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href="/wiki/Kolavia_Flight_348" title="Kolavia Flight 348">Kolavia Flight 348</a>, operated by <a href="/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-154" title="Tupolev Tu-154">Tupolev Tu-154B-2</a> RA-85588 of <a href="/wiki/Kogalymavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Kogalymavia">Kogalymavia</a> catches fire while taxiing for take-off at <a href="/wiki/Surgut_International_Airport" title="Surgut International Airport">Surgut International Airport</a>, Russia, killing three people, and injuring 43. The aircraft is destroyed by the fire.</li></ul> <dl><dt>5 January</dt></dl> <ul><li>An attempt is made to <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking" title="Aircraft hijacking">hijack</a> <a href="/wiki/Turkish_Airlines" title="Turkish Airlines">Turkish Airlines</a> Flight 1754 from <a href="/wiki/Oslo_Airport,_Gardermoen" title="Oslo Airport, Gardermoen">Gardermoen Airport</a>, Oslo to <a href="/wiki/Atat%C3%BCrk_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Atatürk International Airport">Atatürk International Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Istanbul" title="Istanbul">Istanbul</a>. The hijacker was overpowered by other passengers on the flight and was arrested when the aircraft landed.<a href="#cite_note-BBC12124802-1">[1]</a> The flight was being operated by <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-800</a> TC-JGZ.<a href="#cite_note-AH435c135c-2">[2]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>9 January</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_277" title="Iran Air Flight 277">Iran Air Flight 277</a>, crashes while performing a go-around at <a href="/wiki/Urmia_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Urmia Airport">Urmia Airport</a> killing 77 of the 106 people aboard, and injuring 26 people. A total of 28 people survived. The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 727-286Adv.</li></ul> <dl><dt>10 January</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AirAsia" title="AirAsia">AirAsia</a> Flight 5218, operated by <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A320" class="mw-redirect" title="Airbus A320">Airbus A320-216</a> 9M-AHH, sustained substantial damage in a runway excursion accident at <a href="/wiki/Kuching_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuching Airport">Kuching Airport</a>, Malaysia. All 123 passengers and six crew members survived. The Flight from <a href="/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_Subang_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuala Lumpur Subang International Airport">Kuala Lumpur Subang International Airport</a> to <a href="/wiki/Kuching_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Kuching Airport">Kuching Airport</a>. The flight landed on <a href="/wiki/Kuching" title="Kuching">Kuching</a>'s runway 25 in heavy rain around but skidded to the right and went off the side of the runway. It came to rest in the grass with the nose gear dug in or collapsed.<a href="#cite_note-AH4360264d-3">[3]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>14 January</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-1_Predator" title="General Atomics MQ-1 Predator">MQ-1 Predator</a> <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">unmanned aerial vehicle</a> crashes in the sea off the <a href="/wiki/Horn_of_Africa" title="Horn of Africa">Horn of Africa</a> while trying to return to <a href="/wiki/Djibouti%E2%80%93Ambouli_International_Airport" title="Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport">Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Djibouti_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Djibouti (city)">Djibouti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Djibouti" title="Djibouti">Djibouti</a>. It is the first known accident involving either a Predator or an <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a> unmanned aerial vehicle near a civilian airport.<a href="#cite_note-Whitlock,_Craig_2012-4">[4]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>20 January</dt></dl> <ul><li>An <a href="/wiki/Ecuadorian_Air_Force" title="Ecuadorian Air Force">Ecuadorian Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-6_Twin_Otter" title="De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter">de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter</a> crashes near <a href="/wiki/Tena,_Ecuador" title="Tena, Ecuador">Tena, Ecuador</a>, killing all six people on board.</li></ul> <dl><dt>21 January</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/British_Airways" title="British Airways">British Airways</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iberia_(airline)" title="Iberia (airline)">Iberia</a> merge to form <a href="/wiki/International_Airlines_Group" title="International Airlines Group">International Airlines Group</a> (IAG), the world's third-largest airline in terms of annual revenue and the second-largest airline group in Europe. However, both airlines continue to operate under their previous brands.</li></ul> <dl><dt>24 January</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Etihad_Airways" title="Etihad Airways">Etihad Airways</a> Flight 19, operated by <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A340" title="Airbus A340">Airbus A340-600</a> A6-EHH was escorted into <a href="/wiki/Stansted_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Stansted Airport">Stansted Airport</a>,<a href="#cite_note-AH436b22aa-5">[5]</a> United Kingdom by two <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon" title="Eurofighter Typhoon">Typhoon</a> aircraft from <a href="/wiki/RAF_Coningsby" title="RAF Coningsby">RAF Coningsby</a>. The flight originated at <a href="/wiki/Abu_Dhabi_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu Dhabi International Airport">Abu Dhabi International Airport</a> and was bound for <a href="/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="London Heathrow Airport">London Heathrow Airport</a> when it was diverted due to an unruly passenger. The passenger was arrested after the aircraft had landed.<a href="#cite_note-BBC12265647-6">[6]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>25 January</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Senegal_Airlines" title="Senegal Airlines">Senegal Airlines</a> begins flight operations.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February">February</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: February">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>2 February</dt></dl> <ul><li>An <a href="/wiki/Indian_Army" title="Indian Army">Indian Army</a> <a href="/wiki/HAL_Cheetah" class="mw-redirect" title="HAL Cheetah">HAL Cheetah</a> helicopter crashed near <a href="/wiki/Nashik" title="Nashik">Nashik</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, killing two crew.</li></ul> <dl><dt>9 February</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> announces that the <a href="/wiki/C-17_Globemaster_III" class="mw-redirect" title="C-17 Globemaster III">C-17 Globemaster III</a> is its first aircraft certified to fly on <a href="/wiki/Biofuel" title="Biofuel">biofuel</a>. The certification clears the C-17 to fly on a volumetric blend of up to 50 percent <a href="/wiki/Harnett_Regional_Jetport" title="Harnett Regional Jetport">HRJ</a> biofuel and 50 percent <a href="/wiki/JP-8" title="JP-8">JP-8</a> conventional <a href="/wiki/Jet_fuel" title="Jet fuel">jet fuel</a> or on a blend of 25 percent HRJ, 25 percent synthetic paraffinic <a href="/wiki/Kerosene" title="Kerosene">kerosene</a> fuel, and 50 percent JP-8. It also announces that it plans to complete flight testing of HRJ by February 2012 and to have all U.S. Air Force aircraft certified to use biofuels by December 2012.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>10 February</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manx2_Flight_7100" title="Manx2 Flight 7100">Manx2 Flight 7100</a> from <a href="/wiki/George_Best_Belfast_City_Airport" title="George Best Belfast City Airport">Belfast</a>, operated by <a href="/wiki/Fairchild_Swearingen_Metroliner" title="Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner">Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner</a> EC-ITP leased from Flightline BCN of Barcelona, overturns on its third attempt to land at <a href="/wiki/Cork_Airport" title="Cork Airport">Cork</a>, Republic of Ireland in fog, killing six and injuring six.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>21 February</dt></dl> <ul><li>As violence in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a> grows, <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Air_Force_(1951%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Air Force (1951–2011)">Libyan Air Force</a> warplanes and <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopter" title="Attack helicopter">attack helicopters</a> launch airstrikes on protesters, reportedly targeting a funeral procession and a group of protesters trying to reach a military base.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></li> <li>Two senior Libyan Air Force pilots fly their <a href="/wiki/Dassault_Mirage_F1" title="Dassault Mirage F1">Dassault Mirage F1</a> fighters to <a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a> and request political asylum after defying orders to bomb protesters.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-PilotsTold-14">[14]</a> Two civilian helicopters also land in Malta after a flight from Libya, carrying seven passengers who claim to be French oil workers.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian-PilotsTold-14">[14]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>22 February</dt></dl> <ul><li>Former Libyan Ambassador to <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> <a href="/wiki/Ali_Abd-al-Aziz_al-Isawi" title="Ali Abd-al-Aziz al-Isawi">Ali Abd-al-Aziz al-Isawi</a> confirms that Libyan Air Force jets have bombed civilians.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>23 February</dt></dl> <ul><li>Ordered to strike targets in <a href="/wiki/Benghazi" title="Benghazi">Benghazi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, during the <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Civil War (2011)">Libyan Civil War</a>, the crew of a <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Republic_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Arab Republic Air Force">Libyan Arab Republic Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-22" class="mw-redirect" title="Sukhoi Su-22">Sukhoi Su-22</a> <a href="/wiki/NATO_reporting_name" title="NATO reporting name">NATO reporting name</a> "Fitter") refuses to carry out the strike and instead ejects from the aircraft, leaving it to crash near the city.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>27 February</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Airlines" title="Indian Airlines">Indian Airlines</a> merges into <a href="/wiki/Air_India" title="Air India">Air India</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>28 February</dt></dl> <ul><li>Libyan rebels reportedly shoot down a Libyan Air Force warplane during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Misrata_(2011)" title="Battle of Misrata (2011)">Battle of Misrata</a>.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March">March</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: March">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>1 March</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> <a href="/wiki/Minister_for_Defence_(Australia)" title="Minister for Defence (Australia)">Minister for Defence</a> <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Smith_(Australian_politician)" title="Stephen Smith (Australian politician)">Stephen Smith</a> says that international intervention in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a> to enforce a <a href="/wiki/No-fly_zone" title="No-fly zone">no-fly zone</a> is probable,<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> and British <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Secretary_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Secretary (UK)">Foreign Secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Hague" title="William Hague">William Hague</a> says that a no-fly zone could be imposed even without a <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council" title="United Nations Security Council">United Nations Security Council</a> resolution.<a href="#cite_note-Live_Blog_–_Libya_2_March-20">[20]</a> Libyan rebel leaders debate whether to ask for <a href="/wiki/Western_World" class="mw-redirect" title="Western World">Western</a> airstrikes,<a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-21">[21]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Fatah_Younis" title="Abdul Fatah Younis">Abdul Fatah Younis</a>, Libya's former minister of the interior who has defected to the rebels, says he would welcome targeted foreign airstrikes, though he offers the use of Libyan military airbases to foreign aircraft only in case of emergency.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>2 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>Two <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Air_Force_(1951%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Air Force (1951–2011)">Libyan Air Force</a> jets bomb <a href="/wiki/Ajdabiya" title="Ajdabiya">Ajdabiya</a> in an attempt to destroy a weapons depot. <a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-aircraft artillery">Anti-aircraft artillery</a> shoots one of them down.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></li> <li>The Libyan opposition's interim-government council formally requests that the United Nations impose a no-fly zone over Libya and conduct precision air strikes against Libyan government forces,<a href="#cite_note-Live_Blog_–_Libya_2_March-20">[20]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Arab_League" title="Arab League">Arab League</a> states that a no-fly zone is necessary and adds that in cooperation with the <a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a>, it could impose a militarily-enforced no-fly zone without the United Nation's backing.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>4 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>The Libyan Air Force conducts occasional air strikes on Ajdabiya's weapon-storage area, with no reported casualties.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></li> <li>Libyan opposition forces capture the Libyan airbase at <a href="/wiki/Ra%27s_Lanuf" class="mw-redirect" title="Ra's Lanuf">Ra's Lanuf</a>.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>5 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>An <a href="/wiki/Antonov_An-148" title="Antonov An-148">Antonov An-148</a> <a href="/wiki/2011_Antonov_An-148_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Antonov An-148 crash">crashes</a> at <a href="/wiki/Garbuzovo" title="Garbuzovo">Garbuzovo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexeyevsky_District,_Belgorod_Oblast" title="Alexeyevsky District, Belgorod Oblast">Alxeevsky Region</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belgorod_Oblast" title="Belgorod Oblast">Belgorod Oblast</a>, Russia following an in-flight break-up. All six people on board are killed.</li> <li>Opposition forces shoot down a Libyan Air Force jet fighter over Ra's Lanuf after it attempts to bomb the town, killing its two pilots.