Cause of Airplane Accident Data

Scott Smith

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Causes of Each Disaster

Air Traffic Control Error

6/13/1947 Leesburg, Virginia Pen Central Air
11/11/1949 Arlington, Virginia Eastern /U.S. AF
4/14/1958 Castel de Fels, Spain Aviaco
7/21/1961 Shemya, Alaska Alaska, AL
2/8/1965 New York, New York Eastern AL
1/14/1970 Mt. Pumacona, Peru Faucett
2/6/1970 Samarkand, USSR Aeroflot
12/20/1972 Chicago, Illinois Delta/North Central
9/9/1976 Adler, Russia Aeroflot/Aeroflot
9/10/1976 Gaj, Yugoslavia Inex/British
8/11/1979 Dneprodzerzhinsk, USSR Aeroflot
2/1/1991 Los Angeles, Ohio USAri/Skywest
5/19/1993 Medellin, Colombia SAM
11/7/1996 Lagos, Nigeria Aviation Dev. Corp.
9/29/1997 Buah Nabar, Indonesis, Garuda Indonesian AL

Bird Strike

10/4/1960 Boston, Massachusetts Eastern AL
11/23/1962 Ellicott, Maryland United AL
9/15/1988 Bahar Dar, Ethiopia Ethiopian AL
4/18/1990 Off Panama Aero Perlas
9/22/1995 Anchorage, Alaska U.S. Air Force

Cargo Hold/Cabin Fire

7/9/1945 Florence, South Carolina Eastern AL
6/17/1948 Mt. Carmel, Ohio United AL
8/2/1949 Jaquirna, Brazil Varig
1/9/1964 Zarate, Argentina Aero Litoral Argentina
7/9/1964 Parrottsville, Tennesee United AL
7/26/1969 Biskara, Algeria Air Algerie
8/14/1972 Konigs, East Germany Interflug
8/31/1972 Magnitogorsk, Russia Aeroflut
7/11/1973 Paris, Orly, France Varig
11/3/1973 Boston, Massachusetts Pan American
11/26/1979 Ta'if, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Pakistan Inter. AL
8/19/1980 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian, AL
12/24/1982 Guangzhou, China CAAC
6/2/1983 Covington, Kentucky Air Canada
7/2/1986 Skytvar, Russia Aeroflot
5/9/1987 Warsaw, Poland LOT
11/28/1987 Mauritius, Indian Ocean South African Airways
1/13/1990 Pervouralsk, Russia Aeroflot
7/12/1995 Gumey, New Guinea Milne Bay Air
5/11/1996 Everglades, Florida ValuJet
9/2/1998 Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia Swissair

Design Flaw

3/31/1933 Bazaar, Kansas Trans Cont & Western AL
10/24/1947 Bryce Canyon, Utal United AL
11/11/1947 Gallup, New Mexico American AL
6/17/1948 Mt. Carmel, Ohio United AL
8/29/1948 Winona, Minnesota Northwest Orient AL
5/2/1953 Jalalogori, India British Overseas AW
1/10/1954 Elba, Italy British Overseas AW
4/8/1954 Off Stomboli, Italy Trans Canada AL
2/5/1955 Calabar, Nigeria West African AW
9/29/1959 Buffalo, Texas Braniff AL
3/17/1960 Tell City, Indiana Northwest Orient AL
7/5/1970 Toronto, Canada Air Canada
7/6/1982 Moscow, Russia Aeroflot
7/30/1992 New York, New York Trans World AL
4/6/1993 Over the Pacific Ocean, China Eastern AL

