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The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the national civil aviation authorities support and encourage the collection of light aircraft accident data in order to provide more in-depth statistics and analysis. In the UK, there were 27 fatal accidents involving GA aircraft in 2007, resulting in the loss of 48 lives.
A collage of some of the deadliest aircraft disasters worldwide since 2001. This article lists the deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision.
Two on the ground were also killed. It remains the deadliest commercial aircraft accident in the United States, and the second-deadliest incident involving commercial aircraft in the United States, after the 9/11 attacks. December 28, 1978 10 24 179 United Airlines Flight 173: Portland: Oregon: McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61
List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1943–1944) List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1945–1949) List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1950–1954) List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1955–1959) List of accidents and incidents involving military ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Data retrieved from an investigation into a collision last week between an American Airlines regional passenger jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River in ...
List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Libyan Civil War (2011) List of aviation accidents and incidents in the Netherlands; List of Philippine Airlines accidents and incidents; List of US aircraft near-miss incidents since 2023; List of accidents and incidents involving the Lockheed Constellation
This was the worst aviation accident in the Atlantic Ocean at the time and remains the worst ever involving the Latécoère 631. August 29 – Northwest Airlines Flight 421, a Martin 2–0–2, crashed near Winona, Minnesota, due to structural failure of a wing, killing all 37 on board in the worst ever accident involving the Martin 2–0–2 ...
The first ground fatalities from an aircraft crash occurred on 21 July 1919, when the Wingfoot Air Express crash took place. The airship crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, Illinois, killing three of the five occupants of the aircraft, in addition to ten people on the ground. [1]