Plane Crashes in 2012
Wikidata lists 41 aviation accidents in 2012, with 574 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Dana Air Flight 992 (3 Jun 2012, 153 dead).
41
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 2012
32
Of them with deaths
574
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2012
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Jun 2012 | Dana Air Flight 992 | McDonnell Douglas MD-80/MD-90 family · Dana Air · Flight 9J992 · Murtala Muhammed International Airport · Nigeria | 153 |
| 20 Apr 2012 | Bhoja Air Flight 213 | Boeing 737 · Bhoja Air · Islamabad · Pakistan | 127 |
| 9 May 2012 | 2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash | Yakovlev SJ-100 · Sukhoi · Mount Salak · Indonesia | 45 |
| 2 Apr 2012 | UTair Flight 120 | ATR 72 · UTair Aviation · Roshchino International Airport · Russia | 33 |
| 19 Aug 2012 | 2012 Sudan Antonov An-26 crash | Antonov An-26 · Talodi · Sudan | 32 |
| 25 Dec 2012 | 2012 Kazakhstan Antonov An-72 crash | Antonov An-72 · Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan · Sayram District · Kazakhstan | 27 |
| 28 Sep 2012 | Sita Air Flight 601 | Dornier 228 · Sita Air · Madhyapur Thimi · Nepal | 19 |
| 14 May 2012 | Agni Air Flight CHT | Dornier · Agni Air · Nepal | 15 |
| 11 Jun 2012 | Aviation accident in Russia, 11 June 2012 | Russia | 13 |
| 5 Dec 2012 | 2012 South African Air Force C-47 crash | 35 Squadron SAAF | 11 |
| 7 Jan 2012 | 2012 Carterton hot air balloon crash | New Zealand | 11 |
| 12 Sep 2012 | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2012) | Antonov An-28 · Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise · Flight PTK251 · Palana · Russia | 10 |
| 9 Dec 2012 | 2012 Mexico Learjet 25 crash | Learjet 25 · Mexico | 7 |
| 21 Jun 2012 | 2012 Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash | Indonesian Air Force · Jakarta · Indonesia | 7 |
| 30 Nov 2012 | 2012 Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76 crash | Air Highnesses · Republic of the Congo | 6 |
| 1 Oct 2012 | 2012 Queensland DH.84 Dragon crash | Australia | 6 |
| 23 Aug 2012 | 2012 Ljubljana Marshes hot air balloon crash | hot air balloon · Slovenia | 6 |
| 10 Jun 2012 | 2012 Kenya Police helicopter crash | Kenya Police | 6 |
| 29 Dec 2012 | Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268 | Tupolev Tu-204 · Red Wings Airlines · runway · Russia | 5 |
| 15 Mar 2012 | 2012 Norwegian Air Force C-130 crash | Royal Norwegian Air Force · Kebnekaise · Sweden | 5 |
| 21 Dec 2012 | United Nations Flight 544 | 4 | |
| 17 Dec 2012 | 2012 Amazon Sky An-26 crash | Peru | 4 |
| 12 Feb 2012 | 2012 Katanga Express Gulfstream IV crash | Gulfstream IV · Democratic Republic of the Congo | 4 |
| 7 Oct 2012 | FlyMontserrat Flight 107 | Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander · FlyMontserrat · V. C. Bird International Airport | 3 |
| 30 Aug 2012 | 2012 Taiwan BN-2 Islander accident | Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander · Hualien County · Taiwan | 3 |
| 20 Sep 2012 | Syrian Arab Airlines Flight 501 Mid-air collision | Airbus A320 · Syrian Air | 2 |
| 29 Jun 2012 | Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554 | Tianjin Airlines · Flight GS7554 · Hotan Airport · People's Republic of China | 2 |
| 22 Jun 2012 | 2012 Turkish F-4 Phantom shootdown | McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II · Turkish Air Force · Syria–Turkey border | 2 |
| 6 Jun 2012 | 2012 Air Class Líneas Aéreas Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner crash | Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner · Argentina | 2 |
| 2012 | Aviation accident in Spain, January 2012 | Spanish Air and Space Force · Alcalá de Henares · Spain | 2 |
| 25 Dec 2012 | Air Bagan Flight 11 | Air Bagan · Myanmar | 1 |
| 2012 | Aviation accident in Spain, January 2012 | Northrop F-5 · Spanish Air and Space Force · Talavera la Real · Spain | 1 |
| 14 Oct 2012 | Corendon Airlines Flight 773 | Boeing 737 · Corendon Airlines · Antalya Airport | 0 |
| 31 Aug 2012 | Pakistan International Airlines Flight 653 | ATR 42 · Pakistan International Airlines · Allama Iqbal International Airport · Pakistan | 0 |
| 18 Jul 2012 | Sky Airline Flight 101 | Boeing 737-200 Advanced · Sky Airline · La Serena · Chile | 0 |
| 2 Jun 2012 | Allied Air Flight 111 | Boeing 727 · Allied Air · Flight DHV111 · Accra International Airport · Ghana | 0 |
| 6 Apr 2012 | 2012 Virginia Beach F/A-18 crash | Strike Fighter Squadron 106 · United States | 0 |
| 27 Mar 2012 | JetBlue Airways Flight 191 | JetBlue Airways · United States | 0 |
| 13 Oct 2012 | Centurion Air Cargo Flight 425 | — | |
| 12 Jun 2012 | Aviation accident, 12 June 2012 | — | |
| 1 Mar 2012 | Aviation accident, 1 March 2012 | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2012
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 1 | 11 |
| February | 1 | 4 |
| March | 3 | 5 |
| April | 3 | 160 |
| May | 2 | 60 |
| June | 9 | 185 |
| July | 1 | 0 |
| August | 4 | 41 |
| September | 3 | 31 |
| October | 4 | 9 |
| November | 1 | 6 |
| December | 7 | 59 |
2 accidents have only a year in Wikidata and are not in a month.
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 2012, 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 2012
How many plane crashes have there been in 2012?
Wikidata lists 41 aviation accidents in 2012, with 574 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Dana Air Flight 992 (3 Jun 2012, 153 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 2012?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 2012, the deadliest is Dana Air Flight 992 on 3 Jun 2012 in Nigeria, with 153 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.