List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year

Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. This list is also available grouped: by airline, by location, alphabetically. See also: Incidents in Aviation.

Contents

1 1947 2 1948 3 1949 4 1951 5 1953 6 1955 7 1956 8 1958 9 1962 10 1963 11 1970 12 1971 13 1972 14 1973 15 1974 16 1975 17 1977 18 1978 19 1979 20 1980 21 1982 22 1983 23 1985 24 1986 25 1987 26 1988 27 1989 28 1990 29 1991 30 1992 31 1993 32 1994 33 1995 34 1996 35 1997 36 1998 37 1999 38 2000 39 2001 40 2002 41 2003 42 2004

1947

• August 2 - Lancastrian Stardust crashes in Chile.

1948

• October 20 - KLM Constellation air disaster (Prestwick, Scotland)

1949

• October 27 – Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed in the Azores – 48 died including French boxing star Marcel Cerdan and the brillant young concert violinist, Ginette Neveu.
• November 1 - an Eastern Air Lines Douglas C-54B-10-DO enroute from Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. crashed on its final approach killing all 55 persons on board.

1951

• April 25 - Cubana de Aviacion Douglas DC-4 departed Miami, Florida enroute to Havana, Cuba collided in air with a United states Navy Beech SNB-1 Kansan (39939) at an altitude of 4000 feet off Key West killing all 5 crew members and 34 passengers on board.

• June 22 - Pan American World Airways Flight #151, a Lockheed L-049 Constellation named the "Clipper Great Republic" enroute from Accra, Ghana to Monrovia, Liberia crashed at 1050 feet into a hill near Sanoyea, Liberia while on approach 54 miles from the airport. There were no survivors amongst the 31 passengers and 9 crew members.

• July 21 – a Canadian Pacific Air Lines Douglas C-54A-10-DC departed Vancouver, British Columbia for Anchorage, Alaska but disappeared enroute without a trace. Eveentually, all 37 on board would be declared legally dead.

• December 16 – a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46F-1-CU departed Newark, New Jersey bound for Tampa, Florida but caught fire and crashed in Elizabeth, New Jersey attempting to return to the airport. All 56 persons on board died.

1953

• May 2, De Havilland Comet crashed soon after take-off from Calcutta - first of a series of crashes that led to Comet 1 fleet being grounded and eventually scrapped.
• September 1, Air France Lockheed 749C Constellation flew into Mt. Cemet in the French Alps killing all 42 people aboard including renowned French classical violinist Jacques Thibaud.

1955

• November 1 - United Airlines Flight 629 (mass murder by Jack Gilbert Graham)

1956

• June 30 - United Airlines DC-7 flying from Los Angeles to Chicago and a TWA Constellation collided over the Grand Canyon. The 58 passengers on the DC-7, and the 70 passengers on the Constellation were all killed. The pilots had both requested permission to fly in undesignated airspace to give their passengers a better view and the crash was attributed to the pilots not seeing each other until it was too late.

1958

• February 6 - British European Flight 609 (Munich air disaster)

1962

• June 3 Air France Chateau de Sully at Orly Airport

1963

• Pan Am Flight 214 - struck by positive lightning

1970

• February 15 - Dominicana DC-9 air disaster
• February 21 - Swissair Flight 330

1971

• November 24 - A man using the name Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 out of Portland. In exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes he released the passengers. The crew took off and he parachuted from the plane. He was never found.

1972

• January 26 - JAT Yugoslav Flight 364
• June 18 - British European Flight 848 (Staines air disaster)
• June 24 - Prinair Flight 191
• December 29 - Eastern Airlines Flight 401

1973

• December 17 - Pan Am Flight 110

1974

• March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Ermenonville air disaster)
• September 8 - TWA Flight 841

1975

• September 30 - Malév Flight 240

1977

• March 27 - KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 (Tenerife disaster)

1978

• 1 January - Air India Flight 855
• September 25 - PSA Flight 182

1979

• May 25 - American Airlines Flight 191
• November 28 - Air New Zealand Flight 901

1980

• June 27 - Itavia Flight 870

1982

• January 13 - Air Florida Flight 90
• January 23 - World Airways Flight 30 , landed long at Boston, two missing presumed dead.
• July 9 - Pan Am Flight 759, crashed in Kenner, Louisiana shortly after takeoff.

