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Aviation accidents and incidents in 1961

Occurrences with an event date in 1961.

42 records in 1961, 39 of them fatal. Most often a Ilyushin IL-18; most often in United States.

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Occurrences4240 accidents · 1 incidents · 35 mapped
Fatal occurrences39Fatality total known for 42 of 42
Reported fatalities1,312Plus 0 serious injuries reported
Busiest monthSeptember7 occurrences

By month

1961: occurrences by month
MonthOccurrencesFatal occurrencesFatalities
January5 occurrences in January 1961, 5 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).559
February2 occurrences in February 1961, 2 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).299
March3 occurrences in March 1961, 2 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).259
April1 occurrences in April 1961, 1 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).124
May2 occurrences in May 1961, 2 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).2139
June2 occurrences in June 1961, 1 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).120
July6 occurrences in July 1961, 6 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).6173
August3 occurrences in August 1961, 3 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).370
September7 occurrences in September 1961, 7 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).7320
October2 occurrences in October 1961, 2 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).239
November5 occurrences in November 1961, 4 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).4189
December4 occurrences in December 1961, 4 fatal. The bar is scaled to September (7).4121

Aircraft types

1961: most common aircraft types
Aircraft typeOccurrencesFatal occurrencesFatalities
Ilyushin IL-1854215
Douglas DC-34496
Douglas DC-644172
Douglas DC-83383
Tupolev TU-104328
Boeing 7072279
Lockheed L-04922155
Lockheed L-1882257
de Havilland DH-1062279
Boeing 720113

Countries

1961: countries
CountryOccurrencesShareFatal occurrencesFatalities
United StatesUnited States: 9 occurrences, 21.4% of the occurrences shown. 8 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row.21.4%8229
Soviet UnionSoviet Union: 6 occurrences, 14.3% of the occurrences shown. 5 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).14.3%548
BrazilBrazil: 2 occurrences, 4.8% of the occurrences shown. 2 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).4.8%297
IndonesiaIndonesia: 2 occurrences, 4.8% of the occurrences shown. 2 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).4.8%247
MoroccoMorocco: 2 occurrences, 4.8% of the occurrences shown. 2 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).4.8%2149
TurkeyTurkey: 2 occurrences, 4.8% of the occurrences shown. 2 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).4.8%255
UnknownUnknown: 2 occurrences, 4.8% of the occurrences shown. 1 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).4.8%159
West GermanyWest Germany: 2 occurrences, 4.8% of the occurrences shown. 2 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).4.8%255
AlgeriaAlgeria: 1 occurrences, 2.4% of the occurrences shown. 1 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).2.4%178
ArgentinaArgentina: 1 occurrences, 2.4% of the occurrences shown. 1 were fatal. The bar is scaled to the largest row (United States, 9).2.4%167

Deadliest occurrences

1961: deadliest occurrences
OccurrenceDateTotal fatalitiesLocationAircraft
1961 President Airlines Douglas DC-6 crash10 Sept 196183River Shannon, Ireland1
TWA Flight 5291 Sept 196178Willowbrook, DuPage County; near Hinsdale, IL1
Air France Flight 40610 May 196178Debdeb, Algeria, Sahara Desert1
Imperial Airlines Flight 201/88 Nov 196177Henrico County, near Byrd Field, Richmond, Virginia, US1
Air France Flight 200512 Sept 196177Near Rabat-Salé Airport, Rabat, Morocco1
Sabena Flight 54815 Feb 196173Kampenhout, near Brussels Airport, Belgium1
ČSA Flight 511 (July 1961)12 Jul 196172Casablanca-Anfa Airport, Morocco1
Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 64419 Jul 19616712 km west of Pardo, Buenos Aires, Argentina1
Viasa Flight 89730 May 196161Off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal1
Aeroflot Flight 24517 Dec 19615910 km east of Chebotovka, Rostov Oblast1

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  1. Il-18 crash near Mineralnye Vody (1961)

    31 Dec 1961 · 3 km from Mineralnye Vody Airport, Mineralovodsky District, Stavropol Krai (RSFSR, USSR) · 32 fatal

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  2. British European Airways Flight 226

    21 Dec 1961 · Ankara Esenboğa Airport, Ankara, Turkey · 27 fatal

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  3. Aeroflot Flight 245

    17 Dec 1961 · 10 km east of Chebotovka, Rostov Oblast · 59 fatal · not on the map

  4. 1961 Lufthansa Boeing 720 crash

    4 Dec 1961 · Near Ebersheim, West Germany · 3 fatal · not on the map

  5. Ansett-ANA Flight 325

    30 Nov 1961 · Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia · 15 fatal

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  6. Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 322

    23 Nov 1961 · 2 km off Viracopos-Campinas International Airport, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil · 52 fatal

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  7. Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8

    8 Nov 1961 · Henrico County, near Byrd Field, Richmond, Virginia, US · 77 fatal

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  8. Tu-104 accident near Ussuriysk

