Date Aircraft Site of accident Deaths 1937 May 6 German zeppelin Hindenburg Burned at mooring, Lakehurst, N.J. 36 1944 Aug. 23 U.S. Air Force B-24 Hit school, Freckelton, England 761 1945 July 28 U.S. Army B-25 Hit Empire State Building, N.Y.C. 141 1952 Dec. 20 U.S. Air Force C-124 Fell, burned, Moses Lake, Wash. 87 1953 Mar. 3 Canadian Pacific Comet Jet Karachi, Pakistan 112 1953 June 18 U.S. Air Force C-124 Crashed, burned near Tokyo 129 1955 Nov. 1 United Air Lines DC-6B Exploded, crashed near Longmont, Col. 443 1956 June 20 Venezuelan Super-Constellation Crashed in Atlantic off Asbury Park, N.J. 74 1956 June 30 TWA Super-Const., United DC-7 Collided over Grand Canyon, Arizona 128 1960 Dec. 16 United DC-8 jet, TWA Super-Const. Collided over N.Y. City 1344 1962 Mar. 16 Flying Tiger Super-Const. Vanished in W Pacific 107 1962 June 3 Air France Boeing 707 jet Crashed on takeoff from Paris 130 1962 June 22 Air France Boeing 707 jet Crashed in storm, Guadeloupe, W.I. 113 1963 June 3 Chartered Northw. Airlines DC-7 Crashed in Pacific off British Columbia 101 1963 Nov. 29 Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F Crashed after takeoff from Montreal 118 1965 May 20 Pakistani Boeing 720-B Crashed at Cairo, Egypt, airport 121 1966 Jan. 24 Air India Boeing 707 jetliner Crashed on Mont Blanc, France-Italy 117 1966 Feb. 4 All-Nippon Boeing 727 Plunged into Tokyo Bay 133 1966 Mar. 5 BOAC Boeing 707 jetliner Crashed on Mount Fuji, Japan 124 1966 Dec. 24 U.S. military-chartered CL-44 Crashed into village in South Vietnam 1291 1967 Apr. 20 Swiss Britannia turboprop Crashed at Nicosia, Cyprus 126 1967 July 19 Piedmont Boeing 727, Cessna 310 Collided in air, Hendersonville, N.C. 82 1968 Apr. 20 S. African Airways Boeing 707 Crashed on takeoff, Windhoek, SW Africa 122 1968 May 3 Braniff International Electra Crashed in storm near Dawson, Tex. 85 1969 Mar. 16 Venezuelan DC-9 Crashed after takeoff from Maracaibo, Venezuela 1555 1969 Dec. 8 Olympia Airways DC-6B Crashed near Athens in storm 93 1970 Feb. 15 Dominican DC-9 Crashed into sea on takeoff from Santo Domingo 102 1970 July 3 British chartered jetliner Crashed near Barcelona, Spain 112 1970 July 5 Air Canada DC-8 Crashed near Toronto International Airport 108 1970 Aug. 9 Peruvian turbojet Crashed after takeoff from Cuzco, Peru 1011 1970 Nov. 14 Southern Airways DC-9 Crashed in mountains near Huntington, W.Va. 756 1971 July 30 All-Nippon Boeing 727 and Japanese Air Force F-86 Collided over Morioka, Japan 1627 1971 Sept. 4 Alaska Airlines Boeing 727 Crashed into mountain near Juneau, Alaska 111 1972 Aug. 14 E German Ilyushin-62 Crashed on take-off East Berlin 156 1972 Oct. 13 Aeroflot Ilyushin-62 E German airline crashed near Moscow 176 1972 Dec. 3 Chartered Spanish airliner Crashed on take-off, Canary Islands 155 1972 Dec. 29 Eastern Airlines Lockheed Tristar Crashed on approach to Miami Int'l. Airport 101 1973 Jan. 22 Chartered Boeing 707 Burst into flames during landing, Kano Airport, Nigeria 176 1973 Feb. 21 Libyan jetliner Shot down by Israeli fighter planes over Sinai 108 1973 Apr. 10 British Vanguard turboprop Crashed during snowstorm at Basel, Switzerland 104 1973 June 3 Soviet Supersonic TU-144 Crashed near Goussainville, France 148 1973 July 11 Brazilian Boeing 707 Crashed on approach to Orly Airport, Paris 122 1973 July 31 Delta Airlines jetliner Crashed, landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston 89 1973 Dec. 23 French Caravelle jet Crashed in Morocco 106 1974 Mar. 3 Turkish DC-10 jet Crashed at Ermenonville near Paris 346 1974 Apr. 23 Pan American 707 jet Crashed in Bali, Indonesia 107 1974 Dec. 1 TWA-727 Crashed in storm, Upperville, Va. 92 1974 Dec. 4 Dutch-chartered DC-8 Crashed in storm near Colombo, Sri Lanka 191 1975 Apr. 4 Air Force Galaxy