2002 жылғы авиация оқиғалары

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This is a list of aviation related events from 2002.

A depression in North American commercial aviation begins in the aftermath of an economic recession and the 11 September attacks of 2001. The Government of Hungary creates the Civil Aviation Safety Bureau of Hungary as the agency responsible for the investigation of aviation accidents in Hungary. Air Djibouti ceases operations.

During January, the Indonesian airline Metro Batavia makes its first flights, operating between Jakarta and Pontianak, Indonesia. The airline later will be renamed Batavia Air. 1 January – Norway's Accident Investigation Board for Civil Aviation – the future Accident Investigation Board Norway – takes on the responsibility for the investigation of railway accidents in Norway and is renamed the Accident Investigation Board for Civil Aviation and Railways. 5 January – A Cessna 172 Skyhawk piloted by high school student Charles J. Bishop crashes into the side of the Bank of America Plaza in downtown Tampa, Florida, killing the teenager and damaging an office. 16 January – Both engines of a Boeing 737 3Q8 operating as Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 with 60 people on board flame out while the aircraft is flying through a thunderstorm with heavy rain and hail during an Indonesian domestic flight from Ampenan on Lombok to Yogyakarta on Java. Unable to restart the engines, the pilots attempt to ditch the aircraft in the Bengawan Solo River on Java. A flight attendant is killed after it strikes a rock; she is the only fatality. 27 January – A Russian Interior Ministry Mil Mi 8 (NATOreporting name "Hip") helicopter is shot down and explodes near Shelkovskaya in Nadterechny District, Chechnya, killing all 14 people on board. The deputy interior minister, a lieutenant general, a major general, and three colonels are among the dead. 28 January – When the pilots of TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727 134 registered as HC BLF and named El Oro, fly an incorrect route in foggy conditions on final approach to Teniente Coronel Luis a Mantilla International Airport in Tulcán, Ecuador, the aircraft flies into the side of the Cumbal Volcano near Ipiales, Colombia, killing all 94 people on board.

12 February – Iran Air Tours Flight 956, a Tupolev Tu 154M (NATO reporting name "Careless"), crashes in Iran southwest of Tehran, killing all 119 people on board.

The Indonesian airline Awair suspends operations. It will not resume flights until December 2004, when it begins flying as an associate of AirAsia. 4 March – Ansett Australia permanently ceases flight operations for the second and final time due to financial collapse. Its final flight lands the following morning. 8 March – A Portuguese Air Force 201 Squadron F 16 crashes in Monte Real while landing, killing the pilot. 31 March – Bankrupt Swissair goes out of business. On the same day, the Swiss airline Crossair ceases operations as such and reconstitutes itself as Swiss International Air Lines, which immediately takes over many of Swissair's routes.

1 April – Swissair's last flight, Flight 145, arrives in Zürich, Switzerland, from São Paulo, Brazil. The 71 year history of Swissair, during which it has carried more than 260 million passengers, comes to an end. 9 April – A Portuguese Air Force 552 Squadron Alouette III crashes, killing the three crewman. 15 April – Air China Flight 129, a Boeing 767, crashes on a mountainside near Busan killing 128 of the 166 people on board. 18 April – A Rockwell Commander 112 crashes into the upper floors of the Pirelli Tower in Milan, Italy, killing its pilot and four people in the building. Sixty more people in the building and on the ground sustain injuries.

1 June – An AirQuarius Aviation British Aerospace BAe 748 372 Srs. 2B (registration ZS OJU) on a mail flight misses its first approach at George Airport in George, South Africa, then crashes in the Outeniqua Mountains while maneuvering for a second approach, instantly killing its crew of two and its only passenger, South African cricket player Hansie Cronje. The crew had offered Cronje a seat on the mail flight after he missed his scheduled South African Airways flight. 12 June – Returning to the frigate after an exercise, the British Royal Navy Westland Lynx helicopter XZ256 suffers a double engine failure and crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing two of the three people on board. The helicopter's observer, Jenny Lewis, is believed to be the first female Royal Navy aviator to die in service. 14 June – Estonian Aviation Museum was opened to the general public. 17 June – A C 130A Hercules airtanker engaged in aerial firefighting near Walker in Mono County, California, crashes after both of its wings fold upward and separate from the aircraft. The entire crew of three is killed.

8 August – Attempting to land at Rio Branco International Airport in Rio Branco, Brazil, during a rainstorm, Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, crashes short of the runway, killing 23 of the 31 people on board and injuring all eight survivors. 10 August – US Airways files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 11 August – Nature photographers Galen Rowell and Barbra Cushman Rowell are killed along with the other two people on board when an Aero Commander 690A crashes 2 mile (3 km) from Eastern Sierra Regional Airport in Bishop, California. 19 August – Chechnen separatists shoot down an overloaded Russian Federation Air Force Mil Mi 26 (NATO reporting name "Halo") helicopter carrying at least 140 Russian military personnel with a 9K38 Igla (USDoD designation "SA 18", NATO reporting name "Grouse") shoulder fired surface to air missile at Khankala, Chechnya. The helicopter crashes in a minefield, killing 127 of those on board. It is the largest loss of life in a single incident in the history of helicopter aviation. For the Russian armed forces, it is the greatest loss of life in a single military aviation incident, and the greatest loss of life in any single incident since 1999. 26 August – An unmanned National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientific balloon sets a world altitude record for balloons, reaching 161,000 feet (49073 m). At 60,000,000 cubic feet (169,9011 cubic meters), it also is the largest balloon ever launched successfully.

The deadliest crash of this year was China Airlines Flight 611, a Boeing 747 which broke up in flight and crashed into the Taiwan Strait on 25 May, killing all 225 people on board.