List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline (D–O)

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JetBlue Flight 292 making an emergency landing in September 2005 with its nose landing gear turned sideways.

This list of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline summarizes airline accidents and all kinds of incidents, major or minor, by airline company with flight number, location, date, aircraft type, and cause.

This list is dynamic and by no means complete!

While all of the incidents in this list are noteworthy, not all the incidents listed involved fatalities.

D

Daallo Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
S9-KAS Bender Qassim Int'l Airport 13 January 2009
Antonov An-24RV
Djibouti–Bosaso Nose gear failure
Flight 774 Bosaso Airport 2 November 2009
Antonov An-24RV
Bosaso–Djibouti Attempted hijacking
Flight 159 over Somalia 2 February 2016
Airbus A321-111
Mogadishu–Djibouti Suicide bombing
Dagestan Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 372
Domodedovo Int'l Airport
4 December 2010
Tupolev Tu-154M
Moscow–Makhachkala Fuel exhaustion
Daimler Airway
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
G-EAWO Thieuloy-Saint-Antoine 7 April 1922
de Havilland DH.18A
Croydon–Paris Mid-air collision with a CGEA Farman F.60
G-EBBS Ivinghoe Beacon 14 September 1923 de Havilland DH.34 Croydon–Manchester Pilot error, stall, loss of control
Dan-Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
G-AMUV Gurgaon 25 May 1958
Avro York C.1
Karachi–New Delhi Engine failure, in-flight fire
G-ATFZ Godalming 1 September 1966
Piper Apache 160
Gatwick–Lasham–Bristol Pilot error, weather
Flight 1903 Catalonia 3 July 1970
de Havilland DH-106 Comet 4
Manchester–Barcelona Navigation error, ATC error
G-BEBP Lusaka 14 May 1977
Boeing 707-321C
London–Athens–Nairobi–Lusaka Design defect, structural failure
Flight 0034 Sumburgh Airport 31 July 1979 Hawker Siddeley HS 748 Shetland Islands–Aberdeen Accidental engagement of gust lock
Flight 1008
Los Rodeos, Tenerife
25 April 1980
Boeing 727-46
Manchester–Tenerife CFIT
Flight 240 Nailstone, England 26 June 1981 Hawker Siddeley HS 748 Gatwick–East Midlands
Rapid decompression
caused by failure of baggage door
Danish Air Lines (DDL)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
OY-DCI Ulrichstein, Germany 12 February 1948
Douglas C-53
Copenhagen–Frankfurt Crash on approach
OY-DLU off
Barsebäck
8 February 1949
Vickers Viking 1B
Paris–Copenhagen CFIT
Delta Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 4 near Gilmer, Texas 14 August 1935 Stinson Model A Dallas–Shreveport–Jackson–Birmingham–Atlanta Propeller failure, engine separation, loss of control
Flight 10 Key Field 10 November 1946
Douglas C-49J
Jackson–Meridian Pilot error, runway overrun
NC49657 Columbus, Georgia 22 April 1947
Douglas DC-3C
Macon–Columbus Mid-air collision with a private Vultee BT-13
Flight 705 Chicago 10 March 1948 Douglas DC-4 Chicago–Miami Loss of control on takeoff for reasons unknown
Flight 318 near Marshall, Texas 17 May 1953 Douglas DST-318 Dallas–Shreveport–Atlanta Weather, pilot error, loss of control
Flight 134X Atlanta 15 June 1954
Douglas C-47A
Atlanta–Chattanooga–Knoxville–Cincinnati–Chicago Possible windshear, loss of airspeed on takeoff
Flight 1903 Atlanta 23 May 1960
Convair 880-22-1
None Stall and loss of control for reasons unknown
Flight 29
Baton Rouge
24 November 1964
Curtiss C-46R
Atlanta–New Orleans Weather, skidded off runway
Flight 9877 New Orleans 30 March 1967
Douglas DC-8-51
None Crew error
N4820C Evansville Regional Airport 20 March 1968 Convair CV-340-38 Engine failure, loss of control
Flight 9570 Greater Southwest International Airport 30 May 1972
Douglas DC-9-14
None Wake turbulence (from a DC-10)
Flight 954 Chicago 20 December 1972
Convair 880-22-2
Tampa–Chicago Runway collision with a North Central Airlines DC-9
Flight 723 Logan International Airport 31 July 1973
Douglas DC-9-31
Manchester–Boston Instrument failure, CFIT
Flight 523 Baltimore 22 February 1974
Douglas DC-9
Baltimore–Atlanta Attempted hijacking
Flight 1080 Los Angeles International Airport 12 April 1977 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar San Diego–Los Angeles Jammed elevator, loss of control
Flight 191
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
2 August 1985
Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar
Fort Lauderdale–Dallas/Fort Worth–Los Angeles Weather, microburst, pilot error
Flight 1141
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
31 August 1988
Boeing 727-232
Jackson–Dallas/Fort Worth–Salt Lake City Pilot error
Flight 1288 Pensacola, Florida 6 July 1996
McDonnell Douglas MD-88
Pensacola–Atlanta Uncontained engine failure, fuselage penetration
Flight 1989
Cleveland
11 September 2001
Boeing 767-332ER
Boston–Los Angeles Hijacking concerns
Flight 2315 over New York City 11 September 2001 Boeing 737 Near mid-air collision with terrorist hijacked United Airlines Flight 175
Flight 129 Dublin Airport 3 February 2002 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 Atlanta–Dublin Skidded off runway
Flight 1086 LaGuardia Airport 5 March 2015
McDonnell Douglas MD-88
Atlanta–New York City Weather, runway excursion
Flight 159 over China 16 June 2015 Boeing 747-400 Detroit–Seoul Damaged by hailstorm
Flight 89 South Los Angeles 14 January 2020 Boeing 777-200ER Los Angeles–Shanghai Compressor stall, fuel dump
Deruluft
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
D-AREN Stettin, Germany
(now Szczecin, Poland)
31 January 1935 Junkers Ju 52/3mge Moscow–Königsburg (now Kaliningrad)–Gdansk–Berlin Wing icing, loss of control
D-AJYP
Schönberg
Schievelbein, Germany
(now Świdwin, Poland)
7 March 1935 Rohrbach Roland II Structural failure
URSS-D311
Yastreb
near Nemirovo, Moscow Oblast 6 December 1936 Tupolev ANT-9 Königsburg (now Kaliningrad)–Velikiye Luki–Moscow Navaid failures, navigation errors, CFIT
Deutsche Luft Hansa
DHL Aviation
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 611 Überlingen 1 July 2002
Boeing 757-23APF
Bergamo–Brussels Mid-air collision with a Bashkirian Airlines Tu-154
OO-DLL Baghdad 22 November 2003 Airbus A300B4-203F Baghdad–Bahrain Missile attack, loss of controls
Flight 7216 Juan Santamaría Int'l Airport 7 April 2022 Boeing 757-27A (PCF) San José–Guatemala City Under investigation (runway excursion)
Dominicana de Aviación
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
HI-6 near Yamasa 11 January 1948
Douglas C-47
Barahona–Santiago de los Caballeros Weather, navigation error
Flight 402 General Andrews Int'l Airport 17 July 1958
Curtiss C-46A
Ciudad Trujillo–Miami Engine problems, pilot error, stall, loss of control
Flight 401 near Miami International Airport 23 June 1969 Aviation Traders Carvair Miami–Santo Domingo Engine failure, pilot errors
HI-177
near Santo Domingo 15 February 1970
Douglas DC-9-32
Santo Domingo–San Juan Double engine failure, loss of control
HI-617CA Las Americas Airport 5 September 1993 Boeing 727-281 San Juan–Santo Domingo Electrical fire, aircraft burned out
Downeast Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 46
Rockland, Maine 30 May 1979 de Havilland Canada Twin Otter 200 Boston–Rockland Pilot error (improper IFR operation)

