Aircraft crashes listing: date · aircraft · location · deaths  ·  October 4, 2024, 2:16 GMT
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Aircraft crashes listing

Date Aircraft Location Deaths
1937, May 6 German zeppelin Hindenburg Burned at mooring, Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA 36
1944, Aug 23 US Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber Hit school, Freckleton, England 61
1945, Jul 28 US Army B-25 Hit Empire State Building, New York City 14
1952, Dec 20 US Air Force C-124 Fell, burned, Moses Lake, Washington, USA 87
1953, Mar 3 Canadian Pacific Comet Jet Karachi, Pakistan 11
1953, Jun 18 US Air Force C-124 Crashed, burned near Tokyo 129
1955, Oct 6 United Airlines DC-4 Crashed in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, USA 66
1955, Nov 1 United Airlines DC-6B Exploded, crashed near Longmont, Colorado, USA 44
1956, Jun 20 Venezuelan Super-Constellation Crashed in Atlantic off Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA 74
1956, Jun 30 TWA Super-Const., United DC-7 Collided over Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA 128
1960, Dec 16 United DC-8 jet, TWA Super-Const. Collided over New York City 134
1962, Mar 16 Flying Tiger Super-Constellation Vanished in W Pacific 107
1962, Jun 3 Air France Boeing 707 Crashed on takeoff from Paris 130
1962, Jun 22 Air France Boeing 707 Crashed in storm, Guadeloupe, West Indies 113
1963, Jun 3 Chartered Northwest Airlines DC-7 Crashed in Pacific off British Colombia, Canada 101
1963, Nov 29 Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F Crashed after takeoff from Montreal 118
1965, May 20 Pakistani Boeing 720-B Crashed at Cairo, Egypt, airport 121
1966, Jan 24 Air India Boeing 707 Crashed on Mont Blanc, France-Italy 117
1966, Feb 4 All-Nippon Boeing 727 Plunged into Tokyo Bay 133
1966, Mar 5 BOAC Boeing 707 Crashed on Mount Fuji, Japan 124
1966, Dec 24 US military-chartered CL-44 Crashed into village in South Vietnam 129
1967, Apr 20 Swiss Britannia turboprop Crashed at Nicosia, Cyprus 126
1967, Jul 19 Piedmont Boeing 727, Cessna 310 Collided in air, Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA 82
1968, Apr 20 S. African Airways Boeing 707 Crashed on takeoff, Windhoek, South-West Africa 122
1968, May 3 Braniff International Electra Crashed in storm near Dawson, Texas, USA 85
1969, Mar 16 Venezuelan DC-9 Crashed after takeoff from Maracaibo, Venezuela 155
1969, Dec 8 Olympic Airways DC-6B Crashed near Athens in storm 93
1970, Feb 15 Dominican DC-9 Crashed into sea on takeoff from Santo Domingo 102
1970, Jul 3 British chartered jetliner Crashed near Barcelona, Spain 112
1970, Jul 5 Air Canada DC-8 Crashed near Toronto International Airport 108
1970, Aug 9 Peruvian turbojet Crashed after takeoff from Cuzco, Peru 101
1970, Nov 14 Sourthern Airways DC-9 Crashed in mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, USA 75
1971, Jul 30 All-Nippon Boeing 727, Japanese Air Force F-86 Collided over Morioka, Japan 162
1971, Sep 4 Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 Crashed into mountain near Juneau, Alaska, USA 111
1972, Aug 14 East German Ilyushin-62 Crashed on takeoff, East Berlin 156
1972, Oct 13 Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 Crashed near Moscow 176
1972, Dec 3 Chartered Spanish airliner Crashed on takeoff, Canary Islands 155
1972, Dec 29 Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar Crashed on approach to Miami Intl. Airport 101
