List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline (P–Z) explained

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

This list is dynamic and by no means complete!

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

See main article: List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline (D–O).

See main article: List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline (P–Z).

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- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 308[1] Santa Maria Airport26 October 1959Douglas DC-3Santa Maria–Paso RoblesEngine failure
Flight 773[2] 7 May 1964 Reno–Stockton–San Francisco Mass murder/suicide - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - NC5340 Techachapi Mountains 18 November 1930 Burbank–Oakland - NC5390 5 May 1931 San Diego–Los Angeles Low visibility - NC10347 16 September 1931 Oakland–Seattle - NC5389 Burbank 16 May 1932 San Diego–Burbank–Oakland Low visibility - NC431H
Dawson 		24 January 1933 Portland–Eugene–Medford Engine failure, crash on takeoff - NC13345 9 November 1933 Portland–The Dalles - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Pacific Overseas Airlines - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - HS-PC103 25 October 1948 Possibly shot down - HS-POS
City of Ayudhya 		11 March 1951 Hong Kong–Bangkok - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - San Francisco International Airport 5 July 1972 Sacramento–San Francisco Hijacking - 25 September 1978 Sacramento–Los Angeles–San Diego Mid-air collision with a Cessna 172 - Flight 1771
The Smile of Stockton 		near Paso Robles 7 December 1987 Los Angeles–San Diego Mass murder/suicide - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 11 February 1978 Edmonton–Calgary–Cranbrook–Castlegar Runway incursion, thrust reverser deployed during go-around, loss of control - 22 March 1984 Calgary–Edmonton–AlbertaUncontained engine failure, in-flight fire - Flight 117 14 July 1986 Calgary–Kelowna–Vancouver Pilot error, runway overrun - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - AP-ACZ Lash Golath Mountain 25 February 1956 Gilgit–Islamabad Pilot error, CFIT - AP-AJS off Charlakhi Island 1 July 1957 Chittagong–Dhaka Weather, loss of control - 15 May 1958 Karachi–Delhi–Karachi - AP-AAH near Lowery Pass 26 March 1965 Peshawar–Chitral - 20 May 1965 Karachi–Dhahran–Cairo–Geneva–London Excessive descent for reasons unknown - AP-ATT near Patian 8 October 1965 Rawalpindi–Skardu Undetermined - AP-ALM 6 August 1970 Rawalpindi–Lahore Weather[3] - AP-AUV near Shamshernagar Airport 31 December 1970 Pilot error, loss of control - near Jalcot 8 December 1972 Gilgit–Rawalpindi - 26 November 1979 Kano–Jeddah–Karachi In-flight fire for reasons unknown - Kabul 2 March 1981 Karachi–Peshawar Hijacking - AP-AUX 23 October 1986 Lahore–Peshawar Poor CRM, crashed short of runway - Himalaya Mountains (presumed) 25 August 1989 Gilgit–Islamabad Unexplained disappearance - 28 September 1992 Karachi–Kathmandu - Hyderabad Airport 25 May 1998 Gwadar–Turbat–Hyderabad Hijacking - 10 July 2006 Multan–Lahore Improper maintenance, engine failure, crew errors - Flight 756 near Peshawar 24 June 2014 Riyadh–Peshawar Struck by ground fire - 7 December 2016 Chitral–Islamabad Improper maintenance, propeller failure, loss of control - 22 May 2020 Lahore–Karachi Under investigation - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 5 March 1993 Skopje–Zurich Wing icing, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - PP-PBD Serra de Cantareira 18 August 1941 Porto Alegre–São Paulo - PP-PBH Rio Doce, Brazil 21 September 1944 Rio de Janeiro–Belem Engine failure - PP-PBN São Paulo de Olivenca 3 January 1947 Iquitos–Manaus - Flight 99near Gravatai Air Base 28 July 1950 Rio de Janeiro–Porto Alegre - Flight 389Uberlandia, Brazil 28 February 1952 Goiania–Uberlandia–Rio de Janeiro - Flight 263near Congonhas Airport 17 June 1953 Rio de Janeiro–São Paulo Bad visibility, crew error - Flight 263near Silvio Pettirossi Int'l Airport 16 June 1955 London–Paris–Lisbon–Dakar–Recife–Rio de Janeiro–São Paulo–Ascunción–Buenos Aires - PP-PDO near Guararapes Int'l Airport 1 November 1961 Lisbon–Ilha do Sal–Recife - Flight 026Galeao Int'l Airport 20 August 1962 Buenos Aires–Rio de Janeiro Aborted takeoff, ran off runway - PP-PDE
Estevao Ribeiro Baiao Parente 		near Parana da Eva 14 December 1962 Belem–Manaus CFIT for reasons unknown - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Unknown 21 February 1931 Hijacking - NC403H
San José 		16 July 1932 Santiago–Mendoza - NC407H 22 March 1934 Engine failure, crashed on takeoff - NC8417
San Pedro 		11 June 1934 Buenos Aires–Santiago - NC433H
San Felipe 		Lima, Peru 24 December 1935 None - NC14273 10 October 1936 San Salvador–Guatemala City - NC15065 2 August 1937 Guayaquil–Tumaco–Cali–Cristobal Engine failure or weather - NC14272
Santa Lucia 		Mount Mercedario 19 July 1938 - Flight 9 northeast of Chaparra, Peru 22 January 1943 Santiago–Arequipa–Lima - NC19470 off Chorrillos 4 January 1945 - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) - ! colspan="6" - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 6 September 1971 Hanover–Hamburg–Málaga Maintenance error, double engine failure - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Hirtshals, Denmark 8 September 1989 Oslo–Hamburg Structural failure, counterfeit parts - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Flight 2193
Açelya 		5 February 2020 Izmir–Istanbul Under investigation (runway overrun on landing) - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Pennsylvania Central Airlines (PCA) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Lovettsville, Virginia 31 August 1940 Washington, DC–Pittsburgh–Detroit Lightning strike (probable), loss of control - NC21788
(operating for USAAF) 		Atlantic Ocean, off Lake Worth, Florida 5 May 1944 Miami–Savannah Mid-air collision with a USAAF B-24 - Cheat Mountain, near Morgantown, West Virginia 14 April 1945 Pittsburgh–Morgantown - Birmingham Airport 6 January 1946 New York City–Pittsburgh–Knoxville–Birmingham Pilot error, runway excursion on landing - 13 June 1947 Chicago–Cleveland–Pittsburgh–Washington, DC–Norfolk - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - RA-87481 Tigil, Russia 23 September 2001 Under investigation (heavy landing, nosegear failure) - Flight 123Ust-Kamchatsk Airport 16 April 2011 Ust Kamchatsk–Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky Under investigation (runway excursion) - 12 September 2012 Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky–Palana Pilot intoxication, pilot error, CFIT - 6 July 2021 Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky–Palana Under investigation (CFIT) - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! colspan="6" - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Flight 349
Buckeye Pacemaker 		Bucks Elbow Mountain, near Crozet, Virginia 30 October 1959 Washington, DC–Charlottesville - Flight 22
Manhattan Pacemaker 		over Hendersonville, North Carolina 19 July 1967 Asheville–Roanoke Mid-air collision with a Cessna 310 - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - XU-072
(operated by Royal Phnom Penh Airways) 		21 November 2005 Phnom Penh–Ratanakiri Crashed on landing - 25 June 2007 Siem Reap–SihanoukvilleCFIT for reasons unknown - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - RA-05881 16 May 2003 Under investigation (engine failure, forced landing) - RA-02252 Sangar 18 November 2005 Sangar–Sebyan–Kyuel Weather, loss of control - RA-26061 21 November 2012 Yakutsk–Deputatskiy Under investigation (runway excursion) - Flight 9977 16 August 2013 Vilyuisk–Ugulet Engine problems for reasons unknown, forced landing - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Unknown 25 December 1945 In-flight fire, crash on takeoff - CCCP-N400 Kara Sea 13 December 1946 Igarka–Arkangelsk Double engine failure, forced landing - CCCP-N444 89 mi N of Kharp, Russia 7 March 1948 Dudinka–Anderma - CCCP-N464 off Cape Medynski Zavorot 16 September 1948 None Weather, spatial disorientation, fuel exhaustion, water ditching - CCCP-N494 10 mi east of Mys Kosistyy 1 November 1948 Kresty Kolymskiye–Ust-Yansk–Mys Kosistyy Engine failure, icing, stall, loss of control - CCCP-N500 23 April 1950 Runway overrun - CCCP-N488 Khimki Reservoir 26 June 1950 Pilot error - CCCP-N568 Lena River near Yakutsk 20 August 1951 Maintenance error, crash on takeoff - CCCP-N591 Ust-Tareya 28 September 1952 Pilot error, stall, loss of control - CCCP-N479 4 March 1955 Mys-Kamennyy–Amderma–Arkhangelsk–Moscow Engine fire, forced landing - Flight 3 41 mi from Katanga 30 December 1958 Pevek–Mys Kosistyy–Khatanga–Moscow - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Flight 494
Bukoba 		Lake Victoria near Bukoba 6 November 2022 Dar es Salaam–Mwanza–Bukoba Under investigation - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" President Airlines - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - N90773
Theodore Roosevelt 		10 September 1961 Düsseldorf–Shannon–Gander–Chicago Instrument failure, weather, possible pilot error, loss of control
Puerto Rico International Airlines (Prinair) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 5 March 1969 Charlotte Amalie-San Juan - 24 June 1972 San Juan-Ponce Pilot error - Flight 61024 July 1979 St. Croix-St. Kitts Overloading, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 24 February 1994 Volgograd-Nalchik Icing, stall, loss of control - RA-86060 28 July 2002 Moscow-Saint Petersburg Mechanical failure, loss of control - 22 August 2006 Anapa-Saint Petersburg Weather, stall, loss of control -

