On this day in aviation — July 17
804 notable aviation events on July 17 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on July 17, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 804 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- July 17, 2014Hull loss
298 fatalities
- July 17, 1996Hull loss
230 fatalities
On July 17, 1996, about 2031 eastern daylight time, Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) flight 800, a Boeing 747-131, N93119, crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York. TWA flight 800 was operating under…
- July 17, 2007Hull loss
199 fatalities
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- July 17, 2007
187 fatalities
- July 17, 2000
60 fatalities
Alliance Air Flight No. CD-7412 departed Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata at 0651 hrs. on 17th July, 2000 bound for Patna-Lucknow-Delhi. After normal departure from Runway 01R, the aircraft…
- July 17, 2000
55 fatalities
- July 17, 1953
44 fatalities
The aircraft was on its way from Corpus Christi to Norfolk with a fuel stop at Whiting Field NAS, carrying 44 members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Shortly after a night takeoff from Whiting Field NAS, the…
- July 17, 1953
43 fatalities
See all 804 events for July 17:
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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.
Primary source: https://himaxym.com/history/on-this-day
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