List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline

This list of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline summarizes airline accidents by airline company with flight number, location, date, aircraft type, and cause.

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This list is dynamic and by no means complete!

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While all of the incidents in this list are noteworthy, not all the incidents listed involved fatalities.

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A

AAXICO Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
N51424 off Pensacola April 2, 1955 Curtiss C-46A Mobile-Macon Weather
N5140B Abilene September 2, 1959 Curtiss C-46A Abilene-Fort Worth Mechanical failure
Flight 1422 near Seattle April 23, 1965 Douglas DC-6A Seattle-Ogden CFIT, pilot error
Adam Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 574 Indonesia January 1, 2007 Boeing 737-400 Surabaya-Manado Pilot error
Flight 172 Indonesia February 21, 2007 Boeing 737-300 Jakarta-Surabaya Structural failure
ADC Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 53 Abuja October 29, 2006 Boeing 737-2B7 Abuja-Sokoto (disputed)
Aer Lingus
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 712 Wexford March 24, 1968 Vickers Viscount 803 Cork-London Structural failure
Flight 132 Logan International Airport June 9, 2005 Airbus A330 Boston-Shannon ATC error
AerianTur-M
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight ER-26068 Balad, Iraq January 9, 2007 Antonov An-26 Adana, Turkey-Balad, Iraq Undetermined
Aeroflot Russian Airlines
Aerolíneas Argentinas
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 386 Lima, Peru/Los Angeles, California February 20, 1992 Boeing 747 Food poisoning

(cholera) [1][2][3]

Aerolinee Itavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 870 Ustica June 27, 1980 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 In-flight explosion (Origin unknown)
Aeroméxico
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 498 Cerritos, California August 31, 1986 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Mid-air collision
AeroPerú
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 772 Juliaca October 25, 1988 Fokker F28 1000
Flight 603 Peru October 2, 1996 Boeing 757-23A Instrumentation failure
Aerosvit - Ukrainian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 241 Thessaloniki December 17, 1997 Yakovlev 42 Pilot error
Afriqiyah Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 771 Libya May 12, 2010 Airbus A330-200 Johannesburg – Tripoli Crashed short of runway (Under investigation)
Air Algérie
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 6289 Tamanghasset March 6, 2003 Boeing 737-200 Tamanrasset - Noumerate Engine explosion
Air Asia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 104 Malaysia November 7, 2004 Boeing 737 Runway overrun
Airblue
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 202 Margalla Hills, Pakistan July 28, 2010 Airbus A321 Karachi - Islamabad Under investigation
Air Canada incl. TCA
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
TCA Flight 3 British Columbia April 28, 1947 Lockheed Lodestar Lethbridge-Vancouver Unexplained disappearance
TCA Flight 9 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan April 8, 1954 Canadair North Star Winnipeg - Calgary Mid-air collision with RCAF Harvard
TCA Flight 304 Flat Rock, Michigan July 9, 1956 Vickers Viscount Chicago-Montreal Mechanical failure, propeller separation
TCA Flight 810 Chilliwack, British Columbia December 9, 1956 Canadair North Star Engine Fire CFIT
CF-THA RCAF Bagotville October 10, 1962 Vickers Viscount 757 Sept-Îles-Bagotville Runway collision with a RCAF CF-101B
TCA Flight 831 Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec November 29, 1963 Douglas DC-8-54F Montreal - Toronto Unknown. Possibly: pitot ice, VG fail or runaway trim
Flight 621 Toronto July 5, 1970 Douglas DC-8-63 Montreal - Toronto - Los Angeles Pilot error
Flight 189 Toronto June 26, 1978 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Toronto - Winnipeg Mechanical failure
Flight 797 Cincinnati June 2, 1983 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Dallas - Toronto - Montreal In-flight fire
Flight 143 Gimli, Manitoba July 23, 1983 Boeing 767-233 Montreal - Ottawa - Edmonton Insufficient amount of fuel loaded for the flight
Air China
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 129 Busan April 15, 2002 Boeing 767-200ER CFIT
Air Florida
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 90 Washington, D.C. January 13, 1982 Boeing 737-222 Tampa - Fort Lauderdale Pilot error, wing icing
Air France
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
F-AMMY Corbigny January 15, 1934 Dewoitine D.332 Saigon-Paris Icing
F-AMHP English Channel May 9, 1934 Wibault 282T-12 Paris-Croydon CFIT
F-AIVG Croydon Airport May 31, 1934 Lioré et Olivier 213 Croydon-Paris Crashed on takeoff
F-ALHQ Beauvais April 1, 1935 Farman F.300  ?
Killed chief pilot Robert Bajac
F-AJIQ Atalaya Beach, Brazil November 2, 1935 Latécoère 28-1 Bahia-Aracaju CFIT
F-AJIR off Corsica January 21, 1936 CAMS 53 Marseille-Tunis Unexplained disappearance
F-ANBL Mazamet August 2, 1936 Wibault 280 Poor visibility
F-AKGF off Dakar December 7, 1936 Latécoère 300 Unexplained disappearance
F-AOTZ Saint-Sauveur December 5, 1937 Potez 621 Weather
F-AMYD Kašperské Hory December 24, 1937 Wibault 283T-12 Bucharest-Vienna-Prague-Paris Undetermined
F-ANQR Datia March 7, 1938 Potez 621 Hanoi-Paris Crashed on takeoff
F-AQBB Corsavy March 23, 1938 Dewoitine D.338 CFIT
F-AOOT near Marrakech April 3, 1939 Caudron C.635 Simoun CFIT
F-ARIC near Marrakech May 2, 1939 Dewoitine D.338 Casablanca-Dakar Icing
F-ARTD near Ouistreham June 20, 1940 Dewoitine D.338 Accidental shoot-down
F-AQBA Gulf of Tonkin July 7, 1940 Dewoitine D.338 Shot down
F-AROA Mediterranean Sea November 27, 1940 Farman F.224 Shot down
F-AQNL Lake Bolomon, France September 1, 1941 Bloch 220 Engine failure, failed takeoff
F-AREJ Algiers August 13, 1942 Lioré et Olivier H-246 Attacked by RAF fighters
F-BAZN Redondo Mountain October 28, 1949 Lockheed L-749-79-46 Constellation Paris-Azores Pilot error
F-BBDE Arabian Sea June 12, 1950 Douglas DC-4-1009 Saigon-Paris CFIT
F-BBDM Arabian Sea June 14, 1950 Douglas DC-4-1009 Saigon-Paris CFIT
F-BBDO Cameroon Mountain February 3, 1951 Douglas DC-4-1009 Douala-Niamey CFIT
F-BCUM near Nice March 3, 1952 SNCASE SE.161/P7 Languedoc Nice-Paris Loss of control, design defect
Flight 152 6 mi off Fetiye Point, Turkey August 3, 1953 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Rome-Beirut Propeller failure, water ditching
F-BAZZ Mount Cemet September 1, 1953 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Paris-Nice CFIT
F-BGNK near Dannemois December 12, 1956 Vickers Viscount 701 Paris-Reims Loss of control
F-BEIK Biskra April 8, 1957 Douglas C-47B-5-DK Engine failure, loss of altitude
F-BHKV near Moilere, Algeria May 31, 1958 Douglas C-47A-85-DL Unknown
Flight 343 1 mi off Dakar August 29, 1960 Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation Paris-Dakar Undetermined
Flight 406
De Grasse
63 mi N of Edjele, Algeria May 10, 1961 Lockheed L-1649A Starliner Brazzaville-Fort Lamy-Marseille-Paris Bombing
Flight 2005 near Rabat September 12, 1961 Sud Aviation Caravelle Paris-Rabat-Casablanca Pilot error
Flight 007
Chateau de Sully
Orly Airport June 3, 1962 Boeing 707-328 Paris-New York-Atlanta-Houston Pilot error, rejected takeoff
Flight 117
Chateau de Chantilly
16 mi WNW of Pointe-à-Pitre June 22, 1962 Boeing 707-328 Paris-Lisbon-Azores-Guadaloupe-Santiago Undetermined
Flight 212
Château de Lavoûte-Polignac
17 mi SSW of Pointe-à-Pitre March 5, 1968 Boeing 707-328 Santiago-Quito-Caracas-Pointe-à-Pitre-Paris Pilot error
Flight 1611
Bearn
Mediterranean Sea September 11, 1968 Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III Ajaccio-Nice In-flight fire
Flight 296 Mulhouse June 26, 1988 Airbus A320 Pilot error (disputed)
Flight 8969 Algiers December 24, 1994 Airbus A300B2-1C Algiers - Paris Hijacking
Flight 4590 Gonesse July 25, 2000 Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde Paris - New York Foreign object damage tyre burst shrapnel ruptured fuel tank and started fire. Design defect.
Flight 358 Mississauga, Ontario August 2, 2005 Airbus A340-313X Paris - Toronto Runway overrun, pilot error
Flight 447 Atlantic June 1, 2009 Airbus A330-200 Rio de Janeiro - Paris Unknown (under investigation)
Air India
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 245 Mont Blanc November 3, 1950 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Bombay - London Heavy weather
Flight VT-DEP Natuna Islands April 11, 1955 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Airliner bombing
Flight 101 Mont Blanc January 24, 1966 Boeing 707-420 Delhi - Beirut - Geneva Pilot error
Flight 855 Mumbai January 1, 1978 Boeing 747-237B Bombay - Dubai Instrument malfunction
Flight 403 Mumbai June 21, 1982 Boeing 707-420 Kuala - Bombay Bad weather
Flight 182 Atlantic Ocean June 23, 1985 Boeing 747-237B Montreal - London - Delhi - Bombay Terrorist bombing
Air India Express
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 812 Mangalore May 22, 2010 Boeing 737-8HG Dubai - Mangalore Runway overrun
Air Inter
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 148 Strasbourg January 20, 1992 Airbus A320 Pilot error
Air Kazakhstan
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 1907 Delhi November 12, 1996 Ilyushin Il-76 Shymkent-New Delhi Mid-air collision
Airlink
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Unknown Between Gasmata & Kandrian,
West New Britain,
Papua New Guinea
March 30, 2007 Unknown at present Undetermined
Air Midwest
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 5481 Charlotte, North Carolina January 8, 2003 Beechcraft 1900D Maintenance error
Air New Zealand
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 901 Mount Erebus, Antarctica November 28, 1979 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 CFIT
Flight 2279 New Zealand February 8, 2008 Jetstream J32 Hijacking
Air Ontario
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 1363 Dryden, Ontario March 10, 1989 Fokker F28-1000
Air Orient
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
PH-AEO Sandoway, Burma June 7, 1931 Fokker F.VIIB Saigon-Karachi Weather
F-ALCE Mount Terrione, Italy April 23, 1933 CAMS 33 CFIT
Air Philippines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 541 Davao April 19, 2000 Boeing 737-200 Davao City Air traffic controller error
Air Rhodesia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 825 Kariba, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) September 3, 1978 Vickers Viscount SA-7 missile fired by ZIPRA guerrillas
Flight 827 Kariba, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) February 12, 1979 Vickers Viscount SA-7 missile fired by ZIPRA guerrillas
Air Saint Martin
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Unknown Haiti December 7, 1995 Beechcraft 1900D CFIT
Air Tahoma
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 185 Covington, Kentucky August 13, 2004 Convair 580 Fuel exhaustion
Air Transat
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 236 Azores August 24, 2001 Airbus A330-243 Fuel exhaustion
Flight 236 Cuba March 6, 2005 Airbus A310-308 Varadero - Quebec Structural Failure (Maintenance)
Air Union
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
F-AEGP
Flandre
Lympne Airport May 7, 1923 Farman F.60 Goliath Forced landing
None Monsures, France May 13, 1923 Farman F.60 Goliath Paris - Croydon Structural failure of wing
None East Malling, United Kingdom August 27, 1923 Farman F.60 Goliath Paris - Croydon Engine failure, centre of gravity affected by passengers misunderstaning instruction
F-ADDT
Languedoc
Golden Green August 6, 1924 Farman F.60 Goliath Paris-Croydon Engine failure
F-HMFU
Île de France
Wadhurst October 16, 1925 Farman F.60 Goliath  ?
F-FHMY English Channel off Boulogne-sur-Mer November 14, 1925 Farman F.60 Goliath Water ditching
None
Wilbur Wright
Aldington, Kent August 18, 1926 Blériot 155 Paris - Croydon Engine failure, hit building whilst attempting forced landing
None
Clement Ader
Leigh, Kent October 2, 1926 Blériot 155 Paris - Croydon Mid-air fire, possible structural failure of wing
F-AEGP Tonbridge, Kent March 10, 1927 Farman F.60 Goliath Engine failure
F-GEAB Wrotham, Kent November 24, 1927 Farman F.60 Goliath Forced landing
F-AECU
Normandie
Hythe, Kent March 6, 1928 Farman F.60 Goliath  ?
F-AEFC English Channel March 11, 1928 Farman F.60 Goliath Paris-Croydon  ?
F-GEAI Paddock Wood railway station May 19, 1929 Farman F.63bis Goliath Croydon-Paris  ?
F-GEAB Smarden, Kent July 31, 1929 Farman F.60 Goliath London-Paris Forced landing
F-AIGB Mediterranean Sea off Corsica November 15, 1929 Lioré et Olivier 190 Poor visibility
None Marden, Kent February 10, 1930 Farman F.63 Goliath Paris - Croydon Structural failure of tailplane
F-ADCA Penshurst, Kent May 1, 1930 Farman F.63 Goliath Paris-Croydon Weather
F-AIZO Snave, Kent July 25, 1930 Lioré et Olivier LeO 21 Engine failure
F-AIVU
Rayan d'Or
near Lympne January 17, 1931 Breguet 280T Crashed on landing
F-ADDT
Languedoc
near Marden April 23, 1931 Farman F.60 Goliath Crashed on takeoff
Air Vietnam
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
F-VNAI Pakse August 16, 1954 Bristol 170 Freighter 21E Hanoi-Saigon CFIT
XV-NID near Da Nang November 20, 1962 Douglas C-47B-25-DK Hue-Da Nang Weather
XV-NIC near Quang Ngai September 16, 1965 Douglas C-47A-90-DL Shot down
XV-NUG near Da Nang Airport September 20, 1969 Douglas C-54D-10-DC Pleiku-Da Nang Mid-air collision with a USAF F-4
B-2005 Nha Trang Airport December 22, 1969 Douglas DC-6B Saigon-Nha Trang Bombing
B-305 near Da Nang September 30, 1970 Douglas DC-3DST-318A Buon Ma Thuot-Hue CFIT
XV-HUI near Ben Cat September 24, 1972 Douglas C-54D-1-DC Vientiane-Saigon CFIT
XV-NUI near Buon Ma Thuot Airport March 19, 1973 Douglas C-54D-15-DC Saigon-Buon Ma Thuot In-flight explosion
XV-NIE near Quang Ngai November 17, 1973 Douglas C-47B-10-DK Saigon-Quang Ngai Unexplained disappearance
XV-NUM Hue Airport February 20, 1974 Douglas C-54A-5-DO Qui Nhon-Da Nang Hijacking
Flight 706 Ninh Thuan September 15, 1974 Boeing 727-121C Da Nang-Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) Hijacking
Air West
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 162 N'Djamena, Chad January 24, 2007 Boeing 737-200 Hijacking
Airwork
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 23 Stratford, New Zealand May 3, 2005 Fairchild SA227-AC Metro III Pilot error
Alas Chiricanas
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 00901 Santa Rita Mountains July 19, 1994 Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante In-flight explosion
Alaska Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 779
(operating for USAF)
Shemya July 21, 1961 Douglas DC-6 Everett-Fairfield-Anchorage-Shemya-Tachikawa Crash on landing, ATC error
Flight 1866 Tongass National Forest September 4, 1971 Boeing 727 Anchorage-Cordova-Yakutat-Juneau-Sitka-Seattle Navigation error, CFIT
Flight 261 Pacific Ocean
off the coast of Anacapa Island
January 31, 2000 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 Puerto Vallarta-San Francisco-Seattle Mechanical failure
Flight 536 Seattle December 26, 2005
Alitalia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Shannon, Ireland February 26, 1960 Douglas DC-7C Roma-Shannon-New York unknown
Flight 771 Junnar, India July 7, 1962 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-43 CFIT
Flight 112 Mount Longa, Italy May 5, 1972 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-43 Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 4128 Tyrrhenian Sea, off Palermo, Italy December 23, 1978 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Pilot error [4]
Flight 404 Stadlerberg, off Zurich, Switzerland November 14, 1990 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Milan-Zurich CFIT
All Nippon Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 025 Pacific Ocean August 12, 1958 Douglas C-53-DO Tokyo-Nagoya CFIT
JA5018 Nagoya-Komaki International Airport March 16, 1960 Douglas C-47-DL Tokyo-Nagoya Runway collision with a JASDF F-86
G-APKJ Osaka-Itami Airport June 12, 1961 Vickers Viscount 744 Hard landing leading to landing gear failure
JA8202 near Nagoya November 19, 1962 Vickers Viscount 828 Loss of control
Flight 60 Tokyo Bay February 4, 1966 Boeing 727-81 Sapporo-Tokyo Pilot error
Flight 533 Matsuyama Airport, Shikoku November 13, 1966 NAMC YS-11-111 Osaka-Matsuyama Runway overrun
Flight 58 outskirts of Morioka July 30, 1971 Boeing 727-281 Sapporo-Tokyo Collided with Japanese Air Self Defense Force F-86
JA8146 Hakodate Airport June 21, 1995 Boeing 747SR-81 Tokyo-Hakodate Hijacking
Flight 61 Bōsō Peninsula July 24, 1999 Boeing 747-481D Tokyo-Sapporo Hijacking
Flight 8254 Shimojishima Airport June 26, 2002 Boeing 767-281 Loss of control
Allegheny Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 853 Fairland, Indiana September 9, 1969 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 Mid-air collision
Allegiant Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 435 McAllen, Texas August 10, 2006
ALM
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 980 Caribbean Sea May 2, 1970 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Fuel exhaustion
Aloha Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 243 Kahului, Hawaii April 28, 1988 Boeing 737-200 Explosive decompression
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 514 Izhma Airport September 7, 2010 Tupolev Tu-154M Udachny-Moscow Loss of electrical power, runway overrun
America West Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 556 Miami International Airport July 1, 2002 Airbus A319 Miami-Phoenix Pilots were intoxicated
American Airlines
American Eagle
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 4184 Roselawn, Indiana October 31, 1994 Aérospatiale ATR-72-212 Wing icing
Flight 5401 San Juan, Puerto Rico May 9, 2004 Aérospatiale ATR-72-212 Pilot error
Angara Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 5007 Ob River July 11, 2011 Antonov An-24RV Tomsk-Surgut Engine fire leading to water ditching
Ansett Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 232 Alice Springs November 15, 1972 Fokker F27
Ansett New Zealand
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 703 Tararua Range June 5, 1995 de Havilland Canada Dash 8-102 CFIT
Aquila Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
G-AKNU Isle of Wight November 15, 1957 Short Solent Engine problems
Armavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 967 Black Sea May 3, 2006
Arrow Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 1285 Gander December 12, 1985 Douglas DC-8 Icing
Arkia Israel Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 582 near Mombassa, Kenya November 28, 2002 Boeing 757-3E7 Mombassa-Tel Aviv Attempted shoot-down
Asiana Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 733 Mokpo, South Korea July 26, 1993 Boeing 737-5L9 CFIT, weather conditions
Flight 991 off Jeju Island July 28, 2011 Boeing 747-48EF Incheon-Shanghai Under investigation
Asian Spirit
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 100 Nueva Vizcaya December 7, 1999 LET L-140 Turbolet Cauayan City, Isabela Controlled flight into terrain
ATI - Aero Transporti Italiani
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Köln, Germany Conca di Crezzo, Italy October 15, 1987 Aérospatiale ATR-42-312 Ice on the wings
Atlantic Southeast Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2311 Brunswick, Georgia April 5, 1991 Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia Mechanical failure
Flight 529 Carrollton, Georgia August 21, 1995 Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia Mechanical failure
Austral Líneas Aéreas
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2553 Uruguay October 10, 1997 Douglas DC-9 Mechanical failure
Australian National Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Southern Cloud Snowy Mountains March 21, 1931 Avro 618 Ten Sydney-Melbourne Weather
Australian National Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
VH-UYC
Kyeema
Mount Dandenong October 25, 1938 Douglas DC-2 Adelaide-Melbourne Weather, pilot error
VH-USY near Dimboola February 8, 1940 Douglas DC-2 Engine fire
VH-UXZ
Marika
off Flinders Island May 29, 1942 de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide Fuel exhaustion
VH-ADQ near Bendigo December 3, 1943 Douglas DC-2 Sydney-Melbourne Navigation error
VH-UYY
Tokana
near Heathcote January 31, 1945 Stinson Model A Metal fatigue, in-flight breakup
VH-AET off Hobart March 10, 1946 Douglas C-47-DL Hobart-Melbourne Undetermined
VH-ANK
Lutana
near Nundle September 2, 1948 Douglas C-47A-50-DL Sydney-Brisbane Navigation error
VH-ABR
Kanana
near Yass October 4, 1948 Douglas DC-3 Engine fire
VH-UZK
Kurana
Mount Macedon November 8, 1948 Douglas DC-3-232 Melbourne-Deniliquin Change of course for reasons unknown
VH-UZJ
Kyilla
near Mangalore December 29, 1948 Douglas DC-3-232 Western Junction-Melbourne Pilot error
VH-ANA
Amana
near York June 26, 1950 Douglas DC-4-1009 Perth-Adelaide CFIT
Austrian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 901 Moscow September 26, 1960 Vickers Viscount 837
Aviaco
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 118 Montrove, Spain August 13, 1973 Sud Aviation Caravelle Madrid-A Coruña CFIT
Avianca
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 011 Madrid November 27, 1983 Boeing 747-283B CFIT
Flight 410 Cúcuta March 17, 1988 Boeing 727-21 CFIT
Flight 203 Soacha November 27, 1989 Boeing 727 Terrorism, bombing
Flight 52 Cove Neck, New York January 25, 1990 Boeing 707-321 Fuel exhaustion and pilot error
Aviastar-TU
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 1906 near Aviogorodok March 22, 2010 Tupolev Tu-204-100 Hurgada-Moscow Pilot error
Aviateca
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Unknown Guatemala City April 28, 1977
Flight 901 San Salvador August 9, 1995 Boeing 737 Pilot error