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>9 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle" title="Space Shuttle">Space Shuttle</a> <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery" title="Space Shuttle Discovery">Discovery</a>, first of the space shuttles to be retired, glides to a landing to end its 39th and final mission – the most by any space shuttle.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>11 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>Following the <a href="/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami" title="2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami">2011 Tōhoku earthquake</a> off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sendai_Airport" title="Sendai Airport">Sendai Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Natori,_Miyagi" title="Natori, Miyagi">Natori</a>, Japan, is engulfed by a <a href="/wiki/Tsunami" title="Tsunami">tsunami</a> and put out of action. Flights are suspended from a number of airports in Japan, including <a href="/wiki/Narita_International_Airport" title="Narita International Airport">Narita International Airport</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haneda_Airport" title="Haneda Airport">Haneda Airport</a>, Tokyo. In <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hilo_International_Airport" title="Hilo International Airport">Hilo International</a>, <a href="/wiki/Honolulu_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Honolulu International Airport">Honolulu International</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kahului_Airport" title="Kahului Airport">Kahului</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lihue_Airport" title="Lihue Airport">Lihue</a> airports are all temporarily closed.<a href="#cite_note-AH43928907-31">[31]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>15 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle overshoots the <a href="/wiki/Runway" title="Runway">runway</a> at Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport in Djibouti, Djibouti, and crashes into a fence. No one is injured. Investigators blame the accident on a melted <a href="/wiki/Throttle" title="Throttle">throttle</a> part and pilot confusion and inattention, as well as the inability of any remote pilot to react to cues such as wind rush or high engine pitch that would suggest to the pilot of a manned aircraft that the aircraft was approaching the runway too steeply and at too high a speed.<a href="#cite_note-Whitlock,_Craig_2012-4">[4]</a></li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:F-22_Raptor_biofuel_18_March_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/F-22_Raptor_biofuel_18_March_2011.jpg/200px-F-22_Raptor_biofuel_18_March_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/F-22_Raptor_biofuel_18_March_2011.jpg/300px-F-22_Raptor_biofuel_18_March_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/F-22_Raptor_biofuel_18_March_2011.jpg/400px-F-22_Raptor_biofuel_18_March_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1060" data-file-height="594" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/F-22_Raptor" class="mw-redirect" title="F-22 Raptor">F-22 Raptor</a> flying over <a href="/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base" title="Edwards Air Force Base">Edwards Air Force Base</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, on 18 March 2011 on a fuel consisting of a 50/50 blend of <a href="/wiki/JP-8" title="JP-8">JP-8</a> conventional jet fuel and a <a href="/wiki/Biofuel" title="Biofuel">biofuel</a>.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dt>17 March</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1973" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973">United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973</a> approves a no-fly zone over <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, authorizing <a href="/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">military intervention</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> The resolution also prohibits flights to any <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> member country by aircraft registered in Libya, so <a href="/wiki/Afriqiyah_Airways" title="Afriqiyah Airways">Afriqiyah Airways</a> and <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Airlines" title="Libyan Airlines">Libyan Airlines</a> both cease all flight operations.</li></ul> <dl><dt>18 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/F-22_Raptor" class="mw-redirect" title="F-22 Raptor">F-22 Raptor</a> reaches <a href="/wiki/Mach_number" title="Mach number">Mach</a> 1.5 during <a href="/wiki/Supercruise" title="Supercruise">supercruise</a> at an altitude of 40,000 feet (12,000 meters) over <a href="/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base" title="Edwards Air Force Base">Edwards Air Force Base</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, using fuel made of a 50/50 blend of <a href="/wiki/JP-8" title="JP-8">JP-8</a> conventional <a href="/wiki/Jet_fuel" title="Jet fuel">jet fuel</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Biofuel" title="Biofuel">biofuel</a> made from <a href="/wiki/Camelina_sativa" title="Camelina sativa">Camelina sativa</a>. The flight, which also included other maneuvers, is a major step forward toward the U.S. Air Force's goal of using alternative fuel blends derived from domestic sources to meet 50 percent of its domestic aviation fuel needs by 2016.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>19 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>Libyan rebel ground fire mistakenly shoots down a <a href="/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-23" title="Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23">MiG-23BN</a> (<a href="/wiki/NATO_reporting_name" title="NATO reporting name">NATO reporting name</a> "Flogger") of the rebel <a href="/wiki/Free_Libyan_Air_Force" title="Free Libyan Air Force">Free Libyan Air Force</a> over <a href="/wiki/Benghazi" title="Benghazi">Benghazi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="French Air Force">French Air Force</a> aircraft make the first attacks of the <a href="/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">military intervention in Libya</a>, striking Libyan government <a href="/wiki/Armored_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Armored vehicle">armored vehicles</a> south of <a href="/wiki/Benghazi" title="Benghazi">Benghazi</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Benghazi" title="Second Battle of Benghazi">Second Battle of Benghazi</a>. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit" title="Northrop B-2 Spirit">B-2 Spirit</a> bombers, American fighters, and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> aircraft go into action later in the day, striking Libyan government ground forces and <a href="/wiki/Air_defense" class="mw-redirect" title="Air defense">air defense</a> sites.</li></ul> <dl><dt>20 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>An airstrike by the international coalition against a Libyan government military ground convoy approaching <a href="/wiki/Misrata" title="Misrata">Misrata</a> destroys 14 <a href="/wiki/Tank" title="Tank">tanks</a>, 20 <a href="/wiki/Armored_personnel_carrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Armored personnel carrier">armored personnel carriers</a>, and several trucks filled with ammunition, killing at least 14 Libyan government soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>22 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>A U.S. Air Force <a href="/wiki/F-15_Eagle" class="mw-redirect" title="F-15 Eagle">F-15E Eagle</a> crashes in Libya due to a mechanical failure; its two-man crew survives with minor injuries. Libyan rebel forces rescue one of them; the other is picked up by a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a> <a href="/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey" title="Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey">MV-22 Osprey</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Amphibious_assault_ship" title="Amphibious assault ship">amphibious assault ship</a> <a href="/wiki/USS_Kearsarge_(LHD-3)" title="USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)">USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)</a>, the first time an Osprey has been used to <a href="/wiki/Tactical_Recovery_of_Aircraft_and_Personnel" class="mw-redirect" title="Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel">rescue a downed aviator</a>.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>23 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>Coalition air strikes target Libyan government military forces in Misrata, at <a href="/wiki/Ajdabiya" title="Ajdabiya">Ajdabiya</a>'s eastern gate, in eastern <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a>, and at <a href="/wiki/Tajura" title="Tajura">Tajura</a>. They also hit Libyan leader <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a>'s compound at <a href="/wiki/Bab_al-Aziziya" class="mw-redirect" title="Bab al-Aziziya">Bab al-Aziziya</a>.<a href="#cite_note-AJblog22-23march-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> Royal Air Force <a href="/wiki/Air_Vice_Marshal" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Vice Marshal">Air Vice Marshal</a> <a href="/wiki/Greg_Bagwell" title="Greg Bagwell">Greg Bagwell</a> states that the Libyan Air Force "no longer exists as a fighting force" and that coalition aircraft are "operating with impunity" over Libya.<a href="#cite_note-Al_Jazeera-45">[45]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>24 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>A French fighter aircraft destroys a Libyan government <a href="/wiki/Soko_G-2_Galeb" title="Soko G-2 Galeb">Soko G-2 Galeb</a> military trainer aircraft on the ground just after it had landed at a Libyan base following a flight in which it violated the no-fly zone over Libya.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> French aircraft also bomb the <a href="/wiki/Al_Jufra_Air_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Jufra Air Base">Al Jufra Air Base</a>.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>25 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>French and British jets strike Libyan government tanks and <a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">artillery</a> in eastern Libya to help rebel forces to take <a href="/wiki/Ajdabiya" title="Ajdabiya">Ajdabiya</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bbcGadafiArmsVolonteers-49">[49]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> commits six <a href="/wiki/F-16_Fighting_Falcon" class="mw-redirect" title="F-16 Fighting Falcon">F-16 Fighting Falcon</a> and six <a href="/wiki/Mirage_(aircraft)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mirage (aircraft)">Mirage</a> fighters to help enforce the no-fly zone over Libya.<a href="#cite_note-globalpost03252011-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>26 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>Coalition aircraft attack targets on the outskirts of Misrata, Libya.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a></li> <li>France reports that at least five Libyan government <a href="/wiki/Soko_G-2_Galeb" title="Soko G-2 Galeb">Soko G-2 Galeb</a> fighter planes and two Libyan government <a href="/wiki/Mil_Mi-24" title="Mil Mi-24">Mil Mi-24</a> (NATO reporting name "Hind") <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopter" title="Attack helicopter">attack helicopters</a> preparing to attack rebel forces in the <a href="/wiki/Az_Zintan" class="mw-redirect" title="Az Zintan">Az Zintan</a> and Misrata regions have been shot down in the last 24 hours.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>28 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>British jets bomb ammunition bunkers in southern Libya and destroy 22 tanks, other armoured vehicles, and artillery pieces in the vicinity of Ajdabiya and Misrata.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>28–29 March (overnight)</dt></dl> <ul><li>Coalition aircraft fly 115 strike sorties against targets in Libya.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>29 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>A U.S. Navy <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_P-3_Orion" title="Lockheed P-3 Orion">Lockheed P-3 Orion</a> fires at a <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Navy" title="Libyan Navy">Libyan Navy</a> <a href="/wiki/Patrol_vessel" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrol vessel">patrol vessel</a> that has launched missiles at <a href="/wiki/Merchant_ship" title="Merchant ship">merchant ships</a> in the port of Misrata. A U.S. Air Force <a href="/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II" class="mw-redirect" title="A-10 Thunderbolt II">A-10 Thunderbolt II</a> attacks two smaller Libyan vessels accompanying the patrol vessel, sinking one and forcing the other to be abandoned.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>30 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>After a <a href="/wiki/Dust_storm" title="Dust storm">sandstorm</a> prevents strikes the previous day, coalition aircraft begin attacks against Libyan government forces around <a href="/wiki/Ra%27s_Lanuf" class="mw-redirect" title="Ra's Lanuf">Ra's Lanuf</a> and on the road to <a href="/wiki/Uqayla" class="mw-redirect" title="Uqayla">Uqayla</a>.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>31 March</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> turns over command of coalition operations in Libya to the <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> (NATO)<a href="#cite_note-Brunnstrom,_David-58">[58]</a> and greatly reduces its participation in airstrikes there.</li> <li>Coalition aircraft strike an eastern suburb of Tripoli, Libya,<a href="#cite_note-AJMarch30-31blog-59">[59]</a> and attack Libyan government forces in <a href="/wiki/Brega" title="Brega">Brega</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Brega" title="Third Battle of Brega">Third Battle of Brega</a>.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April">April</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: April">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>1 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>In the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a>, a coalition airstrike attacking a Libyan government ground convoy in eastern <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a> causes a truck carrying ammunition to explode, destroying two nearby houses. Seven civilians die and 25 are wounded.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a></li> <li>A Libyan rebel convoy near <a href="/wiki/Brega" title="Brega">Brega</a> fires into the air with an <a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-aircraft gun">anti-aircraft gun</a>, perhaps in celebration. A U.S. Air Force <a href="/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II" class="mw-redirect" title="A-10 Thunderbolt II">A-10 Thunderbolt II</a> aircraft believing it was under attack by Libyan government forces then returns fire, killing at least 13 people.