On this day in aviation — August 18
938 notable aviation events on August 18 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on August 18, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 938 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- August 18, 1973
56 fatalities
Following a normal takeoff roll, the crew started the rotation at a speed of 220 km/h. Five second after liftoff, while climbing to a height of 10 meters, the left engine failed. The left propeller was automatically…
- August 18, 1968
40 fatalities
While in cruising altitude over the Mediterranean Sea on a flight from Cairo to Damascus, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea. SAR operations were conducted and several…
- August 18, 1974
31 fatalities
During a night approach to Kisangani Airport, the four engine airplane crashed in unknown circumstances few km from the runway threshold. The wreckage was found the following morning and all 31 occupants have been…
- August 18, 1938
15 fatalities
All occupants were engineers and technicians of the Italian manufacturer Macchi Aeronautica. They were conducting a test flight when the seaplane crashed in unknown circumstances in Mornago, southwest of Varese. All 15…
- August 18, 1943
14 fatalities
The seaplane took off from Bowen on an air to sea gunnery training exercise. At the conclusion of firing practice, the aircraft was making a run across the wave tops over a choppy sea and it is assumed that the port…
- August 18, 1938
13 fatalities
- August 18, 1942
12 fatalities
While performing a training flight, the seaplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea off the Montauk Point lighthouse, between Long Island and Block Island. All 12 crew members were killed.
- August 18, 1984
11 fatalities
The Varsity aircraft was a twin engined training aircraft used by the Royal Air Force until 1974 when it was sold into private ownership. It was currently owned and operated by an aircraft preservation group who…
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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.
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