2015 Event G.M. will pay $900 million and will undergo compliance monitoring to settle charges that it knew about faulty ignition switches in certain autos for years but neither reported nor fixed the problem; over 120 people died in crashes as a result 2013 Event No casualties are reported after a U.S. military Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter crashes near the South Korean border with North Korea 2012 Event An estimated 90 - 115 people die when an oil tanker in Okobge, Rivers State Nigeria crashes and explodes 2012 Event In the U.S. city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, a U.S. Navy FA-18 Superhornet crashes into an apartment complex 2012 Event Eleven people are killed when their hot air balloon collides with a power line and crashes near Carterton, New Zealand 2011 Event First Air fails in an attempt to land a Boeing 737 in poor conditions; 12 of 15 people die after the plane crashes near Canada's Resolute Bay 2011 Event At least 20 Navy SEALs and 17 others die when a NATO Chinook helicopter crashes after being shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan 2010 Event Air India Express Flight 812 crashes near Mangalore International Airport; eight passengers survive and 158 perish 2010 Event Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Acting President of Poland after a plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials crashes, leaving no survivors 2009 Event Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Qazvin, Iran, all 168 on board are killed 2009 Event En route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic ocean, killing all 228 on board 2004 Event Flash Airlines flight 604 crashes near Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, killing 148 2003 Event Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on takeoff from Cotonou Airport 2003 Event Sudan Airways flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan, killing 116 2003 Event Air Algrie flight 6289 crashes at Tamanrasset Airport in Alegeria, killing 103 2003 Event Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275 2002 Event China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure 2002 Event China Northern Airlines flight 6163 crashes in the ocean near Dalian, China after a fire is reported onboard, killing 112 2002 Event Air China flight 129 crashes into a mountain near Pusan, South Korea killing 128 2002 Event Iran Air Tours flight 956 crashes into a mountain in Iran killing 119 2001 Event American Airlines flight 587 crashes in Belle Harbor, New York, killing 265, vertical stabilizer failure 2001 Event SAS flight 686 crashes near Milano-Linate, killing 114, crash caused by flight crew and tower confusion 2001 Event Vladivostokavia flight 352 crashes near Burdakovka, killing 145 2000 Event A Concorde jet crashes outside of Paris after takeoff killing 113 passengers 2000 Event Gulf Air flight 72 crashes near Bahrain, killing 143 2000 Event Air Philippines flight 541 crashes into a hill near Davao, killing 131 2000 Event Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer 2000 Event Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem 1999 Event EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot 1998 Event SwissAir flight 111 crashes off the coast of Nova Scotia killing all 229 onbaord, likely cause was an electrical fire 1998 Event Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board 1998 Event Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City) Tram, injuring 10 1997 Event Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161 1997 Event Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive 1997 Event Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die 1997 Event Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80 1996 Event 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of New York City 1996 Event Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die 1995 Event American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive 1995 Event DC3 crashes at Antananarivo Madagaskar, 34 die 1995 Event Sri Lankaan BAE748 crashes at Palaly, 52 die 1995 Event DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives 1995 Event Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed 1995 Event Bus crashes in Luzon Philippines, 29 killed 1994 Event American Eagle commuter plane crashes in NC, killing 15 1994 Event Hana bridge is Seoul Korea crashes, 32+ die 1994 Event Cessna crashes in White House front yard 1994 Event Tu-22 crashes into Aeroflot Tu-134a at Zhukovsky, 7 killed 1994 Event U.S. Air Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board 1994 Event Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed) 1994 Event Air Ivory Fokker's-27 crashes at Abidjan (16 killed/1 lives) 1994 Event Tupolev-154M crashes at Xian China, 160 killed 1994 Event Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland, 29 killed 1994 Event Bus crashes into a tree at Gdansk Poland, 30 killed 1994 Event Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed 1994 Event KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed 1994 Event Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed) 1994 Event Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan, 32 killed 1994 Event Peruvian Yak-40 crashes into mountain near Tingo Maria, kills 31 1994 Event Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead 1994 Event United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5 1994 Event Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia: 122 killed 1993 Event Antonov-26 crashes at Gyumri, Armenia, 36 killed 1993 Event Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed 1993 Event Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18 1993 Event Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed 1993 Event Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed 1993 Event Yak-40 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 79 killed/1 lives 1993 Event Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed 1993 Event F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die 1993 Event Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellin Colombia, kills 132 1993 Event Zambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon, 30 soccer players die 1993 Event Afghan Antonov AN-32 crashes at Tashqurgan, kills 76 1993 Event Boeing 737 crashes at Aurangabad, kills 56 1993 Event Venezuelan DC-10 crashes at Margarita, killing 10 1993 Event Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die 1993 Event Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die 1993 Event 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 Event DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12 1993 Event Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die 1992 Event Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141 1992 Event Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die 1992 Event Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus 1992 Event El Al cargo jet crashes into apartment complex in Amsterdam (250 die) 1992 Event El Al cargo plane crashes at Amsterdam Bijlmer, 43 die 1992 Death Itzhak Fuks, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands 1992 Death Ohad Arnon, El Al captain, crashes in Bijlmer Netherlands 1992 Event Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies 1992 Event Military transport plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria killing 163 1992 Event Nigerian Hercules C-130 crashes at Lagos, 163 die 1992 Event Thai Airbus crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 113 die 1992 Event Vickers Viscount crashes, 70 die 1992 Event U.S. Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at LaGuardia, 27 die 1992 Event F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths) 1991 Event Military transport plane crashes at Djakarta, 133 dies 1991 Event Nigerian DC-8 crashes near Saudi-Arabia, 261 die 1991 Event L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 1991 Event Southeast Airlines Embracer 120 crashes in Georgia, killing 23 1991 Event 25 die as United Airlines Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs 1991 Event United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25 1990 Event C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13 1990 Event Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die 1989 Event French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die 1989 Event Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder) 1989 Event Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die 1989 Event Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed 1989 Event United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112 1989 Event Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies) 1989 Event Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173 1989 Event U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die 1989 Event Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die 1988 Event 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome 1988 Event Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York 1988 Event Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50 1988 Event Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St. in New York City 1988 Event Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board 1987 Event Pacific Southwest crashes near Los Angeles, kills 43 1987 Event South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die 1987 Event Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) 1987 Event 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw 1986 