A330 passes overhead. The 381 people on the two planes suffer no injuries. 11 June – The Pacific Islands Civil Aviation Safety and Security Treaty, ratified by several member states of the Pacific Islands Forum, enters into force. It formally confirms the Pacific Aviation Safety Office, which had been formed informally in 2002. 17 June – The CarterCopter becomes the first rotorcraft to achieve mu-1 (μ=1), an equal ratio of airspeed to rotor tip speed, but it is badly damaged in a crash during a subsequent flight on the same day. 27 June – American businessman John T. Walton is killed when the home-built CGS Hawk Arrow ultralight aircraft he is piloting crashes near Jackson, Wyoming, just after takeoff from Jackson Hole Airport due to a maintenance error. July 2–3 July – Steve Fossett and co-pilot Mark Rebholz recreate the first direct crossing of the Atlantic by the British team of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown on 14 June 1919 in a Vickers Vimy biplane. 16 July – Minutes after takeoff from Malabo International Airport outside Malabo on Bioko in Equatorial Guinea, an Equatorial Express Airlines Antonov An-24 (NATO reporting name "Coke") crashes into the side of a mountain near Baney, killing all 60 people on board. 26 July – The Irish airline EUjet ceases operations. It is placed into administration on 28 July. 27 July – United Eagle Airlines – the future Chengdu Airlines – begins flight operations. 29 July – The United States Army awards a contract for the purchase of 368 Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters (ARH) to Bell Helicopter Textron. 30 July – John Garang de Mabior, serving as both the first President of Southern Sudan and the First Vice President of Sudan, dies in the crash of the Ugandan presidential Mil Mi-172 helicopter in a mountain range in southern Sudan. August 2 August – Air France Flight 358, an Airbus A340-300 with 309 people on board, bursts into flames after skidding off the end of a runway after landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Everyone on board survives, although 43 are injured. 6 August – Tuninter Flight 1153, an ATR 72 heading from Italy to Tunisia, crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 of the 39 people on board. 10 August – Copterline Flight 103, a Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter flying from Helsinki, Finland, to Tallinn, Estonia, crashes into Tallinn Bay and sinks, killing