Plane Crashes in 1982
Wikidata lists 43 aviation accidents in 1982, with 1,066 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Pan Am Flight 759 (9 Jul 1982, 153 dead).
43
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 1982
27
Of them with deaths
1,066
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 1982
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Jul 1982 | Pan Am Flight 759 | Boeing 727 · Pan Am · Kenner · United States | 153 |
| 8 Jun 1982 | VASP Flight 168 | Boeing 727 · VASP · Pacatuba · Brazil | 137 |
| 28 Jun 1982 | Aeroflot Flight 8641 | Yakovlev Yak-42 · Aeroflot · Vierbavičy | 132 |
| 6 Jul 1982 | Aeroflot Flight 411 | Ilyushin Il-62 · Aeroflot · Flight SU-411 · Mendeleyevo | 90 |
| 13 Jan 1982 | Air Florida Flight 90 | Boeing 737-200 · Air Florida · Flight FLA90 · 14th Street Bridges · United States | 78 |
| 5 Feb 1982 | Jeju Island military aircraft crash | Republic of Korea Air Force · Jeju International Airport · South Korea | 53 |
| 13 Sep 1982 | Spantax Flight 995 | McDonnell Douglas DC-10 · Spantax · Málaga-Costa del Sol · Spain | 50 |
| 9 Dec 1982 | Aeronor Flight 304 | Fairchild F-27 · Chile | 46 |
| 11 Sep 1982 | 1982 Mannheim helicopter crash | CH-47C Chinook · United States Army · Bundesautobahn 656 · Germany | 46 |
| 1 Sep 1982 | 1982 Aerocondor DHC-4 Caribou accident | Aerocondor · Ecuador | 44 |
| 12 Jun 1982 | 1982 TABA Fairchild FH-227 accident | TABA – Transportes Aéreos da Bacia Amazônica · Brazil | 44 |
| 3 Feb 1982 | Aviation accident in Djibouti, 3 February 1982 | Nord Noratlas · French Air Force · Djibouti | 36 |
| 24 Dec 1982 | CAAC Flight 2311 | CAAC Airlines · Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (1933–2004) · People's Republic of China | 25 |
| 9 Feb 1982 | Japan Air Lines Flight 350 | Douglas DC-8 · Japan Airlines · Japan | 24 |
| 26 Mar 1982 | Aeropesca Colombia Flight 217 | Intercontinental de Aviación · Colombia | 21 |
| 14 Aug 1982 | 1982 IAI Arava 201 crash | Nicaragua | 20 |
| 17 Jun 1982 | Aviation accident in Soviet Union, 17 June 1982 | Severomorsk · Soviet Union | 15 |
| 11 Mar 1982 | Widerøe Flight 933 | Widerøe · Norway | 15 |
| 14 Aug 1982 | 1982 Sukhumi Dranda Airport runway collision | Sukhumi Babushara Airport · Soviet Union | 11 |
| 29 Sep 1982 | Aeroflot Flight 343 | Ilyushin Il-62 · Aeroflot · Flight SU343 · Luxembourg Airport · Luxembourg | 7 |
| 14 Sep 1982 | 1982 Bristow Helicopters Bell 212 crash | Bell 212 · United Kingdom | 6 |
| 18 Jan 1982 | 1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash | United States | 4 |
| 23 Jul 1982 | Twilight Zone accident | Bell UH-1 Iroquois · United States | 3 |
| 7 Dec 1982 | Aviation accident, 7 December 1982 | 2 | |
| 23 Jan 1982 | World Airways Flight 30 | World Airways · Logan International Airport · United States | 2 |
| 11 Aug 1982 | Pan Am Flight 830 | Boeing 747 · Pan Am · Pacific Ocean | 1 |
| 21 Feb 1982 | Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458 | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Scituate Reservoir | 1 |
| 17 Sep 1982 | Japan Airlines Flight 792 | Japan Airlines · Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport · People's Republic of China | 0 |
| 26 Aug 1982 | Southwest Air Lines Flight 611 Runway overrun | Southwest Air Lines · Old Ishigaki Airport · Japan | 0 |
| 23 Dec 1982 | Aviation accident, 23 December 1982 | Rostov-on-Don Airport | — |
| 9 Dec 1982 | Aviation accident, 9 December 1982 | — | |
| 16 Nov 1982 | Aviation accident, 16 November 1982 | Ivanovo | — |
| 7 Nov 1982 | Aviation accident, 7 November 1982 | — | |
| 21 Oct 1982 | Aviation accident in Switzerland, 21 October 1982 | Switzerland | — |
| 13 Jul 1982 | Aviation accident in Poland, 13 July 1982 | Poland | — |
| 21 Jun 1982 | Air India Flight 403 | Air India · Flight AI403 · Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport · India | — |
| 6 Jun 1982 | 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident | Pleasant Peak | — |
| 1 Jun 1982 | Aviation accident in South Korea, 1 June 1982 | South Korea | — |
| 25 May 1982 | 1982 Royal Air Force Jaguar shootdown incident | — | |
| 24 Apr 1982 | Aviation accident, 24 April 1982 | — | |
| 20 Mar 1982 | 1982 Garuda Fokker F28 crash | Radin Inten II International Airport · Indonesia | — |
| 27 Jan 1982 | Aviation accident in Colombia, 27 January 1982 | Colombia | — |
| 7 Jan 1982 | Aviation accident, 7 January 1982 | Gelendzhik Airport | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 1982
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5 | 84 |
| February | 4 | 114 |
| March | 3 | 36 |
| April | 1 | 0 |
| May | 1 | 0 |
| June | 7 | 328 |
| July | 4 | 246 |
| August | 4 | 32 |
| September | 6 | 153 |
| October | 1 | 0 |
| November | 2 | 0 |
| December | 5 | 73 |
Latest crash reports we recorded
Global Incident Tracker's own records begin in August 2026.
What this page shows, and what it misses
Two separate records, never added together. Wikidata: every item classed as an aviation accident (or a kind of one, such as a helicopter crash, mid-air collision or runway excursion) with a date in 1982, with the death toll, country, operator and aircraft as entered there. It favours larger, widely reported accidents, and new entries appear days or weeks after a crash.
Neither is an official world total, and the two counts differ because they count different things. For US civil aviation alone, the NTSB's CAROL accident database lists every accident it investigates, most of them small private aircraft.
Aviation accident data: Wikidata (CC0 public domain), from its structured fields only. Crash reports: Global Incident Tracker.
QuestionsPlane crashes in 1982
How many plane crashes have there been in 1982?
Wikidata lists 43 aviation accidents in 1982, with 1,066 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Pan Am Flight 759 (9 Jul 1982, 153 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 1982?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 1982, the deadliest is Pan Am Flight 759 on 9 Jul 1982 in United States, with 153 deaths recorded.
Why do different sites give different numbers of plane crashes?
Because they count different things. Some count only airliner accidents, some every accident of a small private plane, some only those with deaths. Wikidata lists accidents that someone has added as a structured item, which favours larger and widely reported crashes. Global Incident Tracker counts crash reports it picked up from news and official feeds. For the United States alone, the NTSB investigates over a thousand civil aviation accidents a year, most of them small private aircraft.