On this day in aviation — October 5
654 notable aviation events on October 5 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on October 5, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 654 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- October 5, 1991
135 fatalities
The four engine aircraft was returning to Bandung, carrying 122 airmen who had just took part to the annual Armed Forces Day ceremony at Jakarta-Halim Perdanakusuma Airport. One minute after takeoff, while in initial…
- October 5, 1930
48 fatalities
- October 5, 1952
1952 Leningrad mid-air collision
31 fatalities
- October 5, 1952
24 fatalities
The crew was approaching Leningrad-Shosseynaya Airport and obtained the permission by ATC to descend to the altitude of 1,200 meters via corridor number two. While flying into clouds, the airplane collided with an…
- October 5, 1945Hull loss
23 fatalities
Shortly after takeoff from Blackbushe, while in initial climb, the engine number two caught fire. The aircraft stalled and crashed in a huge explosion in a field located 2 miles from the airport. The aircraft was…
- October 5, 1942
11 fatalities
The airplane departed RAF Warboys at 1910LT on an operation to Aachen. After takeoff, it iced up and was abandoned after a fire broke up. All five crew members parachuted and were injured while the airplane dove into…
- October 5, 2008Hull loss
9 fatalities
Section/division Form Number: CA 12-12a Occurrence Investigation AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Reference: Aircraft Registration ZS-OSD Date of Accident Type of Aircraft Brittan-Norman Islander…
- October 5, 2010
9 fatalities
On October 5, 2010 about 1636 UTC / 12:36pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), C6-NLH a Cessna 402C aircraft registered to Lebocruise Air Limited and operated by Acklins Blue Air Charter/Nelson Hanna crashed into lake…
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Contemporaneous coverage and timeline for October 5 — Recap.at:
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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