On this day

On this day in aviation — November 14

618 notable aviation events on November 14 across history, drawn from official investigation records.

Every year on November 14, aviation history records accidents and incidents worldwide. FlightFinder surfaces 618 deduplicated entries for this calendar date from NTSB, EASA, and 70+ other official sources.

Notable events

  • November 14, 1970Hull loss

    Douglas DC-9

    Southern Airways,inc. · Huntington,w Va, WEST VIRGINIA, United States

    75 fatalities

    Undetermined

  • November 14, 1990

    Douglas DC-9

    Alitalia · Zurich-Kloten, Switzerland

    46 fatalities

    On the 14th November 1990 ALITALIA flight 404, aircraft type DC-9-32 registration I-ATJA, took off from runway 36R at LIN bound for ZRH. The flight was a scheduled commercial flight. The clearance was to the destination…

  • November 14, 1952Hull loss

    Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar

    United States Air Force - USAF (since 1947) · Seongnam AFB (Seoul), South Korea

    44 fatalities

    While descending to Seongnam AFB in marginal weather conditions, the aircraft hit tree tops and crashed in a dense wooded area located in a mountainous area, about 30 km east of Seoul. The aircraft was destroyed by…

  • November 14, 1992

    Yakovlev Yak-40

    Vietnam Airlines · Sơn Trung, Vietnam

    30 fatalities

    While descending to Nha Trang Airport, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with limited visibility due to heavy rain falls. On approach, the aircraft deviated from the W13 airway by six km when it struck trees,…

  • November 14, 1946Hull loss

    Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3)

    KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij · Amsterdam, Netherlands

    26 fatalities

    On approach to Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport, the crew was forced to make a go around due to poor visibility caused by night and bad weather conditions. A second attempt to land was abandoned as well. During the third…

  • November 14, 1941Hull loss

    GVF PS-84

    Aeroflot · Akchernskiy, Russia

    14 fatalities

    The airplane departed Voronezh at 1610LT bound for Uryupinsk, carrying six crew members, eight passengers and a load of 1,100 kilos of leaflets that should be dropped beyond the enemy line. The estimated time of arrival…

  • November 14, 1996

    An-2T

    a/k Komiavia · респ. Коми, н/п Большая Пысса, Russia

    14 fatalities

    While parked at Most Pyssa for a short period of time (a 20 minutes stop), on a flight from Vazgort to Koslan, weather conditions deteriorated with snow falls. The crew failed to remove the snow from the aircraft prior…

  • November 14, 1944

    Avro 685 York

    Royal Air Force - RAF · Le Rivier d’Allemont, France

    10 fatalities

    The aircraft was on its way to Kandy, Ceylon, with a crew of 7 and three passengers on board, among them Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory and his wife. While flying east of Grenoble at an altitude of 8,000…

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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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