Accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. This list is also available grouped:
by airline,
by location,
alphabetically, by death toll.
See also: Accidents and incidents in aviation.
This list is not complete. For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office or the Air Safety Network. Airlines seem to be remembered by their worst accidents, and in that sense this list presents a good overview, but it is far from being complete.
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- January 15 – A Skyline Sweden Vickers Viscount 838 crashes in Kälvesta, Sweden just outside Stockholm killing all 22 on board.
- March 27 – KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 collide in the Tenerife disaster, the worst accident in the history of commercial aircraft.
- April 4 - Southern Airways Flight 242 DC-9 crash-landed on a highway after dual engine failure encountered in a thunderstorm, 62 out of 85 aboard killed, 8 ground fatalities.
- April 28 - An Aviateca Convair 240 crashes near Guatemala City, Guatemala killing all 28 people on board
- May 14 - an IAS Cargo Boeing 707 crashes near Lusaka, Zambia, killing all 6 on-board.
- May 27 - an Aeroflot Ilyushin, crashes on approach in Havana. It remains the second worst accident in Cuba's history.
- September 28 – Japan Airlines Flight 472, a Douglas DC-8, is hijacked after taking off from Mumbai, India by Japanese Red Army (JRA) terrorists. The terrorists forced the plane to land in Dhaka, Bangladesh were they demanded a US$6 million and the release of nine imprisoned JRA members being held in Japan. The Japanese government complied and all of the hostages were eventually released.
- October 13 – Lufthansa Flight 181 is hijacked by four Palestinians, members of the PFLP.
- October 20- Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 airliner, registered N55VM, departs from Greenville, South Carolina's Downtown Airport, runs out of fuel en route to next concert and crashes five miles north of Gillsburg, Mississippi in a swampy pine forest while trying to reach an alternate airport. They were only 48 miles short of the destination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when they had fuel starvation. Four members of the band and crew are killed, as are both pilots. Lead singer and founder of the band, Ronnie Van Zant, dies at the crash site.
- November 19 - TAP Boeing 727 overran runway at Funchal, Madeira Islands and exploded killing 131.
- December 4 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 hijacked in mysterious circumstances.
- December 13 – National Jet Services Douglas DC-3 charter crashed on takeoff from Evansville, Indiana en route to Nashville International Airport (BNA), killing all 29 on board, including the entire University of Evansville basketball team.