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This is a list of aviation-related events from 2004:

1 Events

• January
  • 2 - Several British Airways flights from London Heathrow Airport to Washington D.C. and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia are cancelled due to security fears.
  • 3January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 362 days remaining (363 in leap years). Events 1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine 1521 Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther. 1749 Benning Wentworth issu - Flash Airlines Flight 604Flash Airlines Flight 604 was a charter flight operated by Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines. On 3 January, 2004, its Boeing 737 crashed into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, killing all 135 passengers, m crashes into the Red SeaSudan The Red Sea ( Arabic Bar al-Amar al-Baru l-’Amar Hebrew Yam Suf Latin Mare Erythraeum is a gulf or basin of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden. off the coast of EgyptJumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah ( In Detail) Official language Arabic Capital Cairo Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area Total % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 km² 0. 6% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 15th 74,718,797, killing all 148 aboard.
  • 13January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. It is still celebrated as New Year's Eve by those on the Julian calendar. There are 352 days remaining (353 in a leap year). Events 888 Odo, Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks. 1847 - An Uzbekistan AirwaysUzbekistan Airways is the state airline of Uzbekistan. History Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, controversial Uzbek President Islam Karimov in 1992 ordered the construction of a state airline. Uzbekistan Airways was formed with the intention plane crashes in UzbekistanThe Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. It has borders with Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Ozbekiston Respublikasi ( In detail) National motto: none Official language Uzbek Capital Tash's capital of TashkentTashkent Toshkent or in Uzbek, #x301 in Russian), the current capital of Uzbekistan, has in the past been called Chach Shash and Binkent''. For centuries it was an important stop on the trade route (the Silk Road) from Asia into Europe. Due to the destruc, killing 37.
• April 4 - Alaska Airlines discontinues service between San Francisco and Tucson.
• May
  • 9 - Southwest Airlines begins service to Philadelphia International Airport.
  • 12 - The last F-4 Phantom fighters are withdrawn from service with the Israeli Air Force.
  • 23 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Philadelphia, Billings, Montana and Spokane, Washington.
  • 27 - Delta Air Lines begins service between Cincinnati and New Haven.
• June
  • 1 - America West Airlines starts service between Phoenix and Anchorage.
  • 6 - Alaska Airlines starts service between Denver and Anchorage and discontinues service between San Jose and Tucson.
  • 20 - Frontier Airlines begins service to Nashville, Tennessee.
• July
  • 21 - SpaceShipOne is the first non-government built spacecraft to transport a person into space and return safely to earth.
• August
  • 24 - Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303 and Siberia Airlines Flight 1047 explode south of Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow. The Russian government declares the explosions to have been caused by chechen terrorists
• October
  • 4 - SpaceShipOne Succesfully makes her 3rd flight into space and proves to be plausible option for space tourism, thus wins Ansari X-Prize

November

• November 16 - NASA's X-43 reaches a record speed of Mach 10 (7,000 mph, 11,200 km/h)