List of aircraft accidents and incidents by number of ground fatalities

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The following is a list of aircraft accidents and incidents which have resulted in fatalities on the ground. Aircraft crashes with a high number of ground fatalities typically occur in areas where there are large congregations of people, such as buildings, marketplaces, neighborhoods, and sporting events.

In 1992, El Al Flight 1862 crashed into a high-rise apartment complex in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, Netherlands, killing all four crew members on board as well as 43 people in the building.

As of 12 August 2025, 70 accidents and incidents have resulted in at least twelve ground fatalities, fourteen at least 50 ground fatalities, and five over 100 ground fatalities.

History

The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground.^[1] The first electric aircraft crash to result in ground fatalities was on 18 May 1935, when the Maxim Gorky was involved in a mid-air collision over Moscow, Russia, killing a total of 45 people, including nine on the ground.^[2] Just over three years later, on 24 July 1938, the Santa Ana air show disaster took place in Bogotá, Colombia, killing the pilot plus 52 people on the ground.^[3] Since then, several other crashes have resulted in a higher number of ground fatalities, most recently the Sknyliv air show disaster near Lviv, Ukraine, on 27 July 2002, which is the deadliest air show accident in history, killing 77 people on the ground.^[4]

The deliberate crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 constitute, by a large margin, the deadliest aircraft disaster by number of victims on the ground, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and subsequent collapse of 1 World Trade Center and 2 World Trade Center.^[5] In addition, the most ground fatalities associated with the accidental crash of an aircraft occurred on 8 January 1996, when an Antonov An-32 crashed into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in the deaths of at least 249 people on the ground.^[6][7][8]

Table key

Symbol	Definition
†	No survivors on aircraft
‡	Was a deliberate act, i.e. bombing, hijacking, pilot murder-suicide, or airliner shootdown
*	Previously had the most ground fatalities of any incident
1*	Sole survivor

