Many notable human fatalities have resulted from aviation accidents and incidents.
Those killed as part of a sporting, political, or musical group who flew together when the accident took place are usually only listed under the group sections; however, some are also listed as individuals.
Individuals
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!scope="col"|Nationality
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!scope="col"|Notability
!scope="col"|Flight/aircraft
!scope="col"|Crash site
!scope="col"|Cause/circumstances
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|United States
|2001
|Actress, singer, and model
|Cessna 402
|Marsh Harbour, Abaco Islands, The Bahamas
|Maximum takeoff weight of airplane substantially exceeded, pilot under the influence of cocaine and alcohol.
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|United States
|1967
|Test pilot
|X-15 Flight 3-65-97
|Randsburg, California, United States
|Breakup caused by malfunctioning control system
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|Germany
|1936
|Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
|Ford Trimotor
|Zumpango, Mexico
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|Malaysia
|1997
|Entrepreneur, founder of DRB-HICOM
|Agusta A109P
|Kuala Lipis, Pahang, Malaysia
|Mid-air explosion
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|United Kingdom
|1919
|Aviator who flew the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic
|Vickers Viking
|Cottévrard, near Rouen, France
|Plane stalled and crashed in fog
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|Brazil
|1967
|Former President of Brazil
|Piper Aztec
|Fortaleza, Brazil
|In mid-air collision with a Brazilian Air Force Lockheed T-33
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|United States
|1966
|Politician, Pennsylvania Attorney General
|Piper PA-23
|Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States
|Pilot error
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|United States
|1993
|NASCAR driver
|Hughes 369
|Talladega, Alabama, United States
|Pilot error
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|Israel
|1948
|Military, first IAF pilot to command a combat squadron and to score an aerial victory
|Avia S-199
|Herzliya, Israel
|Struck terrain nose-down after apparent engine trouble during a gear-up landing attempt
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|Sweden
|1977
|Table tennis player
|Linjeflyg Flight 618
|Kälvesta, Sweden
|Icing of tailplane caused by engines being operated at too low a power setting for anti-ice to be effective
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|Norway
|1928
|Explorer
|Latham 47
|Barents Sea
|Disappearance
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|Korea
|1930
|Aviator
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|Taiyuan, China
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|United States
|1983
|Record-setting hot-air balloonist
|Hot-air balloon
|Near Bad Brückenau, West Germany
|Gondola release mechanism malfunction
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|United States
|1999
|Minnesota Air National Guard test pilot
| Cirrus SR20
| Federal Prison Camp, Duluth
| Aileron jam during early production flight testing
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|Sweden
|1922
|Aviator, parachutist
|Parachute
|Askersund, Sweden
|Parachute failure
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|Argentina
|2018
|Racing driver, Turismo Carretera
|Pitts Special
|Carreras, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
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|United States
|2001
|Producer
|American Airlines Flight 11
|World Trade Center North Tower, New York City
| 9/11 hijacking by Mohamed Atta
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|Finland
|1941
|Communist leader, military officer
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|Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union
|Was allegedly killed in a plane crash, but some claim he died in Moscow under suspicious circumstances.
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|United States
|2012
|CEO of Micron at time of incident
|Lancair IV-P
|Boise Airport, Idaho, United States
|Error during emergency landing
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|United Kingdom
|1942
|Army Officer and Member of Parliament
|Handley Page Halifax
|Luqa, Malta
|Crashed on takeoff
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|United States
|1956
|Test pilot
|Bell X-2
|Edwards AFB, California, United States
|Pilot error
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|Iraq
|1966
|President of Iraq
|de Havilland Dove 1
|Southern Iraq
|Crashed in a sand storm
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|France
|2015
|Sailor
|Eurocopter AS350
|Villa Castelli, Argentina
|Collided in mid-air; see 2015 Villa Castelli mid-air collision
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|Canada
|2001
|Ice hockey player (NHL)
|United Airlines Flight 175
|World Trade Center South Tower, New York City
|9/11 hijacking by Marwan al-Shehhi
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|United Kingdom
|1942
|World War I flying ace
|Martin-Baker MB 3
| RAF Wing, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
|Engine failure
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|France
|1986
|Singer and songwriter
|Aérospatiale AS350 Ecureuil
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|Bolivia
|1969
|President of Bolivia
|Hiller UH-12
|Arque, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia
|Rotors caught on power lines
|San Francisco, California, United States
|Demonstrating inverted flight at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. Structural failure while attempting to pull up.
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|United States
|2001
|Oracle Corporation employee
|United Airlines Flight 93
|Shanksville, Pennsylvania, United States
|9/11 hijacking by Ziad Jarrah
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|United States
|1943
|Politician, mayor of St. Louis
|Waco CG-4A-RO
|Lambert Field, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|Loss of right wing due to wing strut fitting failure during demonstration flight; Maj. William B. Robertson also dies in this accident
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|United States
|1972
|US Congressman from Alaska
|Cessna 310
|Alaska, United States
|Disappeared, body never recovered, presumed dead. Hale Boggs was also on this flight.
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|United Kingdom
|1978
|Racing car designer, driver and founder / owner of Chevron Cars Ltd
|Hiway Scorpion B hang glider
|Lancashire, United Kingdom
|Competed in a competitive event organized by his club. Pilot error likely to have caused by stall whilst attempting a challenging manoeuvre. The pilot had 18 months flying experience.
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|United States
|2001
|Entertainer, actress, and photographer
|American Airlines Flight 11
|World Trade Center North Tower, New York City
|9/11 hijacking by Mohamed Atta
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|United States
|1996
|Quarterback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers
|Piper J-3 Cub
|Raymond, Nebraska, United States
|Pilot error (loss of engine power because of fuel valve mis-position)
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|United States
|1927
|Aviator
|Old Glory
|North Atlantic
|Aircraft crashed during an attempt at a transatlantic flight from the United States to Italy.
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|United States
|1999
|Sister-in-law of John F. Kennedy Jr.
|Piper Saratoga
|Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
|Pilot error; see John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash
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|United States
|1999
|Wife of John F. Kennedy Jr.
|Piper Saratoga
|Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
|Pilot error; see John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash
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|United States
|2000
|CART racing driver/owner
|Beechcraft Baron
|Ann Milton Adams' farm, Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
|Airframe icing
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|United States
|2001
|Video producer and director music video
|American Airlines Flight 11
|World Trade Center North Tower, New York City
|9/11 hijacking by Mohamed Atta
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|Canada
|1948
|World War II ace pilot
|Noorduyn Norseman
|Rome, Italy
|Possible sabotage
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|India
|1986
|Flight attendant who saved lives during a hijacking
|Pan Am Flight 73
|Karachi, Pakistan
|Hijacking
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|India
|1966
|Nuclear physicist
|Air India Flight 101
|Mont Blanc, France
|Flight dispatched without necessary navigation equipment for the route being flown
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|United States
|2025
|Retired NASCAR driver
|Cessna Citation II
|Statesville, North Carolina, United States
| Under investigation; see 2025 North Carolina Cessna Citation II crash
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|Yugoslavia
|1977
|Premier of Yugoslavia
|Learjet 25
|Kreševo, Yugoslavia
|Poor weather conditions
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|Saudi Arabia
|1988
|Entrepreneur and half-brother of Osama bin Laden
|JMB VL-3 Sprint ultra-light aircraft
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|Central African Republic
|1959
|1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
|Nord Noratlas
|Boda, Lobaye, Central African Republic
|Mid-air explosion
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|United States
|1972
|Politician, US Congressman from Louisiana
|Cessna 310
|southern Alaska, United States
|Disappeared, body never recovered, presumed dead. Nick Begich was also in this flight.
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|United States
|1984
|US Air Force lieutenant general
|MIG-23
|Jackass Flats, Nevada, United States
|Reacted improperly to afterburner malfunction, lost aircraft control, fatally injured ejecting at excessive speed
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|United States
|1945
|World War II fighter ace and test pilot
|Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
|Burbank, California, United States
|Pilot error
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|United States
|1972
|Canadian football player for the Ottawa Rough Riders
|Piper Cherokee
|Dorchester, Ontario, Canada
|Thunderstorm
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|United States
|1999
|Golf course designer
|Learjet 35
|Mina, South Dakota, United States
|Hypoxia; see 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash. Payne Stewart also died in this accident.
