These figures are drawn from the 18,387 accidents and incidents recorded in CrashAtlas between 1908 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.
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 onboard fatalities
Deadliest Accidents by onboard fatalities
The Tenerife runway collision combines both aircraft. Other entries represent individual aircraft records.
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Flight 4805 · 248 onboard fatalities
- Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) Flight 1736 · 335 onboard fatalities