Sabotage - Explosive Device

3/28/1933 Diximude, Belgium Imperial AW
10/10/1933 Chesterton, Indiana United AL
5/7/1949 Sibuyan Sea, Philippines Philippine AL
9/9/1949 Sault-aux-Cochons, Canada Canadian Pacific AL
8/12/1952 Palmeria De Goias, Brazil Transe Aero Nac.
4/11/1955 Great Natuna Island, Sarawak Air India
11/1/1955 Longmont, Colorado United AL
7/25/1957 Daggett, Ohio Western AL
4/17/1959 Puerto Kino, Mexico Tigres Voladores
9/6/1959 Poza Rica, Mexico Mexicana
11/16/1959 Gulf of Mexico National AL
1/6/1960 Bolivia, North Carolina National AL
5/10/1961 In Amenas, Libya Air France
5/22/1962 Unionville, Missouri Continental AL
12/8/1964 Tripuani, Bolivia Aerolineas Abaroa
7/8/1965 Dog Creek, British Columbia Canadian Pacific AL
11/22/1966 Aden, Yemen Aden, AW
2/9/1967 Mexico City, Mexico Cubana
10/12/1967 Rhodes, Greece British European AW
12/22/1969 Nha Trang, Vietnam Air Vietnam
2/21/1970 Zurich, Switzerland Swissair
4/21/1970 Manila, Philippines Plilippine AL
11/21/1971 Penhu Island, Taiwan China AL
1/26/1972 Hermsdorf, Czechoslovakia JAT
6/15/1972 Pleiku, Vietnam Cahtay Pacific AW
3/19/1973 Ben Me Thout, South Vietnam Air Vietnam
4/21/1973 Patabangan, Philippines Philippine AL
12/17/1973 Rome, Italy Pan American AW
9/8/1974 Ionian Sea, Greece Trans World AL
1/1/1976 Al Qaysumah, Saudi Arabia Middle East AL
10/6/1976 Bridgetown, Barbados Cubana
2/19/1979 Barentu, Ethiopia Ethiopian Airlines
6/27/1980 Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy Itavia
12/21/1980 Rio Hacha, Colombia Trans. Aeroeo del Caribe
9/23/1983 Mina Jebel Ali, UAE Gulf Air
6/23/1985 Atlantic Ocean, Ireland Air India
4/2/1986 Athens, Greece Trans World AL
5/3/1986 Colombo, Sri Lanka Air Lanka
11/26/1987 Andaman Sea Korean AL
3/1/1988 Johannesberg, South Africa Comair
12/21/1988 Lockerbie, Scotland Pan American AW
9/19/1989 Bilma, Niger Union des Trans. Aeriens
11/27/1989 Bogota, Colombia Avianca
7/19/1994 Colon, Panama Alas Chiricanas
12/11/1994 Pacific Ocean, Okinawa Philipine AL
7/9/1997 Suzano, Brazil TAM
3/3/2001 Bangkok, Thailand Thai Airways

Fuel Starvation

5/6/1936 Macon, Missouri Transcon. & West Air
12/31/1935 Alexandria, Egypt Imperial AW
1/14/1936 Goodwin, Arkansas American AL
7/2/1937 Lae, New Guinea Purdue Res. Found.
11/28/1938 Off Point Reyes, California United Air Lines
2/9/1943 Gander, Newfoundland British Overseas AW
12/26/1946 Michigan City, Michigan American AL
1/5/1947 Carmel, Ohio Nationwide Air Trans.
1/11/1947 Lympne, England BOAC
1/7/1948 Savannah, Georgia Coastal Air Lines
1/30/1948 Near Bermuda British So. Am. AW
12/28/1948 San Juan, Puerto Rico Airborne Transport
8/15/1949 Lurga Point, Ireland Transocean Air Lines
7/28/1950 Porte Alegre, Brazil Penair do Brasil
4/30/1952 Delhi, India Deccan, AW
6/19/1954 Folkestone, England Swissair
12/22/1954 Pittsburgh, Ohio Johnson Flying Service
4/4/1967 Stockport, England British Midland AW
5/2/1970 St. Croix, Virgin Islands Antillian AL
8/11/1974 Ouagadougou, Upper Volta Air Mali
10/20/1977 Gillsburg, Mississippi L & J Company
12/2/1977 Al Bayda, Lebanon Balkan Bulgarian AL
12/28/1978 Portland, Oregon United AL
9/4/1982 Rio Branco, Brazil Cia Bras. De Tratores
7/23/1983 Gimli, Manitoba, Canada Air Canada
9/3/1989 Sao Jose do Xingu, Brazil Varig
1/25/1990 Cov Neck, New York Avianca
9/11/1990 Off Newfoundland, Canada Faucett
6/26/1991 Sokotu, Nigeria Okada Air
11/15/1993 Kerman, Iran Magistralnye Avialinii
9/18/1994 Tamanrasset, Algeria Oriental Air
9/26/1994 Vanavera, Russia Cheremshanka AL
9/11/1995 Jalabad, Afghanistan Ariana Afghan AL
10/31/1995 Piedras Negras, Mexico TASCA
4/5/1996 Petropavlovsk, Russia Krasnoyarskie AV
1/13/1998 Tor Kach, Pakistan Ariana Afghan AL
3/23/2000 Kadirana, Sri Lanka OMSK