E

EAS Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 4226 Kano 4 May 2002 BAC 1-11-525FT Kano–Lagos Pilot error
EasySky
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 734 Ramón Villeda Morales Int'l Airport 31 December 2012 British Aerospace Jetstream 31 Roatan–San Pedro Sula Under investigation (runway excursion)
Eastern Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 14 near Milford 19 December 1936
Douglas DC-2-112
Miami–Charleston–Newark Pilot error, ATC error
Flight 7
Daytona Beach
10 August 1937
Douglas DC-2-112
Chicago–Indianapolis–Louisville–Nashville–Chattanooga–Jacksonville–Daytona Beach–Miami CFIT (power pole)
Flight 21 near Atlanta 26 February 1941
Douglas DST-318A
New York–D.C.–Atlanta–New Orleans–Houston–Brownsville Incorrect altimeter setting, CFIT
Flight 45 over Lamar, South Carolina 12 July 1945
Douglas DC-3-201C
D.C.–Columbia Mid-air collision with a USAAF A-26
Flight 42 Florence, South Carolina 7 September 1945
Douglas DC-3-201G
Miami–Jacksonville–Savannah–New York City In-flight fire for reasons unknown
Flight 14 Flushing Bay near LaGuardia Airport 30 December 1945
Douglas DC-3-201
Jacksonville–Savannah–Columbia–Raleigh–Richmond–D.C.–Philadelphia–New York City Pilot error, runway overrun
Flight 105 Cheshire, Connecticut 18 January 1946
Douglas DC-3-201E
New York City–Boston Fuel leak, in-flight fire, partial wing failure, loss of control
Flight 665 near Galax, Virginia 12 January 1947
Douglas C-49
Detroit–Cleveland–Akron–Winston-Salem Navigation error, deviation from course, CFIT
Flight 605 Port Deposit, Maryland 30 May 1947
Douglas C-54B
Newark–Miami Loss of control for reasons unknown
Flight 572 Oxon Hill, Maryland 13 January 1948
Douglas DC-3-201F
Houston–Atlanta–Greenville–Winston-Salem–D.C. Crew error, disregard of procedure
Flight 611 off Jacksonville, Florida 7 February 1948 Lockheed L-649 Constellation Boston–New York City–West Palm Beach–Miami Propeller failure, fuselage penetration
Flight 557 over Chesterfield, New Jersey 30 July 1949
Douglas DC-3-201D
Boston–New York–Wilmington–Memphis Mid-air collision with a USN F6F Hellcat
Flight 537 over
Arlington, Virginia
1 November 1949
Douglas C-54B
Newark–D.C. Mid-air collision with a Bolivian Air Force P-38
Flight 601
Curles Neck Farm
19 July 1951
Lockheed L-749A Constellation
Forced landing
Flight 627 Idlewild Int'l Airport 19 October 1953
Lockheed L-749A Constellation
New York City–San Juan Spatial disorientation, pilot error
Flight 642 Jacksonville, Florida 21 December 1955
Lockheed L-749A Constellation
Miami–Jacksonville–Boston Pilot error for reasons unknown
N808D Miami Int'l Airport 28 June 1957
Douglas DC-7B
None Ground collision with an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1049 Constellation
Flight 375 Logan Int'l Airport 4 October 1960 Lockheed L-188 Electra Boston–Philadelphia–Atlanta Bird strikes
Flight 512 Queens 30 November 1962
Douglas DC-7B
Charlotte–New York City Weather, pilot error
N842D Boston 28 February 1963 Douglas DC-7 Person ran into propeller (suicide)
Flight 304 Lake Pontchartrain 25 February 1964
Douglas DC-8-21
Mexico City–New Orleans–Atlanta–Philadelphia–New York Pitch trim compensator failure, loss of control
N809D Richmond 16 July 1964
Douglas DC-7B
New York–Richmond Pilot error, crashed short of runway
Flight 663 Jones Beach 8 February 1965
Douglas DC-7B
Boston–New York–Richmond–Charlotte–Greenville–Atlanta Near-miss, evasive maneuvers, spatial disorientation
Flight 853 over Carmel, New York 4 December 1965
Lockheed L-1049C Constellation
Boston–Newark Mid-air collision with a TWA Boeing 707 due to optical illusion and pilot error
N8943N over Raleigh 4 December 1971
Douglas DC-9-31
Mid-air collision with a Cessna 206
Flight 346
Fort Lauderdale
18 May 1972
Douglas DC-9-31
Miami–Fort Lauderdale–Cleveland Pilot error
Flight 401 Everglades 29 December 1972
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 1
New York–Miami CFIT
Flight 212 Charlotte 11 September 1974
Douglas DC-9-31
Charleston–Charlotte–Chicago Pilot error
Flight 66 Queens 24 June 1975
Boeing 727-225
New Orleans–New York Weather, wind shear from a microburst
Flight 855 near Miami 5 May 1983 Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Miami–Nassau Dual engine failure due to improper maintenance
Flight 980 Nevado Illimani 1 January 1985
Boeing 727-225
Asunción–La Paz–Guayaquil–Miami CFIT
Flight 791 over Cape Canaveral 3 October 1990
Douglas DC-9-31
Severe turbulence, pilot error, crew error
Eastern Provincial Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
CF-IHA Godthåb harbour (now Nuuk) 12 May 1962 Canadian-Vickers PBV-1A Canso Kangerlussuaq–Godthab Sank on landing
EgyptAir
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 763 Shamsan Mountains 19 March 1972
Douglas DC-9-32
Cairo-Aden CFIT
SU-AOW Beni Suef, Egypt 5 December 1972
Boeing 707-366C
None Possible engine separation
Flight 741 Kyrenia Mountains 29 January 1973
Ilyushin Il-18D
Cairo–Nicosia CFIT
SU-AXB
Nefertiti
near Cairo 10 July 1974 Tupolev Tu-154 None Stall, loss of control
YR-IMK
(leased from Tarom)
Red Sea 9 December 1974
Ilyushin Il-18D
Jeddah–Cairo CFIT
Flight 321 Luxor Airport 23 August 1976 Boeing 737-266 Cairo–Luxor Hijacking
Flight 864 Bangkok 25 December 1976
Boeing 707-366C
Cairo-Bangkok Pilot error
Flight 648 Luqa, Malta 24 November 1985
Boeing 737-266
Athens-Cairo Hijacking, burned out on the ground
SU-BCA Luxor Airport 21 September 1987
Airbus A300B4-203
Cairo–Luxor Runway excursion
Flight 990
Thutmosis III
Nantucket 31 October 1999
Boeing 767-366ER
Los Angeles-New York City-Cairo (disputed)
Flight 843 near
Carthage Airport
7 May 2002
Boeing 737-566
Cairo–Tunis Pilot error
Flight 181 Larnaca Airport 29 March 2016 Airbus A320-232 Alexandria-Cairo Hijacking
Flight 667
Nefertiti
Cairo International Airport 29 July 2011
Boeing 777-266ER
Cairo–Jeddah Cockpit fire
Flight 804 Mediterranean Sea 19 May 2016 Airbus A320-232 Paris-Cairo Oxygen leak, cockpit fire
Eirjet
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Unknown
Ballykelly Airfield
29 March 2006
Airbus A320
Liverpool-Derry Pilot error, landed at wrong airport
El Al
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
4X-ADN near
Kloten Airport
24 November 1951 Douglas DC-4 Tel Aviv–Rome–Zurich–Amsterdam Crashed on approach
Flight 402/26 near Petrich 27 July 1955
Lockheed L-149 Constellation
London–Vienna–Istanbul–Tel Aviv Shot down
Flight 219 Amsterdam 6 September 1970
Boeing 707-458
Tel Aviv–Amsterdam–New York City Hijacking
Flight 1862 Amsterdam 4 October 1992
Boeing 747-258F
New York City–Amsterdam–Tel Aviv Metal fatigue, engine separation
Emirates
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 407 Melbourne Airport 20 March 2009 Airbus A340-541 Melbourne–Dubai Crew error, tailstrike on takeoff
Flight 521 Dubai International Airport 3 August 2016 Boeing 777-31H Thiruvananthapuram–Dubai Pilot error, crash during go-around
Ethiopian Airlines