C-5B Crashed near Saigon, South Vietnam, after takeoff with load of orphans 172 1975 June 24 Eastern Airlines 727 jet Crashed in storm, JFK Airport, N.Y. City 113 1975 Aug. 3 Chartered 707 Hit mountainside, Agadir, Morocco 188 1976 Sept. 10 British Airways Trident, Yugoslav DC-9 Collided near Zagreb, Yugoslavia 176 1976 Sept. 19 Turkish 727 Hit mountain, S Turkey 155 1976 Oct. 13 Bolivian 707 cargo jet Crashed in Santa Cruz, Bolivia 1009 1977 Mar. 27 KLM 747, Pan American 747 Collided on runway, Tenerife, Canary Islands 582 1977 Nov. 19 TAP Boeing 727 Crashed on Madeira 130 1977 Dec. 4 Malaysian Boeing 737 Hijacked, then exploded in mid-air over Straits of Johore 100 1977 Dec. 13 U.S. DC-3 Crashed after takeoff at Evansville, Ind. 2910 1978 Jan. 1 Air India 747 Exploded, crashed into sea off Bombay 213 1978 Sept. 25 Boeing 727, Cessna 172 Collided in air, San Diego, Cal. 150 1978 Nov. 15 Chartered DC-8 Crashed near Colombo, Sri Lanka 183 1979 May 25 American Airlines DC-10 Crashed after takeoff at O'Hare Intl. Airport, Chicago 27511 1979 Aug. 17 Two Soviet Aeroflot jetliners Collided over Ukraine 173 1979 Nov. 26 Pakistani Boeing 707 Crashed near Jidda, Saudi Arabia 156 1979 Nov. 28 New Zealand DC-10 Crashed into mountain in Antarctica 257 1980 Mar. 14 Polish Ilyushin 62 Crashed making emergency landing, Warsaw 8712 1980 Aug. 19 Saudi Arabian Tristar Burned after emergency landing, Riyadh 301 1981 Dec. 1 Yugoslavian DC-9 Crashed into mountain in Corsica 174 1982 Jan. 13 Air Florida Boeing 737 Crashed into Potomac River after takeoff 78 1982 July 9 Pan-Am Boeing 727 Crashed after takeoff in Kenner, La. 15313 1982 Sept. 11 U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter Crashed during air show in Mannheim, W Germany 46 1983 Sept. 1 S. Korean Boeing 747 Shot down after violating Soviet airspace 269 1983 Nov. 27 Colombian Boeing 747 Crashed near Barajas Airport, Madrid 183 1985 Feb. 19 Spanish Boeing 727 Crashed into Mt. Oiz, Spain 148 1985 June 23 Air-India Boeing 747 Crashed into Atlantic Ocean S of Ireland 329 1985 Aug. 2 Delta Air Lines jumbo jet Crashed at Dallas-Ft. Worth Intl. Airport 133 1985 Aug. 12 Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 Crashed into Mt. Ogura, Japan 52014 1985 Dec. 12 Arrow Air DC-8 Crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland 25615 1986 Mar. 31 Mexican Boeing 727 Crashed NW of Mexico City 166 1986 Aug. 31 Aeromexico DC-9 Collided with Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, Cal. 8216 1987 May 9 Ilyushin 62M Crashed after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland 183 1987 Aug. 16 Northwest Airlines MD-82 Crashed after takeoff in Romulus, Mich. 156 1988 July 3 Iranian A300 Airbus Shot down by U.S. Navy warship Vincennesover Persian Gulf 290 1988 Dec. 21 Pan Am Boeing 747 Exploded and crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland 27017 1989 Feb. 8 Boeing 707 Crashed into mountain in Azores Islands off Portugal 144 1989 June 7 Suriname DC-8 Crashed near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname 168 1989 July 19 United Airlines DC-10 Crashed while landing with a disabled hydraulic system, Sioux City, Ia. 111 1989 Sept. 19 French DC-10 Exploded in air over Niger 171 1991 May 26 Lauda Air Boeing 767-300 Exploded over rural Thailand 223 1991 July 11 Nigerian DC-8 Crashed while landing at Jidda, Saudi Arabia 261 1994 Jan. 3 Aeroflot TU-154 Crashed and exploded after takeoff in Irkhutsk, Russia 12518 1994 Apr. 26 China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R Crashed at Japan's Nagoya Airport 264 1994 June 16 China Northwest Airlines TU-154 Crashed 10 min. after takeoff 160 1994 Sept. 8 USAir Boeing 737-300 Crashed in Aliquippa, PA, near Pittsburgh Intl. 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