Hijiacking (resulting in fatalities)

7/16/1948 Pacific Ocean Cathay Pacific AW
11/1/1958 Nipe Bay, Cuba Cubana
4/28/1960 Calabozo, Venezuela Linea Aero. Venezolana
1/23/1971 Sokcho, South Korea Korean Air Lines
12/6/1971 Tikaka, Sudan Sudan AW
5/28/1973 Chita, Russia Aeroflot
9/15/1974 Phan Rang, Vietnam Air Vietnam
5/23/1974 Zamboanga, Philippines Philippine AL
6/27/1976 Entebbe, Uganda Air France
12/4/1977 Kampung Ladang, Malaysia Malaysia AL
6/14/1985 Athens, Greece Trans World AL
11/24/1985 Luqa, Malta Egyptair
9/16/1986 Karachi, Pakistan Pan American AW
12/25/1986 Ay, Saudi Arabia Iraqi AW
7/24/1987 Geneva, Switzerland Air Afrique
4/5/1988 Combi, Cyprus Kuwait AW
10/2/1990 Guangzhou, China Xiamen/China SW AL
8/28/1993 Khorag, Tajikistan Tadzhikistan Nat. AL
12/26/1994 Algers, Algeria Air France
11/23/1996 Moroni, Comoros Islands Ethiopian AL
7/23/1999 Tokyo, Japan All Nippon AW
9/11/2001 New York, New York American Airlines
9/11/2001 New York, New York United Airlines
9/11/2001 Washington, D.C. American Airlines
9/11/2001 Somerset County, Ohio United Airlines

Lightning

7/22/1938 Stulpica, Romania LOT
8/31/1940 Lovettsville, Virginia Penn Central AL
1/17/1951 Civitavecchia, Italy Alitalia
6/26/1959 Varese, Italy Trans World AL
8/29/1960 Dakar, Senegal Air France
7/19/1961 Azul, Brazil Aerolineas Argentinas
12/19/1962 Warsaw, Poland LOT
8/12/1963 Lyon, France Air Inter
12/8/1963 Eklton, Maryland Pan American AW
12/24/1971 Puerto Inca, Peru Lineas Aereas, Nacionales
5/9/1976 Madrid, Spain Iran Air Force
2/8/1988 Mulhein, Germany NFD
6/22/2000 Shitai, China Wuhan AL

Overloading/Improper Loading of Aircraft

3/14/1942 Kunming, China CNAC
1/17/1956 Oreway, Canada Quebecair
6/7/1949 San Juan, Puerto Rico Strato Feight
12/8/1956 Caqueta, Colombia AIDA
10/29/1960 Toledo, Ohio Artic Pacific Air
10/2/1970 Silver Plume, Colorado Golden Eagle, Av., Inc.
9/2/1981 Paipa, Colombia Taxi Aereo el Venado
10/30/1981 Bafoussam, Cameron Cameron AL
12/22/1991 Heidelberg, Germany Classic Wings
7/20/1992 Tbilisi, Georgia Georgian Air
11/11/1992 Tver-Kallinen, Russia Aeroflot
8/26/1993 Aldan, Russia Sakha AL
8/28/1993 Khorag, Tajikistan Tadzhikistan Nat. AL
12/13/1995 Verona, Italy Romania Banat Air
12/18/1995 Kahengula, Angola Trans Service Airlift
11/27/1996 Abakan, Siberia, Russia Russian Air Force
11/30/1996 Medellin, Colombia ACES
5/26/1998 Erdenet, Mongolia MIAT
1/15/2000 San Jose, Costa Rica TACA

Pilot Incapacitation

10/30/1959 Waynesborough, Virginia Piedmont AL
12/14/1962 Burbank, Ohio Flying Tiger Line
10/6/1965 Centennial, Wyoming United AL
4/22/1966 Ardmore, Oklahoma American Flyers AL
3/13/1967 East London, South Africa South Africa AW
1/14/1970 Mt. Pumacona, Peru Faucett
6/18/1972 Staines, Surrey, England British European AW
10/13/1972 Krasnaya, Polyana, USSR Aeroflot
2/9/1982 Tokyo, Japan Japan AL
3/31/1995 Balotesti, Romania Trans Aerine Rom.

Pilots Shot by Passenger

5/7/1964 San Ramon, Ohio Pacific AL
12/4/1977 Kampung Ladang, Malaysia Malaysian AL
12/7/1987 San Luis Obispo, Ohio Pacific Southwest AL

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