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Adam Air Flight 172, a Boeing 737-33A with 149 people on board, suffers a bent fuselage – the fuselage cracking in the center of the passenger cabin – when it makes a hard landing at Juanda International Airport in Sidoarjo, Indonesia, near Surabaya. Some of those aboard suffer minor injuries, but there are no fatalities. Adam Air's other six Boeing 737s are grounded immediately.
The Lebanese Army fires at an Israeli Air Forceunmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying over southern Lebanon south of Tyre, claiming it is violating both Lebanese sovereignty and the terms of the ceasefire that ended the 2006 Lebanon War. The UAV is not damaged. It is the first time that the Lebanese armed forces have fired at an Israeli aircraft since the end of the war in August 2006.[2]
17 March – Landing at Samara Kurumoch Airport near Samara, Russia, in heavy fog, UTair Flight 471, a Tupolev Tu-134A3 with 57 people on board, touches down 400 meters (1,300 feet) short of the runway. The left wing separates and the aircraft bounces and flips over. Although no fire breaks out, the crash kills six and injures 20 of the people on board.
23 March – Shortly after takeoff from Mogadishu International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, during the Battle of Mogadishu, a TransAVIAexport Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft experiences an engine problem. While it attempts to return to the airport, one of its wings explodes, separates from the aircraft, and falls into the Indian Ocean. The aircraft crashes on the outskirts of Mogadishu, killing all 11 people on board. The Government of Somalia claims that the crash was an accident, while the Government of Belarus and at least one eyewitness said that a surface-to-air missile shot the Il-76 down.
The European Union and the United States sign the initial phase of the EU–US Open Skies Agreement at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The agreement allows any airline of the EU and any airline of the US to fly between any point in the EU and any point in the US. It also allows airlines of the US to fly between points in the EU, and airlines of the EU to fly between the US and non-EU countries like Switzerland. The agreement is to become effective on 30 March 2008.
May
During the month, the final assembly of the first Boeing 787 begins.
19 June – An explosion near Mami Rogha in North Waziristan, Pakistan, just across the border from Afghanistan kills at least 20 people. Eyewitnesses claim to have seen an American unmanned aerial vehicle flying nearby over Afghanistan fire air-to-ground missiles at the site of the explosion, but the US and NATO deny involvement and Pakistan's government claims that Islamic militants accidentally caused the explosion while building bombs.[13]
24 June – During the Galway Air Show in Galway, Ireland, the door from a hovering Royal Air Force helicopter detaches and falls into a large crowd below, injuring three people on the ground.[17]
17 July – TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054, an Airbus A320-233, fails to slow down normally upon landing at São Paulo–Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil. It overruns the runway, crosses a road, crashes into a four-story TAM Express building, and explodes, starting a large fire. The deadliest aviation accident in Brazil's history, the crash kills all 187 people on the airliner and 12 people on the ground.
7 August – A missile lands, but does not explode, in the Georgian-government-controlled village of Tsitelubani, Georgia. Authorities there claim that two Russian jets violated Georgian airspace and fired the missile at a nearby Georgian radar outpost,[26] while Russian and South Ossetian authorities accuse Georgia of staging a false flag operation to provoke tension in the region. Two investigative groups from NATO countries report that the jet which fired the missile entered Georgian airspace from Russia, but Russia rejects this conclusion.[27]
20 August – China Airlines Flight 120, a Boeing 737-809 with 165 people on board, catches fire after landing at Naha Airport on Okinawa, Japan. There are no fatalities; three people on the aircraft and one member of the ground crew are injured.
21 September – Fifteen-year-old stowaway Andrey Shcherbakov survives a flight in Russia from Perm to Moscow inside a Boeing 737's wheel well, but suffers severe frostbite.[34]
15 November – Delegates to the World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 declare the United States Government's use of airplanes to beam the signals of Radio Martí and TV Martí into Cuba to be illegal, stating "A radio broadcasting station that functions on board an aircraft and transmits only to the territory of another administration without its agreement cannot be considered in conformity with the radio communications regulations."[37][38] The United States nonetheless continues the broadcasts.
28 November – German aviator Elly Beinhorn dies aged 100.
The deadliest crash of this year was TAM Airlines Flight 3054, a Airbus A320 which crashed in a runway overrun in São Paulo, Brazil on 17 July, killing all 187 people on board, as well as 12 on the ground.
