| 1 August | •
| Hong Kong's 3.5-km Disneyland Resort Line started operations prior to opening of Hong Kong Disneyland on 12 September |
| 2 August | •
| Air France Airbus A340 skidded off runway on landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada and burst into flames but nobody killed |
| 4 August | •
| Japan's Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) issued directive to extend second runway at New Tokyo International Airport (Narita) by additional 320 m to north to create 2.5-km runway for larger aircraft |
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| Kinki Nippon Railway announced plan to open 8.6-km Keihanna Line (Ikoma–Gakken Nara Tomigaoka) on 27 March 2006, permitting rail passengers to travel to central Osaka in less than 40 minutes via Kintetsu Higashi Osaka Line (between Ikoma and Nagata) and Chuo subway line operated by Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau |
| 6 August | •
| Twin turboprop passenger plane operated by Tunisian airline Tuninter crashed into sea off coast of Sicily, killing 14 passengers |
| 10 August | •
| All 14 people on-board passenger helicopter operated by Finnish company killed when crashed into Baltic Sea off coast of Estonia |
| 14 August | •
| Boeing 737 operated by Helios Airways and carrying 115 passengers and six crew crashed into mountainous region north of Athens, killing everyone onboard |
| 16 August | •
| MD-82 airplane operated by West Caribbean Airways of Panama crashed in Sierra de Perija mountains of north-western Venezuela, killing all 152 passengers and eight crew |
| 23 August | •
| Boeing 737-200 on domestic flight crashed near Pucalpa Airport in central Peru, killing at least 41 people on board |
| 24 August | •
| 58.3-km Tsukuba Express Line operated by Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company opened between Tsukuba and Akihabara in Tokyo |
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| Railway track laid at highest elevation in world (5072 m) at Amdo in Tibet Autonomous Region |
| 29 August | •
| Category-4 hurricane Katrina caused tremendous damage in Louisiana and southern USA, leaving parts of New Orleans badly flooded with up to 2000 people believed dead |
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| French government blacklisted five airlines from flying through French airspace and landing because of alleged poor safety records |
| 5 September | •
| Mandala Airlines passenger plane (Boeing 737-200) on domestic flight crashed into residential area in Medan, North Sumatra, killing 47 people on ground and about 100 people on board |
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| Several Taiwanese airlines started flights over Chinese airspace, shortening routes to Europe and other regions |
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| Helicopter carrying construction materials near Innsbruck, Austria, dropped concrete slap onto ski gondola, killing 9 and injuring seven people |
| 8 September | •
| Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, operating 345-km Taiwan High Speed Rail between Taipei and Kaohsiung, announced 1-year postponement of opening until October 2006 due to delays in completing mechanical and electrical systems |
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| Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) announced construction of new 116-m control tower in conjunction with construction of fourth runway (runway D) at Tokyo International Airport (Haneda), and world's second tallest after tower at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (133 m) |
| 12 September | •
| Los Angeles hit by widespread blackout affecting some 2 million people |
| 13 September | •
| Louis Armstrong International New Orleans Airport in Louisiana resumed scheduled civilian flights after closure due to large-scale flooding following Hurricane Katrin |
| 14 September | •
| Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, citing rising fuel costs |
| 17 September | •
| Double-decker five-car commuter train derailed in Chicago, killing two and injuring more than 80 people |
| 29 September | •
| Seaplane carrying five Japanese tourists crashed on takeoff from lake in Quebec Province, killing one and injuring four people |
| 30 September | •
| Following halt of flights between Narita and New York by Northwest Airlines on 7 September, American Airlines announced cessation of flights between Central Japan International Airport (CENTRAIR) and Chicago from November due to rising fuel costs |
| 5 October | •
| International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies published World Disasters Report 2005, noting 719 natural disasters and serious accidents with fatalities totalling 249,869 due mostly to Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004 |
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| Japan Airlines Corporation (JAL) announced plan to integrate with Japan Airlines International Co., Ltd., and Japan Airlines Domestic Co., Ltd. on 1 October 2006 with JAL as holding company |
| 6 October | •
| Airbus announced development of medium-size long-range A350 planned to enter commercial service in 2010 in competition against Boeing 787 |
| 11 October | •
| Taipei City Government presented plan to introduce Linimo (HSST) seen at Aichi Expo 2005 on city's Hsin Peito branch line (1.1 km) in summer 2007 |
| 14 October | •
| Sightseeing bus collided with three trams in Hiroshima City, derailing one and slightly injuring 12 bus passengers |
| 15 October | •
| Track for 1142-km line connecting Lhasa in Tibet Autonomous Region and Golmud in Chinghai Province, China, completed at average elevation of 4500 m and highest point of 5072 m—freight services due to start in 2006 and passenger services in 2007 |
| 22 October | •
| Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, killing 111 passengers and six crew on board |
| 29 October | •
| Passenger train derailed from flooded line in Andhra Pradesh in southern India with some carriages rolling into river, killing 111 people |
| 1 November | •
| Toda Kuroshio Railway's 23.6-km Sukumo Line (Nakamura–Sukumo) reopened after 8-month shutdown, following accident in which express rammed Sukumo Station building |
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| Passengers angered by late trains in Buenos Aires, Argentina, rioted for 5 hours, throwing rocks at station building, and completely destroying 15 trains by setting fires |
