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3 May - A Chicago businessman who owned a ranch near Twin
Bridges and his passenger were killed Thursday morning when the
small jet they were flying crashed while trying to land at the
Beaverhead County Airport at Dillon. On May 3, 2007, about 1040
mountain daylight time (MDT), a Cessna Citation S550, N22HP,
collided with terrain during a circling instrument approach at
Dillon, Montana. [1], [2]
5 May - A Kenya Airways passenger plane bound for Nairobi with
114 people on board crashed in southern Cameroon on Saturday
shortly after takeoff, the central African country's state radio
said. Three jetliners sat ready for takeoff at Douala International
Airport, their crews waiting for a massive thunderstorm to move
away. [3], [4]
6 May - A French plane pertaining to the force of multinational
peace monitoring the border of Sinai between Egypt and Israel was
crushed Sunday in the desert, resulting in the deaths of nine
persons, including eight French soldiers, according to this force
of peace. [5]
17 May - Three people, the two pilots and a passenger, were
killed Thursday in the accident of a small plane of freight, which
was crushed little after its takeoff of Walikale, in the East of
the democratic Republic of Congo, one learned near the company. A
plane bound for Goma was crushed this Thursday morning in Kilambo,
in territory of Walikale, with approximately 300 kilometers in the
west of the chief town of North-Kivu. [6], [7]
1 June - A Tanzania
People's Defence Forces passenger plane (reg JW9036) developed dual
engine failure as the pilot manoeuvred to land at Dodoma airport,
the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel S.M. Mayenga, said, and crash landed
in the Kizota area of Dodoma.
All thirteen people aboard survived. [9], [10]
4 June - Authorities are searching for two pilots and four
doctors from an organ transplant team whose plane went down Monday
afternoon in Lake Michigan shortly after the pilot signaled an
emergency. [11]
25 June - Search-and-rescue teams combed the jungles of
southern Cambodia after a passenger plane with 22 people on board
crashed Monday while flying between two popular tourist
destinations, officials said. [15]
27 June - The pilot of a twin engine, nine-seat Golden Wings
Charter aircraft walked away from a low impact crash at the Airport
Industrial Park Wednesday, according to authorities whose emergency
systems sprang into high gear once the alert was received. [16]
28 June - A 737 Boeing aircraft with the number plate TBP-D2,
of the Angolan Airlines that was flying the Luanda/M`banza,
Congo/Negage/Luanda route, crashed Thursday in M’banza Congo city
(northern Zaire province), killing six and injuring a number still
to be established, ANGOP learned. [17]
29 June - The plane of the Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast
Guillaume Soro was attacked by unknown Friday morning with the
airport of Bouaké (center), an act insulated which made at least
four died, but saved Mr. Soro, and thrown a cold on the process of
reconciliation in progress in the country. Ivory Coast Prime
Minister Guillaume Soro survived a rocket attack on his plane after
it landed at an airport in the central town of Bouake, said
spokesman Issa Doumbia. Guillaume Soro and her collaborators who
precipitate in the vehicles chartered to convoy them dare-dare with
the secretariat of the new Forces. [18], [19], [20]
30 June
A pilot attempting to return to the air after his small plane
ran out of room on a wet runway slammed into a house in Arkansas
Saturday, killing himself and a woman inside the home. [21]
A small plane SABRE Lithium matriculation XASMR of ten seats,
originating of Monterrey Nuevo Leo'n, piloted by its proprietor
Daniel Reedbeds Insipid, confused to a flank of the airport Plan of
Guadalupe. [22]
July
5 July
Unofficial reports indicate that at least nine people died as a
result of a plane crash next to the airport of Culiacán in Mexico. [23]
Two people have been killed and seven others injured following
a plane crash in Indreabhán in Connemara, Galway. [24]
18 July - An AntonovAn-24 of Malift Air shortly after
taking off from Bandundu,
DRC had an engine
failure, lost altitude and crashed 8 km from Bandundu. Of the
2 crew and 8 passengers, all survived.
1 September - two aerobatics aircraft collided during Radom Air Show,
two pilots died in a crash.
16 September - a McDonnell Douglas MD-82
[HS-OMG] from the low-cost company One-Two-Go Airlines (Thailand) carrying 123
passengers and 7 crew crash landed at Phuket and caught fire.
89 people died.
4 October - An Antonov An-26 [9Q-COS] from Africa One / El Sam
Airlift and charted by Malift Aircrashed shortly
after taking off from the Kinshasa-N’Djili Airport, Congo. The airplane
bound for Tshikapam crashed on the outskirt of Kinshasa killing 21
on board (1 crew survived) and at least 28 on the ground. This
accident forced the Congolese minister of transportation to
resign.
China Southern Airlines
officially joined the SkyTeam alliance on November 15. Because of
this, SkyTeam is the 1st airline alliance with a mainland china
carrier. It is also a major push into the global network for
mainland China.
(planned) Air China
and Shanghai
Airlines are expected to join the Star Alliance on December 12th. This will
give an extra push into the global network for mainland China.