This is a list of aviation-related events in 2014.
The United States Air Force reactivates the Nineteenth Air Force. It had been inactive since July 2012.
The deadliest crash of this year was Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777 which was shot down on 17 July near Hrabove, Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board; it is the deadliest airliner shoot-down in aviation history. Flight 17 also marked the deadliest plane crash of the 2010s decade, and not withstanding the September 11 attacks, it is the deadliest aviation crash of the 21st century.
As soon as we touched down, the pilot applied the brake very hard and very forcibly
The airliner – a Boeing 737-200 – crashed into a mangrove swamp as it descended, killing all 100 on board. Before Flight 370, it was the deadliest incident in Malaysian aviation history.