List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by year

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Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners grouped by the year that the incident or accident occurred. This list is also available grouped: by airline, by location, alphabetically. See also: Accidents and incidents in aviation.

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  • May 26, A BOAC 4-engined Hermes aircraft with 10 passengers aboard, crash-landed in the Sahara Desert, 1,300 miles off-course on a flight between London and Accra, Ghana. All passengers and crew survived the initial crash landing, but the First Officer later died of injuries sustained in the crash.

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  • June 30 - United Airlines Flight 718, a DC-7, flying from Los Angeles to Chicago and TWA Flight 2, a Constellation, collided over the Grand Canyon. The 58 passengers and crew on the DC-7, and the 70 passengers and crew on the Constellation were all killed. The pilots had both requested permission to fly in undesignated airspace to give their passengers a better view and the crash was attributed to the pilots not seeing each other until it was too late.

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  • January 6 - National Airlines Flight 2511 from New York to Miami, a propeller driven DC-6B, crashed near Bolivia, North Carolina after an on board explosion. A bomb is thought to have been planted by Julian A. Frank, a New York lawyer, who was heavily insured. 34 died, none survived.
  • March 17 -- Northwest Airlines Lockheed Electra lost a wing due to propeller whirlmode and crashed in southern Indiana near Tell City. All 63 aboard including the crew perished. Unusual accident site in that the remains of the 63 victims were impacted in a 30 foot deep crater which became their final resting place. A monument marks the grave with the names of the victims and the date of the tragedy.
  • December 16 -- The 1960 New York air disaster: United Airlines Flight 826, a DC-8, and TWA Flight 266, a Superconstellation, collided over Staten Island in New York. All 134 onboard the two planes, and six people on the ground were killed.

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