Date | Fatalities [N 1] | Survivors [N 2] | Flights involved | Phase of flight | Country | Site |
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April 7, 1922 | 7 | 0 | CGEA Farman F.60 / Daimler Hire Ltd. de Havilland DH.18A | 492 ft (150 m) | France | Picardy |
April 21, 1929 | 6 | 0 | Maddux Airlines Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor / US Army Air Corps Boeing PW-9D) | 2,000 ft (610 m) | United States | San Diego, California |
May 18, 1935 | 45 | 0 | Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky VVS Polikarpov I-5 | Cruise | Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | Moscow |
August 24, 1938 | 5 + 80 ground fatalities | | Japanese Flying School (Hanriot HD-1) and Japan Airlines Transportation (Fokker Super Universal) | Unknown | Japan | Ōmori, Tokyo |
October 23, 1942 | 12 | 2 | American Airlines Flight 28 / US Army Air Force B-34 | Ascent/descent (9,000 ft (2,700 m)) | United States | Chino Canyon, California |
July 12, 1945 | 3 | 20 | Eastern Airlines Flight 45 / US Army Air Force A-26 Invader | Descent | United States | Florence, South Carolina |
April 22, 1947 | 9 | 0 | Delta Air Lines Survey (Douglas DC-3C) / Vultee BT-13 Valiant | Descent | United States | Muscogee County Airport |
April 5, 1948 | 15 | 0 | British European Airways Vickers VC.1 Viking / Soviet Air Force Yakovlev Yak-3 fighter | Approach | Germany | RAF Gatow, Berlin |
July 4, 1948 | 39 | 0 | Scandinavian Airlines System DC-6 /RAF Avro York | Descent | United Kingdom | Northwood, London |
January 30, 1949 | 2 | 33 | Pan Am Flight 100 (Lockheed L-749 Constellation) / Cessna 140 | Climb | United States | Port Washington, New York |
February 19, 1949 | 14 | 0 | BEA Douglas Dakota /RAF Avro Anson | Cruise | United Kingdom | Exhall |
November 1, 1949 | 55 | 1 | Eastern Air Lines 537 / Lockheed P-38 test flight | Approach | United States | Washington, DC |
April 25, 1951 | 43 | 0 | Cubana de Aviación 493 / US Navy flight | Cruise/climb | United States | Key West, Florida |
June 28, 1952 | 2 | 60 | American Airlines Flight 910 / private Temco Swift | Approach | United States | Dallas, Texas |
April 8, 1954 | 37 | 0 | Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 9 / RCAF Harvard | Cruise | Canada | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan |
January 12, 1955 | 15 | 0 | TWA Flight 694 / Private DC-3 | Climb | United States | Boone County, Kentucky |
June 30, 1956 | 128 | 0 | UA Flight 718 / TWA Flight 2
| Cruise | United States | Grand Canyon, Arizona |
January 31, 1957 | 8 | 0 | Douglas Aircraft Company DC-7B / Northrop F-89J Scorpion | Cruise | United States | Pacoima, Los Angeles, California |
April 21, 1958 | 49 | 0 | United Air Lines Flight 736 / USAF F-100 Super Sabre | Cruise | United States | Las Vegas, Nevada |
May 20, 1958 | 13 | 1 | Capital Airlines Flight 300 / Air National Guard flight | Descent | United States | Brunswick, Maryland |
October 22, 1958 | 31 | 1 | British European Airways Flight 142 / Italian Air Force F-86 Sabre jet fighter | Descent | Italy | Near Anzio |
February 25, 1960 | 61 | 3 | Real Transportes Aéreos DC-3 / US Navy R6D flight | Descent | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro |
May 19, 1960 | 1 | 38 | Air Algérie Sud Aviation SE210 Caravelle 1A / Stampe SV.4 | Approach | France | Paris-Orly |
December 16, 1960 | 134 | 0 | UA Flight 826 / TWA Flight 266 | Descent | United States | New York City |
February 1, 1963 | 104 | 0 | MEA Flight 265 / Turkish Air Force flight | Descent | Turkey | Ankara |
December 4, 1965 | 4 | 108 | TWA Flight 42 / Eastern Airlines Flight 853 | Descent | United States | Carmel, New York |
March 9, 1967 | 26 | 0 | TWA Flight 553 / Private flight | Descent | United States | Urbana, Ohio |
July 19, 1967 | 82 | 0 | Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 / Lanseair Inc. flight | Climb/descent | United States | Hendersonville, North Carolina, |
March 27, 1968 | 2 | 49 | Ozark Air Lines Flight 965 / Private flight | Approach | United States | St. Louis, Missouri |
August 4, 1968 | 3 | 12 | North Central Airlines Flight 261 / Private flight | Descent/Cruise | United States | Wind Lake, Wisconsin |
