RANK

INCIDENT

DEATH TOLL

AIRCRAFT

LOCATION

DATE

1

American Airlines Flight 11

1,700

Boeing 767-223ER

New York City, USA

11/09/2001

2

United Airlines Flight 175

1,000

Boeing 767-222

New York City, USA

11/09/2001

3

Pan Am Flight 1736 and KLM Flight 4805

583

Boeing 747-121 and Boeing 747-206B

Tenerife, Spain

27/03/1977

4

Japan Air Lines Flight 123

520

Boeing 747SR-46

Mount Takamagahara, Ueno, Japan

12/08/1985

5

Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907

349

Boeing 747-168B and Ilyushin Il-76TD

Charkhi Dadri, India

12/11/1996

6

Turkish Airlines Flight 981

346

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10

Fontaine-Chaalis, France

03/03/1974

7

Air India Flight 182

327

Boeing 747-237B

Atlantic Ocean, area of Cork, Ireland

23/06/1985

8

Saudia Flight 163

301

Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

19/08/1980

9

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

298

Boeing 777-2H6ER

near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

17/07/2014

10

Iran Air Flight 655

290

Airbus A300B2-203

Strait of Hormuz, off Shib Deraz, Iran

03/07/1988

11

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (15-2280)

275

Ilyushin Il-76MD

near Kerman, Iran

19/02/2003

12

American Airlines Flight 191

273

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10

Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S.

25/05/1979

13

Pan Am Flight 103

270

Boeing 747-121

Lockerbie, United Kingdom

21/12/1988

14

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

269

Boeing 747-230B

Sea of Japan, near Moneron Island, Russian SFSR, USSR

01/09/1983

15

American Airlines Flight 587

265

Airbus A300B4-605R

Belle Harbor, New York City, New York, U.S.

12/11/2001

16

China Airlines Flight 140

264

Airbus A300B4-622R

Komaki, Japan

26/04/1994

17

Nigeria Airways Flight 2120

261

McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

11/07/1991

18

Air India Flight 171

260

Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner

Ahmedabad, India

12/06/2025

19

Algerian Air Force (7T-WIV)

257

Ilyushin Il-76TD

Boufarik, Algeria

11/04/2018

20

Air New Zealand Flight 901

257

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30

Mount Erebus, Antarctica

28/11/1979

21

Arrow Air Flight 1285R

256

McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF

Gander, Newfoundland, Canada

12/12/1985

22

Air Africa (RA-26222)

251

Antonov An-32B

Kinshasa, DR Congo (then Zaire)

08/01/1996

23

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

239

Boeing 777-2H6ER

Indian Ocean

08/03/2014

24

Garuda Indonesia Flight 152

234

Airbus A300B4-220

near Medan, Indonesia

26/09/1997

25

TWA Flight 800

230

Boeing 747-131

Atlantic Ocean, off East Moriches, New York, U.S.

17/07/1996

26

Swissair Flight 111

229

McDonnell Douglas MD-11

Atlantic Ocean, off Peggys Cove, N.S., Canada

02/09/1998

27

Korean Air Flight 801

229

Boeing 747-3B5

Asan-Maina, Guam, U.S.

06/08/1997

28

Air France Flight 447

228

Airbus A330-203

Atlantic Ocean, area of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago

01/06/2009

29

China Airlines Flight 611

225

Boeing 747-209B

Taiwan Strait, near Penghu Islands, Taiwan

25/05/2002

30

Metrojet Flight 9268

224

Airbus A321-231

near Hasna, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt

31/10/2015

31

Lauda Air Flight 004

223

Boeing 767-3Z9ER

Phu Toei National Park, Thailand

26/05/1991

32

EgyptAir Flight 990

217

Boeing 767-366ER

Atlantic Ocean, area of Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S.

31/10/1999

33

Air India Flight 855

213

Boeing 747-237B

Arabian Sea, off Mumbai, India

01/01/1978

34

China Airlines Flight 676

203

Airbus A300B4-622R

Dayuan District, Taiwan

16/02/1998

35

Aeroflot Flight 5143

200

Tupolev Tu-154B-2

near Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, USSR

10/07/1985