B

Bahamasair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
C6-BFO Eleuthera, Bahamas April 20, 2007 Bombardier Dash 8-300 Landing Gear Collapsed
Balkan Bulgarian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight LZ130 Zurich, Switzerland January 18, 1971 Ilyushin Il-18 Pilot error
LZ-BES Sofia, Bulgaria December 21, 1971 Ilyushin Il-18B Weather
LZ-ILA near Plovdiv, Bulgaria November 4, 1972 Ilyushin Il-14P CFIT
LZ-ANA Sofia, Bulgaria November 22, 1975 Antonov An-24B Crash on takeoff
Flight 307 Moscow March 3, 1973 Ilyushin Il-18V Icing
LZ-BTN near Al Bayda, Lebanon December 2, 1977 Tupolev Tu-154M Fuel exhaustion
LZ-TUB Gabare, Bulgaria March 16, 1978 Tupolev Tu-134A Unknown
LZ-TUR Sofia Airport, Bulgaria January 10, 1984 Tupolev Tu-134A Crew error in bad weather
LZ-DOK Sofia, Bulgaria August 2, 1988 Yakovlev Yak-40 In-flight fire, possible crew error
Banat Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 166 Verona, Italy December 13, 1995 Antonov An-24 Bad weather and human error
Bangkok Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 125 Koh Samui, Surat Thani, Thailand November 21, 1990 de Havilland Canada DHC-8-103 Bad weather
Flight 266 Koh Samui, Surat Thani, Thailand August 4, 2009 ATR 72-212 Under investigation
BAL Bashkirian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 2937 Überlingen, Germany July 1, 2002 Tupolev 154-M Mid-air collision
Belavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 1834 Yerevan, Armenia February 14, 2008 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-100ER Under investigation
Blue Wing Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Benzdorp, Suriname April 3, 2008 Antonov An-28 Under investigation
Boeing Air Transport
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
NC280 Marquette, Nebraska February 26, 1928 Boeing 40 Windshear
NC184E Brawnson, Nebraska January 10, 1930 Boeing 95 Crashed while attempting an emergency landing
NC7465 Salt Lake City November 23, 1931 Boeing 40 Low visibility
NC7470 Rio Vista, California February 2, 1932 Boeing 40 Crashed on landing
Bonanza Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 114 Las Vegas, Nevada November 15, 1964 Fairchild F27 CFIT
Braathens
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 239 Asker December 23, 1972 Fokker F-28 Fellowship Weather, pilot error
Braniff International Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
NC8497 Chicago July 12, 1931 Lockheed Vega Engine failure
NC106W Columbia December 8, 1934 Lockheed Vega 5C Icing
NC980Y near Fort Worth November 9, 1935 Lockheed Vega Weather
Flight 1 Oklahoma City March 26, 1939 Douglas DC-2-112 Engine failure, loss of control
Flight 152 16 mi S of Mason City August 22, 1954 Douglas C-47-DL Windshear
Flight 560 Chicago-Midway Airport July 17, 1955 Convair CV-340-32 Pilot error
Flight 971 near Miami March 25, 1958 Douglas DC-7C Engine fire, pilot error
Flight 542 3 mi SE of Buffalo September 29, 1959 Lockheed L-188A Electra Structural failure
Flight 250 Falls City, Nebraska August 6, 1966 BAC 1-11-203AE Structural failure
Flight 352 Dawson, Texas May 3, 1968 Lockheed L-188A Electra Weather, pilot error
Flight 14 Buenos Aires July 2, 1971 Boeing 707 Hijacking
Flight 38 Dallas January 12, 1972 Boeing 727 Hijacking
Flight 920 Lima, Peru August 29, 1980 Douglas DC-8 Hijacking
Bristow Helicopters
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 56C Near the Brae Alpha oil rig, North Sea January 19, 1995 Eurocopter Super Puma Lightning strike, tail rotor failure
Britannia Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 105 Ljubljana September 1, 1966 Bristol 175 Britannia 102 Pilot error, incorrect altimeter setting
Flight 226A Girona-Costa Brava Airport September 14, 1999 Boeing 757-204 Weather, pilot, ATC errors
British Airtours
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-APFK Glasgow International Airport March 17, 1977 Boeing 707-437 Loss of control
Flight 28M Manchester August 22, 1985 Boeing 737-236 Engine failure, ground fire
British Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 475 Zagreb September 10, 1976 Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 3B Mid-air collision with a Inex-Adria DC-9
Flight 9 Jakarta June 24, 1982 Boeing 747-236B Volcanic ash ingestion, engine flameout
Flight 5390 over Didcot June 10, 1990 BAC 1-11-528FL Windshield failure, explosive decompression
Flight 149 Kuwait City August 1, 1990 Boeing 747-136 Military or terrorist bombing
Flight 38 Heathrow Airport, London January 17, 2008 Boeing 777-236ER Provisionally a power disruption
British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 304
Resolution
San Francisco October 29, 1953 Douglas DC-6 Weather, crew error
British European Airways (BEA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-AHCS 12 mi N of Oslo August 7, 1946 Douglas C-47A-5-DK Pilot error
G-AHPK Ruislip January 6, 1948 Vickers 610 Viking 1B Poor visibility, CFIT
G-AIVP near RAF Gatow April 5, 1948 Vickers 610 Viking 1B Mid-air collision with a Soviet Air Force Yak-3
Flight S200P Irish Law Mountain April 21, 1948 Vickers 610 Viking 1B CFIT
G-AHCW over Exhall February 19, 1949 Douglas C-47A-25-DK Dakota C.3 Mid-air collision with an RAF Avro Anson
G-AHCY near Oldham August 19, 1949 Douglas C-47A-5-DK Pilot error, CFIT
G-AHPN
Lord St Vincent
London Heathrow Airport October 31, 1950 Vickers 610 Viking 1B Poor visibility, crash on landing
Flight 411
RMA Discovery
Wythenshawe March 14, 1957 Vickers Viscount 701 Metal fatigue, loss of control
Flight 609 Munich February 6, 1958 Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador 2 Weather
Flight 142 Anzio October 22, 1958 Vickers Viscount 701C Mid-air collision with an Italian Air Force F-86
G-APEE London Heathrow Airport October 27, 1965 Vickers 951 Vanguard Pilot error
Flight 284
(operated by Cyprus Airways)
Mediterranean Sea October 12, 1967 de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4 Bombing
Flight 706 near Aarsele October 2, 1971 Vickers 951 Vanguard Corrosion, explosive decompression
Flight 548 Staines June 18, 1972 Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1C Crew error
British Midland
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-ALHG Stockport June 4, 1967 Canadair C-4 Argonaut Fuel starvation
Flight 092 The M1 motorway between East Midlands Airport and Kegworth, England January 8, 1989 Boeing 737-400 Engine failure, pilot error
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-ADTA
Euryalus
RAF Lympne May 23, 1940 Armstrong Whitworth Ensign Crash on landing
G-AGEJ Atlantic Ocean off Denmark April 4, 1943 Lockheed 18-10 Lodestar Shot down
Flight 777
(operated by KLM)
Bay of Biscay June 1, 1943 Douglas DC-3-194 Military shoot-down
G-AGDE 15 mi off Leuchars, Scotland December 17, 1943 Lockheed 18-56 Lodestar CFIT
G-AGIH Mount Kinnekulle August 29, 1944 Lockheed C-60A-5-LO Lodestar Low visibility, CFIT
G-AGLX
(operated by Qantas)
Indian Ocean March 23, 1946 Avro 691 Lancastrian 1 Unexplained disappearance
G-AGJX Stowting, Kent January 11, 1947 Douglas C-47A-1-DK Weather, pilot error, crew error
G-AGNR Az-Zubair, Iran July 16, 1947 Avro 685 York C.1 Weather, pilot error
G-ALYZ Ciampino Airport October 26, 1952 de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 Pilot error
Flight 783/057
Yoke Victor
near Calcutta May 2, 1953 de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 Structural failure
Flight 781
Yoke Peter
Mediterranean Sea January 10, 1954 de Havilland Comet 1 Metal fatigue, structural failure
G-ALAM Kallang Airport March 13, 1954 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Crashed short of runway, pilot fatigue
G-ALSA Glasgow Airport December 25, 1954 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-28 Pilot error
G-ALHL Tripoli International Airport September 21, 1955 Canadair C-4 Argonaut Pilot error
G-ALHE near Kano Airport June 24, 1956 Canadair C-4 Argonaut Windshear
Unknown, G-AOVD Winkton, England December 24, 1958 Bristol Britannia 312 CFIT, pilot error
Flight 911 Mount Fuji, Japan March 5, 1966 Boeing 707 Clear-air turbulence
Flight 712 Heathrow Airport April 8, 1968 Boeing 707 Engine failure
Flight 775 Zarka, Jordan September 12, 1970 Vickers VC-10-1151 Hijacking

