2005 in aeronautics

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Events

January 18th : With Blagnac, close to Toulouse (France), first public presentation of the Airbus A380, the largest civil aircraft ever built, in the presence of 5.000 guests. A380 Airbus is able to accommodate 555 passengers on more than 15.000 km.

February 3rd : Crash landing of a Boeing 737 in the east of Kabul, in Afghanistan. 104 passengers and team members on board.

February 15th : Official presentation with Bordeaux - Mérignac in France of the new jet of top-of-the-range businesses, the Falcon 7X, manufactured by Dassault Aviation.

February 16th : Official presentation of the Boeing 777-200LR, the “Worldliner”, with Everett close to Seattle: the civil aircraft with the longest range in the world manufactured by Boeing.

February 17th : reinforcement of the rules of compensations for the air passengers in the European Community in the event of cancellation or of delay of flights or in the event of loss or of deterioration of luggage.

February 17th : Opening of the new international airport of Nagoya (Japan). It is the third Japanese international airport.

March 3rd : The American Steve Fossett, 60 years, became the first man to make a success of the round the world tour in the plane as a recluse, without stopover nor supply and in 67 hours. He also beat the record of the distance covered without landing with his plane, the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, especially built for the occasion by Burt Rutan.

March 17th : The first stone of the African Institut of the trades of air the was posed on the site of the International airport of Bamako-Sénou. This new training institute was initiated by the airline company Air France.

April 27th : A380 Airbus takes off for the first time at 10:29 minutes since the track 32L of the airport of Toulouse-Blagnac.

May 5th : the new business aircraft of Dassault Aviation Falcon F7X takes off for the first time since the airport of Bordeaux Mérignac

May 13rd : the new version Falcon 900 Dx takes off for the first time since the airport of Bordeaux Mérignac

May 13rd : Aeronautical bomber announces that the new series C of its regional jets (100-130 places), will be built in the great area of Montreal. 6000 direct uses + 4000 indirect employment will be create.

13 - June 16th : The 46e Paris airshow is held of the 13 to the 16 for the professionals then of the 17 to 19 for the general public.

August 2nd : : a Airbus A340 of the company Air France (Flight Air France 358), transporting 297 passengers and 12 team members, took fire at the time of its landing missed on a track by the Pearson airport by Toronto. Forty-three slightly injureds.

August 14th : crash landing of a Boeing 737 of the Cypriot company Helios Airways, with 115 passengers on board including 48 children and 6 team members coming from Larnaca in Cyprus.

August 16th : crash landing with the Venezuela of a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 of the Colombian company West Caribbean Airways, connecting the Panamá to the Martinique with 152 passengers on board.

August 23rd : crash landing with the Peru of a Boeing 737 -200 (Flight TANS 204) of the Peruvian company TANS transporting 92 passengers.

12 - October 14th : 100 ème birthday of the international aeronautical Federation (FAI) commemorated during all this year, with Paris and in the whole world, by many demonstrations such as air meetings, conferences, exposures etc

November 5th : Falcon 900Dx receives its certification of the EASA and the FAA. the first deliveries with the customer intervene avnt at the end of December 2005 the

November 11th : The A380 was posed on the airport of Singapore after a flight of 13:00 where he traversed 11 000 km. The Singaporean national company, Singapore Airlines is the inaugural customer of the very large European transport aircraft which counts many customers in the area: Clouded Southern Airlines (China), Kingfisher Airlines (India), Korean Air (South Korea), Malaysia Airlines (Malaysia), Qantas (Australia), Thai Airways (Thailand).

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