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- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 24 March 1927 Charleville–Tambo–Blackall Engine failure - 4 September 1928 Adelaide–Longreach Weather, loss of control - VH-UHE
Atalanta 		3 October 1934 Loss of control, possible stall - VH-USG
Adelaide 		15 November 1934 London–Singapore–Darwin–Longreach–Brisbane–Sydney Loss of control due to design defect - 30 January 1942 Shot down - 20 February 1942 Brisbane–Mount Isa–Darwin Unexplained tailfin failure, loss of control - VH-ADU
Camilla 		22 April 1943 Townsville–Port Moresby Broke apart after landing - VH-CAB
(operated for RAAF) 		26 November 1943 Port Moresby–Townsville - Sydney 11 October 1944 Sydney–Townsville Pilot error, stall, loss of control - 16 July 1951 Wau–Bulolo–Lae Propeller failure, engine separation, loss of control - 23 September 1999 Sydney–Bangkok Weather, crew error - Over Bass Strait, Australia 29 May 2003 Melbourne–Launceston Hijacking - 25 July 2008 Hong Kong–Melbourne Mid-air explosion, mid-air decompression - 7 October 2008 Singapore–Perth Air data inertial reference unit failure and autopilot software design error - Between Singapore and Batam 4 November 2010 Singapore–Sydney Uncontained engine failure

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- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 21 June 2022 Santo Domingo–Miami Under investigation (runway excursion) - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 29 December 2012 Pardubice–Moscow Brake failure, pilot error, runway overrun - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Royal Air Maroc (RAM) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Atlas Mountains 21 August 1994 Agadir–Casablanca Deliberate crash (by pilot) - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Royal Nepal Airlines (now Nepal Airlines) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Tulachan Dhuri, Nepal 1 August 1962 Kathmandu–New Delhi - Hetauda, Makwanpur District 12 July 1969 Kathmandu–Simara (now Jitpur Simara) - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" RusAir (now AtlasJet) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 20 June 2011 Moscow–Petrozavodsk - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 27 February 2002 Ground fire - Rome 10 November 2008 Frankfurt–Rome Multiple birdstrikes

