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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 mid-air collision. As of 29 September 2024, 206 accidents and incidents have resulted in at least 100 fatalities, 34 at least ...
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).
2024 Gillette Pilatus PC-12 crash. On July 26, 2024, a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine aircraft with seven people on board crashed near the Wyoming – Montana border, just north of Gillette, Wyoming, United States. All seven on board were killed upon impact. Three members of the gospel quartet The Nelons — vocalist Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband ...
Colgan Air Flight 3407 (marketed as Continental Connection Flight 3407) was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, US to Buffalo, New York, US on February 12, 2009. Colgan Air staffed and maintained the aircraft used on the flight that was scheduled, marketed, and sold by Continental Airlines under its Continental Connection brand.
The crash of Flight 123 is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history. [ 1 ] Japan's Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission (AAIC), [ 2 ] : 129 assisted by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board , [ 3 ] concluded that the structural failure was caused by a faulty repair by Boeing technicians following a tailstrike ...
Airbus A300B4-600R. The aircraft lost its vertical stabilizer shortly after takeoff as a result of the first officer 's extreme rudder inputs during wake turbulence and crashed into a neighborhood in Queens, killing all on board and five on the ground. September 11, 2001. 44.
The aircraft entered a steep dive and crashed. It was the deadliest plane crash of all time until the Tenerife disaster in 1977. However, it is currently the deadliest single-aircraft crash with no survivors. This accident was also the deadliest single-aircraft crash that did not involve a Boeing 747.
A Northwest Airlines MD-82, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident. The aircraft involved in the crash was a twin-engined McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (registration number N312RC), a derivative of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and part of the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series of aircraft.