Plane Crashes in 2026
As of 10 November 2026, Wikidata lists 27 aviation accidents in 2026, with 258 deaths recorded against them; Global Incident Tracker recorded 5,313 plane-crash reports from news and official sources. These are the counts in those two records, not an official world total. The deadliest listed: 2026 Colombian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash (23 Mar 2026, 70 dead).
Deadliest firstAviation accidents of 2026
| Date | Accident | Aircraft · operator · where | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Mar 2026 | 2026 Colombian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash | Lockheed C-130 Hercules · Colombian Air Force · Colombia | 70 |
| 31 Mar 2026 | 2026 Crimea Antonov An-26 crash | Antonov An-26 · Russian Air Force · Crimea | 29 |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 2026 Nigerian Air Force ATR 42 crash | ATR 42-500 · Nigerian Air Force · Ondo State · Nigeria | 25 |
| 27 Feb 2026 | 2026 Bolivian Air Force Hercules C-130 crash | El Alto International Airport | 22 |
| 28 Jan 2026 | 8849 SATENA flight | Beechcraft 1900D · SATENA · Flight NSE8849 · La Playa de Belén · Colombia | 15 |
| 1 Aug 2026 | 2026 Aerodiana Cessna 208 crash | Peru | 13 |
| 17 Jan 2026 | 2026 Indonesia Air Transport ATR 42 crash | ATR 42-500 · Indonesia Air Transport · Flight AT45 · Leang-Leang · Indonesia | 10 |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 2026 Palm Beach County Learjet 60 crash | Learjet 60 · Greenacres · United States | 9 |
| 20 Aug 2026 | Security Aviation Flight 45 | Cessna 441 Conquest II · Cape Newenham · United States | 8 |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 2026 Edwards Air Force Base B-52 crash | Edwards Air Force Base · United States | 8 |
| 19 Aug 2026 | 2026 Mount Ololokwe helicopter crash | Eurocopter EC130 · Kenya | 7 |
| 30 Oct 2026 | 2026 Uttarakhand helicopter crash | Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil · Joshimath · India | 6 |
| 14 Jun 2026 | 2026 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision Helicopter crash | Recreio dos Bandeirantes · Brazil | 6 |
| 21 Sep 2026 | 2026 Santa Catarina helicopter crash Helicopter crash | Urubici · Brazil | 5 |
| 8 Sep 2026 | 2026 Long Lellang helicopter crash | Bo 105 · Layang Layang Aerospace · Long Lellang Airport · Malaysia | 5 |
| 6 Sep 2026 | 21 Air Flight 7598 Runway excursion | Boeing 767-300F · 21 Air · Flight 7598 · Miami International Airport · United States | 5 |
| 28 Jan 2026 | 2026 Baramati Learjet 45 crash | Baramati · India | 5 |
| 29 Oct 2026 | 2026 Brčko helicopter crash | Boeing CH-47 Chinook · Italian Army · Brčko · Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4 |
| 15 Sep 2026 | 2026 Chatsworth Eurocopter AS350 crash | Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil · Chatsworth · United States | 3 |
| 22 Mar 2026 | Air Canada Express Flight 8646 | airport crash tender · Jazz Aviation · Flight AC8646 · LaGuardia Airport · United States | 2 |
| 19 Feb 2026 | 2026 Pelita Air crash in Nunukan | Air Tractor AT-802 · Pelita Air Service · East Krayan · Indonesia | 1 |
| 23 Jul 2026 | Kenmore Air Flight 140 | Kenmore Air · Flight KEN140 · Shallow Bay · United States | 0 |
| 27 Jan 2026 | 2026 Smart Air PK-SNS emergency landing | Cessna 208B Grand Caravan · Central Papua · Indonesia | 0 |
| 7 Jul 2026 | K2 Airways Flight 1732 | Boeing 737-400 · K2 Airways · Arabian Sea · Pakistan | — |
| 20 Jan 2026 | 2026 Kumamoto helicopter crash | R44 · Mount Naka · Japan | — |
| 6 Jan 2026 | Aviation accident in Taiwan, 6 January 2026 | General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon · Republic of China Air Force · Fengbin Township · Taiwan | — |
| 2 Jan 2026 | Buddha Air Flight 901 | ATR 72-212A · Buddha Air · Bhadrapur Airport · Nepal | — |
"—" = no death toll recorded in Wikidata yet. Names link to the Wikidata item.
Month by month, 2026
| Month | Wikidata accidents | Deaths | Our records |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7 | 30 | 3 |
| February | 2 | 23 | 0 |
| March | 3 | 101 | 21 |
| April | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| May | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| June | 2 | 14 | 12 |
| July | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 3 | 28 | 249 |
| September | 4 | 18 | 1916 |
| October | 3 | 35 | 1911 |
| November | 1 | 9 | 1198 |
Latest crash reports we recorded
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 2026, 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. Global Incident Tracker: plane-crash reports our monitors picked up from news and official feeds, including small aircraft and helicopters; one crash can occasionally appear twice.
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.