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- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 8 July 2006 Moscow–Irkutsk Pilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Tatsfield, Surrey 10 December 1935 Brussels–London Pilot error - Ostend, Belgium 16 November 1937 Frankfurt–Cologne–Brussels–London Weather, pilot error - OO-AGT Soest, Germany 10 October 1938 Brussels–Düsseldorf–Berlin In-flight breakup - OO-AGS
(operating for RAF) 		Arques, France 23 May 1940 Brussels–London Shot down - OO-AGZ
(operated by RAF) 		Merville, France 23 May 1940 Destroyed on the ground - OO-AUI
(operated by RAF) 		near Arques, France 23 May 1940 Merville-London Shot down by ground fire, forced landing - OO-AUR 17 September 1946 Brussels–London Loss of speed for reasons unknown - OO-CBG 18 September 1946 Brussels–Shannon–Gander–New York City Pilot error - OO-CAR 24 December 1947 Mitwaba–Manono Double engine failure, loss of control - 2 March 1948 Brussels–London Pilot error - near Magazini, Belgian Congo 12 May 1948 Johannesburg–Léopoldville–Libenga–Brussels Flew into a tornado, windshear - OO-CBL near Kimbwe, Belgian Congo 31 August 1948 Manono–Elizabethville Undetermined - OO-CBK Léopoldville, Belgian Congo 27 August 1949 Léopoldville–Elizabethville Loss of engine power, failed to gain height on takeoff - OO-AUQ Aulnay-sous-Bois, France 18 December 1949 Paris–Brussels Wing separation, loss of control - OO-CBA 24 July 1951 Brussels–Gao–Léopoldville Engine failure on takeoff - Flight 425near Kikwit, Belgian Congo 4 February 1952 Costermansville-Léopoldville Propeller separation, fuselage penetration, loss of control - OO-AWQ 14 October 1953 Frankfurt–Brussels Loss of power on takeoff - OO-AWO 19 December 1953 Brussels–Zürich Pilot error - OO-CBY near Maribor, Yugoslavia 3 June 1954 Blackbushe-Beograd Attacked by MiG-15 fighter, forced landing - Mount Terminillo 13 February 1955 Brussels–Rome - OO-SFA 18 May 1958 Brussels–Lisbon–Léopoldville Engine failure, pilot error - 15 February 1961 New York City–Brussels Mechanical failure - Flight 71213 July 1968 Brussels–Lagos Excessive descent for reasons unknown - 8 May 1972 Vienna-Tel Aviv Hijacking - ! colspan="6" style="background:#efe; font-size:120%;"- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 21 October 1989 Pilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 11 February 2018 Moscow–Orsk Pilot error, icing, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 31 January 1967 Undetermined - N9248R 10 October 1970 Dayton–Wrightstown Weather, spatial disorientation, pilot error - 23 May 1974 Alameda–Indianapolis–Wilmington Metal fatigue, wing separation, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 25 September 1959 Jeddah–Riyadh Pilot error, stall, forced landing - HZ-AAN Red Sea, 63 mi off Jeddah 13 June 1964 None - HZ-AAM near Khalif Nseir 24 June 1967 Nejran-Jeddah ? - HZ-AAZ 8 July 1968 Bahrain–Dhahran Poor visibility, aborted approach - Damascus 10 November 1970 Amman–Riyadh Hijacking - 19 August 1980 Karachi–Riyadh–Jeddah In-flight fire for reasons unknown, burned out on the ground - 22 December 1980 Dhahran–Karachi Explosive decompression - 12 November 1996 Delhi–Dhahran Mid-air collision with a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 - 2 June 1997 Dhahran–Riyadh–Chennai Pilot error, landed at wrong airport - Kuala Lumpur International Airport 23 August 2001 Kuala Lumpur-Jeddah Hydraulic system failure, ran off runway - Flight 810
(leased from Air Atlanta Icelandic) 		Zia International Airport 25 March 2008 Madinah–Dhaka Fuel leak, in-flight fire - Flight 931
(leased from Air ACT) 		Frankfurt International Airport 16 September 2018 Dammam–Frankfurt Fatigue, wing flap fell off on landing - Flight 919
(operated by Air ACT) 		King Fahad International Airport 1 February 2020 Dammam–Zaragoza Tailstrike on takeoff - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Flight 916
(operated by Air ACT) 		Aachen Airport 11 November 2017 Maastricht–Jeddah Runway excursion on takeoff -Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) - ! colspan="6" - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - Burevestnik, Kuril Islands 1 July 1968 Seattle–Yokota AB Forced landing - N6834 Stockton Airport 16 October 1969 None Mechanical failure, runway overrun - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Société Générale des Transports Aériens (SGTA) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - F-ADTP 24 August 1924 Engine failure, forced landing - F-ADTN Atlantic Ocean 5 May 1927 Unexplained disappearance - F-AEIE 23 May 1928 Crashed on takeoff - F-ADTQ Aalsmeer, Netherlands 9 July 1930 Amsterdam–Rotterdam–Antwerp–Brussels–Paris Mechanical failure, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - B-4218 7 October 1988 None Crash on takeoff - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Siberia Airlines (now S7 Airlines) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 4 October 2001 Tel Aviv–Novosibirsk Accidental shoot down - Flight 85214 January 2002 Frankfurt–Novosibirsk Double engine failure, skidded off runway - 24 August 2004 Moscow–Sochi Terrorist bombing - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - near Chengdu 24 January 2003 Chongqing–Chengdu Attempted hijacking - 14 May 2018 Chongqing–Lhasa Windshield failure, uncontrolled decompression - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 19 December 1997 Jakarta–Singapore Deliberate crash (disputed) - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 26 March 1991 Kuala Lumpur–Singapore Hijacking - 31 October 2000 Singapore–Taipei–Los Angeles Ground collision - Flight 368 27 June 2016 Singapore-Milan Oil leak, in-flight fire - 9V-SQK 29 November 2017 None Contact with