Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...

A private jet crashed while attempting an emergency landing in a football field outside of Mexico City. Three children are among the ten casualties that took place when the plane crashed into a ...

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) series has had a particularly rough streak of bad luck in 2025. The CRJ900, specifically, has had a markedly bad year in terms of mishaps, ...

IATA has called for action after calculating that final reports are yet to be published on 43% of commercial aviation accidents and incidents between 2018 and 2023, in contravention of state ...

All of these accidents involved airliners, and there were no fatal accidents involving non-commercial business aviation flights involving what EASA categorizes as “complex aeroplanes.” These are ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released 2013 commercial aviation safety performance, showing Africa's accident rate for all aircraft types improving by nearly 50%. There were 210 ...