On this day in aviation — August 19
931 notable aviation events on August 19 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on August 19, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 931 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- August 19, 1980Hull loss
301 fatalities
About 2108LT, the airplane departed Riyadh Airport en route to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Six minutes and 54 seconds after takeoff, while climbing to FL350, visual and aural warnings indicated smoke in the aft cargo…
- August 19, 2002
127 fatalities
- August 19, 2012Hull loss
32 fatalities
The aircraft was performing a flight from Khartoum to Talodi with a delegation of 26 members of the Sudanese Government, among them several Ministers, Generals and politicians. On approach to Talodi Airport in poor…
- August 19, 1959Hull loss
32 fatalities
Nineteen minutes after it departed Barcelona Airport, while cruising at an altitude of 5,600 feet, the airplane entered clouds and struck the slope of Mt Montseny (1,712 meters high) located about 60 km northeast of…
- August 19, 1949
24 fatalities
The crew left Belfast-Nutts Corner Airport at 1058LT and started the approach to Manchester-Ringway Airport from the northeast in marginal weather conditions. While descending at an altitude of 1,350 feet in low…
- August 19, 1948
17 fatalities
Shortly after takeoff from Ellsworth AFB, while in initial climb, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in a huge explosion in a prairie located 5 miles north of the airfield. All 17 occupants were killed.…
- August 19, 1942
14 fatalities
The seaplane departed Coco Solo NAS in Colón on a maritime patrol flight. During the takeoff run on the Manzanillo Bay, it collided with a tug named 'Alhajucla' and exploded. All seven crew members were killed as well…
- August 19, 1969Hull loss
13 fatalities
Under jurisdiction of laotian govt. Plt shot.
See all 931 events for August 19:
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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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