Plane Crashes in 1983
Wikidata lists 36 aviation accidents in 1983, with 1,296 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 crash (1 Sep 1983, 269 dead).
36
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 1983
23
Of them with deaths
1,296
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 1983
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Sep 1983 | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 crash Aircraft shootdown | Boeing 747-200 · Flight KE007 · Moneron Island · Soviet Union | 269 |
| 27 Nov 1983 | Avianca Flight 011 | Boeing 747-200 · Avianca · Flight AV-011 · Mejorada del Campo · Spain | 181 |
| 8 Nov 1983 | 1983 TAAG Angola Airlines 737 Boeing crash Aircraft shootdown | Boeing 737-200 · TAAG Angola Airlines · Lubango Airport · Angola | 130 |
| 11 Jul 1983 | 1983 TAME 737-200 crash | Boeing 737-200 · TAME · Ricaurte · Ecuador | 119 |
| 23 Sep 1983 | Gulf Air Flight 771 Airliner bombing | Boeing 737 · Gulf Air · Flight GF771 · Jebel Ali · United Arab Emirates | 112 |
| 7 Dec 1983 | Madrid Runway Disaster | Boeing 727 · Iberia · Flight IB350 · Madrid-Barajas Airport · Spain | 93 |
| 30 Aug 1983 | Aeroflot Flight 5463 | Tupolev Tu-134 · Aeroflot · Almaty International Airport | 90 |
| 28 Nov 1983 | Nigeria Airways Flight 250 | Fokker F28 Fellowship · Nigeria Airways · Enugu · Nigeria | 53 |
| 16 Jan 1983 | Turkish Airlines flight 158 | Turkish Airlines · Ankara Esenboğa Airport · Turkey | 47 |
| 24 Dec 1983 | Aeroflot Flight 601 | Aeroflot · Russia | 44 |
| 1 Jul 1983 | 1983 Chosonminhang Ilyushin Il-62 crash | Fouta Djallon | 23 |
| 2 Jun 1983 | Air Canada Flight 797 | Douglas DC-9-32 · Air Canada · Flight AC797 · Cincinnati · United States | 23 |
| 11 Mar 1983 | 1983 Avensa Douglas DC-9 crash | Douglas DC-9 · Avensa · Jacinto Lara International Airport · Venezuela | 23 |
| 16 Jul 1983 | 1983 British Airways Sikorsky S-61 crash | British Airways Helicopters | 20 |
| 10 Mar 1983 | Crash of a Bakhtar Afghan Airlines flight near Ghazni | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Bakhtar Afghan Airlines · Ghazni Province · Afghanistan | 19 |
| 19 Apr 1983 | 1983 Sugashima JASDF C-1 crashes | Kawasaki C-1 · 1st Tactical Airlift Group (JASDF) · Sugashima · Japan | 14 |
| 14 Sep 1983 | 1983 Guilin Airport collision Mid-air collision | Guilin Qifengling Airport · People's Republic of China | 11 |
| 11 Oct 1983 | Air Illinois Flight 710 | Hawker Siddeley HS 748 · Air Illinois · Flight UX710 · Pinckneyville · United States | 10 |
| 29 Mar 1983 | Aviation accident, 29 March 1983 | Aeroflot · Poti | 6 |
| 27 Jun 1983 | mid-air collision of Biberach | Partenavia P.68 · Biberach an der Riß · Germany | 3 |
| 11 Jan 1983 | United Airlines Flight 2885 | Douglas DC-8 · United Airlines · Flight UA2885 · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport · United States | 3 |
| 22 Feb 1983 | Aviation accident in Brazil, 22 February 1983 | Brazil | 2 |
| 20 Dec 1983 | Ozark Air Lines Flight 650 | United States | 1 |
| 23 Dec 1983 | 1983 Anchorage runway collision | Flight KE084 · Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport · United States | 0 |
| 18 Dec 1983 | Malaysian Airline System Flight 684 | Malaysia Airlines · Malaysia | 0 |
| 8 Jun 1983 | Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 | Lockheed L-188 Electra · Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport · United States | 0 |
| 6 Jun 1983 | Alraigo incident | Fleet Air Arm · Spain | 0 |
| 1 May 1983 | 1983 Negev mid-air collision | 0 | |
| 20 Dec 1983 | Aviation accident, 20 December 1983 | — | |
| 28 Sep 1983 | Aviation accident, 28 September 1983 | — | |
| 22 May 1983 | 1983 Rhein-Main Starfighter crash | Canadian Armed Forces · Germany | — |
| 6 May 1983 | Aviation accident, 6 May 1983 | — | |
| 29 Apr 1983 | SAN Ecuador flight 832 | SAN Ecuador | — |
| 19 Apr 1983 | Aeroflot Flight E-46 | Gyumri · Armenia | — |
| 12 Apr 1983 | Aviation accident, 12 April 1983 | Antonov An-26 · Minsk-1 Airport | — |
| 11 Mar 1983 | Nihon Kinkyori Airways Flight 497 | NAMC YS-11 · Nihon Kinkyori Airways · Nakashibetsu Airport · Japan | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 1983
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | 50 |
| February | 1 | 2 |
| March | 4 | 48 |
| April | 4 | 14 |
| May | 3 | 0 |
| June | 4 | 26 |
| July | 3 | 162 |
| August | 1 | 90 |
| September | 4 | 392 |
| October | 1 | 10 |
| November | 3 | 364 |
| December | 6 | 138 |
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 1983, 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 1983
How many plane crashes have there been in 1983?
Wikidata lists 36 aviation accidents in 1983, with 1,296 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 crash (1 Sep 1983, 269 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 1983?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 1983, the deadliest is Korean Air Lines Flight 007 crash on 1 Sep 1983 in Soviet Union, with 269 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.