Plane Crashes in 1986
Wikidata lists 38 aviation accidents in 1986, with 875 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 (31 Mar 1986, 167 dead).
38
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 1986
23
Of them with deaths
875
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 1986
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 1986 | Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 | Boeing 727 · Mexicana de Aviación · Flight MX940 · Maravatío Municipality · Mexico | 167 |
| 18 Jan 1986 | 1986 Aerovias Guatemala air crash | Sud Aviation Caravelle · Santa Elena de la Cruz · Guatemala | 93 |
| 31 Aug 1986 | Aeroméxico Flight 498 | Douglas DC-9 · Aeroméxico · Cerritos · United States | 82 |
| 12 Dec 1986 | Aeroflot Flight 892 | Tupolev Tu-134 · Aeroflot · Bohnsdorf · Germany | 72 |
| 20 Oct 1986 | Aeroflot Flight 6502 | Tupolev Tu-134 · Aeroflot · Flight SU-6502 · Kurumoch International Airport | 70 |
| 25 Dec 1986 | Iraqi Airways Flight 163 | Iraqi Airways · Flight IA163 · Arar · Saudi Arabia | 63 |
| 16 Aug 1986 | 1986 Sudan Airways Fokker F-27 shootdown | Sudan Airways | 60 |
| 2 Jul 1986 | Aeroflot Flight 2306 | Aeroflot · Kopsa · Russia | 54 |
| 5 Sep 1986 | Pan Am Flight 73 | Boeing 747 · Pan Am · Flight PA73 · Jinnah International Airport · Pakistan | 43 |
| 19 Oct 1986 | 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 crash | People's Republic of Mozambique · Mbuzini · South Africa | 34 |
| 29 Nov 1986 | Aviation accident, 29 November 1986 | Kabul International Airport | 31 |
| 18 Jun 1986 | Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6 | Grand Canyon Airlines · Grand Canyon National Park · United States | 25 |
| 3 May 1986 | Air Lanka Flight 512 | SriLankan Airlines · Flight UL512 · Bandaranaike International Airport · Sri Lanka | 21 |
| 3 Aug 1986 | LIAT Flight 319 | de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter · Caribbean Sea | 13 |
| 25 Mar 1986 | Aviation accident in Russia, 25 March 1986 | Omsk-Severny · Russia | 9 |
| 28 Jan 1986 | Space Shuttle Challenger disaster | Cape Canaveral · United States | 7 |
| 15 Dec 1986 | CAAC Flight 2409 | 6 | |
| 17 Feb 1986 | 1986 Antarctica Ilyushin Il-14 crash | Mirny Station | 6 |
| 17 May 1986 | Aviation accident, 17 May 1986 | Aeroflot · Khanty-Mansiysk | 5 |
| 19 Jul 1986 | 1986 Alt Empordà planecrash | DC-6B · Spain | 4 |
| 2 Apr 1986 | TWA Flight 840 bombing (1986) | Boeing 727 · Trans World Airlines · Flight TW840 | 4 |
| 5 Oct 1986 | Corporate Air Services HPF821 | 3 | |
| 5 Sep 1986 | Aviation accident, 5 September 1986 | TAROM | 3 |
| 27 Dec 1986 | Aviation accident, 27 December 1986 | — | |
| 6 Nov 1986 | Aviation accident in United States, 6 November 1986 | Tampa International Airport · United States | — |
| 6 Nov 1986 | 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash | British International Helicopters · Shetland Islands · United Kingdom | — |
| 26 Oct 1986 | Thai Airways International Flight 620 | Airbus A300-600 · Thai Airways · Japan | — |
| 15 Oct 1986 | Aviation accident, 15 October 1986 | — | |
| 14 Oct 1986 | Aviation accident, 14 October 1986 | Aeroflot | — |
| 4 Oct 1986 | Aviation accident, 4 October 1986 | — | |
| 19 Sep 1986 | Aviation accident, 19 September 1986 | — | |
| 11 Sep 1986 | Aviation accident, 11 September 1986 | — | |
| 25 Jun 1986 | Plane collision at Visé | — | |
| 22 Jun 1986 | Aeroflot Flight 5569 | Aeroflot · Flight 5569 · Penza Airport | — |
| 21 May 1986 | Aviation accident in Russia, 21 May 1986 Non-fatal aviation incident | Domodedovo International Airport · Russia | — |
| 17 Apr 1986 | Hindawi affair | United Kingdom | — |
| 2 Mar 1986 | Aeroflot Flight F-77 | Flight Ф-77 · Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | — |
| 28 Jan 1986 | VASP Flight 210 | VASP · Brazil | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 1986
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3 | 100 |
| February | 1 | 6 |
| March | 3 | 176 |
| April | 2 | 4 |
| May | 3 | 26 |
| June | 3 | 25 |
| July | 2 | 58 |
| August | 3 | 155 |
| September | 4 | 46 |
| October | 7 | 107 |
| November | 3 | 31 |
| December | 4 | 141 |
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 1986, 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 1986
How many plane crashes have there been in 1986?
Wikidata lists 38 aviation accidents in 1986, with 875 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 (31 Mar 1986, 167 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 1986?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 1986, the deadliest is Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 on 31 Mar 1986 in Mexico, with 167 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.