Plane Crashes in 2023
Wikidata lists 21 aviation accidents in 2023, with 80 deaths recorded against them. These are the counts in Wikidata, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: 2023 Brovary helicopter crash (18 Jan 2023, 16 dead).
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2023
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jan 2023 | 2023 Brovary helicopter crash Helicopter crash | Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma · Brovary · Ukraine | 16 |
| 16 Sep 2023 | 2023 Manaus Aerotáxi Embraer Bandeirante crash | Brazil | 14 |
| 29 Oct 2023 | 2023 Rio Branco Cessna Grand Caravan crash | Cessna 208B · Rio Branco · Brazil | 12 |
| 6 Apr 2023 | 2023 Miyakojima helicopter crash Helicopter crash | UH-60J · 8th Tactical Fighter Squadron · Irabu Island · Japan | 10 |
| 11 Jul 2023 | 2023 Manang Air helicopter crash Helicopter crash | Solukhumbu District · Nepal | 6 |
| 6 Dec 2023 | 2023 Guyana Defence Force helicopter crash Helicopter crash | Guyana | 5 |
| 10 Nov 2023 | 2023 U.S. Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash | Mediterranean Sea | 5 |
| 1 May 2023 | 2023 Colombia Cessna 206 crash and rescue operation in the Amazon Rainforest | Amazon rainforest · Colombia | 3 |
| 27 Apr 2023 | 2023 Alaska mid-air collision Mid-air collision | Healy · United States | 3 |
| 15 May 2023 | Aviation accident in Germany, 15 May 2023 | Germany | 2 |
| 30 Jan 2023 | Aviation accident in Greece, 30 January 2023 | Ionian Sea · Greece | 2 |
| 9 Jan 2023 | Naryan-Mar United Aviation Squadron Flight 1095/1096 | Flight 1095 · Karatayka | 2 |
| 12 Sep 2023 | Ural Airlines Flight 1383 | Airbus A320-214 · Ural Airlines · Flight U61383 · Russia | 0 |
| 16 Apr 2023 | Vuelo 211 de Transportes Aéreos Guatemaltecos | Transportes Aéreos Guatemaltecos · Mundo Maya International Airport | 0 |
| 4 Nov 2023 | Chetak Helicopter Crash at INS Garuda | INS Garuda · India | — |
| 17 Jul 2023 | 2023 Poland Cessna 208 crash | Poland | — |
| 11 Jun 2023 | 2023 Syria helicopter accident | Syria | — |
| 10 May 2023 | 2023 Phoenix Air Learjet 36A crash | — | |
| 12 Feb 2023 | 2023 Lake Huron high-altitude object Aircraft shootdown | Upper Peninsula of Michigan · United States | — |
| 11 Feb 2023 | 2023 Yukon high-altitude object Aircraft shootdown | Yukon · Canada | — |
| 10 Feb 2023 | 2023 Alaska object incident Aircraft shootdown | Deadhorse · United States | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2023
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3 | 20 |
| February | 3 | 0 |
| March | 0 | 0 |
| April | 3 | 13 |
| May | 3 | 5 |
| June | 1 | 0 |
| July | 2 | 6 |
| August | 0 | 0 |
| September | 2 | 14 |
| October | 1 | 12 |
| November | 2 | 5 |
| December | 1 | 5 |
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 2023, 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.