On this day in aviation — August 22
874 notable aviation events on August 22 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on August 22, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 874 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- August 22, 2006Hull loss
170 fatalities
The aircraft departed Anapa Airport at 1505LT and climbed to the assigned altitude of 11,700 metres. Due to the presence of stormy weather ahead, the crew was cleared to modify his route and changed heading to avoid the…
- August 22, 1981
110 fatalities
The airplane departed Taipei-Songshan Airport bound for Kaohsiung. Fourteen minutes later, while cruising at FL220, radar contact was lost with the airplane and the crew did not send any distress message. The airplane…
- August 22, 1985
55 fatalities
Report No: 8/1988. Report on the accident to Boeing 737-236, G-BGJL, at Manchester Airport on 22 August 1985 Download report: 8-1988 G-BGJL.pdf (16,923.38 kb) Report Appendices To view appendices, click on link below…
- August 22, 2002Hull loss
18 fatalities
The twin engine aircraft departed Jomsom Airport at 0941LT for a 25-minutes flight to Pokhara, carrying three crew members and 15 passengers, 13 Germans, one American and one British. While descending to Pokhara…
- August 22, 2020
2020 South West Aviation Antonov An-26 crash
17 fatalities
- August 22, 1983
16 fatalities
The acft was on a sport parachute flt to carry 24 parachutists to 12,500' over a drop zone (dz) for a mass jump. It was in a cargo configuration with no passenger seats, but it had 1 jump seat. There were 24 seat belts…
- August 22, 1973
16 fatalities
The aircraft departed Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport at 1113LT on a 45 minutes flight to Yopal, carrying 14 passengers and a crew of three. On approach to Yopal, the pilots encountered poor visibility with fog when…
- August 22, 1942Hull loss
13 fatalities
Ten minutes after takeoff from Port of Spain-Piarco Airport, while climbing in marginal weather conditions, the twin engine airplane went out of control and crashed in a wooded area located few km from the airport. The…
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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.
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