On this day in aviation — August 17
890 notable aviation events on August 17 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on August 17, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 890 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- August 17, 1960Hull loss
34 fatalities
While flying over the region of Kiev, the crew contacted ATC about a fire on engine number 4 and requested the permission to divert to Borispol Airport. Due to the position of the aircraft, ATC vectored the crew to…
- August 17, 1988
30 fatalities
Shortly after takeoff from Bahawalpur Airport, while in initial climb, the four engine aircraft went out of control and crashed 7 km from the airport. All 30 occupants were killed, among them Muhammad Zia Ul-Haq,…
- August 17, 1960
20 fatalities
En route to Agadir at night, the crew informed ATC about an engine fire and elected to divert to Casablanca Airport. Shortly later, the airplane crashed in hilly terrain near El Kelâa des Sraghna, bursting into flames.…
- August 17, 1991Hull loss
19 fatalities
En route from Andijan to Semipalatinsk, the crew diverted to Ucharal for unknown reasons and was then cleared to descend to 600 metres. While descending to an altitude of 1,269 metres, the four engine aircraft struck…
- August 17, 1963Hull loss
19 fatalities
Shortly after takeoff from Hachijō-jima Airport, en route to Tokyo-Haneda Airport, the crew climbed in limited visibility due to foggy conditions when the airplane struck the slope of a mountain. As the airplane failed…
- August 17, 1957
15 fatalities
- August 17, 2023Hull loss
Hawker Beechcraft 390 Premier 1
10 fatalities
- August 17, 1983
10 fatalities
The acft departed las vegas, nv as the 2nd of 5 acft on a scheduled grand canyon sight-seeing flt. The 1st portion of the flt was over the las vegas strip area & lake mead & was uneventful. However, wx conditions…
See all 890 events for August 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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