Plane Crashes in 2005
Wikidata lists 35 aviation accidents in 2005, with 925 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 (16 Aug 2005, 160 dead).
35
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 2005
23
Of them with deaths
925
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2005
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Aug 2005 | West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 | McDonnell Douglas MD-80/MD-90 family · West Caribbean Airways · Flight WCW708 · Machiques · Venezuela | 160 |
| 14 Aug 2005 | Helios Airways Flight 522 | Boeing 737 · Helios Airways · Greece | 121 |
| 22 Oct 2005 | Bellview Airlines Flight 210 | Boeing 737 · Bellview Airlines · Nigeria | 117 |
| 10 Dec 2005 | Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 | Douglas DC-9 · Sosoliso Airlines · Port Harcourt International Airport · Nigeria | 107 |
| 5 Sep 2005 | Mandala Airlines Flight 091 | Boeing 737 · Mandala Airlines · Medan · Indonesia | 100 |
| 6 Dec 2005 | 2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash | Lockheed C-130 Hercules · Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force · Tehran | 94 |
| 23 Aug 2005 | TANS Perú Flight 204 | Boeing 737 · TANS Peru · Flight ELV204 · Pucallpa · Peru | 40 |
| 16 Mar 2005 | Regional Airlines Flight 9288 | Flight РЛ-9288 · Varandey Airport · Russia | 28 |
| 23 Dec 2005 | Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 | Azerbaijan Airlines · Flight AHY217 · Nardaran · Azerbaijan | 23 |
| 19 Dec 2005 | Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 | Chalk's International Airlines · Miami Beach · United States | 20 |
| 16 Aug 2005 | 2005 Herat Eurocopter AS532 Cougar helicopter crash Helicopter crash | AS532 Cougar · Spanish Army · Shindand · Afghanistan | 17 |
| 6 Aug 2005 | Tuninter Flight 1153 | ATR 72 · Tunisair Express · Flight UG1153 · Mediterranean Sea · Tunisia | 16 |
| 7 May 2005 | Lockhart River air disaster | Aero-Tropics Air Services · Australia | 15 |
| 10 Aug 2005 | Copterline Flight 103 | S-76 · Copterline · Tallinn Bay · Estonia | 14 |
| 9 Sep 2005 | 2005 Air Kasai Antonov An-26B crash | Air Kasaï · Republic of the Congo | 13 |
| 5 Sep 2005 | 2005 Kavatshi Airlines Antonov An-26B crash | Galaxie Corporation · Democratic Republic of the Congo | 11 |
| 30 Jan 2005 | 2005 Royal Air Force Hercules shootdown | Royal Air Force | 10 |
| 2 Apr 2005 | 2005 Nias Island Sea King crash | Royal Australian Navy · Indonesia | 9 |
| 20 Apr 2005 | Aviation accident, 20 April 2005 | 3 | |
| 4 Oct 2005 | Aviation accident, 4 October 2005 | 2 | |
| 3 May 2005 | Airwork Flight 23 | Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner · Airwork · New Zealand | 2 |
| 15 Mar 2005 | 2005 Loganair Islander accident | Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander · Loganair · United Kingdom | 2 |
| 8 Dec 2005 | Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 | Boeing 737 · Southwest Airlines · Midway International Airport · United States | 1 |
| 1 Dec 2005 | 2007 Móstoles Bullring Bell 206 crash | Bell 206 · Móstoles · Spain | 0 |
| 2 Aug 2005 | Air France Flight 358 | Airbus A340 · Air France · Flight AFR358 · Toronto · Canada | 0 |
| 6 Mar 2005 | Air Transat Flight 961 | Air Transat | 0 |
| 20 Feb 2005 | British Airways Flight 268 | Boeing 747-400 · British Airways · Los Angeles · United States | 0 |
| 19 Aug 2005 | Northwest Flight 74 | United States | — |
| 12 Aug 2005 | JALways Flight 58 In-flight explosion | McDonnell Douglas DC-10 · JALways · Fukuoka Airport · Japan | — |
| 1 Aug 2005 | Aviation accident, 1 August 2005 | — | |
| 28 Jul 2005 | Aviation accident, 28 July 2005 | — | |
| 16 Jul 2005 | 2005 Equatorial Express crash | Equatair · Baney · Equatorial Guinea | — |
| 28 Jun 2005 | Aviation accident in Afghanistan, 28 June 2005 | United States Army · Afghanistan | — |
| 9 Jun 2005 | 2005 Logan Airport runway incursion | United States | — |
| 26 Jan 2005 | 2005 Al-Anbar CH-53E crash | Iraq | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2005
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | 10 |
| February | 1 | 0 |
| March | 3 | 30 |
| April | 2 | 12 |
| May | 2 | 17 |
| June | 2 | 0 |
| July | 2 | 0 |
| August | 10 | 368 |
| September | 3 | 124 |
| October | 2 | 119 |
| November | 0 | 0 |
| December | 6 | 245 |
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 2005, 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 2005
How many plane crashes have there been in 2005?
Wikidata lists 35 aviation accidents in 2005, with 925 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 (16 Aug 2005, 160 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 2005?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 2005, the deadliest is West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 on 16 Aug 2005 in Venezuela, with 160 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.