Deadliest occurrences
Not a complete record. A partial collection of documented occurrences: counts, not rates, and no measure of aviation risk. Coverage
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The same occurrences rank differently depending on who is counted. These tables count, in turn, the people on board, everyone the occurrence killed, occurrences with more than one aircraft, and the injured.
Deadliest for the people on board
Fatalities are deaths among passengers and crew; the total adds anyone killed on the ground. Fatalities use each record's event total where one exists, otherwise the fatal injuries in the NTSB record.
| Occurrence | Date | Fatalities | Total fatalities | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 Santa Ana air show disaster | 24 Jul 1938 | 53 | 53 | Campo de Marte, Bogotá, Colombia |
| 1938 Kyeema crash | 25 Oct 1938 | 18 | 18 | Mount Dandenong (Mount Corhanwarrabul), Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia |
| Kweilin incident | 24 Aug 1938 | 15 | 15 | Zhongshan, Guangdong, China |
| Pan Am Flight 229 | 28 Jul 1938 | 15 | 15 | Western Pacific Ocean |
| LOT Polish Airlines crash in Romania (1938) | 22 Jul 1938 | 14 | 14 | vicinity of the village of Găinești |
| 1938 Jersey Airport disaster | 4 Nov 1938 | 13 | 14 | near Jersey Airport, Jersey |
| Northwest Airlines Flight 2 | 10 Jan 1938 | 10 | 10 | Gallatin County, Montana, U.S. northeast of Bozeman |
| TWA Flight 8 | 1 Mar 1938 | 9 | 9 | Yosemite National Park, Madera County, near Wawona, California |
| Muotathal Heuberge air accident | 27 Aug 1938 | 7 | 7 | Muotathal Heuberge |
| Beaumont-la-Ronce air accident of 23 June 1938 | 23 Jun 1938 | 7 | 7 | Beaumont-la-Ronce |
Deadliest in all, counting deaths on the ground
Everyone the occurrence killed, in the air and on the ground. Where the two tables differ, people on the ground made the difference.
| Occurrence | Date | Total fatalities | Location | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 Santa Ana air show disaster | 24 Jul 1938 | 53 | Campo de Marte, Bogotá, Colombia | 1 |
| Soest plane crash | 10 Oct 1938 | 20 | Günne, Soest district, Germany | 2 |
| 1938 Kyeema crash | 25 Oct 1938 | 18 | Mount Dandenong (Mount Corhanwarrabul), Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia | 1 |
| Kweilin incident | 24 Aug 1938 | 15 | Zhongshan, Guangdong, China | 1 |
| Pan Am Flight 229 | 28 Jul 1938 | 15 | Western Pacific Ocean | 1 |
| 1938 Jersey Airport disaster | 4 Nov 1938 | 14 | near Jersey Airport, Jersey | 1 |
| LOT Polish Airlines crash in Romania (1938) | 22 Jul 1938 | 14 | vicinity of the village of Găinești | 1 |
| 1938 Royal Air Force Hawker Audax crash | 4 Sept 1938 | 13 | Edmonton, London, England | 1 |
| Northwest Airlines Flight 2 | 10 Jan 1938 | 10 | Gallatin County, Montana, U.S. northeast of Bozeman | 1 |
| TWA Flight 8 | 1 Mar 1938 | 9 | Yosemite National Park, Madera County, near Wawona, California | 1 |
Deadliest with more than one aircraft
2 occurrences involved more than one aircraft, such as midair and ground collisions; 2 were fatal. These count everyone, as the table above does.
| Occurrence | Date | Total fatalities | Location | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soest plane crash | 10 Oct 1938 | 20 | Günne, Soest district, Germany | 2 |
| 1938 Tokyo mid-air collision | 24 Aug 1938 | 5 | Ōmori, Ōta, Japan | 2 |
Most injured, whether or not anyone died
Injuries are the total the record shows: a Wikipedia record's infobox total, otherwise the serious and minor injuries in the NTSB record. People hurt on the ground are counted too, so a row can show hundreds injured although no one on board survived: all 106 injured at the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 were in the building.
| Occurrence | Date | Injured | Fatalities | Total fatalities | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 Santa Ana air show disaster | 24 Jul 1938 | about 100 | 53 | 53 | Campo de Marte, Bogotá, Colombia |
| 1938 Royal Air Force Hawker Audax crash | 4 Sept 1938 | 17all on the ground | 1 | 13 | Edmonton, London, England |
| 1938 Amsterdam KLM Douglas DC-3 crash | 14 Nov 1938 | 13 | 6 | 6 | Riekerpolder, near Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Shootdown of aircraft Š-328.237 | 25 Oct 1938 | 1 | 1 | 1 | near the villages of Hodžovo and Bodza in Komárno District, Czecho-Slovakia |
| Muotathal Heuberge air accident | 27 Aug 1938 | 1 | 7 | 7 | Muotathal Heuberge |
| Kweilin incident | 24 Aug 1938 | 1 | 15 | 15 | Zhongshan, Guangdong, China |