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|India
|1945
|Politician and freedom fighter
|Mitsubishi Ki-21
|Taipei, Japanese Taiwan (alleged)
|Cause disputed
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|Mauritania
|1979
|Politician, Prime Minister of Mauritania
|de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo
|Dakar, Senegal
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|United States
|2011
|Businessman and former Oklahoma state senator
|Piper PA-28 Cherokee N7746W
|Perryville, Arkansas, United States
|Controlled flight into terrain
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|France
|1996
|Ice hockey defenseman for the Ligue Magnus
|TWA Flight 800
|East Moriches, New York, United States
|Mid-air explosion
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|United States
|1996
|Politician, US Secretary of Commerce
|Boeing CT-43
|Dubrovnik, Croatia
|Pilot error
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|United States
|2020
|Retired NBA all-star basketball player
|Sikorsky S-76
|Calabasas, California, United States
|Uncontrolled flight into terrain due to pilot error (continued VFR into IMC) and spatial disorientation; John Altobelli also died in the crash. See 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash.
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|Germany
|2015
|Bass-baritone opera singer
|Germanwings Flight 9525
|Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
|Co-pilot committed murder-suicide by deliberately crashing the plane, killing all 150 passengers. His colleague Maria Radner was also on board.
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|United States
|2011
|College basketball coach
|Piper PA-28 Cherokee N7746W
|Perryville, Arkansas, United States
|Controlled flight into terrain
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|United Kingdom
|1933
|Politician
|Hawker Hart
|RAF Hendon
|Aircraft failed to recover from dive while practising display for air pageant
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|United States
|1944
|Test pilot for Lockheed
|Lockheed YP-80 Shooting Star
|Burbank, California, United States
|Engine flame-out
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|United States
|2001
|Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Thoratec Corporation
|United Airlines Flight 93
|Shanksville, Pennsylvania, United States
|9/11 hijacking by Ziad Jarrah
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|United States
|1941
|Politician; US Congressman from Maryland
|Eastern Air Lines Flight 21
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|Inadvertently descended into trees due to incorrect altimeter setting. Eddie Rickenbacker survived this crash.
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|Philippines
|1957
|Philippine senator
|Douglas C-47 Skytrain
|Mount Manunggal, Balamban, Cebu, Philippines (22 mi NW)
|See 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash
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|Chile
|2011
|Television presenter (Television Nacional de Chile)
|Chilean Air Force CASA C-212 Aviocar
|off Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile
| Loss of control in adverse weather
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|Brazil
|2014
|Politician, presidential candidate in Brazilian general election, 2014
|2014 Santos Cessna Citation crash
|Santos, Brazil
|Nose-down collision with ground during poor weather shortly after aborting landing, caused by pilot disorientation.
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|Mexico
|1983
|Entertainer, actress
|Aviaco Flight 134
|Madrid, Spain
|Collision resulting from runway incursion, caused by poor visibility and taxiway signage
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|Romania
|1912
|Army officer, first Romanian airplane accident casualty
|Farman
|Bucharest, Romania
|Plane crash during training on Cotroceni Airfield
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|United States
|2000
|Governor of Missouri
|Cessna 335
|Goldman, Missouri, United States
|Thunderstorm
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|Sweden
|1988
|Assistant-Secretary-General of the UN, UN Commissioner for Namibia
|Pan Am Flight 103
|Lockerbie, Scotland, United Kingdom
|Terrorism
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|Mexico
|1928
|Mexican "Charles Lindbergh"
|Ryan Brougham
|Tabernacle, New Jersey, United States
|Weather?
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|United States
|1991
|Astronaut
|Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311
|Brunswick, Georgia, United States
||Malfunction of the left engine propeller control unit. Senator John Tower also died in this crash.
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|Italy
|1985
|Actor
|Bell 206B
|Page, Arizona, United States
||Rotor blades struck bridge due to pilot error and aircraft fell into canyon during filming of Vendetta dal futuro
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|United States
|1948
|Sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
|de Havilland Dove
|Saint-Bauzile, Ardèche, France
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|Greece
|1937
|Princess of Greece and Denmark, sister of Prince Philip
|Junkers Ju 52
|Ostend, Belgium
|Crashed into a factory chimney; see 1937 Sabena Junkers Ju 52 Ostend crash
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|Sweden
|1918
|Aviator
|Blériot XI
|Gulf of Bothnia
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|France
|1949
|World boxing champion
|Lockheed Constellation
|São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal
|Controlled flight into terrain, mountain
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|United Kingdom
|1939
|Motorcycle speedway rider
|Slingsby Petrel
|Great Hucklow, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England
|Died in gliding competition
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|United States
|1974
|Trumpet player and band leader
|Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche
|Jackson, Minnesota, United States
|Poor weather
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|Peru
|1910
|Aviator
|Blériot XI
|Domodossola, Italy
|Inadequate repairs to aircraft
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|Venezuela
|1969
|Major League Baseball player
|Viasa Flight 742||
Maracaibo, Venezuela
|Struck power lines during takeoff
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|Russia
|2023
|Head of logistics of Wagner Group
|Embraer Legacy 600
|Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast, Russia
|Under investigation; see 2023 Wagner Group plane crash
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|Soviet Union
|1972
|Actor, parodist
|Aeroflot Flight 1491
|Kharkiv, Soviet Union
|Structural failure leading to a loss of control
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|Germany
|1943
|Prince of Hesse, nephew of Wilhelm II
|Siebel Fh 104 Hallore
|Forlì, Italy
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|United States
|2017
|American racing driver
|Mooney M20-C
|North Branford, Connecticut
|Total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as the result of foreign object debris in the fuel selector valve
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|Cuba
|1959
|Revolutionary
|Cessna 310
|Caribbean
|Disappeared, body never recovered, presumed dead
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|Spain
|1936
|Inventor of the autogyro
|KLM Douglas DC-2
|Croydon Air Port, South London
|Aircraft hit house after taking off in fog. Arvid Lindman was also killed.
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|United States
|1949
|Entertainer and singer
|Cessna
|Los Angeles, United States
||Pilot error
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|Puerto Rico
|1972
|Major League Baseball player
|Douglas DC-7
|off the coast of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico
|Mechanical problems; overloaded plane
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|United States
|1963
|Entertainer and country singer
|Piper Comanche
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|United States
|1913
|Aviation pioneer and showman
|Cody Floatplane
|Farnborough, Hampshire, England
|Aircraft broke up at 200 ft; thrown out of aircraft
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|United States
|1926
|Aviator, first African-American woman pilot
|Curtiss JN-4
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States
|Thrown from aircraft after controls jammed while she was riding as a passenger. She was not wearing a seatbelt.
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|United States
|2000
|Entertainer, WGN (AM) radio personality
|Zlín Z 42
|Waukegan, Illinois, United States
|Mid-air collision
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|United States
|1972
|Politician, US Congressman from Illinois
|United Air Lines Flight 553
|Chicago, United States
|Pilot error
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|United States
|1962
|United States Navy admiral
|American Airlines Flight 1
|Jamaica Bay, Queens, New York, United States
|Loss of control at takeoff due to autopilot malfunction caused by electrical short
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|United States
|1921
|Politician, former US Congressman from Iowa
|Curtiss Eagle
|Indian Head, Maryland, United States
|Severe weather
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|United States
|1914
|Aviator
|Wright aircraft
|Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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|United Kingdom
|1974
|athlete, silver medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics
|Turkish Airlines Flight 981
|Ermenonville, France
|Cargo hatch and control cable failures
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|United States
|1963
|Entertainer and country music singer
|Piper Comanche
|Camden, Tennessee, United States
|Severe weather; Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins were also killed in this accident.
