On this day in aviation — August 6
844 notable aviation events on August 6 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on August 6, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 844 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- August 6, 1997Hull loss
228 fatalities
the captain's failure to adequately brief and execute the nonprecision approach and the first officer's and flight engineer's failure to effectively monitor and cross-check the captain's execution of the approach.…
- August 6, 1966
42 fatalities
Written Cause; Turbulence, Associated W/Clouds And/Or Thunderstorms; Other; Other; Overload Failure. Factors: Squall Line; Separation In Flight
- August 6, 2011
2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan
38 fatalities
- August 6, 1949
34 fatalities
- August 6, 1970Hull loss
30 fatalities
Three minutes after its takeoff from Rawalpindi Airport, while climbing, the airplane went through a thunderstorm area. Due to heavy turbulences, the airplane went out of control, nosed down and eventually crashed in an…
- August 6, 1961Hull loss
30 fatalities
The aircraft was completing a local sightseeing flight over Budapest when descending to Ferihegy Airport, the airplane crashed onto a building and was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire. All 27 occupants…
- August 6, 1955Hull loss
25 fatalities
The aircraft was performing a flight from Stalingrad to Moscow-Vnukovo, carrying a crew of five and 20 passengers, among them 10 citizens (women) from Norway who met antifascist people in Stalingrad and were flying back…
- August 6, 1947
20 fatalities
See all 844 events for August 6:
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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