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List of aviation-related events in 1994
This is a list of
aviation -related events from 1994.
Events
OceanAir – the future
Azores Airlines – suspends operations. It will resume flight operations in
April 1998 as SATA International.
January
February
March
Alaska Airlines retires its last
Boeing 727 .
March 7 – The
Japanese Nihon Aero Student Group' s Yuri I makes the second
human-powered helicopter flight in history and the first since
December 1989 , setting an endurance record of 19.46 seconds at
Nihon University .
[4]
March 12 – The
United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) makes its first request for NATO
close air support in
Bosnia and Herzegovina , but a number of delays associated with the approval process prevent NATO aircraft from carrying out a strike.
[5]
March 17 –
Armenian forces
shoot down an
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force
C-130E Hercules carrying Iranian embassy personnel from
Tehran to
Moscow near
Ballıca in the Armenian-occupied
Nagorno-Karabakh region of
Azerbaijan , killing all 32 people on board.
March 23
Aeroflot Flight 593 , an
Airbus A310-304 , is flying with unauthorized people – the pilot' s 16-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter – in the
cockpit when the 16-year-old unintentionally disengages the
autopilot without the pilots' knowledge, causing the plane to bank steeply, go into an unexpected nearly vertical dive, and crash into a hillside in the
Kuznetsk Alatau
mountain range 20 km (12 miles) east of
Mezhdurechensk ,
Russia . All 75 people on board die.
Two
United States Air Force aircraft – a
C-130E Hercules and an
F-16D Fighting Falcon – collide at low altitude over
Pope Air Force Base in
North Carolina . The C-130E later lands safely, but the two men aboard the F-16D are forced to eject as the fighter begins to disintegrate. The unmanned F-16D continues in
afterburner and punctures the fuel tanks of a parked U.S. Air Force
C-141 Starlifter , creating a fireball which, along with the F-16D' s wreckage,
strikes a large group of
United States Army
82nd Airborne Division
paratroopers . The crash kills 24 and injures over 80 paratroopers in the division' s greatest loss of life since the end of
World War II in 1945.
Despondent over allegations in the news media of an extramarital affair, American meteorologist
Bob Richards , a weatherman at
KDSK-TV in
St. Louis ,
Missouri , takes off from
Spirit of St. Louis Airport in
Chesterfield , Missouri, in a
Piper PA-23-180 and apparently commits suicide by deliberately diving it vertically into the ground. He had attempted suicide twice previously.
[6]
March 25 –
Aerosvit Airlines is founded. It will begin flight operations in
April .
April
Aerosvit Airlines begins flight operations, offering service from
Kyiv ,
Ukraine , to
Athens and
Thessaloniki ,
Greece ;
Larnaca ,
Cyprus ;
Odesa , Ukraine; and
Tel Aviv ,
Israel , in co-operation with
Air Ukraine .
April 1 – In the
United Kingdom , the
Women's Royal Air Force merges into the
Royal Air Force (RAF), marking the full integration of women into the RAF.
[7]
April 3 – Returning from a
skiing trip in
Nevada 's
Ruby Mountains , president of the
Walt Disney Company
Frank Wells and climber and documentary filmmaker
Beverly Johnson die along with two other people when their
Bell 206B-2 helicopter
flames out during takeoff due to snow accumulation in its engine and crashes in Thorpe Creek Canyon, 5 miles (8 km) south of
Lamoille , Nevada. One person survives the crash.
[6]
April 4 –
KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 , a
Saab 340 , crashes on landing at
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in
Amsterdam , the
Netherlands , killing three of the 21 people on board and seriously injuring nine of the 18 survivors.
April 6 – A
surface-to-air missile shoots down the presidential jet of
Rwanda , a
Dassault Falcon 50 , as it prepares to land at
Kigali International Airport at
Kigali , Rwanda, killing all 12 aboard, including
President of Rwanda
Juvénal Habyarimana and
President of
Burundi
Cyprien Ntaryamira . Their
assassination will spark the 1994
Rwandan genocide .
April 7 – Flying as a passenger,
Federal Express employee Auburn Calloway attempts to
hijack
Federal Express Flight 705 , a
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 , by using
claw hammers ,
sledgehammers , and a
speargun to murder the crew, planning to crash the plane during a cargo flight from
Memphis, Tennessee , to
San Jose, California , killing himself so that his family could collect his $2,500,000 FedEx employee
life insurance . Although badly injured, the three-man crew manages to restrain Calloway in a struggle during which the DC-10 reaches
transonic speeds and flies inverted, then makes an
emergency landing at
Memphis International Airport .
April 10–11 – The
United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) calls in
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes to protect the
Goražde safe area in
Bosnia and Herzegovina , and two U.S. Air Force
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons respond, bombing a
Bosnian Serb military command post near Goražde. It is the first time in NATO' s history that its aircraft have carried out an air strike.