Event Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed 1986 Death Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes 1986 Event Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa 1986 Event Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die 1986 Event Air Lanka crashes, killing 22 1986 Event 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes 1985 Event DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die 1985 Event Airtours Boeing-737 crashes at airport of Manchester, 55 killed 1985 Event Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll) 1985 Event Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport, 137 die 1984 Event Soviet sub crashes into USS aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off Japan 1983 Event Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185 1983 Event Supertanker Castillo de Bellvar crashes at South Africa 1982 Event Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk, Netherlands, 17-22 die 1982 Event Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing 153 1982 Event Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die 1982 Event National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27 1982 Event 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 Event Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed 1981 Event Marine jet crashes on flight deck of USS Nimitz, killing 14 1980 Event Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die 1980 Event Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81 1979 Event Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on Antarctica kills 257 1979 Event American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275 1979 Event U.S. DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed 1979 Event Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes and kills a driver 1979 Event American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275 1978 Event Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183 1978 Event 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka 1978 Event Auto with liquid gas crashes and explodes in Spain, 160 killed 1978 Event Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia 1977 Event Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt) 1976 Event Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt 1976 Event Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack 1975 Event Chartered 707 crashes in Atlas Mts of Morocco, 188 die 1975 Event Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126 1975 Event Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport New York, kills 113 1975 Event USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 1974 Event Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims 1974 Event Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville Virginia, 92 died 1974 Event Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107 1974 Event World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die) 1973 Event French Caravelle crashes in Morocco, 106 killed 1973 Event 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 Event Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed 1973 Event At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes 1973 Event Tupolev 144 crashes at Paris, 15 killed 1973 Event BEA flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 1972 Event Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101 1972 Event United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45 1972 Event Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die 1972 Event Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die 1972 Event Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12 of 23 rescue) 1972 Event Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105 1972 Event East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156 1972 Event BEA Trident crashes after takeoff from Heathrow killing 118 1972 Event Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115 1972 Event Kiteman attempting to throw out 1st ball in Phillie Vet crashes into centerfield seats 1972 Event Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die 1971 Event Peruvian Airlines Electra crashes at headwaters of Amazon, killing all except Juliane Margaret Koepcke found 10 days later 1971 Event Alaskan 727 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain, kills 109 (Alaska) 1970 Event DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed 1970 Event Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35 1970 Event Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30 1970 Event Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109 1970 Event Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons 1970 Event British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed 1970 Event Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102 1969 Event Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed 1969 Event Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83 1969 Event Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155 1968 Event South Africa Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed 1968 Event Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die 1968 Event U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland 1967 Event Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curaeao, kills 15 1966 Event USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129 1966 Event Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7 degrees N 162 degrees E 1966 Event Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon 1966 Event Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die 1966 Event 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes 1966 Event Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck 1966 Event All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 1965 Event U.S.S.R. launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon 1965 Event Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus) 1965 Event Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121 1965 Event Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach, New Jersey, kills 84 1962 Event French Boeing 707 crashes at Guadeloupe, 113 killed 1962 Event Air France Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff from Paris, kills 130 1962 Event Dutch express train crashes into slow commuter train, 93 die (Netherlands) 1961 Event U.S. Constellation crashes at Richmond, Virginia, 74 die 1961 Event Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die 1960 Event Chartered C46 carrying California State's football team crashes, kills 16 1959 Event American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65 1958 Event Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 in Newark, New Jersey 1958 Event KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99 1957 Event Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die 1956 Event Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in New Jersey, 74 killed 1954 Event Dutch Super Constellation crashes at Shannon, 28 die 1953 Event Belgian Convair crashes at Frankfurt, 44 die 1953 Event Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die 1953 Event USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen 1953 Event Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die 1953 Event Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed 1953 Event 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington D.C. station 1952 Event Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 1951 Event "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge, New Jersey, killing 84 1949 Event Dutch KLM Constellation crashes near Bombay, 45 die 1948 Event Dutch Constellation crashes at Prestwick Scotland (40 murder) 1947 Event Balsa raft Kon Tiki crashes into a Polynesian archipelago reef 1947 Event Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft. Deposit and Perryville Md, kills 53 1947 Event KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die 1946 Event Dutch Dakota flight to Schiphol crashes, kills 11 1946 Event Military plane crashes at Christian HBS, 24 die 1946 Event United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die 1945 Event "Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle) 1945 Event During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington) 1945 Event Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building 1945 Event U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die 1944 Event Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138 1944 Event Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die 1944 Event U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed 1942 Event Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan) 1938 Event Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die 1938 Event "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47 1935 Event Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean 1933 Event U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die 1932 Event U.S. airship Columbia crashes during storm in Flushing, New York 1930 Event British airship crashes in storm at Beauvais France, 48 die 1929 Event Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression 1921 Event British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die 1919 Event Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 (Chicago, Ill) 1915 Event Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die 1887 Event Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois) 1850 Event Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) 1596 Event Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
