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.

Deadliest for the people on board
Occurrence	Date	Fatalities	Total fatalities	Location
Tenerife airport disaster	27 Mar 1977	583	583	Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Japan Air Lines Flight 123	12 Aug 1985	520	520	Mount Takamagahara, Ueno, Tano District, Gunma, Japan
1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision	12 Nov 1996	349	349	Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India
Turkish Airlines Flight 981	3 Mar 1974	346	346	Ermenonville Forest, Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise, France
Air India Flight 182	23 Jun 1985	329	329	Atlantic Ocean, 190 km WSW of Waterville, Ireland
Saudia Flight 163	19 Aug 1980	301	301	Riyadh International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17	17 Jul 2014	298	298	Near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Iran Air Flight 655	3 Jul 1988	290	290	Strait of Hormuz, near Qeshm Island, Iran
Korean Air Lines Flight 007	1 Sept 1983	269	269	Sea of Japan, near Moneron Island, west of Sakhalin Island, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
China Airlines Flight 140	26 Apr 1994	264	264	Nagoya Airport, Nagoya, Japan

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
American Airlines Flight 11	11 Sept 2001	1,554	North Tower (WTC 1) of the World Trade Center, New York City, U.S.	1
United Airlines Flight 175	11 Sept 2001	695	South Tower (WTC 2) of the World Trade Center, New York City, U.S.	1
Tenerife airport disaster	27 Mar 1977	583	Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	2
Japan Air Lines Flight 123	12 Aug 1985	520	Mount Takamagahara, Ueno, Tano District, Gunma, Japan	1
1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision	12 Nov 1996	349	Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India	2
Turkish Airlines Flight 981	3 Mar 1974	346	Ermenonville Forest, Fontaine-Chaalis, Oise, France	1
Air India Flight 182	23 Jun 1985	329	Atlantic Ocean, 190 km WSW of Waterville, Ireland	1
Saudia Flight 163	19 Aug 1980	301	Riyadh International Airport, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	1
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17	17 Jul 2014	298	Near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine	1
Iran Air Flight 655	3 Jul 1988	290	Strait of Hormuz, near Qeshm Island, Iran	1

Deadliest with more than one aircraft

464 occurrences involved more than one aircraft, such as midair and ground collisions; 110 were fatal. These count everyone, as the table above does.

Deadliest with more than one aircraft
Occurrence	Date	Total fatalities	Location	Aircraft
Tenerife airport disaster	27 Mar 1977	583	Los Rodeos Airport, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	2
1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision	12 Nov 1996	349	Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India	2
1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision	11 Aug 1979	178	Near Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union	2
1976 Zagreb mid-air collision	10 Sept 1976	176	Samoborec, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now present-day Croatia)	2
All Nippon Airways Flight 58	30 Jul 1971	162	Near Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan	2
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907	29 Sept 2006	154	Amazon rainforest, Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil	2
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182	25 Sept 1978	144	North Park, near San Diego International Airport, San Diego, California, United States	2
1993 Sukhumi airliner attacks	20 Sept 1993	136	Georgia, Black Sea	3
1960 New York mid-air collision	16 Dec 1960	134	Miller Field, Near New York City, U.S.	2
1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions	2 Oct 1990	128	Guangzhou Baiyun, International Airport, Guangzhou, China	3

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
1996 Air Africa Antonov An-32 crash	8 Jan 1996	about 504500 on the ground	2	Unknown	N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa, Zaire
China Airlines Flight 642	22 Aug 1999	208	3	3	Hong Kong International Airport
Transbrasil Flight 801	21 Mar 1989	about 200all on the ground	3	25	Vila Barros, near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil
Asiana Airlines Flight 214	6 Jul 2013	187	3	3	San Francisco International Airport, Millbrae, California, United States
Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193	5 Feb 2020	179	3	3	Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey
United Airlines Flight 232	19 Jul 1989	171	112	112	Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
Garuda Indonesia Flight 865	13 Jun 1996	170	3	3	Fukuoka Airport, Fukuoka, Japan
China Eastern Airlines Flight 583	6 Apr 1993	156	2	2	Pacific Ocean, Near the Aleutian Islands
Pan Am Flight 73	5 Sept 1986	150	Unknown	Unknown	Karachi Airport, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Japan Air Lines food poisoning incident	3 Feb 1975	144	0	0	Copenhagen Airport, Denmark

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