Table

Fatalities				Injuries	Incident	Aircraft	Location	Date
Ground	Aircraft	Total	Notes
est. 1,600 [a]	92	est. 1,700	†, ‡	c. 6,000–25,000[b]	American Airlines Flight 11[5]	Boeing 767-223ER	New York City, New York, U.S.	2001-09-11
est. 1,000 [c]	65	est. 1,000	†, ‡	c. 6,000–25,000[d]	United Airlines Flight 175[5]	Boeing 767-222	New York City, New York, U.S.	2001-09-11
249[e]	2	251	*	500	Air Africa Antonov An-32 crash[6][7][8]	Antonov An-32B	Kinshasa, D.R.C.	1996-01-08
125	64	189	†, ‡	106	American Airlines Flight 77[5]	Boeing 757-223	Arlington, Virginia, U.S.	2001-09-11
107	4	111	†, *	50	Flying Tiger Line N228SW crash[13]	Canadair CL-44D4-1	Da Nang, Vietnam	1966-12-24
88	3	91	†	100	Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano crash[14]	Boeing 707-131F	Santa Cruz, Bolivia	1976-10-13
87	17	104	†, *	N/A	Ankara mid-air collision[15]	Vickers Viscount 754D and Douglas C-47	near Ankara, Turkey	1963-02-01
77	0	77		545 (two on aircraft)	Sknyliv air show disaster[4]	Sukhoi Su-27	Lviv, Ukraine	2002-07-27
71	84	155	†	N/A	Viasa Flight 742[16]	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32	Maracaibo, Venezuela	1969-03-16
67	3	70	†	500	Ramstein air show disaster[17]	Aermacchi MB-339 PAN (x3) and UH-60 Black Hawk	Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany	1988-08-28
62	11	73	†, *	90	U.S. Air Force (42-40682) crash[18]	Consolidated B-24 Liberator	Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea	1943-09-07
58	3	61	†	N/A	Freckleton air disaster[19]	Consolidated B-24 Liberator	Freckleton, England	1944-08-23
53	5	58	†, *	190	Japan mid-air collision[20][21]	Fokker Super Universal and Mitsubishi Ki1	Tokyo, Japan	1938-08-24
52	1	53	†, *	100	Santa Ana air show disaster[3]	Curtiss Hawk II	Campo de Marte, Bogota, Colombia	1938-07-24
49	4	53	†	N/A	Aeroservicios Ecuatorianos Flight 767-103[22]	Douglas DC-8-55F	Quito Canton, Ecuador	1984-09-18
49	23	72	†	N/A	Russian Air Force (RA-82005) crash[23]	Antonov An-124-100	Irkutsk, Russia	1997-12-06
49	100	149		41 (15 on aircraft)	Mandala Airlines Flight 091[24]	Boeing 737-230	Medan, Indonesia	2005-09-05
44	15	59	†	N/A	Korean Air Force Curtiss C-46 crash[25]	Curtiss C-46	Yeouido, South Korea	1967-04-08
44	5	49		20	Mexico City air disaster[26]	Boeing C-97G Stratofreighter	Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, Mexico	1987-07-30
43	4	47	†	26	El Al Flight 1862[27]	Boeing 747-258F/SCD	Amsterdam, Netherlands	1992-10-04
37	3	40		111 (40 on aircraft)	Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122[28]	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51	Goma International Airport, D.R.C.	2008-04-15
35	4	39	†	36	Turkish Airlines Flight 6491[29]	Boeing 747-400F	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan	2017-01-16
34	1	35	†	173	Dhaka fighter jet crash[30]	Chengdu F-7BGI	Dhaka, Bangladesh	2025-07-21
32	20	52	†	20	Munich C-131 crash[31]	Convair C-131 Samaritan	Munich, Germany	1960-12-17
32	12	44	†	200	Beijing Hawker Siddeley Trident crash[32]	Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E	Beijing, China	1979-03-14
31	0	31	1*[f]	N/A	Bangui SEPECAT Jaguar A crash[33]	SEPECAT Jaguar A	Bangui, Central African Republic	1986-03-27
30	73	103		51 (four on aircraft)	EAS Airlines Flight 4226[34]	BAC One-Eleven 500	Kano, Nigeria	2002-05-04
30	21	51	1*	30 (one on aircraft)	Africa One Antonov An-26 crash[35]	Antonov An-26	Kinshasa, D.R.C.	2007-10-04
29	2	31	†	60	Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash[36]	de Havilland DH.110	Hampshire, England	1952-09-06
29	17	46	†	10	Sudanese Air Force Antonov An-26 crash[37]	Antonov An-26	Khartoum, Sudan	2025-02-25
26	6	32	†	14	Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76T crash[38]	Ilyushin Il-76T	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	2012-11-30
25	0	25	1*[f]	71	Imber friendly fire incident[39]	Hawker Hurricane	Imber, England	1942-04-13
25	8	33	†	N/A	Svetlogorsk Antonov An-26 crash[40]	Antonov An-26	Svetlogorsk, Russia	1972-05-16
24	10	34		N/A	Air Vietnam Douglas DC-6B crash[41]	Douglas DC-6B	Nha Trang, Vietnam	1969-12-22
24	126	150	†	0	Cubana de Aviación Flight 9046[42]	Ilyushin Il-62M	Havana, Cuba	1989-09-03
24	3	27	†	N/A	Aerial Transit Company (N84BL) crash[43]	Douglas DC-6BF	Guatemala City, Guatemala	1990-05-05
24	0	24		100	Green Ramp disaster[44]	General Dynamics F-16D, Lockheed C-130E and C-141B	Pope AFB, Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.	1994-03-23
23	7	30	†	27	USAF KC-135 Wichita crash[45]	Boeing KC-135A-BN Stratotanker	McConnell AFB, Wichita, Kansas, U.S.	1965-01-16
23	4	27	†	50	Millon Air Boeing 707-323C crash[46]	Boeing 707-323C	Manta, Ecuador	1996-10-22
