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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).
All aboard initially survived the crash, with the fatalities occurring due to the subsequent fire. November 8, 1965 58 4 4 American Airlines Flight 383: Constance: Kentucky: Boeing 727-23: The crew descended prematurely during approach in deteriorating weather and crashed short of the runway due to their loss of altitude awareness. August 16 ...
List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in 50 or more fatalities. Initial sort order is by total fatalities (descending) and then by date (most recent to most distant). Deaths T Incident [a] Aircraft Location Phase Airport Distance Date Tot C P G N; est. 1,700 [b] 11 81 est. 1,600 † INH American Airlines Flight 11: Boeing 767-223ER
Cause of crash unknown, fell into a garden of a villa in an attempt to defect to West Berlin. Reinhard Furrer: Germany 1995 Scientist and astronaut Messerschmitt Bf 108: Berlin lost control of aircraft Yuri Gagarin: Soviet Union 1968 First man in space Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI [8] Kirzhach: unknown Sanjay Gandhi: India 1980 Son of Indira Gandhi
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]
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The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report into a June 30 crash that killed five members of a family from Georgia. Report: 'Overload failure' may have led to ...
All 200 people on board the aircraft perished in the deadliest plane crash in Uzbekistan as well as the deadliest plane crash involving a Tupolev Tu-154. Aeroflot Flight 505 – Shortly after take-off from Tashkent , the Yakovlev Yak-40 banked sharply to the right and crashed, killing all 9 people on board.