1973, Jan 22 Chartered Boeing 707 Burst into flames during landing, Kano Airport, Nigeria 176
1973, Feb 21 Libyan jetliner Shot down by Israeli fighter planes over Sinai 108
1973, Apr 10 British Vanguard turboprop Crashed during snowstorm ar Basel Switzerland 104
1973, Jun 3 Soviet supersonic TU-144 Crashed near Goussainville, France 14
1973, Jul 11 Brazilian Boeing 707 Crashed on approach to Orly Airport, Paris 122
1973, Jul 31 Delta Airlines jetliner Crashed, landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, USA 89
1973, Dec 23 French Caravelle jet Crashed in Morocco 106
1974, Mar 3 Turkish DC-10 Crashed at Ermenonville, near Paris 346
1974, Apr 23 Pan American 707 Crashed in Bali, Indonesia 107
1974, Dec 1 TWA-727 Crashed in storm, Upperville, Virginia, USA 92
1974, Dec 4 Dutch-chartered DC-8 Crashed in storm near Colombo, Sri Lanka 191
1975, Apr 4 US Air Force Galaxy C-5A Crashed near Saigon, S Vietnam, after takeoff 172
1975, Jun 24 Eastern Airlines 727 Crashed in storm, JFK Airport, New York 113
1975, Aug 3 Chartered 707 Hit moutainside, Agadir, Morocco 188
1976, Sep 10 British Airways Trident, Yugoslav DC-9 Collided near Zagreb, Yugoslavia 176
1976, Sep 19 Turkish 727 Hit mountain, S Turkey 155
1976, Oct 13 Bolivian 707 cargo jet Crashed in Santa Cruz, Bolivia 100
1977, Mar 27 KLM 747, Pan American 747 Collided on runway, Tenerife, Canary Islands 582
1977, Nov 19 TAP Boeing 727 Crashed in Madeira 130
1977, Dec 4 Malaysian Boeing 737 Hijacked, then exploded in mid-air over Straits of Johore 100
1977, Dec 13 US DC-3 Crashed after takeoff at Evansville, Indiana, USA 29
1978, Jan 1 Air India 747 Exploded, crashed into sea off Bombay 213
1978, Sep 25 Boeing 727, Cessna 172 Collided in air, San Diego, California, USA 150
1978, Nov 15 Chartered DC-8 Crashed near Colombo, Sri Lanka 183
1979, May 25 American Airlines DC-10 Crashed after takeoff at O'Hare Intl. Airport, Chicago 275
1979, Aug 17 Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners Collided over Ukraine 173
1979, Nov 26 Pakistani Boeing 707 Crashed near Jidda, Saudi Arabia 156
1979, Nov 28 New Zealand DC-10 Crashed into mountain in Antarctica 257
1980, Mar 14 Polish Ilyushin-62 Crashed making emergency landing, Warsaw 87
1980, Aug 19 Saudi Arabian Tristar Burned after emergency landing, Riyadh 301
1981, Dec 1 Yugoslavian DC-9 Crashed into mountain in Corsica 178
1982, Jan 13 Air Florida Boeing 737 Crashed into Potomac River after takeoff 78
1982, Jul 19 Pan Am Boeing 727 Crashed after takeoff in Kenner, Louisiana, USA 153
1983, Sep 1 S Korean Boeing 747 Shot down after violating Soviet airspace 269
1983, Nov 27 Colombian Boeing 747 Crashed near Barajas Airport, Madrid 183
1985, Feb 19 Spanish Boeing 727 Crashed into Mount Olz, Spain 148
1985, Jun 23 Air India Boeing 747 Crashed into Atlantic Ocean south of Ireland 329
1985, Aug 2 Delta Airlines L-1011 Crashed at Dallas-Ft. Worth Intl. Airport, Texas, USA 137
1985, Aug 12 Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 Crashed into Mount Ogura, Japan 520
1985, Dec 12 Arrow Air DC-8 Crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada 256
1986, Mar 31 Mexican Boeing 727 Crashed NW of Mexico City 166
1986, Aug 31 Aeromexico DC-9 Collided with Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, USA 82
1987, May 9 Polish Ilyushin-62M Crashed after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland 183
1987, Aug 16 Northwest Airlines MD-82 Crashed after takeoff in Romulus, Michigan, USA 156
