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Airplane Accidents since 2000

2000 January 13th. Lybia, off the shore of Marsa el Brega: Avisto Shorts 360-3000 aircraft ditched into water during final approach at El-Brega airport after pilots reported the failure of both engines; 23 people died, 19 survived.

2000 January 31st. USA, Los Angeles/Ventura County: Alaska Airlines MD-83, Flight 261, en-route from Mexico to San Francisco, CA, plunged into the Pacific Ocean about 10 miles offshore Ventura due to a mechanical failure; all 88 people aboard died.

2000 March 5th. USA, Los Angeles, Burbank-Airport:: Southwest Boeing 737 skidded after landing off the 6,000-foot runway and onto the street Hollywood Way. The jet hit a car and came to a stop a few yards before a fuel station. Of the 142 people aboard only four suffered minor injuries.

NTSB Report

2000 April 19th. Zaire, Pepa: Centrafrican Airlines Antonov-8 bound for Kigali, Rwanda is reported to have sustained a birdstrike shortly after take-off and crashed; all 24 people aboard died.

2000 April 19th. Philippines, Samal Island: an Air Philippines Boeing 737 crashed during landing approach about 4 miles from the runway threshold; all 131 people aboard died.

2000 June 22nd. China, near Wuhan regional airport: Wuhan Airlines Xian Yun 7 crashed on final approach into the Han River in heavy rain and poor visibility. All 42 people aboard and 7 persons on the ground died.

2000 July 17th. India, Patna Airport: Indian Alliance Air Boeing 737 crashed during landing approach 1 mile short of the runway into residential area; six people on the ground and 51 people aboard perished, 6 passengers survived.

2000 July 25th. France, Paris, Charles de Gaulle Airport: Air France Supersonic Concorde jet, chartered for a flight to New York, USA, crashed shortly after take-off in a hotel building; after V1 during the take-off roll the front right tire in the port main gear bogey exploded, causing minor damage to the two left engines, and serious damage to the undercarriage areas. One effect was a major fuel escape from the lower wing which caught fire. The crew shut down the No. 2 engine because of a fire warning, and the No. 1 engine ran down to zero thrust, leaving the aircraft behind the drag curve and unable to accelerate. The crew lost control of the aircraft and crashed. The tire explosion is believed to have been caused by a piece of metal which dropped onto the runway from a Continental Airlines MD-10 two take-offs before the Concorde flight. All 109 people aboard and 4 persons on the ground died.

2000 July 27th. Nepal, near Dhangarhi Airport: Royal Nepal airlines DHC Twin Otter 300 hit the ground during descent in poor visibility and rain; all 25 people aboard died.

2000 August 23rd. Oman, Bahrain International Airport: Gulf Air Airbus A 320 crashed during landing attempt 1.8 miles north of the airfield in shallow sea waters; all 143 people aboard died.

2000 August 26th. - Costa Rica, Arenal Volcano: a SANSA (Servicios Aereos Nacionales) Cessna 208B on a flight from La Fortuna to Tamarindo crashed into the volcanic mountain at a height of 4,000 feet; all 10 people aboard died.

2000 October 31 Taiwan, Taipei, Chiang Kai-Shek Airport: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 bound for Los Angeles, California, with 179 people aboard (20 crew and 159 passengers), crashed during takeoff on the tarmac at 11.18 p.m. local time in severe weather condition. 80 people died, 99 persons survived, many of them sustaining injuries.

2000 November 15th. Angola, near Luanda: Asa Pesada Antonov-12 crashed just after take-off; all 54 people aboard died.

2001 January 14th USA, Utah, near Tooele Valley Airport: a twin-engine Beechcraft KingAir plunged into the 5 feet deep water of the Great Salt Lake; all 9 people aboard died; the plane was not missed for six hours until relatives called the airport; the pilot had not submitted a flight plan and no distress call was recieved.

2001, March 3rd. Thailand, Bangkok Airport: A Thai Airways Boeing 737 was destroyed at the gate by fire 35 minutes before it was scheduled to take off. Five members of the cabin crew were the only ones on board the aircraft at the time. Most of the 148 passengers were waiting to board. One member of the cabin crew died, seven other aviation workers were injured. The prime minister of Thailand was also scheduled to board this plane.

2001, March 4th. U.S., Georgia, Unadilla: A Florida National Guard C-23 Sherpa aircraft traveling from Florida to Virginia crashed und burst into flames around 10 a.m. near Unadilla, a town in central Georgia. All 21 military personnel aboard, including the crew of three were killed.

