The following is a list of accidents and incidents on commercial airlines grouped by airline. It is also available grouped by ___location, by year and alphabetically.
This list is dynamic and by no means complete! For alternative, more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office or Aviation Safety Network. However, airlines often seem to be remembered by their worst accidents, and in that sense this list presents a good overview.
See also aviation accidents and incidents.
A
- Flight 574 (Indonesia, January 1, 2007)
- Flight 172 (Indonesia, February 21, 2007)
- Flight 712 (Wexford, March 24, 1968)
- Runway incursion between US Airways flight 1170 and Aer Lingus flight 132
- CCCP-75538 (Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg, November 11, 1967)
- Flight 909 (Voronezh, March 6, 1976)
- CCCP-86614 (Cuba, May 27, 1977)
- CCCP-65735 (Dniprodzerzhynsk, August 11, 1979)
- CCCP-65816 (Dniprodzerzhynsk, August 11, 1979)
- CCCP-85355 (Alma-Ata, now Almaty, July 7, 1980)
- Flight 411 (Moscow, June 6, 1982)
- Flight 8641 (Mazyr, June 28, 1982)
- Flight 3352 (Omsk, October 11, 1984)
- CCCP-65910 (Byelorussian SSR, now Belarus, February 1, 1985)
- CCCP-65856 (Zolochev, May 3, 1985)
- CCCP-85311 (Uchkuduk, July 10, 1985)
- CCCP-65951 (Pervouralsk, January 13, 1990)
- CCCP-87453 (Pavlodar, August 1, 1990)
- CCCP-42351 (Sverdlovsk, September 14, 1990)
- CCCP-46472 (Navoi, March 23, 1991)
- CCCP-85097 (Leningrad, now St Petersburg, May 23, 1991)
- CCCP-65058 (Ivanovo, August 27, 1992)
- Flight 593 (Novokuznetsk, March 23, 1994)
- Flight 3949 (Khabarovsk, December 7, 1995)
- Flight 870 (Ustica, June 27, 1980)
- Flight 498 (Cerritos, California, August 31, 1986)
- Flight 603 (Perú, October 2, 1996)
- Flight 6289 (Tamanghasset, March 6, 2003)
- Flight 104 (Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, November 7, 2004)
- Flight 143 (Red Lake, July 23, 1983)
- Flight 189 (Toronto, June 26, 1978)
- Flight 621 (Toronto, July 5, 1970)
- Flight 797 (Cincinnati, June 2, 1983)
- Flight 129 (Busan, April 15, 2002)
- Flight 90 (Washington DC, January 13, 1982)
- Flight 296 (Mulhouse, June 26, 1988)
- Flight 358 (Toronto, August 2, 2005)
- Flight 4590 (Air France Concorde, Gonesse, 25 July 2000)
- Flight 8969 (Algiers, December 24, 1994)
- B-707 "Chateau de Sully" (Orly June 3, 1962)
- "Kashmir Princess" (Natuna Islands, April 11, 1955)
- Flight 855 (Mumbai, January 1, 1978)
- Flight 182 (Atlantic Ocean, June 23, 1985)
- Flight 1907 (Delhi, November 12, 1996)
- Flight 5481 (Charlotte, January 9, 2003) Operated by Air Midwest as US Airways Express under a franchise agreement.
