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Plane Crashes in 1997

Wikidata lists 31 aviation accidents in 1997, with 1,247 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 (26 Sep 1997, 234 dead).

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31
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 1997
27
Of them with deaths
1,247
Deaths recorded in Wikidata

Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 1997

DateAccidentAircraft · operator · whereDeaths
26 Sep 1997 Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 Airbus A300 · Garuda Indonesia · Soewondo Air Force Base · Indonesia 234
6 Aug 1997 Korean Air Flight 801 Boeing 747-300 · Flight KE801 · Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport 228
19 Dec 1997 SilkAir Flight 185 Boeing 737-300 · SilkAir · Musi River · Indonesia 104
15 Dec 1997 Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 Tupolev Tu-154 · Tajik Air · Sharjah International Airport · United Arab Emirates 85
10 Oct 1997 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 Douglas DC-9 · Nuevo Berlín · Uruguay 74
4 Feb 1997 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster 73
17 Dec 1997 Aerosvit Flight 241 Yakovlev Yak-42 · Aerosvit Airlines · Greece 70
3 Sep 1997 Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 Tupolev Tu-134 · Vietnam Airlines · Phnom Penh International Airport · Cambodia 64
18 Mar 1997 Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023 Antonov An-24 · Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia · Cherkessk · Russia 50
11 Jul 1997 Aviation accident, 11 July 1997 44
8 May 1997 China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 Boeing 737 Classic · China Southern Airlines · Flight CZ3456 · Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport · People's Republic of China 35
13 Sep 1997 1997 Namibia mid-air collision Lockheed C-141 Starlifter · United States Air Force · Atlantic Ocean 33
9 Jan 1997 Comair Flight 3272 Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia · Comair · United States 29
17 Jul 1997 Sempati Air Flight 304 Fokker F27 Friendship · Sempati Air · Indonesia 28
6 Dec 1997 1997 Irkutsk Antonov An-124 crash Antonov An-124 Ruslan · Ukrainian Cargo Airways · Irkutsk Northwest Airport · Russia 23
10 Aug 1997 Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 Dornier 228 · Formosa Airlines 16
19 Apr 1997 Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 106 BAe ATP · Merpati Nusantara Airlines · Indonesia 15
8 Sep 1997 Helikopter Service Flight 451 Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma · CHC Helikopter Service · Norwegian Sea · Norway 12
6 Sep 1997 Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 238 Dornier 228 · Royal Brunei Airlines · Lambir Hills National Park · Malaysia 10
11 Dec 1997 Aviation accident, 11 December 1997 Naryan-Mar Airport 8
9 Aug 1997 Aviation accident in Sweden, 9 August 1997 Sweden 3
7 Jan 1997 Aviation accident, 7 January 1997 Samoa Airways 3
12 Apr 1997 Aviation accident in Spain, 12 April 1997 Spain 2
28 Dec 1997 United Airlines Flight 826 (1997) Boeing 747 · United Airlines · Flight UA826 · Tokyo · Japan 1
30 Jul 1997 Air Littoral Flight 701 ATR 42 · Air Littoral · Italy 1
8 Jun 1997 Japan Airlines Flight 706 Japan Airlines · Shima Peninsula · Japan 1
14 Feb 1997 Aviation accident, 14 February 1997 Varig 1
31 Jul 1997 FedEx Express Flight 14 McDonnell Douglas MD-11 · FedEx Express · Newark Liberty International Airport · United States 0
12 Nov 1997 Aviation accident in Switzerland, 12 November 1997 Boltigen · Switzerland —
29 Jul 1997 Aviation accident, 29 July 1997 —
26 Jul 1997 Aviation accident in Belgium, 26 July 1997 Belgium —

"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.

Month by month, 1997

MonthWikidata accidentsDeaths
January2 32
February2 74
March1 50
April2 17
May1 35
June1 1
July6 73
August3 247
September5 353
October1 74
November1 0
December6 291

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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 1997, 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.

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QuestionsPlane crashes in 1997

How many plane crashes have there been in 1997?
Wikidata lists 31 aviation accidents in 1997, with 1,247 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 (26 Sep 1997, 234 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 1997?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 1997, the deadliest is Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 on 26 Sep 1997 in Indonesia, with 234 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.