Deadliest occurrences

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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.

Deadliest for the people on board
Occurrence	Date	Fatalities	Total fatalities	Location
1968 Kham Duc C-130 shootdown	12 May 1968	155	155	Kham Duc Airstrip, Kham Duc, South Vietnam
South African Airways Flight 228	20 Apr 1968	123	123	5.3 km east of Strijdom International Airport, Windhoek, Namibia
1968 Indian Air Force An-12 crash	7 Feb 1968	102	102	Dhaka Glacier, India
Air France Flight 1611	11 Sept 1968	95	95	Mediterranean Sea
Braniff International Airways Flight 352	3 May 1968	85	85	Navarro County, near Dawson, Texas, US
Aeroflot Flight 15	29 Feb 1968	83	83	Parchum, Chunsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, USSR
Air France Flight 212 (1968)	5 Mar 1968	63	63	La Grande Soufrière, Guadeloupe
Aer Lingus Flight 712	24 Mar 1968	61	61	St George's Channel, near Wexford, Ireland
Pan Am Flight 217	12 Dec 1968	51	51	Near Caracas, Venezuela
British Eagle Flight 802	9 Aug 1968	48	48	Near Langenbruck, West Germany

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.

Deadliest in all, counting deaths on the ground
Occurrence	Date	Total fatalities	Location	Aircraft
1968 Kham Duc C-130 shootdown	12 May 1968	155	Kham Duc Airstrip, Kham Duc, South Vietnam	1
South African Airways Flight 228	20 Apr 1968	123	5.3 km east of Strijdom International Airport, Windhoek, Namibia	1
1968 Indian Air Force An-12 crash	7 Feb 1968	102	Dhaka Glacier, India	1
Air France Flight 1611	11 Sept 1968	95	Mediterranean Sea	1
Braniff International Airways Flight 352	3 May 1968	85	Navarro County, near Dawson, Texas, US	1
Aeroflot Flight 15	29 Feb 1968	83	Parchum, Chunsky District, Irkutsk Oblast, USSR	1
Air France Flight 212 (1968)	5 Mar 1968	63	La Grande Soufrière, Guadeloupe	1
Aer Lingus Flight 712	24 Mar 1968	61	St George's Channel, near Wexford, Ireland	1
Pan Am Flight 217	12 Dec 1968	51	Near Caracas, Venezuela	1
British Eagle Flight 802	9 Aug 1968	48	Near Langenbruck, West Germany	1

Deadliest with more than one aircraft

29 occurrences involved more than one aircraft, such as midair and ground collisions; 21 were fatal. These count everyone, as the table above does.

Deadliest with more than one aircraft
Occurrence	Date	Total fatalities	Location	Aircraft
Collision of two An-2s over Vologda	4 Jan 1968	16	23 km from Vologda, Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast (RSFSR, USSR)	2
Beech K35 · Rock River, WY	1 Aug 1968	6	Rock River, WY, United States	2
Cessna 150B · Santa Paula, CA	8 Dec 1968	5	Santa Paula, CA, United States	2
Erco 415-C · Calipatria, CA	27 Oct 1968	4	Calipatria, CA, United States	2
Helio H-391B · Royalston, MA	10 Jul 1968	4	Royalston, MA, United States	2
Cessna 172 · Puyallup, WA	24 Mar 1968	4	Puyallup, WA, United States	2
Piper PA-18 · Kenai, AK	16 Mar 1968	4	Kenai, AK, United States	2
Cessna 177 · Miami, FL	5 Oct 1968	3	Miami, FL, United States	2
North Central Airlines Flight 261	4 Aug 1968	3	18 km southwest of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States	2
Cessna 120 · Phoneton, OH	20 May 1968	3	Phoneton, OH, United States	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.

Most injured, whether or not anyone died
Occurrence	Date	Injured	Fatalities	Total fatalities	Location
Civil Air Transport Flight 10	16 Feb 1968	42	21	22	Hunan Village, Taipei County, Linkou Township (now Hunan, Linkou District, New Taipei City)
BOAC Flight 712	8 Apr 1968	38	5	5	Hounslow, United Kingdom
Ozark Air Lines Flight 982	27 Dec 1968	35	0	0	Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, Iowa
Boeing 707 · Calcutta, India	13 Jun 1968	35	6	6	Calcutta, India
Allegheny Airlines Flight 736	24 Dec 1968	27	20	20	Near Bradford Regional Airport, Bradford, Pennsylvania
ČSA Flight 351	11 Oct 1968	27	13	13	Ptice near Kladno
North Central Airlines Flight 458	27 Dec 1968	246 on the ground	27	28	O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Alitalia Flight 660	2 Aug 1968	22	12	12	Mount San Giacomo, Vergiate Municipality, Italy
Boeing 707 · Pacific ocean north latitudes	13 Jan 1968	20	0	0	Pacific ocean north latitudes
Garuda Indonesian Airways Flight 892	28 May 1968	17all on the ground	29	30	Bilalpada village near Nala Sopara, India

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