22	1	23	†	4	Apeldoorn Fairey Firefly crash[47]	Fairey Firefly	Apeldoorn, Netherlands	1946-10-07
22	0	22	1*[f]	28	Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident[48]	Canadair Sabre Mk 5	Sacramento Executive Airport, California, U.S.	1972-09-24
22	3	25	†	N/A	TAMPA Colombia Boeing 707 crash[49]	Boeing 707-373C	Medellín, Colombia	1983-12-14
22	3	25	†	200	Transbrasil Flight 801[50][51]	Boeing 707-349C	Guarulhos, Brazil	1989-03-21
21[g]	2	23	†	16–18	Turkish Air Force F-84 Thunderjet crash[52]	Republic F-84G Thunderjet	Bursa, Turkey	1957-07-25
20	2	22		24	US Navy SBD Dauntless mid-air collision[53]	Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless (x2)	Pauwela, Hawaii, U.S.	1943-12-07
20	60	80	†	N/A	Iranian Air Force C-130H (5-8552) crash[54]	Lockheed C-130H Hercules	Kahrizak, Iran	1981-09-29
20	4	24	†	N/A	Luque Douglas DC-8-55F crash[55]	Douglas DC-8-55F	Luque, Paraguay	1996-02-04
20	0	20		0	Cavalese U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler accident[56]	Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler	Cavalese, Italy	1998-02-03
19	1	20	†	50	Flagler air show disaster[57]	Low-winged Monoplane	Flagler, Colorado, U.S.	1951-09-15
19	52	71	†	23	EgyptAir Flight 864[24]	Boeing 707-300	Bangkok, Thailand	1976-12-25
19	4	23	†	14	Pointe-Noire Trans Air Congo An-12 crash[58]	Antonov An-12	Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo	2011-03-21
19	241	260	‡, 1*	68 (one on aircraft)	Air India Flight 171[59][60]	Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner	Ahmedabad, India	2025-06-12
18	0	18	1*[f]	210	Okinawa F-100 crash[61]	North American F-100 Super Sabre	Uruma, Japan	1959-06-30
18	4	22	†	2	LAC Colombia Flight 028[62]	Douglas DC-8-55CF	Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay	1996-02-04
17	15	32		N/A	Philippine Air Force F27 Friendship crash[63]	Fokker F-27 Friendship 200	Parañaque, Philippines	1978-09-14
17	122	139	†	3	Indonesian Air Force Lockheed C-130B Hercules crash[64]	Lockheed C-130B Hercules	Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia	2015-06-30
16	4	20	†	Several	Rabat Vickers Wellington crash[65]	Vickers 440 Wellington B Mark X	Rabat, Malta	1946-04-05
15	67	82	†	8	Cerritos mid-air collision[66]	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 and Piper PA-28-181 Archer	Cerritos, California, U.S.	1986-08-31
15	0	15		26	Yeysk Su-34 crash[67]	Sukhoi Su-34	Yeysk, Krasnodar Krai, Russia	2022-10-17
14	0	14		15	Mexican Air Force Sikorsky UH-60M crash[68]	Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk	Santiago Jamiltepec, Oaxaca State, Mexico	2018-02-16
13	2	15	†	N/A	Orléans air disaster[69]	Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck Mk 4B	Orleans, Ontario, Canada	1956-05-15
13	6	19	†	N/A	Delta Air Lines Flight 9877[70]	Douglas DC-8-51	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.	1967-03-30
13	11	24	†	N/A	Savanair (EY-ASS) crash[71]	Antonov An-12	Luanda, Angola	1999-02-02
13	20	33		N/A	Boende Antonov An-26 crash[72]	Antonov An-26	Boende, D.R.C.	2003-11-29
12	1	13	†	17	Edmonton air crash[73]	Hawker Audax	Edmonton, London, U.K.	1938-09-04
12	0	12	1*[f]	89 (one on aircraft)	Italian Air Force MB-326 crash[74][75]	Aermacchi MB-326	Casalecchio di Reno, Italy	1990-12-06
12	5	17	†	15	USAF C-130B Evansville crash[76]	Lockheed C-130B Hercules	Evansville, Indiana, U.S.	1992-02-06
12	94	106	†	90	Iranian Air Force C-130E crash[77]	Lockheed C-130E Hercules	Tehran, Iran	2005-12-06
12	187	199	†	0	TAM Airlines Flight 3054[78]	Airbus A320-233	Congonhas-São Paulo Airport, Brazil	2007-07-17
12	0	12		4 (all on aircraft)	Allied Air Flight 111[79]	Boeing 727-221F Advanced	Accra, Ghana	2012-06-02
11	3	14	†	1	B-25 Empire State Building crash[80]	B-25 Mitchell	New York City, New York, U.S.	1945-07-28
11	3	14	†	45	USS Nimitz EA-6B Prowler crash[81]	Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler, Grumman A-6 Intruder, Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King, Grumman F-14 Tomcat (x5), LTV A-7 Corsair II (x9) and S-3A Viking (x3)	USS Nimitz, 70 miles offshore Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.	1981-05-26
11	259	270	†, ‡	N/A	Pan Am Flight 103[82]	Boeing 747-121	Lockerbie, Scotland	1988-12-21
11	3	14	†	20	Beechcraft 65-80 Queen Air crash[83]	Beechcraft Queen Air	Parañaque, Philippines	2011-12-10
11	0	11	1*[f]	16 (one on aircraft)	Shoreham Airshow crash[84]	Hawker Hunter T7	Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England	2015-08-22
10	3	13	*	27	Wingfoot Air Express crash[1]	Type FD dirigible	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.	1919-07-21
