Plane Crashes in 2022
Wikidata lists 25 aviation accidents in 2022, with 237 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 (21 Mar 2022, 132 dead).
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2022
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Mar 2022 | China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 | Boeing 737-800 · China Eastern Airlines · Flight MU5735 · Molang village · People's Republic of China | 132 |
| 29 May 2022 | Tara Air Flight 197 | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter · Tara Air · Flight TRA197 · Thasang Rural Municipality · Nepal | 22 |
| 6 Nov 2022 | Precision Air Flight 494 | ATR 42-500 · Precision Air · Flight PW494 · Bukoba Airport · Tanzania | 19 |
| 11 May 2022 | 2022 Caverton Helicopters DHC-6 crash | Cameroon | 11 |
| 4 Sep 2022 | 2022 Mutiny Bay plane crash | De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter · Mutiny Bay · United States | 10 |
| 29 Jul 2022 | 2022 Gudauri helicopter crash Helicopter crash | Georgia | 8 |
| 16 Jul 2022 | Meridian Flight 3032 | Antonov An-12 · Meridian · Flight MEM3032 · Pangaion · Greece | 8 |
| 5 Nov 2022 | Aviation accident in Italy, 5 November 2022 | Italy | 7 |
| 12 Nov 2022 | 2022 Dallas airshow crash Mid-air collision | Bell P-63 Kingcobra · American Airpower Heritage Museum · Dallas Executive Airport · United States | 6 |
| 8 Jun 2022 | Imperial County V-22 Osprey plane crash | United States | 5 |
| 18 Mar 2022 | MV-22 crash in Gråtådalen | Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey · United States Marine Corps · Gråtådalen · Norway | 4 |
| 18 Nov 2022 | LATAM Perú Flight 2213 | fire engine · LATAM Airlines · Flight LP2213 · Jorge Chávez International Airport · Peru | 2 |
| 31 Jan 2022 | Tactical Fighter Training Group F-15 crash | F-15DJ · Tactical Fighter Training Group · Japan | 2 |
| 14 Aug 2022 | Hawker Hurricane Mk. IV crash | Czech Republic | 1 |
| 23 Oct 2022 | Korean Air Flight 631 | Airbus A330 · Flight KE631 · Mactan–Cebu International Airport · Philippines | 0 |
| 21 Jun 2022 | Red Air Flight 203 | McDonnell Douglas MD-80/MD-90 family · Miami International Airport · United States | 0 |
| 12 May 2022 | Tibet Airlines Flight 9833 | Airbus A319-115 · Tibet Airlines · Flight TV9833 · Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport · People's Republic of China | 0 |
| 7 Apr 2022 | DHL Aero Expreso Flight 7216 | Boeing 757 · DHL Aero Expreso · Flight D07216 · Juan Santamaría International Airport · Costa Rica | 0 |
| 31 Dec 2022 | Aviation accident, 31 December 2022 | — | |
| 2 Sep 2022 | Aviation accident in Guinea, 2 September 2022 | Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport · Guinea | — |
| 24 Aug 2022 | 2022 airplane shootdown in the Ethiopia–Sudan border Aircraft shootdown | Ethiopia | — |
| 1 Aug 2022 | 2022 Pakistan Army helicopter incident | — | |
| 29 Jul 2022 | Aviation accident in United States, 29 July 2022 | United States | — |
| 27 Feb 2022 | Destruction of Antonov An-225 Mriya | Ukraine | — |
| 11 Jan 2022 | Aviation accident in Taiwan, 11 January 2022 | General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon · Republic of China Air Force · Dongshi Township · Taiwan | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2022
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2 | 2 |
| February | 1 | 0 |
| March | 2 | 136 |
| April | 1 | 0 |
| May | 3 | 33 |
| June | 2 | 5 |
| July | 3 | 16 |
| August | 3 | 1 |
| September | 2 | 10 |
| October | 1 | 0 |
| November | 4 | 34 |
| December | 1 | 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 2022, 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.