On this day in aviation — October 11

Every year on October 11, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 688 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.

Notable events

• October 11, 1984

  Tu-154B-1

  Tolmachevskogo OAO · а/п Омск (Центральный), Russia

  178 fatalities

  Following an uneventful flight from Krasnodar, the crew started the approach to Omsk Airport in a reduced visibility due to the night and rain falls. The aircraft landed at a speed of 270 km/h and about one second…

• October 11, 1984

  Aeroflot Flight 3352

  174 fatalities

• October 11, 1944

  Focke-Wulf Fw.200 Condor

  German Air Force - Deutsche Luftwaffe · Lavangen, Norway

  51 fatalities

  En route from Banak to Trondheim, while cruising north of Narvik, the four engine aircraft went out of control and crashed into the Lavangen fjord, east of Harstad. All 51 occupants were killed, among them 41 Luftwaffe…

• October 11, 1987

  Fokker F27 Friendship

  Burma Airways · Nyaung-U (Bagan), Myanmar (Burma)

  49 fatalities

  While descending to Nyaung-U Airport deserving the Bagan archaeological region, the crew encountered poor visibility due to heavy rain falls. At an altitude of 1,500 feet, the aircraft struck the slope of a mountain…

• October 11, 1985Hull loss

  Yak-40

  Gruzinskogo UGA · Грузинская ССР, севернее Миха-Цхакая (Сенаки), 47 км западнее а/п Кутаиси-2, Georgia

  14 fatalities

  According to published procedures, the crew was supposed to climb to an altitude of 2,400 meters after takeoff from Kutaisi Airport. But due to an Aeroflot Antonov AN-24 that was approaching another airport in Kutaisi,…

• October 11, 1983

  FMA IA 50 Guaraní II

  Fuerza Aérea Argentina - FAA · near Santa Isabel-Córdoba-Escuela De Aviacion Militar Airport, CD

  12 fatalities

• October 11, 1968

  Avia 14

  CSA Czech Airlines - Československé Státní Aerolinie · Prague-Ruzyne, Czechia

  11 fatalities

  After takeoff from Prague-Ruzyne Airport, while climbing, one of the engine failed. The airplane went out of control and crashed in an open field located 7 km southwest from the airport. Three crew members and eight…

• October 11, 1983

  Avro 748

  Air Illinois · Pinckneyville, United States

  10 fatalities

  Flight 710 departed Chicago, IL for a flight to Carbondale, IL via Springfield, IL. The flight was about 45 minutes behind schedule when it arrived at Springfield, about 20:05. At 20:11, the flightcrew were provided…

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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.