Plane Crashes in 2002
Wikidata lists 40 aviation accidents in 2002, with 1,272 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: China Airlines Flight 611 (25 May 2002, 225 dead).
40
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 2002
26
Of them with deaths
1,272
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2002
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 May 2002 | China Airlines Flight 611 | Boeing 747 · China Airlines · Taiwan Strait · Taiwan | 225 |
| 15 Apr 2002 | Air China Flight 129 | Boeing 767-200ER · Air China · Flight CA129 · Gimhae · South Korea | 129 |
| 19 Aug 2002 | 2002 Khankala Mi-26 crash | Russian Air Force · Khankala · Russia | 127 |
| 12 Feb 2002 | Iran Air Tours Flight 956 | Tupolev Tu-154 · Iran | 119 |
| 7 May 2002 | China Northern Airlines Flight 6136 | McDonnell Douglas MD-80/MD-90 family · China Northern Airlines · Bohai Bay · People's Republic of China | 112 |
| 28 Jan 2002 | TAME Flight 120 | Boeing 727 · TAME · Cumbal · Colombia | 94 |
| 27 Jul 2002 | Sknyliv air show disaster Air show accident or incident | Sukhoi Su-27 · Ukrainian Air Force · Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport · Ukraine | 77 |
| 1 Jul 2002 | Überlingen mid-air collision | Tupolev Tu-154 · DHL International Aviation ME · Flight DHX611 · Lake Constance · Germany | 71 |
| 4 May 2002 | EAS Airlines Flight 4226 | BAC One-Eleven · EAS Airlines · Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport · Nigeria | 71 |
| 23 Dec 2002 | Aeromist-Kharkiv Flight 2137 | Aeromist-Kharkiv · Flight 2137 · Ardestan · Iran | 44 |
| 4 Jul 2002 | 2002 Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 crash | Bangui M'Poko International Airport · Central African Republic | 28 |
| 30 Aug 2002 | Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 | Rico Linhas Aéreas | 23 |
| 8 Aug 2002 | Aviation accident in Brazil, 8 August 2002 | Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia · Rio Branco · Brazil | 23 |
| 6 Nov 2002 | Luxair Flight 9642 | Fokker 50 · Luxair · Flight LH2420 · Niederanven · Luxembourg | 20 |
| 11 Nov 2002 | Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 | Laoag International Airlines · Philippines | 19 |
| 22 Aug 2002 | 2002 Shangri-La Air Twin Otter Crash | Shangri-La Air · Nepal | 18 |
| 28 Jul 2002 | Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 | Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise · Dmitrovskoye Highway | 14 |
| 7 May 2002 | EgyptAir Flight 843 | Boeing 737 · EgyptAir · Tunisia · Egypt | 14 |
| 27 Jan 2002 | 2002 Shelkovskaya Mi-8 crash | Shelkovskaya | 14 |
| 30 Apr 2002 | Aviation accident in Tunisia, 30 April 2002 | Bell UH-1 Iroquois · Tunisian Air Force · Tunisia | 13 |
| 28 Apr 2002 | Aviation accident in Russia, 28 April 2002 | Mil Mi-17 · Russia | 8 |
| 18 Apr 2002 | 2002 Pirelli Tower plane crash Pilot suicide | Rockwell Commander 112 · Pirelli Tower · Italy | 3 |
| 21 Dec 2002 | TransAsia Airways Flight 791 | ATR 72 · TransAsia Airways | 2 |
| 12 Jun 2002 | HMS Richmond helicopter crash | 2 | |
| 16 Jan 2002 | Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 | Boeing 737 Classic · Garuda Indonesia · Bengawan Solo River · Indonesia | 1 |
| 5 Jan 2002 | 2002 Tampa Plane Crash | United States | 1 |
| 28 Nov 2002 | 2002 Mombasa attacks | Mombasa | 0 |
| 9 Oct 2002 | Northwest Airlines Flight 85 | Boeing 747-400 · Northwest Airlines · Flight NWA85 · Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport · United States | 0 |
| 10 Jul 2002 | Swiss International Airlines Flight 850 | Swiss International Air Lines · Germany | 0 |
| 11 Apr 2002 | Aviation accident, 11 April 2002 | Sabang Merauke Raya Air Charter | 0 |
| 21 Jan 2002 | All Nippon Airways Flight 391 | Airbus A321-100 · All Nippon Airways · Hakodate Airport · Japan | 0 |
| 14 Jan 2002 | Siberia Airlines Flight 852 | Omsk Tsentralny Airport | 0 |
| 15 Oct 2002 | Aviation accident, 15 October 2002 | — | |
| 26 Jul 2002 | FedEx Express Flight 1478 | — | |
| 26 Jul 2002 | 2002 Africa One Antonov An-26 crash | Africa One | — |
| 16 Jul 2002 | 2002 Bristow Helicopters Sikorsky S-76A crash | — | |
| 26 Jun 2002 | All Nippon Airways Flight 8254 Runway overrun | All Nippon Airways · Shimojishima Airport · Japan | — |
| 17 Jun 2002 | 2002 airtanker crashes | United States | — |
| 21 May 2002 | Aviation accident, 21 May 2002 | — | |
| 3 May 2002 | 2002 Jalandhar MiG-21 crash | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2002
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 6 | 110 |
| February | 1 | 119 |
| March | 0 | 0 |
| April | 5 | 153 |
| May | 6 | 422 |
| June | 3 | 2 |
| July | 8 | 190 |
| August | 4 | 191 |
| September | 0 | 0 |
| October | 2 | 0 |
| November | 3 | 39 |
| December | 2 | 46 |
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 2002, 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 2002
How many plane crashes have there been in 2002?
Wikidata lists 40 aviation accidents in 2002, with 1,272 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: China Airlines Flight 611 (25 May 2002, 225 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 2002?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 2002, the deadliest is China Airlines Flight 611 on 25 May 2002 in Taiwan, with 225 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.