10	32	42	†	N/A	VASP Flight 233[85]	Vickers 827 Viscount	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	1959-12-22
10	0	10	1*[f]	7 (one on aircraft)	Indianapolis Ramada Inn A-7D Corsair II crash[86]	LTV A-7 Corsair II	Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.	1987-10-20
10	70	80		39 (21 on aircraft)	Cubana de Aviación Flight 389[87]	Tupolev Tu-154M	Quito, Ecuador	1998-08-29
10	5	15	†	N/A	Lockheed C-130H Hercules crash[88]	Lockheed C-130H Hercules	Blida, Algeria	2003-06-20
10	1	11	†	69	Reno Air Races crash	North American P-51D Mustang	Reno, Nevada, U.S.	2011-09-16
9	36	45	†	N/A	Maksim Gorky crash[2]	Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky	Khodynka Aerodrome, Moscow, Russia	1935-05-18
9	1	10		N/A	U.S. Air Force (57-0468) crash[89]	Lockheed C-130A Hercules	Ashiya, Fukuoka, Japan	1959-05-20
9	63	72		23 (22 on aircraft)	Southern Airways Flight 242[24]	Douglas DC-9-30	New Hope, Georgia, U.S.	1977-04-04
9	2	11	†	21	Los Llanos Air Base crash[90]	General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, AMX International AMX (x2), Dassault Alpha Jet (x2) and Dassault Mirage 2000	Los Llanos Air Base, Spain	2015-01-26
8	3	11	†	N/A	TWA Flight 595[91]	Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.	1959-11-24
8	6	14	†	60	Paris Air Show crash[92]	Tupolev Tu-144	Paris, France	1973-06-03
8	145	153	†	4	Pan Am Flight 759[93]	Boeing 727-235	Kenner, Louisiana, U.S.	1982-07-09
8	8	16	1*	N/A	Air Liberia (EL-AIH) crash[94]	British Aerospace BAe-748-329 Srs. 2A LFD	Khartoum, Sudan	1983-04-16
8	0	8		106 (87 on aircraft)	Philippine Airlines Flight 124[95]	BAC One-Eleven 516FP	Manila, Philippines	1989-07-21
8	0	8	1*[f]	17	Jalandhar MiG-21 crash[96]	Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21	Jalandhar, Punjab, India	2002-05-03
8	0	8		9	Services Air Airbus A310-300 crash[97]	Airbus A-310-304F	Mbuji-Mayi, D.R.C.	2015-12-24
7	23	30	†	1	American Airlines Flight 6780[98]	Convair 240	Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.	1952-01-22
7	12	19		173 (eight on aircraft)	Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash[99][100]	Boeing B-29 Superfortress	Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base, California, U.S.	1950-08-05
7	6	13		N/A	São Paulo Convair CV-240 crash[101]	Convair CV-240-0	São Paulo, Brazil	1963-01-15
7	137	144	†	9	PSA Flight 182[102]	Boeing 727-214 and Cessna 172	San Diego, California, U.S.	1978-09-25
7	0	7		N/A	Transafrik International Boeing 727-44F crash[103]	Boeing 727-44F	M'banza-Kongo, Angola	1994-04-27
7	42	49	†	0	Wuhan Airlines Flight 343[104]	Xian Y-7	Hanyang District, Wuhan, China	2000-06-22
7	3	10	†	N/A	North American CT-39A Sabreliner crash[105]	North American CT-39A Sabreliner	Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico	2007-07-05
7	9	16	†	40	Mexico City plane crash[106]	Learjet 45	Las Lomas, Mexico City, Mexico	2008-11-04
7	3	10	†	31	Glasgow helicopter crash[107]	Eurocopter EC135-T2+	Glasgow, Scotland	2013-11-29
6	15	21	†	N/A	Ruislip Wellington accident[108]	Vickers Wellington	Ruislip, London, U.K.	1942-10-18
6	128	134	†	N/A	New York mid-air collision[109]	Douglas DC-8-11 and Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation	near Miller Field, New York City, U.S.	1960-12-16
6	0	6		0	French Air Force Republic F-84F Thunderstreak accident[110]	Republic F-84F Thunderstreak	Aiguille du Midi, Mont Blanc, France	1961-08-29
6	4	10	†	N/A	Dominicana de Aviacion Flight 401[111]	Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair	Miami, Florida, U.S.	1969-06-23
6	0	6	1*[f]	0	Rhein-Main Starfighter crash[112]	Canadair CF-104 Starfighter	near Rhein-Main Air Base, Frankfurt, Germany	1983-05-22
6	1	7	†	50	Remscheid A-10 crash[113]	A-10 Thunderbolt II	Remscheid, West Germany	1988-12-08
6	46	52	†	N/A	Kenya Air Force DHC-5D Buffalo crash[114]	de Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo	near Moi Air Base, Kenya	1992-04-16
6	3	9		N/A	Trans Service Airlift Nord 262A-44 crash[115]	Nord 262A-44	Kinshasa, D.R.C.	1993-01-27
6	196	202	†	N/A	China Airlines Flight 676[116]	Airbus A300B4-622R	Taoyuan City, Taiwan	1998-02-16
6	8	14	†	N/A	PLAAF Shaanxi Y-8 crash[117]	Shaanxi Yunshuji Y-8	Zhengzhou, Henan, China	2001-01-04
6	2	8	†	0	São Paulo Reali Táxi Aéreo (PT-OVC) crash[118]	Learjet 35A	São Paulo, Brazil	2007-11-04
6	153	159	†	N/A	Dana Air Flight 992[119]	McDonnell Douglas MD-83	Lagos, Nigeria	2012-06-03
6	20	26	†	Unknown	Busy Bee Congo crash[120]	Dornier 228	Goma, D.R.C.	2019-11-24
5	20	25	†	N/A	US Army Air Force (42-72171) crash[121]	Douglas C-54A-1-DC (DC-4)	near Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Scotland	1944-08-28