F

Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 104 near Tainan 24 February 1969
Handley Page Herald 201
Kaohsiung–Taipei Possible engine failure, CFIT
B-243 near Taipei 20 February 1970
Douglas C-47A
CFIT
Flight 134
Taipei Airport
31 July 1975
Vickers Viscount 837
Hualien–Taipei Stall, loss of control
Flight 103 near Taipei 22 August 1981
Boeing 737-222
Taipei–Kaohsiung Severe fuselage corrosion,
Explosive decompression, in-flight breakup
Flight 116 Kaohsiung Int'l Airport 25 October 1993
McDonnell Douglas MD-82
Kaohsiung–Taipei Engine failure, runway overrun
Flight 128
Xiamen Airport
10 March 1997
Boeing 757-2Q8
Kaohsiung–Taipei Hijacking
FedEx Express
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 705 Memphis, Tennessee 7 April 1994
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30F
Memphis-San Jose Attempted hijacking
Flight 14
Joshua
Newark International Airport
31 July 1997
McDonnell Douglas MD-11F
Anchorage-Newark Pilot error
Flight 647
Amber
Memphis International Airport 18 December 2003
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10F
Oakland-Memphis Pilot error
Flight 630
Chandra
Memphis International Airport 28 July 2006
McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F
Seattle-Memphis Improper maintenance, landing gear failure, runway excursion
Flight 80 Narita Int'l Airport 23 March 2009
McDonnell Douglas MD-11F
Guangzhou-Tokyo Windshear, loss of control
Flight 910 Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport 26 October 2016
McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F
Memphis-Fort Lauderdale Metal fatigue, landing gear failure
Finnair/Aero OY
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
K-SALD Gulf of Finland 16 November 1927
Junkers F.13
Tallinn–Helsinki Unexplained disappearance
Unknown Baltic Sea 10 November 1937 Junkers Ju 52 Turku–Stockholm Broken propeller blade, engine separation
Flight 1631
Kaleva
Gulf of Finland off Keri Island 14 June 1940
Junkers Ju 52/3mge
Tallinn–Helsinki Shot down
OH-LAK
Sampo
Gulf of Finland off Turku 7 November 1941
Junkers Ju 52/3mce
Contaminated fuel, triple engine failure, water ditching
OH-LAK Hyvinkää 31 October 1945
Junkers Ju 52/3mce
Helsinki–Hyvinkää–Hämeenlinna–Tampere Radio problems, CFIT
Flight 311 Kvevlax 3 January 1961
Douglas C-47A
Kokkola–Vaasa Pilot error, stall (pilot was intoxicated and sleep deprived)
Flight 217 Mariehamn 8 November 1963
Douglas C-47A
Helsinki–Turku–Mariehamn Misread altimeter, CFIT
Flight 070
Chep Lap Kok Airport
27 November 2010 Airbus A340-313X Attempted to takeoff from taxiway
First Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 6560 Resolute, Nunavut, Canada 20 August 2011
Boeing 737-210C
CFIT
Flash Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 604
Sharm el-Sheikh
3 January 2004
Boeing 737-3Q8
Loss of control (due to spatial disorientation)
Flydubai
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 981 Rostov-on-Don Airport 19 March 2016
Boeing 737-8KN
Dubai–Rostov-on-Don Crew error, spatial disorientation
FlyMontserrat
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 107
V.C. Bird Int'l Airport
7 October 2012
Britten-Norman BN-2A-26 Islander
Antigua–Montserrat Contaminated fuel, loss of engine power, loss of control
Flying Tiger Line
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
N67960 Denver 30 July 1950
Curtiss C-46F
Newark–Cleveland–Detroit–Chicago–Des Moines–Denver–Los Angeles Poor takeoff performance for reasons unknown
Flight 841 Squak Mountain 7 January 1953
Douglas C-54B
Burbank–San Francisco–Seattle Crew error, CFIT
Flight 7413-23 Pacific Ocean 24 September 1955
Douglas C-54A
Honolulu–Wake Island Crew error, fuel exhaustion, engine failure, water ditching
N6920C Mount Ōyama 9 September 1958
Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
Travis AFB–Wake Island–Tachikawa Air Base CFIT
Flight 739 Pacific Ocean 15 March 1962
Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
Travis AFB–Honolulu–Wake Island–Guam–Clark AFB–Saigon Unexplained disappearance
Flight 7816 Adak 15 March 1962
Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
Travis AFB–Cold Bay–Adak–Misawa–Okinawa Pilot error
Flight 923 Atlantic Ocean 23 September 1962
Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
Gander–Frankfurt Crew error, triple engine failure, water ditching
Flight 183
Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal
14 December 1962
Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
Chicago–Burbank Pilot incapacitation, loss of control
Flight 282 San Bruno Mountain 24 December 1964
Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
San Francisco–New York City Deviation from course for reasons unknown
Flight 914 California Peak 15 December 1965
Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
Los Angeles–Chicago Spatial disorientation
Flight 6303 Naval Station Norfolk 21 March 1966
Canadair CL-44D4-2
Indianapolis–NAS Norfolk Crew error
N228SW Da Nang 24 December 1966
Canadair CL-44D4-1
Tachikawa Air Base–Da Nang Crashed short of runway
Flight 45
Okinawa
27 July 1970
Douglas DC-8-63AF
Los Angeles–San Francisco–Seattle–Cold Bay–Tokyo–Okinawa–Cam Ranh Bay–Da Nang Crew error
Flight 2468 Naval Station Norfolk 25 October 1983
Douglas DC-8-63CF
New York City–NAS Norfolk Crew error, ATC error, runway overrun
Flight 66
Thomas Haywood
near Kuala Lumpur 19 February 1989
Boeing 747-249F
Singapore–Kuala Lumpur ATC error,
CFIT
Formosa Airlines (now Mandarin Airlines)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
B-12268 Orchid Island Airport 14 August 1990 Dornier 228-201 Taipei–Lanyu Crashed short of runway
B-12238 off Orchid Island 28 February 1993 Dornier 228-201 Taipei–Orchid Island Weather, CFIT
B-12298
Green Island Airport
14 June 1993 Dornier 228-201 Taitung City–Green Island Crashed short of runway
B-12288 Taitung Airport 15 June 1995 Dornier 228-201 Green Island–Taitung City Belly landing
B-12208 Green Island Airport 18 June 1995 Dornier 228-201 Green Island–Taitung City Loss of control (while taxiing)
Flight 7613 off
Matsu Beigan Airport
5 April 1996 Dornier 228-212 Taipei–Matsu Island Poor visibility, pilot error
Flight 7601 near Matsu Beigan Airport 10 August 1997 Dornier 228-212 Taipei–Matsu Island Weather, aborted landing, CFIT
B-12255 off Hsinchu 18 March 1998
Saab 340B
Hsinchu-Kaohsiung Partial electrical failure, poor visibility, pilot fatigue, crew disregard of procedure
Fuji Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 902 Oita Airport 27 February 1964
Convair CV-240-0
Kagoshima–Oita Pilot error, runway overrun
Fujita Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
JA6155 Mount Hachijō–Fuji 17 August 1963
de Havilland Heron 1B
Hachijojima–Tokyo Poor visibility, CFIT

G

Garuda Indonesia
Germanwings
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 9525 Prads-Haute-Bléone 24 March 2015
Airbus A320-211
Barcelona–Düsseldorf Deliberate crash (by co-pilot)
Globe Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
HB-ITD near
Nicosia Airport
21 April 1967 Bristol Britannia 313 Bangkok–Colombo–Bombay–Cairo–Basel CFIT in bad weather
Gulf Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 771 Jebel Ali 23 September 1983
Boeing 737-200
Karachi–Abu Dhabi Terrorism, bombing
Flight 072
Al Muharraq
23 August 2000
Airbus A320-212
Cairo–Bahrain Pilot error, CFIT
Gol Transportes Aéreos
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 1907 Mato Grosso 29 September 2006
Boeing 737-8EH
Manaus–Brasilia–Rio de Janeiro Mid-air collision with an Embraer Legacy
Golden West Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 261 Whittier, California 9 January 1975
de Havilland Twin Otter
Ontario–Los Angeles Mid-air collision with a Cessna 150

H

Handley Page Transport
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
G-EAMA
Golders Green 14 December 1920
Handley Page O/400
London–Paris CFIT for reasons unknown
G-EATN near
Le Bourget Airport
14 January 1922 Handley Page O/10 London–Paris Crash on approach
Hapag-Lloyd Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 3378
Schwechat International Airport
12 July 2000
Airbus A310-304
Chania-Hanover Mechanical failure, fuel depletion
Hawthorne Nevada Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 708 Mount Whitney 18 February 1969 Douglas C-49J Hollywood-Hawthorne Weather, pilot error, CFIT
Helios Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 522 Marathon, Greece 14 August 2005
Boeing 737-31S
Larnaca–Athens–Prague Gradual depressurization, pilot incapacitation, fuel exhaustion
Henan Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 8387
Lindu Airport
24 August 2010
Embraer E-190
Harbin–Yichun CFIT
Hillman's Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
G-ACPM English Channel off Folkestone 2 October 1934 de Havilland Dragon Rapide Essex–Paris Pilot error, CFIT
Horizon Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
N449QX Ketron Island 10 August 2018
Bombardier Dash 8 Q400
None Aircraft stolen, CFIT (suicide)

I

IAS Cargo Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
G-BEBP

(operated by Dan-Air)
Lusaka Airport
14 May 1977
Boeing 707-321C
London–Athens–Nairobi–Lusaka Structural failure, loss of control, design defect
Iberia Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
M-CABA off Europa Point 18 December 1939
Junkers Ju 52/3m
Alicante–Tetuan Accidental shoot-down
EC-ABK Pandols Mountain 23 December 1948
Douglas C-47
Madrid–Barcelona CFIT
EC-ACH near Getafe 28 October 1957
Douglas C-47A
Tangier–Madrid Engine fire, engine separation, loss of control
EC-ABC Sierra de Valdemeca 29 April 1959
Douglas C-47A
Barcelona–Madrid Weather, deviation from route
EC-ATB near Carmona 12 October 1962
Convair CV-440-62
Valencia–Seville CFIT
EC-ATH off
Tangier Airport
31 March 1965
Convair CV-440-62
Málaga–Tangier Stall for reasons unknown
Flight 401
Los Rodeos Airport
5 May 1965
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
Madrid–Tenerife Pilot error
Flight 062
Black Down, Sussex 4 November 1967
Sud Aviation Caravelle 10R
Málaga–London Excessive descent for reasons unknown, CFIT
Flight 602
near Ibiza Airport 7 January 1972
Sud Aviation Caravelle VIR
Valencia–Ibiza CFIT
Flight 504 near Nantes, France 5 March 1973
Douglas DC-9-32
Palma de Mallorca–London Mid-air collision with a Spantax Convair 990
Flight 350
Madrid Airport
7 December 1983
Boeing 727-256
Madrid–Rome Runway collision with an Aviaco DC-9
Flight 610

Alhambra de Grenada
near Bilbao 19 February 1985
Boeing 727-256
Madrid–Bilbao Pilot error, CFIT
Icelandic Airlines
(Loftleiðir)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
TF-RVC

Geysir
Vatnajökull 14 September 1950
Douglas C-54B
Luxembourg–Reykjavik CFIT
Flight 509 John F. Kennedy Int'l Airport 23 June 1973
Douglas DC-8-61CF
Reykjavik–New York City Crew error
Flight 001

