These figures are drawn from the 18,264 accidents and incidents recorded in CrashAtlas between 1919 and 2026. They describe the accident record as documented, not flight-hour or per-departure rates, so a country or aircraft type appearing near the top usually reflects the volume of aviation activity as much as it does risk.
Aircraft are counted as the variant stored on each record, and operators as the airline named at the time of the accident. Follow any label through to its full listing, or open the accident database to browse by country, year, airline, aircraft, or cause.
18,264
Total Accidents
Since 1919
127,382
Total Fatalities
Across all incidents
108
Years of Data
1919–2026
Top Countries by number of accidents
Most Common Aircraft involved in accidents
Aircraft variants are shown as stored in the CrashAtlas database.
Deadliest Years
Deadliest Aircraft Types by total fatalities
AircraftFatalitiesCrashesAvg/crash
Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3)
Tupolev Tu-154M
Ilyushin Il-18V
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32
Lockheed C-130H Hercules
Antonov An-26
Douglas C-47 (DC-3)
Junkers Ju-52/3m
Douglas DC-6B
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300
Deadliest Crashes all time
01520Japan Air Lines - JAL 123Boeing 747SR-46 · August 12, 1985 · 26 km SW of Ueno Village, Tano district, Gunma Prefecture02346Türk Hava Yollari - THY 981McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 · March 3, 1974 · Bois d'Ermenonville03335Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) 1736Boeing 747-121 · March 27, 1977 · Tenerife-Los Rodeos International Airport (TCI)04329Air-India 182Boeing 747-237B · June 23, 1985 · 176 km W off Cork, Ireland05312Saudi Arabian Airlines 763Boeing 747-168B · November 12, 1996 · 5 km from Charki Dadri