List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft

This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article.

Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).

The list is grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.

Wingfoot Air Express crash
Photograph of remains of the airship R101
Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei Hindenburg bursting into flames , 1937
Burnt down wreckage of TWA Flight 903
The wreckage of Pan American Flight 202
The roof fragment of BOAC Flight 781
The wreckage of Flight 629 in a warehouse
The severed tail of TWA Flight 2 after the 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
Pan Am Flight 6 ditches in the Pacific
The nose section of Capital Airlines Flight 300
Remains of American Flight 514
The tail section of United Flight 826 lying amid buildings after the New-York mid-air collision
Crash site and debris of Sabena Flight 548
Wreckage of the crashed LOT Vickers Viscount
Aero Flight 217 (1963)
Fragment of Pan Am 214
The burnt out wreckage of TWA 800
The wreckage of United 227
Hijacked aircraft being destroyed by PFLP at Dawson's Field in front of international press (1970)
The crash site of Hughes Airwest Flight 706
The lifted nose of Pan Am 845
The wreckage of Alitalia Flight 112
NTSB photo of the crash site of United Airlines Flight 553 . (1972)
Aerial photograph of the crash site of Turkish Airlines Flight 981
ONA Flight 032 burning with its two front emergency slides deployed
Wreckage of American Airlines Flight 625 near a gas station
Wreckage of KLM 4805
Remains of Southern Airways Flight 242
National Airlines Flight 193 being recovered from Escambia Bay
A part of the fuselage of Air New Zealand Flight 901
The burnt out remains of Saudia Flight 163
Vertical stabilizer found at the crash site of Widerøe Flight 933
The tail of Flight 90 in the water
Fire damage in the aft lavatory, the point of origin of the fire on Air Canada Flight 797
The Gimli Glider after the emergency landing
Wreckage of Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 901
Pacific Western Airlines Flight 501 on fire after the left engine suffered an uncontained engine failure
Remains of British Airtours Flight 28M at Manchester Airport
Wreckage of Japan Airlines Flight 123 in Mount Takamagahara
Aeroméxico Flight 498 falling to the ground immediately after a mid-air collision with a Piper Cherokee
Debris from Northwest Airlines Flight 255 scattered across Middlebelt Road after it crashed on August 16, 1987
The fuselage of Aloha Airlines Flight 243
The remains of the nose section of Pan Am Flight 103
Damage to United Airlines Flight 811 after the cargo door blew open mid-flight; nine passengers were ejected through the hole.
Recovery of USAir Flight 5050 from Bowery Bay.
The crash site of Avianca Flight 052
Wreckage of Continental Express Flight 2574
Wreckage of USAir Flight 1493 after the 1991 Los Angeles airport runway collision
Wreckage of USAir Flight 405
Flats in the Bijlmermeer neighbourhood after being hit by El Al Flight 1862
The aftermath of the disaster of Martinair Flight 495 , one hour after the crash
Wreckage of China Airlines Flight 605 after overshooting the runway
Burnt out wreckage of Lufthansa Flight 2904
Crater left by the impact of USAir Flight 427
The severed cockpit section of Flight 140 that killed 264 passengers and crew
Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C
The right side of Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 after crashing
The crash site of American Airlines Flight 965 with a part of the hull after the accident
The reconstructed wreckage of Trans World Air Flight 800
Pieces of ValuJet Flight 592 recovered from the crash site
FedEx Express Flight 14
The burnt remains of Korean Air Flight 801
Recovered remains of Swissair Flight 111
The recovered remains of Flight 676 after the crash in 1998
The black boxes of EgyptAir Flight 990
The reassembled crashed flight of LAPA 3142
Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 after overrunning the runway.
The remains of Flight 006 's tail section at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport
United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into South Tower of World Trade Center in New York City as part of September 11 attacks .
Aerial view of the neighborhood in Queens, New York, where American Airlines Flight 587 crashed.
Wreckage of FedEx Express Flight 1478
Wreckage of Luxair Flight 9642
Smoke rising from a warehouse seconds after the crash of Air Midwest Flight 5481 .
FedEx Express Flight 647
The wreckage of Kish Air Flight 7170
The wreckage of Air France Flight 358
Front wheel of JetBlue Flight 292 on fire during an emergency landing
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 after overrunning the runway
Crash site of Helios Airways Flight 522
The wreckage of Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
The cockpit section of Comair Flight 5191
The wreckage of Atlantic Airways Flight 670
The remains of China Airlines Flight 120
The wreckage of TAM Airlines Flight 3054
British Airways Flight 38
Sriwijaya Air Flight 062
Continental Airlines Flight 1404
US Airways Flight 1549 floating in the Hudson River
Wreckage of Mimika Air Flight 514 after crashing
Vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 after being recovered from the Atlantic Ocean
The aftermath of American Airlines Flight 331
Remains of Air India Express Flight 812
Remains of Dagestan Airlines Flight 372
Remains of RusAir Flight 9605
Wreckage of Buddha Air Flight 103
Wreckage of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251
Wreckage of Lion Air Flight 904
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 6517
NTSB investigators looking at the fuselage of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 after it crash-landed in San Francisco (July 2013)
Wreckage of UPS Airlines Flight 1354
Remains of Nepal Airlines Flight 183
An offshore supply ship with the tail of QZ8501 on its stern, January 10, 2015
TransAsia Airways Flight 235
2015 Juba An-12 crash , one year after the crash
Wreckage of Flydubai Flight 981 on Runway 22 at Rostov-on-don Airport
Wreckage of LaMia Flight 2933
Tail section of Turkish Airlines Flight 6491
2017 Valan International Antonov An-26 crash
Pieces of the engine cowling from Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 .
Wreckage of XiamenAir Flight 8667
Air Niugini Flight 73
The crash site of the Saha Airlines Boeing 707
Miami Air Flight 293 in the St. Johns River
Wreckage of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752
Caspian Airlines Flight 6936
Transair Flight 810
987 Investments LLC McDonnell Douglas MD-87 N987AK
The crash site of China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735
The burning wreckage of Flight 691
Wreckage of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after the 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision
Smoke rising from the crash site of the Saurya Airlines CRJ200
Wreckage of Jeju Air Flight 2216
The wreckage of the American Eagle CRJ700, N709PS, after the 2025 Potomac River mid-air collision