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This article lists aircraft accidents and incidents which resulted in at least 50 fatalities in a single occurrence involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision with either a commercial or military passenger or cargo flight. There have been at least 512 such incidents, including terrorist or other attacks. Two hundred of these occurrences have involved at least 100 fatalities, 33 have had at least 200 fatalities, 8 have had at least 300 fatalities, and 4 incidents have had over 500 fatalities. Between 1923 (the first year an aircraft accident or incident exceeded 50 fatalities) and the present day, these incidents have involved more than 540 aircraft across all seven continents and the three largest oceans, and have accounted for over 53,500 fatalities. ==History== Five years after the pioneering flight of the Wright brothers on 17 December 1903, Thomas Selfridge became the first fatality of powered flight while flying as a passenger with Orville Wright during a demonstration of the Wright Model A at Fort Myer, Virginia, on 17 September 1908. Eugène Lefebvre was the first pilot killed in a power airplane in 1909, while the first fatal mid-air collision occurred on 19 June 1912, near Douai, France, killing the pilot of each aircraft. Since the deaths of these early aviation pioneers, the scale of fatal aircraft accidents has grown parallel to the size and capacity of airplanes (the highest capacity passenger aircraft currently flying is the Airbus A380 which can carry up to 853 passengers). The first aviation incident to result in over 50 fatalities did not involve an airplane. On 21 December 1923, the ''Dixmude'', a rigid airship of the French navy, was reportedly struck by lightning and crashed into the Mediterranean, off Sicily, Italy. All 52 crew and passengers were killed. Nearly 10 years later, the , also a rigid airship, encountered severe weather and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, off Barnegat Light, New Jersey, killing 73 of those on board. It was another decade before a fixed-wing aircraft incident claimed over 50 fatalities. On 7 September 1943, a US Air Force Consolidated B-24 Liberator from the 43d Bombardment Group crashed while taking off from Jackson Airfield, near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The crew of 11 died immediately. Another 50 people in the vicinity of the crash site who were hit by debris or suffered severe burns from ignited fuel died from their injuries within days. Less than one year later, on 23 August 1944, a U.S. Army Air Forces heavy bomber crashed into the center of the village of Freckleton, England, also killing 61 people. The highest number of fatalities involving one aircraft occurred in 1985 when 520 people died in the crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123. The most fatalities in an aircraft collision occurred in 1977 in the Tenerife airport disaster when 583 people were killed. The highest number of fatalities from a midair collision occurred at the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, to the west of New Delhi, India on 12 November 1996 when a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B en route from Delhi to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, collided with Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Chimkent, Kazakhstan to Delhi, killing all 349 people on board both the planes. The 11 September 2001 (9/11) coordinated attack of the World Trade Center claimed not only 157 passengers and crew, but an estimated additional 2,500 victims. In 2012, Boeing released a study of world-wide commercial jet airplane accidents between 1959 and 2011 reporting 1,798 accidents, 603 categorized as fatal, which accounted for 29,025 on-board fatalities and an additional 1,173 ground or non-commercial aircraft collision deaths. The Boeing analysis suggests a decline in commercial aviation accident fatality rates toward the end of the study period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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