June 5

On June 20, 2011, RusAir Flight 9605, a Tupolev Tu-134 on a scheduled domestic service from Moscow Domodedovo to Petrozavodsk, struck trees and terrain short of Petrozavodsk Airport in dense fog near the village of Besovets. Of the 52 people on board (43 passengers and 9 crew), 47 died and 5 survived. An Interstate Aviation Committee investigation found the crew continued an instrument approach below published minima in weather requiring diversion, with inadequate crew resource management and organizational shortcomings contributing.

In the early hours of June 24, 2021, a large section of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, collapsed without warning. The disaster killed 98 people, making it one of the deadliest building collapses in U.S. history. The tragedy exposed deep issues of building safety, deferred repairs, and regulatory oversight, leading to sweeping changes in inspection practices and ongoing investigations into the causes of the collapse.

On the evening of June 13, 1997, smoke from an electrical fault spread through the Uphaar Cinema in Green Park, New Delhi, as a packed audience watched the film Border. Locked and obstructed exits turned hallways into traps; 59 people died—mostly from smoke inhalation—and scores were injured. The disaster triggered years of litigation, tightened scrutiny of fire-safety enforcement, and a long struggle by victims' families for accountability.