July 7

On July 28, 2010, Airblue Flight 202 crashed into the Margalla Hills near Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people on board. The tragedy became the deadliest air disaster in Pakistani history, drawing attention to lapses in cockpit communication and flight procedures.

During the summer and early autumn of 1941, in the small borderland village known to Germans as Eichenfeld, members of German security detachments and allied auxiliaries carried out a mass killing of the village’s Jewish population. The massacre followed the rapid advance of Operation Barbarossa and fits the pattern of roundups, shootings at prepared sites, and looting seen across the occupied southern Soviet borderlands. Exact dates, victim counts, and the full list of perpetrators remain fragmentary in surviving sources; the violence left the Jewish community of Eichenfeld erased and its memory fragile.

On July 11, 1991, Nigeria Airways Flight 2120, a McDonnell Douglas DC‑8 departing King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, suffered an inflight fire that began in the left main wheel‑well shortly after takeoff. Smoke and structural damage from the wheel‑area fire crippled systems and filled the cabin; the crew were unable to regain control and the aircraft crashed into the desert, killing all 261 people on board. The investigation traced the catastrophe to overheated or damaged tyre and wheel assemblies and to shortcomings in ground servicing and maintenance practices, prompting industry-wide attention to wheel/tyre maintenance and inflight fire procedures.