    2 Nov 1961 · 1100 m from the runway of Knevichi Airport, near Vladivostok (RSFSR, USSR) — site of the incident near Vozdvizhenka airfield, Primorsky Krai (RSFSR, USSR)

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  9. Friendship Flight Douglas DC-7C PP-PDO disaster

    1 Nov 1961 · Unknown location · 45 fatal · not on the map

  10. Il-14 crash in Sangar

    31 Oct 1961 · 2 kilometres from the village of Smorodichny, Kobyaysky Ulus, Yakut ASSR, RSFSR, USSR · 5 fatal

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  11. 1961 Derby Aviation crash

    7 Oct 1961 · Pic de Canigó · 34 fatal

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  12. Turkish Airlines Flight 835

    23 Sept 1961 · Karanlıktepe, Ankara Province, Turkey · 28 fatal

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  13. 1961 Ndola Transair Sweden Douglas DC-6 crash

    18 Sept 1961 · 15 km W of Ndola Airport (NLA) Zambia · 16 fatal

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  14. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706

    17 Sept 1961 · O'Hare International Airport, Franklin Park, Illinois, US · 37 fatal

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  15. Air France Flight 2005

    12 Sept 1961 · Near Rabat-Salé Airport, Rabat, Morocco · 77 fatal

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  16. 1961 President Airlines Douglas DC-6 crash

    10 Sept 1961 · River Shannon, Ireland · 83 fatal

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  17. Attempted hijacking of a Yak-12 over Yerevan

    10 Sept 1961 · Nizhny Charbakh, near Yerevan (Armenian SSR, USSR) · 1 fatal

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  18. TWA Flight 529

    1 Sept 1961 · Willowbrook, DuPage County; near Hinsdale, IL · 78 fatal

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  19. 1961 Greenlandair accident near Kangerlussuaq

    29 Aug 1961 · 12.5 km northwest of Kangerlussuaq, Greenland · 1 fatal

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  20. 1961 Holtaheia Vickers Viking crash

    9 Aug 1961 · Holta, Strand Municipality, Norway · 39 fatal

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  21. 1961 Malév Hungarian Airlines Douglas C-47 Skytrain crash

    6 Aug 1961 · Zugló, Budapest, Hungary · 30 fatal

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  22. Alaska Airlines Flight 779

    21 Jul 1961 · Shemya Air Force Base, Shemya, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States · 6 fatal

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  23. Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 644

    19 Jul 1961 · 12 km west of Pardo, Buenos Aires, Argentina · 67 fatal

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  24. ČSA Flight 511 (July 1961)

    12 Jul 1961 · Casablanca-Anfa Airport, Morocco · 72 fatal

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  25. United Air Lines Flight 859

    11 Jul 1961 · Denver, Colorado · 18 fatal

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  26. Tu-104 crash in Odessa

    10 Jul 1961 · 1004 m from the runway of Odessa Airport (Ukrainian SSR, USSR) · 1 fatal

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  27. Aeroflot Flight 411 (1961)

    8 Jul 1961 · Sosnovy Bor, Nizhneserginsky District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR · 9 fatal · not on the map

  28. 1961 Bogoroditsk Il-18 incident

    22 Jun 1961 · near Bogoroditsk

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  29. KLM Flight 823

    12 Jun 1961 · Near Cairo International Airport, Egypt · 20 fatal

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  30. Viasa Flight 897

    30 May 1961 · Off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal · 61 fatal · not on the map

  31. Air France Flight 406

    10 May 1961 · Debdeb, Algeria, Sahara Desert · 78 fatal

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  32. LAN-Chile Flight 621

    3 Apr 1961 · La Gotera Hill, Chile · 24 fatal

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  33. ČSA Flight 511 (March 1961)

    28 Mar 1961 · Igensdorf, West Germany now Germany · 52 fatal

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  34. Aeroflot Flight 068

    16 Mar 1961 · near Koltsovo Airport · 7 fatal

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  35. 1961 Yuba City B-52 crash

    14 Mar 1961 · Sutter County, 15 mi west of Yuba City, California

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  36. Sabena Flight 548

    15 Feb 1961 · Kampenhout, near Brussels Airport, Belgium · 73 fatal

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  37. Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 542

    3 Feb 1961 · Off Madura Island · 26 fatal · not on the map

  38. American Airlines Flight 1502

    28 Jan 1961 · Atlantic Ocean, 9.5 miles off of Montauk Point, New York, United States · 6 fatal

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  39. 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash

    24 Jan 1961 · Faro, Nahunta Township, Wayne County, 12 mi north of Goldsboro, North Carolina · 3 fatal

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  40. Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 424

    24 Jan 1961 · Mount Burangrang, West Java · 21 fatal · not on the map

  41. Aeronaves de México Flight 401

    19 Jan 1961 · New York Idlewild International Airport, New York, United States · 4 fatal

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  42. Aero Flight 311

    3 Jan 1961 · Kvevlax, Korsholm, Ostrobothnia, Finland · 25 fatal

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