[2]
[5]
[8]
April 14 –
United States Air Force
F-15 Eagles enforcing the
no-fly zone over northern
Iraq in
Operation Provide Comfort II shoot down two
United States Army
UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, misidentifying them as Iraqi
Mil Mi-25s (
NATO reporting name "Hind D"). All 26 people aboard the two helicopters die.
April 16 – A
Bosnian Serb
Strela 2 (
NATO reporting name "SA-7 Grail")
surface-to-air missile shoots down a
Royal Navy
Fleet Air Arm
Sea Harrier over
Goražde , Bosnia and Herzegovina. The pilot later is rescued.
[8]
April 24 – A
Douglas DC-3 registered VH-EDC of
South Pacific Airmotive suffers an engine malfunction shortly after take-off from
Sydney Airport in
Sydney ,
Australia , for a charter flight to
Norfolk Island and
ditches in
Botany Bay . All 25 people on board – four crew members and 21 passengers – safely evacuate the aircraft.
[9]
[10]
April 26 – An
Airbus A300 operating as
China Airlines Flight 140 crashes just before landing at
Nagoya International Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
June
June 2 – In the
Royal Air Force ' s worst peacetime aviation disaster, an RAF
Boeing Chinook helicopter crashes on the
Mull of Kintyre in
Scotland , klling all 29 people on board. Among the dead are almost all of the
United Kingdom ' s senior
Northern Ireland
intelligence experts.
June 6 – In what remains the
People's Republic of China ' s deadliest air disaster, the
autopilot aboard
China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303 , a
Tupolev Tu-154M , malfunctions, causing the airliner to shake violently, break apart in flight, and crash south of
Xi'an , China, killing all 160 people on board.
June 9 – An
Antonov An-124 Ruslan carries a 109-tonne
IE 201 Class locomotive from
London, Ontario ,
Canada , to
Dublin ,
Ireland .
[11]
June 24 – A U.S. Air Force
B-52H Stratofortress
crashes at
Fairchild Air Force Base outside
Spokane ,
Washington , when its pilot banks it too steeply during a
go-around , killing the entire crew of four.
June 30 – An
Airbus A330-300 on a test flight
crashes at
Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in
Toulouse ,
France , killing all seven people on board. It is the first fatal accident involving an A330 and will remain the only one until 2009; it also is the first
hull-loss of an A330.
July
July 2 –
USAir Flight 1016 , a
Douglas DC-9-31 on approach in heavy rain to
Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in
Charlotte, North Carolina , crashes, the victim of a
microburst . Thirty-seven of the 57 people aboard die, and 15 of the 20 survivors are injured.
July 12 – A
Royal Air Force
C-130 Hercules flies the 10,000th
United Nations relief flight into
Sarajevo ,
Yugoslavia .
July 19 –
Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 , an
Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante , explodes shortly after departing
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport in
Colón, Panama , killing all 21 people on board. Investigators determine that a
suicide bomber probably brought the plane down, perhaps to kill 12
Jews who were aboard. A group named Ansar Allah ("Followers of God") claims responsibility, but is later found not to exist, and the bombing remains unsolved.
August
Flight Lieutenant
Jo Salter is posted to the Royal Air Force' s
No. 617 Squadron , which operates
Tornado GR1Bs . She is the RAF's first female fast jet pilot.
Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela (LAV) ceases operations as part of a
Venezuelan government effort to reduce expenditures. The airline will not resume operations until
January 1998 .
August 5 – In response to a request to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by the
United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), two U.S. Air Force
A-10 Thunderbolt IIs attack and destroy a
Serbian anti-tank vehicle near
Sarajevo ,
Bosnia and Herzegovina .
[12]
August 17 –
President of the United States
Bill Clinton signs the
General Aviation Revitalization Act into law. It generally shields most manufacturers of aircraft that carry fewer than 20 passengers and aircraft parts from liability for most accidents involving their products, including those which cause injuries or fatalities, if the products are 18 years old or older at the time of the accident, even if manufacturer negligence was a cause of the accident.
August 21 –
Royal Air Maroc Flight 630 , an
ATR 42-312 , crashes at
Douar Izounine ,
Morocco , in the
Atlas Mountains 10 minutes after takeoff from
Al Massira Airport , in
Agadir , Morocco, killing all 44 people on board, including a
Kuwaiti prince and his wife. An investigation concludes that the pilot disconnected the
autopilot and crashed the plane deliberately, although a flight union disputes the finding. At the time, it is the deadliest accident involving an ATR 42.
August 30 –
Lockheed and
Martin Marietta announce their intention to merge. They will form
Lockheed-Martin the following year.
September
September 24 - L-100-30 PK-PLV of HeavyLift crashed into water on take-off from
Kai Tak Airport , Hong Kong, overspeed on number four propeller. This was the second and last Hercules accident at this airport.
