Date | Operator | Flight / information | Fatalities | Sole survivor (if known) | Notes | Source |
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Name | Nationality | Age | M/F | P/C |
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1929-03-17 | Colonial Western Airlines | Ford Trimotor crash in Newark | 14 | Lou Foote | United States | 34 | M | C | Pilot of the sightseeing flight. | [2] [3] |
1930-08-22 | Czechoslovak Airlines | Ford Trimotor crash in Jihlava | 12 | Vojtěch Kraus | Czechoslovakia | 30 | M | P | | [4] [5] |
1935-12-31 | Imperial Airways | Short Calcutta crash on the Nile near Alexandria | 12 | Vernon Gorry Wilson | United Kingdom | 33 | M | C | Captain of the flight. | [6] [7] |
1936-09-05 | Pittsburgh Skyways | Stinson 6000 crash in Pittsburgh | 10 | Linda McDonald | United States | 17 | F | P | | [8] [9] |
1936-09-24 | Ala Littoria | CANT Z.506 crash off Benghazi | 9 | | | | M | C | Radio operator of the flight. | [10] [11] |
1939-11-17 | Spanish Air Force | Ju 52 ditching off Cape Juby | 10 | Manuel Copano Taboada | Spain | | M | C | Air observer on the flight. | [12] [13] |
1941-10-30 | Northwest Airlines | Flight 5 | 14 | Clarence Bates | United States | 41 | M | C | Captain of the flight; died in another plane crash one year later. | [14] |
1942-08-25 | Royal Air Force | Dunbeath air crash [e] | 15 | Sgt Andrew Jack | United Kingdom | 20 | M | C | Tail gunner of the flight. Fatalities included Prince George, Duke of Kent. | [15] |
1943-01-22 | Pan American-Grace Airways | Flight 9 | 14 | John Alfred Howard | United Kingdom | 26 | M | P | | [16] |
1943-06-14 | US Army Air Forces | Bakers Creek air crash [f] | 40 | Foye Kenneth Roberts | United States | 22 | M | P | | [17] |
1943-07-04 | Royal Air Force | Gibraltar Liberator AL523 crash [g] | 16 | Eduard Prchal | Czechoslovakia | 33 | M | C | Pilot of the flight. Fatalities included Polish general Władysław Sikorski. | [18] |
1945-03-05 | Luftwaffe | Resko Przymorskie Dornier Do 24 crash [h] | 80 | | Nazi Germany | | F | P | | [19] |
1946-09-05 | Trans-Luxury Airlines | Douglas C-47 crash in Elko | 20 | Peter Link | United States | 3 | M | P | | [20] [21] |
1947-01-12 | Eastern Air Lines | Flight 665 | 18 | William Keyes Jr. | United States | 25 | M | P | | [22] [23] |
1947-01-28 | China National Aviation Corporation | Curtiss C-46 Commando crash in Hankou | 25 | Paul Ashton Vick | United States | 1 (16 months) | M | P | | [24] [25] |
1947-02-01 | Air France | Sintra Douglas C-47 crash | 15 | Eugene Leonard | France | 38 | M | P | | [26] |
1948-03-10 | Delta Air Lines | Flight 705 | 12 | Tripolina Meo | United States | 33 | F | P | | [27] [28] |
1948-04-15 | Pan Am | Flight 1–10 | 30 | Mark Worst | United States | 38 | M | P | | [29] [30] |
1948-04-24 | Aeroflot | Bodaybo Lisunov Li-2 crash | 28 | | | | | P | | [31] |
1948-05-12 | Sabena | Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash | 31 | Georges Moutafis | Egypt | | M | P | | [32] [33] |
1948-07-17 | Cathay Pacific | Miss Macao | 25 | Huang Yu [i] | Republic of China (1912–1949) | 24 | M | P | One of four hijackers of the aircraft. | [34] [35] |
1949-07-21 | Aeroflot | Ilyushin Il-12 crash in Nizhneudinsk | 13 | | | | | C | | [36] |
1949-11-20 | Aero Holland | Hurum air disaster | 34 | Isaac Allal | French Tunisia (1881–1956) | 12 | M | P | | [37] [38] |
1950-05-24 | LANSA | Galeras Douglas C-47 crash | 25 | Olga Rada | Colombia | 10 | F | P | | [39] [40] |
1950-07-27 | US Air Force | Douglas C-47 crash near Ōshima Island | 25 | Sgt. Haru "Harry" Sazaki | United States | 31 | M | P | | [41] [42] |
1950-10-17 | British European Airways | Mill Hill Douglas C-47 crash | 28 | James McKissick | United Kingdom | 33 | M | C | Flight attendant on the flight. | [43] [44] |
