1995 in aviation

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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1995.

Events

=January=

  • January 4 – Mexican composer and conductor Eduardo Mata and his passenger are killed when an engine of the Piper Aerostar Mata is piloting fails and the Aerostar crashes near Cuernavaca, Mexico, shortly after takeoff from Cuernavaca Airport.[http://www.planecrashinfo.com/famous1990s.htm planecrashinfo.com Famous People Who Died in Aviation Accidents: 1990s]
  • January 10 – Flight 6715, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6, went missing over the Molo Strait. All 14 people on board were likely killed. Investigators suspected that an explosion occurred on the lower cargo compartment.{{Cite web|url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950110-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 PK-NUK Molo Strait}}
  • January 11 – Intercontinental de Aviación Flight 256 crashes near Cartagena, Colombia with 51 fatalities. A 9-year-old girl is the only survivor.
  • January 19 – Lightning strikes Bristow Flight 56C, a Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma helicopter, forcing its pilot to autorotate and ditch in heavy seas in the North Sea near the Brae oilfield{{'}}s Brae Alpha oil rig. All 18 people on board escape unharmed in a life raft and are rescued.
  • January 26 – The Cenepa War breaks out between Peru and Ecuador. Peruvian Mil Mi-8 (NATO reporting name "Hip") and Mil Mi-25 (NATO reporting name "Hind D"), as well as Ecuadorian Aérospatiale Gazelle helicopters begin ground-attack operations.
  • January 30 – TransAsia Airways Flight 510A, an ATR 72-200, crashed during its approach when it veered off from its designated route and collided with a hill killing all four crew members on board.{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=CFIT Accident ATR 72-202 B-22717, Monday 30 January 1995 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/324782 |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}
  • Project Bojinka, a project to destroy planes and buildings was discovered by authorities in January 1995. A plan to blow up Delta Airlines and United Airlines planes was also discovered. Ramzi Yousef was the mastermind.Simon Reeve (1998). The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism. Northeastern University Press){{verify source|date=May 2023}}{{page needed|date=May 2023}}

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  • May 1 – Bearskin Airlines Flight 362, a Fairchild Metroliner, collided mid-air with Air Sandy Flight 3101, a Piper PA-31 Navajo. All eight people onboard both aircraft were killed.{{Cite web |title=Crash of a Swearingen SA227CC Metro 23 in Sioux Lookout: 3 killed {{!}} Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-swearingen-sa227cc-metro-23-sioux-lookout-3-killed |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=www.baaa-acro.com}}{{Cite web |title=Crash of a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain in Sioux Lookout: 5 killed {{!}} Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-piper-pa-31-350-navajo-chieftain-sioux-lookout-5-killed |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=www.baaa-acro.com}}
  • May 16 – A Royal Air Force BAe Nimrod is forced to ditch in Moray Firth
  • May 24 – Knight Air Flight 816 bound for Aberdeen crashes in a field near Dunkeswick shortly after departure from Leeds-Bradford airport. All 9 passengers and 3 crew members were killed.
  • May 25–26 – A combined force of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) aircraft attack a Bosnian Serb ammunition depot near Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina.{{citation|title=NATO Handbook: Evolution of the Conflict |publisher=NATO |url=http://www.nato.int/docu/handbook/2001/hb050102.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011107101023/http://www.nato.int/docu/handbook/2001/hb050102.htm |archive-date=November 7, 2001 }}
  • May 28 – Bosnian Serb forces shoot down a Mil Mi-8 (NATO reporting name "Hip") helicopter carrying the foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They also shoot down a United States Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon.

