Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/September 5
- 1977 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
- 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery (pictured) lands after its maiden voyage.
- 1986 – Pan Am Flight 73 with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
- 2005 – Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.