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Crashes, mid-air collisions and other air disasters recorded in Wikidata, nearly all with a Wikipedia article. Two thirds are from the 20th century.
What you see
- Each crash as a teal disaster mark where it happened.
- A page for each, with its date, the deaths and injuries where Wikidata gives them, and its Wikipedia summary.
- Opened from this page, the map plays 1950 to today.
Where the data comes from
- WikidataItems that are aviation accidents or incidents, with a date and a place; 96% have a Wikipedia article.
Taken from Wikidata when the set is imported; a crash added there since appears after the next import.
Good to know
- Only crashes someone has written up: the United States and Russia hold nearly three in ten.
- About three in ten are placed only at an area.
- Deaths are given for about four in five; the map draws every crash at one size.
The first recorded here in each decade
- Pax airship disaster12 May 1902 · Air disaster
- 1912 Brooklands Flanders Monoplane crash13 May 1912 · Air disaster
- 1921 SNETA Farman Goliath ditching26 Aug 1921 · Air disaster
- Puutsaaren lentoturma10 Jan 1930 · Air disaster
- Mechelen incident10 Jan 1940 · Air disaster
- Panair do Brasil Flight 0991950 · Air disaster
- Real Transportes Aéreos Flight 4351960 · Air disaster
- 1970 Spantax Convair crash5 Jan 1970 · Air disaster
- Iran Air Flight 29121 Jan 1980 · Air disaster
- Northwest Airlines Flight 54 Jan 1990 · Air disaster
- Crossair Flight 49810 Jan 2000 · Air disaster
- Slovak Police training explosives incident2 Jan 2010 · Air disaster
- 2020 SLAF Y-12 Crash3 Jan 2020 · Air disaster
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