no fatalities; three people on the aircraft and one member of the ground crew are injured.. 20 August – Loch Lomond Seaplanes launches scheduled services from Glasgow Seaplane Terminal to Oban in Scotland. 26 August – An Antonov An-32B owned by Agefreco Air and operated by the Great Lakes Business Company, carrying 12 passengers and a crew of three, crashes short of the runway while attempting to return to Kongolo Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to engine problems on takeoff. 14 of the occupants die. 29–30 August A nuclear weapons incident occurs when six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, are mistakenly loaded onto a USAF B-52H Stratofortress at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on 29 August, and flown to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, on 30 August in violation of various mandatory security precautions for nuclear weapons. The incident has wide-ranging repercussions, including reforms in the handling procedures for nuclear weapons and the U.S. Air Force's creation in October 2008 of a Global Strike Command to control all USAF nuclear bombers, nuclear missiles, and nuclear-associated personnel. September 1 September – Two Zlin Z-526 aircraft of the Polish Zelazny aerobatics team collide during a performance at the Radom Air Show in Radom, Poland, killing both pilots. 3 September – American aviation adventurer Steve Fossett disappears during a flight in a Bellanca Super Decathlon from the Flying-M Ranch near Smith Valley, Nevada. The wreckage of his plane and his remains are not found until October 2008, allowing a determination that he had crashed into a granite cliff from Mammoth Lakes, California, at an altitude of . 13 September – In the "Celestial Eagle Remembrance Flight," USAF Captain Todd Pearson flies a Florida Air National Guard F-15A Eagle based at Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida, on the 22nd anniversary of the "Celestial Eagle Flight," in which his father, retired U.S. Air Force Major General (then Major) Wilbert D. "Doug" Pearson, had flown the same F-15A for a test launch of the ASM-135 anti-satellite missile on 13 September 1985 in which he became the only person in history to destroy a satellite with an aircraft-launched missile. 15 September – Scottish rally driver Colin MacRae and his five-year-old son are among four people killed when the Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil he is piloting crashes near Lanark, Scotland. 16 September – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight