and heaviest piece of air freight ever carried up to this date. 21 April – Oneworld becomes the first airline alliance to enable its customers to fly throughout its members' network on electronic tickets only, with the completion of interline electronic ticketing (IET) links between all its member airlines. May 3 May – Airwork Flight 23, a Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner crashes in Taranaki, New Zealand killing both crew members. 7 May – Australia experiences its worst air disaster since December 1968 when the Fairchild Swearingen SA227-DC Metro 23 VH-TFU, operated by Aerotropics, crashes into the ridge known as South Pap while on approach to land at Lockhart River Airport in Queensland, killing all 15 people on board. 13 May A missile strike by an American RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan kills al-Qaeda member Haitham al-Yemeni. Israel's Civil Aviation Administration becomes the Civil Aviation Authority of Israel. 14 May – The first helicopter landing on the summit of Mount Everest takes place, as French pilot Didier Delsalle, a Eurocopter test pilot, lands an unmodified Eurocopter AS350 B3 helicopter there at an altitude of in 75-mph (121-km/hr) winds. The landing and takeoff set the world records for the highest helicopter landing and takeoff in history. He repeats the feat following day. 25 May – A chartered Maniema Union Antonov An-28 (NATO reporting name "Cash") aircraft, owned by Victoria Air, crashes into a mountain near Walungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 30 minutes after takeoff. All 22 passengers and five crew members are killed. 29 May – Air Italy begins flight operations. Its inaugural flight is from Turin, Italy, to Budapest, Hungary. June 4 June – Iraqi Airways makes its first scheduled domestic flight since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003, carrying 100 passengers from Baghdad to Basra in a Boeing 737-200. 9 June – After air traffic controllers at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, give them clearance to take off simultaneously on intersecting runways, US Airways Flight 1170, a Boeing 737-3B7 with 109 people on board, and Aer Lingus Flight 132, an Airbus A330-301 with 272 people on board, nearly collide on takeoff. Disaster is averted when the US Airways first officer sees the approaching A330, realizes the aircraft could collide if they both become airborne, and pushes the control column forward to keep the 737 on the ground until the