September 12

In late September 1974—commonly dated to September 24, 1974—soldiers operating under martial law descended on the coastal barangay of Malisbong in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao. Survivors say hundreds to over a thousand men were rounded up, separated from women and children, and many executed; reports also allege widespread sexual violence. Decades of testimony, human-rights inquiries, and community memorials have established that a large-scale massacre and grave abuses occurred, even as exact casualty figures and full legal accountability remain contested and unresolved.

A tragic mid-air collision near Tehran, involving a commercial Iran Air Tours plane and an Iranian Air Force fighter jet, revealed critical gaps in air traffic management.

In the pre-dawn hours of September 11, 1984, a Tupolev Tu‑154 operating as Aeroflot Flight 3352 landed at Omsk Tsentralny Airport and collided with heavy runway maintenance vehicles that were working on the active strip. The impact tore the airliner apart and ignited a deadly fire; investigators later blamed a chain of human and procedural failures — a cleared runway that was not actually clear, night‑shift fatigue in air traffic control, inadequate lighting and radio contact for ground crews, and systemic weaknesses in how airport maintenance was authorized and supervised.