On this day in aviation — August 27
908 notable aviation events on August 27 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on August 27, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 908 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- August 27, 1992Hull loss
84 fatalities
The aircraft departed Mineralnye Vody on a schedule service to Ivanovo with an intermediate stop in Donetsk. Following an uneventful flight, the crew initiated the descent to Ivanovo-Yuzhny Airport. The visibility was…
- August 27, 1981Hull loss
50 fatalities
Few minutes after takeoff from Florencia-Gustavo Artunduaga Paredes Airport, while cruising in bad weather conditions, the four engine airplane struck the slope of Mt Santa Elena shrouded in clouds and located about 48…
- August 27, 2006Hull loss
49 fatalities
the flight crewmembers's failure to use available cues and aids to identify the airplane's location on the airport surface during taxi and their failure to cross-check and verify that the airplane was on the correct…
- August 27, 1973Hull loss
42 fatalities
The four engine airplane departed Bogotá-El Dorado Airport Runway 12 at 0743LT on a flight to Willemstad, Curaçao, with intermediate stops in Cartagena, Barranquilla and San Andres Island. There were 36 passengers and…
- August 27, 1972
34 fatalities
Shortly after takeoff from Canaima Airport, while climbing, the left engine failed. The crew decided to return for an emergency when on final, the airplane stalled and crashed few km from the airfield. None of the 34…
- August 27, 1954
26 fatalities
Aircraft Commander Lt Col Wray Cotterill, Pilot 1st Lt Roger Bumps, Co-pilot Captain Neal Williams and a crew of twenty-four took off in RB-36H, 51-13722 of the 77th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron of the 28th…
- August 27, 1943
18 fatalities
Less than one minute after take off from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, while in initial climb, the three-engine aircraft hit the roof of the Naval Academy. On impact, the aircraft broke in two, one part left in…
- August 27, 1941
17 fatalities
On the afternoon of Wednesday 27 August 1941 four 256 Squadron Defiants took off from Squires Gate to practice formation flying. Their flight commander (whose name is unrecorded) was recalled back to the aerodrome, and…
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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.
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