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|United States
|1994
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|Cessna 150
|Washington, D.C., United States
|Intentionally crashed a stolen airplane on the White House lawn
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|France
|1979
|Oceanographer
|PBY Catalina
|Lisbon, Portugal
|Nosed over during high-speed water taxi
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|United Kingdom
|2011
|Record breaking stunt performer
|Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche
|Mont Agel, France
|Crashed while flying through dense fog at low altitude
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|United States
|1973
|Entertainer and singer
|Beechcraft Model 18
|Natchitoches, Louisiana, United States
|Collision with trees
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|United States
|1958
|Oceanographer
|Aeroméxico Flight 111
|Guadalajara, Mexico
|Crashed into mountain
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|South Africa
|2002
|Cricket captain
|Hawker Siddeley HS 748
|George, Western Cape, South Africa
|Unserviceable navigational equipment
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|United States
|2006
|Test pilot
|Cessna 210
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|Dominican Republic
|1970
|World boxing champion
|1970 Dominicana de Aviación DC-9 crash
|Punta Caucedo
|Fuel contamination
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|United States
|1996
|American National Football League player
|ValuJet Flight 592
|Florida Everglades, United States
|Fire in-flight
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|United States
|1935
|Politician, US Senator from New Mexico
|TWA Douglas DC-2
|Atlanta, Missouri, United States
|Bad weather
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|Portugal
|1980
|Politician, defense minister of Portugal
|Cessna 421
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|United Kingdom
|1946
|Test pilot
|de Havilland DH 108
|Hoo Peninsula
|Aircraft broke up while carrying out high-speed tests
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|United Kingdom
|1943
|Test pilot
|de Havilland Mosquito
|Hatfield, England
|Mid-air collision
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|France
|1910
|Aviator and sculptor
|Bleriot XI
|Bordeaux, France
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|United States
|2021
|Businessman and space tourist
|Cessna 172
|Hampton Township, New Jersey, United States
|Crash in a heavily wooded area
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|United States
|1923
|Stunt pilot, airport owner, aviation-school owner
|the "Wasp"
|Venice, Los Angeles, California, United States
|Substandard wing pins
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|South Africa
|2013
|Aviator
|Extra EA-300
|Secunda, Mpumalanga
|Crashed during an airshow
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|United States
|1997
|Entertainer, singer, songwriter, actor
|Rutan Long-EZ
|Pacific Grove, California, United States
|Aircraft unfamiliarity; faulty assembly (deviation from original design)
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|United States
|2009
|Human rights investigator and expert on the Rwandan genocide
|Colgan Air Flight 3407
|Clarence Center, New York
|Icing, pilot error
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|Brazil
|2019
|Singer and songwriter
|Piper PA-28 Cherokee
|Estância, Sergipe, Brazil
|Crashed in bad weather
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|Brazil
|1972
|Actress
|Japan Air Lines Flight 471
|New Delhi, India
|Controlled flight into terrain
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|France
|1988
|Racing car driver
|Mitsubishi MU-2
|Saint-Étienne, France
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|Germany
|1937
|Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse
|Junkers Ju 52
|Ostend, Belgium
|Crashed into a factory chimney; see 1937 Sabena Junkers Ju 52 Ostend crash
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|United States
|1986
|Actress and radio station traffic reporter
|Enstrom F-28
|New York City
|Main rotor seizure due to improper maintenance. Dornacker was live on the air for WNBC (AM) at the time of the crash.
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|United States
|2004
|Chief engine builder of Hendrick Motorsports
|Beechcraft Super King Air 200
|Martinsville, Virginia, United States
|Pilot error. Several members of Hendrick family also died including Ricky Hendrick.
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|United States
|1996
|Aviator, 7-year-old aspiring pilot
|Cessna 177
|Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States
|Aircraft lost control in thunderstorm; deliberate takeoff because of media commitments; pilot error
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|United States
|1943
|Aviator, United States Army Air Forces Lieutenant Colonel
|Lockheed P-38 Lightning
|Burbank, California, United States
|Aircraft caught fire while on a training mission near highly populated Burbank, California. Instead of parachuting to safety, he remained at the controls and saved countless civilian lives by guiding it into a vacant lot.
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|United States
|1937
|Aviator, pioneer woman pilot
|Lockheed Model 10 Electra
|Pacific Ocean, near Howland Island
|Disappeared together with navigator Fred Noonan during global circumnavigation attempt, cause undetermined, body and aircraft never found; see speculation on Earhart's disappearance
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|United States
|2009
|Activist, co-chair of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee
|Colgan Air Flight 3407
|Chesapeake Bay
|
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|United States
|1911
|Aviator, pioneer pilot in American naval aviation
|Curtiss Model D
|Macon, Georgia, United States
|Crashed while pulling from a dive.
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|United States
|1943
|Rear-Admiral, Commander, Submarines, U.S. Pacific Fleet
|Pan Am Flight 1104
|near Ukiah, California, United States
|Pilot error
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|Austria
|1982
|Formula One racer
|Beechcraft Bonanza
|Niederweidbach, NW Giessen, Germany
|Engine failure
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|Paraguay
|1940
|President of Paraguay
|Potez 25
|Altos, Paraguay
|
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|United States
|1985
|Project manager for IBM PC
|Delta Air Lines Flight 191
|Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, United States
|Microburst-induced wind shear
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|United Kingdom
|1913
|Cricketer
|Cody Floatplane
|Farnborough, Hampshire, England
|Aircraft broke up at 200 ft, thrown out of aircraft
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|United Kingdom
|2009
|Aisplay pilot
|Percival Provost
|Bishop Norton, Lincolnshire, England
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Russia
|2003
|Politician, governor of Sakhalin
|Mil Mi-8
|Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
|Pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|1909
|Aviation pioneer
|Voisin biplane
|Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
|Pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|Brazil
|2014
|Footballer
|Helibras AS 350BA
|Aruanã River, 9 miles from Aruanã, Goiás
|Under investigation
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1980
|Aviator, ace pilot in the Korean War
|Piper Geronimo
|Grand Bahama Island
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1931
|Game hunter
|de Havilland Gypsy Moth
|Voi, Kenya
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1962
|Racing car driver, 24 Hours of Le Mans winner
|CAC Mustang
|Australia
|Lost control in cloud
|-
!scope="row"|
|East Germany
|1989
|Berlin Wall defectee
|Homemade balloon
|Zehlendorf, Berlin
|Cause of crash unknown, fell into a garden of a villa in an attempt to defect to West Berlin.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Germany
|1995
|Scientist and astronaut
|Messerschmitt Bf 108
|Berlin
|Lost control of aircraft
|-
!scope="row"|
|Soviet Union
|1968
|First man in space
|Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI
|-
!scope="row"|
|Argentina
|1935
|Singer
|Ford Trimotor
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1956
|Major League Baseball player
|Ercoupe
|Riviera Beach, Maryland
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1927
|Army Major, aviation pioneer, namesake of Geiger Field
|Airco DH.4
|Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1978
|Producer and creator of Mission: Impossible
|Cessna Skymaster
|Santa Barbara, California
|Weather conditions
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1948
|High Commissioner for the Federation of Malaya
|Avro York
|Northwood, London
|1948 Northwood mid-air collision
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2017
|Entertainer, country music singer and guitarist
|Schweizer 269C
|Medford, New Jersey
|Uncontrolled descent during a power-off autorotation landing attempt; see 2017 Medford, New Jersey, helicopter crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1942
|Duke of Kent
|Short Sunderland
|Scotland
|Controlled flight into terrain in bad weather
|-
!scope="row"|
|Afghanistan
|1997
|Prime minister of the Northern Alliance government
|Antonov An-32
|Bamyan Province, Afghanistan
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Lithuania
|1933
|Aviator
|Lituanica
|Pszczelnik, Myślibórz County, Poland
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2001
|Marketing executive
|United Airlines Flight 93
|Shanksville, Pennsylvania, United States
|9/11 hijacking by Ziad Jarrah
|-
!scope="row"|
|Paraguay
|2018
|Minister of Agriculture and Livestock of Paraguay
|Beechcraft Baron
|Ayolas, Paraguay
|Aircraft crashed shortly after take-off
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1910
|Aviator
|Short S.27
|English Channel
|Disappeared, body never recovered, presumed dead
|-
!scope="row"|
|Brazil
|1982
|Martial artist, practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
|Hang glider
|Mauá, São Paulo, Brazil
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1991
|Rock concert promoter
|Bell 206
|Vallejo, California
|Flew into power lines
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1982
|Aviator, test pilot
|Cessna T-37 Tweet
|Edwards Air Force Base
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1982
|Entertainer, contemporary Christian musician
|Cessna 414
|Oslo, Norway
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|West Germany
|1959
|Zoologist
|Dornier Do 27
|Serengeti, Tanzania
|Collision with vulture
|-
!scope="row"|
|Sweden
|1947
|Swedish Prince, Duke of Västerbotten
|Douglas DC-3
|Kastrup, Denmark
|Locked elevator, pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|Germany
|1956
|Motorcycle racer
|Jodel D9 Bebe
|near Neuburg/Donau, Germany
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Rwanda
|1994
|President of Rwanda
|Dassault Falcon 50
|Kigali, Rwanda
|Aircraft shot down by unknown assassins; Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira and 10 others also killed
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2017
|Baseball player
|ICON A5
|Gulf of Mexico
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1914
|Aviator
|Morane-Saulnier
|English Channel
|Unknown. His body was found in the sea five weeks later, but it was not recovered
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1977
|City Manager of San Jose, California
|Tenerife airport disaster
|Canary Islands, Spain
|Airplane collision
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1932
|Soldier and politician
|Junkers F13
|Meopham, Kent, United Kingdom
|Structural failure
|-
!scope="row"|
|Sweden
|1961
|Secretary-General of the United Nations 1953–1961
| Douglas DC-6B
|Ndola, Rhodesia and Nyasaland
|Crashed into terrain, cause undetermined, possibly pilot error or external attack; see 1961 Ndola Transair Sweden DC-6 crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1941
|Motorcycle racer
|Bell P-39 Airacobra
|Kirkbampton, Cumberland, England
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1941
|Journalist and aviator
|Single-motor biplane
|Saugus, Massachusetts
|Crashed while performing stunts
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1991
|Major League Baseball player
|Beechcraft Bonanza
|Key West, Florida
|Propeller failure
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1996
|Vice-chairman of Chelsea Football Club
|Aerospatiale AS355 F1 Squirrel
|Middlewich, Cheshire, England
|Pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|1941
|Senator
|Airlines of Australia de Havilland Puss Moth
|Coen River, Australia
|Mechanical fault
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1950
|Second World War fighter ace
|Gloster Meteor
|Near Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
|Fuel exhaustion
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1968
|Air stewardess
|Boeing 707
|Heathrow Airport, London
|Awarded George Cross for her actions during the fire that befell BOAC Flight 712
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|1938
|Cabinet minister
|Australian National Airways Kyeema
|Mount Dandenong (Victoria), Australia
|Pilot error; 18 fatalities
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|1921
|Aviator, pioneer and co-founder of Hawker Aircraft
|Nieuport Goshawk
|Hendon Aerodrome, Hendon, north London, England
|Distraction of a hemorrhage while in flight cause a crash.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1963
|Entertainer, country music singer
|Piper Comanche see 1991 Merion mid-air collision
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2012
|State legislator from Alaska
|Cessna 206
|in Beluga Lake, Alaska near Homer Airport
|Plane flipped upon landing
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|1972
|Environmental activist
|de Havilland Tiger Moth
|en route from Tasmania to Canberra
|Vanished
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1951
|Racing driver
|Piper PA-20 Pacer
|Kern County, California
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2004
|Racing driver, son of Rick Hendrick and owner of Hendrick Motorsports
|Beechcraft Super King Air 200
|Martinsville, Virginia
|Pilot error. Several members of the Hendrick family and Randy Dorton also died in the crash.
