On this day in aviation — July 22
818 notable aviation events on July 22 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on July 22, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 818 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- July 22, 1973
78 fatalities
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- July 22, 1974
31 fatalities
Greek troops were deployed in Cyprus following the Turkish invasion. While on a night approach to Nicosia Airport under callsign 'Niki 4', the airplane was mistakenly shot down by Greek soldiers based by the airport and…
- July 22, 2016
29 fatalities
The twin engine aircraft departed Tambaram AFB (southwest of Chennai) at 0830LT for a 3-hour flight to Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands. While cruising at the assigned altitude of 23,000 feet about 280 km east of…
- July 22, 1962Hull loss
27 fatalities
The aircraft had arrived in Honolulu at 0507 hours Hawaiian standard time on 21 July as CPA Flight 323 from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was departing, the evening of 22 July, as Empress Flight 301 on a…
- July 22, 1952
13 fatalities
En route, an engine caught fire. Shortly later, the heavy bomber exploded in the air and crashed, killing all 13 crew members. Crew: 1St Lt Forrest B. Angstman, Cpt Leroy E. Aschenbrenner, Cpt Osbaldo Garza, T/Sgt Leroy…
- July 22, 1959Hull loss
7 fatalities
The crew was performing a refuelling training mission out from Pease AFB, New Hampshire. While flying by night at an altitude of 15,000 feet, the airplane bank left, went into a dive and eventually crashed in a field…
- July 22, 1960
7 fatalities
The crew was engaged in a weather observation mission. After takeoff from Dessau Airport, instead of climbing and flying under IFR, the captain decided to continue under VFR mode below the clouds and in limited…
- July 22, 2009Hull loss
6 fatalities
See all 818 events for July 22:
https://himaxym.com/history/on-this-day
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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