(operated by Garuda Indonesia)
Colombo Airport, Sri Lanka 15 November 1978
Douglas DC-8-63CF
Jeddah–Colombo–Surabaya Crashed on approach, cause disputed
Imperial Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 201/8 near Richmond Int'l Airport 8 November 1961
Lockheed L-049E Constellation
Columbia–Newark–Wilkes Barre–Baltimore–Columbia Poor
CRM
, triple engine failure
Imperial Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
G-EBBX Purley 24 December 1924 de Havilland DH.34 Croydon–Paris Undetermined
G-EMBS
Prince Henry
English Channel 21 October 1926
Handley Page W.10
Croydon–Paris Engine failure, water ditching
G-EBLB Purley, Surrey 13 July 1928 Vickers Vulcan None Engine failure
G-EBMT
City of Ottawa
Dungeness
17 June 1929
Handley Page W.10
Croydon–Paris–Basel–Zurich Engine failure, water ditching
G-EBMZ
City of Jerusalem
Jask Airport, Iran 6 September 1929 de Havilland Hercules Bandar Lengeh–Jask Pilot error, stall, loss of control
G-AADN
City of Rome
La Spazia 26 October 1929
Short Calcutta
Naples–Genoa Unexplained mechanical failure, crashed at sea
G-EBIX
City of Washington
Bologne
30 October 1930
Handley Page W.8g
Croydon–Paris Stall, loss of control, CFIT
G-AAGX
Hannibal
Five Oak Green, Kent 8 August 1931 Handley Page H.P.42E Engine failure
G-AACI
City of Liverpool
Near Diksmuide, Belgium 28 March 1933
Armstrong Whitworth Argosy II
Cologne–Brussels–Croydon In-flight fire, possible sabotage
G-ABLU
Apollo
Ruysselede
, Belgium
30 December 1933 Avro 618 Ten Cologne–Brussels–Croydon Pilot error, CFIT
G-ABFB
Sylvanus
Brindisi Harbor 5 November 1935 Short Kent London–Brindisi–Alexandria Caught fire during refueling, burned out
G-AASJ
City of Khartoum
off Alexandria 31 December 1935
Short Calcutta
London–Brindisi–Crete–Alexandria Fuel exhaustion
G-ABKY Croydon 10 August 1936
Vickers Vellox
Croydon–Paris In-flight fire
G-ABFA
Scipio
Mirabella, Crete 22 August 1936 Short Kent Alexandria–Crete–Brindisi–Southampton Hard landing
G-ACOX
Boadicea
English Channel 25 September 1936
Boulton & Paul P.71A
Croydon–Paris Unknown
G-ACVZ Elsdorf, Germany 15 March 1937 de Havilland Express Croydon–Cologne Unknown
G-ADVA
Capricornus
near Ouroux 24 March 1937
Short S.23 Empire
Southampton–Brindisi–Crete–Alexandria–Durban Navigation error, CFIT
G-AXXE
Hengist
Karachi 31 May 1937 Handley Page H.P.42E None Burned in hangar fire
G-ADVC
Courtier
Phaleron Bay
1 October 1937
Short S.23 Empire
Alexandria–Athens Poor visibility, hard landing
G-ADUZ
Cygnus
Brindisi Harbor 5 December 1937
Short S.23 Empire
Pilot error, stall, loss of control, crash on takeoff
G-ABTG
Amalthea
Kisumu, Kenya
27 July 1938 Armstrong Whitworth Atalanta Kisumu–Alexandria CFIT
G-AETW
Calpurnia
Lake Habbaniyah, Iran 27 November 1938
Short S.23 Empire
Southampton–Sydney Spatial disorientation, CFIT
G-ADUU

Cavalier
Atlantic Ocean 21 January 1939
Short S.23 Empire
Port Washington–Bermuda–Southampton Icing, loss of engine power
G-ADVD
Challenger
Lumbo lagoon, Ilha de Mocambique 1 May 1939
Short S.23 Empire
London–Cairo–Mombasa–Dar es-Salaam–Lumbo–Maputo–Johannesburg Crashed on landing
Flight 197
Hannibal
Gulf of Oman 1 March 1940 Handley Page H.P.42E Calcutta–Jask–Sharjah–Alexandria–London Unexplained disappearance
Independent Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 1851
Santa Maria Island, Azores
8 February 1989
Boeing 707-331B
Bergamo–Azores–Punt Cana CFIT
Indian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
VT-CHF near Sonegaon Airport 12 December 1953
Douglas C-47A
Nagpur-Madras Loss of power, loss of control, CFIT
VT-COZ Guwahati 21 January 1955
Douglas C-47A
Calcutta-Guwahati CFIT
VT-CVB Nagpur 2 February 1955
Douglas C-47A
Nagpur-Delhi Pilot error
VT-CGN Salonibari Airport 21 March 1956
Douglas C-47A
Pilot error, stall, runway excursion
VT-DBA Tribhuvan Airport 15 May 1956
Douglas C-47A
Runway overrun
VT-DGK Agartala 19 October 1956 Douglas DC-3 Weather, CFIT
VT-CFB Kingsway Camp, India 13 March 1957
Douglas C-47A
None Loss of control
VT-AUV Santoshpur 5 May 1957
Douglas C-47A
Silchar-Calcutta Weather, windshear
VT-COJ near Damroh 25 June 1958
Douglas DC-3C
None Possible loss of power, CFIT
VT-CYM near Dhaka 9 July 1958
Douglas C-47A
Agartala-Dhaka In-flight breakup
VT-CYH near Tobu 12 March 1959
Douglas C-47A
None CFIT
VT-CGI 35 mi west of Silchar 29 March 1959
Douglas C-47A
Calcutta-Agartala-Silchar-Imphal Weather, severe turbulence, in-flight breakup
VT-CGG near Taksing 3 January 1960
Douglas C-47A
None Pilot error, navigation error, stall, loss of control
VT-AUS near Lahore 15 July 1962
Douglas C-47A
Kabul-Amritsar Bird strike
VT-AUL Sarna 3 June 1963 Douglas DC-3 Hiper Amritsar–Srinagar Loss of control, in-flight breakup
VT-DIO 51 mi south of Agra 11 September 1963 Vickers Viscount 768D Nagpur-Delhi Loss of control for reasons unknown
PH-SAB
(leased from Schreiner Airways)
Banihall Pass 7 February 1966 Fokker F27-200 Srinagar-Jammu-Amritsar-Delhi Navigation error, CFIT
VT-DPP Palam Airport 15 February 1966 Sud Caravelle VI-N Calcutta-Delhi Crashed short of runway
VT-DSB Mumbai 4 September 1966 Sud Caravelle VI-N None CFIT
VT-DOJ near Khulna Airport 21 April 1969 Fokker F27-200 Agartala–Khulna Weather, loss of control
VT-DWT near Silchar 29 August 1970 Fokker F27-400 Silchar–Guwahait Pilot error, CFIT
VT-DMA
Lahore Airport
, Pakistan
30 January 1971
Fokker F-27 Friendship 100
Srinagar–Jammu Hijacking[1]
VT-DXG Chinnamanur 9 December 1971 HAL 748-224 Srs. 2 Thiruvananthapuram–Madurai Deviation from course, CFIT
VT-DME near Delhi-Palam Airport 12 August 1972 Fokker F27-100 Gwalior–Delhi Pilot error
VT-EAU near Hyderabad 15 March 1973 HAL 748-224 Srs. 2 None Crew errors, crew incapitation
Flight 440 New Delhi 31 May 1973
Boeing 737-2A8
Madras–New Delhi Pilot error, crash on landing
Flight 171
Bombay-Santacruz Airport
12 October 1976
Sud Caravelle VI-N
Bombay–Madras Engine failure, in-flight fire, loss of control
Lahore Airport
, Pakistan
10 September 1976
Boeing 737-200
Delhi–Bombay Hijacking[2]
VT-EAL Begumpet Airport 17 December 1978
Boeing 737-2A8
Hyderabad–New Delhi Crashed on takeoff
Flight 410
Varanasi 20 December 1978
Boeing 737-200
Calcutta–Lucknow Hijacking[3]
VT-DXJ near Panvel 4 August 1979 HAL 748-224 Srs. 2 Pune–Bombay (now Mumbai) Instrument failure, pilot error, ATC errors, CFIT
Flight 423 Lahore Airport, Pakistan 29 September 1981
Boeing 737-200
Delhi–Amritsar Hijacking[4]
Amritsar Airport
4 August 1982
Boeing 737-200
Delhi–Amritsar Hijacking[5]
Amritsar Airport
20 August 1982
Boeing 737-200
Jodhpur–Delhi Hijacking[6]
Flight 405
Lahore Airport, Pakistan 5 July 1984 Airbus A300 Srinagar–Delhi Hijacking[7]
Flight 421
Lahore Airport, Pakistan 24 August 1984
Boeing 737-2A8 Advanced
Delhi–Srinagar Hijacking[8]
Flight 113 Ahmedabad 19 October 1988
Boeing 737-2A8
Mumbai–Ahmedabad Pilot error, weather, lack of navigational aids
Flight 605 Bangalore 14 February 1990
Airbus A320
Mumbai–Bangalore Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 257 near Imphal Airport 16 August 1991
Boeing 737-2A8
Calcutta–Imphal CFIT
Flight 810
Lucknow Airport
22 January 1993 Lucknow–Delhi Hijacking[9]
Fight 439
Amritsar Airport
27 March 1993
Airbus A320-231
Delhi–Madras Hijacking[10]
Lucknow Airport 10 April 1993
Boeing 737-2A8
Lucknow–Delhi Hijacking[11]
Flight 427
Amritsar Airport
24 April 1993
Boeing 737-2A8
Srinagar–Delhi Hijacking[12]
Flight 491 near Aurangabad Airport 26 April 1993
Boeing 737-2A8
Aurangabad–Bombay Pilot error
Flight 814 Kathmandu 24 December 1999
Airbus A300B2-101
Kathmandu–Delhi Hijacking
Indonesia AirAsia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 8501 Karimata Strait 28 December 2014
Airbus A320-216
Surabaya–Singapore Mechanical failure, crew error, stall, loss of control
Flight 509 Ngurah Rai International Airport 16 May 2016
Airbus A320-216
Singapore-Denpasar Crew miscommunication
Flight 535 Perth 16 October 2017 Airbus A330 Perth-Bali Loss of altitude[1]
Inex-Adria Aviopromet (now Adria Airways)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 450 near Prague 30 October 1975
Douglas DC-9-32
Tivat–Prague Ground impact during final approach in foggy weather
Flight 550 near Vrbovec 10 September 1976
Douglas DC-9-31
Split–Cologne Mid-air collision with a British Airways Trident
Flight 1308 Mont San-Pietro 1 December 1981
McDonnell Douglas MD-81
Ljubljana–Ajaccio CFIT
Interflug
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
DM-SEA near Königs Wusterhausen 14 August 1972 Ilyushin Il-62 East Berlin–Bourgas In-flight fire
DM-SCA
Schönefeld Airport
30 October 1972 Tupolev Tu-134 Hard landing, ran off runway
Flight 1107 Leipzig Airport 1 September 1975 Tupolev Tu-134 Stuttgart–Leipzig ATC error, crew error
DM-SEM
Schönefeld Airport
22 November 1977
Tupolev Tu-134A
Moscow–East Berlin Pilot error
DM-STL Luanda, Angola 26 March 1979
Ilyushin Il-18D
Engine failure, aborted takeoff, runway overrun
Flight 102
Schönefeld Airport
17 June 1989
Ilyushin Il-62M
East Berlin–Moscow Mechanical failure, runway overrun
IrAero
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
RA-26053 Ust-Kuiga 27 December 2002
Antonov An-26B
Yakutsk–Ust Kuiga Crew disregard of procedure, hard landing
Flight 103 Ignatyevo Airport 8 August 2011 Antonov An-24 Chita–Blagoveshchensk–Khabarovsk Runway overrun
Iran Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
EP-IRD
Alborz Mountains
, Iran
21 January 1980
Boeing 727-86
Mashhad–Tehran Inoperable ILS and ground radar
EP-IRG
Shiraz Airport
15 October 1986 Boeing 737-286 None Destroyed on the ground
Flight 655 Strait of Hormuz 3 July 1988
Airbus A300B2-203
Bandar Abbas–Dubai US military missile shoot-down
Flight 277
Urmia Airport
9 January 2011
Boeing 727-286
Tehran–Urmia Bad weather
Flight 742 Mehrabad Int'l Airport 18 October 2011
Boeing 727-286
Nosegear failure
Iran Air Tours
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
EP-ITD near Mehrabad Int'l Airport 8 February 1993
Tupolev Tu-154M
Tehran–Mashhad Mid-air collision with an IAF Su-24
Flight 956 near Sarab-e Do Rah 12 February 2002
Tupolev Tu-154M
Tehran–Khorramabad Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 945
Mashhad Airport
1 September 2006
Tupolev Tu-154M
Bandar Abbas–Mashhad Crashed on landing
Iran Aseman Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
EP-ANA Ramsar Airport 4 October 1990 Fokker F27-600 Runway overrun
Flight 746 near Natanz 12 October 1994 Fokker F28-1000 Istafan–Tehran Contaminated fuel, double engine failure, loss of control
Flight 775 Ahwaz Airport 18 July 2000 Fokker F28-4000 Tehran–Ahwaz Landed next to runway
Flight 773 Tabriz Airport 26 August 2010 Fokker 100 Tehran–Tabriz Runway excursion
Flight 853 Zahedan Airport 10 May 2014 Fokker 100 Mashhad–Zahedan Landing gear failure, forced landing
Flight 3704 Mount Dena, near Semirom 18 February 2018
ATR 72-212
Tehran–Yasuj Crew errors, windshear, CFIT
Iraqi Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 163 Arar, Saudi Arabia 25 December 1986
Boeing 737-270C
Baghdad–Amman Hijacking
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
15-2280 Shahdad, Iran 19 February 2003
Ilyushin Il-76MD
Zahedan–Kerman CFIT
Itavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
I-AOMU Mount Capanne 14 October 1960 de Havilland Heron 2 Rome–Genoa CFIT
Flight 703 near Sora 30 March 1963
Douglas C-47B
Pescara–Rome Pilot error, CFIT
I-TIVE Ciampino Airport 4 November 1970 Handley Page Herald 203 None Engine failure, crash on landing
Flight 897 near Torino Airport 1 January 1974 Fokker F28-1000 Bologna–Torino Pilot error, wing failure, loss of control
I-TIDA Orio Al Serio Airport 9 April 1975 Fokker F28-1000 Bergamo–Bologna Stalled on climbout, crashed on runway
Flight 870 Ustica 27 June 1980 Douglas DC-9-15 Bologna–Palermo Contested. Evidence suggests a terrorist bombing, official position of Italy is shot down by French Navy fighter.