2001 March 15th-16th Turkey, Istanbul Airport - Saudi Arabia, Medina Airport: a Vnukovo Airlines Tupolew Tu-154 was seized by three Chechnyan hijackers shortly after it took off from Istanbul scheduled to fly to Moscow. The plane, with at least 174 people on board was flown to Medina, were about 60 passengers were released. During the hijack attempt in Istanbul 1 person was injured and taken to a hospital and the plane dropped 10,000 feet in altitude as a passenger fought with hijackers near the entrance to the cockpit. After 18 hours of unsuccessful negotiations at Medina Airport Saudi Arabian special forces stormed the plane still on the tarmac. 162 passengers and 12 crew on board were freed, but 3 people - a hijacker, a passenger and a flight attendant -- died during the combat operation.

2001 March 24th. French Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy (125 miles east of Puerto Rico): an Air Caraibes commuter plane, flight 1501, struck a house and crashed on landing approach on a runway that is only 2,000 feet long; all 19 people aboard and 1 resident died

2001 March 29th. USA, Colorado, Aspen-Pitkin County Airport: an Airborne Charter Gulfstream III enroute from Los Angeles, CA crashed into a hillside during an instrument landing approach, only 500 yards short of the runway. All 18 people aboard (3 crew and 15 passengers) died.

2001 July 3rd. Russia, Siberia, Irkutsk Airport: A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev Tu-154, built in 1986, Flight 352, crashed on landing approach. Two previous approaches were aborted. During the next attempt to land the aircraft plunges into the ground from an altitude of 2,800feet. All 145 people aboard died.

2001 October 4th. Ukraine, over the Black Sea: A Sibir Tupolev Tu-154 en-route from Israel to the Ukraine was accidentally shot-down by a stray missile fired in military exercises; all 78 people aboard died.

2001 October 8th. Italy, Milan, Linate Airport: A SAS MD 87, flight SK 686 en route to Copenhagen, DK, collided during take-off with a German Cessna Citation II business jet, which had mistakenly entered the runway in heavy fog. Both airplanes were immediately engulfed in flames, the MD crashed into a baggage hangar, which partially collapsed. All 118 people aboard both planes and 4 workers on the ground died.

2001 November 12th. US, New York City: An American Airlines Airbus A 300, built in 1988, flight 587 en route to Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, crashed less than 3 minutes after departure from JFK into a residential area. While climbing through 2,800 feet and executing the left turn on the standard departure procedure away from Brooklyn, radar contact was lost with the aircraft. Witnesses reported seeing an engine fire develop on the aircraft's no.1 engine, followed by small pieces of debris breaking away from the left wing, and shortly afterward, a complete separation of the left engine from the aircraft's wing. The aircraft then reportedly entered a steep nose-down attitude and crashed into the borough of Queens near Rockaway Beach, destroying four residential structures, and severely damaging eight others. Separation of the vertical stabilizer, which was found over two miles away from the main impact site in Jamaica Bay, is suspected as the precipitating event, leading to an in-flight breakup of the aircraft. All 260 people aboard the plane together with 6 people on the ground died.

2001 November 19th. Russia, Kalyazin: a Irs-AeroAirline turboprop Ilyushin-18 en route from Siberia to Moscow crashed near a village, about 150 miles northeast of Moscow; all 27 people (9 crew, 18 passengers) aboard died.

2001 November 24th. Switzerland, Bassersdorf, Zurich International Airport: A Cossair Avro RJ100 (a 4-engine, 97-passenger plane, manufactured in 1996 by Britain's BEA Service Group), flight enroute from Berlin, Germany crashed during landing approach in bad weather about 3 miles away from the airport; 24 of the 33 people (5 crew, 28 passengers) died; 5 were hospitalized with severe injuries.

2001 December 2nd. Russia, Khabarovsk region, near Novaya Inya: a military Ilushin-76 cargo plane with 36 tons of load en-route from Moscow to Andyr, a port city on the Bering Sea caught fire at an altitude of 29,000 feet and crashed while attempting an emergency landing; all 18 people aboard died.

2001 December 26th. Germany, Bremerhaven: A BAL Bremerhaven Airline Islander aircraft crashed, 7 of the 9 people aboard died.

2002 January 27th. Angola, Luena: an Angolan Air Force Antonov AN-12 en route from Luanda crashed on landing approach less than 2 miles from the threshold.


2002 January 28th. Colombia, near Tulcan, Cumbal Volcano: a TAME (Transportes Aereos Militares Ecuatorianos) Boeing 727 crashed into a mountainous region approximately 20 miles from the destination airport; all 92 people aboard died.

2002 February 12th. Iran, near Khorramabad: A Tupolev-154, operated by Iran Air Tours, enroute from Teheran to Khorramabad, crashed into western mountains near the border with Iraq.