- Flight 901 (Mount Erebus, November 28, 1979)
- Flight 1363 (Dryden, March 10, 1989)
- Flight 541 (Davao, April 19, 2000)
- Air Tahoma Flight 185 (Covington, August 13, 2004)
- Flight 236 (Near the Azores, August 24, 2001)
- Flight 706 (Ninh Thuan, September 15, 1974)
- Flight 00901 (Santa Rita Mountains, July 19, 1994)
- Flight 261 (Anacapa Island, January 31, 2000)
- Flight 536 (Seattle, December 26, 2005)
- Flight 771 (Junnar, July 7, 1962)
- Flight 61 (Boso Peninsula, July 24, 1999)
- Flight 853 (Fairland, Indiana, September 9, 1969)
- Flight 435 (McAllen, Texas, August 10, 2006)
- Flight 980 (Caribbean Sea, May 2, 1970)
- Flight 243 (Kahului, April 28, 1988)
- Flight 1 (Jamaica Bay, March 1, 1962)
- Flight 11 (North Tower of the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001)
- Flight 63 (Paris, December 22, 2001)
- Flight 77 (The Pentagon, September 11, 2001)
- Flight 157 (Dallas, November 29, 1949)
- Flight 191 (Chicago, May 25, 1979)
- Flight 320 (East River, February 3, 1959)
- Flight 587 (Belle Harbor, November 12, 2001)
- Flight 625 (St Thomas, April 27, 1976)
- Flight 924 (Miami, December 7, 2005)
- Flight 965 (Valle del Cauca, December 20, 1995)
- Flight 1420 (Little Rock, June 1, 1999)
- Flight 4184 (Roselawn, October 31, 1994)
- Flight 5401 (San Juan, May 9, 2004)
- Flight 232 (Alice Springs, November 15, 1972)
- Flight 703 (Tararua Range, June 5, 1995)
- Flight 967 (Black Sea, May 3, 2006)
- Flight 1285 (Gander, December 12, 1985)
- Flight 2311 (Brunswick, Georgia, April 5, 1991; killed 24, including former U.S. Senator John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter)
- Flight 529 (Gulfport, August 21, 1995)
- Flight 011 (Madrid, November 27, 1983)
- Flight 52 (Cove Neck, January 25, 1990)
- Flight 203 (Bogotá, November 27, 1989)
- Flight 410 (Cúcuta, March 17, 1988)
- Guatemala City air disaster (Guatemala City, April 28, 1977)
B
- Flight 2937 (Überlingen, July 1, 2002)
- Flight 114 (near Las Vegas, Nevada, November 15, 1964)
- Flight 239 (Asker, December 23, 1972)
- Flight 250 (Falls City, Nebraska, August 6, 1966)
- Flight 352 (Dawson, Texas, May 3, 1968)
- Flight G-ANBB (Ljubljana, September 1, 1966)
- Britannia Airways Flight BY226A, crashed on landing at Girona-Costa Brava Airport, 14 Sep 1999.
- Flight 28M (Manchester, August 22, 1985)
- Flight 9 (The Jakarta Incident, June 24, 1982)
- Flight 149 (Kuwait City, August 1, 1990)
- Flight 476 (Zagreb, September 10, 1976)
- Flight 5390 (Southern England, June 10, 1990)
- Flight 304 (San Francisco, October 29, 1953)
British European Airways (BEA)
- Flight 476 (Zagreb, September 10, 1976)
- Flight 548 (Staines, June 18, 1972)
- Flight 609 (Munich, February 6, 1958)
British Midland (bmi)
- British Midland Flight G-ALHG (Stockport, June 4, 1967)
- British Midland Flight 092 (M1 motorway between Kegworth and East Midlands Airport, January 8, 1989)
- Flight 777, (Bay of Biscay, off the coast of Spain and France, June 01, 1943)
- Flight 781, (Mediterranean Sea, near Elba, January 10, 1954)
- South African Airways Flight 201 (operated by BOAC) (Mediterranean, near Naples, April 8, 1954)
- Flight 911, (Mount Fuji, March 5, 1966)
C
- Flight 153 (Douala, Cameroon, March 4, 1962)
- "Miss Macao" (Pearl River Delta, June 16, 1948) (operated by a Cathay Pacific subsidiary)
- Flight 700Z (over Pleiku, Vietnam, June 15, 1972)
- Flight 387 (Misamis Oriental, February 2, 1998)
- Flight 006 (San Francisco, February 19, 1985)
- Flight 140 (Nagoya, April 26, 1994)
- Flight 204 (Hualien, October 26, 1989)
- Flight 358 (Taipei, December 29, 1991)
- Flight 605 (Hong Kong, November 4, 1993)
- Flight 611 (Pescadores Islands, May 25, 2002)
- Flight 642 (Hong Kong, 22 August 1999)
- Flight 676 (Taipei, February 16, 1998)
- Flight 586 (Shanghai, September 11, 1998)
- Flight 5210 (Baotou, November 21, 2004)
- Flight 5398 (Fuzhou, October 26, 1993)
- Flight 583 (Shemya, April 6, 1993)
- Flight 6136 (Dalian, May 7, 2002)
- Flight 6901 (Ürümqi, November 13, 1993)
- Flight 3272 (Monroe, January 9, 1997)
