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1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident

The 1994 Black Hawk shootdown incident was a friendly-fire accident in which two US Air Force F-15s shot down two Army Black Hawk helicopters over northern Iraq on April 14, 1994, killing all 26 aboard.

1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision

The 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision occurred on 12 November 1996 near Delhi, India, killing all 349 people aboard a Saudi Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76.

1999 F-117A shootdown

The 1999 F-117A shootdown, call sign Vega 31, was the destruction of a US stealth aircraft by a Yugoslav missile on 27 March 1999, the first stealth combat loss.

1999 South Dakota Learjet crash

The 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash, known as the Payne Stewart plane crash, killed all six aboard near Aberdeen, South Dakota, on October 25, 1999, after crew incapacitation.

1st Air Cavalry Brigade

The 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, also known as the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, is a U.S. Army aviation brigade stationed at Fort Hood, Texas.

1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom)

The 1st Airborne Division, known as the British 1st Airborne Division, was a British Army division formed in 1941 and virtually wiped out at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in 1944.

1st Army Aviation Regiment "Antares"

The 1st Army Aviation Regiment "Antares" (1° Reggimento Aviazione dell'Esercito "Antares") is a helicopter regiment of the Italian Army based at Viterbo, constituted in 1976.

1st Aviation Regiment (United States)

The 1st Aviation Regiment is a US Army parent regiment whose battalions form the attack and support helicopter elements of the 1st Infantry Division's aviation brigade at Fort Riley, Kansas.

2:22 (2017 film)

2:22 is a 2017 mystery thriller directed by Paul Currie, starring Michiel Huisman, Teresa Palmer, and Sam Reid, about an air traffic controller suspended after a near-collision.

2001 Marsh Harbour Cessna 402 crash

The 2001 Marsh Harbour Cessna 402 crash, also known as the death of Aaliyah, killed singer Aaliyah and eight others when their overloaded plane crashed on takeoff in the Bahamas.

2002 Überlingen mid-air collision

The 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision, also called the Lake Constance air crash, killed all 71 people aboard a Bashkirian Airlines Tu-154 and a DHL Boeing 757 near Überlingen, Germany, in 2002.

2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident

The 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident was a missile strike on a DHL Airbus A300 freighter over Baghdad on 22 November 2003, landed safely by its crew.

2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting

The 2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting was a report by about a dozen United Airlines employees of a disc hovering over Gate C17 on November 7, 2006.

2006 Royal Air Force Nimrod crash

The 2006 Royal Air Force Nimrod crash killed all 14 service personnel when Nimrod MR2 XV230 caught fire after air-to-air refuelling over Kandahar, Afghanistan, Britain's heaviest single loss since the Falklands War.

2006 transatlantic aircraft plot

The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, also known as the Liquid bomb plot or Operation Overt, was an al-Qaida-inspired plan to bomb transatlantic airliners, foiled by British police in August 2006.

2007 Glasgow Airport attack

The 2007 Glasgow Airport attack was a terrorist attack in which a burning Jeep Cherokee was driven at the terminal doors on 30 June 2007.

2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident

The 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident was the mistaken flight of six nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB, unnoticed for 36 hours.

2008 Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident

The 2008 Andersen Air Force Base B-2 accident was the crash of a US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber on takeoff at Guam, its first and only crash.

2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown

The 2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown, call sign Extortion 17, was the downing of a U.S. Army CH-47 by a Taliban rocket on 6 August 2011, killing all 38 aboard.

2011 Reno Air Races crash

The 2011 Reno Air Races crash killed pilot Jimmy Leeward and 10 spectators when his modified P-51 Mustang, The Galloping Ghost, crashed at Reno, Nevada.

2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting

The 2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting was a November 1, 2013 attack in which Paul Anthony Ciancia killed TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez and wounded three others in Terminal 3.

2015 Shoreham Airshow crash

The 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash, also called the Shoreham Air Disaster, killed 11 people when a Hawker Hunter struck the A27 during a display on 22 August 2015.

2016 Atatürk Airport attack

The 2016 Atatürk Airport attack was a suicide gun-and-bomb assault by three attackers at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport on 28 June 2016, blamed on the Islamic State group.

2017 United Express passenger removal

The 2017 United Express passenger removal, also called the United Airlines passenger removal controversy, was the forced removal of passenger David Dao from a full flight at Chicago O'Hare in April 2017.

2019 Balakot airstrike

The 2019 Balakot airstrike, Operation Bandar, was an Indian Air Force attack on a Jaish-e-Mohammed camp at Balakot, Pakistan, in February 2019, after the Pulwama bombing.

2019 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress operated by the Collings Foundation crashed on October 2, 2019, at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing 7 of 13 people aboard.

201st Fighter Squadron

The 201st Fighter Squadron (Escuadrón Aéreo de Pelea 201) was a Mexican Air Force unit that flew P-47s alongside US forces in the Pacific in 1945.

2020 in sports

2020 in sports was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which postponed the Tokyo Olympics for the first time in modern Games history and forced leagues like the NBA and MLB to finish under strict health protocols.

2021 Kabul airport attack

The 2021 Kabul airport attack, also called the Abbey Gate bombing, was an ISIS-K suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 26, 2021, killing 13 U.S. service members and about 170 Afghans.

2023 Wagner Group plane crash

The 2023 Wagner Group plane crash killed all 10 aboard, including Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, when a jet linked to Prigozhin went down in Russia's Tver region.