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1968 in aviation
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1968.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
First flights
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Entered service
January
February
March
April
May
Retirements
December
Deadliest crash
The deadliest crash of this year was a military shootdown, namely the 1968 Kham Duc C-130 shootdown, when a United States Air Force Lockheed C-130B Hercules was shot down in southern Vietnam on 12 May, during the Vietnam War, killing all 155 people on board; it was at the time the deadliest plane crash of all time. The deadliest civil aviation accident was South African Airways Flight 228, a Boeing 707 which crashed shortly after takeoff from Windhoek, South West Africa on 20 April, killing 123 of the 128 people on board.
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