A China Airlines plane from Taipei made an emergency landing at Kansai airport in Osaka, Japan, late on August 22, Kyodo News said. There were no reports of injuries in the incident. The plane made the emergency landing because it was unable to land at its destination of Chubu airport in Aichi prefecture.

A passenger plane plunged into the sea near Tahiti moments after take-off from a nearby island and all 20 people on board are feared dead, including two Americans, officials in French Polynesia said.

The storm was too big to fly around, but rather than turn back, Captain Ivan Korogodin decided to risk flying over the towering clouds.

On August 6, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim announced that Jose Carlos Pereira, head of national airport authority Infraero, will be replaced by Space Agency President Sergio Mauricio Brito Gaudenzi effective immediately as the shakeup of the nation's aviation leadership continued in the aftermath of last month's TAM A320 crash.

On July 28, three people were killed in two separate plane crashes in the United States, media reports said.

The storm was too massive to fly around, but rather than turn back, Captain Ivan Korogodin decided to risk flying over the towering clouds.

An-12 freighter belonging to cargo carrier Atran crashed shortly after takeoff from Moscow Domodedovo on July 29, killing all seven crew onboard.

On August 5, Brazilian TAM airlines said that it is to build a memorial at the company's cargo service building, nearly three weeks after an Airbus A320 belonging to the airline crashed into the site causing around 200 deaths and heavy damage.

On July 23, an international air traffic controllers' group said foreign experts should intervene to fix Brazil's chaotic air travel system, which the government has struggled to remedy for almost a year.

Brazilian TAM airlines said on August 2 that it will pay US$1.5 billion in compensation to people and businesses affected by the July 17 air crash, which killed nearly 200 people.