On this day in aviation — September 5
943 notable aviation events on September 5 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on September 5, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 943 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- September 5, 2005
149 fatalities
On 5 September 2005, at 03:15 UTC, Mandala Airlines registered PK-RIM, operating as flight number MDL 091, a Boeing 737-200 departing for Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Jakarta from Medan. The previous flight was from Jakarta…
- September 5, 2005
100 fatalities
- September 5, 1986
43 fatalities
- September 5, 1967
37 fatalities
Flight 523 was a scheduled international flight from Prague, Czechoslovakia to Havana, Cuba, via Shannon, Ireland, and Gander, Newfoundland. It departed Prague at 1649 hours GMT on 4 September and proceeded to Shannon…
- September 5, 1945
31 fatalities
- September 5, 1954Hull loss
28 fatalities
After a night takeoff from runway 32 at Shannon Airport, the four engine aircraft christened 'Triton' climbed to a maximum height of 260 feet and reached the speed of 155 knots when it went into a slight nose down…
- September 5, 1986
20 fatalities
- September 5, 1946
20 fatalities
The Board determined that "the probable cause of this accident was the pilot's action in continuing a landing approach after having lost visual contact with the airport under conditions of dense ground fog. A…
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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.
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