J

Japan Airlines (JAL)
Japan Air System
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 451 Hanamaki Airport 18 April 1993
Douglas DC-9-41
Nagoya–Morioka Windshear, hard landing
Flight 979 Tokunoshima Airport 1 January 2004
McDonnell Douglas MD-81
Kagoshima–Tokunoshima Landing gear failure
Japan Domestic Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
JA8030 Haneda Airport 26 August 1966
Convair CV-880-22M-3
None Loss of control for reasons unknown
JAT Yugoslav Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 367 Srbská Kamenice 26 January 1972
Douglas DC-9-32
Copenhagen–Belgrade Bombing
Flight 769
near
Titograd
11 September 1973
Sud Aviation Caravelle VI-N
Skopje–Titograd ATC error, radar failure, CFIT
JetBlue Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 292
Canyon Blue
Los Angeles 21 September 2005
Airbus A320-232
Burbank–New York Nosegear malfunction
Ju-Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
HB-HOT Piz Segnas 4 August 2018 Junkers Ju 52/3mg4e Locarno–Dübendorf Pilot error, CFIT
Jubba Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
5Y-JXN Mogadishu 18 July 2022 Fokker 50 BaidoaMogadishu Undetermined as of 14 October 2022

K

Kam Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 904 Pamir Mountains 3 February 2005
Boeing 737-242A
Herat–Kabul Unexplained descent, CFIT
Katekavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 9357 Igarka 3 August 2010 Antonov An-24 Krasnoyarsk–Igarka Pilot error
Kazakhstan Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
46478 Kostanay 16 January 1993 Antonov An-24RV Engine failure, crashed short of runway
UN-85455 Karachi International Airport 21 January 1995 Tupolev Tu-154B-2 Overloading, failed to takeoff, runway overrun
UN-26080 Sambailo Airport 26 January 1995 Antonov An-26B Rejected takeoff, runway overrun
UN-88181 Dzhambul Airport 13 April 1995 Yakovlev Yak-40K Steering failure, ran off runway
UN-47710 Shymkent 1 November 1995 Antonov An-24B None Double engine failure, hard landing
Flight 1907
Charkhi Dadri 12 November 1996 Ilyushin Il-76TD Shymkent–Delhi Mid-air collision with a Saudia Boeing 747
Kenya Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 431 Abidjan 30 January 2000
Airbus A310-304
Pilot error
Flight 507 Cameroon 5 May 2007
Boeing 737-800
Pilot error
KLM
KNILM
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
PK-AFO Denpasar 22 January 1940
Lockheed Super Electra
CFIT
PK-AFS Kupang, Timor 26 January 1942 Grumman G-21A Goose Shot down
PK-AFV
Pelikaan
Carnot Bay, Australia 5 March 1942 Douglas DC-3 Bandung-Broome Shot down
Kogalymavia (now Metrojet)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 348 Surgut Int'l Airport 1 January 2011
Tupolev Tu-154B-2
Surgut-Moscow In-flight fire
Flight 9268 near Hasna, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt 31 October 2015 Airbus A321-231 Sharm-el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg Terrorism, bombing
Korean Air

