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This is a list of fatal commercial aviation accidents and incidents in or in the vicinity of the United States or its territories. It comprises a subset of both the list of accidents and incidents involving airliners in the United States and the list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft. It does not include fatalities due to ...
Hurricane Irma. Tropical cyclone. Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, Eastern United States (particularly Florida) $53,400,000,000 (2017) Includes three deaths and $1 billion (2017 USD) in damage in Puerto Rico, and four deaths and $2.4 billion in damage in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
January 1, 2007 - Adam Air Flight 574, a Boeing 737-4Q8 operated by Adam Air breaks up in mid-air and crashes into the sea due to pilot error, killing all 102 on board. February 21, 2007 - Adam Air Flight 172, a Boeing 737-33A operated by Adam Air lands hard and suffers structural damage. No one is killed.
September 15, 2024 at 6:22 AM. At least six people have died after some of the heaviest rain in years hit central and eastern Europe, causing flooding and widespread disruption. A slow-moving low ...
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years. Overall, a total of more than 9,000 Americans have died from heat-related causes since 1979, according to death certificates. [5]
1974 Bangladesh flood due to monsoon rain Bangladesh: 1974 26,000–240,000 1975 Banqiao Dam failure and floods China: 1975 25,000–40,000 St. Marcellus flood / Grote Mandrenke, storm tide Holy Roman Empire, Denmark: 1362 20,000–25,000 All Saints' Flood, storm surge Holy Roman Empire: 1570 20,000 1939 Tianjin flood [citation needed] China ...
1934 KLM Douglas DC-2 crash. 1935 San Giacomo Douglas DC-2 crash. 1937 Sabena Junkers Ju 52 Ostend crash. 1948 Keerbergen Fiat G.212 airplane crash. 1948 Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash. 1951 Misrair SNCASE Languedoc crash. 1967 Cordillera Carpish Faucett Perú Douglas C-54 crash. 1973 Kano Nigeria Airways Boeing 707 crash.