Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/August in aviation/August 29
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- 1996 - Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashes into a mountain on Spitsbergen killing 141 people.
- 1955 - an English Electric Canberra sets a new altitude record of 65,876 ft (20,079 m)
- 1931 - The Graf Zeppelin pioneers the air route between Germany and Brazil.
- 1929 - The Graf Zeppelin completes its global circumnavigation at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