|-
!scope="row"|
|New Zealand
|2013
|Business executive at telecom company 2degrees
|Beechcraft Baron
|Tasman Sea off Kawhia Harbour
|Airspeed decayed for undetermined reasons and aircraft entered a spin
|-
!scope="row"|
|Singapore
|1997
|Model, writer
|SilkAir Flight 185; Boeing 737
|Palembang, Indonesia
|Crashed during flight
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1975
|F1 racing driver
|Piper PA 23-250 Turbo-Aztec
|Near Arkley golf course, North London
|See Graham Hill plane crash. Hit trees when coming in to land due to fog.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1927
|Aviator
|Old Glory
|North Atlantic
|Aircraft crashed during an attempt at a transatlantic flight from the United States to Italy.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1935
|Test pilot
|Boeing Model 299
|Wright Field, Ohio
|Failure to remove gust locks before flight. Les Tower also died in this crash.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1995
|Business executive, founder of DHL Express
|Republic RC-3 Seabee
|Saipan
|Disappeared
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1938
|Racecar driver and aviator, Le Mans 24 Hours winner
|Hawker Hurricane I
|St. George's Hill, Weybridge
|aircraft failed to recover from dive, possible carbon monoxide poisoning of pilot
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|1933
|Aviator
|de Havilland Puss Moth
|Pratomagno Alps in Italy
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|2003
|Motorcycle racer, Isle of Man TT winner
|Robinson R44
|Hawick, Scotland
|Crashed after the main rotor struck the tailboom, causing it to detach, probably caused by excessively low rotor RPM
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1944
|Polo player
|North American P-51 Mustang
|Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
|Aircraft failed to recover from dive
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1988
|Racing driver, 24 Hours of Le Mans winner
|Piper Aerostar 601P
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1959
|Singer-songwriter
|Beechcraft Bonanza
|Clear Lake, IA
|Pilot error continued VFR into IMC; J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens were also killed in this accident (see The Day the Music Died).
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1975
|Construction company executive
|Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
|John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States
|Wind shear stemming from a microburst
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2015
|Film score composer
|Short Tucano
|Los Padres National Forest, California
|Under investigation
|-
!scope="row"|
|Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)|Hungary
|1942
|Deputy Regent of Hungary
|MÁVAG Héja
|Ilovskoye, Soviet Union
|Aircraft stalled and crashed
|-
!scope="row"|
|Great Britain
|1943
|English stage and screen actor
|KLM Royal Dutch Airlines/BOAC Flight 777/Douglas DC-3
|Commercial flight from Portugal to England, shot down in Bay of Biscay by Luftwaffe
|All 17 passengers and crew killed
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1964
|Major League Baseball player
|Cessna 172 Company founder (and future U.S. president) Donald Trump was reportedly scheduled to go with them on the flight, but cancelled at the last minute.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Mexico
|1983
|Novelist and playwright
|Avianca Flight 011
|Staines-upon-Thames, England
|Pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|Pakistan
|2016
|Singer
|Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661
|Havelian, Pakistan
|Engine failure
|-
!scope="row"|
|Poland
|1980
|Entertainer, singer
|LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007
|Malaysia
|2014
|Actress
|Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
|Hrabove, Ukraine
|Airliner shootdown
|-
!scope="row"|
|India
|1980
|Entertainer, Malayalam film actor
|Bell 47
|Sholavaram, Tamil Nadu
|Accident while performing a film stunt
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1988
|Musician
|Pan Am Flight 103
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1941
|Aviator, pioneer woman pilot
|Airspeed Oxford
|Thames Estuary
|Fuel exhaustion while ferrying aircraft due to 100% cloud cover at destination. Pilot abandoned aircraft over water and succumbed to hypothermia before rescue
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1996
|Designer
|TWA Flight 800
|East Moriches, New York (8 mi E)
|Mid-air explosion
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1937
|Adventurer and film producer
|Western Air Express Flight 7
|near Saugus, California
|Controlled flight into terrain into mountainous terrain
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1910
|Aviator, first American pilot fatality
|Wright Model B
|Denver, Colorado
|Crashed on 17 November 1910
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2001
|Astronaut
|American Airlines Flight 11
|World Trade Center North Tower, New York City
|9/11 hijacking by Mohamed Atta
|-
!scope="row"|
|Poland
|2010
|President of Poland
|Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154
|Smolensk North Airport, Russia
|Officially attributed to controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error, but official findings are disputed; see Smolensk air disaster
|-
!scope="row"|
|Sweden
|1968
|Theoretical physicist, professor
|Cessna
|Hanover, Germany
|Private plane
|-
!scope="row"|
|Finland
|1930
|Aviator, polar explorer
|Junkers W 33
|Sangar, Soviet Union
|Finnish-born Soviet aviator who crashed in a heavy snow storm
|-
!scope="row"|
|Egypt
|1950
|Swimmer
|Spitfire
|Port Said, Egypt
|Egyptian swimmer who was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Egyptian Air Force when his Spitfire collided in mid-air with another Spitfire over Port Said.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Greece
|1995
|Computer scientist, professor
|American Airlines Flight 965
|Buga, Colombia
|Navigational errors by flight crew
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1953
|Classical pianist
|BCPA Flight 304
|near Woodside, California
|Controlled flight into terrain into mountainous terrain
|-
!scope="row"|
|Lebanon
|1987
|Prime Minister of Lebanon
|Aérospatiale Puma
|Lebanon
|Bomb
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1929
|US Congressman from Massachusetts
|Fokker F.VII
|Bolling Field near Washington, D.C.