C

Caledonian Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 153 Douala, Cameroon March 4, 1962 Douglas DC-7 Douala-Lisbon Undetermined
Canadian Pacific
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Unknown Quebec September 9, 1949 Douglas C-47-DL Montreal-Comeau Bay Bomb placed by Albert Guay killed all aboard including his wife.
CF-CPC Alaska July 21, 1951 Douglas DC-4 Vancouver-Anchorage-Tokyo Unexplained disappearance
CF-CUN
Empress of Hawaii
Karachi International Airport March 3, 1953 de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1A Pilot error
Flight 21 British Columbia July 8, 1965 Douglas DC-6B Vancouver-Prince George-Fort St. John-Fort Nelson-Watson Lake-Whitehorse Explosion of a device, all 52 aboard died
Capital Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 500 Potomac River near Washington National Airport December 12, 1949 Douglas DC-3-313A Newport News-Washington, DC Stall, loss of control
N7404 Chicago Midway International Airport February 20, 1956 Vickers Viscount 744 Detroit-Chicago Mechanical failure
N88835 near Clarksburg, Maryland June 22, 1957 Douglas C-47A Loss of control
Flight 67 Saginaw Bay off Freeland, Michigan April 6, 1958 Vickers Viscount 745D Flint-Freeland Icing, stall, loss of control
Flight 300 over Brunswick, Maryland May 20, 1958 Vickers Viscount 745D Pittsburgh-Baltimore Mid-air collision with an Air National Guard T-33A
Flight 75 Chase, Maryland May 12, 1959 Vickers Viscount 745D New York City-Atlanta Loss of control, in-flight breakup
Flight 983 Charleston, West Virginia May 12, 1959 Lockheed C-69 Constellation Pittsburg-Charleston Slid off runway
Flight 20 Holdcroft, Virginia January 18, 1960 Vickers Viscount 745D Washington, DC-Norfolk Icing, triple engine failure, loss of control
Flight 26 Anchorage, Alaska November 27, 1970 Douglas DC-8-63CF Anchorage-Tokyo Mechanical failure, failed to takeoff, runway overrun
Cathay Pacific
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight VR-HDT Pearl River Delta July 16, 1948 PBY Catalina Seaplane Macau-Hong Kong Hijacking
VR-HDG North Point, Hong Kong February 24, 1949 Douglas C-47A-90-DL Manila-Hong Kong CFIT
VR-HDW Anisakar, Myanmar September 13, 1949 Douglas C-47A-30-DK Crash on takeoff
VR-HEU off Hainan Island, China July 23, 1954 Douglas C-54A-10-DC Bangkok-Hong Kong Shot down
Flight 033 Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong November 5, 1967 Convair 880-22M-3 Hong Kong-Saigon Loss of control, runway overrun
Flight 700Z 34 mi SE of Pleiku, Vietnam June 15, 1972 Convair 880-22M-21 Bangkok-Hong Kong Bombing
Flight 252 near Hong Kong International Airport August 30, 2004 Boeing 747-467 London-Hong Kong Loss of control
Flight 780 Hong Kong International Airport April 13, 2010 Airbus A330-342 Surabaya-Hong Kong Double engine failure due to contaminated fuel
Cebu Pacific
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 387 Misamis Oriental February 2, 1998 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Manila-Cagayan de Oro Pilot error
Chalk's Ocean Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 101 Miami December 19, 2005 Grumman G-73T Turbo Mallard Miami-Bimini Structural failure
China Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 006 San Francisco February 19, 1985 Boeing 747SP-09 Taipei-Los Angeles Engine failure, crew error
Flight 204 Hualien October 26, 1989 Boeing 737-209 Hualien-Taipei Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 358 Taipei December 29, 1991 Boeing 747-2R7F Taipei-Anchorage Metal fatigue in the fuse pin, engine collision
Flight 605 Hong Kong November 4, 1993 Boeing 747-409 Taipei-Hong Kong Crew error, airplane skids off runway in rain and wind into the water. 3 injured, 0 dead.
Flight 140 Nagoya April 26, 1994 Airbus A300B4-622R Taipei-Nagoya Pilot error. 264 killed.
Flight 676 Taipei February 16, 1998 Airbus A300-622R Bali-Taipei In poor weather, airplane crashed near airport. 202 dead.
Flight 642 Hong Kong August 22, 1999 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Bangkok-Hong Kong Crew error, weather. Airplane rolled over during landing. 50 injured, 3 dead.
Flight 611 Pescadores Islands May 25, 2002 Boeing 747-209B Taipei-Hong Kong Metal fatigue, structural failure. Airplane fell apart mid-flight. 225 dead.
Flight 120 Okinawa, Japan August 20, 2007 Boeing 737-809 Taipei-Naha Engine fire after landing, plane gutted by fire. 4 injured, 0 dead.
China Eastern Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
B-3417 near Shanghai August 15, 1989 Antonov An-24RV Shanghai-Nanchang Loss of power
Flight 583 Shemya April 6, 1993 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Shanghai-Los Angeles Loss of control
Flight 5398 Fuzhou October 26, 1993 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Shenzhen-Fuzhou Runway overrun, pilot error
Flight 586 Shanghai September 11, 1998 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Shanghai-Beijing Nosegear failure
Flight 5210 Baotou November 21, 2004 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-200LR Baotou-Shanghai Icing and Crew error
China Flying Dragon Aviation
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
B-3822 Changhai June 21, 1996 Harbin Yunshuji Y-12-II Dalian-Changhai Crew error, CFIT
B-3841 near Chifeng June 15, 2008 Harbin Yunshuji Y-12-II CFIT
China General Aviation
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 7552 Nanking Airport July 31, 1992 Yakovlev 42D Nanking-Xiamen Loss of control
China Northern Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 6901 Ürümqi November 13, 1993 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Beijing-Ürümqi Pilot error
Flight 6136 Dalian May 7, 2002 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Beijing-Dalian In-flight fire
China Northwest Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2119 Yinchuan, China July 23, 1993 BAe 146-300 Yinchuan-Beijing Mechanical failure
Flight 2303 Near Xian, China June 6, 1994 Tupolev Tu-154M Xian-Guangzhou Maintenance error
China Southern Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2812 Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport October 2, 1990 Boeing 757-21B Guangzhou-Shanghai Ground collision with hijacked Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737
Flight 3943 near Guilin Airport November 24, 1992 Boeing 737-3Y0 Guangzhou-Guilin Mechanical failure
Flight 3456 Shenzhen Airport May 8, 1997 Boeing 737-31B Chongqing-Shenzhen Hard landing, runway overrun
China Southwest Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2402 Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport October 2, 1990 Boeing 707-3J6B Chengdu-Guangzhou Sideswiped by hijacked Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737
Flight 4509 Ruian February 24, 1999 Tupolev Tu-154M Chengdu-Wenzhou Improper maintenance
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
B-492 Changsha January 21, 1976 Antonov An-24 Guangzhou-Changsha Crash on approach
Flight 3303 near Yangsuo April 26, 1982 Hawker-Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E Guangzhou-Guilin CFIT
Flight 2311 Guangzhou-Baiyun International Airport December 24, 1982 Ilyushin Il-18B Changsha-Guangzhou In-flight fire
B-296 Chunchon May 5, 1983 Hawker-Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E Shenyang-Shanghai Hijacking
B-264 Guilin Airport September 14, 1983 Hawker-Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E Guilin-Beijing Ground collision with a PLAAF Harbin H-5
Flight 5109 Jinan January 18, 1985 Antonov An-24B Nanking-Jinan CFIT
B-3413 near Lanzhou December 15, 1986 Antonov An-24RV Engine failure, icing, CFIT
B-2514 Fuzhou Airport June 16, 1987 Boeing 737-2T4 Hong Kong-Fuzhou Collision with a PLAAF Shenyang J-6
Flight 301 Kowloon Bay August 31, 1988 Hawker-Siddeley HS-121 Trident 2E Guangzhou-Hong Kong Slid off runway
Compagnie des Grands Express Aériens (CGEA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
F-GEAD over Picardie April 7, 1922 Farman F.60 Le Bourget-Croydon Mid air collision
Compagnie des Messageries Aériennes (CMA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
F-AEIE Croydon Airport March 15, 1923 Farman F.60 Runway overrun
Comair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 3272 Monroe, Michigan January 9, 1997 Embraer 120 RT Brasilia Weather, crew error
Flight 5191 Lexington, Kentucky August 27, 2006 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-100ER ATC, pilot errors
Continental Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 46 near Midland March 16, 1954 Convair CV-340-35 Midland-Kansas City Improper maintenance
Flight 190 over Bartlesville, Oklahoma September 9, 1956 Douglas DC-3 Tulsa-Bartlesville Mid-air collision with a Cessna 170B
Flight 11 near Unionville, Missouri May 22, 1962 Boeing 707-124 Chicago-Kansas City Bombing
Flight 210 Amarillo Air Terminal July 8, 1962 Vickers Viscount 812 Amarillo-Lubbock Pilot error
Flight 290 Kansas City January 29, 1963 Vickers Viscount 812 Midland-Kansas City Icing, loss of control
Flight 12 Kansas City Downtown Airport July 1, 1965 Boeing 707-124 Los Angeles-Kansas City Skidded off runway
Flight 426 Stapleton International Airport August 7, 1975 Boeing 727-224 Denver-Wichita Windshear
Flight 603 Los Angeles International Airport March 1, 1978 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Los Angeles-Honolulu Tire failure, aborted takeoff
Flight 1713 Denver November 15, 1987 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14 Denver-Boise Pilot error, weather
Flight 795 New York City March 2, 1994 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 New York City-Denver Runway overrun
Flight 1943 George Bush Intercontinental Airport February 19, 1996 Douglas DC-9-32 Washington, DC-Houston Pilot error
Flight 1883 Newark Liberty International Airport October 28, 2006 Boeing 757-224 Orlando-Newark Pilot error, landed on taxiway
Flight 1404 Denver International Airport December 20, 2008 Boeing 737-524 Denver-Houston Pilot error, ATC error
Continental Express/Continental Connection
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2574 Eagle Lake, Texas September 11, 1991 Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia Maintenance error
Flight 3407 Clarence Center, New York February 12, 2009 Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 To be determined
Court Line
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 95 London Luton Airport April 18, 1974 BAC-111-518 London-Munich Runway collision with a Piper Aztec
Cubana de Aviación
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 455 Bridgetown, Barbados October 6, 1976 Douglas DC-8 Terrorism, bombing
ČSA
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
OK-ZDN near Prague March 5, 1946 Junkers Ju 52/3m Paris-Strasbourg-Prague Crashed on landing
OK-XDU near Kladno February 13, 1947 Douglas C-47A-60-DL Prague-Cakovice Improper maintenance
Flight 584 near Pilos December 21, 1948 Douglas C-47A-20-DK Rome-Athens Spatial disorientation, shot down
OK-WDY Praded Mountain February 27, 1950 Douglas C-47A-15-DK Ostrava-Prague CFIT
OK-WDS near Prague Ruzyně Airport January 12, 1954 Douglas C-47A-1-DK Prague-Ostrava Failed to takeoff
OK-WDZ Mount Skapova January 18, 1956 Douglas C-47A-20-DL Bratislava-Kosice CFIT
OK-DBP Egislau November 20, 1956 Ilyushin Il-12B Zurich-Prague  ?
OK-MCZ Hostivice January 2, 1961 Avia 14 Failed to takeoff
OK-OAD 14 mi NE of Nurnburg March 28, 1961 Ilyushin Il-18V Prague-Zurich-Rabat-Dakar-Conakry-Bamako Disputed
OK-PAF near Casablanca July 12, 1961 Ilyushin Il-18V Zurich-Rabat Unknown
Flight 306 near Slavkov September 10, 1962 Avia 14 Bratislava-Brno Crash on approach
Flight 523 near Gander, Newfoundland September 5, 1967 Ilyushin Il-18D Prague-Shannon-Gander-Havana Undetermined
OK-MCJ
Svit Gottwaldov
Ptice October 11, 1968 Avia 14-32 Prague-Kosice Crash on takeoff
OK-NDD near Tripoli International Airport June 1, 1970 Tupolev Tu-104A Prague-Tripoli Crashed short of runway
Flight 540
Brno Trade Fair
11 mi NE of Damascus August 20, 1975 Ilyushin Il-62 Prague-Damascus Incorrect altimeter setting
OK-NAB Bratislava July 28, 1976 Ilyushin Il-18V Prague-Bratislava probably engine failure and pilot error
OK-OCA near Bratislava February 11, 1977 Avia 14T Prague-Bratislava Pilot error
Curtiss Reid Flying Services
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Unknown Grenoble, France November 13, 1950 Douglas C-54B-1-DC Unknown