- Flight 5191 (Lexington, Kentucky, August 27, 2006)
- Flight 251 (Arequipa, March 1, 1996)
- Flight 11 (Unionville, May 22, 1962)
- Flight 1713 (Denver, November 15, 1987)
- Flight 2574 (Eagle Lake, Texas, September 11, 1991)
- Flight 455 (Near Bridgetown, October 6, 1976)
- IL-18L (Bratislava, July 28, 1976)
D
- G-AMUV (Gurgaon, Haryana, India, 25 August, 1958)
- G-ATZF (Godalming, Surrey, England, 1 September, 1966)
- G-APDN (Catalonia, July 3, 1970)
- G-BEBP (near Lusaka, Zambia, May 14, 1977)
- G-BEKF (Shetland Islands, July 31, 1979)
- G-BDAN (Los Rodeos, Tenerife, April 25, 1980)
- G-ASPL (Nailstone, Leicestershire, England, June 26, 1981)
- Flight 191 (Dallas/Fort Worth, August 2, 1985)
- Flight 723 (Boston, July 14, 1973)
- Flight 1141 (Dallas/Fort Worth, August 31, 1988)
- Flight 5191 (Lexington, Kentucky, August 27, 2006): see Comair Flight 5191
- Delta Air Lines Flight 2315 (September 11, 2001)
- HI-177 (Santo Domingo, February 15, 1970)
E
- Flight 66 (Queens, June 24, 1975)
- Flight 401 (Everglades, December 29, 1972)
- Flight 512 (Queens, November 30, 1962)
- Flight 663 (Jones Beach, February 8, 1965)
- Flight 648 (Luqa, November 23, 1985)
- Flight 990 (South of Nantucket, October 31, 1999)
- Londonderry, March 29, 2006
Operated by Eirjet as Ryanair under lease.
- Flight 219 (Dawson's Field Hijackings, September 6, 1970)
- Flight 1862 (Bijlmer, October 4, 1992)
- Flight 961 (The Comoros, November 23, 1996)
F
- FedEx Flight 647 (Memphis, December 18 2003)
- FedEx Flight 705 (Memphis, April 7 1994)
- Flight 604 (Sharm el-Sheikh, January 3, 2004)
- Flight 739 (Pacific Ocean, March 15, 1962)
G
- Flight 200 (Yogyakarta, March 7, 2007)
- Flight 072 (Al Muharraq, August 23, 2000)
- Flight 771 (Jebel Ali, September 23, 1983)
- Gol Flight 1907 (September 29, 2006)
H
- Flight 3378 (Vienna, July 12, 2000)
- Flight 708 (Lone Pine, February 18, 1969)
- Flight 522 (Grammatiko, August 14, 2005)
I
IAS Cargo
- 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash - May 14, 1977
- Flight 814 (Kathmandu, December 24, 1999)
- Flight 550 (Zagreb, September 10, 1976)
- Flight 655 (Strait of Hormuz, July 3, 1988)
- Flight 945 (Mashad, September 1, 2006)
- Flight 163 (Arar, December 25, 1986)
J
Japan Airlines (JAL)
- Flight 123 (Gunma, August 12, 1985)
- Flight 472 (Bombay, now Mumbai, September 28, 1977)
- Flight 350 (Tokyo, February 9, 1982)
JAT Yugoslav (now Jat Airways)
- Flight 364 (Srbská Kamenice, January 26, 1972)
- Flight 292 (Los Angeles, September 21, 2005)
K
- Flight 904 (Afghanistan, February 3, 2005)
- Flight 431 (Abidjan, January 30, 2000)
- BOAC Flight 777, (KLM plane and crew flying under BOAC)(Bay of Biscay, off the coast of Spain and France, June 01, 1943)
- PH-TEN (Prestwick, October 20, 1948)
- Flight 633 (Shannon, September 5, 1954)
- Flight 4805 (Tenerife Collision, March 27, 1977)
- Flight 902 (Barents Sea, April 20, 1978)
- Flight 015 (Anchorage, November 19, 1980)
- Flight 007 (Sakhalin, September 1, 1983)
- Flight 84 (Anchorage, December 23, 1983)
- Flight 858 (Andaman Sea, November 29, 1987)
- Flight 803 (Tripoli, July 27, 1989)
- Flight 2033 (Jeju-Do, August 10, 1994)
- Flight 916F (Zürich, September 22, 1994)
- Flight 801 (Guam, August 6, 1997)
- Flight 8702 (Seoul, August 5, 1998)
- Flight 1533 (Seoul, March 15, 1999)
- Flight 6316 (Shanghai, April 15, 1999)
- Flight 8509 (London, December 22, 1999)
L
- Flight 004 (Uthai Thani, May 26, 1991)
- (Sri Lanka, Nov 15, 1978)
- Flight 007 (Warsaw, March 14, 1980)
- Flight 5055 (Warsaw, May 9, 1987)
- Flight 181 (Mogadishu, October 17, 1977)
- Flight 540 (Nairobi, November 20, 1974)
- Flight 2904 (Warsaw, September 14, 1993)
- Flight 9642 (Niederanven, November 6, 2002)
M
- Flight 091 (Medan,September 5, 2005)
- Flight 642 (Hong Kong SAR, August 22, 1999)
- Flight 653 (Johor, December 4, 1977)
- Flight 438 (Al Qaysumah, Saudia Arabia, January 1, 1976)
- Mohawk Airlines Flight 121
- Mohawk Airlines Flight 40
- Mohawk Airlines Flight 411 crashes into Pilot Knob Mountain, killing all 14 on-board.