burning ground vehicle - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - G-AJPL near Castel Benito Airport 4 February 1949 Nairobi–Khartoum–Tripoli–London Fuel exhaustion, double engine failure, loss of altitude - G-AHFI 15 March 1949 Northolt–Berlin Loss of control - North Atlantic 2 February 1953 London–Azores–Gander–Kingston Unexplained disappearance - G-AGNY 26 June 1954 Hamburg–Berlin Engine separation, loss of control for reasons unknown - G-ALDV Meesden Green 1 April 1958 None Jammed elevator, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - NC59486 14 February 1947 Chicago–Omaha–Denver Loss of control - NC59488 21 August 1947 Denver–Los Angeles - NC56489 16 May 1948 Newark–Chicago–Denver–Burbank–San Francisco Turbulence, rudder failure, loss of control - Flight 11-8 9 October 1949 Las Vegas–Denver Turbulence, icing, loss of control - Flight 162-3 4 March 1953 New York–Windsor Locks–Chicago - Flight 40Z 3 February 1963 Albuquerque–San Francisco Pilot error - Flight 12 10 March 1964 New York–Windsor Locks–Boston Icing, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" South African Airways (SAA) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - ZS-AKY 16 June 1937 Loss of power, crash on takeoff - ZS-AST Elands Bay, South Africa 28 March 1941 Windhoek–Cape Town - ZS-AVJ Mount Ingeli 15 October 1951 Port Elizabeth–Durban - Flight 201
(Yoke Yoke, operated by BOAC) 		Mediterranean Sea off San Lucido 8 April 1954 London-Rome-Cairo-Johannesburg Metal fatigue, structural failure - Flight 512near Seymour 6 March 1962 Cape Town–Collondale - Flight 406
Rietbok 		East London, South Africa 13 March 1967 Port Elizabeth–East London–Bloemfontein-Johannesburg Unknown[4] (possible pilot incapacitation and loss of control) - Flight 228
Pretoria 		20 April 1968 Johannesburg–Windhoek–Luanda–Las Palmas–Frankfurt–London - Flight 295
Helderberg 		28 November 1987 Taipei–Mauritius–Johannesburg In-flight fire, in-flight breakup, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 13 February 2013 Odesa–Donetsk Poor visibility, pilot error, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 8 January 1959 Knoxville–Bristol- ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 14 November 1970 Kinston–Huntington - 4 April 1977 Muscle Shoals–Huntsville–Atlanta Water ingestion, double engine failure - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 5 March 2000 Las Vegas–Burbank Pilot error, runway overrun - Flight 206624 May 2003 Las Vegas–Amarillo Crew error, weather, runway excursion - 8 December 2005 Baltimore–Chicago Weather, runway overrun, ground collision - 13 July 2009 Nashville–Baltimore Metal fatigue, structural failure, rapid depressurization - 1 April 2011 Phoenix–Sacramento Metal fatigue, structural failure, rapid depressurization - Flight 34522 July 2013 Nashville–New York City Pilot error, landed nose-first, nosegear failure - BWI Marshall Airport4 August 2016 Baltimore–Atlanta Nosegear failure (during pushback) - Gulf of Mexico 27 August 2016 New Orleans–Orlando Uncontained engine failure, fuselage penetration - near Philadelphia 17 April 2018 New York City–Dallas Uncontained engine failure, fuselage penetration, explosive decompression - 7 May 2020 Denver–Austin Collision with pedestrian on runway -Southwest Airways
Flight designationLocationDateAircraft typeRouteCause
Flight 7[5] Refugio Pass, CA6 April 1951Douglas DC-3Santa Maria Airport (CA)–Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (CA)CFIT
- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 20 August 2008 Barcelona–Madrid–Gran CanariaPilot error, failure to extend flaps and slats for takeoff - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - EC-ARZ El Ortigal de Arriba 7 December 1965 Tenerife–Las Palmas Entered a spin after takeoff - 5 January 1970 Stockholm–Zürich Pilot error, wind shear - 3 December 1972 Tenerife–MunichPilot error - 13 September 1982 Madrid–Málaga–New York City Landing gear tire failure, aborted take-off - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 25 January 1947 London–Rome–Salisbury Pilot error, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 27 August 2008 Jakarta-Jambi Hydraulic failure, runway overrun on landing - Flight 182
Citra 		9 January 2021 Jakarta-Pontianak Asymmetrical thrust setting due to a faulty autothrottle system - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 16 August 1986 Malakal–Khartoum Shot down - Flight 139
White Nile 		8 July 2003 Port Sudan–Khartoum Engine problems, pilot error - 10 June 2008 Amman–Damascus–Port Sudan–Khartoum Weather, runway overrun - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Paramaribo, Suriname 7 June 1989 Amsterdam–ParamariboPilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 27 July 1934 Zurich–Stuttgart–Leipzig–Berlin Vibration, fatigue, wing separation - HB-ITA 7 January 1939 Geneva–Paris - HB-IXA 20 July 1939 Vienna–Zurich Engine fire, loss of control - HB-IRW
Ticino 		19 June 1954 Geneva–London Crew negligence, fuel exhaustion, water ditching - HB-IMD 15 July 1956 San Diego–New York City–Gander–Shannon–Zurich Pilot error - HB-IRK 18 June 1957 None Stall, loss of control - Flight 306
Schaffhausen 		4 September 1963 Zurich-Geneva-Rome In-flight fire, hydraulic failure, loss of control - HB-IMF 10 February 1967 None - Flight 330
Baselland 		Würenlingen21 February 1970 Zurich–Tel Aviv–Hong Kong Terrorist bombing - Flight 100
Nidwalden 		Zarqa, Jordan 13 September 1970 Zurich–New York CityHijacking, blown up on the ground - Flight 316
Uri 		8 October 1979 Geneva–Athens–Bombay–Beijing Crew error, runway overrun - Flight 111
Vaud 		2 September 1998 New York City–Geneva In-flight fire, electrical and hydraulic failure, spatial disorientation, loss of control -