D

Dagestan Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 372 Domodedovo International Airport December 4, 2010 Tupolev Tu-154M Fuel exhaustion
Daimler Airway
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
International Flight Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine, France April 7, 1922 de Havilland DH.18A Mid-air collision
Domestic Scheduled Passenger Flight Ivinghoe Beacon, United Kingdom September 14, 1922 de Havilland DH.34 Stall
Dan Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-AMUV Gurgaon, Haryana, India August 25, 1958 Avro York  ?
G-ATFZ Godalming, Surrey, England September 1, 1966 Piper PA-23 Apache 160  ?
G-APDN Catalonia July 3, 1970 De Havilland Comet  ?
G-BEBP Lusaka, Zambia May 14, 1977 Boeing 707-321C Structural failure
Flight 0034 Shetland Islands July 31, 1979 Hawker Siddeley HS 748 Accidental engagement of gust lock.
Flight 1008 Los Rodeos, Tenerife April 25, 1980 Boeing 727-100 CFIT
Flight 240 Nailstone, Leicestershire, England June 26, 1981 Hawker Siddeley HS 748 Rapid decompression caused by failure of baggage door
Delta Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 723 Boston July 14, 1973 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 Weather, ATC and pilot errors
Flight 191 Dallas/Fort Worth August 2, 1985 Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar Weather, microburst, pilot error
Flight 1141 Dallas/Fort Worth August 31, 1988 Boeing 727-200 Advanced Mechanical failure, pilot error
Flight 2315 New York City - New Jersey area September 11, 2001 Boeing 737 Near mid-air collision with terrorist hijacked United Airlines Flight 175
Deruluft
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
D-AREN Stettin, Germany January 31, 1935 Junkers Ju 52/3m Pilot error
D-AJYP Schievelbein, Germany March 7, 1935 Rohrbach Roland Structural failure
SSSR-D311 near Moscow November 6, 1936 Tupolev ANT-9 Pilot error
Deutsche Luft Hansa
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
D-468 Bueren, Germany October 8, 1926 Fokker FG-3 Weather
D-729 Floh, Germany April 22, 1927 Fokker FG-3 Engine failure
D-1177 Saale September 22, 1927 BFW M.18 Engine failure
D-583 Radevormwald May 26, 1928 Junkers F.13 Pilot error
D-180 Heroldbach, Germany September 6, 1928 Fokker FG-3 Engine failure
D-1473 Letzlingen December 11, 1928 Junkers G 31 Weather
D-757 Elm August 24, 1929 Fokker FG-2 Weather
D-903
Oberschlesen
Godstone, Surrey November 9, 1929 Junkers G 31 Weather
D-1594
Tenerife
40 mi from Berlin December 19, 1929 Arado V I Forced landing
D-864 Bornholm, Denmark July 7, 1930 Dornier Wal Engine failure, forced landing
D-1930 Dresden October 6, 1930 Messerschmitt M 20B CFIT
D-1928 near Letschen, Germany April 14, 1931 Messerschmitt M 20 Structural failure
D-1455 Saarbrucken June 13, 1931 Dornier Merkur Engine failure
D-2017
Marmara
off Kent October 29, 1932 Junkers W33 Unknown
D-724 Echterpfuhl, Germany November 2, 1932 Junkers F.13 CFIT
D-1403 Hamburg December 11, 1933 Focke-Wulf A 17 CFIT
D-1445 Chausseehausen, Germany June 22, 1934 Dornier Merkur Weather
D-UVOR Breslau December 24, 1935 Heinkel He 70 Pilot error
D-AIAV Hanover August 9, 1940 Douglas DC-2-115H Pilot error
D-AAIH Berlin October 29, 1940 Douglas DC-3 Weather
D-AVMF Braunau November 8, 1940 Junkers Ju 90 Icing
D-AQUB Trontheim, Norway March 1, 1941 Junkers Ju 52/3m Crash on approach
D-ADQW over Belgrade January 15, 1944 Junkers Ju 52/3m Pilot error
D-ABAS Eubeoa, Greece February 21, 1944 Junkers Ju 52/3m Unexplained disappearance
D-AOCA over Belgrade April 17, 1944 Junkers Ju 52/3m Shot down
D-AAIG Fredrikstad April 21, 1944 Douglas DC-3 Pilot error
D-AUAW over Belgrade September 2, 1944 Junkers Ju 52/3m Shot down
D-AHML Dijon September 27, 1944 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Shot down
D-ASHE over Hungary October 17, 1944 Junkers Ju 52/3m Shot down
D-ADQU Telemark, Norway October 19, 1944 Junkers Ju 52/3m CFIT
D-ARHW off Målkläppen, Sweden November 29, 1944 Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Accidental shoot down
D-ASHH
Hessen
near Obertraubling April 21, 1945 Focke-Wulf Fw 200KB-1 Unknown
DHL Aviation
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 611 Überlingen, Germany July 1, 2002 Boeing 757-200 Mid-air collision with Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937
Flight OO-DLL Baghdad, Iraq November 22, 2003 Airbus 300B4-203F Missile attack, loss of controls
Dominicana de Aviación
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
HI-177 Santo Domingo February 15, 1970 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Mechanical failure
Downeast Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 46 Rockland, Maine May 30, 1979 de Havilland DHC-6-200 Twin Otter Pilot error (Improper IFR Operation)

E

EAS Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 4226 Kano, Nigeria May 4, 2002 BAC One-Eleven Pilot Error
Eastern Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 14 near Milford, Pennsylvania December 19, 1936 Douglas DC-2-112 Pilot error, ATC error
Flight 7 Daytona Beach, Florida August 10, 1937 Douglas DC-2 CFIT
Flight 21 near Atlanta February 26, 1941 Douglas DC-3 Incorrect altimeter setting, CFIT
Flight 45 over Lamar, South Carolina July 12, 1945 Douglas DC-3-201 Mid-air collision with a USAAF A-26
Flight 42 Florence, South Carolina September 7, 1945 Douglas DC-3 In-flight fire
Flight 14 New York City December 30, 1945 Douglas DC-3 Runway overrun, pilot error
Flight 16B Cheshire, Connecticut January 18, 1946 Douglas DC-3-201E Fuel leak, in-flight fire, structural failure
Flight 665 near Galax, Virginia January 12, 1947 Douglas DC-3 Navigation error, deviation from course
Flight 605 Port Deposit, Maryland May 30, 1947 Douglas C-54B-15-DO Undetermined
Flight 572 Oxon Hill, Maryland January 13, 1948 Douglas DC-3-201F Crew error, disregard of procedure
Flight 611 off Jacksonville, Florida February 7, 1948 Lockheed L-649 Constellation Propeller failure, fuselage penetration
Flight 557 over Chesterfield, New Jersey July 30, 1949 Douglas DC-3-201D Mid-air collision with a USN F6F Hellcat
Flight 537 over Arlington, Virginia November 1, 1949 Douglas DC-4
(former C-54)
Mid-air collision with a Bolivian Air Force P-38
Flight 601 Curles Neck Farm, Virginia July 19, 1951 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Forced landing
Flight 627 Idlewild International Airport October 19, 1953 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Spatial disorientation, pilot error
Flight 642 Jacksonville, Florida December 21, 1955 Lockheed L-749C-79-12 Constellation Crew error
Flight 375 Logan International Airport October 4, 1960 Lockheed L-188 Electra Bird strikes
Flight 512 Queens, New York November 30, 1962 Douglas DC-7B Weather, pilot error
N842D Boston, Massachusetts February 28, 1963 Douglas DC-7 Person ran into propeller (suicide)
Flight 304 Lake Pontchartrain February 25, 1964 Douglas DC-8 Pilot error
N809D Richmond, Virginia July 16, 1964 Douglas DC-7B Pilot error
Flight 663 Jones Beach, New York February 8, 1965 Douglas DC-7B Pilot error, evasive maneuvers
Flight 853 over Carmel, New York December 4, 1965 Lockheed L-1049C Constellation Mid-air collision with a TWA Boeing 707
N8943N over Raleigh, North Carolina December 4, 1971 Douglas DC-9-31 Mid-air collision with a Cessna 206
Flight 346 Fort Lauderdale May 18, 1972 Douglas DC-9 Pilot error
Flight 401 Florida Everglades December 29, 1972 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1 CFIT
Flight 212 Charlotte, North Carolina September 11, 1974 Douglas DC-9-31 pilot error
Flight 66 Queens, New York June 24, 1975 Boeing 727-225 Weather, microburst
Flight 855 near Miami, Florida May 5, 1983 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Dual engine failure due to improper maintenance
Flight 980 Mount Illimani, Bolivia January 1, 1985 Boeing 727-225 CFIT
Flight 791 over Cape Canaveral October 3, 1990 Douglas DC-9-31 Severe turbulence, pilot error, crew error
EgyptAir
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 763 Shamsan Mountains March 19, 1972 Douglas DC-9 CFIT
Flight 864 Bangkok December 25, 1976 Boeing 707-366C Pilot error
Flight 648 Luqa, Malta November 23, 1985 Boeing 737-200 Hijacking
Flight 990 Nantucket, Massachusetts October 31, 1999 Boeing 767-366ER (disputed)
Eirjet
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Ballykelly Airfield March 29, 2006 Airbus A320 Pilot Error
El Al
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 402/26 near Petrich, Bulgaria July 27, 1955 Lockheed L-149 Constellation Shot down
Flight 219 Amsterdam September 6, 1970 Boeing 707 Hijacking
Flight 1862 Amsterdam October 4, 1992 Boeing 747-258F Metal fatigue in the fuse pin, engine collision
Ethiopian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 961 Comoros November 23, 1996 Boeing 767-260ER Hijacking, fuel depletion
Flight 409 Beirut January 25, 2010 Boeing 737-800 Under investigation

F

Far Eastern Air Transport
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 103 Miao-Li, Taiwan August 22, 1981 Boeing 737-222 Explosive decompression
FedEx Express
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 705 Memphis, Tennessee April 7, 1994 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30F Attempted hijacking
Flight 647 Memphis, Tennessee December 18, 2003 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10F Pilot error
Flight 80 Narita International Airport, Japan March 23, 2009 McDonnell Douglas MD-11F Windshear, loss of control
Finnair/Aero OY
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Tallinn-Helsinki Baltic Sea November 16, 1927 Junkers F.13 aircraft went missing
Turku-Stockholm Baltic Sea November 10, 1937 Junkers Ju 52 damaged propellor blade
Tallinn-Helsinki Gulf of Finland June 14, 1940 Junkers Ju 52 shot down by Soviet SB-2 bombers
Flight 311 Koivulahti January 3, 1961 Douglas C-47A-30-DK pilot error, stall (pilot was intoxicated and sleep deprived)
Flight 217 Mariehamn November 8, 1963 Douglas C-47A-35-DL poor visibility at destination
Flash Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 604 Sharm el-Sheikh January 3, 2004 Boeing 737-3Q8 Loss of control (due to spatial disorientation)
Flying Tiger Line
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 841 Squak Mountain January 7, 1953 Douglas C-54B-10-DO CFIT
Flight 7413-23 Pacific Ocean September 24, 1955 Douglas C-54A-15-DC Engine failure leading to water ditching
N6920C Mount Oyama September 9, 1958 Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation CFIT
Flight 739 Pacific Ocean March 15, 1962 Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation Unexplained disappearance
Flight 923 Atlantic Ocean September 23, 1962 Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation Engine failure leading to water ditching
Flight 183 Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal December 14, 1962 Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation Pilot error
Flight 282 San Bruno Mountain December 24, 1964 Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation Deviation from course for reasons unknown
Flight 914 California Peak December 15, 1965 Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation Spatial disorientation
N228SW Da Nang December 24, 1966 Canadair CL-44D4-1 Crashed short of runway
Flight 45 Okinawa July 27, 1970 Douglas DC-8-63AF Crew error
Flight 66 near Kuala Lumpur February 19, 1989 Boeing 747-249F Crew error
Fuji Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
JA6155 Mount Hachijō-Fuji August 17, 1963 de Havilland Heron CFIT
Flight 902 Oita Airport February 27, 1964 Convair CV-240-0 Pilot error leading to runway overrun

G

Garuda Indonesia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Domestic Flight Mount Sibayak July 11, 1979 Fokker F28 Controlled Flight into Terrain
Domestic Flight Tanjung Karang-Branti Airport March 20, 1982 Fokker F28 Runway overrun in bad weather
Flight 152 Deli Serdang, North Sumatra September 26, 1997 Airbus A300-B4 Bad weather and ATC error
Flight 200 Yogyakarta March 7, 2007 Boeing 737-400 Pilot negligent and error
Globe Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
HB-ITD near Nicosia Airport, Cyprus April 21, 1967 Bristol Britannia CFIT in bad weather
Gulf Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 771 Jebel Ali September 23, 1983 Boeing 737-200 Terrorism, bombing
Flight 072 Al Muharraq August 23, 2000 Airbus A320-212 Pilot error
Gol Transportes Aéreos
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 1907 Mato Grosso, Brazil September 29, 2006 Boeing 737-800 SFP Mid-air collision
Golden West Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 261 Whittier, California, USA January 9, 1975 De Havilland Twin Otter Mid-air collision

H

Handley Page Transport
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-EAMA Golders Green, London December 14, 1920 Handley Page O/400 Undetermined
Hapag-Lloyd Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 3378 Vienna July 12, 2000 Airbus A310-304 Mechanical failure, fuel depletion
Hawthorne Nevada Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 708 Lone Pine, California February 18, 1969 Douglas DC-3 Weather, CFIT
Helios Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 522 Marathon, Greece August 14, 2005 Boeing 737-31S Pressurisation failure
Henan Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 8387 Lindu Airport August 24, 2010 Embraer E-190 Crash short of runway
Hillman's Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
None English Channel, off Folkestone October 2, 1934 De Havilland DH.89A Dragon Rapide CFIT