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1911
|Fourth American pilot killed, second in a military aircraft
|Curtiss Model D
|San Antonio, Texas
| Aviator. Crashed from broken strut.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|1983
|Film director
|Bell 206B JetRanger <!-- VH-KMX -->
|Warragamba Dam, New South Wales, Australia
|Helicopter was flying at 10-foot when it hit the water with the rear of the skids when it attempted to climb, pilot error.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1999
|Son of John F. Kennedy
|Piper PA-32R
|Atlantic Ocean off Martha's Vineyard
|Pilot error; see John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1944
|Older brother of John F. Kennedy
|Consolidated B-24 Liberator modified as a flying bomb
|near Blythburgh, Suffolk, England
|Killed on a combat flight during Operation Aphrodite
|-
!scope="row"|
|India
|2011
|Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
|Eurocopter
|Lobotang, Arunachal Pradesh, India
|Poor Condition of the Helicopter.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1958
|Korean War ace pilot and test pilot
|Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
|Edwards Air Force Base
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|1935
|Aviator
|Lockheed Altair
|Andaman Sea
|Disappeared during an England to Australia record flight attempt, body never recovered, presumed dead.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1943
|American football player; winner of the 1939 Heisman Trophy
|Grumman F4F Wildcat
|Caribbean
|Training accident
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1933
|Aviator
|Gee Bee Model Y Senior Sportster
|National Air Races, Chicago, Illinois
|Parachute fouled in fuselage during bail out after plane started breaking up.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2020
|Alaska State Representative
|Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser
|Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
|Collision with de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, cause attributed to both pilots filing to comply with the see and avoid rule; see 2020 Alaska mid-air collision
|-
!scope="row"|
|Japan
|1944
|Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of Combined Fleet
|Kawanishi H8K
|Philippine Sea between Davao and Palau
|Aircraft disappeared in typhoon
|-
!scope="row"|
|Greece
|1999
|Diplomat and politician
|Dassault Falcon 900
|Romania
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Austria
|1948
|Gliding champion and test pilot
|General Aircraft GAL.56
|Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
|Aircraft failed to recover from inverted dive during stall tests, observer bailed out at low altitude but pilot was unable to exit aircraft
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1993
|NASCAR driver
|Fairchild Merlin IIIC
|Tri-Cities Regional Airport, Blountville, Tennessee
|Engine failure due to ice accumulation
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1975
|ABA basketball player
|Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
|John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York
|Windshear
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1998
|Chef, son of Jake LaMotta
|Swissair Flight 111
|Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport, Nova Scotia, Canada
|In-flight fire caused by faulty wiring of entertainment system
|-
!scope="row"|
|Netherlands
|2014
|President of the International AIDS Society
|Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
|Hrabove, Ukraine
|Airliner shootdown
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2021
|Author, dietitian and church founder
|Cessna Citation I/SP
|Percy Priest Lake, Tennessee
|Loss of control in low visibility; husband Joe Lara also died in this accident; see 2021 Percy Priest Lake Cessna Citation crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2021
|Actor, martial artist and musician
|Cessna Citation I/SP
|Percy Priest Lake, Tennessee
|Loss of control in low visibility; wife Gwen Shamblin Lara also died in this accident; see 2021 Percy Priest Lake Cessna Citation crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|1909
|First person to die while piloting a powered airplane and the second person to be killed in an airplane crash
|Wright Model A
|Port-Aviation ("Juvisy Airfield"), Viry-Châtillon, France
|Crashed from
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|1919
|First woman to earn a pilot's license
|experimental Caudron
|Le Crotoy, France
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Norway
|2015
|Diplomat
|Mil Mi-17
|Naltar Valley, Pakistan
|Loss of control due to mechanical failure
|-
!scope="row"|
|Ecuador
|2007
|Defence minister of Ecuador
|Aérospatiale Gazelle
|Manta Air Base, Ecuador
|Collision with another Gazelle during a night training flight
|-
!scope="row"|
|Russia
|2002
|Presidential candidate, governor of Krasnoyarsk
|Mil Mi-8
|Yermakovsky District, Russia
|Pilot error, foggy weather
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1989
|US Congressman from Texas
|de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1966
|Champion golfer
|Beechcraft Twin Bonanza
|Los Angeles, California
|during filming of The Skywayman
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1942
|Actress
|TWA Flight 3<br />Douglas DC-3
|Mount Potosi, Nevada, United States
|Controlled flight into terrain
|-
!scope="row"|
|Belgium
|1928
|Entrepreneur and financier
|Fokker F.VII
|Fell from his plane over the English Channel
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Philippines
|2015
|Diplomat
|Mil Mi-17
|Naltar Valley, Pakistan
|loss of control due to mechanical failure
|-
!scope="row"|
|Sweden
|1931
|Aviator
|Svenska Aero Jaktfalken
|Malmslätt, Sweden
|test flight
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1940
|US Senator from Minnesota
|Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19
|Lovettsville, Virginia
|lightning strike
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1996
|Real estate agent & sex offender activist
|TWA Flight 800
|Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York
|mid-air explosion
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2006
|Eerobatic pilot and flight instructor
|Extra EA-300
|Culpeper Regional Airport, Culpeper, Virginia
|Disorientation while performing an aerobatic maneuver, which resulted in the airplane's inadvertent impact with the ground. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's overuse of prescription medication.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Nigeria
|2006
|The 19th Sultan of Sokoto
|ADC Airlines Flight 053; Boeing 737
|Abuja, Nigeria
|cause disputed
|-
!scope="row"|
|Mozambique
|1986
|President of Mozambique
|Tupolev Tu-134
|Mbuzini, Lebombo Mountains, South Africa
|Controlled flight into terrain during an instrument approach
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1928
|Socialite and Trans-Atlantic pioneer
|Stinson Detroiter
|Mid-Atlantic
|Disappeared without trace over the Atlantic
|-
!scope="row"|
|Spain
|2010
|Stunt pilot, Red Bull Air Race competitor
|Edge 540
|Casarrubios del Monte, Province of Toledo
|Crashed into the ground during stunt routine
|-
!scope="row"|
|Japan
|1976
|Erotic film actor
|Piper Cherokee
|Setagaya, Tokyo
|Controlled flight into terrain into a house during a kamikaze attack
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1941
|Aviator and poet
|Supermarine Spitfire V AD291
|Roxholm, England
|collision with an Airspeed Oxford
|-
!scope="row"|
|Philippines
|1957
|President of the Philippines
|Presidential plane crash, "Mt. Pinatubo"
|Mount Manunggal, Cebu, Philippines
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1998
|AIDS researcher and WHO official
|Swissair Flight 111
|Atlantic Ocean southwest of Halifax International Airport, Nova Scotia, Canada
|In-flight fire caused by faulty wiring of entertainment system
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1965
|Racing and stunt pilot
|Phoenix P-1
|-
!scope="row"|
|Italy
|1962
|President of Eni
|Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris
|Bascapè, Italy
|Crashed during stormy weather on approach to the Linate Airport. Unsubstantiated reports of a bomb explosion.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1922
|Pioneer aviator
|
|Rutland, Vermont, United States
|Nosedived while attempting a tailspin at a low altitude during a flying exhibition
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1954
|Korean War ace pilot
|F-86H Sabre
|Edwards Air Force Base
|control malfunction attributed to a missing bolt
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1918
|World War I fighter ace
|Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a
|Auxi-le-Château, France
|Engine malfunction on takeoff
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1983
|Congressman from Georgia
|Korean Air Lines Flight 007
|Near Moneron Island, Soviet Union
|Shot down by Soviet air force
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1918
|Aviator
|Gallaudette Hydroplane
|Greenwich Bay
|Pontoon dipped into the water, causing his plane to topple into the water where he drowned.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|2007
|Scottish rally driver
|Eurocopter AS350
|Lanark, Scotland
|Pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|Brazil
|2021
|Singer
|2021 Piedade de Caratinga Beechcraft King Air crash
|Piedade de Caratinga, Brazil
|Under investigation
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1980
|Ethnomusicologist
|LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007
|Warsaw, Poland
|loss of control due to fire caused by disintegrating turbine disc
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1977
|Actress, Playboy centerfold June 1955
|Tenerife airport disaster; Boeing 747-100
|Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
|runway collision
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1993
|Governor of South Dakota
|Mitsubishi MU-2B-60
|Dubuque, Iowa
|metal fatigue of propeller hub caused by improper design and manufacturing
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1944
|Musician, Big Band leader
|Noorduyn Norseman
|English Channel
|disappeared, body never recovered, presumed dead
|-
!scope="row"|
|Italy
|2013
|CEO of Missoni
|Britten-Norman Islander
|Los Roques, Venezuela
| Unknown, under investigation
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1918
|Former Mayor of New York City
|Thomas-Morse S-4
|Lake Charles, Louisiana
|Fell from airplane from not wearing a seatbelt; namesake of the former Mitchel Air Force Base.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1933
|U.S. Navy rear admiral
|
|Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey
|Dirigible crashed and sank in storm
|-
!scope="row"|
|Spain
|1937
|Nationalist General
|Airspeed Envoy
|Spain
|Flew into mountain
|-
!scope="row"|
|Germany
|1941
|Leading Luftwaffe fighter ace
|Heinkel He 111
|Breslau, Germany
|Passenger aboard aircraft that crashed while landing in thunderstorm
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1911
|Inventor, Aviator
|Evergreen monoplane glider
|San Jose, California, United States
|turbulence, which caused a stall.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1947
|Opera singer
|Douglas DC-3
|Kastrup, Denmark
|locked elevator, pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|Spain