2002 April 15th. South Korea, Pusan: an Air China Boeing 767 en route from Beijing crashed into wooded terrain during final landing approach. Of the 167 people aboard, 128 died and 39 survived.

2002 May 4th. Nigeria, Kano: a EAS (Executive Airlines Services) BAC-1 aircraft crashed into a residential area immediately after take-off from Kano Airport. Of the 76 people aboard (69 passengers, 7 crew) 2 survived. Estimated 10 buildings were destroyed on impact or in the ensuing fire.


2002 May 7th. China, Dallian: China Northern Airlines Flight 6136, a MD-82 delivered in 1991 with 112 people (103 passengers, 9 crew) on board crashed into the sea off the coast of the city of Dalian in Liaoning Province.


2002 May 7th. Tunisia, Tunis: An Egypt Air Boeing 737-500 enroute from Cairo to Tunis with 64 people aboard crash landed four miles from Tunis-Carthage airport in mountainous terrain. 15 people died, more than 30 were injured.


2002 July 4th. Central African Republic, Bangui: A New Gomair Boeing 707 carried a combination of passengers and cargo on a flight from N'Djamena, Chad to Brazzaville, Congo. Shortly after takeoff, the pilot reported that the landing gear would not retract and diverted to Bangui for a precautionary landing. The aircraft crashed about 4km short of the runway on the outskirts of the capital after all four engines had failed. The only surviving cockpit crew member later reported that the aircraft may have run out of fuel after the crew initiated a fuel dump in preparation of the precautionary landing; 23 of the 25 people aboard died.


2002 July 26th. Florida, Tallahassee Regional Airport: A Fed-Ex Cargo Boeing 727 crashed at 5:43am local time while attempting to land on a flight from Memphis, TN. The plane first hit the ground about 2,100 feet from the end of the runway and skidded to a stop about 1,000 feet from the end of the runway and caught fire; the flight crew of 3 escaped without major injuries.

2002 August 29th. Russia, Ayan: Vostok Aviakompania Antonov An-28 on a flight from Khabarovsk crashed into the sea on landing approach to Ayan Airport. All 16 people aboard died.

2002 August 30th. Brazil, Rio Branco Airport: Rico Linhas Arereas Embraer 120 crashed on landing approach crashed approximately a mile short of the runway at Rio Branco in poor weather conditions; 23 people died, 8 survived.

2002 November 6th. Luxembourg, Niederanven: a LuxAir Fokker F-50 on route from Berlin, Germany to Luxembourg-Findel Airport crashed on landing approach less than 3 miles from the threshold into terrain. Off the 22 people aboard 18 died, 4 were rescued alive, but only 2 (the pilot and a passenger) finally survived.

Accident Report by the Ministry of Transport Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg

2002 November 11th. Philippines, Manila: LAOAG Airlines Fokker F-27 departed runway 31 Manila's domestic airport at for a scheduled passenger flight to the northern province of Laoag. Shortly after takeoff the aircraft ditched into Manila Bay and sank into water approximately 60 feet deep. 19 people died, 15 survived.

2002 December 21st. Taiwan, : a TransAsia Airlines ATR 72-200 freighter, enroute to Macao, plunged into the sea 50 minutes after takeoff from Taipei; both pilots died,

2002 December 23rd. Iran, Isfahan Airport: A brandnew Aeromist Kharkiv Antonov AN-140 (70 flying hours and 27 landings) crashed on landing approach in heavy weather with thick fog; all 46 people aboard died

2002 December 27th. Comoros Islands, Anjouan Ouani Airport: an Ocean Airlines LET 410 crashed into the sea during landing approach in heavy weather; of the 14 people aboard, 1 person died.

2003 January 8th. USA, North Carolina, Charlotte/Douglas International Airport: an Air Midwest Beech 1900 veered left shortly after takeoff and crashed into a US Airways maintenance hanger approximately 1500-2000 feet from the runway 18R centerline, and burst into flames. All 21 people aboard died.

2003 January 8th. Turkey, Southeastern Region, Diyarbakir Airport: after a flight from Istanbul a Turkish Airlines Avro Regional Jet 100 crashed during landing in thick fog and burst into flames; 75 people died, 5 survived
January 8th. USA, North Carolina, Charlotte/Douglas International Airport: an Air Midwest Beech 1900 veered left shortly after takeoff and crashed into a US Airways maintenance hanger approximately 1500-2000 feet from the runway 18R centerline, and burst into flames. All 21 people aboard died.

2003 January 9th. Peru, Cerro Coloque: after a 30-minute flight from the coastal town of Chiclayo a Tans Fokker F-28 crashed into a mountain at 11,000 feet during landing approach at Chachapoyas, 400 miles north of Lima. The wreckage was found two days later. All 46 people aboard (4 crew and 42 passengers including 8 children) died.

