417] Despite being the purpose of the pause, the planned evacuation of injured and civilians did not occur.[418]
23 October
  • Following diplomatic talks between Colombia and Venezuela, Colombia lifts its flight ban which followed a Venezuelan fighter intercepting an Avianca Boeing 787.[416]
  • A Morton County, North Dakota, Sheriff's Department helicopter monitoring a Dakota Access Pipeline protest felt threatened by a protester's UAV, which they damaging after shooting at which protestors claimed was to prevent their own activities being filmed.[419][420]
24 October
25 October
26 October
27 October
28 October
29 October
  • An unauthorized UAV near Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, closed the airport for 84 minutes, along with nearby Sharjah International Airport, for a similar amount of time. It is the third incident in 2016.[433]
  • Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on a security complex in Hodeidah, Yemen, killed from 43 to 60 people and injured scores more, mostly prison inmates. The coalition said that it was a legitimate target because the Houthis used it as a command-and-control center for military operations.[434]
30 October
  • Airbus announced its A320neo prototype could land in Bulgaria in November 2016, in its first visit to southeastern Europe after Finland.
31 October

November
1 November
2 November
3 November
  • Airstrikes supporting Afghan government troops fighting to push Taliban forces out Kunduz, reportedly kill 30 civilians and injure 25 others in and around the city. One report puts the death toll at up to 100 civilians.[437][438] U.S. military officials will acknowledge on 5 November that the airstrikes inflicted casualties on civilians, but do not estimate the number of casualties.[438]
5 November
  • Bulgaria Air announced it is seeking up to six Airbus A320neos, however no deal has been negotiated.
  • Philippine Airlines announces the retirement of the Airbus A320 from its fleet, beginning in 2017.
6 November
7 November
  • U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State forces near Ayn Issa, Syria, destroy six fighting positions and seven vehicles, including two filled with explosives.[441]
  • A United States Department of Defense spokesman said the United States can conduct more airstrikes against Islamic State forces in Libya if the Libyan Government of National Accord requests them. The United States has made over 350 airstrikes against the Islamic State since August, but none since 31 October.[442]
8 November
  • Seven U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on six Islamic State units near Ayn Issa, Syria, destroy three fighting positions, a vehicle, and a car bomb facility.[443]
9 November
  • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a U.S.-led coalition strike in Heisha, Syria, killed over 20 civilians and injured 30. The coalition said it will investigate.[444]
  • United States Central Command announced that since 2014 its airstrikes in Iraq and Syria killed an estimated 119 civilians, up 64 from previous estimates.[445]
11 November
  • Bulgaria Air announced transatlantic service to begin in 2017 with either Airbus A330-200 or Boeing 767-300 airliners.
  • Taiwan-based TransAsia Airways withdrew the Airbus A330-300 from its fleet.
  • Sabre's computer problems caused check-in and flight delays on Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, JetBlue, Southwest, and Virgin America.[446]
13 November
15 November
  • Syrian government and Russian forces resume offensives as heavy Syrian government airstrikes hit eastern Aleppo while Russian aircraft and cruise missiles hit Islamic State and al-Qaeda-linked rebel group sites manufacturing toxic substances for weapons of mass destruction in Homs Governorate and Idlib Governorate. A Russian aircraft carrier saw combat for the first time ever when Admiral Kuznetsov launched Sukhoi Su-33 aircraft against targets in Syria, from the eastern Mediterranean.[448]
  • Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is closed to commercial traffic for several hours after a former Southwest employee fired in 2015 killed another Southwest employee with a rifle just outside the airport, before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.[449]
  • Boom Technology unveiled its XB-1 Baby Boom supersonic technology demonstrator, a scaled-down version of a 45-passenger supersonic airliner it hopes to fly in 2018, and have in service by 2023.[450]
16 November
  • Syrian government airstrikes on eastern Aleppo, Syria, badly damaged the city's last children's hospital and killed over 87 people. Russia denied involvement, claiming to have conducted none there since 18 October. Russian aircraft and cruise missile strikes continue in Idlib Governorate, where 34 sites have been hit, six people killed and dozens wounded since 15 November.[451]
19 November
  • An airstrike by an unmanned aerial vehicle in Nangahar Province in eastern Afghanistan killed eight Islamic State personnel including a top Islamic State commander.[452]
20 November
  • After a U.S. military unmanned aerial vehicle spots Islamic State personnel beheading and shooting civilians in the Mosul, Iraq, area, a U.S. laser-guided bomb scatters the executioners.[453]
  • Bulgaria Air confirmed the purchase of at least four Boeing 767-300 aircraft to enter service in 2017, and ten Airbus A320, to add to five they already operate.
