Air Disasters Events

On 6 January 1996 an overloaded Air Africa or African Air Antonov An-32B jet leased from Moscow Airways destined for Kahemba Airport failed to takeoff from N'Dolo Airport and overshot the...

Birgenair Flight 301 was a Puerto Plata-Gander-Berlin-Frankfurt flight chartered by Turkish-managed Birgenair partner Alas Nacionales ("National Wings"). On 6 February 1996 the Boeing 757...

Faucett Flight 251 was a flight that crashed on February 29, 1996, while on approach to Rodriguez Ballon Airport in Arequipa, Peru. The airplane was a Boeing 737-222, registration OB-1451...

The 27-year-old DC-9 aircraft used on this route was previously owned by Delta Air Lines. Flight 592 took off after a delay of 1 hour and 4 minutes at 2:04 pm and began a normal climb. Ho...

On the day of the crash the airplane departed Athens, Greece, as TWA Flight 881, and arrived at the gate at JFK about 4:38 PM. Upon arrival at JFK, there was a crew change, and the aircra...

The 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision occurred on 12 November 1996 when Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 (SVA 763), a Boeing 747-168B en route from New Delhi, India, to Dhahran, Saudi...

''I pushed back my trolley and told the other girl to stop serving drinks,'' she said today. ''The terrorists said for everyone to be seated. They said they had explosives and they were g...

Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) crashed on August 6, 1997 on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam (a United States insular area). Flight 801 was normally flow...

Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 (GA152, GIA152) was a scheduled domestic Indonesian passenger flight from Jakarta to Medan Sumatra operated by state owned flag carrier Garuda Indonesia. On Se...

Eighteen months after the crash of a Silk Air jet in Indonesia, families of the 103 passengers and crew who died are still waiting for an official explanation. GEOFFREY THOMAS has found e...

China Airlines Flight 676 (CAL676, CI676) crashed into a road and residential area near Taoyuan County's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taiwan on the night of February 16, 1998. ...

Swissair Flight 111 (SR-111, SWR-111) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Co...

Thai Flight 261 left Bangkok at 17:40 for a 1:55min flight to Surat Thani. Weather in the Surat Thani area was poor with limited visibility and heavy rainfall. The Airbus was on it's thir...

EgyptAir Flight 990 (MSR990) was a regularly-scheduled Los Angeles-New York-Cairo flight. On October 31, 1999, at around 01:50 EST, Flight 990 plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 ...

The 2001 Avjet Aspen crash occurred on March 29, 2001 when a chartered Avjet Corporation Gulfstream III business jet, registration N303GA, crashed into terrain while on instrument approac...

American Airlines Flight 77 was the third flight hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks, and it was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon. The scheduled U.S. domestic flight from W...

"It's clear that the plane did come down very much in a straight level, which was horrible for that particular site, but minimized what could have happened had the plane glided across the ..." —Former New York Gov. George Pataki

China Airlines Flight 611 was a Boeing 747 on a regular scheduled flight from Chiang Kai Shek International Airport in Taoyuan to Chek Lap Kok International Airport in Hong Kong on 25 May...

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, resul...

The 284 members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard and 18 crew members on the plane were confirmed dead -- making the crash Iran's worst ever and one of the highest death tolls in avia...

A Russian airliner that crashed in eastern Ukraine yesterday killing all 170 passengers and crew on board was probably struck by lightning as it encountered heavy turbulence, a preliminar...

The National Transportation Safety Board said the evidence so far shows that the Comair jet that crashed on takeoff in Kentucky Sunday morning took off from the wrong runway. A spokesw...

The crash killed all 154 people on the airliner, a Boeing 737 operated by Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes. The business jet, manufactured by Embraer, a Brazilian company, was being flown h...

Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 (GA200) was the scheduled domestic passenger flight of a Boeing 737-497 operated by Garuda Indonesia between Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The aircraft cr...