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- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - D2-TYC near Matala 8 June 1980 Lubango—Jamba Possibly shot down - D2-EAS near Menongue Airport 16 May 1981 Shot down - D2-TAB Monte Bibala 29 November 1982 - 8 November 1983 Lubango—Luanda Structural failure (official)
Possible shoot down (unofficial) 		- D2-TFP Maya Maya Airport 14 April 1997 Brazzaville–Luanda Loss of control on takeoff - D2-TBP M'Banza Congo Airport 28 June 2007 Luanda—M'Banza—Negage Landed short of runway, right gear collapse - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" TACA (now Avianca El Salvador) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 24 May 1988 Belize City–New OrleansWeather, design failure - Flight 510 6 April 1993 Pilot error - 30 May 2008 La Paz–Tegucigalpa–San Pedro Sula–MiamiRunway overrun in bad weather - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 9 November 1999 Mexico City–Uruapan–Tijuana Failure to use checklists, spatial disorientation - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Flight 730 Lake Erie off Cleveland, Ohio 28 January 1970 Cleveland—Detroit Wing failure - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 26035 63 mi from Tbilisi 17 June 1993 Batumi–Baku–Chimkent Severe turbulence, probable loss of control - 87995 near Khorugh 28 August 1993 Khorugh–Dushanbe Overloading, failure to take off, runway overrun - 15 December 1997 Dushanbe–Sharjah - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" TAM Airlines (now LATAM Airlines Brasil) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 8 February 1979 Bauru–São Paulo - Rio das Ostras 28 June 1984 Rio de Janeiro–MacaéVFR in IMC, CFIT - 12 February 1990 São Paulo–Bauru–AraçatubaPilot error, ground collision (car) - 31 October 1996 São Paulo–Rio de JaneiroMechanical failure, pilot error - 9 July 1997 São José–São PauloBombing - 15 September 2001 Recife–Campinas–São Paulo- Flight 380430 August 2002 São Paulo–Campo Grande Fuel starvation, emergency gear-up landing in a field - 30 August 2002 Salvador—São Paulo Hydraulic system problems, emergency gear-up landing - 8 August 2006 São Paulo–RecifePassenger door opened and separated - 17 July 2007 Porto Alegre–São PauloPilot error, improper training, bad weather and short runway - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 19 November 1977 Brussels–Lisbon–MadeiraOverran runway due to poor weather and short runway
Flight 149 2 September 2022A320 NeoPortugal to GuineaPilot error, crashed into vehicles when landing[6]
- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Okhaldhunga District 15 December 2010 Lamidanda-Kathmandu - Dana, Myadgi District 24 February 2016 Pokhara-Jomsom Weather, VFR in IMC, loss of situational awareness, CFIT - Flight 197
(operated for Yeti Airlines) 		29 May 2022 Pokhara–Jomsom - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - near Paphos, Cyprus 24 February 1962 Bucharest–Nicosia–Tel Aviv Loss of power, belly landing - near Békéssámson, Hungary 13 June 1963 Munich–Constanta Entered a dive - 9 October 1964 Timișoara–Bucharest Windshear, severe turbulence, in-flight breakup - Vladeasa mountains 4 February 1970 Bucharest-Oradea - near Kogalniceanu Airport 7 December 1970 Tel Aviv–Bucharest - Lotrului Mountains 29 December 1974 Oradea-Bucharest - 7 August 1980 Bucharest–Nouadhibou Crew error, water ditching - 13 August 1991 Bucharest–Timișoara Pilot error, CFIT - Flight 371
Muntenia 		31 March 1995 Bucharest-Brussels Misread instruments, loss of control - Flight 3107
Constanţa 		30 December 2007 Bucharest-Sharm el Sheikh ATC errors, poor visibility, ground collision (car) - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" TARS (now TAROM) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - YR-TAI Plouznice, Czech Republic 21 November 1947 Bucharest–Prague - Unknown 9 December 1949 Sibiu–Bucharest Hijacking - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Fontainebleau, France 4 March 1988 Nancy–Paris Electrical failure, loss of control - F-GCPZ Pleurtuit Airport 23 March 1991 Burned while parked - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 17 November 2013 Moscow-Kazan Pilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - N1304T 6 February 1969 Little Rock-Harlingen Mid-air collision with a Piper PA-28 - Flight 92611 January 1970 McAllen-Harlingen-Houston-Dallas Collision with obstacles on approach - Black Fork Mountain 27 September 1973 Memphis-Pine Bluff-El Dorado-Texarkana-Dallas - Flight 98716 November 1976 Denver–Houston Mechanical failure, runway overrun - N9103 17 March 1980 Houston–Baton Rouge Weather, runway overrun - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 25 December 1967 Bangkok–Chiang Mai Pilot disorientation, loss of control - 27 April 1980 Nakhon Phanom–Udon–Khon Kaen–Bangkok Windshear - 15 April 1985 Bangkok–Phuket - 31 August 1987 Hat Yai–Phuket Pilot error, stall, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Flight 601
Chiraprapa 		30 June 1967 Tokyo–Taipei–Hong Kong–Bangkok Weather, pilot error - HS-TGK