June 23, 1969 | 120 | 0 | Aeroflot Flight 831/ Soviet Air Force flight | Cruise | Soviet Union | Yukhnovsky District |
September 9, 1969 | 82 | 0 | Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 / Private flight | Descent | United States | Fairland, Indiana |
June 6, 1971 | 50 | 1 | Hughes Airwest Flight 706 / F-4 Phantom | Climb | United States | San Gabriel Mountains, California |
July 30, 1971 | 162 | 1 | ANA Flight 58 / JASDF flight | Cruise | Japan | near Shizukuishi |
August 4, 1971 | 0 | 98 | Continental Airlines Flight 712 / Private Flight | 3,950 ft (1,200 m) | United States | Compton, California |
June 29, 1972 | 13 | 0 | North Central Airlines Flight 290 / Air Wisconsin Flight 671 | Cruise | United States | Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin |
July 29, 1972 | 38 | 0 | Avianca Flight 630 / Avianca Flight 626 [4] [5] | Cruise | Colombia | Near Las Palomas |
March 5, 1973 | 68 | 107 | Iberia Flight 504 /Spantax Flight 400 [6] | Cruise | France | near Nantes |
August 9, 1974 | 3 | 0 | RAF Phantom FGR2 / Piper Pawnee crop duster | Low level | United Kingdom | Fordham Fen, Norfolk |
November 1, 1974 | 38 | 0 | Antonov An-2 / Mil Mi-8 | Approach | Soviet Union | Near Surgut, Soviet Union |
January 9, 1975 | 14 | 0 | Golden West Airlines Flight 261 / Private flight | Climb | United States | near Whittier, California |
September 9, 1976 | 70 | 0 | Aeroflot Flight 31 /Aeroflot Flight 7957 | Cruise | Soviet Union | near Anapa, Russian SFSR |
September 10, 1976 | 176 | 0 | British Airways Flight 476 / Inex-Adria Flight 550 | Cruise | Yugoslavia | near Zagreb, SR Croatia |
September 25, 1978 | 144 | 0 | PSA Flight 182 / Private flight | Descent | United States | San Diego, California |
August 11, 1979 | 178 | 0 | Aeroflot Flight 7628 / Aeroflot Flight 7880 | Cruise | Soviet Union | Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukrainian SSR |
July 28, 1981 | 3 | 1 | Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense CL-44 /Soviet Air Force Sukhoi Su-15 | Cruise | Soviet Union | Yerevan, ASSR |
August 24, 1981 | 37 | 1 | Aeroflot Flight 811 /Soviet Air Force Tupolev Tu-16K | Cruise | Soviet Union | Zavitinsk, Russian SFSR, |
April 18, 1984 | 19 | 16 | Two VOTEC Servicios Aéreos Regionais Flights [7] [8] | Approach | Brazil | Near Imperatriz Airport |
August 24, 1984 | 17 | 0 | Wings West Airlines Flight 628 / Rockwell Commander 112 | Descent/climb | United States | Near San Luis Obispo, California |
May 3, 1985 | 94 | 0 | Aeroflot Flight SSSR-65856 /Soviet Air Force Antonov An-26 | Descent | Soviet Union | Zolochev, Ukrainian SSR |
June 18, 1986 | 25 | 0 | Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6 /Private helicopter flight | Low level | United States | Grand Canyon |
August 31, 1986 | 82 | 0 | Aeroméxico Flight 498 / Private flight | Descent/climb | United States | Cerritos, California |
January 15, 1987 | 10 | 0 | SkyWest Airlines Flight 1834 / Private flight | Approach | United States | Kearns, Utah |
August 28, 1988 | 3 + 67 ground fatalities | 0 | 3 Aermacchi MB-339PAN of the Frecce Tricolori | Air show | Germany | Ramstein Air Base |
April 9, 1990 | 2 | 7 | ASA Flight 2254 / Private flight | Climb/descent | United States | Gadsden, Alabama |
April 4, 1991 | 5 + 2 ground fatalities | 0 | Lycoming Air Piper Aerostar / Sun Oil Company Bell 412 | Low level | United States | Merion, Pennsylvania |
December 22, 1992 | 157 | 2 | Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 / Libyan Air Force MiG-23 jet fighter | Approach | Libya | Tripoli |
February 8, 1993 | 133 | 0 | Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154M / Iranian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 | Climb/approach | Iran | Tehran |
November 26, 1993 | 4 | 0 | NZ Police Eagle / NZ Police traffic patrol | Low level | New Zealand | Auckland |
November 12, 1996 | 349 | 0 | Saudia Flight 763 / Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 | Climb/descent | India | Charkhi Dadri |
July 30, 1998 | 15 | 0 | Proteus Airlines Flight 706 / Private flight | Low level | Quiberon Bay, France |
February 8, 2000 | 3 | 0 | Zlin 242L /Cessna 172 | Descent | United States | Zion, Illinois |