- Mohawk Airlines Flight 405 crashes into a house, killing 17.
Midwest Airlines (formerly Midwest Express)
- Flight 105 (Milwaukee, September 6, 1985)
N
- Flight 967 (Gulf of Mexico, November 16, 1959)
- Flight 2511 (Bolivia, North Carolina, January 6, 1960)
- Flight 193 (Escambia Bay, Florida, May 8, 1979)
NLM Cityhopper (now KLM Cityhopper)
- Flight 431 (Moerdijk, October 6, 1981)
- Flight 823 (Rikers Island, February 1, 1957)
- Flight 2501 (Lake Michigan, June 23, 1950)
- Flight 255 (Romulus, August 16, 1987)
- Flight 957 and Flight 7
P
- Flight 773 (San Ramon, USA, May 7, 1964)
- Flight 182 (San Diego, September 25, 1978)
- Flight 1771 (San Luis Obispo County, December 7, 1987)
- Flight 501 (Calgary, March 22, 1984)
Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
- Flight 151 (Liberia, June 22, 1951)
- Flight 202 (Brazil, April 28, 1952)
- Flight 214 (Elkton, USA, December 8, 1963)
- Flight 708 (near Berlin, Germany, November 15, 1966)
- Flight 93 (Egypt, September 6, 1970)
- Flight 845 (San Francisco, USA, July 30, 1971)
- Flight 110 (Italy, December 17, 1973)
- Flight 1736 (Canary Islands, March 27, 1977)
- Flight 759 (Kenner, USA, July 9, 1982)
- Flight 830 (Pacific Ocean, August 11, 1982)
- Flight 73 (Pakistan, September 5, 1986)
- Flight 125 (England, March 10, 1987)
- Flight 103 (Scotland, December 21, 1988)
- PK 740 (Jeddah, November 26, 1979}
- PIA Gilgit to Islamabad. (Gilgit August 25, 1989)
- PK 268 (Kathmandu, September 28, 1992)
- PK 688 (Multan, July 10, 2006)
- Flight 394 (Near Hirtshals, September 8, 1989)
- Flight 137 (Bacolod City, March 22, 1998)
- Flight 434 (Daito Islands, December 11, 1994)
Puerto Rico International Airlines (Prinair)
- Flight 191 (Ponce, June 24, 1972)
Q
R
- Flight 296 (Stansted, February 27, 2002)
S
- S7 Airlines Flight 778 (Irkutsk, July 8, 2006)
- OO-AUB (Ostend, November 16, 1937)
- Flight 548 (Brussels, February 15, 1961)
- Flight 163 (Riyadh, August 19, 1980)
- Flight 763 (Delhi, November 12, 1996)
- Flight 751 (Uppland, December 27, 1991)
- Flight 686 (Linate, October 8, 2001)
- Flight 933 (Los Angeles, approach disaster, January 13, 1969)
- Flight 1047 (Rostov Oblast, August 24, 2004)
- Flight 1812 (Black Sea, October 4, 2001)
- Flight 185 (Palembang, December 19, 1997)
- Flight 006 (Taipei, October 31, 2000)
- Flight 117 (Singapore, March 26, 1991)
- Flight 201, operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation (Mediterranean, near Naples, April 8, 1954)
- Flight 406 (East London, March 13, 1967)
- Flight 228 (Windhoek, April 20, 1968)
- Flight 295 (Helderberg Fire, Indian Ocean, November 28, 1987)
- Flight 1455 {Burbank, March 5, 2000)
- Flight 1248 (Chicago, December 8, 2005)
- Flight PY764, which remains Surinam's worst air disaster.
