24 August - After departing Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303, a Tupolev Tu-134 (NATO reporting name "Crusty"), explodes over Russia's Tula Oblast and crashes, killing all 43 people on board.
7 September - Indonesian human-rights and anti-corruption activist Munir Said Thalib dies of arsenic poisoning on a Garuda Indonesia flight from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.