Plane Crashes in 2001
Wikidata lists 45 aviation accidents in 2001, with 1,188 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: American Airlines Flight 587 (12 Nov 2001, 265 dead).
45
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 2001
32
Of them with deaths
1,188
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2001
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov 2001 | American Airlines Flight 587 | Airbus A300 · American Airlines · Queens · United States | 265 |
| 11 Sep 2001 | American Airlines Flight 77 Pilot suicide | Boeing 757 · American Airlines · Flight AA77 · The Pentagon · United States | 189 |
| 4 Jul 2001 | Vladivostok Air Flight 352 | Tupolev Tu-154 · Vladivostok Air · Irkutsk · Russia | 145 |
| 8 Oct 2001 | 2001 Linate Airport runway collision | McDonnell Douglas MD-87 · Scandinavian Airlines · Linate Airport | 118 |
| 11 Sep 2001 | American Airlines Flight 11 Pilot suicide | Boeing 767 · American Airlines · Flight AA11 · 1 World Trade Center · United States | 92 |
| 4 Oct 2001 | Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 | Tupolev Tu-154 · Flight SBI1812 · Black Sea | 78 |
| 11 Sep 2001 | United Airlines Flight 175 Pilot suicide | Boeing 767 · United Airlines · Flight UA175 · Two World Trade Center · United States | 65 |
| 19 Nov 2001 | Aviation accident, 19 November 2001 | 27 | |
| 24 Nov 2001 | Crossair Flight 3597 | British Aerospace BAe 146 / Avro RJ · Crossair · Flight LX3597 · Switzerland | 24 |
| 24 Mar 2001 | Air Caraïbes Flight 1501 | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Air Caraïbes · France | 20 |
| 2 Dec 2001 | Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Flight 9064 | Russian Armed Forces | 18 |
| 29 Mar 2001 | 2001 Avjet Gulfstream III crash | Avjet Corporation · United States | 18 |
| 16 Dec 2001 | 2001 Mountain El Silencio Heliandes Let L-410 crash | 16 | |
| 17 Sep 2001 | 2001 Grozny Mi-8 crash | 13 | |
| 10 Oct 2001 | Aviation accident, 10 October 2001 | PenAir | 10 |
| 10 Oct 2001 | Flightline Flight 101 | 10 | |
| 14 Jul 2001 | Rus Flight 9633 | Moscow Oblast · Russia | 10 |
| 27 Jan 2001 | Oklahoma State University men's basketball team plane crash | United States | 10 |
| 25 Aug 2001 | 2001 Marsh Harbour Cessna 402 crash | The Bahamas | 9 |
| 26 Dec 2001 | 2001 Bremerhaven Airline Britten-Norman Islander crash | Bremerhaven Airline · Germany | 8 |
| 18 Sep 2001 | Atlantic Airlines flight 870 | Let L-410 Turbolet · Atlantic Airlines · Guatemala | 8 |
| 18 Sep 2001 | Aviation accident, 18 September 2001 | 8 | |
| 19 May 2001 | 2001 Kuwana mid-air collision Mid-air collision | Cessna 172P Skyhawk P · Nakanihon Air Service · Japan | 6 |
| 12 Nov 2001 | 2001 Fishtail Air Eurocopter AS350 crash | Fishtail Air · Nepal | 4 |
| 29 Aug 2001 | Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261 | CASA/IPTN CN-235 · Binter Mediterraneo · Málaga-Costa del Sol · Spain | 4 |
| 3 Nov 2001 | Aviation accident, 3 November 2001 | 3 | |
| 31 Jan 2001 | Líneas Aéreas Sudamericanas Flight 3932 | Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas | 3 |
| 23 Nov 2001 | ELK Airways Flight 1007 | Flight ELK1007 · Kärdla Airport | 2 |
| 27 Feb 2001 | Loganair Flight 670A | Short 360 · Loganair · Firth of Forth · United Kingdom | 2 |
| 15 Sep 2001 | TAM Flight 9755 | LATAM Brasil · Brazil | 1 |
| 1 Apr 2001 | Hainan Island incident | J-8 · South China Sea · People's Republic of China | 1 |
| 3 Mar 2001 | Thai Airways International Flight 114 | Boeing 737-400 · Thai Airways · Flight TG114 · Don Mueang International Airport · Thailand | 1 |
| 19 Dec 2001 | Aviation accident, 19 December 2001 | 0 | |
| 5 Sep 2001 | Aviation accident, 5 September 2001 | British Airways | 0 |
| 24 Aug 2001 | Air Transat Flight 236 | Airbus A330-200 · Air Transat · Flight TSC236 · Lajes Airport | 0 |
| 6 Jul 2001 | Aviation accident in France, 6 July 2001 | Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (Royal Air Force) · Air Transat · Flight TSC906 · France | 0 |
| 7 Feb 2001 | Iberia Airlines Flight 1456 | Airbus A320 · Iberia · Bilbao Airport · Spain | 0 |
| 31 Jan 2001 | 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident | Japan Airlines · Japan | 0 |
| 27 Jan 2001 | 2001 Antonov An-70 Crash | Russia | 0 |
| 21 Sep 2001 | Aeroflot Flight 521 | Aeroflot · Flight SU521 · Dubai International Airport · United Arab Emirates | — |
| 11 Sep 2001 | collapse of the World Trade Center | United States | — |
| 17 May 2001 | 2001 Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40 crash | Iran | — |
| 16 Mar 2001 | Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2806 | — | |
| 15 Mar 2001 | Aviation accident, 15 March 2001 | — | |
| 25 Jan 2001 | RUTACA Airlines Flight 225 | Douglas DC-3 · RUTACA Airlines · Ciudad Bolívar · Venezuela | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2001
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5 | 13 |
| February | 2 | 2 |
| March | 5 | 39 |
| April | 1 | 1 |
| May | 2 | 6 |
| June | 0 | 0 |
| July | 3 | 155 |
| August | 3 | 13 |
| September | 10 | 376 |
| October | 4 | 216 |
| November | 6 | 325 |
| December | 4 | 42 |
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 2001, 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 2001
How many plane crashes have there been in 2001?
Wikidata lists 45 aviation accidents in 2001, with 1,188 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: American Airlines Flight 587 (12 Nov 2001, 265 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 2001?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 2001, the deadliest is American Airlines Flight 587 on 12 Nov 2001 in United States, with 265 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.