L

LaMia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2933 Cerro Gordo, La Unión, Antioquia 29 November 2016 Avro RJ85 Santa Cruz de la Sierra–Medellín Pilot error, fuel exhaustion, CFIT
LAM Mozambique Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 470
Chaimite
Bwabwata National Park 29 November 2013
Embraer E-190
Maputo-Luanda Deliberate crash (by pilot)
LANSA
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 501 Mount Talaula 27 April 1966 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Lima-Cuzco Pilot error, overloading, CFIT
Flight 502
Cuzco
9 August 1970
Lockheed L-188A Electra
Cuzco-Lima Ground crew error, improper maintenance, pilot error, loss of control
Flight 508 Puerto Inca, Amazon rainforest, Peru 24 December 1971
Lockheed L-188A Electra
Lima-Pucallpa Weather, severe turbulence, lightning strike, wing separation, in-flight breakup
LAN Chile (now LATAM Airlines)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
CC-CLC-0072 near El Plummerillo Airport 20 January 1944
Lockheed 18-56-23 Lodestar
Mendoza-San Juan Crashed on takeoff
CC-CLC-0100 near Chamonate Airport 15 June 1953
Lockheed 18-56-23 Lodestar
Copiapo-Santiago Engine fire
Flight 621
La Gotera Hill 3 April 1961 Douglas DC-3C Temuco-Santiago CFIT for reasons unknown
Flight 107
San José Volcano
6 February 1965 Douglas DC-6B Santiago-Ezeiza Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 160
Colina 28 April 1969 Boeing 727-116 Ezeiza-Santiago CFIT
CC-CHJ Calama 4 August 1987 Boeing 737-2A1 Antofagasta-Calama Crashed short of runway
Flight 1069
Puerto Williams 20 February 1991 BAe 146-200A Punta Arenas-Puerto Williams Pilot error, runway overrun
Lao Air (now Lao Skyway)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 200 Thoulakhom District 11 April 2009
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
Vientiane–Xam Neua Engine failure, forced landing
Flight 201 Sam Neua Airport 17 April 2013
de Havilland Canada Twin Otter 300
Xam Neua–Vientiane Crash on takeoff
Lao Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 301
Pakxe
16 October 2013
ATR 72-212A
Vientiane–Pakxe Weather, pilot error, CFIT
Lao Aviation (now Lao Airlines)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
RDPL-34117 Phonsavan 13 December 1993
Harbin Y-12-II
Vientiane–Phonsavan Poor visibility, CFIT
RDPL-34001 Long Tieng 25 May 1998 Yakovlev Yak-40 Vientiane–Xiengkhouang–Hanoi Weather, premature descent, CFIT
Flight 703 near Xam Neua 19 October 2000
Harbin Y-12-II
Vientiane–Xam Neua Pilot error, CFIT
LAPA
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 3142 Buenos Aires 31 August 1999
Boeing 737-204C
Buenos Aires–Cordoba Pilot error, operational error, negligence
Lauda Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 004
Uthai Thani Province
26 May 1991
Boeing 767-3Z9ER
Hong Kong—Bangkok—Vienna Engine went into reverse, in flight. Mechanical failure
Líneas Aéreas Comerciales, SA (LACSA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
XA-UKR near
Plan de Guadalupe International Airport
19 April 2014 BAe 125-700A Cozumel–Saltillo Under investigation (CFIT)[13]
Linjeflyg
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 267
near Helsingborg-Ängelholm Airport 20 November 1964
Convair 440
Stockholm–Hultsfred–Halmstad–Ängelholm Pilot error, crashed short of runway
Flight 618
(operated by Skyline Sweden)
near Stockholm 15 January 1977
Vickers Viscount 838
Malmö–Kristianstad–Växjö–Jönköping–Stockholm Icing
Lion Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 386
Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport
14 January 2002
Boeing 737-291
Pekanbaru–Batam Incorrectly set flaps, runway overrun on takeoff
Flight 583
Surakarta 30 November 2004
McDonnell Douglas MD-82
Jakarta–Surakarta–Surabaya Weather, pilot error, runway overrun
Flight 904 Ngurah Rai International Airport 13 April 2013
Boeing 737-8GP
Bandung–Denpasar Crew disorientation, crashed short of runway
Flight 610 Java Sea off Java 29 October 2018
Boeing 737 MAX 8
Jakarta–Pangkal Pinang MCAS design flaw, improper maintenance, pilot error
Los Angeles Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 841 Paramount, California 22 May 1968
Sikorsky S-61L
Main rotor blade separation, loss of control
Flight 417 Anaheim, California 14 August 1968
Sikorsky S-61L
Main rotor hub failure, loss of control
LOT Polish Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
SP-AYB Malakasa, Greece 1 December 1936 Lockheed 10A Electra Warsaw-Bucharest-Athens CFIT
SP-AYA Susiec 28 December 1936 Lockheed 10A Electra Lwów (now Lviv)-Warsaw Icing, CFIT
SP-AYD near Warsaw 11 November 1937 Lockheed 10A Electra Kraków-Warsaw Poor visibility, CFIT
SP-ASJ Pirin Mountains 23 November 1937 Douglas DC-2-115D Athens–Thessaloniki–Sofia–Warsaw CFIT
SP-BNG Negrileasa, Stulpicani 22 July 1938 Lockheed 14H Super Electra Warsaw-Lwów (now Lviv)-Czerniowce (now Chernovtsy)-Bucharest-Thessaloniki Possible lightning strike
SP-LKA Tuszyn 15 November 1951 Lisunov Li-2P Lodz-Kraków Weather, pilot error (official)
Engine failure, loss of control (unofficial)
SP-LAH near Gruszowiec 19 March 1954 Lisunov Li-2P Warsaw-Kraków Spatial disorientation, CFIT
Flight 232 Vnukovo Int'l Airport 14 June 1957 Ilyushin Il-14P Warsaw-Moscow Weather, poor visibility, crew error
SP-LVB near Warsaw-Okecie Airport 19 December 1962 Vickers Viscount 804 Brussels-East Berlin-Warsaw Stall, loss of control
SP-LVA near Jeuk, Belgium 20 August 1965 Vickers Viscount 804 Lille-Wroclaw Weather, loss of control, possible turbulence
Flight 165 near Zawoja 2 April 1969
Antonov An-24B
Warsaw-Kraków Weather, CFIT
Flight 165
Tempelhof Int'l Airport
30 August 1978 Tupolev Tu-134 Gdansk-East Berlin Hijacking
Flight 007
Mikołaj Kopernik
near Warsaw-Okecie Airport 14 March 1980 Ilyushin Il-62 New York City-Warsaw Engine failure, loss of control
Flight 5055
Tadeusz Kościuszko
near Warsaw-Okecie Airport 9 May 1987
Ilyushin Il-62M
Warsaw-New York City Engine failure, in-flight fire, loss of control
Flight 703
Dunajec
near Rzeszów 2 November 1988
Antonov An-24B
Warsaw-Rzeszow Icing, engine failure
Flight 702
Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport
25 February 1993 ATR 72-202 Rzeszow-Warsaw Hijacking
Flight 016

Poznań
Warsaw Chopin Airport 1 November 2011
Boeing 767-35DER
Newark-Warsaw Landing gear failure, belly landing
Lufthansa
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 502
Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport
11 January 1959
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
Hamburg–Frankfurt–Paris–Lisbon–Dakar–Rio de Janeiro–Buenos Aires Pilot error, crew fatigue
D-ABOK near Ebersheim 4 December 1961
Boeing 720-030B
Frankfurt-Cologne Nose dived for reasons unknown
D-ABOP near Ansbach 15 July 1964
Boeing 720-030B
None Loss of control
Flight 005 Bremen Airport 28 January 1966
Convair CV-440-0
Frankfurt–Bremen Stall, loss of control
Flight 649 Aden 22–23 February 1972
Boeing 747-230
Tokyo–Hong Kong–Bangkok–Delhi–Athens–Frankfurt Hijacking
Flight 615 Zagreb 29 October 1972
Boeing 727-30
Damascus–Beirut–Ankara–Munich–Frankfurt Hijacking
Flight 540 Nairobi 20 November 1974
Boeing 747-130
Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg Mechanical failure, pilot error
Flight 181
Landshut
Mogadishu 17 October 1977
Boeing 737-230C
Palma de Mallorca–Frankfurt Hijacking
Flight 527
near Rio de Janeiro 26 July 1979
Boeing 707-330C
Rio de Janeiro–Dakar ATC errors, CFIT
Flight 2904 Warsaw Chopin Airport 14 September 1993
Airbus A320-200
Frankfurt–Warsaw Pilot error, deficiencies in braking system[14]
Luxair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 9642 Niederanven 6 November 2002 Fokker 50 Berlin–Luxembourg Weather, pilot error

