April 20 
Mike Davies, the OZ manufacturer of Lancair aircraft kits at Ballina a few years back, has been found shot dead on the Gold Coast

Police investigations at this point in time suggest that the murder was an "execution-style" hit and may have been targeted by disgruntled business associates or creditors

Mike's Avtex company - now liquidated - supplied more than 70 Lancair kits to OZ home-builders from the Ballina factory that operated in the late '80's to the mid '90's

 April 23 
A few days ago at Narita Airport an airline mechanic chased after a taxiing Air China Boeing B767

   The mechanic then vanished   

A police spokesman is reported as saying,
 "It is possible he may have committed suicide, or he may have been running toward the engine for some other reason and was sucked in"

All of the 218 passengers on board the B767 at Tokyo ready for departure to Beijing were rescheduled onto other flights

 April 27 
A MiG-21 jet fighter, one of the last of two Afghanistan fighter jets still in military service, was taking part in a rehearsal for a military display near the Afghan capital of Kabul when the engine stopped

 Media reports have the Military authorities saying,  "The pilot ejected but his parachute did not open" 

The display marks the anniversary of the Afghan Mujahedin's victory over the Soviets

 April 25 
A young helicopter pilot from the Sunshine Coast has been killed and his passenger injured while mustering cattle near Mount Isa in western QLD

The passenger who survived the accident, had to walk 500 metres from the crash site to a dirt road where he waited for more than two hours for a passing motorist to pick him up before been able to alert the authorities

Reports indicate the (R22?) helicopter impacted the ground just before noon after clipping an overhead power line

 April 21 
A US military F-4 Phantom jet fighter has crashed during an air show at the Point Mugu Naval Air Weapons station about 80km north west of Los Angeles

The Phantom was in a formation of 6 when the engine exploded followed by control loss

Eyewitnesses say one of the crew members ejected from the crippled fighter, as it flew less than 60 metres above the ground before crashing, but the parachute failed to fully deploy due to lack of height resulting in the loss of the two F-4 crew members

 April 28 
Media reports have the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia and former Russian presidential candidate Alexander Lebed receiving fatal injuries after the helicopter he was in hit a power line

The Mi-8 chopper with 11 passengers on board came down near the region's Lake Olskoye in poor visibility conditions

Lebed was the architect of the 1996 peace accord ending the war in Chechnya