Plane Crashes in 2021
Wikidata lists 31 aviation accidents in 2021, with 231 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 (9 Jan 2021, 62 dead).
31
Aviation accidents in Wikidata, 2021
22
Of them with deaths
231
Deaths recorded in Wikidata
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2021
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Jan 2021 | Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 | Boeing 737-500 · Sriwijaya Air · Flight SJ182 · Soekarno Hatta International Airport · Indonesia | 62 |
| 6 Jul 2021 | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 (2021) | Antonov An-26 · Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise · Flight PTK251 · Palana Airport · Russia | 28 |
| 10 Oct 2021 | 2021 Menzelinsk parachute Let L-410UVP-E crash | Let L-410 Turbolet · Menzelinsk · Russia | 16 |
| 30 Nov 2021 | 2021 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-17 crash | Mil Mi-17 · Khizi District · Azerbaijan | 14 |
| 8 Dec 2021 | 2021 Indian Air Force Mi-17 crash | tehsil · India | 13 |
| 4 Mar 2021 | 2021 TAF AS532 crash | AS532 Cougar · Turkish Air Force · Tatvan · Turkey | 11 |
| 2 Mar 2021 | 2021 South Supreme Airlines Let L-410 Turbolet crash | Let L-410 Turbolet · South Supreme Airlines · South Sudan | 10 |
| 15 Dec 2021 | 2021 Punta Caucedo Gulfstream G-IVSP crash | Gulfstream IV · Dominican Republic | 9 |
| 3 Nov 2021 | 2021 Grodno Aviakompania Antonov An-12 crash | Antonov An-12 · Flight GRX1252 · Pivovarikha · Russia | 9 |
| 14 Aug 2021 | 2021 Russian Navy Beriev Be-200 crash | Beriev Be-200 Altair · Russian Navy · Turkey | 8 |
| 22 Sep 2021 | Aviation accident in Russia, 22 September 2021 | Bolshekhekhtsirsky Nature Reserve · Russia | 6 |
| 21 Feb 2021 | Aviation accident in Mexico, 21 February 2021 | Learjet 45 · Mexican Air Force · El Lencero Airport · Mexico | 6 |
| 24 Jan 2021 | 2021 Palmas FR plane crash | Beechcraft Baron · Brazil | 6 |
| 5 Nov 2021 | 2021 Piedade de Caratinga Beechcraft King Air crash | Beechcraft King Air C90 · Piedade de Caratinga · Brazil | 5 |
| 19 Jun 2021 | 2021 Parachute Kemerovo Let L-410UVP-E crash | Let L-410 Turbolet · DOSAAF · Zhuravlevo · Russia | 5 |
| 27 Mar 2021 | 2021 Alaska Airbus AS350 B3 helicopter crash Helicopter crash | AS350B3 Écureuil · Soloy Helicopters · Knik Glacier · United States | 5 |
| 2 Sep 2021 | Plane crash near Plainville 2021 | United States | 4 |
| 13 Mar 2021 | 2021 Kazakh Border Guards Antonov An-26 crash | 4 | |
| 23 Nov 2021 | Aviation accident in Norway, 23 November 2021 | Norway | 3 |
| 17 Aug 2021 | 2021 United Aircraft Corporation Il-112 crash | Ilyushin Il-112 · United Aircraft Corporation · Kubinka · Russia | 3 |
| 19 May 2021 | Aviation accident in Belarus, 19 May 2021 | Yakovlev Yak-130 · Belarusian Air Force and Air Defense Force · Baranavichy · Belarus | 2 |
| 7 Mar 2021 | 2021 Touques Airbus AS350B helicopter crash | AS350B Écureuil · Touques · France | 2 |
| 16 Jul 2021 | Siberian Light Aviation Flight 42 | Russia | 0 |
| 12 May 2021 | Key Lime Air Flight 970 | Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner · Key Lime Air · Arapahoe County · United States | 0 |
| 25 Mar 2021 | Aviation accident in Uruguay, 25 March 2021 | Bell 212 · Uruguayan Air Force · Uruguay | 0 |
| 20 Feb 2021 | United Airlines Flight 328 | Boeing 777 · United Airlines · Flight UAL328 · Broomfield · United States | 0 |
| 2 Dec 2021 | Aviation accident, 2 December 2021 | Flight S75220 · Sokol Airport | — |
| 5 Oct 2021 | Aviation accident, 5 October 2021 | — | |
| 12 Aug 2021 | 2021 Buckland St Mary light aircraft crash | Buckland St Mary | — |
| 5 Mar 2021 | 2021 Xumabee Game Ranch helicopter crash | — | |
| 23 Feb 2021 | Karol Kania helicopter crash | Poland | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2021
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | 68 |
| February | 3 | 6 |
| March | 7 | 32 |
| April | 0 | 0 |
| May | 2 | 2 |
| June | 1 | 5 |
| July | 2 | 28 |
| August | 3 | 11 |
| September | 2 | 10 |
| October | 2 | 16 |
| November | 4 | 31 |
| December | 3 | 22 |
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 2021, 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 2021
How many plane crashes have there been in 2021?
Wikidata lists 31 aviation accidents in 2021, with 231 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 (9 Jan 2021, 62 dead).
Which was the deadliest plane crash of 2021?
Among the aviation accidents listed in Wikidata for 2021, the deadliest is Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 on 9 Jan 2021 in Indonesia, with 62 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.