On June 12, 2025, Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (registration VT-ANB), crashed 32 seconds after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, Ahmedabad, India, en route to London Gatwick. Carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members.

Operation Rising Lion, executed in June 2025, saw the Israeli Air Force launch 200 aircraft, including F-35I Adir stealth fighters, F-15I Ra’am strike jets, and F-16I Sufa multirole fighters, to strike 100 Iranian nuclear facilities, including Natanz, over a 2,000-kilometer round trip. What made this operation extraordinary was the use of seven KC-707 tankers and four advanced KC-46A Pegasus tankers to refuel fighters over Iranian airspace, a feat requiring unchallenged control of the skies.

The collision between a PSA Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet and an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) on January 29, 2025, is a tragic event that will demand a thorough investigation.

Flight J2-8243 took off from Baku at approximately 03:55 UTC, with an intended destination of Grozny in the Chechen Republic of Russia. The flight path should have taken it directly north across the Caspian Sea, but something went awry.

The Tenerife Airport Disaster, occurring on March 27, 1977, at Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport), remains the deadliest accident in aviation history.

On November 9, 2024, a Total Linhas Aéreas 737-400 freighter was destroyed by a fire that erupted in its cargo hold, necessitating an emergency landing at São Paulo Guarulhos International Airport in Brazil.

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