|1939
|Top fighter ace of Spanish Civil War
|Fiat CR.32
|Spain
|Crashed during low-level aerobatic demonstration for newsreel cameras
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|2001
|Racing car engineer and co-founder of Ilmor Engineering
|Hawker Sea Fury
|Sywell, England
|overturned on landing
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1964
|Former Mayor of New Orleans
|Piper PA-23 Registration: N5211Y
|Ciudad Victoria, Mexico
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1982
|Actor
|Bell UH-1 Iroquois
|Ventura County, California, between Santa Clarita and Piru
|Helicopter crashed on top of him after special effects explosion damaged its tail rotor during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie
|-
!scope="row"|
|Turkey
|2009
|Harpist
|Air France Flight 447
|Atlantic Ocean
|controlled stalled flight into sea at night due to icing leading to pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1985
|Actor and singer
|Douglas DC-3
|-
!scope="row"|
|Denmark
|1947
|Singer and actress
|Douglas DC-3
|Kastrup, Denmark
|Locked elevator, pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|1949
|Classical violinist
||Lockheed Constellation
|São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal
|Controlled flight into terrain: mountain
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1916
|Pioneer aviator
||Moisant monoplane
|Fairgrounds Oshkosh, Wisconsin
|Crashed while performing a loop 25 June 1916; died of injuries 26 June 1916
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1975
|Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Louisiana
|Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
|John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States
|Wind shear stemming from a microburst
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1937
|Pioneering flight navigator
|Lockheed Model 10 Electra
|Pacific Ocean, near Howland Island
|Disappeared together with pilot Amelia Earhart during global circumnavigation attempt, cause undetermined, body and aircraft never found; see speculation on Earhart's disappearance
|-
!scope="row"|
|Canada
|1984
|Politician, leader of the opposition in Alberta
|Piper Navajo Chieftain
|High Prairie, Alberta, Canada
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Burundi
|1994
|President of Burundi
|Dassault Falcon 50
|Kigali, Rwanda
|Aircraft shot down by unknown assassins; Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and 10 others also killed
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1982
|Minister and Christian comedian
|Beechcraft Baron 55
|Cullman, Alabama
|cause of crash undetermined, weather (fog and rain) considered factors
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1962
|Governor of Montana
|Douglas C-47 Skytrain
|Wolf Creek, Montana
|crashed during snow storm
|-
!scope="row"|
|Guatemala
|2014
|Military officer, head of the military
|Bell 206
|El Aguacate, Nentón, Huehuetenango Department
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Mexico
|1969
|Tennis player
|Mexicana de Aviación Flight 704
|Maiquetía, Venezuela
|disappeared, was a presidential candidate at the time.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1996
||NASA astronaut, test pilot
|Cirrus VK-30
|Duluth, Minnesota, United States
|wing stall during full-flap stall testing
|-
!scope="row"|
|Brazil
|1977
|Formula One driver
|Piper
|Mairiporã
|Controlled flight into terrain, weather-related
|-
!scope="row"|
|Korea
|1933
|One of earliest Korean female aviators
|Salmson 2A2
|Hakone, Japan
|fog
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1979
|Film director
|small private plane
|Nairobi, Kenya
|Crashed after takeoff.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Canada
|1986
|Politician
|DeHavilland Beaver
|Oskarshamn, Sweden
| (crash info in Swedish)
|-
!scope="row"|
|Romania
|2021
|Romanian businessman and billionaire, one of the richest persons in Romania at the time
|Pilatus PC-12
|Milan, Italy
|2021 Milan airplane crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|Russia
|2011
|Russian international football referee
|RusAir Flight 9605
|Republic of Karelia, Russia
|Controlled flight into terrain
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1975
||Representative from California
|Beech Bonanza
|Banning, California
|Flew into obscured pass at low altitude.
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|1785
||Hot air ballooning pioneer
|Hot air balloon
|Wimille
|Crashed in an attempt to fly across the English Channel
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1899
|Inventor and aviation pioneer
|Glider The Hawk
|Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England
|Structural failure; tail detached from glider
|-
!scope="row"|
|Chile
|2024
|Former President of Chile
|Robinson R44
|Lake Ranco
|Crashed into lake
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|2002
|Baker and entrepreneur
|Agusta A109
|-
!scope="row"|
|Russia
|2023
|Russian oligarch and founder of Wagner Group
|Embraer Legacy 600
|Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast, Russia
|Under Investigation; see 2023 Wagner Group plane crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1985
|Formula One driver
|Pitts Special
|The sea off Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|West Germany
|1967
|Industrialist
|Beechcraft King Air
|Italy
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Brazil
|1982
|Entrepreneur
|VASP Flight 168
|Serra da Aratanha, near Pacatuba, Ceará, Brazil
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1912
|First licensed female pilot in the U.S.
|Blériot two seater
|Squantum, Massachusetts
|Fell from airplane from not wearing a seatbelt
|-
!scope="row"|
|Germany
|2015
|Opera singer
|Germanwings Flight 9525
|Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
|Co-pilot committed murder-suicide by deliberately crashing the plane, killing all 150 passengers. Her colleague Oleg Bryjak was also on board.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1942
|Composer and songwriter
|Douglas DC-3 – American Airlines Flight 28
|Chino Canyon, Riverside County, California, United States
|mid-air collision
|-
!scope="row"|
|Iran
|2024
|President of Iran
|Bell 212
|Varzaqan, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
|See: 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|Uruguay
|1983
|Writer, academic, and literary critic
| Avianca Flight 011, Boeing 747
|near Madrid, Spain
| Controlled flight into terrain
|-
!scope="row"|
|India
|2021
|Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Indian Armed Forces
|Mil Mi-17
|Coonoor taluk, Nilgiris district.
| 2021 Indian Air Force Mil Mi-17 crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1967
|Singer-songwriter
| Beechcraft Model 18
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1982
|Guitarist with Ozzy Osbourne
|Beechcraft Model 35 Bonanza
|California, United States
|engine failure caused by improper maintenance
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1991
|First female combat commander (US)
|Boeing CH-47 Chinook
|Northern Saudi Arabia
|collision with microwave tower
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|1954
|World War II ace and test pilot
|Dassault Mystère IV
|Melun, France
|electrical problems
|-
!scope="row"|
|Austria-Hungary
|1911
|First Slovene aviator, aircraft constructor
|Mercep-Rusjan monoplane
|Belgrade, Serbia
|Structural failure of the wing due to windy conditions. Crew lost control of the helicopter in conditions of poor visibility
|-
!scope="row"|
|Japan
|1985
|Singer
|Japan Air Lines Flight 123
|Mount Osutaka, Japan
|maintenance error leading to structural failure and hydraulic fluid loss with loss of control
|-
!scope="row"|
|Argentina
|2019
|Professional footballer
|2019 English Channel Piper PA-46 crash
|Off Guernsey, Channel Islands
|under investigation
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1945
|U.S. Navy rear admiral
|Martin PBM Mariner
|near Wakayama, Japan
|wreckage and bodies not found for more than 37 months after crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|Spain
|1936
|General/Coup Leader/Aspiring Dictator
|Small Biplane
|Estoril, Portugal
|Overloaded Cargo
|-
!scope="row"|
|Mexico
|2006
|Actor
|Piper PA-46
|Toluca, Mexico
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1916
|U.S. Navy aviation pioneer, altitude and endurance record holder
|Curtiss Model E
|Santa Rosa Island, Florida
|Crashed at 8-hour-51-minute mark of attempt to break own flight endurance record
|-
!scope="row"|
|Germany
|1935
|Bavarian minister of education
|Heinkel sport model
|Bayreuth, Germany
|crashed into aerodrome roof when landing
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1940
|Transcontinental record holder
|Piper J-3
|Floyd Bennett Field, New York
|mid-air collision
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1985
|Aerobatic and stunt performer
|Pitts Special
|Near Carlsbad, California
||Failed to recover from inverted spin during filming of Top Gun
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1967
|Musician
|helicopter
|Da Nang, Vietnam
|pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|India
|2001
|Politician
|Cessna C-90
|Bhogaon, India
|Engine fire
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1966
|Astronaut
|Northrop T-38 Talon
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1954
|Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner
|Cessna
|Decatur, Indiana
|weather
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1958
|Fisheries scientist
|Aeroméxico Flight 111
|Guadalajara, Mexico
|Crashed into mountain
|Nimitz Hill, Guam
|Improperly navigated approach
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1985
|Playwright
|Beechcraft Model 99
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1926
|Aviator
|Curtiss Carrier Pigeon
|Montpelier, Ohio
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1985
|Young activist
|Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808
|Auburn, Maine
|Improper execution of instrument approach; failed to initiate timely go-around
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1973
|Land art artist
|Beechcraft Baron
|Amarillo, Texas
|pilot error
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1947
|Governor of Oregon
|Beech Bonanza
|Lakeview, Oregon
|weather
|-
!scope="row"|
|India
|2004||Kannada film actress, Kannada and Tamil actress
|Cessna 180
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2019
|NASCAR Driver
|Aero-Works Aerolite 103 ultralight
|Sterling, Connecticut
|Engine failure leading to loss of power while attempting to land
|-
!scope="row"|
|Czechoslovakia
|1919
|Czechoslovak politician and French general
|Caproni Ca.3
|Ivanka pri Dunaji near Bratislava Airport, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
|unclear, probably wind shear
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1950
|United States Ambassador to Canada
|Douglas C-47 Skytrain
|Ramsayville near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2010
|Former U.S. Senator
|de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (DHC-3T turbine conversion)
|Dillingham, Alaska
|Cause undetermined. Former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe survived this crash.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1999
|Champion golfer
|Learjet 35
|Mina, SD (crash site). Location at time of death undetermined.