M

Maddux Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
NC9636 over San Diego 21 April 1929
Ford 5-AT-B Tri-Motor
San Diego-Phoenix Mid-air collision with a USAAF Boeing PW-9D
Flight 7 Oceanside, California 19 January 1930
Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor
Tijuana-Los Angeles Windshear
Mahan Air
Malaysian Airline System/Malaysia Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 653 Johor 4 December 1977 Boeing 737-2H6 Penang-Kuala Lumpur Hijacking, loss of control
Flight 684
Subang, Petaling
18 December 1983 Airbus A300B4-120 Singapore-Kuala Lumpur Weather, crashed short of runway
Flight 2133 Tawau Airport 15 September 1995 Fokker 50 Kota Kinabalu-Tawau Pilot error
Flight 370 southern Indian Ocean 8 March 2014 Boeing 777-2H6ER Kuala Lumpur–Beijing Under investigation (unexplained disappearance)
Flight 17 over Ukraine 17 July 2014 Boeing 777-2H6ER Amsterdam–Kuala Lumpur Shot down
Malév Hungarian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
HA-LIG Ingolstadt Air Base 13 July 1956 Lisunov Li-2T Budapest–Szombathely Hijacking
HA-LID Szombathely 13 October 1956 Lisunov Li-2 Budapest–Szombathely–Zalaegerszeg Hijacking
HA-TSA Budapest 6 August 1961
Douglas C-47A
None Crew negligence, loss of control
Flight 355 near
Le Bourget Airport
23 November 1962
Ilyushin Il-18V
Budapest–Frankfurt–Paris Stall on approach for reasons unknown
HA-MAH
Ferihegy Airport
17 February 1964
VEB 14P
None Burned in hangar fire
Flight 731 off Saltholm Island 28 August 1971
Ilyushin Il-18V
Oslo–Copenhagen–East Berlin–Budapest Premature descent, CFIT
Flight 110 near
Boryspil Airport
16 September 1971 Tupolev Tu-134 Budapest–Kiev Poor visibility, CFIT
Flight 801 near
Ferihegy Airport
15 January 1975
Ilyushin Il-18V
East Berlin–Budapest Weather, poor visibility, poor
CRM
, possible spatial disorientation
Flight 240 off Lebanon 30 September 1975
Tupolev Tu-154A
Budapest-Beirut Unknown
Flight 203 near Urziceni 21 September 1977 Tupolev Tu-134 Istanbul–Bucharest–Budapest Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 262
Thessaloniki Int'l Airport
4 July 2000
Tupolev Tu-154B-2
Budapest–Thessaloniki Pilot error, belly landing
Manchukuo National Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
M-604 Sea of Japan 21 June 1941
Mitsubishi MC-20
CFIT
Mandala Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 091 Medan, Indonesia 5 September 2005
Boeing 737-200
Medan-Jakarta Pilot error, stall, loss of control
Mandarin Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 369
Magong Airport
17 August 2013
Embraer ERJ-190-100 IGW
Taipei-Magong Runway excursion
Martinair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 495 Faro Airport, Portugal 21 December 1992
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF
Amsterdam–Faro Windshear, thunderstorm, rain
Maszovlet
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
HA-LIK Pogany Airport 1 November 1949 Lisunov Li-2P Budaörs–Pecs Pilot error, CFIT
HA-LIL Nyíregyháza Airport 2 October 1952 Lisunov Li-2P Struck building on landing
Merpati Nusantara Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
PK-MVS
Sabang
off
Padang, Indonesia
10 November 1971
Vickers Viscount 828
Jakarta–Padang CFIT
Flight 422
Achmad Yani International Airport
30 November 1994
Fokker F28
Runway overrun
Flight 9760
near Oksibil 2 August 2009
de Havilland Canada Twin Otter 300
CFIT
Flight 836
Sorong Airport
13 April 2010
Boeing 737-322
Runway overrun
Flight 8968 off
West Papua
7 May 2011
Xian MA60
Missed approach, crew error, CFIT
Flight 536 Sampit Airport 7 January 2012
Xian MA60
Ran off runway
Metro Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
N853SA Scholes Field 30 April 1974 Beechcraft Model 99 Galveston-Houston Pilot error, loss of control
N935MA Beaumont Municipal Airport 20 May 1983
Short 330-100
Destroyed by a tornado (while parked)
Mexicana de Aviación
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
X-ABCO near Amecameca de Juarez 26 March 1936 Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor Mexico City-Guatemala City CFIT
XA-DOT Iztaccihuatl Volcano 11 August 1945 Douglas DC-2-243 Tapachula-Puebla Weather, CFIT
XA-DUH Mount Popocatepetl 26 September 1949 Douglas DC-3A Tapachula-Tuxtla Gutierrez-Ixtepec-Oaxaca-Mexico City CFIT
XA-DUK Cerro del Borrago 16 December 1949 Douglas DC-3A Mexico City-Mérida CFIT
Flight 591 Cerro del Cabre mountains 8 March 1955 Douglas DC-3A-228D Puerto Vallarta-Talpa-Mascota-Guadalajara Poor visibility, CFIT
Flight 621 Poza Rica 8 September 1959 Douglas DC-3A Mexico City-Mérida Bombing
XA-HUS near Juchitpec 28 September 1960
Douglas C-53
Tapachula-Mexico City CFIT
Flight 704
Apodaca, Nuevo Leon
4 June 1969 Boeing 727-64 Mexico City-Monterrey Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 801 Mexico City 21 September 1969 Boeing 727-64 Chicago-Mexico City Undetermined
Flight 940
Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico 31 March 1986
Boeing 727-264
Mexico City-Puerto Vallarta-Mazatlan-Los Angeles Blown landing gear tire, in-flight fire, loss of control
Miami Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
N1678M Elizabeth, New Jersey 16 December 1951
Curtiss C-46F
Newark–Tampa Engine fire, loss of power, stall, loss of control
MIAT Mongolian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
MONGOL-105 Otgontenger 4 August 1963 Avia 14 Super Ulaanbaatar–Tsetserleg–Uliastai CFIT
BNMAU-4206 Khovd Province 17 September 1973 Antonov An-24B CFIT
BNMAU-1202 Erdenet Airport 1 May 1979 Antonov An-24B Runway overrun
BNMAU-8401 Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport 25 June 1983 Antonov An-24RV Khovd-Ulaanbaatar Engine problems on approach, runway excursion
BNMAU-7710 Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport 23 January 1987 Antonov An-24RV Crashed on landing
BNMAU-10208 near Ulaangom Airport 26 January 1990
Antonov An-24RV
Ulaanbaatar–Uliastai Navigation error, fuel exhaustion, forced landing
BNMAU-14102 Marz Mountain 23 April 1993 Antonov An-26 Ulaanbaatar–Ölgii Premature descent, CFIT
Flight 557 Choho Geologloh Uul 21 September 1995
Antonov An-24RV
Ulaanbaatar–Mörön Premature descent, CFIT
Flight 447 Mandalgovi Airport 10 June 1997
Harbin Y-12 II
Ulaanbaatar–Mandalgovi–Dalanzadgad Windshear, loss of control
JU-1017 near Erdenet 26 May 1998
Harbin Y-12 II
Erdenet–Mörön Pilot error, CFIT
Misrair (now Egyptair)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
SU-AHH Tehran 22 December 1951 SNCASE SE.161 Languedoc Baghdad-Tehran Weather
SU-AFK near Cairo 15 December 1953 Vickers Type 634 Viking 1B Cairo-Luxor Crash on takeoff
SU-AGN Manzala Lake 7 March 1958 Vickers Type 628 Viking 1B Athens-Cairo Weather, CFIT
Middle East Airlines (MEA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
OD-ADB Mediterranean Sea 29 September 1958 Avro York I Beirut–Rome–London Unexplained disappearance
Flight 265 over Ankara 1 February 1963
Vickers Viscount 754D
Nicosia-Ankara Mid-air collision with a Turkish Air Force Douglas C-47
Flight 444 near Dhahran 17 April 1964
Sud Aviation Caravelle III
Beirut-Dhahran CFIT for reasons unknown
Flight 438 Qaisumah 1 January 1976
Boeing 720B
Beirut-Dubai-Muscat Bombing
Mohawk Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 121
Rochester, New York 2 July 1963 Martin 4-0-4 Rochester–Newark Weather, pilot error
Flight 40 Blossburg, Pennsylvania 23 June 1967
BAC 1–11-204AF
Syracuse–Elmira–Washington DC Mechanical failure, in-flight fire, structural failure, loss of control
Flight 411 Pilot Knob, New York 19 November 1969
Fairchild FH-227B
Albany–Glens Falls Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 405 Albany, New York 3 March 1972
Fairchild FH-227B
New York City–Albany Mechanical failure, pilot error

N

National Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
NC33349 Peter O. Knight Airport 13 September 1945
Lockheed 18-50 Lodestar
Miami–Tampa Runway overrun
Flight 16 Lakeland, Florida 5 October 1945
Lockheed 18-50 Lodestar
Tampa–Lakeland Pilot error, overshot runway
Flight 23
Banana River Naval Air Station
11 October 1945
Lockheed 18-50 Lodestar
Jacksonville–Miami Engine fire, pilot error
Flight 83 Philadelphia Int'l Airport 14 January 1951
Douglas DC-4-1009
Newark–Philadelphia–Norfolk Pilot error, runway overrun
Flight 101
Newark Int'l Airport
11 February 1952 Douglas DC-6 Newark–Miami Propeller failure, loss of altitude
Flight 470 Gulf of Mexico off Mobile, Alabama 14 February 1953 Douglas DC-6 Miami–Tampa–New Orleans Weather, severe turbulence, in-flight breakup (possibly flew into a waterspout)
Flight 967
(leased from Delta Air Lines)
Gulf of Mexico off Pilottown, Louisiana 16 November 1959
Douglas DC-7B
Tampa–New Orleans Unexplained in-flight explosion, possible bombing
Flight 2511 near Bolivia, North Carolina 6 January 1960
Douglas DC-6B
New York City–Miami Suicide bombing (suspected)
Flight 27
Barbara
over Datil, New Mexico 3 November 1973
Douglas DC-10-10
Miami–New Orleans–Houston–Las Vegas–San Francisco Uncontained engine failure, explosive decompression
Flight 193
Donna
Escambia Bay, Florida 8 May 1978
Boeing 727-235
Miami–Melbourne–Tampa–New Orleans–Mobile–Pensacola Pilot error, poor CRM, CFIT
National Air Cargo
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 662
(operated for Transafrik)
near Kabul 12 October 2010
Lockheed L-100-20 Hercules
Bagram AB–Kabul CFIT
Flight 102
Lori
Bagram Air Base 29 April 2013
Boeing 747-428BCF
Chateauroux–Camp Bastion–Bagram AB–Dubai Shifted load, stall, loss of control
Nationair
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 2120
(operated by Nigeria Airways)
King Abdulaziz Int'l Airport 11 July 1991
Douglas DC-8-61
Jeddah–Sokoto Fire, loss of control
Nepal Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 555 Jomsom Airport 16 May 2013 de Havilland Canada Twin Otter Pokhara–Jomsom Runway overrun
Flight 183 near Dhikura 16 February 2014 de Havilland Canada Twin Otter Pokhara–Jumla Pilot error,
CFIT
Nihon Kinkyori Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 497 Nakashibetsu Airport 11 March 1983 NAMC YS-11A-208 Sapporo–Nakashibetsu Pilot error, crashed short of runway
NLM CityHopper (now KLM Cityhopper)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 431 Moerdijk 6 October 1981 Fokker F28-4000 Rotterdam–Eindhoven–Hamburg Weather, extreme turbulence, wing separation (flew into a tornado)
Nitto Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
JA3115 Awaji Island 1 May 1963
de Havilland Canada Otter
Osaka–Tokushima Poor visibility, navigation error,
CFIT
JA5067 near Itami Airport 18 February 1964
Grumman Mallard
Osaka–Tokushima Engine failure, stall, loss of control
Northeast Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 792 Berlin, New Hampshire 30 November 1954
Douglas DC-3A
Boston–Concord–Laconia–Berlin Pilot error
Flight 823 Rikers Island, New York 1 February 1957
Douglas DC-6A
New York City–Miami Pilot error, CFIT
Flight 285 New Bedford, Massachusetts 15 September 1957
Douglas C-53