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines">Southwest Airlines</a> <a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_812" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 812">Flight 812</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Classic" title="Boeing 737 Classic">Boeing 737-3HR</a> N632SW with 123 people on board, suffers an in-flight structural failure which opens a six-foot (1.8-meter)-long hole in its <a href="/wiki/Fuselage" title="Fuselage">fuselage</a> and triggers an <a href="/wiki/Explosive_decompression" class="mw-redirect" title="Explosive decompression">explosive decompression</a> and the deployment of <a href="/wiki/Oxygen_mask" title="Oxygen mask">oxygen masks</a>. Only two people suffer minor injuries, and the airliner makes a successful emergency descent and landing at <a href="/wiki/Yuma_International_Airport" title="Yuma International Airport">Yuma International Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yuma,_Arizona" title="Yuma, Arizona">Yuma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>. Southwest Airlines grounds all 80 of its 737-300s for inspection.<a href="#cite_note-FG355079-64">[64]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>4 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Georgian_Airways" title="Georgian Airways">Georgian Airways</a> <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_CRJ200" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombardier CRJ200">Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-100ER</a> (registration 4L-GAE) on behalf of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/2011_United_Nations_Bombardier_CRJ-100_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 United Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash">crashes</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a> after a flight from <a href="/wiki/Goma_International_Airport" title="Goma International Airport">Goma International Airport</a> to <a href="/wiki/N%27Djili_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="N'Djili Airport">N'Djili Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kinshasa" title="Kinshasa">Kinshasa</a>, killing 32 of the 33 people on board.</li></ul> <dl><dt>5 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>Coalition airstrikes against an eight-vehicle Libyan government military convoy approaching rebel positions 30 km (19 mi) east of <a href="/wiki/Brega" title="Brega">Brega</a> destroy two vehicles. The rest turn back.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>7 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>Unaware that Libyan rebels had taken possession of any tanks, <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> (NATO) aircraft mistakenly strike a Libyan rebel tank convoy near <a href="/wiki/Ajdabiya" title="Ajdabiya">Ajdabiya</a>, killing thirteen and wounding many,<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> Other NATO airstrikes mistakenly kill two rebels and wound 10 in Brega.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>10 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO announces that its airstrikes in Libya under <a href="/wiki/Operation_Unified_Protector" title="Operation Unified Protector">Operation Unified Protector</a> have destroyed 11 Libyan government <a href="/wiki/Tank" title="Tank">tanks</a> near Ajdabiya and 14 near Misrata during the day.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> Libyan rebels announce that NATO airstrikes have helped them hold Ajdabiya and drive Gaddafi's forces out during the weekend's attack.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>11 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO announces that its Operation Unified Protector airstrikes have destroyed 49 Libyan government tanks since 9 April, including 13 on 9 April 25 on 10 April, and 11 on 11 April.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>12 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Air_France" title="Air France">Air France</a> <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A380" title="Airbus A380">Airbus A380</a> F-HPJD collides on the ground with the <a href="/wiki/Comair_(USA)" class="mw-redirect" title="Comair (USA)">Comair</a> <a href="/wiki/Bombardier_CRJ-700" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombardier CRJ-700">Bombardier CRJ-700</a> N641CA at <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport" title="John F. Kennedy International Airport">John F. Kennedy International Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, spinning the CRJ-700 through 90°. The Airbus sustains slight damage, but the CRJ-700 is substantially damaged.<a href="#cite_note-JACDEC0411-73">[73]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>14 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>Coalition jets strike Tripoli, Libya, targeting a military base and damaging parts of a university complex. Libyan government <a href="/wiki/Antiaircraft_artillery" class="mw-redirect" title="Antiaircraft artillery">antiaircraft artillery</a> in central Tripoli fires at them.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>21 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100" title="Sukhoi Superjet 100">Sukhoi Superjet 100</a>, the first airliner developed from start to finish in <a href="/wiki/History_of_Russia_(1992%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Russia (1992–present)">post-Soviet Russia</a>, makes its first commercial passenger flight, flying for the Armenian airline <a href="/wiki/Armavia" title="Armavia">Armavia</a> from <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>24 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>Libyan rebels claim that coalition airstrikes on Libyan government forces on the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Al_Zaitoniya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al Zaitoniya (page does not exist)">Al Zaitoniya</a>–<a href="/w/index.php?title=Al_Soihat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al Soihat (page does not exist)">Al Soihat</a> road near <a href="/wiki/Ajdabiya" title="Ajdabiya">Ajdabiya</a> hit 21 military vehicles but NATO does not confirm their claim.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>25 April</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Italy" title="Prime Minister of Italy">Prime Minister</a> of <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> <a href="/wiki/Silvio_Berlusconi" title="Silvio Berlusconi">Silvio Berlusconi</a> approves the use of Italian aircraft in ground-attack missions in Libya as part of NATO's Operation Unified Protector.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>27 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO airstrikes mistakenly kill 11 Libyan rebels and wound two in Misrata.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>30 April</dt></dl> <ul><li>The Syrian government deploys helicopters to <a href="/wiki/Daraa" title="Daraa">Daraa</a> in response to antiregime protests there as violence increases in the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian Civil War">Syrian Civil War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a></li> <li>A NATO airstrike in Tripoli kills Libyan leader <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a>'s son <a href="/wiki/Saif_al-Arab_Gaddafi" title="Saif al-Arab Gaddafi">Saif al-Arab Gaddafi</a>. The Libyan government claims that three of Said al-Arab Gaddafi's children also die in the attack.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="May">May</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: May">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>1–2 May (overnight)</dt></dl> <ul><li>In Operation Neptune Spear, two modified <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_UH-60_Black_Hawk" title="Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk">UH-60 Black Hawk</a> helicopters of the <a href="/wiki/160th_Special_Operations_Aviation_Regiment_(Airborne)" title="160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)">160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne)</a> carry <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALs" title="United States Navy SEALs">United States Navy SEALs</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Naval_Special_Warfare_Development_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group">United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group</a> from <a href="/wiki/Jalalabad" title="Jalalabad">Jalalabad</a>, Afghanistan, to <a href="/wiki/Abbottabad" title="Abbottabad">Abbottabad</a>, Pakistan, where they <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden" class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Osama bin Laden">attack</a> the <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden%27s_compound_in_Abbottabad" title="Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad">compound</a> of <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>, and kill him and four others in the compound. One Black Hawk crashes during the assault, but there are no serious injuries to any Americans, and the remaining Black Hawk and a <a href="/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook" title="Boeing CH-47 Chinook">CH-47 Chinook</a> helicopter fly the SEALs and bin Laden's body back to Afghanistan.</li></ul> <dl><dt>2 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Remotely_operated_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Remotely operated vehicle">remotely operated vehicle</a> finally finds the <a href="/wiki/Flight_recorder" title="Flight recorder">flight recorders</a> from <a href="/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447" title="Air France Flight 447">Air France Flight 447</a> on the bottom of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a> and brings them to surface after a 23-month search for them. Flight 447 had crashed on <a href="/wiki/2009_in_aviation" title="2009 in aviation">1 June 2009</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>7 May</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Merpati_Nusantara_Airlines_Flight_8968" title="Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 8968">Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 8968</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Xian_MA60" class="mw-redirect" title="Xian MA60">Xian MA60</a> with 25 people, crashes off the coast of <a href="/wiki/West_Papua_(region)" class="mw-redirect" title="West Papua (region)">West Papua</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> while on approach to <a href="/wiki/Kaimana_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaimana Airport">Kaimana Airport</a>, killing everyone on board.</li> <li>A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle suffers an electrical failure and crashes in the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Aden" title="Gulf of Aden">Gulf of Aden</a> one mile (1.6 km) off <a href="/wiki/Djibouti_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Djibouti (city)">Djibouti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Djibouti" title="Djibouti">Djibouti</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Whitlock,_Craig_2012-4">[4]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>11 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>Libyan rebel forces capture <a href="/wiki/Misrata_Airport" title="Misrata Airport">Misrata Airport</a>, which also serves as a <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Air_Force_(1951%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Air Force (1951–2011)">Libyan Air Force</a> base.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a></li> <li>Judy Wexler becomes the first woman to pilot a <a href="/wiki/Human-powered_helicopter" title="Human-powered helicopter">human-powered helicopter</a>, remaining airborne for four seconds and achieving an altitude of a few inches in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Maryland">University of Maryland</a>'s <a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland_Gamera_I_human-powered_helicopter" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Maryland Gamera I human-powered helicopter">Gamera I</a>.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>13 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> (NATO) airstrike targeting a Libyan government <a href="/wiki/Command_and_control" title="Command and control">command and control</a> bunker in <a href="/wiki/Brega" title="Brega">Brega</a> hits a building, killing 11 civilians and wounding 45.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a></li> <li>The first <a href="/wiki/Solar_Impulse" title="Solar Impulse">Solar Impulse</a> aircraft, HB-SIA, the first <a href="/wiki/Solar_power" title="Solar power">solar-powered</a> aircraft capable of both day and night flight thanks to its batteries charged by solar power, makes its first international flight, flying 630 km (390 mi) from <a href="/wiki/Payerne_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Payerne Airport">Payerne Airport</a> outside <a href="/wiki/Payerne" title="Payerne">Payerne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Brussels_Airport" title="Brussels Airport">Brussels Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, in 12 hours 59 minutes at an average speed of 50 km/h (31 mph).<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>17 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>A U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle carrying a live <a href="/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire" title="AGM-114 Hellfire">AGM-114 Hellfire</a> <a href="/wiki/Air-to-surface_missile" title="Air-to-surface missile">air-to-surface missile</a> misses the runway at Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport in Djibouti, Djibouti, by three miles (4.8 km) and crashes near a residential area. Its missile does not explode, and no one is injured.<a href="#cite_note-Whitlock,_Craig_2012-4">[4]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>18 May</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omega_Aerial_Refueling_Services_Flight_70" title="Omega Aerial Refueling Services Flight 70">Omega Aerial Refueling Services Flight 70</a>, a Boeing 707, veers off the runway in California following an engine separation. The aircraft is consumed by fire. Everyone survives.</li></ul> <dl><dt>19–20 May (overnight)</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO aircraft raid <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Navy" title="Libyan Navy">Libyan Navy</a> bases at Tripoli, <a href="/wiki/Khoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Khoms">Khoms</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sirte" title="Sirte">Sirte</a> in the largest attack against Libyan government naval forces thus far in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a>. During the Khoms raids, British aircraft hit two <a href="/wiki/Corvette" title="Corvette">corvettes</a> at Khoms with <a href="/wiki/Laser-guided_bomb" title="Laser-guided bomb">laser-guided bombs</a> and damage an inflatable-boat manufacturing facility, and NATO aircraft set a warship at Tripoli afire. NATO aircraft also hit a police academy in Tripoli's <a href="/wiki/Tajoura" class="mw-redirect" title="Tajoura">Tajoura</a> neighborhood.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>21 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO conducts 147 air sorties over Libya, targeting two <a href="/wiki/Command-and-control" class="mw-redirect" title="Command-and-control">command-and-control</a> facilities in and near Tripoli, an ammunition storage facility near Tripoli, a naval asset near <a href="/wiki/Sirte" title="Sirte">Sirte</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Air_defense" class="mw-redirect" title="Air defense">air defense</a> radars near <a href="/wiki/Al_Khums" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Khums">Al Khums</a>, and a tank and a military truck near <a href="/wiki/Zintan" title="Zintan">Zintan</a>. Since NATO took command of air strikes in Libya on 31 March 31, its aircraft have conducted 2,975 strike and 4.757 other sorties.