On this day in aviation — September 12
817 notable aviation events on September 12 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on September 12, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 817 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- September 12, 1961Hull loss
77 fatalities
After a normal flight from Orly Airport, Paris, Flight 2005, Paris-Rabat-Casablanca, reported over the Rabat-Sale Airport, where meteorological conditions were unfavorable owing to thick, low fog which reduced…
- September 12, 1995Hull loss
75 fatalities
The aircraft departed Colombo-Ratmalana Airport on a flight to the Palaly AFB (Jaffna), carrying 70 soldiers and five crew members. Few minutes after takeoff, the crew declared an emergency and reported technical…
- September 12, 1969
45 fatalities
On final approach to Manila Intl Airport, the crew failed to realize his altitude was too low when the airplane struck the ground and crashed in flames some 22 km from the runway 24 threshold. A crew member (steward)…
- September 12, 1963Hull loss
40 fatalities
The aircraft left London-Gatwick Airport at 2013LT on a charter flight to Perpignan with 36 passengers and a crew of four on board. At 2315LT, the crew was cleared to continue direct to Perpignan maintaining the…
- September 12, 1951Hull loss
39 fatalities
The pilot prepared an IFR flight plan for a direct flight from Perpignan to Oran, at an altitude of 8,000 feet, the duration to be 3 hours and 15 minutes. Algiers was listed as the alternate. At 1045LT the crew…
- September 12, 1980
34 fatalities
The National Transportation Safety Board was unable to determine the probable cause of the accident from the available evidence. Although the Board was unable to determine the probable cause with any degree of…
- September 12, 1997
22 fatalities
The aircraft was completing a charter flight from Bukavu to Uvira, carrying people who were on their way to a peace meeting between factions in the eastern part of the country. While cruising in limited visibility, the…
- September 12, 2001Hull loss
19 fatalities
Shortly after takeoff from Chichén Itzá Airport runway 28, while climbing to a height of about 500 feet, the aircraft rolled to the right, stalled and crashed in a wooded area located about one km past the runway end,…
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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.
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