5	1	6	†	12	Minneapolis Grumman F9F Panther crash[122]	Grumman F9F-4 Panther	Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.	1956-06-09
5	51	56		N/A	Varig Airlines Flight 837[123]	Douglas DC-8-33	Monrovia, Liberia	1967-03-05
5	3	8	†	42	Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316[124]	McDonnell Douglas MD-11	Shanghai, China	1999-04-15
5	55	60		8 (three on aircraft)	Alliance Air Flight 7412[125]	Boeing 737-2A8	Patna, Bihar, India	2000-07-17
5	260	265	†	1	American Airlines Flight 587[126]	Airbus A300B4-605R	Queens, New York, U.S.	2001-11-12
5	5	10	†	2	Philippine Piper PA-23 Apache crash[127]	Piper PA-23	Plaridel, Bulacan, Philippines	2018-03-17
5	1	6		9 (two on aircraft)	Chrcynno Cessna Grand Caravan crash[128]	Cessna 208B Grand Caravan	Chrcynno, Poland	2023-07-17
4	29	33		34 (all on aircraft)	National Airlines Flight 101[129]	Douglas DC-6	Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.	1952-02-11
4	3	7	†	0	London Vickers Viking accident[130]	Vickers VC.1 Viking	Southall, England	1958-09-02
4	0	4	1*[f]	32	Machida F-8 crash[131]	Vought RF-8A Crusader	Machida, Tokyo, Japan	1964-04-05
4	82	86		5 (all on aircraft)	Japan Airlines Flight 471[132]	Douglas DC-8-53	near New Delhi, India	1972-06-14
4	1	5	†, ‡	11	Aeroflot (CCCP-79868) crash[133]	Antonov An-2	Novosibirsk, Russia	1976-09-26
4	1	5	†, ‡	4	Connellan air disaster[134]	Beechcraft 58 Baron	Alice Springs, Australia	1977-01-05
4	74	78		9 (five on aircraft)	Air Florida Flight 90[135]	Boeing 737-222	Washington, D.C. and Arlington County, Virginia, U.S.	1982-01-13
4	174	178		2 (all on aircraft)	Aeroflot Flight 3352[136]	Tupolev Tu-154B-1	Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union	1984-10-11
4	75	79		N/A	Korean Air Flight 803[137]	McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30	Tripoli, Libya	1989-07-27
4	21	25	†	0	Aerolift Philippines Flight 075[138]	Beechcraft 1900C-1	Parañaque, Philippines	1990-05-18
4	24	28	†	0	Tbilisi Tupolev Tu-154B crash[139]	Tupolev Tu-154B	Tbilisi, Georgia	1992-07-20
4	109	113	†	1	Air France Flight 4590[140]	Concorde	Gonesse, France	2000-07-25
4	114	118	†	4	Linate Airport runway collision[141]	McDonnell-Douglas MD-87 and Cessna Citation CJ2	Linate Airport, Milan, Italy	2001-10-08
4	0	4	1*[f]	0	San Diego F/A-18 crash[142]	F/A-18D Hornet	University City, San Diego, California, U.S.	2008-12-08
4	8	12	†	N/A	Sun Way Flight 4412[143]	Ilyushin Il-76TD	Karachi, Pakistan	2010-11-28
4	7	11	†	11	Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash[144]	Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M	Jakarta, Indonesia	2012-06-21
4	1	5	†	2	Yorba Linda Cessna 414A crash[145]	Cessna 414A Chancellor	Yorba Linda, California, U.S.	2019-02-03
4	10	14	†	25	Brovary helicopter crash[146]	Eurocopter EC225 Super Puma	Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine	2023-01-18
3	0	3		14	Maroochy air crash[147]	Royal Australian Air Force	Maroochydore, Australia	1950-12-30
3	0	3	1*[f]	1 (on aircraft)	Ford Hawker Hunter WT707 accident[148][149]	Hawker Hunter F.1	Ford, Sussex, U.K.	1955-01-25
3	5	8	1*	75 (one on aircraft)	Pacoima mid-air collision[150]	Douglas DC-7B and Northrop F-89J Scorpion	San Fernando Valley, California, U.S.	1957-01-31
3	4	7	†	3	Syerston Avro Vulcan crash[151]	Avro Vulcan	RAF Syerston, Nottinghamshire, England	1958-09-20
3	5	8	†	0	Flying Tiger Line Flight 183[152]	Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation (N6913C)	North Hollywood, California, U.S.	1962-12-14
3	0	3		6	Yokohama F-4 crash[153]	McDonnell Douglas RF-4B Phantom II	Yokohama, Japan	1977-09-27
3	2	5	†	N/A	Mandala Airlines PK-RHS crash[154]	Hawker Siddeley HS 748	Manila, Philippines	1977-10-18
3	1	4	†, ‡	N/A	SATENA (FAC-1101) crash[155]	Hawker Siddeley HS-748-260 Srs. 2A	Bogotá, Colombia	1979-08-22
3	0	3		6 (all on aircraft)	Twilight Zone accident[156]	Bell UH-1B Iroquois	Santa Clarita, California, U.S.	1982-07-23
3	107	110	†, ‡	N/A	Avianca Flight 203[157]	Boeing 727-21	Soacha, Bogotá, Colombia	1989-11-27
3	96	99	†	N/A	TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402[158]	Fokker 100	São Paulo, Brazil	1996-10-31
3	0	3		89 (all on aircraft)	Philippine Airlines Flight 137[159]	Airbus A320-214	Bacolod, Philippines	1998-03-22
3	1	4	†	6	Wichita King Air crash[160]	Beechcraft King Air B200	Wichita, Kansas, U.S.	2014-10-30
3	3	6	†	0	Gaithersburg Embraer Phenom 100 crash[161]	Embraer Phenom 100	Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.	2014-12-08
3	0	3		8 (four on aircraft)	Fulda Cessna F172N Skyhawk crash[162]	Cessna F172N Skyhawk	Fulda, Germany	2018-10-14
