Plane Crashes in 2020
Wikidata lists 19 aviation accidents in 2020, with 53 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: 2020 South West Aviation Antonov An-26 crash (22 Aug 2020, 17 dead).
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2020
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug 2020 | 2020 South West Aviation Antonov An-26 crash | South Sudan | 17 |
| 26 Jan 2020 | 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash Helicopter crash | S-76 · Calabasas · United States | 9 |
| 31 Jul 2020 | 2020 Kenai Peninsula mid-air collision Mid-air collision | 6 | |
| 4 May 2020 | 2020 East African Express Airways Brasilia crash | Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia · African Express Airways · Berdale · Somalia | 6 |
| 30 Mar 2020 | 2020 Hong Kong Garrison helicopter crash Helicopter crash | People's Republic of China | 4 |
| 3 Jan 2020 | 2020 SLAF Y-12 Crash | Sri Lanka Air Force · Haputale · Sri Lanka | 4 |
| 5 Feb 2020 | Pegasus Airlines Flight 2193 | Boeing 737 Next Generation · Pegasus Airlines · Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport · Turkey | 3 |
| 24 Nov 2020 | Snunit aircraft crash in Mishmar Hanegev | Mishmar HaNegev · Israel | 2 |
| 9 Nov 2020 | 2020 Russian Mil Mi-24 shootdown Aircraft shootdown | Mil Mi-24 · Russian Air Force · Yeraskh · Armenia | 2 |
| 8 Jan 2020 | Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 Airliner shootdown incident | Boeing 737-800 · Ukraine International Airlines · Flight PS752 · Tehran Province · Iran | 0 |
| 17 Nov 2020 | Aviation accident in Taiwan, 17 November 2020 | Taiwan | — |
| 13 Nov 2020 | Volga-Dnepr Airlines Flight 4066 | Volga-Dnepr Airlines · Russia | — |
| 8 Nov 2020 | Aviation accident in Malaysia, 8 November 2020 | Malaysia | — |
| 29 Oct 2020 | Aviation accident in Taiwan, 29 October 2020 | Republic of China Air Force · Taiwan | — |
| 4 May 2020 | Aviation accident, 4 May 2020 | — | |
| 29 Mar 2020 | Aviation accident in Philippines, 29 March 2020 | Lionair · Philippines | — |
| 9 Feb 2020 | Utair Flight 595 | Boeing 737-500 · UTair Aviation · Usinsk Airport · Russia | — |
| 27 Jan 2020 | Aviation accident, 27 January 2020 | — | |
| 10 Jan 2020 | Aviation accident, 10 January 2020 Non-fatal aviation incident | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2020
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5 | 13 |
| February | 2 | 3 |
| March | 2 | 4 |
| April | 0 | 0 |
| May | 2 | 6 |
| June | 0 | 0 |
| July | 1 | 6 |
| August | 1 | 17 |
| September | 0 | 0 |
| October | 1 | 0 |
| November | 5 | 4 |
| December | 0 | 0 |
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 2020, 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.