On this day in aviation — October 28
628 notable aviation events on October 28 across history, drawn from official investigation records.
Every year on October 28, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 628 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.
Notable events
- October 28, 1949Hull loss
48 fatalities
About 150 nm from his destination, the crew informed ground about the ETA in Santa Maria-Vila do Porto Airport at 0245LT. Few minutes later, the captain changed this ETA to 0255LT. During the final approach completed by…
- October 28, 1957Hull loss
21 fatalities
At 1759 hours the aircraft was in contact with Barajas Control Tower and reported normal flight and that the airport was in sight. It requested landing data and asked that the ILS be turned onto test the airborne…
- October 28, 1989
20 fatalities
De Havilland DHC-6, N707PV (Aloha Islandair flight 1712), collided with mountainous/hilly terrain near Halawa Bay, HI, while en route on a scheduled passenger flight at night from Maui to Molokai, HI. Impact occurred at…
- October 28, 1954Hull loss
19 fatalities
The crew was supposed to fly from Irkutsk to Novosibirsk but weather conditions at destination deteriorated in flight so the crew was diverted to Krasnoyarsk Airport. While approaching the Krasnoyarsk area by night, the…
- October 28, 1956
16 fatalities
- October 28, 1960
12 fatalities
On October 28, 1960, at 1139 m. s. t., a Douglas C-54A-DC, N 48762, operated by Northwest Airlines, Inc., as Flight 104, crashed and burned approximately 13 nautical miles northwest of the Missoula, Montana Airport. The…
- October 28, 2025Hull loss
11 fatalities
Few minutes after takeoff from Ukunda-Diani Airfield, the single engine airplane entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in Kwale, some 17 km northwest of the departure airport. The airplane was destroyed by impact…
- October 28, 1970Hull loss
7 fatalities
The crew was engaged in a local training mission at Ivanovo-Severny Air Base. On final approach by night and poor weather conditions, the captain decided to make a go-around when the airplane lost height and crashed.…
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Data is aggregated from public investigation records and may be revised as sources are reconciled.
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