The Most Recent Fatal or Significant Plane Crashes

   The following were the most recent fatal or significant airliner events, listed with the most recent event first, from around the world. The passenger fatalities in the numbered events may be due to accidents, hijackings, sabotage, or military action. numbered events include all of those involving either jet passenger flights and turboprop accidents involving models with more than 10 passengers seats where the aircraft involved were used in airline service in North America and western Europe, and where at least one passenger was killed.


1.25 January 2010; Ethiopian Airlines 737-800; Flight 409; near Beirut, Lebanon
2.25 December 2009; Northwest Airlines A330-300 (N820NW); Flight 253; near Detroit, MI
3.22 December 2009; American Airlines 737-800 (N977AN); Flight 331; Kingston, Jamaica
4.28 November 2009; Avient Aviation MD-11F; Flight 324; Shanghai, China
5.12 November 2009; RwandAir CRJ-100ER; Flight 205; Kigali, Rwanda
6.9 October 2009;CASA-212, near Fonds-Verrettes, Haiti
7.8 August 2009; Eurocopter and Piper Saratoga, Hudson River, near New York City
8.24 July 2009; Aria Air Ilyushin 62M, Flight 1525; Mashhad, Iran
9.15 July 2009; Caspian Airlines Tu154M, Flight 7908; near Jannatabad, Iran
10.30 June 2009; Yemenia Airlines; A310-300; Flight 626; near Moroni, Comoros Islands