Plane Crashes in 1996
Wikidata lists 38 aviation accidents in 1996, with 1,987 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision (12 Nov 1996, 349 dead).
38
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 1996
31
Of them with deaths
1,987
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 1996
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 1996 | Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision | Boeing 747 · Saudia · Flight SVA763 · Charkhi Dadri · India | 349 |
| 8 Jan 1996 | 1996 Air Africa crash | Antonov An-32 · Air Africa · Kinshasa | 298 |
| 17 Jul 1996 | TWA Flight 800 | Boeing 747 · Trans World Airlines · Moriches Inlet · United States | 230 |
| 6 Feb 1996 | Birgenair Flight 301 | Boeing 757 · Birgenair · Atlantic Ocean · Dominican Republic | 189 |
| 7 Nov 1996 | ADC Airlines Flight 86 | Boeing 727 · ADC Airlines · Flight ADK086 · Lagos Lagoon · Nigeria | 144 |
| 29 Aug 1996 | Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 | Tupolev Tu-154 · Vnukovo Airlines · Operafjellet · Norway | 141 |
| 29 Feb 1996 | Faucett Flight 251 | Boeing 737 · Flight CF251 · Arequipa · Peru | 123 |
| 11 May 1996 | ValuJet Flight 592 | DC-9-32 · ValuJet Airlines · Flight J7592 · Everglades · United States | 110 |
| 31 Oct 1996 | TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 | Fokker 100 · LATAM Brasil · Flight JJ402 · Congonhas-São Paulo Airport · Brazil | 99 |
| 2 Oct 1996 | Aeroperú Flight 603 | Boeing 757 · Aeroperu · South Pacific Ocean · Peru | 70 |
| 3 Apr 1996 | 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash | Boeing 737 · United States Air Force · Dubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport | 35 |
| 22 Oct 1996 | Millon Air Flight 406 | Flight OX406 | 34 |
| 15 Jul 1996 | 1996 Belgian Air Force Hercules accident | Belgian Air Force · Eindhoven Airport · Netherlands | 34 |
| 25 Sep 1996 | Dakota disaster | Netherlands | 32 |
| 27 Nov 1996 | 1996 Abakan Ilyushin Il-76 crash | Abakan International Airport | 23 |
| 19 Nov 1996 | United Express Flight 5925 | Beechcraft 1900 · Great Lakes Airlines · Quincy Regional Airport · United States | 14 |
| 19 Aug 1996 | Spair Airlines Flight 3601 | Ilyushin Il-76 · Spair Air Transport | 11 |
| 2 Mar 1996 | Mamonas Assassinas airplane crash | Learjet 25 · Serra da Cantareira · Brazil | 9 |
| 9 Aug 1996 | Aviation accident in South Korea, 9 August 1996 | Sancheong County · South Korea | 7 |
| 5 Apr 1996 | Formosa Airlines Flight 7613 | Taiwan | 6 |
| 20 Jul 1996 | Aviation accident, 20 July 1996 | Northern Air Cargo | 4 |
| 9 Jun 1996 | Aviation accident, 9 June 1996 | 4 | |
| 4 Feb 1996 | LAC Colombia Flight 028 | Douglas DC-8 · LAC Colombia · Mariano Roque Alonso · Paraguay | 4 |
| 16 Sep 1996 | 1996 Eurocopter HH-65 Israeli Navy helicopter crash Helicopter crash | 3 | |
| 13 Jun 1996 | Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 · Garuda Indonesia · Fukuoka Airport · Indonesia | 3 |
| 24 Dec 1996 | 1996 New Hampshire Learjet crash | United States | 2 |
| 8 Oct 1996 | Aeroflot Flight 9981 | Aeroflot · Italy | 2 |
| 12 Aug 1996 | Aviation accident, 12 August 1996 | First Air | 2 |
| 21 Jul 1996 | 1996 Barton Aerodrome disaster | Manchester City Airport & Heliport · United Kingdom | 2 |
| 6 Jul 1996 | Delta Air Lines Flight 1288 | McDonnell Douglas MD-88 · Delta Air Lines · Flight DL1288 · Pensacola International Airport · United States | 2 |
| 8 Oct 1996 | 1996 Turkish F-16 shootdown Aircraft shootdown | Turkey | 1 |
| 5 Sep 1996 | FedEx Flight 1406 | McDonnell Douglas DC-10 · FedEx Express · United States | 0 |
| 7 Dec 1996 | Dirgantara Air Service Flight 5940 | CASA C-212 Aviocar · Dirgantara Air Service · Indonesia | — |
| 25 Oct 1996 | Aviation accident, 25 October 1996 Helicopter crash | Usurbe | — |
| 5 Sep 1996 | Air-France flight 437 | — | |
| 14 Aug 1996 | Aviation accident, 14 August 1996 | — | |
| 9 Jul 1996 | 1996 Mendi Milne Bay Air crash | — | |
| 12 Mar 1996 | Aviation accident, 12 March 1996 | Garabogazköl | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 1996
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | 298 |
| February | 3 | 316 |
| March | 2 | 9 |
| April | 2 | 41 |
| May | 1 | 110 |
| June | 2 | 7 |
| July | 6 | 272 |
| August | 5 | 161 |
| September | 4 | 35 |
| October | 6 | 206 |
| November | 4 | 530 |
| December | 2 | 2 |
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 1996, 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 1996
How many plane crashes have there been in 1996?
Wikidata lists 38 aviation accidents in 1996, with 1,987 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision (12 Nov 1996, 349 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 1996?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 1996, the deadliest is Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision on 12 Nov 1996 in India, with 349 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.