Top 10 Airline Disasters

Date Place Type of Aircraft Airlines Reason Fatalities

12/8/1985

Mount Otsuka, Japan

747 SR

Japan Air Lines

Structural Failure

520

8/1/1996

Kinshasa, Zaire

Antonov 32

African Air

Not Available

350

3/3/1974

Orly, France

DC-10

Turkish Airlines

Loss of cargo door

346

27/03/1977

Santa Cruz deTenerife, Canary Islands

747

Pan Am

Collision with Below

335

23/06/1985

Irish Coast

747-200

Air India

Bomb

329

12/11/1996

Dadri, India

747-100

Saudia

Collision with below

312

19/08/1980

Riyadh Airport, Saudi Arabia

Lockheed Tristar

Saudia

Fire

301

3/7/1988

Straits of Hormuz

Airbus A300

Iran Air

Shot Down

290

25/05/1979

Chicago - O'Hare

DC-10-10

American Airlines

Engine

273

19/02/1988

Cary, USA

Fairchild Metro

American Airlines

Ground collision

271

21/12/1988

Lockerbie, Scotland

747-121

Pan Am

Bomb

270

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