I

IAS Cargo Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Lusaka Airport, Zambia May 14, 1977 Boeing 707-321C Structural failure
Iberia Airlines
Flight 062 Black Down, Sussex, United Kingdom November 4, 1967 Sud Caravelle CFIT
Icelandic Airlines (Loftleiðir)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight LL 001 Colombo Airport, Sri Lanka November 15, 1978 Douglas DC-8-63CF Disputed
Imperial Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-EBBX Purley December 24, 1924 de Havilland DH.34 Fuel exhaustion
G-EMBS
Prince Henry
English Channel October 21, 1926 Handley Page W.10 Loss of power leading to water ditching
G-EBLB Purley, Surrey July 13, 1928 Vickers Vulcan Engine failure
G-EBMT
City of Ottawa
English Channel off Dungeness June 17, 1929 Handley Page W.10 Engine failure leading to water ditching
G-EBIX
City of Washington
Neufchatel October 30, 1930 Handley Page W.8 Engine separation, CFIT
G-AAGX
Hannibal
Five Oak Green, Kent August 8, 1931 Handley Page H.P.42 Engine failure
G-AACI
City of Liverpool
Near Dixmude, Belgium March 28, 1933 Armstrong Whitworth Argosy II In-flight fire
G-ABLU
Apollo
Ruysselede, Belgium December 30, 1933 Avro 618 Ten Pilot error, CFIT
G-AASJ
City of Khartoum
off Alexandria, Egypt December 31, 1935 Short Calcutta Fuel exhaustion
G-ADVA near Ouroux March 24, 1937 Short S.23 Empire CFIT
G-AXXE
Hengist
Karachi, India May 31, 1937 Handley Page H.P.45 Burned in hangar fire
G-ADVC Phaleron Bay October 1, 1937 Short S.23 Empire Poor visibility
G-ADUZ
Cygnus
Brindisi Harbor December 5, 1937 Short S.23 Empire Crashed on takeoff
G-ABTG
Amalthea
Kisumu, Kenya July 27, 1938 Armstrong Whitworth Atlanta CFIT
G-AETW Baghdad November 27, 1938 Short S.23 Empire CFIT
G-ADUU
Cavalier
Atlantic Ocean January 21, 1939 Short S.23 Empire Icing, loss of engine power
G-AFYU off Malta December 21, 1939 Lockheed L14H Super Electra CFIT
G-AAGX
Hannibal
Persian Gulf March 1, 1940 Handley Page HP.42 Unexplained disappearance
Independent Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 1851 Santa Maria, Azores February 8, 1989 Boeing 707 Controlled flight into terrain
Indian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 113 Ahmedabad, India October 19, 1988 Boeing 737-2A8 Pilot error, weather, lack of navigational aids
Flight 814 Kathmandu December 24, 1999 Airbus A300B2 Hijacking
Flight 605 Bangalore February 14, 1990 Airbus A320B3 "Failure of the pilots to realize the gravity of the situation and respond immediately towards proper action of moving the throttles, even after the radio altitude call-outs of "Four hundred", "Three hundred" and "Two hundred" feet, in spite of knowing that the plane was in idle/open descent mode" [5]
Inex-Adria Aviopromet (now Adria Airways)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 550 Zagreb September 10, 1976 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Mid-air collision
Flight 1308 Mont San-Pietro, Corsica December 1, 1981 McDonnell Douglas MD-81 Controlled flight into terrain
Interflug
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
DM-SEA near Königs Wusterhausen August 14, 1972 Ilyushin Il-62 In-flight fire
IrAero
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 103 Ignatyevo Airport August 8, 2011 Antonov An-24 Runway overrun
Iran Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Alborz Mountains, Iran January 21, 1980 Boeing 727-86 Inoperable ILS and ground radar
Flight 655 Strait of Hormuz July 3, 1988 Airbus A300B2-203 US Military missile shoot-down
Flight 277 Urmia Airport January 9, 2011 Boeing 727-286 Bad weather
Flight 742 Mehrabad International Airport October 18, 2011 Boeing 727-286 Nosegear failure
Iran Air Tours
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 945 Mashhad September 1, 2006 Tupolev Tu-154M  ?
Iraqi Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 163 Arar, Saudi Arabia December 25, 1986 Boeing 737-270C Hijacking
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Shahdad, Iran February 19, 2003 Ilyushin IL-76M Unknown

J

Japan Airlines (JAL)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Mokusei Mount Mihara April 9, 1952 Martin 2-0-2 Tokyo-Fukuoka CFIT
JA6011 Osaka International Airport September 30, 1957 Douglas DC-4-1009 Engine fire leading to forced landing
JA8003 Haneda Airport April 25, 1961 Douglas DC-8-32 San Francisco-Tokyo Runway overrun
JA6003 Osaka April 10, 1962 Douglas C-54-DO Fukuoka-Tokyo Forced landing
None Iki Airport February 27, 1965 Convair 880-22M-22 Excessive descent
Flight 813 San Francisco International Airport December 25, 1965 Douglas DC-8-33 Improper maintenance leading to engine failure and in-flight fire
Flight 2
Shiga
San Francisco Bay November 23, 1968 Douglas DC-8-62 Tokyo-San Francisco Pilot error
Flight 90 Grant County International Airport June 24, 1969 Convair 880-22M-3 Pilot error
Flight 351 Pyongyang March 31, 1970 Boeing 727-89 Tokyo-Fukuoka Hijacking
Flight 471 River Yamuna June 14, 1972 Douglas DC-8-53 Bangkok-Delhi Disputed
Flight 472 Juhu Airport September 24, 1972 Douglas DC-8-53 Pilot error, landed at wrong airport
Unknown Tokyo November 6, 1972 Boeing 727 Tokyo-Fukuoka Hijacking
Flight 446 Sheremetyevo International Airport November 28, 1972 Douglas DC-8-62 Moscow-Tokyo Disputed
Flight 404 Benghazi July 23, 1973 Boeing 747-246B Amsterdam-Anchorage Hijacking
Unknown Naha March 12, 1974 Boeing 747 Tokyo-Naha Hijacking
Unknown Tokyo April 9, 1975 Boeing 747 Sapporo-Tokyo Hijacking
Flight 422 Anchorage December 16, 1975 Boeing 747-246B Anchorage-Tokyo Pilot error, ATC error
Unknown Manila January 5, 1976 Douglas DC-8 Manila-Tokyo Hijacking
JA8122 Anchorage January 13, 1977 Douglas DC-8-62AF Anchorage-Tokyo Pilot incapacitation, crew error
Flight 715 near Kuala Lumpur September 27, 1977 Douglas DC-8-62H Hong Kong-Kuala Lumpur CFIT
Flight 472 Dhaka September 28, 1977 Douglas DC-8 Paris-Bombay-Tokyo Hijacking
Unknown Osaka November 13, 1979 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40 Osaka-Tokyo Hijacking
Flight 350 Tokyo February 9, 1982 Douglas DC-8-61 Fukuoka-Tokyo due to mental illness[6][7][8]
Flight 792 Shanghai September 17, 1982 Douglas DC-8-61 Shanghai-Tokyo Mechanical failure, runway overrun
Flight 123 Mount Osutaka, Japan August 12, 1985 Boeing 747SR-46 Tokyo-Osaka Faulty maintenance, explosive decompression in rear bulkhead, loss of control
JA8161 near Tokyo October 2, 1991 Boeing 747-246B Tokyo-Chicago Mechanical failure, loss of cabin pressure
Flight 46E Anchorage March 31, 1993 Boeing 747-121 Anchorage-Chicago Loss of control, engine separation
Flight 706 Shima Peninsula June 8, 1997 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Hong Kong-Nagoya Loss of control
Flight 907 and Flight 958 Yaizu, Japan January 31, 2001 Boeing 747-446D and Douglas DC-10-40D Pusan-Tokyo (Flight 958)
Tokyo-Okinawa (Flight 907)
ATC error, avoidance maneuvers
Flight 329 near Osaka April 3, 2007 Boeing 777 Engine failure
Flight 61 Los Angeles International Airport May 11, 2009 Boeing 747 Foreign object sucked into engine
Flight 653 June 6, 2009 Boeing 767-346 Osaka-Taipei In-flight fire
JAT Yugoslav Airlines (now Jat Airways)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 367 Srbská Kamenice January 26, 1972 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Terrorism, bombing
Flight 769 Titograd, Maganik, Montenegro September 11, 1973 Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 6-N Skopje-Titograd ATC error
Unknown Prague-Suchdol October 30, 1975 Douglas DC-9 officially still unknown; probably ATC and pilot errors while landing in fog
JetBlue Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 292 Los Angeles September 21, 2005 Airbus A320-232 Burbank-New York Mechanical failure

K

Kam Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 904 Afghanistan February 3, 2005 Boeing 737-200 Undetermined
Katekavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 9357 Igarka August 3, 2010 Antonov An-24 Pilot error
Kenya Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 431 Abidjan January 30, 2000 Airbus A310-304 Pilot error
Flight 507 Cameroon May 5, 2007 Boeing 737-800 Pilot error
KLM
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
H-NABS English Channel April 24, 1924 Fokker F.III Unexplained disappearance
H-NABM Landrécies, France June 25, 1925 Fokker F.III Weather
H-NACC Wolvertem, Belgium July 9, 1926 Fokker F.IV Weather
H-NADU Underriver, Kent August 22, 1927 Fokker F.VIII Structural failure of tailfin
H-NABR Waalhaven, Netherlands July 24, 1928 Fokker F.III Stall, loss of control
PH-AFO Bangkok, Thailand December 6, 1931 Fokker F.VIII/3m Crew error, failed to takeoff
PH-AJU
Uiver
Rutbah Wells, Syria December 20, 1934 Douglas DC-2-115A Weather
PH-AFL Brilon, Germany April 6, 1935 Fokker F.XII Low visibility, spatial disorientation
PH-AJQ
Kwikstaart
Schiphol, Netherlands July 14, 1935 Fokker F.XXII Loss of altitude
PH-AKG
Gaai
Pian Giacomo, Switzerland July 20, 1935 Douglas DC-2 Navigation error
PH-AKL
Lijster
Croydon Airport December 9, 1936 Douglas DC-2-115 Pilot error
PH-ALF Hal, Belgium July 28, 1937 Douglas DC-2-115L Possible lightning strike, in-flight fire
PH-ARY Schiphol, Netherlands November 14, 1938 Douglas DC-3 Pilot error
PH-APE Amsterdam, Netherlands December 9, 1938 Lockheed 14-WF62 Super Electra Crash on takeoff
PH-AJK Vlissingen, Netherlands June 10, 1939 Koolhoven F.K.43 Stall, loss of control
PH-ASM North Sea September 26, 1939 Douglas DC-3 Attacked by German fighter
PJ-AIP Trinidad August 22, 1942 Lockheed Super Electra Undetermined (possibly weather-related)
PH-TBW Schiphol Airport November 14, 1946 Douglas C-47A-90-DL Failed landing
PH-TCR Copenhagen January 26, 1947 Douglas Dakota Loss of control
PH-TEN
Nijmegen
Prestwick October 20, 1948 Lockheed L-049-46-25 Constellation Communication, navigation, pilot errors
PH-TER
Roermond
off Bari June 23, 1949 Lockheed L-749-79-33 Constellation Loss of control
PH-TDF
Franeker
near Bombay July 12, 1949 Lockheed L-749-79-33 Constellation Pilot error, CFIT
PH-TPJ
Koningin Juliana
near Frankfurt March 22, 1952 Douglas DC-6 Undetermined
PH-DFO
Willem Bontekoe
North Sea August 23, 1954 Douglas DC-6B Unexplained disappearance
Flight 633
Triton
Shannon Airport September 5, 1954 Lockheed L-1049C-55-81 Super Constellation Pilot error, water ditching
Flight 844
Neutron
off Biak-Mokmer Airport July 16, 1957 Lockheed L-1049C-55-81 Super Constellation Undetermined
Flight 607-E
Hugo de Groot
North Sea August 14, 1958 Lockheed L-1049H-01-06-162 Super Constellation Undetermined
Flight 823 near Cairo International Airport June 12, 1961 Lockheed L-188C Electra Pilot error
Flight 4805 Tenerife March 27, 1977 Boeing 747-206B Pilot error, ground collision
KNILM
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
PK-AFO Denpasar January 22, 1940 Lockheed Super Electra CFIT
PK-AFS Kupang, Timor January 26, 1942 Grumman Goose Shot down
PK-AFV
Pelikaan
Carnot Bay, Australia March 5, 1942 Douglas DC-3 Shot down
Kolavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 348 Surgut International Airport January 1, 2011 Tupolev Tu-154B-2 In-flight fire
Korean Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 902 Karelia, USSR April 20, 1978 Boeing 707 Military shoot-down
Flight 015 Seoul November 19, 1980 Boeing 747-200B  ?
Flight 007 Sakhalin September 1, 1983 Boeing 747-230B Military shoot-down
Flight 084 Anchorage December 23, 1983 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Runway collision with a Piper PA-31
Flight 858 Andaman Sea November 29, 1987 Boeing 707-3B5C Terrorism, bombing
Flight 803 Tripoli July 27, 1989 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 Fuel miscalculation, fuel depletion
Flight 2033 Jeju-Do August 10, 1994 Airbus A300 Pilot error
Flight 916F Zurich, Switzerland September 22, 1994 Boeing 747-3B5 Overloading
Flight 801 Guam August 6, 1997 Boeing 747-3B5 CFIT, weather
Flight 8702 Pohang August 5, 1998 Boeing 747-400 Runway overrun
Flight 1533 Seoul March 15, 1999 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 Weather, pilot error
Flight 6316 Shanghai April 15, 1999 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Pilot error
Flight 8509 London December 22, 1999 Boeing 747-2B5F Pilot error
Flight 85 Anchorage September 11, 2001 Boeing 747 Hijacking concerns

