A Brit Air Bombardier CRJ100 at Madrid-Barajas Airport ( 2006 ).

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 2006 – Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.

* 2006 – At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.

* 2006 – Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $ 1M in damage.

22 March 2006: in terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Nigeria ’ s federal Government on 16 March, the Guangdong Xinguang International Group is to construct a revolutionary “ fast ” rail ( RFR ) system from Lagos to the capital Abuja ( where there is no existing railway ) as well as light rail lines to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport from Lagos city and to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the Abuja city centre.

* 2006 – Hawaii Earthquake: A magnitude 6. 7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

He was present at the official re-opening of Oamaru Airport on 6 August 2006, and cast a successful spell to disperse the fog that was preventing the first flight from landing.

After the death of former president of Estonia Lennart Meri on 14 March 2006, journalist Argo Ideon from Eesti Ekspress proposed to honor the president's memory by naming Tallinn Airport after him – "" ( Lennart Meri International Airport ), drawing parallels with JFK Airport, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Istanbul-Atatürk Airport etc.

* August 26 – Mehran Karimi Nasseri, " The terminal man ", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006.

An extension of Line M2 of the Bucharest Metro to Aurel Vlaicu International, which will link it to the Main Train Station and the larger Henri Coandă International Airport, was approved in June 2006 and is currently in its planning stage.

The US $ 32 million reconstruction project of Ganja Airport has been launched by the Government and was completed by mid 2006.

The region is also served by George Best Belfast City Airport, a mile east of Belfast city centre on the County Down side of the city, which was renamed in 2006 in honour of footballer George Best.

Aerial view of Lake County Airport and Leadville, December 2006

A record 3. 3 million passengers used Richmond International Airport in 2006, a 13 % increase over 2005.

On September 17, 2006, the city dropped all legal appeals and agreed to pay the $ 33, 000 fine as well as repay $ 1 million in misappropriated FAA Airport Improvement Program funds that it used to destroy the airfield and build the Northerly Island park.

In February 2006, Bové was stopped by U. S. Customs and Border Protection agents at New York's JFK Airport as he arrived en route to Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations for events sponsored by Cornell's Global Labor Institute.

With just two parallel runways, Van Nuys Airport handled 448, 681 aircraft movements in 2005, averaging over 1, 200 operations / day ; in 2006 it handled 394, 915 movements, nearly 1, 100 per day.

Aerial view of the Bay Minette Municipal Airport taken in 2006

* 21 December 2010: The Financial Times reported that the A $ 69 billion (£ 44 billion ) Future Fund, a sovereign wealth fund set up by the Australian government in 2006, intended to buy a 17. 2 % stake in Gatwick Airport from GIP for £ 145 million.

* 2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.

As of June 2006 32 Italian troops have been killed in Iraq – with the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2003 – a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five Army soldiers, two Italian civilians, and eight Iraqi civilians dead.

Retrieved 19 July 2006 .</ ref > In 1999, six other Libyans who had been accused of the September 1989 bombing of Union Air Transport Flight 772 were put on trial in their absence by a Paris court.

Following the al-Askari Mosque bombing in February 2006, imams and other Islamic leaders used mosques and Friday prayers as vehicles to call for calm and peace in the midst of widespread violence.

A February 2006 and June 2007 bombing that seriously damaged Iraq's al-Askari Mosque, exacerbated tensions that had already existed.

Other mosque bombings in Iraq, both before and after the February 2006 bombing, have been part of the conflict between the country's groups of Muslims.

* 2006 – A series of bombing kills at least 215 people and injures 257 others in Sadr City, making it the second deadliest sectarian attack since the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003.

In November 2006, an Argentine judge issued an arrest warrant for former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other ex-officials in relation to the 1994 bombing of the Jewish-Argentine Mutual Association ( AMIA ) community center in Buenos Aires which killed 85 people.

In July 2006, the Menachem Begin Heritage Center organized a conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the bombing.

* Michael Quentin Morton, In the Heart of the Desert, Green Mountain Press, 2006, pp. 32 – 4 ( photograph p. 44 ), for an eye-witness account of the immediate aftermath of the bombing by a geologist working for the Iraq Petroleum Company.

In 2006, a bombing by al-Qaeda resulted in the destruction of the Al-Askari Mosque in Iraq.

After the Al Askari shrine bombing, in February 2006, he warned that spreading sectarian violence might lead to civil war – and possibly even a broader conflict involving neighboring countries.

The mosque compound and minarets had been closed since the 2006 bombing.

However, the Department of Justice in 2006 criticized the same prison for not properly screening the mail of three inmates convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing after determining the men sent letters from the prison to suspected terrorists overseas.

In August 2006, it was claimed by William Rees-Mogg in The Times that there was evidence that Straw was removed from this post upon the request of the Bush administration, possibly owing to his expressed opposition to bombing Iran.

* February 22 The al-Askari Mosque bombing ( 2006 ): The Al Askari Mosque is bombed, sparking a wave of sectarian violence.

* The Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, a Shiite Muslim holy site constructed in 944, was the target of the Golden Mosque bombing on 22 February 2006.

In what some have considered an exception to the ban, the park board agreed in 2006 to build a new playground at Ceperley Meadows near Second Beach honouring the victims of the Air India Flight 182 bombing.

The bombing of the al-Shifa factory resurfaced in the news in April 2006, due to the firing of former CIA analyst Mary O ' Neil McCarthy.

In 2006, after prosecutors in Argentina asked a judge to order the arrest of a former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and other members of his government in connection with the AMIA bombing, Bronfman said that " Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism ", adding that " the entire international community has a moral responsibility to ensure that Iran is held accountable for its terrorist actions.

On May 30, 2006, Re ' ut Feldman ( 20 ), a resident of Herzliya, was killed in the Kedumim bombing.

In February 2006, three Al Arabiya reporters were abducted and murdered while covering the aftermath of the bombing of a mosque in Samarra, Iraq.

In a 2006 letter requesting that a judge give his son a light sentence for assault with a deadly weapon, battery of a police officer, and possession of a stolen vehicle, Nichols admitted his participation in the Oklahoma City bombing but said that McVeigh had forced and intimidated him into cooperating.

Until 2006, the Central Bank bombing was the deadliest LTTE bombing of the civil war.