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This is a list of aviation-related events from 2016. Events January The Government of Italy permitted United States unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) to fly strike missions from Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily where the US has operated unarmed surveillance UAVs since 2001 against Islamic State targets in Libya, but only if they are "defensive," protecting U.S. forces or rescuers retrieving downed pilots. Italy still prohibits offensive strikes, and reserves the right to veto U.S. missions. 2 January Indian aerial surveillance detected gunmen entering an Indian Air Force base at Pathankot, and their security forces exchange fire with them in a housing area. Four gunmen and two Indian security personnel are killed. Gunfire erupts again two hours later, and Indian helicopters fire on gunmen. Indian security declares the base secure 14 hours later. 3 January Indian Security forces killed two militants discovered still hiding on the base from the previous day. An agreement between Ethiopia and the United States was announced to close a redundant United States UAV base at Arba Minch Airport in September 2015. 4 January A day after Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with Iran it suspended civilian flights between the two countries raising doubts about religious pilgrims visiting each other's countries. The owner of a drone that was over private property is suing the owner of the property who shot it down, believing it to be spying on him and his family. The drone operator is looking to the U.S. judicial system to clarify the boundaries between private property rights end and federal jurisdiction. 5 January Two United States Air Force Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters were evacuating wounded Afghan troops, when one hit a wall, and the other aborted the mission under heavy fire. One American was killed and two wounded becoming the first U.S. casualties in Afghanistan in 2016. 7 January Iran complained that a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Yemen hit its embassy in Sana'a. Local residents and press observers were unable to confirm. A United States Department of Transportation report to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) raised concerns that airline pilots have become so reliant on automation they lack the skills to take over in emergencies. The FAA responded that it will require improved pilot training, which the Air Line Pilots Association endorsed. 8 January West Air Sweden Flight 294, a Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-200PF on a domestic cargo flight in Norway from Oslo to Tromsø, suddenly descended after a brief Mayday and crashed near Akkajaure, Sweden, killing both crew. 9 January Tracey Curtis-Taylor completed a solo flight from England to Australia, in the Stearman open-cockpit biplane Spirit of Artemis. During the 100-day, 21,000 km (13,000 mi) flight, begun on 1 October 2015, she flew over 23 countries to recreate the first solo flight by Amy Johnson between the two countries by a woman in 1930. 10 January Following a North Korean nuclear weapons test on 6 January, a Guam-based U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress flew to South Korea, where it circled Osan Air Base flanked by U.S. Air Force and Republic of Korea Air Force fighters before returning. 12 January An unarmed Iranian UAV flies near the French Navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and overflies the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman (CVN-75) in international waters in the Persian Gulf. A regional agreement to assist 8,000 Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica since Nicaragua closed its border to them on 13 November 2015, is allowing them to fly to Mexico, from where they can emigrate to the United States. 13 January An Israeli Air Force aircraft attacked an Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade group on a Gaza Strip beach the Israel Defense Force said were planting explosives near the border fence. 14 January Air France retired the Boeing 747 with a send-off formation flight with the Patrouille de France aerobatic team, which departed Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and made a clockwise circuit around France before returning. Air France has operated 68 747s since 1974 which carried 250 million passengers, and will be replaced by Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s on long-haul flights. Two United States Marine Corps Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters of Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463 (HMH-463), each carrying six Marines, collide and crash over the Pacific off Haleiwa, Hawaii, leaving 12 dead. The United States Coast Guard called off the search on 19 January, 15 January A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle-launched air-to-ground missile killed three suspected al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula members in a car in Yemen's Shabwa Governorate. SpaceX successfully fires the first stage engines of the Falcon 9 rocket. In December 2015 it will lift a satellite into orbit and land successfully, the first soft, controlled landing by a rocket stage. 16 January Polish Minister of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz said at the conclusion of a U.S./Polish missile exercise at Skwierzyna, Poland that his government wants a permanent North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) U.S. presence in Poland, with MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles. 17 January After successfully putting the Jason-3 satellite in orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket touched down on a floating platform in the Pacific, off California softly enough to land successfully, but fell over when a leg collapsed. It is SpaceX's third failed attempt to land a Falcon 9 first stage at sea, although a Falcon 9 successfully landed on land. Saudi-led coalition aircraft attacked a police facility in Sana'a, Yemen used by both security forces and Houthi rebels, killing 26 and injuring 15. 21 January A Saudi-led coalition air strike against a facility at Ras Isa on Yemen's Red Sea coast distributing petroleum products to rebels in Yemen destroyed trucks and started a fire, killing between nine and 16 people and injuring at least 30. 22 January Saudi-led coalition aircraft made attacks across Yemen, killing dozens. Houthi rebels in Saada Governorate reported that 26 people in Dahyan, including a Doctors Without Borders ambulance driver were killed. Strikes against mountain weapon depots kill another 22, and strikes in Hodeida targeting trucks carrying oil to rebel forces kill another 10. Attacks also hit Houthis and rebel Yemeni Army units allied with them in Al Jawf Governorate, Dhamar, ad Taiz. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced that after the 2016 season ultralight aircraft leading whooping cranes on their fall migration in Operation Migration will end. Whooping crane experts found that the ultralight flights prevented the cranes from learning the skills necessary to raise chicks in the wild. 26 January The United States Department of the Treasury announced U.S. trade and travel restrictions on Cuba are to be lifted. Code sharing between U.S. .... Discover the Joshua Brumfield popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Joshua Brumfield books.