Tepamart 		9 July 1969 Hong Kong–Bangkok Weather, possible windshear, heavy landing - Flight 311
Srisubhan 		10 May 1973 Bangkok-Kolkata–Kathmandu Pilot error, runway overrun - Flight 620
Sukhothai 		26 October 1986 Bangkok–Manila–Osaka Bombing - Flight 311
Buri Ram 		31 July 1992 Bangkok–Kathmandu - HS-THO
Srichulalak 		22 October 1994 None Ground collision with a Thai Airways MD-11 - Flight 261
Phitsanulok 		11 December 1998 Bangkok–Surat Thani Probable spatial disorientation - Flight 114
Narathiwat 		3 March 2001 Bangkok–Chiang Mai Fuel tank explosion (while parked) - Flight 679
Song Dao 		8 September 2013 Guangzhou–Bangkok Landing gear collapse, runway excursion - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 29 June 2012 Hotan-Ürümqi Attempted hijacking - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - JA6158 Mount Ohira 23 February 1962 Hiroshima–Hōfu - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Toa Domestic Airlines (TDA) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Yokotsu Mountain 3 July 1971 Sapporo-Hakodate - Flight 62128 May 1975 Osaka-Oki Island Mechanical failure, runway excursion - Flight 67010 January 1988 Yonago-Osaka Icing, runway overrun - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Black Sea off Sukhumi 21 September 1993 Sochi–SukhumiShot down by the Abkhaz forces in the course of war - 23 September 1993 Sukhumi–Tbilisi Destroyed on the ground by Abkhaz forces - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 21 December 2002 Taipei–Macau Icing, loss of control - 23 July 2014 Kaohsiung–Magong - 4 February 2015 Taipei–Kinmen Engine failure, pilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 23 March 2007 Mogadishu–Djibouti–Minsk Possible shootdown - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - NC9649
City of San Francisco 		Mount Taylor, New Mexico 3 September 1929 Albuquerque-Los Angeles - Unknown 30 December 1929 Crashed on approach - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - N79998 9 mi off Lurga Point 15 August 1949 Rome-New York City - Flight 5763Tucumcari Airport 5 November 1951 Oakland-Albuquerque Poor visibility, pilot error - Flight 50130 December 1951 Umiat-Fairbanks Pilot error, spatial disorientation - Flight 94220 March 1953 Roswell-Oakland-Guam Loss of control for reasons unknown (possible wing icing) - Flight 512
The Royal Hawaiian 		12 July 1953 Guam-Wake Island-Honolulu-Oakland Undetermined - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - F-BELB 10 mi S of Bangui Airport 8 December 1950 Paris–Bangui–Dar es-Salaam - F-BGOD 20 February 1956 Saigon–Calcutta–Karachi–Bahrain–Cairo-Paris Pilot error, crew error, crew fatigue, improper approach - 24 September 1959 Paris–Bordeaux–Bamako–Abidjan - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Jamba Airport 18 December 1995 Jamba–Kinshasa Overloading, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Trans World Airlines (TWA) - ! colspan="6" - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Mount Deyjay 4 November 1994 Nabire–Obano - 31 mi from Nabire 25 May 2002 Nabire–Enarotali - Puncak Jaya 17 November 2006 Mulia–Ilaga - near Sepingan Airport11 February 2010 Tanjung Redep–Samarinda Double engine failure, forced landing - Papua, Indonesia 16 August 2015 Jayapura–Oksibil - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - CCCP-N20 18 May 1935 None Mid-air collision - CCCP-45076 14 January 1966 None Loss of control - 3 June 1973 None In-flight breakup, loss of control - CCCP-77111 23 May 1978 None Fuel leak, in-flight fire - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 17 February 1959 Ankara-Istanbul–Rome-London Weather, CFIT for reasons unknown - 23 September 1961 Cyprus–Adana–Ankara–Istanbul Pilot error - 8 March 1962 Istanbul–Ankara–Adana Spatial disorientation - 3 February 1964 Istanbul–Ankara Disregard of procedure - TC-JAC 21 January 1972 Damascus–Ankara Downwind during emergency landing - Flight 301
Van 		26 January 1974 Izmir-Istanbul Wing icing, stall, loss of control - Flight 981
Ankara 		3 March 1974 Istanbul-Paris-London Design error, mechanical failure (faulty cargo door) - Flight 345
Bursa 		30 January 1975 Izmir–Istanbul Possible downwind during landing - Flight 452
Antalya 		19 September 1976 Istanbul–Antalya - TC-JAT
Trabzon 		23 December 1979 Samsun–Ankara Deviation from course - Flight 890
Diyarbakır 		13 October 1980 Istanbul–Ankara Hijacking - Flight 158
Afyon 		16 January 1983 Istanbul–Ankara Poor visibility, crash short of runway - Flight 278
Mersin 		29 December 1994 Ankara–Van - Flight 5904
Trakya 		7 April 1999 Adana–Jeddah Weather, possible icing, crew error - Flight 634
Konya 		8 January 2003 Istanbul–Diyarbakır - 3 October 2006 Tirana–Istanbul Hijacking - Flight 1951
Tekirdağ 		25 February 2009 Istanbul-Amsterdam Instrument failure, stall, loss of control - 5 January 2011 Oslo–Istanbul Attempted hijacking - Flight 1878
Gümüşhane 		25 April 2015 Milan–Istanbul Hard landing leading to fire, landing gear collapse and runway excursion - Flight 6491
(leased from MyCargo Airlines) 		16 January 2017 Hong Kong–Bishkek CFIT

