List Of Fatal Accidents And Incidents Involving Commercial Aircraft In The United States
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This is a list of fatal commercial aviation accidents and incidents in or in the vicinity of the
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or its territories. It comprises a subset of both the
list of accidents and incidents involving airliners in the United States This list of accidents and incidents on airliners in the United States summarizes airline accidents that occurred within the territories claimed by the United States, with information on airline company with flight number, date, and cause. This ...
and the list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft. It does not include fatalities due to accidents and incidents solely involving
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or
military aircraft A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type. Military aircraft can be either combat or non-combat: * Combat aircraft are designed to destroy enemy equipm ...
. All incidents involving commercial aircraft in the United States are investigated by the
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List of aircraft accidents and incidents resulting in at least 50 fatalities This article lists the deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general-aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or midair collision. As of ...


External links


Department of Transportation, Special Collections
- archived accident reports of the Civil Aeronautics Board

(National Transportation Safety Board)






Aircraft Crash Record Office

The Aviation Herald

Aviation Safety Network

Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Centre

PlaneCrashInfo.com
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