<a href="#cite_note-Brunnstrom,_David-58">[58]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>23 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>France and the United Kingdom announce that they will begin to use <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopter" title="Attack helicopter">attack helicopters</a> in Libya to increase the accuracy of NATO airstrikes and allow more precise strikes against <a href="/wiki/Urban_warfare" title="Urban warfare">urban targets</a>.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>24 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO stages the largest air attacks against Tripoli since th beginning of the international intervention in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a>, with ore than 20 airstrikes hitting Tripoli near Libyan leader <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a>'s compound. The Libyan government reports at least three people killed and dozens wounded.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>26 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>The United Kingdom announces plans to send four <a href="/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache" title="Boeing AH-64 Apache">Apache</a> helicopters to serve in the Libyan conflict.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_News-90">[90]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>27 May</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO aircraft conduct 151 sorties over Libya, striking a command and control facility in Tripoli, ammunition storage facilities near Sirte, <a href="/wiki/Mizda" title="Mizda">Mizda</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hun,_Libya" title="Hun, Libya">Hun</a>, a rocket launcher and two truck-mounted guns near <a href="/wiki/Misrata" title="Misrata">Misrata</a>, and four <a href="/w/index.php?title=Surface-to-air_missile_launcher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Surface-to-air missile launcher (page does not exist)">surface-to-air missile launchers</a> near <a href="/wiki/Zintan" title="Zintan">Zintan</a>. NATO jets also destroy the guard towers surrounding Gaddafi's <a href="/wiki/Bab_al-Azizia" title="Bab al-Azizia">Bab al-Azizia</a> compound in Tripoli. NATO aircraft have flown 8,585 sorties over Libya since NATO took command of the operations there on 31 March.<a href="#cite_note-nato.int-91">[91]</a></li> <li>As of 27 May, a total of twenty NATO ships were actively patrolling the Central Mediterranean.<a href="#cite_note-BBC_News-90">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-nato.int-91">[91]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>28 May</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japanese</a> <a href="/wiki/Wingsuit_flying" title="Wingsuit flying">wingsuit</a> pilot <a href="/wiki/Shin_Ito" title="Shin Ito">Shin Ito</a> sets a world record for the highest speed reached in a wingsuit flight, achieving a speed of 363 km/h (226 mph) over <a href="/wiki/Yolo_County,_California" title="Yolo County, California">Yolo County</a>, <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>. The jump starts from an altitude of 32,000 feet (9,800 meters).<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>31 May</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgaria_Air" title="Bulgaria Air">Bulgaria Air</a>, the national airline of <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a> signs a lease agreement for three <a href="/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_family" title="Embraer E-Jet family">Embraer E-190s</a>.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a></li> <li>The Libyan government claims that NATO air raids have killed 718 civilians and injured more than 4,000 since the international bombing campaign to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya began.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June">June</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: June">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>2 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO air attacks in Libya destroy ammunition and vehicle depots, a <a href="/wiki/Surface-to-air_missile" title="Surface-to-air missile">surface-to-air missile</a> launcher, and a radar installation in <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a>.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>3 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>An American unmanned aerial vehicle strike in <a href="/wiki/South_Waziristan" class="mw-redirect" title="South Waziristan">South Waziristan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, kills <a href="/wiki/Ilyas_Kashmiri" title="Ilyas Kashmiri">Ilyas Kashmiri</a>, a senior <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> member and leader of the <a href="/wiki/Harkat-ul-Jihad_al-Islami" title="Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami">Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Miller,_Greg_2012-96">[96]</a></li> <li>NATO <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopter" title="Attack helicopter">attack helicopters</a> go into combat in Libya for the first time, when two British <a href="/wiki/Army_Air_Corps_(United_Kingdom)" title="Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)">Army Air Corps</a> <a href="/wiki/AgustaWestland_Apache" title="AgustaWestland Apache">AgustaWestland Apaches</a> operating from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> <a href="/wiki/Amphibious_assault_ship" title="Amphibious assault ship">amphibious assault ship</a> <a href="/wiki/HMS_Ocean_(L12)" title="HMS Ocean (L12)">HMS Ocean</a> attack a radar site and an armed checkpoint near <a href="/wiki/Brega" title="Brega">Brega</a> and French <a href="/wiki/A%C3%A9rospatiale_Gazelle" title="Aérospatiale Gazelle">Aérospatiale Gazelles</a> simultaneously attack other Libyan government targets.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>4 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>British Army Air Corps Apache attack helicopters from HMS Ocean destroy several Libyan government targets near the Brega-<a href="/wiki/Ajdabiya" title="Ajdabiya">Ajdabiya</a> front line, including ammunition bunkers and radar installations. French Gazelles hit numerous targets around Brega in preparation for an expected rebel ground offensive.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>5 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO airstrikes level the offices of Libya's state television service, <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Jamahiriya_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation">Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation</a>, and the Libyan government military intelligence offices in Tripoli.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>9 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>The U.S. <a href="/wiki/Evergreen_747_Supertanker" class="mw-redirect" title="Evergreen 747 Supertanker">Evergreen 747 Supertanker</a>, the world's largest firefighting aircraft, deploys to <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> to assist in fighting the <a href="/wiki/Wallow_Fire" title="Wallow Fire">Wallow Fire</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>10 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>Syrian government <a href="/wiki/Attack_helicopter" title="Attack helicopter">attack helicopters</a> go into action during <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Army" title="Syrian Army">Syrian Army</a> <a href="/wiki/June_2011_Jisr_ash-Shugur_operation" class="mw-redirect" title="June 2011 Jisr ash-Shugur operation">military operations</a> against the rebel stronghold of <a href="/wiki/Jisr_ash-Shugur" class="mw-redirect" title="Jisr ash-Shugur">Jisr ash-Shugur</a>. The operations will conclude successfully on 12 June.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Norway">Government of Norway</a> announces that it will begin a gradual withdrawal of the six <a href="/wiki/Royal_Norwegian_Air_Force" title="Royal Norwegian Air Force">Royal Norwegian Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/F-16_Fighting_Falcon" class="mw-redirect" title="F-16 Fighting Falcon">F-16 Fighting Falcons</a> it has committed to <a href="/wiki/Operation_Unified_Protector" title="Operation Unified Protector">Operation Unified Protector</a>, the NATO intervention in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-blogs.aljazeera.net-101">[101]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>14 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO aircraft strike <a href="/wiki/Waddan,_Libya" title="Waddan, Libya">Waddan</a>, Libya.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters_6-15-11-102">[102]</a></li> <li>In response to Libya firing rockets into its territory, <a href="/wiki/Tunisia" title="Tunisia">Tunisia</a> flies a helicopter and a <a href="/wiki/Tunisian_Air_Force" title="Tunisian Air Force">Tunisian Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/F-5_Freedom_Fighter" class="mw-redirect" title="F-5 Freedom Fighter">F-5 Freedom Fighter</a> along its border with Libya.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters_6-15-11-102">[102]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>14–15 June (overnight)</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO jets resume airstrikes on Tripoli after a lull in such raids, bombarding mainly its eastern neighborhoods.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters_6-15-11-102">[102]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>15 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>A NATO commander confirms that NATO warplanes have bombed an ammunition store at <a href="/wiki/Waddan,_Libya" title="Waddan, Libya">Waddan</a>, Libya.<a href="#cite_note-Rt_gains2_614-103">[103]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>16 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Russian_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian Federation">Russian Federation</a>'s flag carrier <a href="/wiki/Aeroflot" title="Aeroflot">Aeroflot</a> puts its first <a href="/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100" title="Sukhoi Superjet 100">Sukhoi Superjet 100</a> into service.</li></ul> <dl><dt>19 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>A NATO airstrike accidentally hits a civilian neighborhood in Tripoli, Libya. The Libyan government claims that at least five people died in the attack.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a><a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>20 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>On final approach to <a href="/wiki/Petrozavodsk_Airport" title="Petrozavodsk Airport">Petrozavodsk Airport</a> near <a href="/wiki/Petrozavodsk" title="Petrozavodsk">Petrozavodsk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, after a flight from <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Domodedovo_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Domodedovo International Airport">Domodedovo International Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/RusAir_Flight_243" class="mw-redirect" title="RusAir Flight 243">RusAir Flight 243</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-134A-3" class="mw-redirect" title="Tupolev Tu-134A-3">Tupolev Tu-134A-3</a> RA-65691, lands short of the runway due to poor visibility and weather, killing 47 passengers and crew members and leaving all five survivors injured. The aircraft is written off.</li></ul> <dl><dt>21 June</dt></dl> <ul><li>Libyan government antiaircraft fire shoots down an unmanned NATO <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_MQ-8_Fire_Scout" title="Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout">MQ-8 Fire Scout</a> helicopter drone on a reconnaissance flight near <a href="/wiki/Zliten" title="Zliten">Zliten</a>, Libya.<a href="#cite_note-Libya_conflict:_Nato_loses_drone_helicopter-106">[106]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>29 June</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/KLM" title="KLM">KLM</a> becomes the first airline in the world to provide flights using <a href="/wiki/Biofuel" title="Biofuel">biofuel</a>.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a></li> <li>The French military confirms that it had air-dropped weapons in early June to Libyan rebels fighting in the highlands south of Tripoli, which <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> and the <a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a> in particular argue was in violation of the arms embargo against Libya under <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1973" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973">United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-108">[108]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="July">July</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: July">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tunisair" title="Tunisair">Tunisair</a> inaugurates its first service to <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, operating at <a href="/wiki/Domodedovo_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Domodedovo Airport">Domodedovo Airport</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>2 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO confirms that in recent days it has increased its airstrikes against military targets in western Libya, bombing <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gharyan" title="Gharyan">Gharyan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Armored_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Armored vehicle">armored vehicles</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bir_al-Ghanam" title="Bir al-Ghanam">Bir al-Ghanam</a>.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>5 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Japan_Air_Self-Defense_Force" title="Japan Air Self-Defense Force">Japan Air Self-Defense Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_F-15J" title="Mitsubishi F-15J">Mitsubishi F-15J</a> based in <a href="/wiki/Naha_Air_Base" title="Naha Air Base">Naha Air Base</a> on <a href="/wiki/Okinawa_Island" title="Okinawa Island">Okinawa</a> crashes on a training exercise on the <a href="/wiki/East_China_Sea" title="East China Sea">East China Sea</a>. Japan grounds all F-15 while investigating the cause.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>6 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Silk_Way_Airlines" title="Silk Way Airlines">Silk Way Airlines</a> <a href="/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-76" title="Ilyushin Il-76">Ilyushin Il-76</a> cargo plane carrying 9 crew members <a href="/wiki/2011_Silk_Way_Airlines_Ilyushin_Il-76_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Silk Way Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 crash">crashes</a> in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, while on approach to <a href="/wiki/Bagram_Air_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagram Air Base">Bagram Air Base</a>, killing everyone on board.</li></ul> <dl><dt>8 July</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hewa_Bora_Airways_Flight_952" title="Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952">Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Boeing_727" title="Boeing 727">Boeing 727-100</a> crashes on approach to <a href="/wiki/Bangoka_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Bangoka International Airport">Bangoka International Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kisangani" title="Kisangani">Kisangani</a>, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 42 of the 118 people are killed.