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=September=

  • September 1 – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ceases airstrikes in Bosnia and Herzegovina as NATO and the United Nations demand that the Bosnian Serbs lift the Siege of Sarajevo, remove their heavy weapons from the heavy weapons exclusion zone around Sarajevo, and make no further moves to endanger the complete security of other United Nations safe areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina. NATO threatens to resume air strikes if the Bosnian Serbs do not meet these demands by September 4.
  • September 2 – At the Canadian International Air Show in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, a Royal Air Force Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR.2P maritime patrol aircraft making a demonstration flight stalls during a low-altitude turn and crashes into Lake Ontario, killing its entire seven-man crew.{{cite web | title=Accident Description British Aerospace Nimrod MR.2P | work=Aviation Safety Network | publisher=Flight Safety Foundation | date=2004-09-19 | url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19950902-0 | access-date=July 6, 2008}}
  • September 5 – The Bosnian Serbs having failed to comply with its demands of September 1, NATO resumes air attacks on their positions around Sarajevo and near the Bosnian Serb headquarters at Pale. During the day, the U.S. Navy{{'}}s Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter is used as an attack aircraft for the first time when an F-14A operating from the aircraft carrier {{USS|Theodore Roosevelt|CVN-71}} in the Adriatic Sea drops two {{convert|2,000|lb|kg|adj=on}} bombs on Bosnian Serb positions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Polmar, Norman, "Historic Aircraft: A Premier Fighter," Naval History, April 2012, p. 14.
  • September 10 – U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagles and U.S. Navy McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets employing about a dozen precision-guided bombs and U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons using Maverick missiles join the U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser {{USS|Normandy|CG-60}}, which launches a BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile strike from the central Adriatic Sea, in an attack on several Yugoslav air defense radio relay towers in the Lisina area, near Banja Luka, in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.{{cite news |title=NATO SHIFTS FOCUS OF ITS AIR ATTACKS ON BOSNIAN SERBS (Published 1995) |work=The New York Times |date=September 11, 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308233737/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/11/world/nato-shifts-focus-of-its-air-attacks-on-bosnian-serbs.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=2021-03-08 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/11/world/nato-shifts-focus-of-its-air-attacks-on-bosnian-serbs.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |last1=Schmitt |first1=Eric }}Rip, Michael Russell and Hasik, James M. (2002) The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare. Naval Institute Press, p. 226. {{ISBN|1-55750-973-5}}
  • September 11 – The NASA Pathfinder unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sets an unofficial world altitude record for solar-powered aircraft of {{convert|50,000|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} during a 12-hour flight from the Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
  • September 14 – NATO suspends its air campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina for 72 hours – later extended to 114 hours – to allow the Bosnian Serbs to implement an agreement with NATO requiring them to withdraw their heavy weapons from the Sarajevo exclusion zone in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • September 19 – Flight attendant Reza Jabari hijacks Kish Air Flight 707, a Tupolev Tu-154M carrying 174 people, during a flight from Tehran, Iran, to Kish Island, Iran, and demands that it fly to Europe. Lacking the fuel to do so, the plane instead lands at the military base at Ovda Airport in Israel, where Jabari is arrested. The airliner{{'}}s passengers are flown to Iran the next day.
  • September 20 – The commanders of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and Allied Forces Southern Europe agree that the resumption of Operation Deliberate Force airstrikes is not necessary, as Bosnian Serbs had complied with the conditions set out by the United Nations. The NATO bombing campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina comes to an end.{{Cite web |url=http://planken.org/balkans/chronology/unprofor/1995 |title=The Balkans Chronology |access-date=January 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314010216/http://planken.org/balkans/chronology/unprofor/1995 |archive-date=March 14, 2016 |url-status=dead }} During the 22-day campaign, NATO aircraft have flown 3,515 sorties against 338 individual targets, losing only one aircraft, with its two-man crew captured.
  • September 22 – A United States Air Force E-3 Sentry runs into a flight of Canada geese on takeoff from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. The two portside engines ingest geese, and the plane crashes {{convert|2|mi|km}} from the runway, killing all 24 people on board. It is the deadliest bird strike in history involving a U.S. military aircraft.Brotak, Ed, "When Birds Strike," Aviation History, May 2016, p. 47.

=October=

  • October 1 – The flag carrier of Latvia, Air Baltic, begins flight operations. The airline takes delivery of its first plane, a Saab 340, during the day, and the plane makes the airline's first flight during the afternoon.
  • October 2 – Aer Lingus retires its Boeing 747s from service. Over the preceding 25 years, over eight million people had flown on transatlantic flights aboard Aer Lingus Boeing 747s.

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Deadliest crash

The deadliest crash of this year was American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757 which crashed in mountainous terrain near Buga, Colombia on 20 December, killing 159 of the 163 people on board.

References

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  • {{cite book |editor-last=Jackson |editor-first=Paul |title=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1995–96 |year=1995 |publisher=Jane's Information Group |location=Coulsdon, UK |isbn=0-7106-1262-1}}

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