(DC-3)
Martha's Vineyard–New Bedford Pilot error
Flight 258 near Nantucket Memorial Airport 15 August 1958
Convair CV-240-2
New York City–Nantucket Poor visibility, crash short of runway
Flight 946 Moose Mountain, New Hampshire 25 October 1968
Fairchild Hiller FH-227C
Boston–Lebanon–Montpelier Pilot error
Northwest Airlines
Flight designation(s) Location(s) Date Aircraft type(s) Route Cause
Flight 2 near Bozeman, Montana 10 January 1938
Lockheed L-14H Super Electra
Butte–Billings In-flight breakup, design defect
NC17394 near Santa Clarita, California 16 May 1938
Lockheed L-14H2 Super Electra
Burbank–Las Vegas Poor visibility, CFIT
Flight 4
Billings Municipal Airport
8 July 1938
Lockheed L-14H Super Electra
Billings–Fargo Stall on takeoff
Flight 1 near Miles City, Montana 13 January 1939
Lockheed L-14H Super Electra
Miles City-Billings In-flight fire
Flight 5 Moorhead, Minnesota 30 October 1941
Douglas DC-3A-269
Chicago–Minneapolis–Fargo–Billings–Butte–Spokane–Seattle Icing, loss of control
43-15738
(leased from USAAF)
Mount Deception, Alaska 18 September 1944
Douglas C-47A
Anchorage–Fairbanks CFIT
45-922
(leased from USAAF)
near Billings, Montana 8 December 1945
Douglas C-47B
Fargo–Billings Weather, CFIT
Flight 4422 Mount Sanford 12 March 1948
Douglas C-54G
Shanghai–Anchorage–New York City CFIT
Flight 421 Fountain City, Wisconsin 29 August 1948 Martin 2-0-2 Chicago–Minneapolis Structural failure
Flight 6427 34 mi N of Edmonton 27 October 1948
Douglas C-54A
Minneapolis–Edmonton–Anchorage–Tokyo Pilot error
Flight 255 Romulus, Michigan 16 August 1987
Douglas DC-9-82
Saginaw–Detroit–Phoenix–Santa Ana Pilot error, failure to extend flaps and slats for takeoff
Flight 1482
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
3 December 1990
Douglas DC-9-14
Detroit–Pittsburgh Runway collision with a Northwest Boeing 727
Flight 957 and Flight 7 Seattle and Memphis 28 October 1998 Both
Airbus A320s
Hazardous material leakage
Flight 85 Anchorage, Alaska 9 October 2002
Boeing 747-451
Detroit–Tokyo
Metal fatigue, rudder malfunction
Flight 188 over Minnesota 21 October 2009
Airbus A320-211
San Diego–Minneapolis Pilot distraction, pilot error
Flight 253
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
25 December 2009
Airbus A330-323X
Amsterdam–Detroit Attempted bombing
Northwest Orient Airlines
Flight designation(s) Location(s) Date Aircraft type(s) Route Cause
Flight 1 Miles City, Montana 12 May 1942
Douglas DC-3A-269
Chicago–Miles City Runway overrun
Flight 307 near
Minneapolis-Saint Paul Int'l Airport
7 March 1950 Martin 2-0-2 Washington–Detroit–Madison–Rochester–Minneapolis–Winnipeg CFIT
Flight 2501 Lake Michigan 23 June 1950 Douglas DC-4
(former C-54)
New York City–Minneapolis–Spokane–Seattle Unexplained disappearance
Flight 163
Billings Airport
4 September 1950 Martin 2-0-2 Minneapolis–Billings–Bozeman–Seattle Hydraulic fluid leak, in-flight fire, loss of control
NC93037 Almelund, Minnesota 13 October 1950 Martin 2-0-2 None Mechanical failure, reversal of propeller in flight
Flight 115 near Butte, Montana 7 November 1950 Martin 2-0-2 Chicago–Minneapolis–Billings–Great Falls–Helena–Butte–Seattle Crew error
Flight 115 near Reardan, Washington 16 January 1951 Martin 2-0-2 Minneapolis–Seattle Loss of control for reasons unknown
Flight 324 off Sandspit, British Columbia 19 January 1952
Douglas C-54E
Tokyo–Shemya–Anchorage–Tacoma Icing
Flight 2
Stratocruiser Tokyo
Puget Sound 2 April 1956
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-30
Seattle–Portland–Chicago–New York City Crew error, water ditching
Flight 710 near Cannelton, Indiana 17 March 1960
Lockheed L-188C Electra
Minneapolis–Chicago–Miami Turbulence, in-flight breakup
Flight 1–11
(operated by USAF)
off Manila 14 July 1960
Douglas DC-7C
New York City–Seattle–Anchorage–Cold Bay–Tokyo–Okinawa–Manila Engine failure, in-flight fire, water ditching
Flight 104 20 mi W of Missoula, Montana 28 October 1960
Douglas C-54A
Spokane–Missoula Pilot error
Flight 706 Chicago 17 September 1961
Lockheed L-188C Electra
Milwaukee–Chicago–Tampa–Fort Lauderdale Maintenance error
Flight 293 off Biorka Island, Alaska 22 October 1962
Douglas DC-7CF
Tacoma–Anchorage Engine failure, water ditching
Flight 705
Everglades 12 February 1963
Boeing 720-051B
Miami–Chicago–Spokane–Seattle Severe turbulence, loss of control, in-flight breakup
Flight 293
(operated by USAF)
Pacific Ocean 3 June 1963
Douglas DC-7CF
Tacoma–Anchorage Unexplained disappearance
Flight 305 Portland Int'l Airport 24 November 1971
Boeing 727-51
Portland–Seattle Hijacking
Flight 6231
Stony Point 1 December 1974
Boeing 727-251
New York City–Buffalo Loss of control
Norwegian Air Lines (DNL)
Flight designation(s) Location(s) Date Aircraft type(s) Route Cause
LN-DAE
Havørn
Lihesten 12 June 1936
Junkers Ju 52/3mW
Bergen–Trondheim CFIT
LN-LAB Fornebu Airport 22 May 1946
Junkers Ju 52/3m2e
Oslo–Stockholm Engine failure, stall, loss of control
LN-IAV
Kvitbjørn
Lødingsfjellet 28 August 1947
Short Sandringham 6
Tromsø–Harstad–Bodø–Oslo CFIT
LN-IAW
Bukken Bruse
Hommelvik 2 October 1948
Short Sandringham 5
Oslo–Trondheim Loss of control, crash on landing

O

One-Two-GO Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 269
Phuket Int'l Airport 16 September 2007
McDonnell Douglas MD-82
Bangkok–Phuket Failed go-around, weather, crew disregard of procedure, poor CRM
Olympic Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
Flight 214 near Avlon Attiki 29 October 1959
Douglas C-47A
Athens–Thessaloniki Engine failure, wing separation, loss of control
Flight 954 24 mi SE of Athens 8 December 1969
Douglas DC-6B
Chania–Athens CFIT
Flight 506 near Ellinikon Int'l Airport 21 October 1972
NAMC YS-11A-500
Kerkyra–Athens CFIT
Flight 830 12 mi SE of Philippos Airport 23 November 1976
NAMC YS-11A-500
Athens–Larissa–Kozani Poor visibility, CFIT
Flight 417
After takeoff from Athens, Greece 4 January 1998 Boeing 747 Second-hand smoke and failure to re-seat a sensitive passenger killed the victim[15][16][17]
Flight 3838 FIR Bucharest 14 September 1999
Dassault Falcon 900B
Athens–Bucharest Mechanical failure, loss of control (oscillations)
Orbi Georgian Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause
65809 Babusheri Airport 20 September 1993
Tupolev Tu-134A
None Destroyed on the ground by Abkhaz forces
85163 Babusheri Airport 22 September 1993
Tupolev Tu-154B
Tbilisi-Sukhumi Shot down by the Abkhaz forces in the course of war, crashed on the runway
85359 Babusheri Airport 23 September 1993
Tupolev Tu-154B-2
None Destroyed on the ground

See also

References

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