21 November
  • The United States authorized Airbus to sell 106 airliners to Iran (up from 17 previously allowed), which it announced the next day.[454]
22 November
  • Approximately 250 ABX Air cargo aircraft pilots go on strike, as the airline is violated their contract by assigning too many flights. ABX Air said this is illegal. The strike impacts deliveries for ABX Air's two biggest customers, Amazon and DHL Express, as the 2016 Christmas shopping season begins.[455]
  • The Canadian Government announced it will buy 18 F-18 Super Hornets from Boeing as a stopgap, and had begun the process to replacement its 77 McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet fighters. Lockheed Martin had hoped to sell them F-35 Lightning IIs and although Canada's development contributions will continue, plans to purchase them were cancelled.[456]
23 November
  • A U.S.-led coalition airstrike disables the fourth of five bridges across the Tigris in Mosul, Iraq, leaving only one bridge, which disrupted Islamic State supply lines.[457]
  • Spain's national airline Iberia made its last Airbus A340-300 flight.[458]
  • A U.S. federal judge in Cincinnati, Ohio, ordered ABX Air pilots back to work. Their union says that they will obey the judge's order.[459]
24 November
  • Turkey agreed to send waterbombers to Israel to assist aerial firefighting against major wildfires. Russia will send two firefighting aircraft. Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, and Italy have sent a combined seven aircraft.[460]
  • The U.S.-led coalition has conducted over 16,000 airstrikes against Islamic State targets since beginning its air campaign against the Islamic State.[461]
25 November
  • Watchdog group Airwars announced that U.S.-led coalition air and artillery strikes killed between 84 and 87 civilians and wounded over 160 since an offensive against Islamic State forces in Mosul began on 17 October. The United States Central Command responded that "the liberation of Mosul is an operation that is an order of magnitude larger and more complex than" previous operations, adding that proposed strikes are reviewed using intelligence and surveillance to verify targets beforehand and that coalition strikes destroyed dozens of car bombs and tunnels.[462]
  • An Evergreen 747 Supertanker aerial firefighting aircraft, based on the Boeing 747-400, arrived in Israel to assist against major wildfires burning for four days. Azerbaijan also sends a firefighting aircraft and Egypt sends two helicopters.[463]
26 November
27 November
  • Malaysia offered to deploy both fixed wing aircraft and helicopters to the Philippines which allowed the Malaysian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to launch a decisive offensive against Islamic State-affiliated Abu Sayyaf.
  • During a firefight along the Golan Heights ceasefire line between Israel and Syria between Islamic State-affiliated Syrian rebels and an Israel Defense Forces reconnaissance unit, the Israeli Air Force destroyed a vehicle armed with a heavy machine gun with a rocket, killing four Syrians, the "first substantial fight" between Israeli forces and an Islamic State affiliate in the Syrian Civil War.[465]
  • Israel approved the purchase of 17 additional F-35 Lightning II fighters.[466]
28 November
  • The first scheduled commercial airline flight between the United States and Havana, Cuba since the early 1960s takes place as an American Airlines jet arrived at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport. JetBlue initiated their Havana service later in the day.[467]
  • LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 Avro RJ85 crashed in Colombia after its crew declared electrical and fuel emergencies, killing 71 of the 77 people on board, including 19 members of the Associação Chapecoense de Futebol team, and leaving all six survivors injured. Survivors included three team members, while a fourth died in hospital.