1983

• July 23 - Air Canada Flight 143 (Gimli Glider)
• September 1 - Korean Air Flight 7
• September 23 - Gulf Air Flight 771
• June 2 - Air Canada Flight 797

1985

• June 14 - TWA Flight 847
• June 23 - Air India Flight 182
• August 2 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191
• August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123
• August 22 - Manchester air disaster
• November 23 - EgyptAir Flight 648
• December 12 - Arrow Air Flight 1285

1986

• April 2 - TWA Flight 840
• September 5 - Pan Am Flight 73
• December 25 - Iraqi Airways Hijacking

1987

• August 16 - Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed on takeoff from DTW, 154 died, one person survived.
• November 29 - Korean Air Flight 858
• December 7 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771

1988

• March 17 - Avianca Flight 410
• April 28 - Aloha Flight 243
• July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655
• August 31 - Delta Air Lines Flight 1411
• December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie air disaster)

1989

• January 8 - British Midlands Flight 92 (Kegworth air disaster)
• February 24 - United Airlines Flight 811
• June 7 - Surinam Airways Flight PY764
• July 19 - United Airlines Flight 232
• September 19 - UTA Flight 772
• November 27 - Avianca Flight 203

1990

• January 25 - Avianca Flight 52

1991

• February 1 - USAir Flight 1493
• March 3 - United Airlines Flight 585
• May 26 - Lauda Air Flight 004

1992

• October 4 - El Al Flight 1862 crashes on 2 flats in Amsterdam (bijlmerramp).
• December 21 - Martinair MP 495 crashed in Faro, Portugal killing 54 persons and injuring 106.

1993

• September 21 - Transair Georgian Airline Crash (21 September)
• September 22 - Transair Georgian Airline Crash (22 September)

1994

• July 19 - Alas Chiricanas bombing (Panama airline bombing)
• September 8 - USAir Flight 427
• October 31 - American Eagle Flight 4184
• December 11 - Philippine Airlines Flight 434
• December 24 - Air France Flight 8969

1995

• December 20 - American Airlines Flight 965

1996

• February 6 - Birgenair Flight 301
• February 29 - Faucett Flight 251
• May 11 - Valujet Flight 592
• July 17 - TWA Flight 800
• October 6 - AeroPeru Flight 603
• November 12 - Saudia Flight 763, crashed with Kazakhstan Air Lines Ilyushin 76 cargo jet.
• November 23 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961

1997

• December 19 - Silkair Flight 185

1998

• February 16 - China Airlines Flight 676
• September 2 - Swissair Flight 111

1999

• June 1 - American Airlines Flight 1420
• July 24 - All Nippon Airways Flight 61
• August 22 - Mandarin Airlines Flight 642
• October 31 - EgyptAir Flight 990
• December 24-December 31 - Indian Airlines Flight 814

2000

• January 30 - Alaska Airlines Flight 261
• July 25 - Air France Flight 4590
• October 31 - Singapore Airlines Flight 6

2001

• August 24 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean and makes an emergency landing in the Azores islands
• September 11 - American Airlines Flight 11 (WTC North Tower) (September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
• September 11 - United Airlines Flight 175 (WTC South Tower) (September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
• September 11 - American Airlines Flight 77 (The Pentagon) (September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
• September 11 - United Airlines Flight 93 (Somerset County, Pennsylvania) (September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
• October 4 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was shot down by Ukrainian missile over Black Sea
• October 8 - Linate Airport disaster, Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686
• November 12 - American Airlines Flight 587
• December 22 - American Airlines Flight 63

2002

• February 27- Ryanair Flight 296
• April 15 - Air China flight 129
• May 7 - China Northern flight 6136
• May 25 - China Airlines Flight 611
• July 1 - Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937
• November 6 - Luxair Flight 9642

2003

• March 6 - Air Algerie Flight 6289
• December 25 - UTA Flight 141

2004

• January 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604
• May 9 - American Eagle Flight 1450
• August 24 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1047
• August 24 - Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303
• November 21 - China Eastern flight 5210
• November 30 - Lion Air JT 538 , a crash landing in Surakarta, Central Java Indonesia.