Plane Crashes in 2003
Wikidata lists 29 aviation accidents in 2003, with 824 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: 2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash (19 Feb 2003, 275 dead).
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2003
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb 2003 | 2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash | Ilyushin Il-76 · Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | 275 |
| 25 Dec 2003 | UTAGE Flight 141 | Union des Transports Aériens de Guinée · Flight GIH141 · Cadjehoun Airport · Benin | 141 |
| 8 Jul 2003 | Sudan Airways Flight 139 | Boeing 737 · Sudan Airways · Flight SD139 · Port Sudan New International Airport | 117 |
| 26 May 2003 | UM Airlines Flight 4230 | Yakovlev Yak-42 · UM Airlines · Turkey | 75 |
| 8 Jan 2003 | Turkish Airlines flight 634 | British Aerospace BAe 146 / Avro RJ · Turkish Airlines · Turkey | 75 |
| 9 Jan 2003 | TANS Perú Flight 222 | Fokker F28 Fellowship · TANS Peru · Chachapoyas · Peru | 46 |
| 24 Aug 2003 | Tropical Airways Flight 1301 | Tropical Airways · Haiti | 21 |
| 8 Jan 2003 | Air Midwest Flight 5481 | Beechcraft 1900 · Air Midwest · Charlotte Douglas International Airport · United States | 21 |
| 20 Aug 2003 | Aviation accident, 20 August 2003 | Kamchatka Oblast | 20 |
| 24 Oct 2003 | 2004 Hendrick Motorsports aircraft crash | Hendrick Motorsports · United States | 10 |
| 1 Feb 2003 | Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | Louisiana · United States | 7 |
| 18 Nov 2003 | Aviation accident in Sweden, 18 November 2003 | Sweden | 6 |
| 4 Apr 2003 | Mi-24 helicopter accident in Drawsko Pomorskie | Mil Mi-24D · Drawsko Pomorskie Training Area · Poland | 3 |
| 3 Oct 2003 | Aviation accident in New Zealand, 3 October 2003 | Air Freight NZ · New Zealand | 2 |
| 26 Aug 2003 | Colgan Air Flight 9446 | Beechcraft 1900 · Colgan Air · United States | 2 |
| 17 Aug 2003 | Aviation accident, 17 August 2003 | 2 | |
| 25 Mar 2003 | Aviation accident in Sweden, 25 March 2003 | Sweden | 1 |
| 18 Dec 2003 | FedEx Express Flight 647 | FedEx Express · Memphis International Airport · United States | 0 |
| 4 Dec 2003 | 2003 Polish Air Force Mi-8 crash | Polish Air Force · Poland | 0 |
| 4 Dec 2003 | Kato Air Flight 603 | Dornier 228 · Kato Airline · Bodø Airport · Norway | 0 |
| 22 Nov 2003 | 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident | Airbus A300B4-200 · European Air Transport · Baghdad International Airport | 0 |
| 23 Sep 2003 | Luxair Flight 8852 | Embraer ERJ 145 · Luxair · Flight LG8852 · Luxembourg Airport · Luxembourg | 0 |
| 25 May 2003 | 2003 Angola Boeing 727 disappearance | Boeing 727 · Quatro de Fevereiro Airport · Angola | — |
| 8 May 2003 | 2003 Congo air disaster | Ukrainian Cargo Airways · Democratic Republic of the Congo | — |
| 1 Mar 2003 | Aviation accident, 1 March 2003 | — | |
| 10 Feb 2003 | Aviation accident, 10 February 2003 | — | |
| 3 Feb 2003 | Aerosur Flight 231 | AeroSur | — |
| 31 Jan 2003 | Aviation accident, 31 January 2003 | — | |
| 27 Jan 2003 | All Nippon Airways Flight 908 | Boeing 767-300ER · All Nippon Airways · Narita International Airport · Japan | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2003
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5 | 142 |
| February | 4 | 282 |
| March | 2 | 1 |
| April | 1 | 3 |
| May | 3 | 75 |
| June | 0 | 0 |
| July | 1 | 117 |
| August | 4 | 45 |
| September | 1 | 0 |
| October | 2 | 12 |
| November | 2 | 6 |
| 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 2003, 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.