Historic Air Disasters
Historic Air Disasters is a structured history dataset with 18 entries. Its fields include Disaster, Year, Location. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 18 rows
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Disaster, Year, Location, Aircraft, Fatalities, and 1 more.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Year span
- 1937 to 2019
- Across 18 preview rows
- Fatalities range
- 36 to 583
- Across 18 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Disaster, Year, and Location across history entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 18 downloadable records
Disaster↕ | Year↕ | Location↕ | Aircraft↕ | Fatalities↕ | Cause↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hindenburg disaster | 1937 | Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA | LZ 129 Hindenburg airship | 36 | Hydrogen fire during landing |
1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision | 1956 | Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA | TWA L-1049 and United DC-7 | 128 | Mid-air collision in uncontrolled airspace |
Tenerife airport disaster | 1977 | Tenerife, Canary Islands | KLM and Pan Am 747s | 583 | Runway collision in fog, miscommunication |
American Airlines Flight 191 | 1979 | Chicago, USA | McDonnell Douglas DC-10 | 273 | Engine detached on takeoff |
Japan Airlines Flight 123 | 1985 | Mount Takamagahara, Japan | Boeing 747SR | 520 | Faulty tail repair caused decompression |
Air India Flight 182 | 1985 | Atlantic Ocean near Ireland | Boeing 747 | 329 | Sikh extremist bomb |
Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie) | 1988 | Lockerbie, Scotland | Boeing 747 | 270 | Libyan terrorist bomb |
Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision | 1996 | Haryana, India | Saudi 747 and Kazakh Il-76 | 349 | Altitude deviation, communication issues |
TWA Flight 800 | 1996 | Long Island, New York, USA | Boeing 747 | 230 | Center fuel tank explosion |
Swissair Flight 111 | 1998 | Nova Scotia, Canada | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 | 229 | In-flight fire from wiring |
American Airlines Flight 587 | 2001 | New York City, USA | Airbus A300 | 265 | Rudder overuse caused vertical stabilizer failure |
Concorde Flight 4590 crash | 2000 | Gonesse, France | Aerospatiale / BAC Concorde | 113 | Runway debris punctured tire and fuel tank |
Air France Flight 447 | 2009 | Atlantic Ocean | Airbus A330 | 228 | Pitot tube icing and pilot error |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | 2014 | Indian Ocean (presumed) | Boeing 777 | 239 | Unknown, aircraft never found |
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 | 2014 | Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine | Boeing 777 | 298 | Shot down by surface-to-air missile |
Germanwings Flight 9525 | 2015 | French Alps | Airbus A320 | 150 | Deliberate crash by co-pilot |
Lion Air Flight 610 | 2018 | Java Sea, Indonesia | Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 189 | MCAS malfunction, faulty AOA sensor |
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 | 2019 | near Bishoftu, Ethiopia | Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 157 | MCAS malfunction, 737 MAX grounded |
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