</li></ul> <dl><dt>10 July</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> ends its unrestricted immigration policy for Libyan nationals arriving in Egypt by air.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>11 July</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angara_Airlines_Flight_9007" title="Angara Airlines Flight 9007">Angara Airlines Flight 9007</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Antonov_An-24" title="Antonov An-24">Antonov An-24</a>, ditches into the <a href="/wiki/Ob_River" class="mw-redirect" title="Ob River">Ob River</a>, Russia, killing seven of the 37 people on board.</li></ul> <dl><dt>12 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>An airstrip laid out along a stretch of highway near Rhebat in the Nafusa Mountains was opened by a senior NTC minister, allowing an air connection via a small private company, <a href="/wiki/Air_Libya" title="Air Libya">Air Libya</a>, between Benghazi and the Amazigh rebels.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>13 July</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Noar_Linhas_A%C3%A9reas_Flight_4896" title="Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896">Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Let_L-410_Turbolet" title="Let L-410 Turbolet">Let L-410UVP-E20</a> (registration PR-NOB) crashes near <a href="/wiki/Recife" title="Recife">Recife</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, killing all 16 people on board.</li></ul> <dl><dt>17 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>About 100 <a href="/wiki/Syrian_Air_Force" title="Syrian Air Force">Syrian Air Force</a> intelligence personnel defect to the rebel side in <a href="/wiki/Abu_Kamal" title="Abu Kamal">Abu Kamal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>19 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Royal_Thai_Army" title="Royal Thai Army">Royal Thai Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Sikorsky_UH-60_Black_Hawk" title="Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk">Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk</a> helicopter crashes in <a href="/wiki/Tenasserim_Hills" title="Tenasserim Hills">Tenasserim Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phetchaburi" title="Phetchaburi">Phetchaburi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>, near the border with <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a>, killing nine people on board.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>22 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle" title="Space Shuttle">Space Shuttle</a> <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Atlantis" title="Space Shuttle Atlantis">Atlantis</a> returns to Earth at the end of <a href="/wiki/STS-135" title="STS-135">STS-135</a>, the final mission of the <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="Space Shuttle Program">Space Shuttle Program</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>23 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO aircraft strike a Libyan government military storage facility, a <a href="/wiki/Multiple_rocket_launcher" title="Multiple rocket launcher">multiple rocket launcher</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Command-and-control" class="mw-redirect" title="Command-and-control">command-and-control</a> node in the <a href="/wiki/Brega" title="Brega">Brega</a> area.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>25 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>NATO aircraft strike various targets in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ziltan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ziltan (page does not exist)">Ziltan</a>, Libya. The Libyan government claims that they struck a health clinic, a food-storage complex, and a military base and killed at least 11 civilians. NATO later rejects the claims, saying its planes hit a command-and-control node and a vehicle storage facility.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>26 July</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Royal_Moroccan_Air_Force" title="Royal Moroccan Air Force">Royal Moroccan Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_C-130_Hercules" title="Lockheed C-130 Hercules">Lockheed C-130 Hercules</a> transport aircraft <a href="/wiki/2011_Royal_Moroccan_Air_Force_Lockheed_C-130_Hercules_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Royal Moroccan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash">crashes</a> near <a href="/wiki/Guelmim" title="Guelmim">Guelmim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a>, killing all 80 people on board and becoming the deadliest aviation disaster of 2011.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>28 July</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_991" title="Asiana Airlines Flight 991">Asiana Airlines Flight 991</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Boeing_747-400" title="Boeing 747-400">Boeing 747-400</a>F crashes into the <a href="/wiki/Korea_Strait" title="Korea Strait">Korea Strait</a>, killing two of its crew.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Agence_Nationale_de_l%27Aviation_Civile_et_de_la_M%C3%A9t%C3%A9orologie_(Senegal)" title="Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie (Senegal)">Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile et de la Météorologie</a> (National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology) is created by the merger of the country's national <a href="/wiki/Civil_aviation_authority" title="Civil aviation authority">civil aviation authority</a>, the Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile du Sénégal (National Agency of Civil Aviation of Senegal) with its national <a href="/wiki/Meteorology" title="Meteorology">meteorology</a> agency.</li></ul> <dl><dt>29 July</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/EgyptAir_Flight_667" title="EgyptAir Flight 667">EgyptAir Flight 667</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Boeing_777" title="Boeing 777">Boeing 777-200ER</a> en route from <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a> to <a href="/wiki/Jeddah" title="Jeddah">Jeddah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> suffers a fire in the cockpit while on the ground return to Cairo. All 317 people on board survive.</li></ul> <dl><dt>30 July</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caribbean_Airlines_Flight_523" title="Caribbean Airlines Flight 523">Caribbean Airlines Flight 523</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-800</a> overran the runway at <a href="/wiki/Cheddi_Jagan_International_Airport" title="Cheddi Jagan International Airport">Cheddi Jagan International Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Guyana" title="Georgetown, Guyana">Georgetown, Guyana</a>. Seven of the 163 people suffered injuries.</li> <li>NATO aircraft bomb three <a href="/wiki/Satellite_dish" title="Satellite dish">satellite dishes</a> in Tripoli in an attempt to put Libyan state television – the <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Jamahiriya_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation">Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation</a> – off the air, but the channel continues to broadcast.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/International_Organization_for_Migration" title="International Organization for Migration">International Organization for Migration</a> concludes an operation that it claims airlifted 1,398 stranded migrants, mostly <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chadians</a>, out of Libya.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="August">August</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: August">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>1 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Norway" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Norway">Government of Norway</a> announces that it has completed the withdrawal of its six <a href="/wiki/F-16_Fighting_Falcon" class="mw-redirect" title="F-16 Fighting Falcon">F-16 Fighting Falcons</a> from <a href="/wiki/Operation_Unified_Protector" title="Operation Unified Protector">Operation Unified Protector</a>, the NATO intervention in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a>. The six <a href="/wiki/Royal_Norwegian_Air_Force" title="Royal Norwegian Air Force">Royal Norwegian Air Force</a> fighters had flown 583 of the 6,493 sorties flown by NATO aircraft since NATO took command of the Libyan air campaign on 31 March and dropped 569 bombs.<a href="#cite_note-blogs.aljazeera.net-101">[101]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>3 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_Journalists" title="International Federation of Journalists">International Federation of Journalists</a> condemns the 30 July NATO bombing of the <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Jamahiriya_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation">Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation</a> in an attempt to knock Libyan state television off the air, allegedly killing three <a href="/wiki/Journalism" title="Journalism">journalists</a> and wounding another 15.<a href="#cite_note-jazeera5august-120">[120]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>5 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/w/index.php?title=International_News_Safety_Institute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="International News Safety Institute (page does not exist)">International News Safety Institute</a> asks <a href="/wiki/Secretary_General_of_the_United_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary General of the United Nations">Secretary General</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> <a href="/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon" title="Ban Ki-moon">Ban Ki-moon</a> to investigate whether the 30 July NATO airstrike against the Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporation violated a <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution">United Nations Security Council Resolution</a> that prohibits attacks on journalists.<a href="#cite_note-jazeera5august-120">[120]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>9 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_United_Arab_Emirates" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of the United Arab Emirates">Government</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> turns a <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Air_Force_(1951%E2%80%932011)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Air Force (1951–2011)">Libyan Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Ilyushin_Il-76" title="Ilyushin Il-76">Ilyushin Il-76TD</a> it had seized at <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a> over to the Libyan provisional <a href="/wiki/National_Transitional_Council" title="National Transitional Council">National Transitional Council</a> at <a href="/wiki/Benghazi" title="Benghazi">Benghazi</a>, Libya. It becomes the <a href="/wiki/Free_Libyan_Air_Force" title="Free Libyan Air Force">Free Libyan Air Force</a>'s first <a href="/wiki/Military_transport_aircraft" title="Military transport aircraft">military transport aircraft</a>.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>12 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>A NATO airstrike against Libyan government positions in Brega destroys two <a href="/wiki/Armored_vehicle" class="mw-redirect" title="Armored vehicle">armored vehicles</a> and kills six <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Army_(1951%E2%80%932011)" title="Libyan Army (1951–2011)">Libyan Army</a> soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-georgy13-122">[122]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/French_Navy" title="French Navy">French Navy</a> <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a> <a href="/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Charles_de_Gaulle_(R91)" class="mw-redirect" title="French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91)">Charles de Gaulle</a> returns to <a href="/wiki/Toulon" title="Toulon">Toulon</a>, France, after more than four months of continuous operations off the coast of Libya.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>15 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>The first known collision of an <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">unmanned aerial vehicle</a> (UAV) with a manned fixed-wing aircraft occurs when a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> <a href="/wiki/RQ-7_Shadow" class="mw-redirect" title="RQ-7 Shadow">RQ-7B Shadow</a> UAV collides with a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/C-130_Hercules" class="mw-redirect" title="C-130 Hercules">C-130 Hercules</a> cargo plane at an altitude of approximately 1,300 feet (400 meters) as the C-130 descends toward <a href="/wiki/Forward_Operating_Base_Sharana" title="Forward Operating Base Sharana">Forward Operating Base Sharana</a> in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. The RQ-7B is completely destroyed, but the C-130 lands safely without injury to its crew. The only previous collision of a UAV with a manned aircraft had been between a U.S. Army <a href="/wiki/AeroVironment_RQ-11_Raven" title="AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven">RQ-11 Raven</a> UAV and a U.S. Army <a href="/wiki/MD_Helicopters_MH-6_Little_Bird" title="MD Helicopters MH-6 Little Bird">MH-6 Little Bird</a> helicopter over <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, in 2004.<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a><a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>16 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Canada" title="Government of Canada">Government of Canada</a> announces that the name of the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Armed_Forces" title="Canadian Armed Forces">Canadian Armed Forces</a> Air Command will revert to "<a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Air_Force" title="Royal Canadian Air Force">Royal Canadian Air Force</a>," the name it had held as an independent armed service until 1968.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>17 August</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaltim_Airlines" title="Kaltim Airlines">Kaltim Airlines</a> is founded in <a href="/wiki/Samarinda" title="Samarinda">Samarinda</a> by <a href="/wiki/Awang_Faroek_Ishak" title="Awang Faroek Ishak">Awang F. Ishak</a> and Sabri Ramdhani.</li></ul> <dl><dt>20 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Red_Arrows" title="Red Arrows">Red Arrows</a> <a href="/wiki/BAE_Systems_Hawk_T.1" class="mw-redirect" title="BAE Systems Hawk T.1">BAE Systems Hawk T.1</a> aerobatic team crashes during a public display at <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth_Air_Festival" title="Bournemouth Air Festival">Bournemouth Air Festival</a>, killing the pilot.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a><a href="#cite_note-MAA37024-128">[128]</a></li> <li>As the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tripoli_(2011)" title="Battle of Tripoli (2011)">Battle of Tripoli</a> begins, Libyan rebels capture <a href="/wiki/Tripoli_International_Airport" title="Tripoli International Airport">Tripoli International Airport</a><a href="#cite_note-Reuters-129">[129]</a> and launch an assault on <a href="/wiki/Mitiga_International_Airport" title="Mitiga International Airport">Mitiga International Airport</a> east of Tripoli.