1950-12-30 | Aerolíneas Argentinas | Douglas C-47 crash in Camet | 17 | Susana Castilla | Argentina | 7 | F | P | | [45] [46] |
1951-03-25 | Aeroflot | Lisunov Li-2 crash in Iskra | 12 | | | | | P | | [47] |
1951-11-21 | Deccan Airways | Douglas C-47 crash near Dum Dum Airport | 16 | C. N. Mehta | India | | M | P | | [48] [49] [50] |
1953-05-17 | Delta Air Lines | Flight 318 | 19 | Hazel Cox | United States | 21 | F | P | | [51] [52] |
1953-10-31 | Aeroflot | Lisunov Li-2 crash near Kharkiv Airport | 15 | | | | | P | | [53] |
1954-01-06 | Royal Air Force | Aldbury Valetta accident | 16 | Patrick Cliff | United Kingdom | 19 | M | P | | [54] [55] |
1954-08-26 | Aeroflot | Lisunov Li-2 crash near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | 26 | | Soviet Union | 40 | M | P | | [56] |
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1956-05-24 | Aviateca | Douglas DC-3 crash near Rio Hondo | 30 | Roberto Ovando | Guatemala | 22 | M | P | | [57] [58] |
1956-11-24 | Linee Aeree Italiane | Flight 451 | 34 | Concetta Finamore | Italy | | F | P | | [59] [60] |
1957-03-17 | Philippine Air Force | Cebu Douglas C-47 crash | 25 | Nestor Mata | Philippines | 31 | M | P | Reporter for the Philippine Herald. Fatalities included Ramon Magsaysay, president of the Philippines. | [61] |
1957-05-01 | Eagle Aviation Limited | Blackbushe Viking accident | 34 | Ernest Taylor | United Kingdom | 25 | M | P | | [62] [63] |
1957-10-01 | Aeroflot | Flight 11 | 27 | | | | | P | | [64] |
1958-05-20 | US Air Force / Maryland Air National Guard | T-33 mid-air collision with Capital Airlines Flight 300 | 12 | Capt. Julius McCoy | United States | 34 | M | C | Captain of the flight. | [65] [66] |
1958-08-11 | Lóide Aéreo Nacional | Douglas DC-4 crash in Belém | 10 | Cassiano Cirilo Anunciação | Brazil | 27 | M | P | | [67] [68] |
1959-01-16 | Austral Líneas Aéreas | Flight 205 | 51 | Roberto Servente | Argentina | 39 | M | P | | [69] [70] |
1959-10-23 | Aeroflot | Flight 200 | 28 | | | | | P | | [71] |
1959-10-30 | Piedmont Airlines | Flight 349 | 26 | Ernest P. "Phil" Bradley | United States | 33 | M | P | | [72] [73] |
1959-12-01 | Allegheny Airlines | Flight 371 | 25 | Louis Matarazzo | United States | 35 | M | P | | [74] [75] |
1960-02-26 | Aeroflot | Flight 315 | 32 | | Soviet Union | 33 | M | P | | [76] |
1961-09-23 | Turkish Airlines | Flight 835 | 28 | Salih Kalafatoğlu | Turkey | 40 | M | P | | [77] [78] |
1962-01-27 | Aeroflot | Antonov An-10 training crash in Baratayevka Airport | 13 | | | | | C | | [79] |
1963-08-12 | Air Inter | Flight 2611 | 16 [j] | Elsa Simon | France | 5 | F | P | | [80] [81] |
1965-04-14 | British United Airways | Flight 1030X | 26 | Dominique Sillière | France | 22 | F | C | Flight attendant on the flight. | [82] [83] |
1966-02-02 | Pakistan International Airlines | Flight 17 | 23 | Muhammad Abdul Mannan | East Pakistan | 19 | M | P | | [84] [85] |
1967-04-25 | US Air Force | Lockheed EC-121H crash off Nantucket Island | 15 | Lt. Joseph "Leo" Guenet | Canada | 29 | M | C | Navigator of the flight. | [86] [87] |
1967-04-26 | Avianca | Douglas C-47 crash near Sogamoso | 17 | | | | | C | | [88] |
1967-06-24 | Saudi Arabian Airlines | Douglas C-47 crash en route to Jeddah | 16 | | Switzerland | | | P | | [89] [90] [91] |
1968-02-29 | Aeroflot | Flight 15 | 83 | Vassily Andrienko | Soviet Union | 21 | M | P | | [92] |
1968-03-09 | Groupe de Liaisons Aériennes Ministérielles (GLAM) | Sainte-Marie Douglas DC-6 crash | 19 | Michèle Renard | France | 27 | F | P | | [93] [94] |
1970-01-25 | Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) | Convair CV-240 crash in Veracruz | 19 | Jesús Kramsky | Mexico | 22 | M | P | | [95] [96] |
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1970-02-04 | TAROM | Flight 35 | 20 | Ludovic Alexandru Sarkadi | Romania | 43 | M | P | | [97] [98] |