1987, Nov 28 South African Boeign 747 Crashed into Indian Ocean near Mauritius 159
1987, Nov 29 South Korean Boeing 707 Exploded over Thai-Burmese border 155
1988, Mar 17 Colombian Boeing 707 Crashed into mountainside near Venezuela border 137
1988, Jul 3 Iranian A300 Airbus Shot down by US Navy warship Vincennes over Persian Gulf 290
1988, Dec 21 Pan Am Boeing 747 Exploded and crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland 270
1989, Feb 8 US Boeing 707 Crashed into mountain in Azores Islands off Portugal 144
1989, Jun 7 Suriname DC-8 Crashed near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname 168
1989, Jul 19 United Airlines DC-10 Crashed while landing in Sioux City, Iowa, USA 111
1989, Sep 19 French DC-10 Exploded in air over Niger 171
1990, Oct 2 Chinese airline Boeing 737 Hijacked; crashed upon landing in Guangzhou, China 132
1991, May 26 Lauda-Air Boeing 767-300 Exploded over rural Thailand 223
1991, Jul 11 Nigerian DC-8 Crashed while landing at Jidda, Saudi Arabia 261
1991, Oct 5 Indonesian military transport Crashed after takeoff from Jakarta 137
1992, Jul 31 Thai Airbus A-300-310 Crashed into mountain south of Kathmandu, Nepal 113
1992, Oct 4 El Al Boeing 747-200F Crashed into 2 apartment buildings, Amsterdam, Netherlands 120
1994, Jan 3 Aeroflot TU-154 Crashed and exploded after takeoff in Irkhutzk, Russia 125
1994, Apr 26 China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R Crashed at Nagoya Airport, Japan 264
1994, Jun 16 China Northwest Airlines TU-154 Crashed 10 minutes after takeoff 160
1994, Sep 8 USAir Boeing 737-300 Crashed in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA 132
1994, Oct 31 American Eagle ATR-72-210 Crashed in field near Roselawn, Indiana, USA 68
1995, Aug 11 Aviateca Boeing 737 Crashed into Chichontepec volcano, El Salvador 65
1995, Dec 20 American Airlines Boeing 757 Crashed into mountain north of Cali, Colombia 160
1996, Jan 8 Antonova 32 cargo jet Crashed into central market, Kinshasha, Zaire 350+
1996, Feb 6 Turkish Boeing 757 Crashed into Atlantic Ocean, off Dominican Republic 189
1996, Apr 25 T-43, military version of Boeing 737 Crashed into mountain near Dubrovnik, Croatia 35
1996, May 11 ValuJet DC-9 Crashed into the Florida Everglades after takeoff 110
1996, Jul 17 TWA Boeing 747 Exploded and crashed in Atlantic Ocean, off Long Island, New York, USA 230
1996, Aug 29 Vnukovo TU-154 Crashed into mountain on Arctic island of Spitsbergen 141
1996, Oct 2 Aeroperu Boeing 757 Crashed in Pacific after takeoff from Lima, Peru 70
1996, Oct 31 Brazilian TAM Fokker-100 Crashed into houses in Sao Paulo, Brazil 98
1996, Nov 7 Nigerian Boeing 727 Crashed into a lagoon SE of Lagos, Nigeria 143
1996, Nov 12 Saudi Arabian Boeing 747, Kazakh Ilyushin-76 cargo plane Collided in mid-air near New Dehli, India 349
1996, Nov 23 Ethiopian Boeing 767 Hijacked, then crashed in Indian Ocean off the Comoros 127
1997, Jan 9 Comair Embraer 120 Crashed on approach into Detroit Metro Airport 29
1997, Feb 4 2 Sikorsky CH-53 transport helicopters Collided in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel 73
1997, May 8 China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 Crashed on approach into Shenzhen's Huangtian Airport 35
1997, Jul 11 Cubana de Aviacon Antonov-24 Crashed into the Caribbean off SE Cuba 44
1997, Aug 6 Korean Air Boeing 747-300 Crashed into jungle on Guam on approach into airport 228