July 1, 2002 | 71 | 0 | Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 / DHL Flight 611 | Cruise | Germany | Überlingen |
January 18, 2005 | 1 | 2 | Air Tractor AT-502B / US Air Force Cessna T-37B | Cruise | United States | Hollister, Oklahoma |
September 29, 2006 | 154 | 7 [9] | Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 / ExcelAire flight | Cruise | Brazil | Amazon rainforest |
March 5, 2007 | 8 | 0 | Aérospatiale SA 332 Super Puma / private Diamond DV20 Katana | Low level | Austria | Zell am See Airport |
July 27, 2007 | 4 | 0 | KNXV-TV news helicopter / KTVK news helicopter | Low level | United States | Phoenix, Arizona |
September 1, 2007 | 2 | 0 | Two Zlin Z-526Fs of the AZL Żelazny | Aerobatic display | Poland | Near Radom |
August 8, 2009 | 9 | 0 | Piper PA-32 / Eurocopter AS350 helicopter | Low level | United States | Hudson River, New York |
September 20, 2012 | 3 | 200 | Syrian Arab Airlines Flight RB-501 / Syrian Air Force Mil Mi-8 helicopter | Climb | Syria | Damascus |
November 2, 2013 | 0 | 11 | Cessna 182L / Cessna 185F | Cruise | United States | Superior, Wisconsin [10] [11] |
October 23, 2014 | 3 | 2 | Cirrus SR22 / Robinson R44 II | Approach/Climb | United States | Frederick, Maryland [12] [13] |
March 9, 2015 | 10 | 0 | Two Eurocopter AS350 helicopters | Climb | Argentina | La Rioja Province |
July 7, 2015 | 2 | 1 | USAF F-16 / Cessna 150 | Approach / Climb | United States | Moncks Corner, South Carolina |
September 5, 2015 | 7 | 112 | Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines Flight 71 / Senegalair business jet | Cruise | Senegal | Eastern |
September 23, 2017 | 0 | 3 | Piper PA-28 Cherokee /Robinson R22 | Landing | United States | Clearwater Air Park |
May 13, 2019 | 6 | 10 | Mountain Air Service DHC-2 /Taquan Air DHC-3 | Descent | United States | George Inlet, Alaska |
July 31, 2020 | 7 | 0 | de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver / Piper PA-12 | Climb | United States | Soldotna, Alaska |
May 12, 2021 | 0 | 3 | Key Lime Air Flight 970 /Private Cirrus SR22 flight | Approach | United States | Arapahoe County, Colorado |
July 17, 2022 | 4 | 0 | Piper PA-46 Malibu / Cessna 172 | Approach | United States | North Las Vegas, Nevada |
September 17, 2022 | 3 | 0 | Cessna 172 /Sonex Xenos | Cruise | United States | Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado |
September 24, 2022 | 2 | 0 | Zlín Z-526 /Zlín Z-526 | Aerobatic display | Germany | Gera |
January 2, 2023 | 4 | 9 | Two Eurocopter EC130 helicopters | Climb/descent | Australia | Gold Coast Seaway, Queensland |
January 6, 2023 | 2 | 0 | Air Tractor AT-504 / AT-502 | Aerobatic display | Panama | Guabito, Changuinola district |
March 7, 2023 | 4 | 0 | Piper PA28-161 Cadet / Piper J-3 Cub | Climb/Descent | United States | Winter Haven, Florida |
March 5, 2024 | 2 | 44 | De Havilland Canada Dash 8 / Cessna 172 | Climb/Approach | Kenya | Nairobi National Park |
June 2, 2024 | 1 | 1 | Yakovlev Yak-52 / Yakovlev Yak-52 | Decent | Portugal | Beja, Alentejo Region |
June 14, 2024 | 1 | 1 | Air Tractor AT-502B / Air Tractor 502-B | Cruise | United States | Near Whiteface, Texas |
June 20, 2024 | 1 | 1 | Air Tractor AT-802 / Air Tractor AT-502B | Cruise | United States | Arco, Idaho |
July 11, 2024 | 1 | 1 | Air Tractor AT-802A / Air Tractor AT-502B | Cruise | United States | Near Bonita, Louisiana |
July 25, 2024 | 2 | 0 | Robinson R22 Beta / Robinson R22 Beta | Approach | Australia | Mount Anderson Station near Camballin, Western Australia |
October 26, 2024 | 3 | 0 | Cessna 182 / Jabiru UL-450 | Cruise | Australia | Belimbla Park, New South Wales |
January 29, 2025 | 67 | 0 | American Eagle Flight 5342 / U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter | Approach | United States | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, United States |
February 19, 2025 | 2 | 2 | Lancair 360 MK II /Cessna 172 | Cruise | United States | Marana Regional Airport, United States |
May 17, 2025 | 5 | 0 | Robinson R44 / Robinson R44 | Cruise | Finland | Eura |
July 8, 2025 | 2 | 0 | Cessna 172 /Cessna 152 | Approach | Canada | Steinbach, Manitoba |