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-129">[129]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Air_Flight_6560" title="First Air Flight 6560">First Air Flight 6560</a> – a <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737-300" class="mw-redirect" title="Boeing 737-300">Boeing 737-210C</a> (registration C-GNWN) with 15 people on board arriving from <a href="/wiki/Yellowknife" title="Yellowknife">Yellowknife</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories">Northwest Territories</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> – drifts off course in poor visibility on final approach to <a href="/wiki/Resolute_Bay_Airport" title="Resolute Bay Airport">Resolute Bay Airport</a> at <a href="/wiki/Resolute,_Nunavut" title="Resolute, Nunavut">Resolute</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a>, Canada, and crashes into a hill a mile from the runway, killing 12 people on board and injuring all three survivors. Recovery of the survivors and investigation of the crash are aided greatly by the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Armed_Forces" title="Canadian Armed Forces">Canadian Armed Forces</a> <a href="/wiki/Operation_Nanook_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Nanook 2011">Operation Nanook 2011</a>, which had planned to simulate an airliner disaster in the <a href="/wiki/Resolute_Bay" title="Resolute Bay">Resolute Bay</a> area at the time of the crash, and by the prompt arrival of <a href="/wiki/Transportation_Safety_Board_of_Canada" title="Transportation Safety Board of Canada">Transportation Safety Board of Canada</a> investigators, who are aboard an aircraft flying to Resolute Bay at the time of crash to take part in the planned simulation.</li></ul> <dl><dt>22 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>An American unmanned aerial vehicle strike in <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> conducted by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> kills <a href="/wiki/Atiyah_Abd_al-Rahman" title="Atiyah Abd al-Rahman">Atiyah Abd al-Rahman</a>, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Islamic_Fighting_Group" title="Libyan Islamic Fighting Group">Libyan Islamic Fighting Group</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ansar_al-Sunna" class="mw-redirect" title="Ansar al-Sunna">Ansar al-Sunna</a> and former chief-of-staff to the deceased <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Niger" title="Government of Niger">Government</a> of <a href="/wiki/Niger" title="Niger">Niger</a> begins patrols by <a href="/wiki/Niger_Armed_Forces#Niger_Air_Force" title="Niger Armed Forces">Niger Air Force</a> aircraft over its border with Libya to avoid infiltration of Niger's territory by armed groups from Libya and the crossing of the border by mercenaries from the <a href="/wiki/Sahel" title="Sahel">Sahel</a> heading to <a href="/wiki/Sabha,_Libya" title="Sabha, Libya">Sabha</a>, Libya, and to end the smuggling of military forces and resources out of Libya.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>25 August</dt></dl> <ul><li>At <a href="/wiki/Tripoli_International_Airport" title="Tripoli International Airport">Tripoli International Airport</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tripoli_(2011)" title="Battle of Tripoli (2011)">Battle of Tripoli</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Afriqiyah_Airways" title="Afriqiyah Airways">Afriqiyah Airways</a> <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A300" title="Airbus A300">Airbus A300B4-620</a> 5A-IAY and the <a href="/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines" class="mw-redirect" title="Libyan Arab Airlines">Libyan Arab Airlines</a> <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A300" title="Airbus A300">Airbus A300B4-622</a> 5A-DLZ are burned out and destroyed during fighting between government and rebel forces, and the Afriqiyah Airways <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A320" class="mw-redirect" title="Airbus A320">Airbus A320</a> 5A-ONK suffers substantial damage when an artillery shell hits its <a href="/wiki/Fuselage" title="Fuselage">fuselage</a>, setting it afire as well.<a href="#cite_note-ASN250811a-132">[132]</a><a href="#cite_note-ASN250811b-133">[133]</a><a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> Some reports mention an additional two aircraft destroyed, including an Afriqiyah Airways <a href="/wiki/Airbus_A330" title="Airbus A330">Airbus A330</a>.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="September">September</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: September">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The U.S. Air Force <a href="/wiki/Outsourcing" title="Outsourcing">outsources</a> all of its <a href="/wiki/General_Atomics_MQ-9_Reaper" title="General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper">MQ-9 Reaper</a> unmanned aerial vehicle operations at <a href="/wiki/Seychelles_International_Airport" title="Seychelles International Airport">Seychelles International Airport</a> on <a href="/wiki/Mah%C3%A9,_Seychelles" title="Mahé, Seychelles">Mahé</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Seychelles" title="Seychelles">Seychelles</a>, to the <a href="/wiki/Jacksonville,_Florida" title="Jacksonville, Florida">Jacksonville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>-based firm <a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_RAMCo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merlin RAMCo (page does not exist)">Merlin RAMCo</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Whitlock,_Craig_2012-4">[4]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>2 September</dt></dl> <ul><li>Trying to land for the third time in strong winds, a <a href="/wiki/Chilean_Air_Force" title="Chilean Air Force">Chilean Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/CASA_C-212_Aviocar" title="CASA C-212 Aviocar">Casa C-212 Aviocar 300DF</a> <a href="/wiki/2011_Chilean_Air_Force_CASA_212_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Chilean Air Force CASA 212 crash">crashes</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> on approach to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robinson_Crusoe_Island_Airport&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robinson Crusoe Island Airport (page does not exist)">Robinson Crusoe Island Airport</a> on <a href="/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_Island" title="Robinson Crusoe Island">Robinson Crusoe Island</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Juan_Fernandez_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Juan Fernandez Islands">Juan Fernandez Islands</a>, killing all 21 people on board. Popular Chilean television presenter <a href="/wiki/Felipe_Camiroaga" title="Felipe Camiroaga">Felipe Camiroaga</a> is among the dead.<a href="#cite_note-2010s-136">[136]</a><a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>4 September</dt></dl> <ul><li>At the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Patuxent_River" title="Naval Air Station Patuxent River">Naval Air Station Patuxent River</a> Air Expo in <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Blue_Angels" title="Blue Angels">Blue Angels</a> flight demonstration squadron uses a 50/50 blend of conventional <a href="/wiki/Jet_fuel" title="Jet fuel">jet fuel</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Biofuel" title="Biofuel">biofuel</a> made from <a href="/wiki/Camelina_sativa" title="Camelina sativa">Camelina sativa</a>, the first time an entire military aviation unit flies on a biofuel mix.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>7 September</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Yak-Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Yak-Service">Yak-Service</a> <a href="/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-42" title="Yakovlev Yak-42">Yakovlev Yak-42D</a> (registration RA-42434) fails to gain altitude on takeoff from <a href="/wiki/Tunoshna_Airport" title="Tunoshna Airport">Tunoshna Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yaroslavl_Oblast" title="Yaroslavl Oblast">Yaroslavl Oblast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, and crashes 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) from the runway, killing 43 of the 45 people on board. Known as the <a href="/wiki/2011_Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl_plane_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash">2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl" title="Lokomotiv Yaroslavl">Lokomotiv Yaroslavl</a> professional <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> team is nearly completely killed in the crash; among the dead at the crash site are players <a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Anikeyenko" title="Vitaly Anikeyenko">Vitaly Anikeyenko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Balandin" title="Mikhail Balandin">Mikhail Balandin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gennady_Churilov" title="Gennady Churilov">Gennady Churilov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pavol_Demitra" title="Pavol Demitra">Pavol Demitra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Dietrich" title="Robert Dietrich">Robert Dietrich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marat_Kalimulin" title="Marat Kalimulin">Marat Kalimulin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kalyanin" title="Alexander Kalyanin">Alexander Kalyanin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andrei_Kiryukhin" title="Andrei Kiryukhin">Andrei Kiryukhin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Klyukin" title="Nikita Klyukin">Nikita Klyukin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Liv" title="Stefan Liv">Stefan Liv</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jan_Marek_(ice_hockey_b._1979)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jan Marek (ice hockey b. 1979)">Jan Marek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sergei_Ostapchuk" title="Sergei Ostapchuk">Sergei Ostapchuk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karel_Rach%C5%AFnek" title="Karel Rachůnek">Karel Rachůnek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruslan_Salei" title="Ruslan Salei">Ruslan Salei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maxim_Shuvalov" title="Maxim Shuvalov">Maxim Shuvalov</a>, <a href="/wiki/K%C4%81rlis_Skrasti%C5%86%C5%A1" title="Kārlis Skrastiņš">Kārlis Skrastiņš</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Snurnitsyn" title="Pavel Snurnitsyn">Pavel Snurnitsyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daniil_Sobchenko" title="Daniil Sobchenko">Daniil Sobchenko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Tkachenko_(ice_hockey)" title="Ivan Tkachenko (ice hockey)">Ivan Tkachenko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Trakhanov" title="Pavel Trakhanov">Pavel Trakhanov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yuri_Urychev" title="Yuri Urychev">Yuri Urychev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Josef_Va%C5%A1%C3%AD%C4%8Dek" title="Josef Vašíček">Josef Vašíček</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Vasyunov" title="Alexander Vasyunov">Alexander Vasyunov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Vyukhin" title="Alexander Vyukhin">Alexander Vyukhin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Artem_Yarchuk" title="Artem Yarchuk">Artem Yarchuk</a> and coaches <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Karpovtsev" title="Alexander Karpovtsev">Alexander Karpovtsev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Igor_Korolev" title="Igor Korolev">Igor Korolev</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Brad_McCrimmon" title="Brad McCrimmon">Brad McCrimmon</a>. The only team member to survive the immediate crash, <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Galimov" title="Alexander Galimov">Alexander Galimov</a>, dies of his injuries on 12 September, leaving the airliner's <a href="/wiki/Avionics" title="Avionics">avionics</a> <a href="/wiki/Flight_engineer" title="Flight engineer">flight engineer</a> as the only survivor.<a href="#cite_note-2010s-136">[136]</a><a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>14 September</dt></dl> <ul><li>The Libyan rebel <a href="/wiki/National_Transitional_Council" title="National Transitional Council">National Transitional Council</a> reports that it has captured the Libyan government military airbase at <a href="/wiki/Brak,_Libya" title="Brak, Libya">Brak</a>.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>16 September</dt></dl> <ul><li>Libyan rebel forces take control of the airport at <a href="/wiki/Sirte" title="Sirte">Sirte</a>.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/North_American_P-51D_Mustang" class="mw-redirect" title="North American P-51D Mustang">North American P-51D Mustang</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Galloping_Ghost_(aircraft)" title="The Galloping Ghost (aircraft)">The Galloping Ghost</a>, flown by James K. "Jimmy" Leeward, <a href="/wiki/2011_Reno_Air_Races_crash" title="2011 Reno Air Races crash">crashes</a> into box seats in front of the grandstand at the <a href="/wiki/Reno_Air_Races" title="Reno Air Races">Reno Air Races</a> at <a href="/wiki/Reno_Stead_Airport" title="Reno Stead Airport">Reno Stead Airport</a> north of <a href="/wiki/Reno,_Nevada" title="Reno, Nevada">Reno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>. Leeward and 10 others are killed and 69 people are injured. It is the third-deadliest <a href="/wiki/Lists_of_air_show_accidents_and_incidents" title="Lists of air show accidents and incidents">airshow accident</a> in U.S. history and the deadliest aviation accident of any kind in the United States in two years.</li></ul> <dl><dt>22 September</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> lifts its sanctions against <a href="/wiki/Afriqiyah_Airways" title="Afriqiyah Airways">Afriqiyah Airways</a>, allowing its aircraft to fly for the first time since the <a href="/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">United Nations military intervention</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a> began in <a href="#March">March</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>26 September</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boeing" title="Boeing">Boeing</a> delivers its first <a href="/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner" title="Boeing 787 Dreamliner">Boeing 787 Dreamliner</a> to a customer, <a href="/wiki/All_Nippon_Airways" title="All Nippon Airways">All Nippon Airways</a>, at <a href="/wiki/Paine_Field" title="Paine Field">Paine Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nycaviation.com-142">[142]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>27–28 September</dt></dl> <ul><li>All Nippon Airways flies the first delivery flight of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, from Paine Field, Washington, to <a href="/wiki/Haneda_Airport" title="Haneda Airport">Tokyo International Airport</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nycaviation.com-142">[142]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>30 September</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Selaparang_Airport" title="Selaparang Airport">Selaparang Airport</a> at <a href="/wiki/Mataram_(city)" title="Mataram (city)">Mataram</a> on <a href="/wiki/Lombok" title="Lombok">Lombok</a> in <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> closes. It is replaced by the new <a href="/wiki/Lombok_International_Airport" title="Lombok International Airport">Lombok International Airport</a>.