1997, Sep 3 Vietnamese Tupolev TU-134 Crashed on approach into Phnom Penh airport 64
1997, Sep 14 US C-141 cargo plane, German TU-154 Collided in id-air off SW Africa 33
1997, Sep 26 Indonesian Airbus A-300 Crashed near Medan, Indonesia, airport 234
1997, Oct 10 Austral Airlines DC-9-32 Crashed and exploded near Neuvo Berlin, Uruguay 74
1997, Dec 6 Russian AN-124 transport cargo plane Crashed into apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia 67
1997, Dec 15 Chartered TU-154 from Tajikistan Crashed in desert near Sharja, U.A.E., airport 85
1997, Dec 17 Chartered Yakovlev-42 from Ukraine Crashed in mountains near Katerini, Greece 70
1997, Dec 19 SilkAir Boeing 737-300 Crashed in Musi River, Sumatra, Indonesia 104
1998, Jan 14 Afghan cargo plane Crashed into mountain, SW Pakistan 50+
1998, Feb 2 Cebu Pacific Air DC-32 Crashed into mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines 104
1998, Feb 16 China Airlines Airbus 300-622R Crashed on approach to airport, Taipei, Taiwan 203
1998, Apr 20 Air France Boeing 727-200 Crashed into mountain after takeoff from Bogota, Colombia 53
1998, Sep 2 Swissair MD-11 Crashed into Atlantic Ocean off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada 229
1998, Sep 25 Pauknair BAE146 Crashed into hillside in Morocco 38
1998, Oct 11 Congo Air Lines Boeing 727 Shot down by rebels in Kindu, Congo 40
1998, Dec 11 Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 Crashed short of runway at Surat Thani airport, southern Thailand 101
1999, Feb 3 Chartered Antonov plane Crashed in residential area of Luanda, Angola 28
1999, Feb 24 China Southwest Airlines TU-154 Crashed on approach to Wenzhou airport, eastern China 61
1999, Sep 1 LAPA Boeing 737-200 Crashed on takeoff from Jorge Newbery Airport, Buenos Aires 74
1999, Oct 31 EgyptAir Boeing 767-300 Crashed off Nantucket, MA, USA 217
1999, Dec 25 Cubana de Aviacion Yak-42 Crashed into mountain near Valencia, Venezuela 22
2000, Jan 14 Chartered Shorts SD-360 Crashed into Mediterranean Sea of Tripoli, Libya 22
2000, Jan 30 Kenya Airways Airbus A310 Crashed into Atlantic Ocean after takeoff from Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire 169
2000, Jan 31 Alaska Airlines MD-83 Crashed into Pacific Ocean NW of Malibu, CA, USA 88
2000, Apr 8 Marine Corps V-22 Osprey Crashed landing at Marana, AZ, USA 19
2000, Apr 19 Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 Crashed by Davao airport 131
2000, May 21 Chartered Jetstream 31 Crashed near Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA 19
2000, Jul 25 Air France Concorde Crashed into hotel after takeoff from Paris 113
2000, Aug 9 Piper Navajo and Piper Seminole Collided over a housing development in Burlington, NJ, USA 11
2000, Aug 23 Gulf Air Airbus A320 Crashed into Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain 143
2000, Oct 31 Singapore Airlines 747-400 Crashed immediately after takeoff, Taipei, Taiwan 81
2000, Oct 31 Chartered Antonov 26 Exploded after takeoff in northern Angola 50
2000, Nov 15 Chartered Antonov 24 Crashed after takeoff from Luanda, Angola 40+
2001, Jan 27 Chartered Beechcraft King Air 200 Crashed after takeoff from Boulder, Colorado, USA 10
2001, Mar 3 C23 Sherpa military transport Crashed in storm, central Georgia, USA 21
2001, Mar 29 Chartered Gulfstream III jet Crashed into hillside on approach to Apsen, Colorado, USA 18
2001, Apr 7 M-17 helicopter Crashed into mountain south of Hanoi, Vietnam 16
