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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeti Airlines Flight 691 | 15 Jan 2023 | 72 | 72 | Seti Gandaki River, Pokhara, Nepal |
| 2023 Manaus Aerotáxi Embraer Bandeirante crash | 16 Sept 2023 | 14 | 14 | Barcelos Airport, Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil |
| 2023 Wagner Group plane crash | 23 Aug 2023 | 10 | 10 | Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast, Russia |
| 2023 Miyakojima helicopter crash | 6 Apr 2023 | 10 | 10 | Off the coast of Miyako-jima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan |
| 2023 Brovary helicopter crash | 18 Jan 2023 | 10 | 14 | Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine |
| 2023 Fort Campbell mid-air collision | 29 Mar 2023 | 9 | 9 | Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States |
| US military Osprey crash off Yakushima | 29 Nov 2023 | 8 | 8 | Yakushima Town, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, near Yakushima Airport and Anbō Port, at sea off Yakushima |
| 2023 Elmina Beechcraft 390 crash | 17 Aug 2023 | 8 | 10 | Elmina, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia |
| Il-22 crash near Voronezh | 24 Jun 2023 | 8 | 8 | urban-type settlement of Kantemirovka, Voronezh Oblast (Russia) |
| 2023 SAM Air crash | 23 Jun 2023 | 6 | 6 | 12 km from Elelim Airport |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yeti Airlines Flight 691 | 15 Jan 2023 | 72 | Seti Gandaki River, Pokhara, Nepal | 1 |
| 2023 Manaus Aerotáxi Embraer Bandeirante crash | 16 Sept 2023 | 14 | Barcelos Airport, Barcelos, Amazonas, Brazil | 1 |
| 2023 Brovary helicopter crash | 18 Jan 2023 | 14 | Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine | 1 |
| 2023 Wagner Group plane crash | 23 Aug 2023 | 10 | Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast, Russia | 1 |
| 2023 Elmina Beechcraft 390 crash | 17 Aug 2023 | 10 | Elmina, Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia | 1 |
| 2023 Miyakojima helicopter crash | 6 Apr 2023 | 10 | Off the coast of Miyako-jima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan | 1 |
| 2023 Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes | 13 May 2023 | 9 | Bryansk Oblast, Russia, near the border with Ukraine | 1 |
| 2023 Fort Campbell mid-air collision | 29 Mar 2023 | 9 | Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States | 2 |
| US military Osprey crash off Yakushima | 29 Nov 2023 | 8 | Yakushima Town, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, near Yakushima Airport and Anbō Port, at sea off Yakushima | 1 |
| Il-22 crash near Voronezh | 24 Jun 2023 | 8 | urban-type settlement of Kantemirovka, Voronezh Oblast (Russia) | 1 |
Deadliest with more than one aircraft
26 occurrences involved more than one aircraft, such as midair and ground collisions; 8 were fatal. These count everyone, as the table above does.
| Occurrence | Date | Total fatalities | Location | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Fort Campbell mid-air collision | 29 Mar 2023 | 9 | Fort Campbell, Kentucky, United States | 2 |
| ERA23FA142 · Piper J3C 65 | 7 Mar 2023 | 4 | Winter Haven, FL, United States | 2 |
| 2023 Gold Coast mid-air collision | 2 Jan 2023 | 4 | Gold Coast Seaway, Queensland, Australia | 2 |
| Collision over Sinhury | 25 Aug 2023 | 3 | village of Sinhury, Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast | 2 |
| WPR23FA302 · Bell 407 | 6 Aug 2023 | 3 | Cabazon, CA, United States | 2 |
| 2023 Alaska mid-air collision | 27 Apr 2023 | 3 | Healy, Alaska, United States | 2 |
| WPR23FA345 · North American T-6G | 17 Sept 2023 | 2 | Reno, NV, United States | 2 |
| CEN23FA333 · Rotorway 162F | 29 Jul 2023 | 2 | Oshkosh, WI, 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.
| Occurrence | Date | Injured | Fatalities | Total fatalities | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Brovary helicopter crash | 18 Jan 2023 | 25all on the ground | 10 | 14 | Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine |
| Delta Air Lines Flight 175 | 29 Aug 2023 | 17 | 0 | 0 | Atlanta, GA, United States |
| JetBlue Airways Flight 1256 | 25 Sept 2023 | 9 | 0 | 0 | Caribbean Sea, AO, United States |
| United Airlines Flight 918 | 18 Aug 2023 | 9 | 0 | 0 | Over the, AO, United States |
| 2023 Chrcynno Cessna 208 crash | 17 Jul 2023 | 97 on the ground | 1 | 6 | Chrcynno, Poland |
| An-2 crash near Karatayka | 9 Jan 2023 | 9 | 2 | 2 | Karatayka (Nenets Autonomous Okrug) |
| 2023 Gold Coast mid-air collision | 2 Jan 2023 | 8 | 4 | 4 | Gold Coast Seaway, Queensland, Australia |
| WPR24LA006 · Ultramagic SA N-300 | 3 Oct 2023 | 7 | 0 | 0 | Phoenix, AZ, United States |
| Allegiant Air Flight 227 | 12 Jul 2023 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Inverness, FL, United States |
| CEN23LA305 · Adams Balloon AB | 14 Jul 2023 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Lafayette, CO, United States |