</li> <li>An American unmanned aerial vehicle strike in <a href="/wiki/Yemen" title="Yemen">Yemen</a> kills <a href="/wiki/Anwar_al-Aulaqi" class="mw-redirect" title="Anwar al-Aulaqi">Anwar al-Aulaqi</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> recruiter and motivator, and <a href="/wiki/Samir_Khan" title="Samir Khan">Samir Khan</a>, the editor of the English-language online magazine <a href="/wiki/Inspire_(magazine)" title="Inspire (magazine)">Inspire</a> published by <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_the_Arabian_Peninsula" title="Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula">al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Miller,_Greg_2012-96">[96]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October">October</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: October">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_Airlines" title="Libyan Airlines">Libyan Airlines</a> aircraft fly for the first time since the <a href="/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya" title="2011 military intervention in Libya">United Nations military intervention</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a> began in <a href="#March">March</a>, operating on the <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>-to-<a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, route.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meridiana_Fly" class="mw-redirect" title="Meridiana Fly">Meridiana Fly</a> acquires <a href="/wiki/Air_Italy_(2005%E2%80%932018)" title="Air Italy (2005–2018)">Air Italy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Key_West_International_Airport" title="Key West International Airport">Key West International Airport</a> receives approval to provide commercial air service between <a href="/wiki/Key_West,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Key West, Florida">Key West</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>. It will take more than two years for charter airline operators to receive all the necessary permissions to make the first flight, which will take place on <a href="/wiki/2013_in_aviation#December" title="2013 in aviation">30 December 2013</a> as the first commercial flight between Key West and Cuba in over 50 years.<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>10 October</dt></dl> <ul><li>Flying a modified <a href="/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-3" title="Yakovlev Yak-3">Yakovlev Yak-3U</a> powered by a <a href="/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-2000" class="mw-redirect" title="Pratt & Whitney R-2000">Pratt & Whitney R-2000</a> engine, <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Whiteside&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Whiteside (page does not exist)">William Whiteside</a> sets an official international speed record for piston-engined aircraft in the under−3,000 kg (−6,600 lb) category, reaching 655 km/h (407 mph) over a 3 km (1.9 mi) course at the <a href="/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats" title="Bonneville Salt Flats">Bonneville Salt Flats</a> in <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a> in the United States, greatly exceeding the previous record of 491 km/h (305 mph) set in 2002 by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Wright_(aviator)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jim Wright (aviator) (page does not exist)">Jim Wright</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Wilkinson,_Stephan_2012,_p._10-144">[144]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>11 October</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tripoli_International_Airport" title="Tripoli International Airport">Tripoli International Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a>, <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, officially reopens. It had been closed since 19 March, when international forces began to enforce a <a href="/wiki/No-fly_zone" title="No-fly zone">no-fly zone</a> over Libya imposed by <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1973" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973">United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973</a>.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a></li> <li>In the same modified Yak-3U, William Whiteside sets an unofficial speed record for piston-engined aircraft in the under−3,000 kg (−6,600 lb) category of 670 km/h (420 mph) over the same 3 km (1.9 mi) course at the Bonneville Salt Flats.<a href="#cite_note-Wilkinson,_Stephan_2012,_p._10-144">[144]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>16 October</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kenyan_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenyan Air Force">Kenyan Air Force</a> jets strike two villages in <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> in support of a <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenyan</a> invasion of Somalia to attack militant groups there.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>21 October</dt></dl> <ul><li>An electric-powered <a href="/wiki/Multicopter" class="mw-redirect" title="Multicopter">multicopter</a> achieves sustained flight without ground assistance for the first time, when the battery-powered, 16-<a href="/wiki/Helicopter_rotor" title="Helicopter rotor">rotor</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=E-volo_VC1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="E-volo VC1 (page does not exist)">e-volo VC1</a> helicopter achieves an altitude of 3 meters (9.8 feet) for 90 seconds at <a href="/wiki/Karlsruhe" title="Karlsruhe">Karlsruhe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. The VC1 reportedly can remain airborne for 20 minutes on a single charge. The flight will win <a href="/wiki/E-volo" class="mw-redirect" title="E-volo">e-volo</a> the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lindbergh_Prize&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lindbergh Prize (page does not exist)">Lindbergh Prize</a> for advances in <a href="/wiki/Environmentally_friendly" title="Environmentally friendly">environmentally friendly</a> ("green") aviation.<a href="#cite_note-Mauro,_Stephen_2012,_p._10-147">[147]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>23 October</dt></dl> <ul><li>After the death of <a href="/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi" title="Muammar Gaddafi">Muammar Gaddafi</a> three days earlier, the <a href="/wiki/2011_Libyan_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Libyan Civil War">Libyan Civil War</a> ends.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>26 October</dt></dl> <ul><li>All Nippon Airways flies the first commercial flight of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, from Tokyo to Hong Kong.<a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-149">[149]</a></li> <li>In response to an <a href="/wiki/2011_Qantas_trade_union_disputes" class="mw-redirect" title="2011 Qantas trade union disputes">ongoing industrial dispute</a> with three <a href="/wiki/Labor_union" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor union">labor unions</a>, all <a href="/wiki/Qantas" title="Qantas">Qantas</a> aircraft are grounded by Qantas <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">chief executive officer</a> <a href="/wiki/Alan_Joyce_(executive)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alan Joyce (executive)">Alan Joyce</a>.<a href="#cite_note-fleet_grounded-150">[150]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>31 October</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> (NATO) announces the end of <a href="/wiki/Operation_Unified_Protector" title="Operation Unified Protector">Operation Unified Protector</a>, its military operations in <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>. Since taking command of the international intervention in the Libyan civil war on 31 March, its aircraft have carried out 9,600 strike sorties and destroyed more than 1,000 tanks, vehicles, and guns, as well as the Libyan <a href="/wiki/Air_defense" class="mw-redirect" title="Air defense">air defense</a> and <a href="/wiki/Command-and-control" class="mw-redirect" title="Command-and-control">command-and-control</a> network.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="November">November</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: November">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>U.S. Air Force inspectors ground the Air Force's MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles based at Seychelles International Airport on Mahé in the Seychelles after discovering that the Reapers, operated by the private firm <a href="/w/index.php?title=Merlin_RAMCo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merlin RAMCo (page does not exist)">Merlin RAMCo</a>, had not received required mechanical upgrades. The Reapers remain grounded until December.<a href="#cite_note-Whitlock,_Craig_2012-4">[4]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>1 November</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LOT_Polish_Airlines_Flight_16" title="LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16">LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Boeing_767" title="Boeing 767">Boeing 767-300ER</a>, makes a successful <a href="/wiki/Belly_landing" title="Belly landing">belly landing</a> at <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Chopin_Airport" title="Warsaw Chopin Airport">Warsaw Chopin Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Warsaw" title="Warsaw">Warsaw</a>, Poland, after its <a href="/wiki/Landing_gear" title="Landing gear">landing gear</a> fails to extend due to hydraulic failure. None of the 231 occupants on board were injured.<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Aircraft_Accident_Investigation_Bureau_(Switzerland)" title="Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (Switzerland)">Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau</a> and <a href="/wiki/Investigation_Bureau_for_Railway,_Funicular_and_Boat_Accidents" title="Investigation Bureau for Railway, Funicular and Boat Accidents">Investigation Bureau for Railway, Funicular and Boat Accidents</a> merge to form the <a href="/wiki/Swiss_Accident_Investigation_Board" class="mw-redirect" title="Swiss Accident Investigation Board">Swiss Accident Investigation Board</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>2 November</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/wiki/Wingsuit_flying" title="Wingsuit flying">wingsuit</a> flier <a href="/wiki/Dean_Potter" title="Dean Potter">Dean Potter</a> makes the longest verified wingsuit <a href="/wiki/BASE_jumping" title="BASE jumping">BASE jump</a> in terms of distance traveled, covering 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) in a jump from the <a href="/wiki/Eiger" title="Eiger">Eiger</a> in <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>. His flight involves a descent of 9,200 feet (2,800 meters) and lasts 3 minutes 20 seconds.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>13 November</dt></dl> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Dubai" title="Dubai">Dubai</a>-based airline <a href="/wiki/Emirates_(airline)" title="Emirates (airline)">Emirates</a> orders 50 <a href="/wiki/Boeing_777" title="Boeing 777">Boeing 777</a> airliners worth about US$18,000,000,000 – the largest order in terms of commercial value in <a href="/wiki/Boeing" title="Boeing">Boeing</a>'s history at the time – with an option to purchase 20 more 777s for another $8,000,000,000.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>18 November</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lion_Air" title="Lion Air">Lion Air</a> and Boeing sign the most valuable commercial order in history at the time, a <a href="/wiki/USD" class="mw-redirect" title="USD">$</a>21,700,000,000 Lion Air order for 201 <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX" title="Boeing 737 MAX">Boeing 737 MAX</a> and 29 <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737-900ER" class="mw-redirect" title="Boeing 737-900ER">Boeing 737-900ER</a> airliners. At 230 aircraft, it is also the single biggest order in history at the time for airliners in terms of the number of aircraft ordered. The deal also includes options for another 150 future aircraft for Lion Air.<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a><a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>26 November</dt></dl> <ul><li>American aircraft participating in a <a href="/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="North Atlantic Treaty Organization">North Atlantic Treaty Organization</a> (NATO)-Afghan operation against insurgents in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> near the border with Pakistan mistakenly attack a Pakistani border post, killing 24 Pakistani soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December">December</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: December">edit</a>]</div> <dl><dt>1 December</dt></dl> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> <a href="/wiki/RQ-170_Sentinel" class="mw-redirect" title="RQ-170 Sentinel">RQ-170 Sentinel</a> <a href="/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">unmanned aerial vehicle</a> (UAV) on a reconnaissance mission malfunctions, veers out of control, and flies deep into <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, where it runs out of fuel and crashes.<a href="#cite_note-worldnews.nbcnews.com-158">[158]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>4 December</dt></dl> <ul><li>Iran announces its capture of the CIA UAV, claiming to have shot it down. The United States acknowledges the loss of the UAV for the first time, but denies that it was shot down.<a href="#cite_note-worldnews.nbcnews.com-158">[158]</a></li> <li>The low-cost <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thai</a> airline <a href="/wiki/Thai_Lion_Air" title="Thai Lion Air">Thai Lion Air</a>, a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Lion_Air" title="Lion Air">Lion Air</a>, makes its first flight, flying on the <a href="/wiki/Bangkok" title="Bangkok">Bangkok</a>-<a href="/wiki/Chiang_Mai" title="Chiang Mai">Chiang Mai</a> route. It begins full service the following day.</li></ul> <dl><dt>10 December</dt></dl> <ul><li>Thai Lion Air and <a href="/wiki/Malindo_Air" class="mw-redirect" title="Malindo Air">Malindo Air</a> conclude an agreement allowing both airlines to serve the Bangkok-<a href="/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur" title="Kuala Lumpur">Kuala Lumpur</a> route.</li> <li>A gun battle between <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>'s new <a href="/wiki/Libyan_National_Army" title="Libyan National Army">Libyan National Army</a> and a powerful militia force takes place at <a href="/wiki/Tripoli_International_Airport" title="Tripoli International Airport">Tripoli International Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a>.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>13 December</dt></dl> <ul><li>The engine of an unarmed, contractor-operated U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle fails two minutes after takeoff from Seychelles International Airport on Mahé in the Seychelles. The Reaper descends too quickly while its operator attempts an emergency landing at the airport, touches down too far along the runway, bounces over a perimeter road and <a href="/wiki/Breakwater_(structure)" title="Breakwater (structure)">breakwater</a>, and crashes and sinks in the Indian Ocean about 200 feet (61 meters) offshore.