List of notable incidents and accidents involving general aviation
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This list of notable accidents and incidents involving general aviation is grouped by the years in which the incidents or accidents occurred. "General aviation", as is used here, includes private aircraft as well as corporate aircraft operations under general aviation rules.1
Similar but not identical lists and groupings are also available:
- Aviation accidents and incidents
- List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft
- List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by airline
- List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by location
- List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped alphabetically
- List of aviation accidents and incidents grouped by death toll
- List of incidents and accidents involving military aircraft
This is an incomplete listing of crashes in general, but is intended to be a complete listing of those with Wikipedia articles. For more exhaustive lists, see the Aircraft Crash Record Office or the Aviation Safety Network.
[edit] 1935
- August 15 - Wiley Post and passenger Will Rogers crashed and died in Post's modified seaplane enroute from Fairbanks to Point Barrow, Alaska, while taking off from a lagoon, after landing to ask directions.
[edit] 1937
- July 2 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear in their Lockheed L-10E Electra over the central Pacific Ocean enroute to Howland Island during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight.
[edit] 1959
- February 3 - A Beechcraft Bonanza carrying musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, in what has become known as The Day the Music Died.
[edit] 1972
- December 31 - Baseball player Roberto Clemente dies when his chartered DC-7 crashes into the ocean off the coast of Isla Verde, Puerto Rico, immediately after takeoff. Clemente was attempting to deliver relief supplies to Managua, Nicaragua, after a massive earthquake on December 23.
[edit] 1979
- August 2 - Cessna 501, N15NY. Thurman Munson, catcher for the New York Yankees, dies in a crash of his personal jet while practicing touch-and-go landings at Akron-Canton Regional Airport.
[edit] 1987
- May 28 - A Cessna 172 flown by Mathias Rust flies illegally into Soviet airspace and lands in Moscow's Red Square.
[edit] 1996
- April 11 - Cessna 177B, N35207. Jessica Dubroff, a 7-year-old pilot trainee who was attempting to become the youngest person to fly an airplane across the United States, dies when her aircraft crashes after takeoff from Cheyenne Regional Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
- December 24 - A Learjet 35A crashed near Lebanon, New Hampshire which led to the longest missing aircraft search in that state's history, lasting almost three years.
[edit] 1999
- October 25 - A Learjet 35 flying between Orlando, Florida and Dallas, Texas crashed after flying for almost four hours and 1,500 miles, until it ran out of fuel. Among the six people on board were golf star Payne Stewart and Bruce Borland.
[edit] 2002
- January 5 - A Cessna 172 stolen and flown by a teenager, crashes into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida.
- April 18 - A Rockwell Commander A112 crashes into the Pirelli Tower in Milan, Italy
[edit] 2003
- December 17 - Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne suffers a collapsed landing gear and a runway excursion during a freefall flight prior to its space launches.
[edit] 2006
- January 2 - A Cessna 206 filled with skydivers crashes in a dam near Ipswich, southwest of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- October 11 - A Cirrus SR20 flown by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and an instructor crashes into the Belaire Apartments in New York City.
- December 10 - A Bell 412SP air ambulance helicopter crashes near the Cajon Pass killing the three member crew.
[edit] 2007
- July 27 -Two TV news AS-350 AStar helicopters collide in mid-air over Phoenix, Arizona, killing all four onboard.
[edit] Notes
Note 1: General aviation operating rules are U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations 14 CFR Part 91 or the international equivilent.
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