3	50	53		51 (47 on aircraft)	Philippine Air Force C-130 crash[163]	Lockheed C-130H Hercules	Patikul, Sulu, Philippines	2021-07-04
3	0	3		40 (all on aircraft)	LATAM Airlines Perú Flight 2213[164]	Airbus A320-271N	Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima, Peru	2022-11-18
3	0	3	1*[f]	3 (one on aircraft)	Rajasthan MiG-21 crash[165]	Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21	Bahlol Nagar, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, India	2023-05-08
2	13	15	†	0	Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307[166]	Martin 2-0-2	Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.	1950-03-07
2	18	20		4 (all on aircraft)	Sutton Wick air crash[167]	Blackburn Beverley C.1	Sutton Wick, Drayton, Berkshire, England	1957-03-05
2	20	22	†	0	British European Airways Flight 411[168]	Vickers Viscount	Wythenshawe, England	1957-03-14
2	2	4	†	0	Cambrian Airways Liverpool crash[169]	Vickers 701 Viscount	Liverpool, England	1965-07-20
2	0	2		3 (all on aircraft)	Channel Airways Vickers Viscount G-AVJZ crash[170]	Vickers Viscount	London Southend Airport	1967-05-03
2	48	50		15 (14 on aircraft)	Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701[171]	Boeing 727-113C	Fernhill, West Sussex, England	1969-01-05
2	74	76	1*	1 (on aircraft)	Air Vietnam C-54D (XV-NUG) and U.S. Air Force mid-air collision[172]	Douglas C-54D-10-DC Skymaster and F-4 Phantom II	Da Nang, Vietnam	1969-09-20
2	99	101	1*	1 (on aircraft)	LANSA Flight 502[173]	Lockheed L-188 Electra	Cusco, Peru	1970-08-09
2	43	45		16 (all on aircraft)	United Airlines Flight 553[174]	Boeing 737-222	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.	1972-12-08
2	16	18	†	N/A	Nigeria Airways 5N-ANA crash[175]	Fokker F28	Kano Airport, Nigeria	1978-03-01
2	271	273	†	2	American Airlines Flight 191[176]	McDonnell Douglas DC-10	Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S.	1979-05-25
2	5	7	†, ‡	4	Barra do Garças air disaster[177]	Embraer EMB 721 Sertanejo	Barra do Garças, Mato Grosso, Brazil	1980-06-01
2	154	156	1*	6 (one on aircraft)	Northwest Airlines Flight 255[178]	McDonnell Douglas MD-82	Romulus, Michigan, U.S.	1987-08-16
2	6	8	†, ‡	N/A	Zimex Aviation HB-ILF crash[179]	Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules	near Kuito, Angola	1987-10-14
2	5	7	†	5	Merion mid-air collision[180]	Bell 412SP and Piper PA-60-601 Aerostar	Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania	1991-04-04
2	13	15		N/A	Saint Petersburg Tupolev Tu-154 crash[181]	Tupolev Tu-154B-1	Saint Petersburg, Russia	1991-05-23
2	133	135	1*	1 (on aircraft)	Indonesian Air Force A-1324 crash[182]	Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules	Jakarta, Indonesia	1991-10-05
2	16	18	1*	3 (one on aircraft)	Dirgantara Air Service Flight 5940[183]	CASA C-212 Aviocar	Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia	1996-12-07
2	63	65		40 (37 on aircraft)	LAPA Flight 3142[184]	Boeing 737-204C	Palermo, Argentina	1999-08-31
2	16	18		57 (37 on aircraft)	Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216[185]	McDonnell Douglas DC-10	Guatemala City, Guatemala	1999-12-21
2	1	3	†	60	Pirelli Tower airplane crash[186]	Rockwell Commander A112	Milan, Italy	2002-04-18
2	53	55	†	0	China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210[187]	Bombardier CRJ-200LR	Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China	2004-11-21
2	3	5		65 (all on aircraft)	TACA Flight 390[188]	Airbus A320-233	Tegucigalpa, Honduras	2008-05-30
2	0	2		8 (all on aircraft)	Centurion Air Cargo Flight 164[189]	Boeing 747-209BSF	Madrid, Cundinamarca, Colombia	2008-07-07
2	97	99		70 (15 on aircraft)	Indonesian Air Force L-100-30(P) crash[190]	Lockheed L-100-30(P) Hercules	Geplak, Java, Indonesia	2009-05-20
2	5	7	†	0	AeroUnion Flight 302[191]	Airbus A300B4-203F	Monterrey, Mexico	2010-04-13
2	4	6		5 (all on aircraft)	Katanga Express Gulfstream IV crash[192]	Gulfstream IV	Kavumu Airport, D.R.C.	2012-02-12
2	2	4	†	0	East Haven Rockwell Commander 690B crash[193]	Rockwell Commander 690B	East Haven, Connecticut, U.S.	2013-08-09
2	8	10	†	0	Elmina plane crash[194]	Beechcraft Model 390 (Model I)	Elmina, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia	2023-08-17
2	6	8	†	23	Med Jets Flight 056[195]	Learjet 55	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.	2025-01-31
1	35	36		N/A	Hindenburg disaster[196]	Hindenburg class airship	NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, U.S.	1937-05-06
1	13	14	†	N/A	Jersey Airport disaster[197]	de Havilland D.H.86	Jersey Airport, U.K.	1938-11-04
1	6	7	†	0	Royal Air Force LJ622 crash[198]	Short Stirling	Tockwith, Yorkshire, England	1945-10-09
