List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year
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Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. This list is also available grouped: by airline, by location, alphabetically. See also: Accidents and incidents in aviation.
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1945
- July 12 - An Eastern Airlines flight enroute from Boston to Miami with stops in Washington, DC and Columbia, SC collided with a US Army B-25 Mitchell bomber about 3,000 feet above Syracuse, SC (about 20 miles from Florence, SC). The commercial pilot, G. D. Davis, landed his craft in a corn field nearby. One passenger, an infant, died. The bomber exploded; two died and one was able to parachute safely.
1946
- October 3 - A Berlin-bound four engine Douglas crashed into a mountainside outside of Stephanville, Newfoundland. The flight, operated by American Overseas Airlines was mostly carrying wives and children of US Army personnel serving in post-war Germany. All 39 people aboard died. At the time, it was the worst accident of its kind among US civilian airlines.
- December 25 - At least three planes crashed independently amidst heavy fog in Shanghai, China.
1947
1948
- October 20 - KLM Constellation air disaster (Prestwick, Scotland)
1949
- October 27 – Air France Lockheed Constellation crashed in the Azores – 48 died including French boxing star Marcel Cerdan and the brillant young concert violinist, Ginette Neveu.
- November 1 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 537, a Douglas C-54B-10-DO, enroute from Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. collided with a P-38 fighter on its final approach to National Airport. Both planes crashed, killing all 55 persons aboard the Douglas, the P-38 pilot, Eric Rios Bridaux, survived. Bridaux was a Bolivian Air Force pilot. Among the dead was congressman George J. Bates and former congressman Michael J. Kennedy.
1951
- April 25 - Cubana de Aviacion Douglas DC-4 departed Miami, Florida enroute to Havana, Cuba collided in air with a United states Navy Beech SNB-1 Kansan (39939) at an altitude of 4000 feet off Key West killing all 5 crew members and 34 passengers on board.
- June 22 - Pan American World Airways Flight #151, a Lockheed L-049 Constellation named the "Clipper Great Republic" enroute from Accra, Ghana to Monrovia, Liberia crashed at 1050 feet into a hill near Sanoyea, Liberia while on approach 54 miles from the airport. There were no survivors amongst the 31 passengers and 9 crew members.
- July 21 – a Canadian Pacific Air Lines Douglas C-54A-10-DC departed Vancouver, British Columbia for Anchorage, Alaska but disappeared enroute without a trace. Eventually, all 37 on board would be declared legally dead.
- December 16 – a Miami Airlines Curtiss C-46F-1-CU departed Newark, New Jersey bound for Tampa, Florida but caught fire and crashed in Elizabeth, New Jersey attempting to return to the airport. All 56 persons on board died.
1953
- May 2, De Havilland Comet crashed soon after take-off from Calcutta - first of a series of crashes that led to Comet 1 fleet being grounded and eventually scrapped.
- September 1, Air France Lockheed 749C Constellation flew into Mt. Cemet in the French Alps killing all 42 people aboard including renowned French classical violinist Jacques Thibaud.
1954
- 13 March, BOAC Lockheed Constellation, "Belfast", arrived at Singapore from Sydney, Australia, and crashed on landing at the Kallang Airport, killing 32 passengers and 1 crew.
1955
1956
- June 30 - United Airlines Flight 718, a DC-7, flying from Los Angeles to Chicago and TWA Flight 2, a Constellation, collided over the Grand Canyon. The 58 passengers and crew on the DC-7, and the 70 passengers and crew on the Constellation were all killed. The pilots had both requested permission to fly in undesignated airspace to give their passengers a better view and the crash was attributed to the pilots not seeing each other until it was too late.
1957
- February 1 - Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashed on takeoff in a snowstorm.
1958
- February 6 - British European Flight 609 (Munich air disaster)
1959
- February 3 - American Airlines Flight 320 flew on autopilot into the East River, New York City.
1960
- January 6 - National Airlines Flight 2511 from New York to Miami, a propeller driven DC-6B, crashed near Bolivia, North Carolina after an on board explosion. A bomb is thought to have been planted by Julian A. Frank, a New York lawyer, who was heavily insured. 34 died, none survived.
- December 16 -- The 1960 New York air disaster: United Airlines Flight 826, a DC-8, and TWA Flight 266, a Superconstellation, collided over Staten Island in New York. All 134 onboard the two planes, and six people on the ground were killed.
1961
- February 15 - Sabena Flight 548 in Brussels, Belgium, killing the entire United States figure skating team
1962
- March 1 -- American Airlines Flight 1, a Boeing 707, crashed in Jamaica Bay, Queens, New York. 95 died.
- March 4 - A chartered British airliner crashed into a jungle swamp at Douala in Africa, 111 died.
- March 16 - Flying Tigers Line Flight 739, chartered by the US military, disappeared over the western Pacific. It was carrying 96 US soldiers en route to South Vietnam.
- May 22 - Continental Airlines Flight 11
- June 3 Air France Chateau de Sully at Orly Airport
- November 30 - Eastern Airlines Flight 512 pilot error on missed approach.
1963
- December 8 - Pan Am Flight 214 struck by positive lightning
1965
- February 8 - Eastern Airlines Flight 663 crashed during evasion maneuver.
1970
- February 15 - Dominicana DC-9 air disaster
- February 21 - Swissair Flight 330
- September 6 - Dawson's Field hijackings of El Al 219, Pan Am 93, SwissAir 100, TWA 74, and (on September 7) BOAC 775.
1971
- November 24 - A man using the name Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines flight 305 out of Portland, Oregon. In exchange for $200,000 and four parachutes he released the passengers. The crew took off and he parachuted from the plane. He was never found.
