This is a list of aviation-related events from 2010. The deadliest crash of this year was Air India Express Flight 812 which crashed on 22 May 2010 killing 158 of the 166 people on board. Events January 2 January A package containing the explosive RDX is randomly placed in the luggage of an unknowing passenger at Poprad-Tatry Airport in Slovakia as part of a bomb-detection training exercise, but police fail to remove the package afterwards, and the luggage continues onto a Danube Wings flight to Dublin Airport where the unsuspecting passenger retrieves his explosive-laden luggage and takes it to his Dublin home, resulting in a bomb alert and his arrest three days later. The man is released after the Slovak government admits he is blameless. 13 January German airline Blue Wings ceases operations. 19 January Japan Airlines files for protection from bankruptcy. 20 January British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announces that commercial flights between the United Kingdom and the Yemen would be suspended, owing to British concerns over terrorist activity in Yemen, and will not resume until the security situation in Yemen improves. 21 January Cargolux Flight 7933, a Boeing 747-4R7F, strikes an airport maintenance van on landing at Luxembourg International Airport and sustains a damaged tyre. Three investigations are launched into the incident. 23 January United Eagle Airlines is renamed Chengdu Airlines. 24 January Taban Air Flight 6437, a Tupolev Tu-154M, crashes on landing at Mashhad International Airport in Iran. All 170 people on board escape from the burning aircraft. 25 January Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, a Boeing 737-8AS, crashes into the Mediterranean shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon. All 90 people on board die. 26 January Spanish airline Quantum Air ceased operations. 31 January American carrier Northwest Airlines is merged into Delta Air Lines. February 11 February Trigana Air Service Flight 168, an ATR 42-300F, makes a forced landing in a paddy field at Bone, Indonesia. Two people are seriously injured and the aircraft was written off. 15 February Spanish airline Hola Airlines ceases operations. 18 February After setting fire to his house and leaving behind a suicide note expressing displeasure with government and taxation, Andrew Joseph Stack III crashes his Piper Dakota into an office building housing an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) field office in Austin, Texas, killing himself and an IRS manager and injuring 13 others, two of them seriously.