A Kenya Airways plane that crashed after takeoff in Cameroon with 114 people on board is largely submerged in a swamp and there is no chance of survivors, Cameroon's civil protection serv...

TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ 3054) was an Airbus A320 airliner, registration PR-MBK, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight between Porto Alegre and São Paulo, Brazil, which c...

Spanair Flight JK 5022, from Barajas Airport in Madrid to Gran Canaria Airport in Gran Canaria, Spain, crashed just after take off from runway 36L of Barajas Airport at 14:25 CEST (12:25 ...

Aeroflot Flight 821, operated by Aeroflot-Nord in a service agreement with Aeroflot and as its subsidiary, crashed on approach to Perm Airport on 14 September 2008 at 5:09:25. All 82 pass...

The 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash occurred just before midnight on September 19, 2008, when a Learjet 60 crashed while taking off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Caroli...

A Bombardier DHC8-402 Q400 operating as Flight 3407 departed late from Newark on February 12, 2009, at 9:20 p.m. EST. Shortly after the last communication by the flight crew with approach...

Military aircraft and warships from France and Brazil were combing the equatorial Atlantic in a desperate quest to find the wreckage of an Air France jet that disappeared with 228 people ...

Seventeen bodies have been recovered from last week's crash of an Air France jetliner off the South American coast, according to Brazil's military. The Brazilian navy and air force say...

Off the coast of Brazil, search teams continue to hunt for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. They have recovered 41 bodies so far, with 187 still not accounted for. The cause of the ...

Autopsies on the bodies recovered after the Airbus disaster in the south Atlantic suggest there was no explosion or fire and therefore no terrorist attack. But two weeks after Air Fran...

The world's largest showcase of civilian and military aircraft and equipment, the Paris air show, has opened at Le Bourget Airport. Some 2,000 exhibitors from 48 countries will be exh...

Brazil has called off its search for more bodies and debris from the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean four weeks ago. Brazil Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mu...

Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled commercial flight operated by Yemenia en route from Sana'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros that crashed on 30 June 2009 at around 1:50 a.m. local time (22:50...

The ping signals from the black boxes belonging to doomed Air France Flight 447 began to fade about 10 days ago, and now two of the ships involved in the hunt are leaving. A French nuc...

A deadly mid-air collision between a tourist helicopter and a small plane over New York’s Hudson River has revived fears about the safety of sight-seeing flights in America. Nine peopl...

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800, registration ET-ANB performing flight ET-409 from Beirut (Lebanon) to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) with 82 passengers and 8 crew, departed Beirut's runway ...

The remains of two people have been found in an Austin, Texas, building where a man crashed a small plane, authorities said. The identities of the two dead people have not been confirm...

A plane carrying the Polish president and dozens of the country’s top political and military leaders to the site of a Soviet massacre of Polish officers in World War II crashed in western...

On 10 April 2010, a Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft crashed near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 passengers and crew. Those killed included the Poland's President Lech Kaczyńsk...

President Obama will join the leaders of Russia, France and other nations at the state funeral Sunday of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed last weekend along with his wife a...

Thousands of grieving mourners tossed flowers at a slow-moving hearse or joined an enormous viewing line at the presidential palace to pay their respects yesterday to Polish President Lec...

Russian investigators said today the black box retrieved from Saturday's devastating plane crash that killed Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, did not provide any evidence that the pilo...

A young boy appeared to be the only survivor on Wednesday after a Libyan airliner crashed while landing at the airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 92 passengers — most of them Dutch touris...

Wails of sadness echoed across a snowcapped mountaintop Tuesday as relatives grieved over 44 people aboard a passenger plane that crashed into a northern Afghan range a day earlier. Go...

On 22 May 2010, around 06:30 local time, Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737-8HG, registration VT-AXV, on a scheduled passenger flight from Dubai, UAE to Mangalore, India overran t...

An airblue Airbus A321 crashed into the hills overlooking Islamabad, Pakistan, in rainy weather Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board, according to an Associated Press report. Res...