[13]
September 8 –
USAir Flight 427 , a
Boeing 737-300 , crashes into a hillside near
Aliquippa in
Beaver County, Pennsylvania , while on approach to
Pittsburgh International Airport in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , killing all 132 people aboard; among the dead is noted
neuroethologist
Walter Heiligenberg . The ensuring accident investigation lasts 4½ years – still the longest in aviation history.
September 12 – Distraught over breaking up with his third wife, wanting to gain notoriety, and under the influence of
alcohol and
cocaine ,
Frank Corder steals a
Cessna 150 from Aldino Airport near
Baltimore, Maryland , and crashes it onto the South Lawn of the
White House in
Washington, D.C. , killing himself. The plane is undetected until seen over the White House lawn, prompting a change in security procedures at the White House.
[14]
September 18 – After aborting four landing attempts at
Tamanrasset Airport in bad weather and circling the airport for 90 minutes, an
Oriental Airlines
BAC One-Eleven (registration 5N-IMO) runs out of fuel and crashes near
Tamanrasset ,
Algeria , killing five of the 39 people on board.
Nigerian
football (soccer) player
Omalie Aimuanmwosari is among the dead.
[6]
September 22 – In response to a request to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by the
United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR), two
Royal Air Force
SEPECAT Jaguars and a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II attack and destroy a
Bosnian Serb
T-55
tank in
Bosnia and Herzegovina .
[2]
[15]
September 25 – In
Denver ,
Colorado , the new
Denver International Airport hosts a
fly-in that attracts several hundred
general aviation aircraft, giving their pilots a chance to see the new airport's facilities. However, Denver International will not open to traffic until
February 28, 1995 .
October
November
Aero Trasporti Italiani (ATI), a subsidiary of
Alitalia , ceases operations after 30 years of service and merges back into Alitalia.
November 3 –
Haris Keč , a
Bosnian , hijacks a
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 operating as
Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 347 en route from
Bardufoss Airport to
Bodø Airport in
Norway with 128 people on board, and makes demands that the
Norwegian government take action to stop humanitarian suffering in
Bosnia and Herzegovina . No one is injured in the incident.
[16]
November 6 – During the
Angolan Civil War , a
surface-to-air missile fired by
UNITA forces shoots down an
Angolan Air Force
Sukhoi Su-22 (
NATO reporting name "Fitter") during an air raid against
Huambo ,
Angola . The pilot ejects safely.
[17]
[18]
November 13 –
Ukraine International Airlines begins cargo operations. Its first cargo flight is to
London and
Amsterdam , using a
Boeing 737-200 .
November 22 – During its takeoff roll at
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in
Bridgeton, Missouri ,
Transworld Airlines Flight 427 , a
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 with 140 people on board, strikes a
Cessna 441 Conquest II . There are no injuries aboard the MD-82, but both people on the Cessna die.
November 28 –
KLM Flight 1673 , a
Boeing 737-406 with 146 people on board, suffers a
landing gear failure during its takeoff roll at
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in
Amsterdam , the
Netherlands , veers off the runway, and crashes. All on board survive, but the aircraft is
written off .
December
December 11 – A bomb planted by terrorist
Ramzi Yousef explodes aboard
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 , a
Boeing 747-200 with 293 people on board, over
Minami Daito Island , killing one passenger and injuring 10 other people. The aircraft lands at
Okinawa without further incident.
December 12 –
Alliance Air , a multinational airline based in
Uganda , is founded. It will begin flight operations in
July 1995 .
December 13 – After a suspected engine
flameout , the pilot of an
American Eagle
British Aerospace Jetstream 3201 (registration N918AE) attempts a
go-around at
Morrisville ,
North Carolina , but the plane
stalls and crashes, killing 15 of the 20 people on board.
Bass Masters Classic fishing champion
Bryan Kerchalt is among the dead.
[6]
December 21 –
Air Algérie Flight 702P , the
Boeing 737-2D6C Oasis leased by
Phoenix Aviation , crashes in bad weather on landing at
Coventry Airport in
Coventry ,
England , killing all five people on board.
December 24–26 – The
Armed Islamic Group (GIA) hijacks
Air France Flight 8969 at
Algiers ,
Algeria , killing three passengers. Intending to crash the plane into the
Eiffel Tower , the hijackers allow it to fly to
Marseille ,
France , where the
French Gendarmerie ' s
GIGN unit storms it and kills all four hijackers.
December 29 – The
Turkish Airlines
Boeing 737-4Y0 Mersin , operating as
Flight 278 , crashes in driving snow while on approach to
Van Ferit Melen Airport in
Van, Turkey , killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
First flights
February
March
May
June
September
October
November
December
Entered service
Retirements
Deadliest crash
The deadliest crash of this year was
China Airlines Flight 140 , a
Airbus A300 which crashed on landing in
Nagoya ,
Japan on 26 April, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. This accident marked the deadliest single-aircraft crash in the
1990s .
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