<a href="#cite_note-Whitlock,_Craig_2012-4">[4]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines" title="Ethiopian Airlines">Ethiopian Airlines</a> joins the <a href="/wiki/Star_Alliance" title="Star Alliance">Star Alliance</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_flights">First flights</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: First flights">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="January_2">January</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: January">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>11 January – <a href="/wiki/Chengdu_J-20" title="Chengdu J-20">Chengdu J-20</a> in China.<a href="#cite_note-FG351702-160">[160]</a></li> <li>27 January – <a href="/wiki/Sonex_Aircraft_Onex" title="Sonex Aircraft Onex">Sonex Aircraft Onex</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="February_2">February</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: February">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>4 February – <a href="/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_X-47B" title="Northrop Grumman X-47B">Northrop Grumman X-47B</a> Air Vehicle 1 (AV-1)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="March_2">March</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: March">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>20 March – <a href="/wiki/Boeing_747-8_Intercontinental" class="mw-redirect" title="Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental">Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental</a> in <a href="/wiki/Everett,_Washington" title="Everett, Washington">Everett</a>, Washington.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="April_2">April</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: April">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>27 April – <a href="/wiki/Boeing_Phantom_Ray" title="Boeing Phantom Ray">Boeing Phantom Ray</a><a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="June_2">June</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: June">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>24 June – <a href="/wiki/Evektor_EV-55_Outback" title="Evektor EV-55 Outback">Evektor EV-55 Outback</a><a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="October_2">October</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: October">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21 October – <a href="/w/index.php?title=E-volo_VC1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="E-volo VC1 (page does not exist)">e-volo VC1</a><a href="#cite_note-Mauro,_Stephen_2012,_p._10-147">[147]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_2">December</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: December">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>21 December – <a href="/wiki/AgustaWestland_AW189" title="AgustaWestland AW189">AgustaWestland AW189</a><a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Entered_service">Entered service</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Entered service">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>26 October – <a href="/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner" title="Boeing 787 Dreamliner">Boeing 787 Dreamliner</a> with <a href="/wiki/All_Nippon_Airways" title="All Nippon Airways">All Nippon Airways</a>.<a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-149">[149]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Deadliest_crash">Deadliest crash</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Deadliest crash">edit</a>]</div> The deadliest crash of this year was a military accident, namely the <a href="/wiki/2011_Royal_Moroccan_Air_Force_C-130_crash" title="2011 Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130 crash">2011 Royal Moroccan Air Force C-130 crash</a>, which crashed near <a href="/wiki/Guelmim" title="Guelmim">Guelmim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a> on 26 July killing all 80 people on board. The deadliest commercial accident was <a href="/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_277" title="Iran Air Flight 277">Iran Air Flight 277</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Boeing_727" title="Boeing 727">Boeing 727</a> which crashed near <a href="/wiki/Urmia" title="Urmia">Urmia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> on 9 January, killing 78 of the 105 people on board. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=2011_in_aviation&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-BBC12124802-1"><a href="#cite_ref-BBC12124802_1-0">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12124802">"Passengers thwart Turkish jet hijack attempt"</a>. 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title="1904 in aviation">1904</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1905_in_aviation" title="1905 in aviation">1905</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1906_in_aviation" title="1906 in aviation">1906</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1907_in_aviation" title="1907 in aviation">1907</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_in_aviation" title="1908 in aviation">1908</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1909_in_aviation" title="1909 in aviation">1909</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1910_in_aviation" title="1910 in aviation">1910</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1911_in_aviation" title="1911 in aviation">1911</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_in_aviation" title="1912 in aviation">1912</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1913_in_aviation" title="1913 in aviation">1913</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1914_in_aviation" title="1914 in aviation">1914</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1915_in_aviation" title="1915 in aviation">1915</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_in_aviation" title="1916 in aviation">1916</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1917_in_aviation" title="1917 in aviation">1917</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1918_in_aviation" title="1918 in aviation">1918</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1919_in_aviation" title="1919 in aviation">1919</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_in_aviation" title="1920 in aviation">1920</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1921_in_aviation" title="1921 in aviation">1921</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1922_in_aviation" title="1922 in aviation">1922</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1923_in_aviation" title="1923 in aviation">1923</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_in_aviation" title="1924 in aviation">1924</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1925_in_aviation" title="1925 in aviation">1925</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1926_in_aviation" title="1926 in aviation">1926</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1927_in_aviation" title="1927 in aviation">1927</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_in_aviation" title="1928 in aviation">1928</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1929_in_aviation" title="1929 in aviation">1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1930_in_aviation" title="1930 in aviation">1930</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1931_in_aviation" title="1931 in aviation">1931</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_in_aviation" title="1932 in aviation">1932</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1933_in_aviation" title="1933 in aviation">1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1934_in_aviation" title="1934 in aviation">1934</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1935_in_aviation" title="1935 in aviation">1935</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_in_aviation" title="1936 in aviation">1936</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1937_in_aviation" title="1937 in aviation">1937</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938_in_aviation" title="1938 in aviation">1938</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1939_in_aviation" title="1939 in aviation">1939</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_in_aviation" title="1940 in aviation">1940</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1941_in_aviation" title="1941 in aviation">1941</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1942_in_aviation" title="1942 in aviation">1942</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1943_in_aviation" title="1943 in aviation">1943</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_in_aviation" title="1944 in aviation">1944</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1945_in_aviation" title="1945 in aviation">1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1946_in_aviation" title="1946 in aviation">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1947_in_aviation" title="1947 in aviation">1947</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_in_aviation" title="1948 in aviation">1948</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1949_in_aviation" title="1949 in aviation">1949</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1950_in_aviation" title="1950 in aviation">1950</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1951_in_aviation" title="1951 in aviation">1951</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_in_aviation" title="1952 in aviation">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1953_in_aviation" title="1953 in aviation">1953</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1954_in_aviation" title="1954 in aviation">1954</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1955_in_aviation" title="1955 in aviation">1955</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_in_aviation" title="1956 in aviation">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1957_in_aviation" title="1957 in aviation">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1958_in_aviation" title="1958 in aviation">1958</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_in_aviation" title="1959 in aviation">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_in_aviation" title="1960 in aviation">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_in_aviation" title="1961 in aviation">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_in_aviation" title="1962 in aviation">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_in_aviation" title="1963 in aviation">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_in_aviation" title="1964 in aviation">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_in_aviation" title="1965 in aviation">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_in_aviation" title="1966 in aviation">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_in_aviation" title="1967 in aviation">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_in_aviation" title="1968 in aviation">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_in_aviation" title="1969 in aviation">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_in_aviation" title="1970 in aviation">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_in_aviation" title="1971 in aviation">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_in_aviation" title="1972 in aviation">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_in_aviation" title="1973 in aviation">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_in_aviation" title="1974 in aviation">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_in_aviation" title="1975 in aviation">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_in_aviation" title="1976 in aviation">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_in_aviation" title="1977 in aviation">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_in_aviation" title="1978 in aviation">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_in_aviation" title="1979 in aviation">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_in_aviation" title="1980 in aviation">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_in_aviation" title="1981 in aviation">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_in_aviation" title="1982 in aviation">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_in_aviation" title="1983 in aviation">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_in_aviation" title="1984 in aviation">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_in_aviation" title="1985 in aviation">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_in_aviation" title="1986 in aviation">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_in_aviation" title="1987 in aviation">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_in_aviation" title="1988 in aviation">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_in_aviation" title="1989 in aviation">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_in_aviation" title="1990 in aviation">1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1991_in_aviation" title="1991 in aviation">1991</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_in_aviation" title="1992 in aviation">1992</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1993_in_aviation" title="1993 in aviation">1993</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1994_in_aviation" title="1994 in aviation">1994</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1995_in_aviation" title="1995 in aviation">1995</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_in_aviation" title="1996 in aviation">1996</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1997_in_aviation" title="1997 in aviation">1997</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1998_in_aviation" title="1998 in aviation">1998</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1999_in_aviation" title="1999 in aviation">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_in_aviation" title="2000 in aviation">2000</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">21st century years</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2001_in_aviation" title="2001 in aviation">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_in_aviation" title="2002 in aviation">2002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_in_aviation" title="2003 in aviation">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_in_aviation" title="2004 in aviation">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_in_aviation" title="2005 in aviation">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_in_aviation" title="2006 in aviation">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_in_aviation" title="2007 in aviation">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_in_aviation" title="2008 in aviation">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_in_aviation" title="2009 in aviation">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_in_aviation" title="2010 in aviation">2010</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_in_aviation" title="2012 in aviation">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_in_aviation" title="2013 in aviation">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_in_aviation" title="2014 in aviation">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_in_aviation" title="2015 in aviation">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_in_aviation" title="2016 in aviation">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_in_aviation" title="2017 in aviation">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_in_aviation" title="2018 in aviation">2018</a></li> <li><a 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