![]() Table List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in 50 or more fatalities. Table key Īctive or decommissioned military bases closed/reassigned civil airports The definitions of accident, incident, and fatality in the Code of Federal Regulations, and used by the FAA and NTSB, are generally consistent with those found in the ICAO Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13. The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage " an incident as "an occurrence other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft, which affects or could affect the safety of operations " and a fatal injury as one which results in death within 30 days of the accident. The Boeing analysis suggests a decrease of commercial aviation accident fatality rates toward the end of the study period. In 2012, Boeing released a study of worldwide commercial jet airplane accidents between 19, reporting 1,798 accidents, 603 categorized as fatal, which accounted for 29,025 onboard fatalities and an additional 1,173 ground or noncommercial aircraft collision deaths. ![]() The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center claimed not only 157 passengers and crew but an additional 2,606 victims. The greatest number of fatalities from a midair collision occurred at the Charkhi Dadri midair collision, to the west of New Delhi, India, on 12 November 1996 when a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B en route from Delhi to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, collided with Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Chimkent, Kazakhstan, to Delhi, killing all 349 people aboard both the airplanes. The most fatalities in any aviation accident in history occurred during 1977 in the Tenerife airport disaster, when 583 people were killed when two Boeing 747s collided on a runway. The greatest number of fatalities involving one airline in one year occurred in 2014, when 537 people died (presumably - with the wreckage unrecovered, the death toll is not entirely confirmed) in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 and the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 four months later. Since the deaths of these early aviation pioneers, the scale of fatal aircraft accidents has increased in proportion to the size and capacity of airplanes. In 1909, Eugène Lefebvre was the first to be killed while piloting a powered airplane, while the first fatal midair collision occurred on 19 June 1912, near Douai, France, killing the pilot of each aircraft. ![]() In 1908, five years after the pioneering flight of the Wright brothers on 17 December 1903, Thomas Selfridge became the first fatality of powered flight while flying as a passenger with Orville Wright during a demonstration of the Wright Model A at Fort Myer, Virginia, on 17 September 1908. This article lists the deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general-aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or midair collision.Īs of 12 March 2023, 205 accidents and incidents have resulted in at least 100 fatalities, 34 at least 200 fatalities, eight at least 300 fatalities, and four at least 500 fatalities. ![]()
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