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List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by airline

JetBlue Airways Flight 292 making an emergency landing with the nose landing gear turned sideways
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JetBlue Airways Flight 292 making an emergency landing with the nose landing gear turned sideways

The following is a list of accidents and incidents on commercial airlines grouped by airline. It is also available grouped by location, by year and alphabetically.

This list is dynamic and by no means complete! For alternative, more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office or Aviation Safety Network. However, airlines often seem to be remembered by their worst accidents, and in that sense this list presents a good overview.

While all of the incidents in this list are noteworthy, it is important to note that not all the incidents listed involved fatalities.


See also: aviation accidents and incidents

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Adam Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 574 Indonesia January 1, 2007 Boeing 737-400 Undetermined
Flight 172 Indonesia February 21, 2007 Boeing 737-300 Structural failure
ADC Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 53 Abuja October 29, 2006 Boeing 737-2B7 (disputed)
Aer Lingus
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 712 Wexford March 24, 1968 Vickers Viscount 803 Structural failure
Flight 132 Logan International Airport June 9, 2005 Airbus A330 ATC error
AerianTur-M
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight ER-26068 Balad, Iraq January 9, 2007 Antonov An-26 Undetermined
Aeroflot Russian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Moscow, Soviet Union November 4, 1967 Ilyushin Il-18  ?
CCCP-75538 Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union November 16, 1976 Ilyushin Il-18  ?
Flight 909 Voronezh March 6, 1976 Ilyushin Il-18  ?
CCCP-86614 Cuba May 27, 1977 Ilyushin 62M Undetermined
CCCP-65735 Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine August 11, 1979 Tupolev TU-134  ?
CCCP-65816 Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine August 11, 1979 Tupolev TU-134  ?
CCCP-85355 Almaty July 7, 1980 Tupolev TU-154  ?
Flight 411 Moscow June 6, 1982  ?  ?
Flight 8641 Mazyr June 28, 1982 Yakovlev Yak-42  ?
Flight 3352 Omsk October 11, 1984 Tupolev TU-154  ?
CCCP-65910 Belarus February 1, 1985 Tupolev TU-134  ?
CCCP-65856 Zolochev May 3, 1985 Tupolev TU-134  ?
CCCP-85311 Uchkuduk July 10, 1985 Tupolev TU-154  ?
CCCP-65795 Berlin December 12, 1985 Tupolev TU-134  ?
CCCP-65951 Pervouralsk January 13, 1990 Tupolev TU-134  ?
CCCP-87453 Pavlodar August 1, 1990 Yakovlev Yak-40  ?
CCCP-42351 Sverdlovsk September 14, 1990 Yakovlev Yak-42  ?
CCCP-46472 Navoi March 23, 1991 Antonov AN-24  ?
CCCP-85097 St Petersburg May 23, 1991 Tupolev TU-154  ?
CCCP-65058 Ivanovo August 27, 1992 Tupolev TU-134  ?
Flight 593 Novokuznetsk March 23, 1994 Airbus A310-304 Pilot error
Flight 3949 Khabarovsk December 7, 1995 Tupolev TU-154  ?
Aerolinee Itavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 870 Ustica June 27, 1980 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 In-flight explosion
Aeroméxico
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 498 Cerritos, California August 31, 1986 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Mid-air collision
AeroPerú
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 603 Perú October 2, 1996 Boeing 757-23A Instrumentation failure
Air Algérie
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 6289 Tamanghasset March 6, 2003 Boeing 737-200 Engine explosion
Air Asia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 104 Malaysia November 7, 2004 Boeing 737 Runway overrun
Air Canada
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 621 Toronto July 5, 1970 Douglas DC-8-63 Pilot error
Flight 189 Toronto June 26, 1978 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Mechanical failure
Flight 797 Cincinnati June 2, 1983 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 In-flight fire
Flight 143 Red Lake July 23, 1983 Boeing 767-233 Fuel depletion
Air China
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 129 Busan April 15, 2002 Boeing 767-200ER CFIT
Air Florida
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 90 Washington DC January 13, 1982 Boeing 737-222 Pilot error, wing icing
Air France
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight F-BHSM Orly Airport June 3, 1962 Boeing 707 Pilot error, rejected takeoff
Flight F-BHOB Mediterranean Sea September 11, 1968 Sud Aviation Caravelle III SE 210 In flight fire
Flight 296 Mulhouse June 26, 1988 Airbus A320 Pilot error (disputed)
Flight 8969 Algiers December 24, 1994 Airbus A300B2-1C Hijacking
Flight 4590 Gonesse July 25, 2000 Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde Foreign object damage, Engine fire
Flight 358 Mississauga August 2, 2005 Airbus A340-313X Runway overrun, pilot error
Air India
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight VT-DEP Natuna Islands April 11, 1955 Lockheed L-749A Constellation Airliner bombing