2003 January 17th. - Spain, Melilla Airport: an Air Nostrum Fokker F-50, operating as Iberia flight 8276 on a flight from Malaga overshot the runway and broke apart; all 19 people aboard survived, 9 were injured.

2003 January 21st. USA, Colorado, Denver: a single-engine Cessna 172 with two people aboard collided in mid-air above the Northwestern part of Denver with a twin-engine Piper Cheyenne with two people aboard. All five plane occupants died, four people on the ground were injured.

2003 March 6th. Algeria, Sahara Desert, City of Tamanrasset: An Air Algerie Boeing 737 veered off the runway and crashed a few hundred yards further after one engine caught fire during takeoff in the remote area of southern Algeria; 103 people died, one person is reported as a survivor.

2003 May 9th. Democratic Republic of Congo, near Mbuji-Maji: Some 45 minutes into a flight from Kinshasa to the southeastern city of Lubumbashi the rear door of a Russian-built Ilyushin 76 cargo jet burst open at a height of 7,000 feet. The chartered aircraft, owned by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry was carrying Congolese soldiers, police officials and their relatives. Forty people clung to the insides of the plane as tumbling baggage struck their heads and bodies, injuring about nine of them. The pilots managed to turn back and to land safely in Kinshasa. Estimated 129 people were sucked out of the plane.

2003 May 26th. Turkey, Macka: A Ukranian Mediterranean Airlines YAK 42, on a military charter flight from Kabul, Afghanistan to Zaragoza, Spain, crashed on its third landing attempt for a refueling stop at the Black Sea port city of Trabzon. All 75 people aboard, including 62 Spanish peacekeeping forces, died.

2003 June 22nd. France, Brest Airport: a Brit Air (Air France) Bombardier CRJ-100 on a scheduled passenger flight from Nantes crashed on landing approach about 800m short of runway 26L while attempting to land. The aircraft impacted power lines, a roadway, and subsequently caught fire. The pilot sustained fatal injuries; the 24 other occupants survived, 3 of them with injuries.

2003 July 7th. Sudan, Port Sudan airport: A Sudan Airways 737 crashed shortly after taking off in a field about three miles from the airport; 105 passengers and 11 crew died, a child has reportedly survived.

2003 July 19th. Kenya, Mount Kenya: An Air-2000 charter twin-engine Fairchild SW-4 turboprop aircraft slammed into Point Lenana peak at 16,500 feet; all 14 people (2 crew and 12 American tourists) died

2003, December 25th - West Africa, Benin, Cotonou Airport: A chartered Union des Transport Africains (UTA) Boeing 727 flight 141 bound for Lebanon with about 140 passengers aboard hit a building at the end of the runway and plunged into the sea near the shore shortly after take-off; at least 135 people died and 22 survived

2004 January 3rd. - Egypt, Sharm elSheikh: a Boeing 737, built in 1993 and owned by Egyptian Charter Airlines Air Flash, en-route to Paris via Cairo, plunged into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff from the Southern tip of the Sinai peninsula; all 148 people aboard, including 133 French nationals, died.

2004 January 5th. - Germany, Munich: an Austrian Airlines Fokker F-70 on a flight from Vienna, Austria lost power and made an emergency landing on a snowy field about 3 miles short of the runway; none of the 32 people aboard was seriously hurt.

2004 January 13th. - Uzbekistan, Tashkent Airport: an Uzbekistan Airways Yakovlev YAK-40 crashed on landing after a flight from Termez; all 37 people aboard died.

2004 January 17th. - Canada, Ontario, Pelee Island: a Georgian Express Cessna 208B, on a flight to Windsor, Canada, crashed shortly after takeoff on the frozen Lake Erie and subsequently submerged into the water. All 10 people aboard died.

2004 February 10th. - United Arab Emirates, Dubai, near Sharjah Airport: an Iranian Kish Airlines Fokker F-50 on a scheduled passenger flight from Kish crashed on landing approach two miles short of the runway. The plane exploded on impact; 43 of the 46 people aboard died.

At least 3 other Fokker F-50 crashed during landing attempts since 1995 (2003, January 17: Spain, Melilla; 2002, June 11: Luxembourg, Niederanven; 1995, September 15: Malaysia, Tawau).

2004 May 14th - Brazil, near Manaus: A Rico Lineas Aereas Embraer 120 Brasilia en route from Sao Paulo de Olivenca near the border to Colombia crashed into the Amazon jungle about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from its destination Manaus; all 33 people aboard (30 passengers and 3 crew members) died.

2004 November 21st. Northern China, Autonomous Region of Inner Mongolia, City of Baotou: a plane board crashed into a Lake seconds after taking off; all 53 people aboard died.