Plane Crashes in 2015
Wikidata lists 41 aviation accidents in 2015, with 576 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Metrojet Flight 9268 (31 Oct 2015, 224 dead).
41
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 2015
24
Of them with deaths
576
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2015
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Oct 2015 | Metrojet Flight 9268 | Airbus A321-200 · Metrojet · North Sinai Governorate · Egypt | 224 |
| 24 Mar 2015 | Germanwings Flight 9525 Pilot suicide | Airbus A320-211 · Germanwings · Flight GWI18G · Prads-Haute-Bléone · France | 149 |
| 16 Aug 2015 | Trigana Air Service Flight 267 | ATR 42-300 · Trigana Air Service · Flight IL267 · Oksibil · Indonesia | 54 |
| 4 Aug 2015 | 2015 Colombia helicopter crash | Colombia | 16 |
| 12 May 2015 | 2015 Charikot Helicopter Crash | Bhimeshwar · Nepal | 13 |
| 2 Oct 2015 | 2015 Jalalabad USAF C-130J crash | C-130J Super Hercules · United States Air Force · Jalalabad Airport · Afghanistan | 11 |
| 10 Mar 2015 | 2015 Eglin Air Force Base helicopter crash | Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk · United States Army · Florida · United States | 11 |
| 22 Dec 2015 | 2015 Indian Border Security Force Plane crash | India | 10 |
| 2 Oct 2015 | Aviastar Flight 7503 | Aviastar · Indonesia | 10 |
| 20 Mar 2015 | Aviation accident in Uruguay, 20 March 2015 | Beechcraft King Air · Punta del Este · Uruguay | 10 |
| 9 Mar 2015 | Villa Castelli helicopter collision Mid-air collision | AS350B3 Écureuil · La Rioja Province · Villa Castelli · Argentina | 10 |
| 10 Nov 2015 | Execuflight Flight 1526 | Hawker 800 · United States | 9 |
| 21 Nov 2015 | 2015 Fox Glacier helicopter crash | New Zealand | 7 |
| 5 Sep 2015 | 2015 Senegal mid-air collision | CEIBA Intercontinental | 7 |
| 20 Aug 2015 | 2015 Červený Kameň mid-air collision Mid-air collision | 7 | |
| 13 Mar 2015 | 2015 Belgrade helicopter crash Helicopter crash | Mil Mi-17 · Serbian Army · Surčin · Serbia | 7 |
| 29 Nov 2015 | Aviation accident, 29 November 2015 | Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug | 4 |
| 17 Jul 2015 | Aviation accident in Slovakia, 17 July 2015 | Slovakia | 4 |
| 26 Jul 2015 | 2015 Chōfu PA-46 crash | Piper PA-46 · Japan | 3 |
| 12 Feb 2015 | 2015 Ebino OH-6DA crash | OH-6DA Cayuse · Ebino · Japan | 3 |
| 29 Jan 2015 | 2015 Aruba Challenger 601 crash Aircraft shootdown | Bombardier Challenger 601 · Aruba | 3 |
| 7 Jul 2015 | 2015 Moncks Corner mid-air collision Mid-air collision | Cessna 150 · Moncks Corner · United States | 2 |
| 24 Nov 2015 | 2015 Russian Sukhoi Su-24 shootdown Aircraft shootdown | Su-24M · Russian Air Force · Syria–Turkey border | 1 |
| 9 Apr 2015 | Ekushiya Farm helicopter crash Helicopter crash | AS350B3 Écureuil · Mazabuka District · Zambia | 1 |
| 24 Dec 2015 | 2015 Services Air Airbus A310 crash | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 0 |
| 22 Nov 2015 | Avia Traffic Company Flight 768 | Avia Traffic Company · Osh Airport · Kyrgyzstan | 0 |
| 29 Oct 2015 | Dynamic Airways Flight 405 | Eastern Airlines, LLC · Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood · United States | 0 |
| 28 Apr 2015 | Fleet Air Wing 31 US-2 crash | US-2 · Japan | 0 |
| 25 Apr 2015 | Turkish Airlines flight 1878 Hard landing | Airbus A320-232 · Turkish Airlines · Atatürk Airport · Turkey | 0 |
| 14 Apr 2015 | Asiana Flight 162 Runway excursion | Airbus A320-232 · Asiana Airlines · Flight OZ162 · Hiroshima Airport · Japan | 0 |
| 5 Mar 2015 | Delta Air Lines Flight 1086 | McDonnell Douglas MD-88 · Delta Air Lines · Flight DL1086 · LaGuardia Airport · United States | 0 |
| 28 Aug 2015 | First Flying Flight 101 | Viking DHC-6-400 Twin Otter · First Flying · Aguni Airport · Japan | — |
| 24 Jun 2015 | 2015 Iraqi Air Force F-16 crash | Iraqi Air Force | — |
| 14 Jun 2015 | Aviation accident, 14 June 2015 | — | |
| 19 May 2015 | Saab JAS 39D Gripen crash | JAS 39D Gripen · Čáslav · Czech Republic | — |
| 4 May 2015 | 7O-ADG destruction Hull loss | Il-76TD · Sanaa International Airport · Yemen | — |
| 28 Apr 2015 | Felix Airways CRJ700 destruction Hull loss | CRJ700/900/1000 · Felix Airways · Sanaa International Airport · Yemen | — |
| 2 Apr 2015 | Aviation accident in Brazil, 2 April 2015 | Brazil | — |
| 13 Mar 2015 | Aviation accident in South Korea, 13 March 2015 | South Korea | — |
| 3 Mar 2015 | Turkish Airlines Flight 726 | Airbus A330-300 · Turkish Airlines | — |
| 20 Jan 2015 | Olimp Air Flight 4653 | Shu District | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2015
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | 3 |
| February | 1 | 3 |
| March | 8 | 187 |
| April | 6 | 1 |
| May | 3 | 13 |
| June | 2 | 0 |
| July | 3 | 9 |
| August | 4 | 77 |
| September | 1 | 7 |
| October | 4 | 245 |
| November | 5 | 21 |
| December | 2 | 10 |
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 2015, 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 2015
How many plane crashes have there been in 2015?
Wikidata lists 41 aviation accidents in 2015, with 576 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Metrojet Flight 9268 (31 Oct 2015, 224 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 2015?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 2015, the deadliest is Metrojet Flight 9268 on 31 Oct 2015 in Egypt, with 224 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.