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This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
The Boeing Model 40 is a United States mail plane of the 1920s. It was a single-engined biplane that was widely used for airmail services in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, especially by airlines that later became part of United Airlines. It became the first aircraft built by the Boeing company to carry passengers.
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 ...
In 2021, the company settled a lawsuit with the Justice Department after two plane crashes in 2018 and 2019 killed 346 people. Boeing paid a $243.6 million fine in exchange for avoiding charges ...
The plane narrowly missed [clarification needed], sliding on the area and in the process, hitting a two-story house in the Liepkalnis neighborhood, approximately 1.3 kilometres (0.8 mi; 0.7 nmi) north of the airport, and crashed on its property, causing a fire that reached the house.
Boeing 747-258F/SCD: 37 3 40: 111 (40 on aircraft) Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122 [28] 15 April 2008 Goma International Airport, D.R.C. McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51: 35 4 39 † 36 Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 [29] 16 January 2017 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Boeing 747-400F: 32 20 52 † 20 Munich C-131 crash [30] 17 December 1960 Munich, Germany Convair C ...
The crash was also witnessed by people in a nearby fire station on Flierbosdreef. First responders came upon a rapidly spreading fire of "gigantic proportions" that consumed all 11 floors of the buildings and was 120 metres (390 ft) wide. No one survived from the crash point, but some managed to escape from the remainder of the building. [14]
Two deadly plane crashes within five months have rocked Boeing and the aviation industry, forcing the worldwide grounding of the Chicago-based company’s 737 Max airliners. ... Sept. 30, 2020 ...