On this day in aviation — August 11
886 notable aviation events on August 11 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on August 11, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 886 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- August 11, 1979
1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision
178 fatalities
- August 11, 1979Hull loss
94 fatalities
The airplane departed Voronezh Airport at 1254LT on the last leg of a flight from Chelyabinsk to Kishinev, Moldavia, carrying 88 passengers and a crew of six. At 1317LT, the airplane entered the Kharkiv ARTCC at an…
- August 11, 1979Hull loss
84 fatalities
The airplane departed Donetsk Airport at 1311LT on the last leg of a flight from Tashkent to Minsk. On board were 77 passengers and a crew of seven, among them all staff from the Pakhtakor Tashkent Football Team who…
- August 11, 1957
79 fatalities
CF-MCF departed London, England at 2148 GMT on 10 August on a charter flight to Toronto, Canada, with planned refuelling stops at Keflavik, Iceland and Goose Bay, Labrador. It carried a crew of 6 and 73 passengers…
- August 11, 1955
1955 Altensteig mid-air collision
66 fatalities
- August 11, 1974
47 fatalities
The airplane was engaged in a monthly schedule flight from Bamako to Saudi Arabia. En route from Bamako to Kano, ATC informed the crew about the deterioration of the weather conditions and instructed the pilots to…
- August 11, 1955Hull loss
46 fatalities
A group of nine Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar left Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, on a flight to Stuttgart-Echterdingen Airport in southwest Germany under flight code 'Chalk'. Enroute, the pilot of C-119 registered 53-3222…
- August 11, 1966
24 fatalities
En route from Brașov to Constanţa, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances in the Lotrioara Valley. All 24 occupants were killed, among them 2 Austrian citizens.
See all 886 events for August 11:
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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.
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