|Hypoxia; see 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash. Bruce Borland also died in this accident.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1966
|Brigiadier-General United States Army
|Douglas C-47 Skytrain
|Pacific Ocean en route San Francisco – Honolulu
|Body never recovered, presumed dead. Aircraft failed to arrive in Honolulu
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|2001
|Singer, Skyhooks
|Bell 47
|-
!scope="row"|
|Sweden
|1963
|Actor
|Cessna Skywagon
|Trinidad and Tobago
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1981
|Singer, songwriter, comedian
|Fairchild PT-19
|Carrabassett Valley, Maine
|Incapacitation – Pilot suffered heart attack during takeoff phase of flight
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2014
|Record attempt to become the youngest pilot to fly around the world in 30 days
|Beechcraft A36 Bonanza
|Pacific Ocean, near Pago Pago
|Crashing in the sea.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1928
|US Congressman from New York
|Curtiss O-1B Falcon
|Whitney Point, New York
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1958
|Goalkeeper, Manchester City and England, journalist
|Airspeed Ambassador
|Munich-Riem Airport, Germany
|Munich air disaster caused by slushy runway conditions
|-
!scope="row"|
|Peru
|1983
|Author
|Aviaco Flight 134
|Madrid, Spain
|Collision resulting from runway incursion, caused by poor visibility and taxiway signage
|-
!scope="row"|
|India
|1986
|Palynologist
|Pan Am Flight 73
|Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan
|Murdered on the ground by terrorists who hijacked the plane
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|1953
|Classical violinist
|Lockheed Constellation
|Nice, France
|Controlled flight into terrain
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1930
|British Secretary of State for Air
|R101 disaster
|Beauvais, France
|Weather-related
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1967
|English actress
|Iberia Flight 062<br />(Sud Caravelle)
|Blackdown, Sussex, England
|Controlled flight into terrain
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2001
|Singer, member of La Bouche
|Crossair Flight 3597
|Bassersdorf, Switzerland
|Deliberate descent below minimum descent altitude (Decision Height) without having the required visual contact to the approach lights or the runway.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Sweden
|1919
|Aeronautics industry leader, founder of AB Thulinverken
|Thulin K
|Landskrona, Sweden
|Structural failure
|-
!scope="row"|
|Argentina
|1983
|Author
|Aviaco Flight 134
|Madrid, Spain
|Collision resulting from runway incursion, caused by poor visibility and taxiway signage
|Rastenburg, Germany
|Crashed after take-off
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1970
|Marshall University football head coach
|Southern Airways Flight 932
|Huntington, West Virginia
|Descent below Minimum Descent Altitude during a nonprecision approach under adverse operating conditions, without visual contact with the runway environment.
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2006
|Former game show host, Press Your Luck
|Beechcraft A36 Bonanza
|-
!scope="row"|
|Australia
|1934
|Air pioneer, made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia
|Airspeed Envoy
|Pacific Ocean
|Disappeared, body never recovered, presumed dead. Was flying between mainland United States and Hawaii during US-Australia record flight attempt.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Russia
|2023
|Military officer and founder of Wagner Group
|Embraer Legacy 600
|Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast, Russia
|Under Investigation; see 2023 Wagner Group plane crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1959
|Singer
|Beechcraft Bonanza
|Clear Lake, IA
|Pilot error (Continued VFR into IMC); Buddy Holly and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson also died in this accident (see The Day the Music Died).
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1987
|NBA player for the Phoenix Suns
|Northwest Airlines Flight 255
|Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
|Flightcrew failed to deploy flaps/slats prior to takeoff resulting in stall
|-
!scope="row"|
|France
|2015
|Boxer
|Eurocopter AS350
|Villa Castelli, Argentina
|collided in mid-air; see 2015 Villa Castelli mid-air collision
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1990
|Guitarist and singer
|Bell 206B JetRanger (N16933)
|East Troy, Wisconsin
|impact with hillside during fog/inclement weather
|-
!scope="row"|
|India
|1942
|Pioneer of early Indian aviation
|Lockheed Hudson (AM946)
|English Channel
|Missing on a flight from Portreath, Cornwall to Gibraltar, presumed enemy action.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Romania
|1913
|Engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot
|A Vlaicu II
|Câmpina, Romania
|in attempt to be the first to fly across the Carpathian Mountains
|-
!scope="row"|
|Germany
|1922
|World War One ace pilot
|LVG C.VI
|Fuhlsbüttel, Germany
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|Germany
|1933
|German lawyer and judge
|Lufthansa
|Fuhlsbüttel, Germany
|collided with signal tower when landing in dense fog
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1966
|Test pilot
|Lockheed F-104 Starfighter
|Barstow, California
|Collided with North American XB-70 Valkyrie in a tight group formation for a publicity photo
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2005
|Son of Walmart founder Sam Walton
|CGS Hawk Arrow
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1982
|Investment banker
|Air Florida Flight 90
|Washington, D.C. and Arlington County, Virginia
|Atmospheric icing, Pilot error due to poor weather
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1926
|Welsh airship pioneer
|balloon
|Hoo Park, Kempston, Bedford, England
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1932
|Actor and stunt pilot
|Curtiss Model D (replica)
|Cleveland, Ohio
|collision with autogyro at Cleveland Air Races
|-
!scope="row"|
|United Kingdom
|1944
|Soldier and founder of the Chindits
|North American B-25 Mitchell
|India
|
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1995
|Aircraft designer and builder and air-race pilot
|Wittman O&O (Experimental) Registration: N41SW
|Stevenson, Alabama
|In-flight break-up due to improperly installed wing fabric
|-
!scope="row"|
|Netherlands
|2014
|Senator, legal scholar and author
|Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
|Hrabove, Ukraine
|airliner shootdown
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|2000
|Politician, former New Jersey State Senator
|Mitsubishi MU-2B-26A
|Edgartown, Massachusetts
|failure to follow instrument flight procedures resulting in collision with a tree
|-
!scope="row"|
|United States
|1987
|Former racecar driver and owner and founder of Yenko Chevrolet
|Cessna 210 see 2025 Aquidauana Cessna 175 crash
|-
!scope="row"|
|Italy
|1968
|Businessman and appliance manufacturer
|Piaggio PD-808 I-PIAI
|San Sebastion, Spain
|Controlled flight into terrain in bad weather
|-
!scope="row"|
|Brazil
|2017
|Supreme court judge
|Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90
|Paraty, Rio de Janeiro
|Under investigation.
|-
!scope="row"|
|Pakistan
|1988
|President of Pakistan
|Lockheed C-130 Hercules
|-
|Keith Green
|United States
|1982
|Green was killed along with 10 other passengers - including 2 of his children - and the pilot.
|Cessna 414
|Garden Valley, Texas; United States
|Plane was determined to be dangerously overloaded; contributing to the crash shortly after takeoff.
|-
|Lynyrd Skynyrd
|United States
|1977
|Lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and back-up singer Cassie Gaines
|1977 Convair 240 crash
|Northeast of Gillsburg, Mississippi, United States
|Fuel exhaustion
|-
|Reba McEntire's band
|United States
|1991
|Guitarist Chris Austin, backup singer Paula Kaye Evans, bassist Terry Jackson, bandleader Kirk Cappello, guitarist Michael Thomas, drummer Tony Saputo, and keyboardist Joey Cigainero. McEntire herself was not on board.
|British Aerospace BAe 125
|San Diego, California, United States
|Pilot's failure to maintain proper altitude and clearance over mountainous terrain, and the copilot's failure to adequately monitor the progress of the flight
|-
|Mamonas Assassinas
|Brazil
|1996
|All five members were killed.
|Learjet 25
|Cantareira mountain range, Brazil
|Controlled flight into terrain; see 1996 Madrid Taxi Aéreo Learjet 25 crash
|-
|Glenn Miller
|United States
|1944
|Miller and all occupants of the transport plane.
|Noorduyn Norseman
|English Channel
|disappeared, body never recovered.
|-
|The Nelons
|United States
|2024
|3 of the 4 members (Kelly Nelon Clark, her husband Jason Clark and their daughter Amber Nelon Kistler) were killed along with 3 other passengers and the pilot. Another daughter, Autumn Nelon Streetman, was not on board.
|Pilatus PC-12
|North of Gillette, Wyoming; United States
|Under investigation; more in 2024 Gillette Pilatus PC-12 crash
|-
|Rick Nelson
|United States
|1985
|All seven passengers, including Nelson. Both crew escaped.
|Douglas DC-3
|
|Fire on board caused by a defective heater. The plane made an emergency crash landing in a field, but all passengers died in the burning fuselage.
