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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
OccurrenceDateFatalitiesTotal fatalitiesLocation
2026 Colombian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash23 Mar 20266969Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo, Colombia
2026 Peruvian Air Force Mil Mi-17 crash22 Feb 20261515Chala District, Caravelí Province, Arequipa, Peru
SATENA Flight 884928 Jan 20261515Curasica, Playa de Belén, Norte de Santander, Colombia
2026 Saudi Aramco AW139 crash28 Jun 20261414Near Ras Tanura Airport, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia
2026 Aerodiana Cessna 208 crash1 Aug 20261313Near Nazca, Department of Ica, Peru
2026 Butler PAC P-750 crash14 Jun 20261212Butler, Missouri, United States
2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash28 Jun 20261111Tomblaine, Grand Est, France
Flamingo Air Cessna 402C accident10 Jul 20261010near San Andros Airport, Andros, Bahamas
2026 Indonesia Air Transport ATR 42 crash17 Jan 20261010Near Bulusaraung mountain, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
2026 United States Air Force Boeing B-52 crash15 Jun 202688Edwards Air Force Base, Edwards, California, United States

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
OccurrenceDateTotal fatalitiesLocationAircraft
2026 Colombian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash23 Mar 202669Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo, Colombia1
2026 Bolivian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash27 Feb 202624El Alto International Airport, El Alto, Bolivia1
2026 Peruvian Air Force Mil Mi-17 crash22 Feb 202615Chala District, Caravelí Province, Arequipa, Peru1
SATENA Flight 884928 Jan 202615Curasica, Playa de Belén, Norte de Santander, Colombia1
2026 Saudi Aramco AW139 crash28 Jun 202614Near Ras Tanura Airport, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia1
2026 Aerodiana Cessna 208 crash1 Aug 202613Near Nazca, Department of Ica, Peru1
2026 Butler PAC P-750 crash14 Jun 202612Butler, Missouri, United States1
2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash28 Jun 202611Tomblaine, Grand Est, France1
Flamingo Air Cessna 402C accident10 Jul 202610near San Andros Airport, Andros, Bahamas1
2026 Indonesia Air Transport ATR 42 crash17 Jan 202610Near Bulusaraung mountain, South Sulawesi, Indonesia1

Deadliest with more than one aircraft

12 occurrences involved more than one aircraft, such as midair and ground collisions; 4 were fatal. These count everyone, as the table above does.

Deadliest with more than one aircraft
OccurrenceDateTotal fatalitiesLocationAircraft
2026 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision14 Jun 20266Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil2
2026 mid-air collision over Iraq12 Mar 20266Iraqi airspace2
2026 Athens mid-air collision2 Aug 20262Psatha, Athens, Greece2
ERA26FA214 · Piper PA-25-23526 May 20261Saratoga Springs, NY, United States2

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
OccurrenceDateInjuredFatalitiesTotal fatalitiesLocation
2026 Colombian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash23 Mar 2026576969Puerto Leguízamo, Putumayo, Colombia
2026 Bolivian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash27 Feb 20264337 on the ground124El Alto International Airport, El Alto, Bolivia
Air Canada Express Flight 864622 Mar 2026392 on the groundUnknown2LaGuardia Airport, New York City, New York, United States
Kenmore Air Harbor de Havilland DHC-3 accident23 Jul 20261000Eastsound, WA, United States
WPR26LA225 · Ultramagic SA N-30018 Jun 20261000Pahrump, NV, United States
21 Air Flight 75986 Sept 202653 on the ground05Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States
CEN26FA228 · Textron Aviation Inc 680A16 Jun 20265Unknown1Laredo, TX, United States
ERA26LA153 · Textron Aviation Inc T206H21 Mar 2026500Fort Myers, FL, United States
ANC26LA051 · Robinson R44 I13 Jun 2026400Pembroke Pines, FL, United States
Southwest Airlines Flight 239215 Apr 2026400Providence, RI, United States
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