During the month,
Transaero becomes the first privately owned airline to provide scheduled passenger service in
Russia, inaugurating a
Moscow-
Norilsk route.
January 7 –
Iraq agrees to the American, British, French, and Russian demand that it withdraw all of its surface-to-air missiles from south of the 32nd parallel, and begins to withdraw them. However, Iraq does not remove all of them.[1]
January 13 – More than 100 American, British, and French aircraft attack Iraqi surface-to-air missile sites near
Nasiriyah,
Samawah,
Najaf and
Al-Amarah which Iraq has failed to withdraw north of the 32nd parallel. Around half the Iraqi sites south of the parallel are hit.[2]
A U.S. Air Force
F-4G Phantom II destroys an Iraqi radar which had been targeting French reconnaissance aircraft over northern Iraq.
A U.S. Air Force F-16 participating in Operation Provide Comfort II shoots down an Iraqi Air Force
MiG-23 (NATO reporting name "Flogger") which had crossed into the no-fly zone over northern Iraq.[3][4]
January 18 – In northern Iraq, U.S. Air Force F-16s bomb
Bashiqah Airfield and U.S. Air Force F-4G Phantom IIs attack Iraqi air defense sites. Over the next few days and months, more Iraqi sites fired on the American patrols, and several were attacked.[5]
12 March 1993 - During
a series of bombings in Bombay,
grenades are thrown at the terminal of the airport. There were no deaths.[6] In addition, explosions went off in the Airport Hotel next to the airport.[7]
March 24 – South Africa abandons its
nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six
nuclear warheads had been dismantled in
1989.
Elizabeth II reviews 70
Royal Air Force aircraft on the ground in celebration of the air force's 75th anniversary. A mass
flypast is cancelled due to poor weather.
TACA Flight 510, a
Boeing 767-2S1ER, runs off the end of the runway at
Guatemala City, Guatemala, at 90 kn (100 mph; 170 km/h), and comes to a stop 300 meters (980 feet) off the runway. None of the 236 people on board are injured in the accident itself, although three are injured on the ground after evacuating the aircraft.
July 12 – American race car driver
Davey Allison attempts to land his newly acquired
Hughes 369HS helicopter on the infield of the
Talladega Superspeedway in
Talladega,
Alabama, but the helicopter noses up and crashes. Allison dies of his injuries the following morning; his passenger suffers serious injuries but survives.[9]
July 20 – Thirteen of the fifteen
Cessna T-47A radar system trainers operated by the
U.S. Navy are destroyed when a roofing contractor accidentally sets fire to a hangar at
Forbes Field in Topeka, Kansas, where the aircraft are being stored by Cessna. The navy later replaces them with other aircraft types and the two surviving jets are sold as
military surplus.[16]
July 23 –
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119, a
BAe 146–300, is unable to get airborne while attempting to take off from
Yinchuan Hedong Airport in Ningxia, China. The flight crew aborts the takeoff, and the airliner overruns the end of the runway and crashes into a lake, killing 55 of the 113 people on board.
July 26 – Making its third attempt to land in bad weather at
Mokpo Airport in
Mokpo, South Korea,
Asiana Airlines Flight 733, a
Boeing 737-5L9, crashes on
Ungeo Mountain, killing 68 of the 106 people on board. At the time it is the deadliest aviation accident ever to have occurred in South Korea, and will remain so until 2002. It also is the deadliest accident involving a
Boeing 737-500, and will remain so until 2008.
August 3 – A private plane crashes into a mountain ridge covered by clouds near
Guayaquil,
Ecuador, while conducting an aerial reconnaissance survey in western Ecuador for
Conservation International, killing four of the seven people on board. American botanist
Alwyn Gentry and American ornithologist
Theodore A. Parker III are among the dead.[9]
August 11–14 – Two U.S. Air Force
B-1 Lancers complete a round-the-world trip in 47 hours.
August 19 – An Iraqi surface-to-air missile site attacks U.S. Air Force aircraft participating in
Operation Provide Comfort II over northern Iraq. They destroy the site in retaliation.
September 22 – Another surface-to-air missile fired by rebels in Sukhumi
shoots down a Transair Georgia
Tupolev Tu-154 airliner while it is attempting to land at Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport. The airliner, reportedly carrying Georgian soldiers, crashes on the runway, killing 108 of the 132 people on board.
September 23 – Rebels in Sukhumi
attack a Transair Georgia airliner on the ground at Sukhumi-Babusheri Airport with
mortar or
artillery fire while passengers are boarding. The plane is destroyed by a fire and one of its crew members is killed.
November 26 – Two
Airwork (NZ) aircraft contracted to the
New Zealand Police – the
Aérospatiale AS 355 F1 helicopter Police Eagle with a civilian pilot and two police officers on board and a
Piper Archer PA 28-181 carrying only a civilian pilot –
collide over
Auckland, New Zealand. Both aircraft crash, killing all four people aboard them and injuring one person on the ground.