| 6 November | •
| Iraqi Airways flight landed in Tehran, marking resumption of flights between Iran and Iraq after 25-year hiatus following Iran–Iraq War (1980–88) |
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| Trial runs conducted on southern 58 km of 345-km Taiwan High Speed Rail (Taipei–Kaohsiung), successfully reaching maximum operating speed of 300 km/h |
| 10 November | •
| New Boeing B777-200LR passenger jetliner set new record by flying 21,601 km non-stop east from Hong Kong to London in 22 hours 42 minutes |
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| Siemens won order to provide 60 high-speed train sets (480 cars) to China, with operations between Beijing and Tianjin scheduled to start in 2008 |
| 14 November | •
| London's famous Routemaster double-decker buses started operating special ‘Heritage’ routes in city before December retirement due to advanced age, lack of barrier-free access, and other issues |
| 15 November | •
| Boeing announced planned development of new Jumbo dubbed 747-8 with pre-orders for 18 planes from Nippon Cargo Airlines and others |
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| Third-sector Kamioka Railway operating 19.9-km Inotani–Oku-Hida Onsenguchi section taken over from now-privatized Japan National Railway, notified MLIT of plan to stop railway operations from 1 December 2006 due to declining passenger levels and move of sulphuric acid tanker transport to truck transport |
| 16 November | •
| EU Parliament adopted bill creating and publishing blacklist of dangerous airlines that fail to meet international safety standards |
| 20 November | •
| China Aviation Supplies Import and Export Group Corporation signed agreement to purchase seventy B-373s from Boeing with possible future option for 80 more |
| 5 December | •
| Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced plan to purchase 150 units of A320 Airbus for domestic carriers in deal worth $10 billion |
| 8 December | •
| Boeing 737 of Southwest Airlines failed on take off from Midway Airport in Chicago, overrunning runway and crashing through fence to hit two passenger cars on highway, killing 6-year-old boy and injuring eight people seriously |
| 10 December | •
| Domestic airliner of Sosoliso Airlines crashed at Port Harcourt Airport in Nigeria, killing 104 passengers and injuring five others |
| 18 December | •
| Streetcars in New Orleans, Louisiana resumed operation about 4 months after Hurricane Katrina |
| 19 December | •
| Small Grumman G73T seaplane crashed off coast of Miami, Florida after takeoff, killing all 20 passengers and crew |
| 20 December | •
| Taisetsumaru Aomori–Hakodate ferry retired in 1996 to become Hotel Ship Victoria at Nagasaki Port went out of business due to silting on seabed under ship reducing water depth and significantly increasing pitching and rolling |
| 21 December | •
| Private railway companies (22 Passnet members) and bus companies (26 bus card members) in Tokyo metropolitan area announced plan to issue common passenger card PASMO compatible with JR East's card starting March 2007 |
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| All 233 passengers and crew on burning ferry rescued by coastguard vessels and other craft off southern island of Mindanao in Philippines |
| 23 December | •
| Antonov 140 of Azerbaijan Airlines crashed in Baku, Azerbaijan, killing all 23 passengers and crew |
| 25 December | •
| Six-car limited express derailed and overturned, killing five passengers and injuring 32 others on JR East Uetsu main line at Shonai Town, Yamagata Prefecture |
| 27 December | •
| Following derailment on JR West Fukuchiyama Line that killed 107 passengers, JR West announced retirement of President Takeshi Kakiuchi and Chairman Shojiro Nan'ya on 1 February 2006 with Vice President Masao Yamazaki promoted to President and Mr Noritaka Kurauchi, former Chairman of Sumitomo Electric Industries, to become new Chairman, Mr Kakiuchi to continue accident reparation negotiations as director, and Mr Nan'ya to remain as advisor |
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| Extraordinary general shareholders' meeting of third-sector 50-km Takachiho Railway (Nobeoka–Takachiho) agreed to closure of line following heavy damage from typhoon No. 14 in September and huge restoration costs, putting end to 17-year company history |
| 12 January | •
| Marubeni Corporation consortium with Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Hitachi accepted order from Taiwan's Bureau of High Speed Rail to construct 51.2-km direct rail–air link from central Taipei to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport and supply 123 railcars and aboveground railway facilities with completion scheduled for September 2013 |
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| MLIT authorized StarFlyer of Kita Kyushu to operate regularly scheduled services with three Airbus A320s on 12 daily return flights between Haneda Airport and New Kita Kyushu Airport from 16 March |
| 13 January | •
| Bus on level crossing in Ust-Labinsk district of Krasnodar Territory, Russia, hit by train, killing 22 out of about 40 passengers |
| 17 January | •
| Airbus announced top position for fifth consecutive year in aircraft sales with best-ever 1055 orders in 2005; 378 deliveries remained in first place for third year |
| 19 January | •
| Services resumed on JR East's Uetsu main line between Sakata and Tsuruoka 25 days after train derailed and overturned in Shonai Town |
| 23 January | •
| Full passenger train derailed into valley near Podogorica in Serbia and Montenegro, killing at least 44 people and injuring about 200 |
| 24 January | •
| Four track workers hit by six-car limited-express on JR West's Hakubi Line in Kofu Town, Tottori Prefecture, killing three and slightly injuring one |
| 27 January | •
| JAL announced display of 30 pieces from 1985 Boeing 747SR crash at Safety Awareness Center to be opened in April 2006 at Haneda Airport |
| 28 January | •
| Mobile SUICA started service, giving customers access to trains by touching cell phone on automated ticket wickets; customers can also make digital purchases with phones |
| 29 January | •
| Part of express train carrying about 400 passengers derailed into gorge near Jhelum, eastern Pakistan, killing at least three people and injuring 30 |