2001, Jul 3 Vladivostokavia Tu-154 Crashed on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia 145
2001, Sept 11 2 Boeing 767s, 2 Boeing 757s See note below* 265
2001, Oct 4 Sibir Airlines Tu-154 Crashed into Black Sea, struck by errant Ukrainian missile 78
2001 Oct 8 Twin-engine Cessna, SAS jetliner Collided in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy 118
2001, Nov 12 American Airlines Airbus A300 Crashed after taleoff from JFK Airport, New York, NY, USA 265
2002, Jan 17 Petroproduccion Fairchild FH-227E Crashed into mountain in S Columbia 26
2002, Jan 28 Ecuadoran airline Boeing 727-100 Crashed in Andes mountains in southern Columbia 92
2002, Feb 12 Iran Air Tours Tu-154 Crashed before landing in Khorramabad, Iran 119
2002, Apr 15 Air China Boeing 767-200 Crashed into hillside amid rain and fog near Pusan, South Korea 122
2002, Apr 18 4-seat Rockwell Commander Crashed into Pirelli buidling, Milan's tallest skyscraper, Italy 3
2002, May 4 EAS Airlines BAC 1-11-500 Crashed in suburb of Kano, Nigeria, shortly after takeoff 148+
2002, May 7 China Northern MD-82 Plunged into Yellow Sea near Dalian, China, after cabin fire 112
2002, May 25 China Airlines Boeing 747-200 Broke apart in midair and plunged into Taiwan Strait 225
2002, Jul 1 Bashkirian Airline Tu-154 and DHL Boeing 757 Collided over south Germany 71
2002, Jul 4 Prestige Airlines Cargo Boeing B-707 Crashed short of runway in Bangui, Central African Republic 25
2002, Jul 27 Ukraine Air Force Sukhoi SU-27 Crashed into spectators at airshow in Lviv, Ukraine 85
2002, Aug 19 Russian Mi-26 helicopter Troop-carrier hit by Chechen missile near Grozny 118+
2002, Dec 23 Aeromist Kharkiv Antonov AN-140 Crashed into a mountain in fog approaching Isfahan, Iran 46
2003. Jan 8 Air midwest, Beechcraft 1900D CRashed after takeoff at Charlotte, NC, USA 21
2003, Jan 8 Turkish Airlines Avro RJ-100 Crashed on landing in Diyarbakir, Turkey 75
2003, Jan 9 TANS Airlines Fokker 28 Fellowship Crashed into mountain near Chachopoyas, Peru 46
2003, Feb 19 Iranian Guard Ilyushin IL-76 Troop-carrying plane crashed into mountain near Kerman, Iran 289
2003, Mar 6 Air Algerie Boeing 737 Crashed on takeoff at Tamanrasset, Algeria 102
2003, May 8 Congolese Army IL-76 Door opened and passengers sucked out on flight from Kinshasha 60-170
2003, May 26 Ukraine-Mediterranean Airlines Yak. 42D Crashed into mountain in fog approaching Trabzon, Turkey 75
2003, Jun 30 Algerian Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules Military plane crashed into houses in Blida, Algeria 15
2003, Jul 8 Sudan Airways Boeing 737-2J8C Crashed into hillside after takeoff from Port Sudan Airport 116
2003, Jul 19 Ryan Blake Air Charter, Swearington SA-226TC Metro II Crashed into Mount Kenya 14
2003, Aug 24 Tropical Airways Let 410UVP-E Crashed after takeoff in Haiti 21
* Four planes were hijacked and crashed, with all on board killed. American Airlines Flight 11 (Boeing 767-200, 81 passengers, 11 crew) crashed into Tower 1 of the World Trade Center, NYC; United Airlines Flight 175 (Boeing 767-200, 56 passengers, 9 crew) crashed into Tower 2 of the WTC; American Airlines Flight 77 (Boeing 757-200, 58 passengers, 6 crew) crashed into the Pentagon outside Washington, DC; United Airlines Flight 93 (Boeing 757-200, 37 passengers, 7 crew) crashed near Shanksville, PA. Additionally, nearly 3,000 people died on the ground in the 2 WTC towers and the Pentagon.
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