1970-05-04 | US Air Force | Convair T-29 crash near Hamilton Air Force Base | 13 | Capt. George A. Burk | United States | 28 | M | P | | [99] |
1970-08-09 | LANSA | Flight 502 | 101 [k] | Juan Loo | Peru | 26 | M | C | First officer of the flight. | [100] |
1971-06-06 | United States Marine Corps | F-4 mid-air collision with Hughes Airwest Flight 706 | 50 | Lt. Christopher E. Schiess | United States | 24 | M | C | Radar operator of the flight. | [101] [102] |
1971-12-24 | LANSA | Flight 508 | 91 | Juliane Koepcke | West Germany | 17 | F | P | Fell 10,000 feet (3,000 m) while strapped to her seat. | [103] [104] |
1972-01-26 | JAT Airways | Flight 367 | 27 | Vesna Vulović | Yugoslavia | 22 | F | C | Flight attendant on the flight; survived falling from 33,000 feet (10,000 m). | [105] [104] |
1973-07-22 | Pan Am | Flight 816 | 78 | Neil James Campbell | Canada | 28 | M | P | | [106] [107] |
1977-07-20 | Aeroflot | Flight B-2 | 39 | | Soviet Union | 21 | M | P | | [108] |
1979-01-15 | Aeroflot | Antonov An-24 crash near Minsk-1 Airport | 13 | Vika Bendeberya | Soviet Union | 3 | F | P | | [109] [110] |
1979-05-30 | Downeast Airlines | Flight 46 | 17 | John McCafferty | United States | 16 | M | P | | [111] [100] |
1981-08-24 | Aeroflot | Flight 811 mid-air collision with Soviet Air Forces Tu-16 | 37 | Larisa Savitskaya | Soviet Union | 20 | F | P | | [112] [113] |
1981-09-02 | Taxi Aéreo El Venado | Embraer Bandeirante crash in Paipa | 21 | Remberto Aparicio | Colombia | 26 | M | P | | [114] [115] |
1982-06-17 | Ministry of Radio Equipment Production | Tupolev Tu-134 crash near Severomorsk-1 Naval Air Station | 15 | | Soviet Union | | | C | Captain of the flight. | [116] [117] |
1983-04-30 | US Navy | Convair C-131 crash in Jacksonville | 14 | Melissa Kelly | United States | 30 | F | P | | [118] [119] |
1984-12-23 | Aeroflot | Flight 3519 | 110 | | Soviet Union | 27 | M | P | | [120] [100] |
1985-01-21 | Galaxy Airlines | Flight 203 | 70 | George Lamson Jr. | United States | 17 | M | P | | [105] [100] |
1985-02-22 | Air Mali | Air Mali Antonov An-24 crash | 51 | Ouologuem | Mali | | M | P | | [121] [122] |
1987-01-03 | Varig | Flight 797 | 50 | Neuba Yessoh Damase | Ivory Coast | 44 | M | P | | [123] [124] |
1987-08-16 | Northwest Airlines | Flight 255 | 156 [k] | Cecelia Cichan [l] | United States | 4 | F | P | | [103] |
1987-12-08 | Peruvian Navy | Alianza Lima plane crash | 43 | Lt. Edilberto Villar | Peru | | M | C | Captain of the flight. Fatalities included multiple members of Peruvian football club Alianza Lima. | [126] |
1988-12-11 | Soviet Air Force | Soviet Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 crash | 77 | Fahraddin Balaev | Soviet Union | | M | P | | [127] |
1991-10-05 | Indonesian Air Force | Jakarta Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash | 135 [k] | Bambang Sumadi | Indonesia | 25 | M | P | | [128] |
1992-10-19 | Aeroflot | Antonov An-28 crash in Syktyvkar | 15 | | | | | P | | [129] |
1992-11-14 | Vietnam Airlines | Flight 474 | 30 | Annette Herfkens | Netherlands | 31 | F | P | | [130] [100] |
1993-12-26 | Kuban Airlines | Flight GW-5719 | 35 | Smbat Martirosian | Georgia | 21 | M | P | | [131] [132] |
1994-04-25 | Dirgantara Air Service | Britten-Norman Islander crash in Sintang | 10 | Nur Intan Fitriani | Indonesia | 31 | F | P | | [133] [134] |
1995-01-11 | Intercontinental de Aviación | Flight 256 | 51 | Erika Delgado | Colombia | 9 | F | P | | [105] |
1995-09-21 | MIAT Mongolian Airlines | Flight 557 | 42 | Ulziibayar Sanjaa | Mongolia | 27 | M | P | | [135] |
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1996-11-30 | ACES Colombia | DHC-6 Twin Otter crash near Olaya Herrera Airport | 14 | Pedro Rafael Rojas | Colombia | 39 | M | P | | [136] [137] [138] |
1996-12-07 | Dirgantara Air Service | Flight 5940 | 18 [k] | Irianto | Indonesia | 40 | M | P | | [139] |
