2008 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2008.

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Deadliest crash

The deadliest crash of this year was Spanair Flight 5022, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 which crashed on takeoff in Madrid, Spain on 20 August, killing 154 of the 172 people on board.

Events

January

February

March

April

  • 3 April
  • 5 April – Skybus Airlines ceases operations, citing the poor economy and rising fuel prices.
  • 8 April – An Antonov An-26 operated by the Vietnam People's Air Force's 918th Air Transport Regiment crashes near Hanoi. All five people on board die.
  • 15 April Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 with 94 people on board, experiences an engine fire during takeoff at Goma International Airport. It overruns the runway and crashes into homes, shops, and market stalls in a residential area of Goma, killing three people on the aircraft and 37 people on the ground. Another 40 people on the aircraft and 71 people on the ground suffer injuries.
  • 20 April
    • An unarmed Georgian unmanned aerial vehicle is shot down over Abkhazia. The United Nations later agrees with Georgia's claim that a Russian MiG-29 fighter shot it down, but Russia denies involvement.[19][20]
    • In an effort to raise money for a spiritual rest stop for truckers in Paranaguá, Brazil, and to break the existing 19-hour record for a flight suspended by helium balloons, Brazilian priest Adelir Antonio de Carli lifts off from Paranaguá for a flight inland to Dourados, over 725 km (450 mi) to the northwest, suspended under 1,000 brightly colored party balloons. Rising to as high as 20,000 feet (6,100 m), he is swept backward out over the Atlantic Ocean and disappears about eight hours after takeoff. Some of his balloons are found floating intact in the sea two days later, and his body will be found floating in the Atlantic 700 km (430 mi) northeast of Paranaguá near Maricá, Brazil, on 4 July.[3][21]
  • 26 April – During an air show at Kindel Air Field outside Eisenach, Germany, a Zlín Z-37 Cmelak leaves the runway on takeoff and veers into a crowd of spectators, killing one person and injuring ten.[22]
  • 27 April – Bankrupt Eos Airlines ceases operations.[23]

May

June

July

  • 3 July Jat Airways establishes the first commercial air links between Serbia and Croatia since the outbreak of the Yugoslav Wars in 1991.
  • 9 July Four Russian jet fighters fly into Georgian airspace to dissuade Georgia from flying reconnaissance flights over South Ossetia. The next day, Russian authorities release an official statement saying that the flight was made to prevent Georgia from launching an operation to free four Georgian soldiers detained by separatist forces in South Ossetia.[32]
  • 11 July
    • United Airlines becomes the first airline to charge a fee for any checked bag, replacing the policy it placed in effect on 5 May of allowing one free checked bag and charging for a second checked bag. American Airlines begins to charge for all checked bags two days later, and other major airlines (except for Southwest Airlines) quickly follow suit. Checked baggage fees become a major source of revenue for airlines, which had faced severe economic trouble in the face of rapidly rising jet fuel prices. As recently as early May, airlines traditionally had allowed each passenger two free checked bags.[33][34]
  • 13–19 July The 18th FAI World Precision Flying Championship takes place in Ried im Innkreis, Austria.
  • 20–26 July The 16th FAI World Rally Flying Championship takes place in Ried im Innkreis, Austria.
  • 28 July A missile strike in South Waziristan, by an American unmanned aerial vehicle kills al-Qaeda chemical and biological weapons expert Midhat Mursi.[35]

