6 May – A French Air Force DHC-6 Twin Otter plane operating in support of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) peacekeeping force along the border between Egypt and Israel attempts an emergency landing on a desert road on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, collides with a truck, and is destroyed, killing all nine people on board. 17 May – A Let L-410UVP Turbolet cargo aircraft suffers an engine fire just after takeoff from Walikale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While trying to return to the airstrip, it crashes in a forest, killing all three people on board. 26 May - SkyWest Airlines (operating as United Express) Flight 5741, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia with 12 people on board, nearly collides with Republic Airlines (operating as Frontier Airlines) Flight 4912, an Embraer 170 Regional Jet with 15 people on board, at the intersection of two runways at San Francisco International Airport in South San Francisco, California. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration describes it as the most serious incident of its kind in at least a decade. 30 May – N898AT, one of only two remaining ATL-98 Carvairs, crashes at Nixon Fork Mine near McGrath, Alaska. June 1 June – A Tanzania People's Defence Force Short C-23 Sherpa develops dual engine failure on approach to land at Dodoma Airport in Dodoma, Tanzania, and crash-lands in the Kizota area of Dodoma. All 13 people aboard survive. 3 June – A Paramount Airlines Mil Mi-8 helicopter carrying a Russian crew of two and 20 Togolese football fans returning from watching Togo's national team play that of Sierra Leone crashes near Lungi International Airport in Lungi, Sierra Leone. Togolese Minister of Sport Richard Attipoe is among the dead. 4 June – A Martinair Cessna 550 Citation II air ambulance carrying organs for a transplant patient and with two physicians (David A. Ashburn, MD, Martin Spoor, MD), two organ procurement specialists (Richard Chenault, II, Ricky LaPensee) and a crew of two (Dennis Hoyes, Bill Serra) aboard crashes into Lake Michigan northeast of General Mitchell International Airport, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. All aboard the plane die. 19 June - An explosion near Mami Rogha in North Waziristan, Pakistan, just across the border from Afghanistan kills at least 20 people. Eyewitnesses claim to have seen an American unmanned aerial vehicle flying nearby over Afghanistan fire air-to-ground missiles at the site of the explosion, but the US and NATO