Flight 855 Mumbai January 1, 1978 Boeing 747-237B Instrument malfunction
Flight 182 Atlantic Ocean June 23, 1985 Boeing 747-237B Terrorist bombing
Air Kazakhstan
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 1907 Delhi November 12, 1996 Ilyushin Il-76 Mid-air collision
Airlink
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Between Gasmata and Kandrian, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea March 30, 2007 Unknown at present Undetermined
Air Midwest
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 5481 Charlotte January 9, 2003 Beechcraft 1900D Maintenance error
Air New Zealand
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 901 Mount Erebus, Antarctica November 28, 1979 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 CFIT
Air Ontario
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 1363 Dryden March 10, 1989 Fokker F28-1000
Air Philippines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 541 Davao April 19, 2000 Boeing 737-200
Air Saint Martin
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Haiti December 7, 1995 Beechcraft 1900D CFIT
Airwork
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 23 Stratford, New Zealand May 3, 2005 Swearingen SA.227AC Metro III Pilot error
Air Tahoma
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 185 Covington, Kentucky August 13, 2004 Convair 580 Fuel exhaustion
Air Transat
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 236 Azores August 24, 2001 Airbus A330-243 Fuel exhaustion
Air Vietnam
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 706 Ninh Thuan September 15, 1974 Boeing 727-121C Hijacking
Air West
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 162 N'Djamena, Chad January 24, 2007 Boeing 737-200 Hijacking
Alas Chiricanas
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 00901 Santa Rita Mountains July 19, 1994 Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
Alaska Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 261 Pacific Ocean
off the coast of Anacapa Island		 January 31, 2000 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 Mechanical failure
Flight 536 Seattle December 26, 2005
Alitalia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 771 Junnar July 7, 1962 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-43 CFIT
All Nippon Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 61 Boso Peninsula July 24, 1999
Allegheny Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 853 Fairland, Indiana September 9, 1969 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
Allegiant Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 435 McAllen, Texas August 10, 2006
ALM
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 980 Caribbean Sea May 2, 1970 Fuel exhaustion
Aloha Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 243 Kahului April 28, 1988 Boeing 737-200 Explosive decompression
American Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 157 Dallas November 29, 1949 Douglas DC-6 Pilot error
Flight 320 East River, New York City February 3, 1959 Lockheed L-188A Electra CFIT
Flight 1 Jamaica Bay March 1, 1962 Boeing 707-123
Flight 625 St. Thomas April 27, 1976 Boeing 727
Flight 191 Chicago, IL May 25, 1979 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 Faulty maintenance, incorrectly fitted engine
Flight 965 Valle del Cauca December 20, 1995 Boeing 757-223 CFIT
Flight 1420 Little Rock June 1, 1999 McDonnell Douglas MD-82 Thunderstorm, pilot error
Flight 11 World Trade Center, New York City September 11, 2001 Boeing 767 Terrorism, hijacking
Flight 77 The Pentagon September 11, 2001 Boeing 757 Terrorism, hijacking
Flight 587 Belle Harbor November 12, 2001 Airbus A300 Mechanical failure
Flight 63 Paris December 22, 2001 Boeing 767
Flight 924 Miami December 7, 2005
American Eagle
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 4184 Roselawn October 31, 1994
Flight 5401 San Juan May 9, 2004 Pilot error
Ansett Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 232 Alice Springs November 15, 1972
Ansett New Zealand
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 703 Tararua Range June 5, 1995 CFIT
Armavia
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 967 Black Sea May 3, 2006
Arrow Air
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 1285 Gander December 12, 1985
Asiana Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Asiana Air Flight 733 Mokpo, Korea July 26, 1993 Boeing 737-5L9 CFIT, weather conditions
Atlantic Southeast Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 2311 Brunswick, Georgia April 5, 1991
Flight 529 Carrollton, Georgia August 21, 1995 Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia Mechanical failure
Avianca
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 011 Madrid November 27, 1983 Boeing 747-283B CFIT
Flight 410 Cúcuta March 17, 1988 Boeing 727-21 CFIT
Flight 203 Bogotá November 27, 1989 Boeing 727 Terrorism, bombing
Flight 52 Cove Neck January 25, 1990 Boeing 707-321 Fuel exhaustion
Aviateca
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Unknown Guatemala City April 28, 1977