U

- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - near Shahriar, Iran 8 January 2020 Tehran–Kyiv Accidental shootdown - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 10 October 1933 Newark–Cleveland–Chicago–Oakland Bombing - 23 February 1934 Salt Lake City–Cheyenne Poor visibility, weather, CFIT - Flight 6 Western Springs, Illinois 20 December 1934 Chicago–Omaha Icing, loss of power - near Silver Crown, Wyoming 7 October 1935 Oakland–Salt Lake City–Denver–Cheyenne Pilot error - NC13323 30 October 1935 None Pilot error - Rice Canyon, California 27 December 1936 San Francisco–Los Angeles Pilot error - Flight 239 February 1937 Los Angeles–San Francisco–Oakland Loss of control due to co-pilot dropping microphone - Flight 1Haydens Peak, Wyoming 17 October 1937 Newark–Chicago–Cheyenne–Salt Lake City–Los Angeles - Flight 924 May 1938 Newark–Cleveland–Chicago In-flight fire, loss of control - Flight 6off Point Reyes, California 29 November 1938 Seattle–Portland–Medford–Sacramento–Oakland–San Francisco–Fresno–Bakersfield–Los Angeles–San Diego Pilot error, fuel exhaustion, water ditching - Flight 16Bountiful Peak, Utah 4 November 1940 Oakland–San Francisco–Sacramento–Reno–Elko–Salt Lake City - Flight 214 December 1940 New York–Philadelphia–Allentown–Akron–Cleveland–Chicago Possible icing, stall, loss of control - NC16072 12 January 1941 None Burned in hangar fire - Flight 41 May 1942 San Francisco–Oakland–Salt Lake City–New York City Deviation from course for reasons unknown, CFIT - 41-24027 2 August 1943 Whenuapai–Amberley Pilot error, CFIT - Flight 14
Mainliner Tacoma 		31 January 1946 Portland–Pendleton–Boise–Denver - Flight 28
Mainliner Lake Michigan 		near Cheyenne 8 October 1946 San Francisco–Cheyenne–Chicago Loss of altitude on approach - Flight 404
Mainliner Elko 		Cleveland, Ohio 11 November 1946 Douglas C-53D (DC-3)Chicago–Cleveland Pilot error - Flight 521
Mainliner Lake Tahoe 		29 May 1947 New York City–Cleveland Pilot error - Flight 608
Mainliner Washington D.C. 		24 October 1947 Los Angeles–Denver–Chicago Design flaw, in-flight fire - Flight 624
Mainliner Utah 		17 June 1948 San Diego–Los Angeles–Chicago–New York City False warning of in-flight fire, crew error operating extinguishers - Flight 12928 April 1951 Cleveland–Fort Wayne–South Bend–Chicago Windshear - Flight 610
Mainliner Overland Trail 		Crystal Mountain, Colorado 30 June 1951 San Francisco–Oakland–Salt Lake City–Denver–Chicago - Flight 615
Mainliner Omaha 		24 August 1951 Boston–Hartford–Cleveland–Chicago–Oakland–San Francisco - Flight 7030
Mainliner Oahu 		12 September 1951 None Stall, loss of control - Flight 164 December 1951 None Stall, loss of control - Flight 31426 August 1953 Chicago-Detroit Mid-air collision with an American Airlines Convair 240 - N37512
Mainliner Idaho 		4 April 1955 None Pilot error, loss of control - Flight 409
Mainliner Capistrano 		6 October 1955 New York City–Chicago–Denver–Salt Lake City–San Francisco - Flight 629
Mainliner Denver 		1 November 1955 New York City–Chicago–Denver–Portland–Seattle Bombing - Flight 718
Mainliner Vancouver 		30 June 1956 Los Angeles–Chicago–New York City Mid-air collision with TWA Constellation - 21 April 1958 Los Angeles–Denver–New York City Mid-air collision with USAF F-100 fighter - Flight 826
Mainliner Will Rogers 		16 December 1960 Chicago–New York City Mid-air collision with TWA Constellation - 11 July 1961 Philadelphia–Chicago–Omaha–Denver Mechanical failure, pilot error - 23 November 1962 Newark–Washington DC Bird strike, loss of control - 9 July 1964 Philadelphia–Washington DC–Knoxville–Huntsville In-flight fire for reasons unknown, loss of control - Lake Michigan off Chicago 16 August 1965 New York City–Chicago CFIT for reasons unknown
11 November 1965 New York City–Cleveland–Chicago–Denver–Salt Lake City–San Francisco Crashed short of the runway, pilot error
Flight 45911 January 1969 Jacksonville, TX–Miami Hijacking
Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles 18 January 1969 Los Angeles–Denver–Milwaukee - Flight 1425 June 1969 Los Angeles–New York City Hijacking - Flight 611
City of Bristol 		19 July 1970 Philadelphia–Rochester Engine failure, pilot error, runway overrun on takeoff - Flight 553
City of Lincoln 		Chicago 8 December 1972 Washington, D.C.–Chicago Approach landing stall, pilot error - 18 December 1977 San Francisco–Salt Lake City Electrical failure, pilot error, ATC error - 28 December 1978 New York City–Denver–Portland Fuel exhaustion, pilot error - 11 January 1983 Cleveland–Detroit–Los Angeles Aircraft upset, crew error - Pacific Ocean 24 February 1989 Honolulu–Auckland–Sydney Cargo door opened—explosive decompression - 19 July 1989 Denver–Philadelphia Manufacturing error, engine failure - 3 March 1991 Peoria–Moline-Denver-Colorado Springs Mechanical failure, rudder reversion - Pacific Ocean, 956 mi ESE of Tokyo 28 December 1997 Tokyo-Honolulu Severe turbulence - N7274U 13 May 2001 None Damaged by hailstorm - World Trade Center, New York City 11 September 2001 Boston–Los Angeles Terrorism, hijacking - 11 September 2001 Newark–San Francisco Terrorism, hijacking - Flight 9555 July 2007 Mechanical failure, on-board fire - Flight 63410 January 2010 Chicago–Newark Landing gear failure - en route from Washington, DC to Denver 7 April 2010 Washington DC–Denver–Las Vegas Suspicious activity - Flight 4977 April 2011 Electrical failure, runway overrun - 13 February 2018 San Francisco-Honolulu Engine failure - Flight 627 15 June 2019 Denver-Newark Hard landing
20 February 2021 Denver-Honolulu Uncontained engine failure
United Arab Airlines (now EgyptAir) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 29 September 1960 In-flight breakup - Khao Yai Mountain 19 July 1962 Hong Kong–Bangkok–Cairo - SU-AJX Az Zahweyyin, Egypt 12 May 1963 Cairo–Alexandria - 27 July 1963 Loss of control - 18 March 1966 Pilot error - SU-AOL 180 km off Cyprus 18 August 1968 Cairo–Damascus Controlled flight into water - Aswan Airport 20 March 1969 Jeddah–Aswan Poor visibility, pilot error, pilot fatigue - ET-AAQ
(leased from Ethiopian Airlines) 		2 mi south of Suez 10 April 1969 Asmara–Cairo Shot down - SU-ANZ 19 July 1970 None Pilot error, stall, loss of control - Flight 8442 January 1971 Poor visibility, pilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - N568UP Corbin Airport 31 January 1985 Louisville–London Overloading, failed to go-around, ran off runway - 11 September 1998 Louisville–Houston Weather, runway excursion - Standiford Field 7 June 2005 Anchorage–Louisville Pilot error, nose gear failure - 8 February 2006 Atlanta–Philadelphia In-flight fire for reasons unknown - 3 September 2010 Dubai–Cologne In-flight fire, loss of control - 14 August 2013 Louisville–Birmingham - 6 June 2016 Seoul–Anchorage Runway excursion - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 15 August 2019 Moscow–Simferopol Bird strikes, forced landing - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 13 October 1972 Montevideo–Mendoza–Santiago- ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" US Airways (formerly USAir) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 20 September 1989 New York–CharlotteCrew error - Los Angeles, California 1 February 1991 Syracuse–Washington DC–Columbus–Los Angeles–San Francisco Ground collision - 22 March 1992 New York–ClevelandIce buildup, pilot error, inadequate deicing procedures - 8 September 1994 Chicago–Pittsburgh–Palm BeachMechanical failure - 2 July 1994 Columbia–CharlotteWind shear, crew error - 9 June 2005 Boston–PhiladelphiaNear collision - Hudson River, New York 15 January 2009 New York–Charlotte–SeattleBird strike, loss of power to both engines - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Union des Transports Aériens (UTA) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - F-BHMS Mount Alcazaba 2 October 1964 Undetermined - 19 September 1989 N'Djamena–ParisTerrorist bombing - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" Union des Transports Africains de Guinée (UTA) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 25 December 2003 Cotonou–Kufra–Beirut–DubaiOverloading, failed to take off - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 12 March 2018 Dhaka–Kathmandu Pilot error, spatial disorientation, loss of situational awareness - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" UTair Aviation (now Utair) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - RA-26012 9 November 2002 - 17 March 2007 Surgut–Samara–Belgorod Hard landing, structural failure - VQ-BAC 16 January 2010 Runway overrun - 2 April 2012 Tyumen–Surgut Crew error, wing icing, stall, loss of control - 1 September 2018 Moscow–Sochi Pilot error, windshear, runway overrun -