1	3	4	1*	3 (one on aircraft)	Luqa Avro Lancaster crash[199]	Avro Lancaster B Mark III GR	Luqa, Malta	1952-12-30
1	0	1		N/A	Royal Air Force TG564 crash[200]	Handley Page Hastings C.1	Kowloon, Hong Kong	1953-07-27
1	36	37	†	0	Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 9[201]	Canadair C-4-1 Argonaut and North American T-6 Texan	Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada	1954-04-08
1	72	73	†	0	Sabena Flight 548[202]	Boeing 707-320	Brussels, Belgium	1961-02-15
1	17	18		84 (all on aircraft)	United Airlines Flight 859[203]	Douglas DC-8-12	Denver, Colorado, U.S.	1961-07-11
1	79	80		5 (all on aircraft)	US Air Force (61-0332) crash[204]	Boeing C-135B	Angeles City, Philippines	1964-05-11
1	1	2		N/A	Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 322[205]	Boeing 707-138B	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	1968-02-07
1	29	30	†	N/A	Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892[206]	Convair CV-990-30A-5 Coronado	Nala Sopara, India	1968-05-28
1	57	58	†	N/A	Pan African Airlines N90427 crash[207]	Douglas C-54B-1-DC Skymaster	Rivers State, Nigeria	1968-09-28
1	16	17		35 (32 on aircraft)	Mohawk Airlines Flight 405[208]	Fairchild Hiller FH-227B	Albany, New York, U.S.	1972-03-03
1	85	86	†	0	Aviaco Flight 118[209]	Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle 10R	A Coruña, Spain	1973-08-13
1	25	26		36 (all on aircraft)	Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 150[210]	Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship	near Talang Betutu Airport, Palembang, Indonesia	1975-09-24
1	5	6		20	Żabbar Avro Vulcan crash[211]	Avro Vulcan B.2	Żabbar, Malta	1975-10-14
1	61	62	†	0	Aeroflot Flight 2003[212]	Tupolev Tu-124V	Kokoshkino, Moscow Oblast, Russia	1976-01-03
1	2	3	†	1	Air Chicago Freight Airlines N9446Z crash[213]	North American B-25 Mitchell	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.	1976-08-06
1	0	1		N/A	Indian Airlines VT-EFL crash[24]	Boeing 737	Hyderabad, India	1977-01-12
1	0	1	1*[f]	1 (on aircraft)	Air Inter F-BHRZ crash[24]	Sud Caravelle	Bordeaux, France	1977-02-21
1	68	69		2 (all on aircraft)	Aeroflot Flight 331[214]	Ilyushin Il-62M	Boyeros, Cuba	1977-05-27
1	77	78	†	N/A	Indian Air Force Antonov An-12 crash[215]	Antonov An-12	Leh, India	1978-11-19
1	72	73		14	Western Airlines Flight 2605[216]	McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10	Mexico City, Mexico	1979-10-31
1	0	1		2 (all on aircraft)	Ozark Air Lines Flight 650[217]	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31	Sioux Falls, South Dakota, U.S.	1983-12-20
1	136	137		28 (27 on aircraft)	Delta Air Lines Flight 191[218]	Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar	Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, U.S.	1985-08-02
1	6	7	†	0	US Air Force (60-0361) crash[219]	Boeing KC-135A-BN Stratotanker	Fairchild Air Force Base, near Spokane, Washington, U.S.	1987-03-13
1	0	1	1*[f]	0	Belgium MiG-23 crash[220]	Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23	Kortrijk, Belgium	1989-07-04
1	124	125	†	0	Baikal Airlines Flight 130[221]	Tupolev 154M	Irktusk, Russia	1994-01-03
1	4	5	†	2	Fine Air Flight 101[222]	Douglas DC-8-61F	Miami, Florida, U.S.	1997-08-07
1	0	1		12 (three on aircraft)	Southwest Airlines Flight 1248[223]	Boeing 737-7H4	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.	2005-12-08
1	49	50	†	4	Colgan Air Flight 3407[224]	Bombardier DHC8-402 Q400	Clarence Center, New York, U.S.	2009-02-12
1	1	2	†, ‡	13	Austin suicide attack[225]	Piper PA-28 Cherokee	Austin, Texas, U.S.	2010-02-18
1	1	2		10 (nine on aircraft)	Air Bagan Flight 11[226]	Fokker 100	Heho, Myanmar	2012-12-25
1	1	2	†	12	Vauxhall helicopter crash[227]	Agusta AW109	Vauxhall, London, U.K.	2013-01-16
1	0	1		32 (24 on aircraft)	Emirates Flight 521[228]	Boeing 777-300	Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates	2016-08-03
1	4	5	†	0	Piper Cheyenne II Tires crash[229]	Piper PA-31T Cheyenne II	Tires, São Domingos de Rana, Portugal	2017-04-17
1	0	1		18 (all on aircraft)	Utair Flight 579[230]	Boeing 737-8AS	Sochi International Airport, Russia	2018-09-01
1	97	98		9 (two on aircraft)	Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303[231]	Airbus A320-214	near Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, Pakistan	2020-05-22
1	3	4	†	0	Hattiesburg plane crash[232]	Mitsubishi MU-2	Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S.	2021-05-05
1	0	1	1*[f]	0	Bentong helicopter crash[233]	Bell 206	Bentong, Pahang, Malaysia	2025-02-06
1	1	2	†	1	Korschenbroich plane crash[234]	Beechcraft Bonanza	Korschenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany	2025-05-31