1972
- January 26 - JAT Yugoslav Flight 364
- June 18 - British European Flight 848 (Staines air disaster)
- June 24 - Prinair Flight 191
- December 29 - Eastern Airlines Flight 401
1973
1974
- March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (Ermenonville air disaster)
- September 8 - TWA Flight 841
- September 15 - Air Vietnam Flight 727 hijacked and crashes.
1975
- June 24 - Eastern Airlines Flight 66 struck approach lights
- September 30 - Malév Flight 240
1976
- April 27 - American Airlines Flight 625, a Boeing 727, crashed on approach to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
- October 6 - Cubana Flight 455 bombed, allegedly by Luis Posada Carriles (who has been acquitted twice of it).
1977
- March 27 - KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 (Tenerife disaster)
1978
- January 1 - Air India Flight 855
- April 20 - Korean Air Flight 902
- September 25 - PSA Flight 182
- December 28 - United Airlines Flight 173 ran out of fuel.
1979
1980
1982
- January 13 - Air Florida Flight 90, crashed into frozen Potomac river
- January 23 - World Airways Flight 30, landed long at Boston, two missing presumed dead.
- July 9 - Pan Am Flight 759, crashed in Kenner, Louisiana shortly after takeoff.
1983
- July 23 - Air Canada Flight 143 (Gimli Glider)
- September 1 - Korean Air Flight 7
- September 23 - Gulf Air Flight 771
- June 2 - Air Canada Flight 797
1985
- June 14 - TWA Flight 847
- June 23 - Air India Flight 182
- August 2 - Delta Air Lines Flight 191
- August 12 - Japan Airlines Flight 123
- August 22 - Manchester air disaster
- September 6 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105
- November 23 - EgyptAir Flight 648
- December 12 - Arrow Air Flight 1285
1986
1987
- August 16 - Northwest Airlines Flight 255, crashed on takeoff from DTW, 154 died, one person survived.
- May 9 - LOT Flight 5055
- November 29 - Korean Air Flight 858
- December 7 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771
1988
- March 17 - Avianca Flight 410
- April 28 - Aloha Flight 243, suffered explosive decompression inflight, landed safely; 1 killed, 65 injured.
- July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655, mistakenly shot down by USS Vincennes, 290 killed.
- August 31 - Delta Air Lines Flight 1411, crashed on takeoff, 13 killed.
- December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie air disaster), terrorist bomb exploded inflight, 270 killed.
1989
- January 8 - British Midlands Flight 92 (Kegworth air disaster)
- February 24 - United Airlines Flight 811
- June 7 - Surinam Airways Flight PY764
- July 19 - United Airlines Flight 232
- September 19 - UTA Flight 772
- November 27 - Avianca Flight 203
1990
1991
- February 1 - USAir Flight 1493
- March 3 - United Airlines Flight 585
- March 26 - Singapore Airlines Flight 117 hijacked
- May 26 - Lauda Air Flight 004
1992
- March 22 - USAir Flight 405 crashed on takeoff.
- October 4 - Bijlmer Disaster: El Al Flight 1862 crashes on 2 apartment buildings in Amsterdam
- December 21 - Martinair MP 495 crashed in Faro, Portugal killing 54 persons and injuring 106.
1993
- September 21 - Transair Georgian Airline Crash (21 September)
- September 22 - Transair Georgian Airline Crash (22 September)
1994
- April 26 - China Airlines Flight 140
- July 19 - Alas Chiricanas bombing (Panama airline bombing)
- September 8 - USAir Flight 427
- October 31 - American Eagle Flight 4184
- December 11 - Philippine Airlines Flight 434
- December 24 - Air France Flight 8969
1995
1996
- February 6 - Birgenair Flight 301
- February 29 - Faucett Flight 251
- May 11 - Valujet Flight 592
- July 17 - TWA Flight 800
- October 6 - AeroPeru Flight 603
- November 12 - Saudia Flight 763, crashed with Kazakhstan Air Lines Ilyushin 76 cargo jet.
- November 23 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
1997
1998
1999
- June 1 - American Airlines Flight 1420
- July 24 - All Nippon Airways Flight 61
- August 22 - Mandarin Airlines Flight 642
- October 31 - EgyptAir Flight 990
- December 24-December 31 - Indian Airlines Flight 814
2000
- January 30 - Alaska Airlines Flight 261
- July 25 - Air France Flight 4590
- October 31 - Singapore Airlines Flight 006
2001
- August 24 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean and makes an emergency landing in the Azores islands
- September 11 - American Airlines Flight 11 (WTC North Tower) (September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
- September 11 - United Airlines Flight 175 (WTC South Tower) (September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
- September 11 - American Airlines Flight 77 (The Pentagon) (September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
- September 11 - United Airlines Flight 93 (Somerset County, Pennsylvania) (September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks)
- October 4 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was shot down by Ukrainian missile over Black Sea
- October 8 - Linate Airport disaster, Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686
- November 12 - American Airlines Flight 587
- December 22 - American Airlines Flight 63
2002
- February 27- Ryanair Flight 296
- April 15 - Air China flight 129
- May 7 - China Northern flight 6136
- May 25 - China Airlines Flight 611
- July 1 - Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937
- November 6 - Luxair Flight 9642
2003
2004
- January 3 - Flash Airlines Flight 604
- May 9 - American Eagle Flight 1450
- August 24 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1047
- August 24 - Volga-AviaExpress Flight 1303
- November 21 - China Eastern flight 5210
- November 30 - Lion Air JT 538, a crash landing in Surakarta, Central Java Indonesia.
2005
- February 3 - Kam Air Flight 904 crashed in snowstorm in Afghanistan.nl:Lijst van vliegrampen