- Flight 100 (Dawson's Field Hijackings, September 6, 1970)
- Flight 306 (Zürich, September 4, 1963)
- Flight 330 (Lucerne, February 21, 1970)
- Flight 111 (St Margarets Bay, September 2, 1998)
T
- Flight 110 (New Orleans, May 24, 1988)
- Flight 510 (Guatemala City, April 6, 1993)
- Flight 725 (Uruapan, November 9, 1999)
- Flight 402 (Congonhas, 31 October, 1996)
- Flight 371 (Baloteşti, March 31, 1995)
- CCCP-65893 (Sokhumi, September 21, 1993)
- CCCP-85163 (Sokhumi, September 22, 1993)
- CCCP-65001 (Sokhumi, September 23, 1993)
- Lockheed L-188 crash (Angola, December 18, 1995)
Trans World Airlines (TWA)
- Flight 599 (Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, March 31, 1931)
- Flight 513 (Reading, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1946)
- Flight 12 (Boone County, Kentucky, January 12, 1955)
- Flight 260 (Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 19, 1955)
- Flight 2 (Grand Canyon Air Disaster, June 30, 1956)
- Flight 266 (Staten Island Collision, December 16, 1960)
- Flight 159 (Erlanger, Kentucky, November 6, 1967)
- Flight 128 (Constance, Kentucky, November 20, 1967)
- Flight 840 (Damascus, August 29, 1969)
- Flight 741 (Dawson's Field Hijackings, September 6, 1970)
- Flight 841 (Ionian Sea, September 8, 1974)
- Flight 514 (Mount Weather, December 1, 1974)
- Flight 847 (Beirut, June 14, 1985)
- Flight 840 (Corfu, April 2, 1986)
- Flight 800 (Long Island, July 17, 1996)
- Flight 981 (Ermenonville, March 3, 1974)
U
- Flight 93 (Somerset County, September 11, 2001)
- Flight 173 (Portland, December 28, 1978)
- Flight 175 (South Tower of the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001)
- Flight 232 (Sioux City, July 19, 1989)
- Flight 409 (Medicine Bow Mountains, October 6, 1955)
- Flight 553 (Chicago, December 8, 1972)
- Flight 585 (Colorado Springs, March 3, 1991)
- Flight 629 (Longmont, November 1, 1955)
- Flight 718 (Grand Canyon Air Disaster, June 30, 1956)
- Flight 811 (Honolulu, February 24, 1989)
- Flight 826 (Staten Island Collision, December 16, 1960)
- NC13304 (Chesterton, October 10, 1933)
- Flight 297 (Ellicott City, Maryland, November 23, 1962)
US Airways (formerly USAir)
- Flight 5050 (Flushing, September 20, 1989)
- Flight 1493 (Los Angeles, February 1, 1991)
- Flight 405 (Flushing, March 22, 1992 )
- Flight 427 (Aliquippa, September 8, 1994)
- Flight 1016 (Charlotte, July 2, 1994)
- Runway incursion between US Airways flight 1170 and Aer Lingus flight 132
- Flight 772 (Sahara Desert, September 19, 1989)
Union des Transports Aériens de Guinée (UTA, UTAGE)
- Flight 141 (Bight of Benin, December 25, 2003)
V
ValuJet Airlines (now AirTran Airways)
- Flight 592 (Everglades, May 11, 1996)
- Flight 254 (Mato Grosso, September 3, 1989)
- Flight 797 (Abidjan, January 3, 1987)
- Flight 820 (Orly, July 11, 1973)
- Flight 168 (Fortaleza, June 8, 1982)
- Flight 2801 (Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Norway, August 29, 1996)
- Flight 1303 (Tula Oblast, August 24, 2004)
W
References
- Aircraft Crashes Record Office
- AirSafe
- Aviation Safety Network
- BBC News
- CNN International
- Federal Aviation Administration
--Burlescone 01:25, 8 March 2007 (UTC)