August

  • 8 August
  • 9 August
    • In a predawn attack, Russian planes bombed the Georgian military base at Senaki, killing 13 Georgian soldiers, wounding another 13, and destroying most of the base.[46] Later, two Russian fighters bomb Georgian artillery encampments near Gori;[47] the Georgian government reports that 60 civilians have been killed when at least one of the bombs hits an apartment building,[48] but the Russian military claims that three bombs hit an ammunition depot and that the façade of one of the adjacent apartment buildings has suffered damage as a result of exploding ammunition at the depot.[49] Reportedly, Russian aircraft also bomb Poti, Georgia, and have started to bomb Georgia's civilian and economic infrastructure.[50] The Georgian government claims its forces have downed 10 Russian jets and captured three of their pilots,[51] but the Russian General Staff confirms the loss of only two Russian jets, a Sukhoi Su-25 and a Tupolev Tu-22M.[52]
    • Russia cuts off all air connections between Russia and Georgia.[53]
    • Abkhazia begins aerial attacks on Georgian forces in the eastern part of the Kodori Valley.[54]
  • 10 August Georgia reports that Russian aircraft have struck Tbilisi International Airport in Tbilisi, Georgia, just a few hours before the scheduled arrival there of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.[55] The Russian Ministry of Defence dismisses the report,[56] as does Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Temur Iakobashvili, who says, "a factory that produces combat airplanes" was attacked rather than the airport.[57]
  • 11 August
    • Russia claims that the Russian Federation Air Force has shot down two Georgian Air Force helicopters a Mil Mi-8 and a Mil Mi-24 at the Georgian air base at Senaki, and confirms that Russia has lost another two Su-25 jets.[58]
    • The Russian General Staff claims that eight U.S. military transport flights have moved 800 Georgian troops and 11 tons of cargo were moved from Iraq to Georgia.[59] The Israeli newspaper Maariv reports that the United States is supplying Georgia with arms, hiring Russian-made cargo planes belonging to UTI Worldwide Inc. to transport arms and ammunition redirected from Iraq to Tbilisi, Georgia.
  • 12 August The Foreign Minister of Abkhazia, Sergei Shamba, says that the Abkhazian Air Force has joined and Abkhaziam artillery in delivering missile and bomb strikes against Georgian forces in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge.[60]
  • 13 August
  • 17 August All five crew and passengers are killed aboard two light aircraft that collide in mid-air while on final approach to Coventry Airport in England.
  • 20 August
  • 24 August
  • 27 August A Georgian unmanned aerial vehicle is shot down.[68]
  • 28 August Zoom Airlines ceases operations due to financial struggles.
  • 30 August An American unmanned aerial vehicle-launched missile strike against a terrorist training camp in South Waziristan, kills two trainees holding Canadian passports.[69] Another strike destroys a house in Tappi in North Waziristan, killing six and injuring eight.[70]

September

October

November

  • During the month, the International Bird Strike Committee is established to coordinate information on bird strikes among countries.[94]
  • 7 November Four missiles fired by one or more American unmanned aerial vehicles strike an al-Qaeda training camp in Kumsham, North Waziristan, killing up to 14 people.[95]
  • 14 November An American unmanned aerial vehicle missile strike near Miranshah, North Waziristan, kills 12 people.[96]
  • 19 November Al-Qaeda operative Abdullah Azam al-Saudi is among five people killed in a missile strike by one or more American unmanned aerial vehicles in the Bannu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[97]
  • 22 November A missile strike by an American unmanned aerial vehicle on a house in Ali Khel outside Miranshah, North Waziristan, kills al-Qaeda operatives Rashid Rauf and Abu Zubair al-Masri and three other people.[98]
  • 29 November An American unmanned aerial vehicle-launched missile strike on a village near Miranshah, North Waziristan, Pakistan, kills three people.[99]

December

  • 11 December A missile fired by an American unmanned aerial vehicle strikes a house in a madrassa in Azam Warzak, South Waziristan, killing seven Islamic militants.[100]
  • 15 December A missile strike by an American unmanned aerial vehicle against a house in Tapi Tool, North Waziristan, kills two people.[101]
  • 20 December After hearing a bumping or rattling sound near the end of their takeoff roll at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, the flight crew of Continental Airlines Flight 1404, a Boeing 737-524 with 115 people on board, aborts their takeoff. The plane veers off the runway and crashes. There are no fatalities, but 38 people on board are injured, two of them critically, and the aircraft is written off.
  • 22 December A missile strike by an American unmanned aerial vehicle in South Waziristan kills at least eight people.[102]

Deaths

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First flights

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Retirements

March

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