29 November
30 November
  • Bulgaria Air announced it is ending aircraft wet-lease agreements in 2017.[469]

December
1 December
2 December
  • Bulgaria Air announced services between Bangkok, Thailand and Sofia, Bulgaria, from April 2017.
4 December
5 December
6 December
7 December
8 December
  • After U.S. pilots drop leaflets warning Islamic State truck drivers, United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft destroy 168 trucks near Palmyra, Syria, in Operation Tidal Wave II.[478]
10 December
11 December
  • Islamic State forces retake Palmyra despite Russian airstrikes on 10 and 11 December. Although human rights organizations have accused them of bombing civilians, Russia claims its pilots were unable to respond effectively as they unwilling to endanger civilians.[479]
  • Iran Air finalizes a deal to buy 80 airliners from Boeing for $16.6 billion which includes 50 Boeing 737 MAX 8s, 15 Boeing 777-300ERs, and 15 Boeing 777-9s. Iran Air is to receive the first ones in 2018, with deliveries over the next decade.[480]
12 December
  • In the wake of the 7 December crash of Flight 661, Pakistan International Airlines grounds five ATR 42 and ATR 72 airliners in its fleet after the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority tested all of them.[481]
  • With Syrian government and Russian airstrikes, the Syrian government reduced rebel areas in Aleppo to under a tenth of what they were.[482]
  • The first two Israeli F-35 Lightning II fighters arrived in Israel of 50 planned.[483]
  • On the day of his inauguration U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that the F-35's "cost is out of control" and said billions could be saved on military purchases.[483][484]
13 December
  • A Marine MV-22 Osprey crashed in the Pacific off Okinawa after an aerial refueling hose damaged a propeller. Its five-man crew was rescued, two with minor injuries. U.S. military grounds its Ospreys in Japan after being called to do so by the Japanese Government on 14 December.[485]
14 December
  • A ceasefire to allow Syrian rebels and civilians to evacuate Aleppo was broken immediately and Syrian government airstrikes resumed.[486]
  • Bulgaria Air announced an agreement to buy four cargo aircraft for operations to Europe and Asia, under the Bulgaria Air Cargo name in 2017.
  • The first Amazon Prime Air delivery to a customer with a UAV arrived 13 minutes after being placed, in the United Kingdom.[487]
15 December
18 December
20 December
  • Bulgaria Air announced 16 additional destinations to be added in 2017 when it receives new aircraft.
  • Since the coalition air campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria began in August 2014, coalition forces have conducted over 16,000 airstrikes at a cost of $12.5 million per day, killing an estimated 50,000 Islamic State personnel. The coalition has launched an average of 56 strike sorties per day since the campaign began.[453]
22 December
  • After over four years of airstrikes on homes, schools and hospitals by the Syrian Arab Air Force and the Russian Federation Air Force, Aleppo finally fell.[490]
  • A drunk Russian who claimed to be meeting his girlfriend drove his car into the Kazan International Airport terminal in Russia, and pursued by security who were on foot, drove past security checkpoints before being arrested at a railway platform.[491]
  • U.S. President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that he was reconsidering the F-35 Lighting II purchase due cost overruns for the cheaper F-18 Super Hornet.[492]
23 December
25 December
26 December
  • Bulgaria Air announced that its first Boeing 767-300 will be delivered in March 2017, followed by three more in May 2017.
  • Air Moldova announces that it will buy two more Airbus A320s, to enter service in 2017, bringing their fleet of A320s to four.
29 December
31 December
  • Philippine Airlines announced they will join the Oneworld airline alliance. It is the second southeast Asia airline to join, following Malaysia Airlines.
  • Coalition aircraft destroyed over 1,200 Islamic State tanker trucks since October 2015 in Operation Tidal Wave II.[478]
  • According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the Saudi-led coalition made 3,936 airstrikes in Yemen during 2016.[498]
  • In 2016, U.S. airlines cancelled 1.17% of flights, lost 2.70 bags per 1,000 customers and "bumped" ticketed passengers from overbooked flights at a rate of 0.62 per 10,000 passengers, the lowest numbers recorded in over a decade, while on-time arrival rates and customer complaints also improved.[499]

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