B

BAL Bashkirian Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 2937 Überlingen July 1, 2002 Tupolev 154-M Mid-air collision
Bonanza Air Lines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 114 Las Vegas, Nevada November 15, 1964 Fairchild F27 CFIT
Braathens
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 239 Asker December 23, 1972 Fokker F-28 Fellowship Weather, pilot error
Braniff International Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 250 Falls City, Nebraska August 6, 1966 BAC 1-11-203AE Structural failure
Flight 352 Dawson, Texas May 3, 1968 Lockheed L-188A Electra Weather, pilot error
Bristow Helicopters
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 56C Near the Brae Alpha oil rig, North Sea 19 January, 1995 Eurocopter Super Puma Lightning strike, tail rotor failure
Britannia Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight G-ANBB Ljubljana September 1, 1966 Bristol Britannia  ?
Flight BY226A Girona-Costa Brava Airport September 14, 1999 Boeing 757-200 Weather, pilot, ATC errors
British Airtours
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 28M Manchester August 22, 1985 Boeing 737-236 Ground fire
British Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 476 Zagreb September 10, 1976 Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B Mid-air collision
Flight 9 Jakarta June 24, 1982 Boeing 747-200 Volcanic ash ingestion, engine flameout
Flight 5390 Southern England June 10, 1990 BAC 1-11-528FL Windshield failure, explosive decompression
Flight 149 Kuwait City August 1, 1990 Boeing 747-136 Military or terrorist bombing
British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines (BCPA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 304 San Francisco October 29, 1953 Douglas DC-6 Weather, crew error
British European Airways (BEA)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 609 Munich February 6, 1958 Airspeed Ambassador Weather
Flight 548 Staines June 18, 1972 Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C Crew error
Flight 476 Zagreb September 10, 1976 Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B Mid-air collision
British Midland
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight G-ALHG Stockport June 4, 1967 Canadair C-4 Argonaut Fuel depletion
Flight 092 The M1 motorway between East Midlands Airport and Kegworth, England January 8, 1989 Boeing 737-400 Engine failure, pilot error
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC)
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 777 Bay of Biscay June 01, 1943 Douglas DC-3-194 Military shoot-down
Flight 781 Mediterranean Sea January 10, 1954 de Havilland Comet 1 Metal fatigue, structural failure
Flight 911 Mount Fuji, Japan March 5, 1966 Boeing 707 Pilot error

C

Caledonian Airways
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 153 Douala, Cameroon March 4, 1962 Douglas DC-7 Undetermined
Cathay Pacific
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight VR-HDT Pearl River Delta June 16, 1948 PBY Catalina Seaplane Hijacking
Flight 700Z Pleiku, Vietnam June 15, 1972 Convair 880 Bombing
Cebu Pacific
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 387 Misamis Oriental February 2, 1998 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 Pilot error
China Airlines
Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Cause
Flight 006 San Francisco February 19, 1985 Boeing 747SP Engine failure, crew error
Flight 204 Hualien October 26, 1989 Boeing 737-200  ?
Flight 358 Taipei December 29, 1991 Boeing 747-2R7F Structural failure
Flight 605 Hong Kong November 4, 1993 Boeing 747-400 In rain and wind, airplane skids off runway, into the water. 3 injured, 0 dead.
Flight 140 Nagoya April 26, 1994 Airbus A300B4 Pilot error. 246 killed.
Flight 676 Taipei February 16, 1998 Airbus A300B4-622R In poor weather, airplane crashed near airport. 202 dead.
Flight 642 Hong Kong August 22,