List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by location

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Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by location of the incident.

This list is also available: by airline, by year, alphabetically. See also: Accidents and incidents in aviation.

This list is not complete! For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office [1] or the Air Safety Network [2]. Airlines seem to be remembered by their worst accidents, and in that sense this list presents a good overview, but completeness is quite far.

If the aircraft crashed on land, it will be listed under a continent and a country. If the aircraft crashed on a body of water, it will be listed under that body of water.

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  • Varig Flight 797 - Crashed into the jungle after engine failure

  • A De Havilland Comet crashed in Jalalogori, India soon after take-off from Calcutta (now Kolkata) on 2 May 1953 - first of a series of crashes that led to Comet 1 fleet being grounded and eventually scrapped.

  • Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 New Haven, CT On June 7, 1971, a Convair CV580 with 31 passengers aboard was attempting to land. The aircraft crashed on into a neighborhood approximately one mile short of the runway. The Captain chose to descend below minimums in an attempt to locate the runway under adverse weather conditions. 28 of the 31 people aboard were killed.


  • United Airlines Flight 629 - Exploded after a bomb on board detonated over Longmont in 1955 after takeoff from Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado - Bomb was placed by John Graham as part of a scheme to collect insurance money
  • Continental Airlines Flight 1713 - a Douglas DC-9-14 aircraft crashed on take-off in a snowstorm from the Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport on Sunday, November 15, 1987. The crash resulted in the deaths of 28 of the aircraft's occupants while 54 survived. The airplane was destined for Boise, Idaho.
  • United Airlines Flight 585 - Crashed south of Colorado Springs Airport in 1991, officially attributed to a rudder system malfunction according to the NTSB

  • Vasp Flight 168 - Crashed into the Aratanha mountains in Ceará, northeast Brazil.
  • Varig Flight 254 - Crashed into a jungle near Sao Jose do Xingu into the Cachimbo mountains, central-west Brazil
  • Tam Flight 402 - Crashed near the airport of Congonhas in São Paulo, southeast Brazil during the take-off.
  • Gol Flight 1907 - Crashed into a jungle near Sao Jose do Xingu into the Cachimbo mountains, central-west Brazil after a collision.
  • Rico Flight 4823 - Crashed near the city of Manaus, north Brazil.

  • TANS Peru Flight 204, a Boeing 737-200 passenger plane which crashed during a storm in the Peruvian jungle, killing at least 40 people of the approximately 100 on board.
  • LANSA Flight 508 on a flight from Lima to Pucallpa, Peru, breaks apart in mid-air after being set aflame by lightning. It crashes in the Amazonian Rainforest. 91 people die; the sole survivor is Juliane Koepcke, a 17-year old girl who survives a fall from 2 miles and 10-day walk through the jungle before being found by hunters. Her mother, famous ornithologist Maria Koepcke, dies; director Werner Herzog had narrowly missed being on the same flight.

  • [9] Recent aviation accidents investigated by the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board).
  • [10] Older aviation accidents investigated by the NTSB.
  • [11] Aviation studies conducted by the NTSB.
  • [12] Aviation statistical Reports, by the NTSB.
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