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This is a list of aviation-related events in 2017.
In 2017, airlines launched more than 3,500 routes led by Ryanair with 278 followed by Eurowings with 125 and Wizz Air with 104, mostly in US with 971, 464 in Germany and 425 in Spain, the airports with most new routes were Munich with 55, Frankfurt with 51, Birmingham and London Stansted with 47. [1]
2017 Bombardier Challenger 604 accident − After flying over the Indian ocean a Bombardier Challenger 604 had wake turbulence with a Emirates Airbus A380 making the aircraft roll and injury all 9 people 2 serious injuries and safely landed at Muscat.
The deadliest crash of this year was a military accident, namely the 2017 Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crash which crashed into the Andaman Sea near Myanmar on 7 June 2017 killing all 122 people on board. The deadliest civil aviation crash of this year was Turkish Airlines Flight 6491, a Boeing 747 cargo freighter that crashed during landing in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on 16 January, killing all four people on board, as well as 35 on the ground.
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