L

LANSA
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 502 Cuzco, Peru August 9, 1970 Lockheed L-188-A Electra Pilot error
Flight 508 Puerto Inca, Amazon Rainforest, Peru December 24, 1971 Lockheed L-188-A Electra Pilot error, lightning strike
LAPA
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 3142 Buenos Aires, Argentina August 31, 1999 Boeing 737-204C Pilot error, operational error, negligence
Lauda Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 004 Uthai Thani Province, Thailand May 26, 1991 Boeing 767-3Z9ER Engine went into reverse, in flight. Mechanical failure
Linjeflyg
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 277 near Helsingborg-Ängelholm Airport November 20, 1964 Convair 440 Pilot error, crashed short of runway
Flight 618
(operated by Skyline Sweden)
near Stockholm January 15, 1977 Vickers Viscount 818 Icing
Lion Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 538 Surakarta, Indonesia] November 30, 2004 McDonnell Douglas MD 82 Pilot error
Los Angeles Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 841 Paramount, California May 22, 1968 Sikorsky S-61L Main rotor failure
Flight 417 Anaheim, California August 14, 1968 Sikorsky S-61L Mechanical failure
LOT Polish Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
SP-LKA near Tuszyn November 15, 1951 Lisunov Li-2P Weather, poor visibility
Flight 232 Vnukovo International Airport June 14, 1957 Ilyushin Il-14P Weather, poor visibility
SP-LVB near Warsaw-Okecie Airport December 19, 1962 Vickers Viscount 804 Stall, loss of control
Flight 165 near Zawoja April 2, 1969 Antonov An-24B Weather, CFIT
Flight 165 Tempelhof International Airport August 30, 1978 Tupolev Tu-134 Hijacking
Flight 007 Warsaw-Okecie Airport March 14, 1980 Ilyushin Il-62 Engine failure, loss of control
Flight 5055 Warsaw May 9, 1987 Ilyushin Il-62M Engine failure, in-flight fire
Flight 703 near Rzeszów November 2, 1988 Antonov An-24B Engine failure
Flight 702 Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport February 25, 1993 ATR 42 Hijacking
Flight 016 Warsaw Chopin Airport November 1, 2011 Boeing 767-35DER Landing gear failure
Lufthansa
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 502 Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport January 11, 1959 Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Crashed on approach
Flight 005 Bremen Airport January 28, 1966 Convair CV-440-0 Stall, loss of control
Flight 540 Nairobi November 20, 1974 Boeing 747-130 Mechanical failure, pilot error
Flight 181 Mogadishu October 17, 1977 Boeing 737 Hijacking
Flight 2904 Warsaw September 14, 1993 Airbus A320-200 Pilot error
Luxair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 9642 Niederanven, Luxembourg November 6, 2002 Fokker F50 Pilot error

M

Maddux Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
NC9636 over San Diego, California April 21, 1929 Ford 5-AT-B Tri-Motor Mid-air collision with a USAAF Boeing PW-9D
Flight 7 Oceanside, California January 19, 1930 Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor Windshear
Malaysia Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 653 Johor December 4, 1977 Boeing 737-2H6 Hijacking
Flight 684 Subang, Petaling December 18, 1983 Airbus A300B2-100 Bad Weather
Flight 2133 Tawau September 15, 1995 Fokker 50 Pilot Error
Malév Hungarian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 240 Lebanon September 30, 1975 Tupolev Tu-154 Unknown
Mandala Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 091 Medan, Indonesia September 5, 2005 Boeing 737-200 Possibly surpassed maximum take off weight
Mandarin Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 642 Hong Kong SAR August 22, 1999 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Pilot error
Martinair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 495 Faro Airport, Portugal December 21, 1992 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF Windshear, thunderstorm, rain
Merpati Nusantara Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
PK-MVS
Sabang
off Padang, Indonesia November 10, 1971 Vickers Viscount 828 Undetermined
Flight 422 Achmad Yani International Airport November 30, 1994 Fokker F28 Runway overrun
Flight 9760 near Oksibil August 2, 2009 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 CFIT
Flight 836 Sorong Airport April 13, 2010 Boeing 737-322 Runway overrun
Flight 8968 off West Papua May 7, 2011 Xian MA60 Under investigation
Mexicana de Aviación
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 940 Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico March 31, 1986 Boeing 727-264 Chemical explosion and fire
Middle East Airlines (MEA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 438 Al Qaysumah, Saudi Arabia January 1, 1976 Boeing 720B Terrorism, bombing
Mohawk Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 121 Rochester, New York July 2, 1963 Martin 404 Weather, pilot error
Flight 40 Blossburg, Pennsylvania June 23, 1967 BAC 1-11 204AF Mechanical failure
Flight 411 Pilot Knob, New York November 19, 1969 Fairchild FH-227B Pilot error
Flight 405 Albany, New York March 3, 1972 Fairchild FH-227B Mechanical failure, pilot error

N

National Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 967 Gulf of Mexico November 16, 1959 Douglas DC-7B Possible bombing
Flight 2511 Bolivia, North Carolina January 6, 1960 Douglas DC-6B Bombing, murder and suicide
Flight 193 Escambia Bay, Florida May 8, 1979 Boeing 727-235 CFIT
Nationair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 2120 King Abdulaziz International Airport July 11, 1991 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 Fire, loss of flight controls
NLM CityHopper (now KLM Cityhopper)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 431 Moerdijk October 6, 1981 Fokker F28 Fellowship Weather, extreme turbulence, flying on one engine.
Nok Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight DD7506 Don Mueang International Airport February 5, 2006 Boeing 737-400 Right engine was malfunction
Unknown Phuket International Airport May 6, 2006 Boeing 737-400 Problem with one of its engine
Northeast Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 823 Rikers Island, New York February 1, 1957 Douglas DC-6A CFIT
Flight 946 Moose Mountain, New Hampshire October 25, 1968 Fairchild Hiller FH-227 Pilot error
Northwest Airlines
Flight designation(s) Location(s) Date Aircraft type(s) Cause
Flight 2 near Bozeman, Montana January 10, 1938 Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra In-flight breakup, design defect
Flight 1 near Miles City, Montana January 13, 1939 Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra In-flight fire
Flight 5 Moorhead, Minnesota October 30, 1941 Douglas DC-3 Icing
Flight 4422 Mount Sanford March 12, 1948 Douglas DC-4 CFIT
Flight 421 Fountain City, Wisconsin August 29, 1948 Martin 2-0-2 Structural failure
Flight 6427 34 mi N of Edmonton October 27, 1948 Douglas C-54A-15-DC Pilot error
Flight 255 Romulus, Michigan August 16, 1987 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Pilot error, failure to extend flaps and slats for takeoff
Flight 5 over Madison, Florida January 4, 1990 Boeing 727-251 Maintenance error, engine separation
Flight 1482 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport December 3, 1990 Douglas DC-9-14 Runway collision with a Northwest Boeing 727
Flight 957 and Flight 7 Seattle, Washington and Memphis, Tennessee October 28, 1998 Both Airbus A320s Hazardous material leakage
Flight 188 Minneapolis, Minnesota October 21, 2009 Airbus A320-211 Pilot distraction, pilot error
Flight 253 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport December 25, 2009 Airbus A330-323X Attempted bombing
Northwest Orient Airlines
Flight designation(s) Location(s) Date Aircraft type(s) Cause
Flight 307 near Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport March 7, 1950 Martin 2-0-2 CFIT
Flight 2501 Lake Michigan June 23, 1950 Douglas DC-4
(former C-54)
Unexplained disappearance
NC93037 Almelund, Minnesota October 13, 1950 Martin 2-0-2 Mechanical failure
Flight 115 near Butte, Montana November 7, 1950 Martin 2-0-2 Crew error
Flight 115 near Reardan, Washington January 16, 1951 Martin 2-0-2 Loss of control for reasons unknown
Flight 324 off Sandspit, British Columbia January 19, 1952 Douglas C-54-E-5-DO Icing
Flight 2 Puget Sound April 2, 1956 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-30 Crew error, water ditching
Flight 710 near Tell City, Indiana March 17, 1960 Lockheed L-188C Electra In-flight breakup
Flight 1-11
(operated by USAF)
off Manila July 14, 1960 Douglas DC-7C Engine failure, in-flight fire, water ditching
Flight 104 20 mi W of Missoula, Montana October 28, 1960 Douglas C-54A-10-DC Pilot error
Flight 706 Chicago, Illinois September 17, 1961 Lockheed L-188C Electra Maintenance error
Flight 705 Everglades February 12, 1963 Boeing 720-051B In-flight breakup
Flight 293
(operated by USAF)
Pacific Ocean June 3, 1963 Douglas DC-7CF Unexplained disappearance
Flight 305 Portland International Airport November 24, 1971 Boeing 727-51 Hijacking
Flight 6231 Stony Point, New York December 1, 1974 Boeing 727-251 Loss of control

O

One-Two-GO Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 269 Phuket September 16, 2007 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Under investigation (failed go-around, bad weather)
Olympic Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 417 After takeoff from Athens, Greece January 4, 1998 Boeing 747 Second-hand smoke and failure to re-seat a sensitive passenger killed the victim [1] [2] [3]

P

Pacific Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 773 San Ramon, California May 7, 1964 Fairchild F-27A Murder and suicide
Pacific Air Transport
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
NC5340 Techachapi Mountains November 18, 1930 Boeing 40 CFIT
NC5390 Las Tunas Canyon near Burbank May 5, 1931 Boeing 40 Low visibility
NC10347 San Francisco Bay September 16, 1931 Boeing 40 CFIT
NC5589 Burbank May 16, 1932 Boeing 40 Low visibility
NC431H Eugene January 24, 1933 Ford 5-AT-D Trimotor Crash on takeoff
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 182 San Diego September 25, 1978 Boeing 727-214 Mid-air collision
Flight 1771 San Luis Obispo County, California December 7, 1987 British Aerospace 146-200 Murder and suicide
Pacific Western Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 314 Cranbrook, British Columbia February 11, 1978 Boeing 737-200 Human Error
Flight 501 Calgary, Alberta March 22, 1984 Boeing 737-200 In-flight fire
Flight 117 Kelowna, British Columbia July 14, 1986 Boeing 737-275 Pilot Error
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
AP-ACZ Lash Golath Mountain February 25, 1956 Douglas C-47B-40-DK Pilot error
AP-AJS off Charlakhi Island July 1, 1957 Douglas C-47A-10-DK CFIT
Flight 205 Delhi-Palam Airport May 15, 1958 Convair CV-240-7 Pilot error
Flight 705 Cairo, Egypt May 20, 1965 Boeing 720-040B CFIT
AP-ALM Islamabad, Pakistan August 6, 1970 Fokker F27-200 Weather [9]
Flight 631 Maidan, Pakistan December 8, 1972 Fokker F27-600 Unknown[9]
Flight 740 30 mi N of Ta'if, Saudi Arabia November 26, 1979 Boeing 707-340C In-flight fire
AP-AUX Near Peshawar, Pakistan October 23, 1986 Fokker F27-600 Unknown[9]
AP-BBF Gilgit, Pakistan August 25, 1989 Fokker F27-200 Flight carrying 54 people disappears after leaving Gilgit in northern Pakistan. The wreckage is never found.[9]
Flight 268 Kathmandu, Nepal September 28, 1992 Airbus A300B4 CFIT
Flight 688 near Multan International Airport July 10, 2006 Fokker F27-200 Under investigation
Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
NC9700 Santiago de Cuba June 10, 1929 Fokker F.10 Failed to takeoff
 ? (General Machado) South Pacific August 15, 1932 F.VIIb/3m Fuel starvation due to navigational error
NC1537 Port of Spain April 11, 1936 Sikorsky S-42A Collision with boat on takeoff
Flight 1
Samoan Clipper
Pago Pago January 11, 1938 Sikorsky S-42 Static discharge igniting dumped fuel (suspected)
Killed chief pilot Ed Musick
Flight 229
Hawaii Clipper
South Pacific July 28, 1938 Martin M-130 Unknown (Alleged hijacking)
NC16933 Rio de Janeiro August 13, 1939 Sikorsky S-43 Engine failure, loss of control
Flight 202 San Juan October 3, 1941 Sikorsky S-42B Crashed on landing, pilot error
Flight 1104
Philippine Clipper
Boonville January 21, 1943 Martin M-130 CFIT
Flight 9035
Yankee Clipper
Lisbon February 21, 1943 Boeing 314 Weather, loss of control
NC742N near Nome, Alaska April 6, 1944 Pilgrim 100B Pilot error
7233 Gilbert Islands July 31, 1944 Consolidated PB2Y-3R Catalina CFIT
Flight 218
Hong Kong Clipper
near Antilla August 8, 1944 Sikorsky S-42 Loss of control on takeoff
Flight 161
China Clipper
Port of Spain January 8, 1945 Martin M-130 Pilot error
Flight 216 Fort de France August 3, 1945 Sikorsky S-43 Crashed on landing
NC18601
Honolulu Clipper
Pacific Ocean November 4, 1945 Boeing 314 Engine failure, water ditching
Flight 121
Clipper Eclipse
near Mayadine June 19, 1947 Lockheed L-049-46-21 Constellation Engine failure, in-flight fire
Flight 923
Clipper Talisman II
Annette Island October 26, 1947 Douglas DC-4 Undetermined
Flight 1-10
Clipper Empress of the Skies
Shannon Airport April 15, 1948 Lockheed L-049-51-26 Constellation CFIT
Flight 100
Clipper Monarch of the Skies
over Port Washington, New York January 30, 1949 Lockheed L-749 Constellation Mid-air collision with a Cessna 140
Flight 151
Clipper Great Republic
Liberia June 22, 1951 Lockheed L-049 Constellation CFIT
Flight 526A
Clipper Endeavour
Atlantic Ocean April 11, 1952 Douglas DC-4 Engine failure leading to water ditching
Flight 202
Clipper Good Hope
Brazil April 28, 1952 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Engine separation
Flight 201 off Rio de Janeiro July 27, 1952 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser Explosive decompression
Flight 845/26
Clipper United States
Pacific Ocean March 26, 1955 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-26 Engine separation leading to water ditching
Flight 6
Clipper Sovereign of the Skies
Pacific Ocean October 16, 1956 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29 Water ditching
Flight 7
Clipper Romance of the Skies
Pacific Ocean November 8, 1957 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-29 Unexplained disappearance
N1023V
Clipper Golden Gate
Manila June 2, 1958 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-26 Weather, hard landing, propeller failure
N88900 near Tegucigalpa September 12, 1959 Douglas DC-4 Deviation from course for reasons unknown
Flight 214
Clipper Tradewind
Elkton, Maryland December 8, 1963 Boeing 707-121 Weather, lightning strike
Flight 843
Clipper Friendship
San Francisco June 28, 1965 Boeing 707-321B Uncontained engine failure, in-flight fire
Flight 292
Clipper Constitution
Chances Peak September 17, 1965 Boeing 707-121B CFIT
Flight 708
Clipper München
East Berlin November 15, 1966 Boeing 727-21 Undetermined
Flight 1
Clipper Caribbean
near Calcutta June 12, 1968 Boeing 707-321C Incorrect altimeter setting
Flight 281 New York City November 24, 1968 Boeing 707 Hijacking
Flight 217
Clipper Malay
near Caracas December 12, 1968 Boeing 707-321B Pilot error, optical illusion
Flight 799
Clipper Racer
Anchorage December 26, 1968 Boeing 707-321C Pilot error
Flight 812 Sydney Airport December 1, 1969 Boeing 707-321B Bird strike during takeoff, resulting in overrun runway excursion[10]
Flight 93
Clipper Fortune
Egypt September 6, 1970 Boeing 747-121 Hijacking by PFLP, Blown up in Cairo
N461PA
Clipper Rising Sun
Manila July 25, 1971 Boeing 707-321CF Crew error
Flight 845
Clipper America
San Francisco July 30, 1971 Boeing 747-121 Crew error, ground collision
Flight 816
Clipper Winged Racer
Tahiti, French Polynesia July 22, 1973 Boeing 707-321B Throttle Failure, Sea Crash
Flight 160
Clipper Titian
Boston November 3, 1973 Boeing 707-321C Smoke in cockpit, in-flight fire, loss of control
Flight 110
Clipper Celestial
Italy December 17, 1973 Boeing 707-321C Terrorism, bombing
Flight 806
Clipper Radiant
American Samoa January 30, 1974 Boeing 707-321B CFIT
Flight 812
Clipper Climax
Bali April 22, 1974 Boeing 707-321B Instrument failure, pilot error
Flight 1736
Clipper Victor
Canary Islands March 27, 1977 Boeing 747-121 Ground collision with KLM Boeing 747
Flight 759
Clipper Defiance
Kenner, Louisiana July 9, 1982 Boeing 727-235 Weather, microburst
Flight 830
Clipper Ocean Rover
Pacific Ocean August 11, 1982 Boeing 747-121 Terrorism, bombing
Flight 73
Clipper Empress of the Seas
Pakistan September 5, 1986 Boeing 747-121 Hijacking
Flight 125
Clipper Ocean Pearl
England March 10, 1987 Boeing 747-121 Mechanical failure
Flight 103
Clipper Maid of the Seas
Lockerbie, Scotland December 21, 1988 Boeing 747-121 Terrorism, bombing
Paninternational
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 112 A7/E45 near Hamburg Airport September 6, 1971 BAC 1-11-515FB Dual engine failure due to maintenance error
Partnair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 394 Hirtshals, Denmark September 8, 1989 Convair 580 Structural failure, counterfeit parts
Philippine Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 206 Baguio City June 27, 1987 HS 748 Weather
Flight 434 Daito Islands December 11, 1994 Boeing 747-283B Terrorism, bombing
Flight 137 Bacolod City March 22, 1998 Airbus A320-214 Mechanical failure
PMTair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 241 Kampot Province June 25, 2007 Antonov An-24B CFIT
Puerto Rico International Airlines (Prinair)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 191 Ponce, Puerto Rico June 24, 1972 De Havilland DH-114 Heron Pilot error
Polish Air Force
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
None Near Smolensk North Airport April 10, 2010 Tupolev Tu-154M CFIT
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 612 Sukha Balka, Ukraine August 22, 2006 Tupolev Tu-154M Pilot error