V

- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 11 May 1996 Miami–Atlanta In-flight fire - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - PP-VAL
Maua 		28 February 1942 Crashed after takeoff - PP-VBI 2 August 1949 São Paulo-Porto Alegre In-flight fire - PP-VBZ 4 June 1954 São Paulo-Porto Alegre Crew error, crash on takeoff - PP-VCF 7 April 1957 Bagé-Porto Alegre In-flight fire, wing separation, loss of control - PP-VCS Salgado Filho International Airport 18 October 1957 Porto Alegre–São Paulo Crew error, possible engine failure, ground turbulence - PP-CDS 12 April 1960 Jaguarão–Rio Grande–Pelotas–Porto Alegre Pilot error - La Cruz Peak 27 November 1962 Rio de Janeiro–Lima–Bogota–Panama City–Mexico City–Los Angeles Deviation from course for reasons unknown - PP-VCQ near Brasilia 22 December 1962 Rio de Janeiro–Belo Horizonte–Brasilia Unexplained descent - PP-VBV near Passo Fundo Airport 1 July 1963 Porto Alegre–Passo Fundo Weather, pilot error - 5 March 1967 Rome–Monrovia–Rio de Janeiro Pilot error - PP-VBJ Gravata 15 July 1968 São Paulo–Recife - PP-VLJ Galeão International Airport 9 June 1973 São Paulo–Rio de Janeiro Crew error, loss of control - 11 July 1973 Rio de Janeiro–Paris In-flight fire - 125 mi off Japan 30 January 1979 Tokyo–Los Angeles–Rio de Janeiro Unexplained disappearance - 3 January 1987 Abidjan–Rio de Janeiro Engine failure - 3 September 1989 São Paulo–Maraba–Belem Fuel exhaustion and pilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - NC741K Bluff Mountain 21 January 1931 Portland–Pasco - NC10338 26 November 1931 Portland–Pasco Poor visibility - NC891E 1 May 1935 Engine failure - NC176W Walsenburg, Colorado 28 September 1936 El Paso–Puebla - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Flight 37625 May 1982 São Paulo–BrasíliaWeather conditions - 8 June 1982 Rio de Janeiro–Fortaleza - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! colspan="6" - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Budarovka, Russia 4 July 2001 Ekaterinburg–Irkutsk–VladivostokPilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Operafjellet, Norway 29 August 1996 Moscow-Svalbard - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 13 November 2020 Incheon-Novosibirsk-Vienna Uncontained engine failure on takeoff, runway overrun -

W

Walcot Air Line - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - near Meopham, Kent 21 July 1930 Junkers F.13ge Le Torquet-Croydon Stall, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 16 August 2005 Panama City-Martinique Poor CRM, updrafts, stall, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 1 October 1966 San Francisco-Eugene-Portland-Seattle Excessive descent for reasons unknown - 10 March 1967 Klamath Falls-Medford Crashed after takeoff due to an icing accident - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - NC13314 1 September 1935 Burbank-Saugus Engine failure, loss of altitude - 15 December 1936 Las Vegas-Salt Lake City - 12 January 1937 Salt Lake City-Burbank - 15 December 1942 Pilot error - NC33621 24 April 1946 None Improper maintenance, engine failure, pilot error - Flight 23 13 November 1946 Las Vegas-Burbank - 24 December 1946 Holtville-San Diego - 20 April 1953 Los Angeles-San Francisco-Oakland Optical illusion, pilot error, controlled flight into water - N15569 29 June 1953 None Maintenance error, loss of control - Flight 34 26 February 1954 Salt Lake City-Rapid City Weather, loss of control for reasons unknown - N8406H 25 July 1957 Las Vegas-Los Angeles Bombing - Flight 366 31 March 1971 None Poor visibility, rudder failure, loss of control - Algeria 2 June 1972 Los Angeles-Seattle Hijacking - Flight 47031 March 1975 Denver-Casper-Minneapolis Runway overrun - Buffalo, Wyoming 31 July 1979 Pilot error, landed at wrong airport - 31 October 1979 Los Angeles-Mexico City Poor CRM, runway confusion, collision with truck on runway - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 11 March 1982 Kirkenes-Vadsø-Berlevåg-Mehamn-Honningsvåg-Alta Clear-air turbulence, pilot error, structural failure, loss of control - 6 May 1988 Trondheim-Namsos-Brønnøysund-Sandnessjøen-Bodø - 12 April 1990 Værøy-Bodø Windshear, structural failure, loss of control - 27 October 1993 Trondheim-Namsos - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 19 September 1960 Agana NAS–Wake Island Airfield - 23 January 1982 Oakland–Newark–Boston Weather, runway excursion - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - B-4211 Huajia 8 October 1992 Lanzhou-Xian - Hanyang District, Wuhan 22 June 2000 Enshi City-Wuhan Lightning strike, windshear -

X

Xiamen Airlines (now XiamenAir) - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 2 October 1990 Hijacking, runway collision with a China Southwest Boeing 707 and China Southern Boeing 757 - 16 August 2018 Xiamen–Manila Pilot error, skidded off runway -

Y

- ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - 7 September 2011 Yaroslavl-Minsk Pilot error - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - Moroni, Comoros Islands 30 June 2009 Sanaa-Moroni Crew error, stall, loss of control - ! colspan="6" style="background-color:#efe;font-size:120%;" - ! Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause - near Lukla 25 May 2004 Kathmandu–Lukla Pilot negligence, crew errors, CFIT - near Jumla Airport 21 June 2006 Surkhet–Jumla Pilot error, CFIT - Tenzing–Hillary Airport 8 October 2008 Kathmandu–Lukla Weather, pilot error, CFIT - near Pokhara International Airport 15 January 2023 Kathmandu–Pokhara Stall on approach due to accidental feathering of propellers -

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ranter . Harro . ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-3 N67589 Santa Maria Airport, CA . 2022-09-01 . aviation-safety.net.
  2. Web site: Ranter . Harro . ASN Aircraft accident Fairchild F-27A N2770R San Ramon, CA . 2022-09-01 . aviation-safety.net.
  3. Web site: Major Pakistani air crashes – The Express Tribune. 28 July 2010. tribune.com.pk.
  4. Rietbok Air Accident. 1967. Margo . Cecil . Cecil Margo . Preller . R.H. . Struwig . D.J. . South African Civil Aviation Authority.
  5. Web site: Ranter . Harro . ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3C) N63439 Refugio Pass, CA . 2022-09-01 . aviation-safety.net.
  6. News: Accident: TAP A20N at Conakry on Sep 2nd 2022, hits motorbike on landing . avherald.com . September 3, 2022.

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