|-
|Passion Fruit
|Germany
|2001
|Two of the Eurodance trio died: Maria Serrano Serrano and Nathalie van het Ende. Debby St. Maarten survived the crash. Former lead singer of La Bouche, Melanie Thornton was also killed in this crash.
|Crossair Flight 3597
|Bassersdorf, Switzerland
|Controlled flight into terrain; crashed in hills short of runway during landing approach
|-
|Stevie Ray Vaughan
|United States
|1990
|All five people - Vaughan, the pilot, and three members of Eric Clapton's entourage - died in the crash.
|Helicopter
|Near East Troy, Wisconsin; United States
|The helicopter crashed into a hill due to low visibility conditions according to the NTSB.
|-
|}
Political groups
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Name
!Nationality
!Year
!Description of members
!Flight/aircraft
!Location
!Cause/circumstances
|-
|Australian Government
|Australia
|1940
|10 fatalities, including cabinet ministers Geoffrey Street, James Fairbairn and Henry Gullett, and senior army officer Brudenell White
|Lockheed Hudson
|Canberra, Australia
|1940 Canberra air disaster
|-
|Philippine Government
|Philippines
|1957
|25 fatalities, including President Ramon Magsaysay, Education Secretary Gregorio Hernandez Jr., Senator Tomas Cabili, Congressman Pedro Lopez and Philippine Air Force Commanding General Benito Ebuen
|Douglas C-47 Skytrain
|Balamban, Philippines
|1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash
|-
|Participants of the 60th National Defence Course
|Finland
|1978
|15 fatalities, including 4 Members of the Parliament, 3 executives of governmental agencies, 3 business executives and 2 military commanders. The future Finnish president Tarja Halonen was not on the flight because she was expecting her baby, and doctor had prohibited her to enter the aircraft (she took a train instead).
|Douglas DC-3
|Rissala, Finland
|1978 Finnish Air Force DC-3 crash
|-
|Pakistan–United States delegation
|Pakistan
|1988
|30 fatalities, including President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Akhtar Abdur Rahman, United States Ambassador to Pakistan Arnold Lewis Raphel, US Brigadier General Herbert M. Wassom, and a group of senior Pakistani army officers.
|Lockheed C-130B Hercules
|Bahawalpur, Pakistan
|1988 Pakistan Air Force C-130B crash
|-
|Polish official delegation to the Katyn war cemetery
|Poland
|2010
|President Lech Kaczyński; First Lady Maria Kaczyńska; Former president of the Republic of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski; Senator Janina Fetlińska; Stanisław Komorowski; Andrzej Kremer, Tomasz Merta and others
|Tupolev Tu-154M
|Smolensk North Airport, Smolensk
|Smolensk air disaster
|}
Sporting teams
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Name
!Nationality
!Year
!Team members killed
!Flight/aircraft
!Location
!Cause/circumstances
|-
|Alianza Lima || Peru||1987||42 fatalities, including 16 players, coach Marcos Calderón, staff, cheerleaders, and crewmembers, with the exception of one survivor (the plane pilot)||Fokker F27-400M||Pacific Ocean, six miles from Ventanilla, Callao, Peru||Malfunctioning indicator, see 1987 Alianza Lima plane crash
|-
|Apex Motorsports|| United Kingdom ||2008||Three people total: team manager Richard Lloyd, driver David Leslie and a data engineer.|| Cessna Citation 501 || Farnborough, London ||2008 Biggin Hill Cessna Citation crash
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|Associação Chapecoense de Futebol|| Brazil ||2016|| 71 people died in the crash, including 19 Chapecoense footballers and their coach, many staff members, officials and journalists. It is the deadliest accident in South America involving a sports team. || LaMia Flight 2933 || Medellín, Colombia ||LaMia Flight 2933
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|TJ Baník Chomutov ZJF || Czechoslovakia||1956|| 23 people died in the crash, six associated with this ice hockey team: three players (including Miroslav Pašek and Zdeněk Nový), two top club officials and a reporter||ČSA Flight 548||Eglisau, Switzerland||see: ČSA Flight 548
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|Bulgarian rhythmic gymnastics team; Polish track cycling team||Bulgaria||1978||5 Bulgarian gymnasts with coach; 5 Polish cyclists|| Tupolev Tu-134 || ||Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 107
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|Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club || United Kingdom||1974||346 fatalities, including 18 members of rugby team||Turkish Airlines Flight 981 – McDonnell Douglas DC-10||Ermenonville Forest, France
||Sudden decompression and severed controls after a cargo door failed.
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|Cal Poly San Luis Obispo|| United States||1960||16 members of the college American football team and six others||Curtiss C-46 Commando||Toledo Express Airport||California Polytechnic State University football team plane crash
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|Canadian football Western All-Stars team||Canada||1956|| Saskatchewan Roughriders players Mel Becket, Mario DeMarco, Gordon Sturtridge and Ray Syrnyk; Winnipeg Blue Bombers player Cal Jones||Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810-9|| Mount Slesse, British Columbia || Crashed into mountain, cause undetermined; engine failure and bad weather were possible factors
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|Colourful 11 football team||Netherlands<br />Suriname||1989||14 players and their coach||Surinam Airways Flight 764|| Zanderij airport|| Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error
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|Cuban national fencing team|| Cuba||1976||All 24 members of the team, trainers and the coach||Cubana de Aviación Flight 455|| Payne's Bay, Barbados || Bombing
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|Embassy Hill|| UK ||1975||six people total, including former F1 world champion Graham Hill, driver Tony Brise, team manager Ray Brimble, two mechanics and designer Andy Smallman.||Piper Aztec||Arkley, London, England, UK||crashed on golf course while attempting to land at nearby Elstree Airfield in fog
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|University of Evansville basketball team|| United States||1977||29 players, staff and fans||Douglas DC-3||Evansville Regional Airport, Evansville, Indiana||Air Indiana Flight 216
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|Hendrick Motorsports|| United States||2004||10 people associated with the team, including family, team crew, and pilots||Beechcraft Super King Air 200 ||Stuart, Virginia, USA||2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash
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|Lokomotiv Yaroslavl || Russia || 2011 || 26 players and 3 coaches || Yakovlev Yak-42 || Near Yaroslavl, Russia || Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
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|Manchester United||United Kingdom ||1958||23 people total; including eight footballers: Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne, Eddie Colman, Duncan Edwards, Mark Jones, David Pegg, Tommy Taylor, and Billy Whelan; coach Bert Whalley, trainer Tom Curry, and club secretary Walter Crickmer. Also Frank Swift, a former player. || Airspeed Ambassador || Munich-Riem Airport ||Munich air disaster
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|Marshall University football team|| United States||1970||37 team members, five coaches, seven staff members, and 21 boosters||Southern Airways Flight 932||||
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|Oklahoma State University|| United States||2001|| Ten people associated with men's basketball team (including two players)||Beechcraft Super King Air||||Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team plane crash
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|Old Christians Club rugby team||Uruguay||1972||11 players and the team physician; basis for 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors; survivors resorted to cannibalism||Fairchild FH-227 || Andes ||Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
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|FC Pakhtakor Tashkent||Soviet Union||1979||17 players|| Tupolev Tu-134 ||In the air above Dniprodzerzhynsk || 1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision
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|Palmas Futebol e Regatas||Brazil||2021|| Team owner Lucas Meira; four footballers: Marcus Molinari, Guilherme Noé, Lucas Praxedes, and Ranule; and the pilot
||Beechcraft Baron
||Porto Nacional, Tocantins
||2021 Palmas FR plane crash
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|Puerto Rico women's national volleyball team||Puerto Rico||1970||Most members of the team||Dominicana de Aviación McDonnell Douglas DC-9||||1970 Dominicana de Aviación DC-9 crash
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|A.C. Torino||Italy||1949||18 players, club officials, and journalists|| || ||Superga air disaster
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|USA Boxing team||United States||1980||14 boxers and 8 staff members||LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007||||
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|USAC officials|| United States||1978|| 8 lead officials||Piper Navajo||||
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|U.S. Figure Skating team|| United States||1961||all 18 skaters, coaches, and judges||Sabena Flight 548||Brussels, Belgium||Possible failure of flight controls
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|Wichita State University football team|| United States||1970||14 players, plus head coach and 16 others||Martin 4-0-4||Silver Plume, Colorado||Wichita State University football team plane crash
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|Zambia national football team||Zambia||1993||All 18 footballers, including Efford Chabala and Wisdom Mumba Chansa||de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo||Libreville, Gabon||Gabon air disaster
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References
140. Full List of Presidents who died in Aviation Accidents and Incidents, Nigeria News 247, May 20 2024.
Further reading
- 1911 aviation necrology
External links
- A detailed list at PlaneCrashInfo.com