2004 Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148
2003 Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport
2003 Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116
2003 Air Algérie flight 6289 crashes at Tamanrasset Airport in Alegeria, killing 103
2003 Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275
2002 China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure
2002 China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112
2002 Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128
2002 Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119
2001 American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure
2001 SAS flight 686 crashes near Milano-Linate, killing 114, crash caused by flight crew and tower confusion
2001 Vladivostokavia flight 352 crashes near Burdakovka, killing 145
2000 A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers
2000 Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143
2000 Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131
2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer
2000 Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem
1999 EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot
1998 SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire
1998 Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board
1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City) Tram, injuring 10
1997 Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161
1997 Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1996 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of New York City
1996 Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die
1995 American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
1995 DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die
1995 Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die
1995 DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives
1995 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed
1995 Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed
1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15
1994 Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die
1994 Cessna crashes in White House front yard
1994 Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed
1994 U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board
1994 Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
1994 Air Ivory Fokker's-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives)
1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed
1994 Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland, 29 killed
1994 Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed
1994 Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed
1994 KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed
1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed
1994 Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31
1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead
1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5
1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed
1993 Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed
1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
1993 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
1993 Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives
1993 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
1993 F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132
1993 Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die
1993 Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76
1993 Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56
1993 Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10
1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
1993 General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
1992 Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141
1992 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
1992 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
1992 El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die)
1992 El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die
1992 Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1992 Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands
1992 Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
1992 Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163
1992 Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die
1992 Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die
1992 Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die
1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die
1992 US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die
1992 F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths)
1991 Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies
1991 Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Saudi-Arabia, 261 die
1991 L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13
1991 Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23
1991 25 die as United Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs
1991 United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25
1990 C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
1989 Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
1989 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
1989 Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
1989 Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173
1989 U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
1988 Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St. in New York City
1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
1987 Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43
1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
1987 Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
1986 Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
1986 Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes
1986 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22
1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
1985 DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
1985 Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed
1985 Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
1985 Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, 137 die
1984 Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan
1983 Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185
1983 Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa
1982 Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
1982 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153
1982 Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27
1982 Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78
1981 Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed
1981 Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14
1980 Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257
1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
1979 U.S. DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed
1979 Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes and kills a driver
1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
1978 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183
1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1978 Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed
1978 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt)
1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
1976 Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
1975 Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die
1975 Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport New York, kills 113
1975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
1974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
1974 Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died
1974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
1974 World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1973 French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed
1973 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 6 months later
1973 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
1973 At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes
1973 Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed
1973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
1972 United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1972 Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
1972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue)
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
1972 BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118
1972 Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
1972 Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats
1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die
1971 Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later
1971 Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska)
1970 DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed
1970 Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1970 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
1970 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
1970 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102
1969 Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
1969 Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83
1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1968 South Africa Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
1968 U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland
1967 Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curaeao, kills 15
1966 USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7 degrees N 162 degrees E
1966 Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon
1966 Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die
1966 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes
1966 Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck
1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133
1965 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1965 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121
1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
1962 French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed
1962 Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130
1962 Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Neth)
1961 U.S. Constellation crashes at Richmond, Virginia, 74 die
1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1960 Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16
1959 American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65
1958 Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
1958 KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99
1957 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1956 Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
1954 Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die
1953 Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die
1953 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1953 Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed
1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington D.C. station
1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
1951 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
1949 Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die
1948 Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder)
1947 Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef
1947 Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft. Deposit and Perryville Md, kills 53
1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
1946 Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11
1946 Milt plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die
1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
1945 "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
1945 U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1944 U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1938 Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die
1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
1933 U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die
1932 U.S. airship Columbia crashes during storm in Flushing, New York
1930 British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die
1929 Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression
1921 British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
1919 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill)
1915 Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
1850 Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
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