Q

Qantas
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-AUED Tambo, Queensland March 24, 1927 de Havilland DH-9C Stall, loss of control
G-AUHI Adelaide Hills, South Australia September 4, 1928 de Havilland DH.50J Loss of control
VH-UHE Winton, Queensland October 3, 1934 de Havilland DH.50A Loss of control, possible stall
VH-USG Longreach, Queensland November 15, 1934 de Havilland DH-86 Loss of control due to design defect
G-AEUH Timor Sea off Kupang January 30, 1942 Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat Shot down by Japanese aircraft
VH-USE Brisbane February 20, 1942 de Havilland DH-86 Loss of control, possible in-flight breakup
VH-ADU Port Moresby April 22, 1943 Short S-23 Empire Flying Boat Broke apart after landing
VH-CAB Port Moresby November 26, 1943 Lockheed C-56B-LO Lodestar CFIT
VH-ABB Sydney October 11, 1944 Short S-23 Empire Flying Boat Stall, loss of control
G-AGLX Indian Ocean March 23, 1946 Avro Lancastrian Unknown, disappeared
VH-EBQ Lae July 16, 1951 de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover Centre propeller failure
Flight 1 Bangkok September 23, 1999 Boeing 747-438 Weather, crew error
Flight 30 South China Sea July 25, 2008 Boeing 747-438 Mid-air decompression, Exploding Oxygen Cylinder
Flight 72 Near Exmouth, Western Australia October 7, 2008 Airbus A330-303 Not yet known
Flight 32 Between Singapore and Batam November 4, 2010 Airbus A380 Engine Failure

R

RusAir
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 9605 A133 near Besovets June 20, 2011 Tupolev Tu-134A-3 CFIT
Ryanair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 296 London Stansted Airport February 27, 2002 Boeing 737-800 Ground fire
Flight 9336 Barcelona-Girona August 25, 2008 Boeing 737-800 Brutal loss of cabin pressurization
Flight 4102 Rome November 10, 2008 Boeing 737-800 Multiple birdstrikes

S

S7 Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 778 Irkutsk July 8, 2006 Airbus A310-324 Pilot error
Sabena
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
OO-AUB Ostend November 16, 1937 Junkers Ju 52/3m Weather, pilot error
Flight 548 Brussels February 15, 1961 Boeing 707 Mechanical failure
Sahsa
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Tan-Sahsa Flight 414 Tegucigalpa October 21, 1989 Boeing 727 Pilot Error
Saturn Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
N640NA near San Antonio International Airport January 31, 1967 Douglas DC-6A Undetermined
N9248R near Fort Dix October 10, 1970 Lockheed L-100 Hercules Weather, spatial disorientation, pilot error
N14ST Springfield, Illinois May 23, 1974 Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules Metal fatigue, wing separation, loss of control
Saudi Arabian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 163 Riyadh August 19, 1980 Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar In-flight fire
Flight 763 Delhi November 12, 1996 Boeing 747-168B Mid-air collision
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Amsterdam - London London July 4, 1948 Douglas DC-6 Mid-air collision with RAF Avro York
Flight 871 Ankara January 19, 1960 Sud Aviation Caravelle I Descent below the authorized minimum flight altitude
Flight 933 Los Angeles January 30, 1969 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62 Pilot error
Flight 370 Oslo January 13, 1973 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-21 Aborted takeoff after rotation
Flight 751 Gottröra December 27, 1991 McDonnell Douglas MD-81 Inadequate de-icing
Flight 686 Linate Airport, Milan October 8, 2001 McDonnell Douglas MD-87 Ground collision
Flight 1209 Aalborg September 9, 2007 Dash 8-400 (Q400) Landing gear failure
Flight 2748 Vilnius Airport September 12, 2007 Dash 8-400 (Q400) Landing gear failure
Flight 2867 Copenhagen Airport October 27, 2007 Dash 8-400 (Q400) Landing gear failure
Shanxi Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
B-4218 Linfen October 7, 1988 Ilyushin Il-18P Crash on takeoff
Siberia Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 1812 Black Sea October 4, 2001 Tupolev TU-154M Stray surface to air missile
Flight 1047 Rostov Oblast August 24, 2004 Tupolev TU-154 Terrorism, bombing
SilkAir
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 185 Palembang, Indonesia December 19, 1997 Boeing 737-300  ?
Singapore Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 117 Singapore March 26, 1991 Airbus A310-300 Hijacking
Flight 006 Taipei October 31, 2000 Boeing 747-400, 9V-SPK Ground collision
Skyways Limited
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-AHFA North Atlantic February 2, 1953 Avro York Unexplained disappearance
South African Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 201
(operated by BOAC)
Mediterranean Sea April 8, 1954 de Havilland Comet 1 Structural failure, metal fatigue
Flight 406 East London, South Africa March 13, 1967 Vickers 818 Viscount Loss of control, Pilot incapacitation
Flight 228 Windhoek April 20, 1968 Boeing 707-344C Failed to observe flight instruments to maintain a safe airspeed, altitude and a positive climb during take-off.
Flight 295 Indian Ocean, near Mauritius November 28, 1987 Boeing 747-244B Combi In-flight fire
Southern Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 932 Huntington, West Virginia November 14, 1970 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 CFIT
Flight 242 New Hope, Georgia April 4, 1977 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Multiple engine failure
Southwest Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 1455 Burbank, California March 5, 2000 Boeing 737-3T5 Runway overrun due to pilot error
Flight 1248 Chicago December 8, 2005 Boeing 737-7H4 Weather runway overrun
Spanair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 5022 Madrid August 20, 2008 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Pilot error, failure to extend flaps and slats for takeoff
Spantax
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 995 Málaga Airport, Spain September 13, 1982 Douglas DC-10-30 Aborted take-off
Spencer Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
VP-YFD Croydon Airport, United Kingdom 25 January 1947 Douglas C-47A Pilot error
Surinam Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight PY764 Paramaribo, Suriname June 7, 1989 Douglas DC-8 Pilot error
Swissair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 306 Zurich September 4, 1963 Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III In-flight fire
Flight 330 Lucerne February 21, 1970 Convair 990 Terrorism, bombing
Flight 100 Zarqa, Jordan September 6, 1970 Douglas DC-8 Hijacking
Flight 111 St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia September 2, 1998 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 In-flight fire

T

TACA
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 110 New Orleans May 24, 1988 Boeing 737-3T0 Weather, design failure
Flight 510 Guatemala City April 6, 1993 Boeing 767-2S1ER Pilot error
Flight 390 Tegucigalpa May 30, 2008 Airbus A320 Runway overrun in bad weather
TAESA
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 725 Uruapan November 9, 1999 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31  ?
TAG Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
N2300H Lake Erie off Cleveland, Ohio January 28, 1970 de Havilland Dove Structural failure
TAM Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
PT-SBB Agudos February 8, 1979 Embraer EMB-110C Banderante CFIT
Unknown Macaé July 4, 1984 Embraer EMB-110 Banderante Unknown
PT-LUG Bauru February 12, 1990 Fokker F-27 Pilot error, engine failure, ground collision (car)
Flight 402 Congonhas October 31, 1996 Fokker F-100 Mechanical failure
Flight 283 Suzano July 9, 1997 Fokker F-100 Bombing
Flight 9755 Belo Horizonte September 15, 2001 Fokker F-100 Right engine disintegration, explosive decompression
Flight 3804 Araçatuba August 30, 2002 Fokker F-100 Fuel starvation, emergency gear-up landing in a field
Flight 3499 Viracopos-Campinas International Airport August 30, 2002 Fokker F-100 Fuel starvation, emergency gear-up landing
Flight 3040 São Paulo August 8, 2006 Fokker F-100 Forward airstair collapse in mid-flight
Flight 3054 Congonhas July 17, 2007 Airbus A320 Pilot error, improper training, bad weather and short runway
TAP Portugal
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 425 Madeira November 19, 1977 Boeing 727-282 Overran runway due to poor weather and short runway
TAROM
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 371 Baloteşti March 31, 1995 Airbus A310-324 Mechanical failure followed by pilot error
Flight 3107 Otopeni December 30, 2007 Boeing 737-300 Ground collision with maintenance car involving weather conditions
Thai Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 002 Chiang Mai International Airport December 25, 1967 Douglas DC-3 Loss of control
Flight 231 9 mi NE of Bangkok April 27, 1980 Hawker Siddeley HS-748-207 Srs. 2 Windshear
HS-TBB near Phang Nga, Thailand April 15, 1985 Boeing 737-2P5 Double engine failure, CFIT
Flight 365 Andaman Sea, 9 mi off Phuket August 31, 1987 Boeing 737-2P5 Pilot error
Thai Airways International
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 601 near Kai Tak International Airport June 30, 1967 Sud Aviation SE-210 Caravelle III Pilot error
Flight 311 Langtang National Park, Nepal July 31, 1992 Airbus A310-304 Controlled flight into terrain
Flight 261 4 mi SW of Surat Thani, Thailand December 11, 1998 Airbus A310-204 Disputed
Flight 114 Don Mueang International Airport March 3, 2001 Boeing 737-400 Explosion cause of fuel/air mixture
Toa Domestic Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 533 Yokotsu Mountain July 3, 1971 NAMC YS-11A-217 CFIT
Flight 621 Osaka-Itami Airport May 28, 1975 NAMC YS-11-125 Mechanical failure
Flight 670 Miho-Yonago Airport January 10, 1988 NAMC YS-11-109 Icing
Transair Georgia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
SSSR-65893 Sukhumi September 21, 1993 Tupolev TU-134 Shot down by the Abkhaz forces in the course of war
SSSR-85163 Sukhumi September 22, 1993 Tupolev TU-154 Shot down by the Abkhaz forces in the course of war
SSSR-65001 Sukhumi September 23, 1993 Tupolev TU-154 Shot down by the Abkhaz forces in the course of war
TransAVIAexport Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
EW-78849 Mogadishu March 23, 2007 Ilyushin Il-76 Terrorism
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
NC9649
The City of San Francisco
Mount Taylor, New Mexico September 3, 1929 Ford 5-AT-B Tri-Motor Lightning strike
Unknown Amarillo, Texas December 30, 1929 Travel Air 6000 Crash on approach
Trans Maldivian Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight N/O Maldives May 17, 2004 de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Mechanical failure
Trans Service Airlift
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight MSN-1080 Angola December 18, 1995 Lockheed L-188C Electra Surpassed maximum take-off weight
Trans World Airlines (TWA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 599 Cottonwood Falls, Kansas March 31, 1931 Fokker F-10A Trimotor Structural failure
Flight 1 Uniontown, Pennsylvania April 7, 1936 Douglas DC-2-112 Pilot error
NC13789 Yosemite National Park March 1, 1938 Douglas DC-2-112 CFIT
Flight 3 Las Vegas, Nevada January 16, 1942 Douglas DC-3 CFIT
Flight 8 Hanford, California November 4, 1944 Douglas DC-3 Structural failure
Flight 513
Star of Lisbon
Reading, Pennsylvania July 11, 1946 Lockheed L-049 Constellation In-flight fire
Flight 6963
Cairo Skychief
Shannon Airport, Ireland December 28, 1946 Lockheed L-049 Constellation Standby altimeter wrongly connected causing CFIT
Flight 903
Star of Maryland
Near Cairo August 31, 1950 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Engine failure, in-flight fire
Flight 694 Boone County, Kentucky January 12, 1955 Martin 2-0-2A Mid-air collision with a private DC-3
Flight 260 Albuquerque, New Mexico February 19, 1955 Martin 4-0-4 Pilot error
Flight 2
Star of the Seine
Grand Canyon June 30, 1956 Lockheed L-1049A Super Constellation Mid-air collision with a United DC-7
Flight 891
Star of the Severn
Near Milan June 26, 1959 Lockheed L-1649A Starliner Lightning strike, in-flight explosion, structural failure
Flight 595 Chicago November 24, 1959 Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation Pilot error
Flight 266
Star of Sicily
Staten Island December 16, 1960 Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation Mid-air collision with a United DC-8
Flight 529
Star of Dublin
Near Hinsdale, Illinois September 1, 1961 Lockheed L-049 Constellation Mechanical failure
Flight 800 Rome November 23, 1964 Boeing 707-331 Mechanical failure
Flight 553 Urbana, Ohio March 9, 1967 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 Mid-air collision with a Beechcraft 55
Flight 159 Erlanger, Kentucky November 6, 1967 Boeing 707-131 Near collision, pilot error
Flight 128 Constance, Kentucky November 20, 1967 Convair 880-22-1 CFIT
Flight 840 Damascus August 29, 1969 Boeing 707-331B Hijacking, bombing
Flight 741 Zarqa, Jordan September 6, 1970 Boeing 707 Hijacking
Flight 841 Ionian Sea September 8, 1974 Boeing 707-331B Terrorism, bombing
Flight 514 Mount Weather, Virginia December 1, 1974 Boeing 727-231 CFIT
Flight 355 New York City September 10, 1976 Boeing 727-231 Hijacking
Flight 841 Detroit April 4, 1979 Boeing 727-231 Crew error
Flight 847 Beirut June 14, 1985 Boeing 727-231 Hijacking
Flight 840 Corfu April 2, 1986 Boeing 727-231 Terrorism, bombing
Flight 800 Long Island July 17, 1996 Boeing 747-131 Mid-air explosion (cause publicly disputed)
Turkish Airlines (Türk Hava Yollari)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
1959 Charter Flight Gatwick, London February 17, 1959 Vickers Viscount 793 Unknown - cause undetermined
TC-TAY Etimesgut, Ankara September 23, 1961 Fokker F27 Friendship 100 Pilot error
TC-KOP Mt. Medetsiz March 8, 1962 Fairchild F-27 Unknown
TC-ETI Ankara February 3, 1964 Douglas C-47A-5-DK Unknown - Possible pilot error
TC-JAC Adana January 21, 1972 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Downwind during emergency landing
TC-JAO Cumaovası, Izmir January 26, 1974 Fokker F28-1000 Icing
Flight 981 Ermenonville March 3, 1974 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Design error, mechanical failure (faulty cargo door)
Flight 345 Sea of Marmara January 30, 1975 Fokker F28-1000 Possible downwind during landing
Flight 452 Isparta September 19, 1976 Boeing 727-2F2 Pilot error
TC-JAT
Trabzon
Çubuk, Ankara December 23, 1979 Fokker F28-1000 Turbulence
Flight 890 Diyarbakır October 13, 1980 Boeing 727-200 Hijacking
Flight 158 Ankara Esenboğa Airport January 16, 1983 Boeing 727-2F2 Poor visibility
Flight 278 Van December 29, 1994 Boeing 737-4Y0 Poor visibility
Flight 5904 Ceyhan April 7, 1999 Boeing 737-4Q8 Poor weather conditions, pilot error
Flight 634 Diyarbakır January 8, 2003 Avro RJ100 Pilot error, bad weather conditions
Flight 1951 near Schiphol, Amsterdam February 25, 2009 Boeing 737-800 Instrument failure, (Under investigation)