See also

• Aviation portal

• List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
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• Lists of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft
• List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents

Notes

1. It is impossible to definitively know exactly how many people died from the hijacking and crash of American Airlines Flight 11, since this crash and the one of United Airlines Flight 175 happened in the same place, at about the same time, and it is hard to distinguish who died from which plane. It is known for certain, however, that the sum of plane and ground fatalities caused by both suicide attacks is 2,763. In addition to the rough estimate of 1,600 ground fatalities blamed on Flight 11, the number of people aboard the hijacked flight was 92. The death toll of Flight 11 thus comes out to approximately 1,700 when rounded.
2. Combined with United Airlines Flight 175. Sources vary regarding the number of injuries―some say 6,000^[9] while others go as high as 25,000.^[10]
3. It is impossible to definitively know exactly how many people died from the hijacking and crash of United Airlines Flight 175, since this crash and the one of American Airlines Flight 11 happened in the same place, at about the same time, and it is hard to distinguish who died from which plane. It is known for certain, however, that the sum of plane and ground fatalities caused by both suicide attacks is 2,763. In addition to the rough estimate of 1,000 ground fatalities blamed on Flight 175, the number of people aboard the hijacked flight was 65. The death toll of Flight 175 thus comes out to approximately 1,060 when rounded.
4. Combined with American Airlines Flight 11. Sources vary regarding the number of injuries―some say 6,000^[11] while others go as high as 25,000.^[12]
5. The exact number of people that were killed on the ground is not known. The number of manslaughter charges was 225, ASN says 237, the CAA review 1990-1999 states 297, and some media sources have stated numbers over 300. Vincent Nicod of the International Committee of the Red Cross stated that 249 bodies on the ground were found. It is known that four crew members survived.
6. Sole survivior by virtue of being the only person on the aircraft.
7. Some sources reported up to 29 fatalities on the ground.