On this day in aviation — August 4
840 notable aviation events on August 4 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on August 4, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 840 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- August 4, 1979
45 fatalities
While approaching Bombay Airport from the southeast by night, the crew encountered technical problems when the airplane struck the slope of Mt Kisoli located 30 km southeast from Bombay Airport. SAR operations were…
- August 4, 1955
30 fatalities
Flight 476 of August 4 was a scheduled operation between Tulsa, Oklahoma, and La Guardia Field, New York, with several intermediate stops including Joplin, Springfield, and St. Louis, Missouri. The flight departed Tulsa…
- August 4, 1984Hull loss
24 fatalities
The four engine aircraft was completing a military/cargo flight from Aden to Tashkent with an intermediate stop in Karachi. On the leg from Karachi to Tashkent, while cruising at an altitude of 5,500 meters, weather…
- August 4, 2018Hull loss
20 fatalities
Schweizerische Sicherheitsuntersuchungsstelle SUST Service suisse d'enquête de sécurité SESE Servizio d’inchiesta svizzero sulla sicurezza SISI Survetsch svizzer d’inquisiziun da segirtad SISE Swiss Transportation…
- August 4, 2018Hull loss
18 fatalities
- August 4, 1944
18 fatalities
- August 4, 2015
2015 Colombia helicopter crash
16 fatalities
- August 4, 1969
16 fatalities
See all 840 events for August 4:
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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