U

United Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
NC13304 Chesterton, Indiana October 10, 1933 Boeing 247 Bombing
Flight 6 Western Springs, Illinois December 20, 1934 Boeing 247 Icing, loss of power
Flight 4 near Silver Crown, Wyoming October 7, 1935 Boeing 247D Pilot error
NC13323 Cheyenne, Wyoming October 30, 1935 Boeing 247D Pilot error
Trip 34 Rice Canyon, California December 27, 1936 Boeing 247D Pilot error
Flight 14 Elk Mountain January 31, 1946 Douglas DC-3-194H Pilot error
Flight 28
Mainliner Lake Michigan
near Cheyenne, Wyoming October 8, 1946 Douglas DC-4 Loss of control
Flight 404 Cleveland, Ohio November 11, 1946 Douglas C-53D-DO Pilot error
Flight 521
Mainliner Lake Tahoe
LaGuardia Airport, New York City May 29, 1947 Douglas DC-4 Pilot error
Flight 608 Bryce Canyon, Utah October 24, 1947 Douglas DC-6 In-flight fire
Flight 624
Mainliner Utah
Aristes, Pennsylvania June 17, 1948 Douglas DC-6 False warning of in-flight fire, crew error operating extinguishers
Flight 129 near Fort Wayne, Indiana April 28, 1951 Douglas DC-3A-197 Windshear
Flight 610
Mainliner Overland Trail
near Fort Collins, Colorado June 30, 1951 Douglas DC-6 Pilot error
Flight 615 near Decoto, California August 24, 1951 Douglas DC-6B CFIT
Flight 7030
Mainliner Oahu
off Redwood City, California September 12, 1951 Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-34 Loss of control
Flight 16 Stapleton International Airport December 4, 1951 Douglas DC-3A Loss of control
Flight 314 Michigan City, Indiana August 26, 1953 Convair CV-340-31 Mid-air collision with American Airlines Convair 240
N37512
Mainliner Idaho
Long Island MacArthur Airport August 4, 1955 Douglas DC-6 Pilot error, loss of control
Flight 409 Medicine Bow Mountains, Colorado October 6, 1955 Douglas DC-4 CFIT
Flight 629 Longmont, Colorado November 1, 1955 Douglas DC-6B Bombing
Flight 718
Mainliner Vancouver
Grand Canyon, Arizona June 30, 1956 Douglas DC-7 Mid-air collision with TWA Constellation
Flight 736 Arden, Nevada April 21, 1958 Douglas DC-7 Mid-air collision with USAF F-100 fighter
Flight 826
Mainliner Will Rogers
Over Staten Island, NY December 16, 1960 Douglas DC-8 Mid-air collision with TWA Constellation
Flight 859 Stapleton International Airport July 11, 1961 Douglas DC-8-12 Mechanical failure, pilot error
Flight 297 Howard County, Maryland November 23, 1962 Vickers Viscount 745D Bird strike
Flight 823 near Parrottsville, Tennessee July 9, 1964 Vickers Visount 745D In-flight fire
Flight 389 Lake Michigan, Chicago August 16, 1965 Boeing 727-22 CFIT, pilots misread altimeters
Flight 227 Salt Lake City International Airport November 11, 1965 Boeing 727-22 Crashed short of the runway, pilot error
Flight 266 Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles January 18, 1969 Boeing 727-22C Spatial disorientation, mechanical failure, total loss of electrical power
Flight 14 over Riverside, California June 25, 1969 Douglas DC-8 Hijacking
Flight 611
City of Bristol
Philadelphia International Airport July 19, 1970 Boeing 737-222 Engine failure, pilot error, runway overrun
Flight 553
City of Lincoln
Chicago December 8, 1972 Boeing 737-222 Approach landing stall, pilot error
Flight 2860 near Kaysville, Utah December 18, 1977 Douglas DC-8-54F Pilot error, ATC error
Flight 173 Portland, Oregon December 28, 1978 Douglas DC-8-61 Fuel exhaustion, pilot error
Flight 2885 Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport January 11, 1983 Douglas DC-8-54F Crew error
Flight 811 Honolulu February 24, 1989 Boeing 747-122 Cargo door opened—explosive decompression
Flight 232 Sioux City, Iowa July 19, 1989 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Manufacturing error, engine failure
Flight 585 Colorado Springs, Colorado March 3, 1991 Boeing 737-291 Mechanical failure, rudder reversion
Flight 826 Pacific Ocean December 28, 1997 Boeing 747-122 Severe turbulence
Flight 175 World Trade Center, New York City September 11, 2001 Boeing 767-222 Terrorism, hijacking
Flight 93 Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania September 11, 2001 Boeing 757-222 Terrorism, hijacking
Flight 955 Heathrow Airport July 5, 2007 Boeing 777-222ER Mechanical failure, on-board fire
Flight 634 Newark Liberty International Airport January 10, 2010 Airbus A319-131 Landing gear failure
United Arab Airlines (now EgyptAir)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 738 17 mi off Elba September 29, 1960 Vickers Vicount 739B In-flight breakup
Flight 869 Khao Yai Mountain July 19, 1962 de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C CFIT
Flight 869 6 mi off Bombay Airport July 27, 1963 de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4C Loss of control
Flight 749 near Cairo March 18, 1966 Antonov An-24B Pilot error
United States Air Force
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
IFO-21 Dubrovnik, Croatia April 3, 1996 T-43 Bobcat Pilot error, badly approach, weather
UPS Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 744 Louisville, Kentucky September 11, 1998 Boeing 767-300 Weather induced runway overrun
Flight 6971 Louisville, Kentucky June 7, 2005 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Pilot error
Flight 1307 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania February 8, 2006 Douglas DC-8 In-flight fire
Flight 6 Dubai, United Arab Emirates September 3, 2010 Boeing 747-400 In-flight fire
Uruguayan Air Force
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 571 Border between Chile and Argentina October 13, 1972 Fairchild FH-227 Crash into mountain
US Airways (Formerly USAir)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 5050 Flushing, Queens September 20, 1989 Boeing 737-401 Crew error
Flight 1493 Los Angeles, California February 1, 1991 Boeing 737-300 Ground collision
Flight 405 Flushing, Queens March 22, 1992 Fokker F-28 Ice buildup, pilot error, inadequate deicing procedures
Flight 427 Aliquippa, Pennsylvania September 8, 1994 Boeing 737-300 Mechanical failure
Flight 1016 Charlotte, North Carolina July 2, 1994 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Wind shear, crew error
Flight 1170 Logan International Airport June 9, 2005 Boeing 737-3B7 Near collision
Flight 1549 Hudson River, New York January 15, 2009 Airbus A320 Birdstrike, loss of power to both engines
Union des Transports Aériens (UTA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 772 Sahara Desert September 19, 1989 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 Terrorism
Union des Transports Aériens de Guinée (UTA, UTAGE)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 141 Bight of Benin December 25, 2003 Boeing 727-223 Surpassed maximum take off weight
UTair Aviation
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 471 Samara Kurumoch Airport March 17, 2007 Tupolev Tu-134A-3 Hard landing, structural failure

V

ValuJet Airlines (Now AirTran Airways)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 592 Everglades May 11, 1996 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Miami-Atlanta In-flight fire
Varig
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 820 Orly International Airport July 11, 1973 Boeing 707-345C Rio de Janeiro-Paris In-flight fire
Flight 797 Abidjan January 3, 1987 Boeing 707-379C Abidjan-Rio de Janeiro Engine failure
Flight 254 Mato Grosso September 3, 1989 Boeing 737-241 São Paulo-Maraba-Belem Fuel exhaustion and pilot error
Varney Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
NC741K Bluff Mountain January 21, 1931 Boeing 40 Portland-Pasco CFIT
NC10338 Pasco, Washington November 26, 1931 Boeing 40 Portland-Pasco Poor visibility
NC891E near Walsenburg, Colorado May 1, 1935 Lockheed Vega Engine failure
NC176W Walsenburg, Colorado September 28, 1936 Lockheed Vega El Paso-Puebla Engine failure, CFIT
VASP
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 376 Brasília May 25, 1982 Boeing 737-2A1 Weather condition
Flight 168 Fortaleza June 8, 1982 Boeing 727-212 Advanced Rio de Janeiro-Fortaleza CFIT
Vietnam Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 831 4 miles from Don Mueang International Airport, Bangkok, Thailand September 9, 1988 Tupolev Tu-134A Hanoi-Bangkok Weather condition, lightning strike
Flight 815 Phnom Penh, Cambodia September 3, 1997 Tupolev Tu-134B-3 Ho Chi Minh City-Phnom Penh Weather conditions, pilot error
Vladivostok Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 352 Budarovka, Russia July 4, 2001 Tupolev Tu-154M Ekaterinburg-Irkutsk-Vladivostok Pilot error
Vnukovo Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2801 Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway August 29, 1996 Tupolev Tu-154M CFIT
Air Volga (formerly known as Volga-Aviaexpress)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 1303 Tula Oblast August 24, 2004 Tupolev Tu-154 Terrorist bombing

W

Walcot Air Line
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
G-AAZK near Meopham, Kent July 21, 1930 Junkers F.13ge Stall, loss of control
West Caribbean Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 708 Near Machiques, Venezuela August 16, 2005 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Ice accumulation
West Coast Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 956 Wemme, Oregon October 1, 1966 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Unknown
Western Air Express
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
NC13314 Burbank, California September 1, 1935 Boeing 247 Engine failure, loss of altitude
Flight 6 near Salt Lake City December 15, 1936 Boeing 247D CFIT
Flight 7 near Newhall, California January 12, 1937 Boeing 247B CFIT
World Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 30 Boston, Massachusetts January 23, 1982 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 Weather
Wuhan Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 343 near Sitai June 22, 2000 Xi'an Y-7 Lightning strike, windshear

X

Xiamen Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 8301 Guangzhou, People's Republic of China October 2, 1990 Boeing 737 Hijacking, collision on runway

Y

Yak-Service
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
RA-42434 near Yaroslavl September 7, 2011 Yakovlev Yak-42D Pilot error
Yemenia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 626 Moroni, Comoros Islands June 30, 2009 Airbus A310 Under Investigation

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