1997-09-03 | Vietnam Airlines | Flight 815 | 65 [m] | Chanayuth Nim-anong | Thailand | 1 (14 months) | M | P | Youngest known sole survivor, based on age at time of incident. | [141] [140] |
1997-12-15 | Tajik Air | Flight 3183 | 85 | Sergei Petrov | Tajikistan | 37 | M | C | Navigator of the flight. | [142] [143] |
2001-03-17 | Sociedade de Aviação Ligeira | Beechcraft 1900 crash in Quilemba | 16 | Manuel González Pérez | Spain | 25 | M | P | | [144] [145] |
2003-03-06 | Air Algérie | Flight 6289 | 102 | Youcef Djillali | Algeria | 28 | M | P | | [143] [100] |
2003-07-08 | Sudan Airways | Flight 139 | 116 | Mohammed el-Fateh Osman | Sudan | 2 | M | P | | [105] [146] [100] |
2006-01-19 | Slovak Air Force | Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash | 42 | Lt. Martin Farkaš | Slovakia | 27 | M | P | | [147] [148] |
2006-08-27 | Comair | Flight 5191 | 49 | James M. Polehinke | United States | 44 | M | C | First officer of the flight. | [149] [100] |
2007-01-09 | AerianTur-M | AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crash | 34 | Abdülkadir Akyüz | Turkey | 31 | M | P | | [150] [151] |
2007-08-26 | Great Lakes Business Company | Kongolo Antonov An-32B crash | 14 | | | 2 | M | P | | [152] |
2007-10-04 | Malift Air | Africa One Antonov An-26 crash | 51 [n] | Dédé Ngamba | Democratic Republic of the Congo | | M | C | Aircraft's mechanic. Some sources state that there were two survivors. | [153] [154] |
2008-10-08 | Yeti Airlines | Flight 101 | 18 | Surendra Kunwar | Nepal | | M | C | Captain of the flight. | [155] [100] |
2009-03-12 | Cougar Helicopters | Flight 91 | 17 | Robert Decker | Canada | 28 | M | P | | [156] |
2009-06-30 | Yemenia | Flight 626 | 152 | Bahia Bakari | France | 12 | F | P | | [103] |
2010-05-12 | Afriqiyah Airways | Flight 771 | 103 | Ruben van Assouw | Netherlands | 9 | M | P | | [103] [157] [158] |
2010-08-25 | Filair | Filair Let L-410 crash | 20 | | | | | P | | [159] [160] |
2011-04-04 | Georgian Airways / United Nations | Flight 834 | 32 | Francis Mwamba | Congo | | M | P | | [161] [162] |
2011-09-07 | Yak-Service | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash | 44 | Alexander Sizov | Russia | 52 | M | C | Aircraft's mechanic; oldest known sole survivor, based on age at time of incident. Fatalities included multiple members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team. | [163] [164] |
2014-02-11 | Algerian Air Force | Algerian Air Force C-130 crash | 77 | Nimer Djelloul | Algeria | 21 | M | P | | [165] [166] |
2014-05-17 | Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force | Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force An-74 crash | 16 | | Laos | | | | | [167] |
2014-07-07 | Vietnam Air Force | Mil Mi-171 crash in Hanoi | 20 | Đinh Văn Dương | Vietnam | 31 | M | P | Initially five survivors. | [168] [169] |
2018-05-18 | Cubana de Aviación | Flight 0972 | 112 | Mailen Diaz Almaguer | Cuba | 19 | F | P | | [170] [171] [172] |
2019-01-14 | Saha Airlines | Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash | 15 | Farshad Mahdavinejad | Iran | | M | C | Flight Engineer of the flight. | [173] [174] |
2019-11-24 | Busy Bee Congo | Busy Bee Congo Dornier 228 crash | 27 [o] | Muma Emmanuel | Cameroon | | M | P | | [175] |
2020-09-25 | Ukrainian Air Force | Chuhuiv An-26 crash | 26 | Viacheslav Zolochevsky | Ukraine | 20 | M | P | | [176] |
2024-07-24 | Saurya Airlines | Saurya Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crash | 18 | Manish Shakya | Nepal | 37 | M | C | Captain of the flight. | [177] [178] |
2025-01-29 | Light Air Services | Light Air Services Beechcraft 1900 crash | 20 | Emmanuel Maker Makoi | South Sudan | | M | P | | [179] [180] |
2025-06-12 | Air India | Flight 171 | 260 [p] | Vishwash Kumar Ramesh | United Kingdom | 40 | M | P | | [181] [182] |