| Deaths | T | Incident | Aircraft | Location | Phase | Route | Airport | Distance | Date |
| Tot | C | P | G | N |
| est. 1,700 | 11 | 81 | est. 1,600 | † | INH | American Airlines Flight 11 | Boeing 767-223ER | New York City, New York, U.S. | ENR | BOS-LAX | | | 2001-09-11 |
| est. *1,000 | 9 | 56 | est. 900 | † | INH | United Airlines Flight 175 | Boeing 767-222 | New York City, New York, U.S. | ENR | BOS-LAX | | | 2001-09-11 |
| 583 | 23 | 560 | 0 | ‡ | COM | Pan Am Flight 1736 andKLM Flight 4805 | Boeing 747-121 and Boeing 747-206Bspct | Tenerife, Spain | TXI/TOF | LAX-JFK-LPA and AMS-LPA | TFN | | 1977-03-27 |
| 520 | 15 | 505 | 0 | | COM | Japan Air Lines Flight 123 | Boeing 747SR-46 | Mount Takamagahara, Ueno, Japan | ENR | HND-ITM | | | 1985-08-12 |
| 349 | 33 | 316 | 0 | † | COM | Saudia Flight 763 andKazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 | Boeing 747-168B and Ilyushin Il-76TD | Charkhi Dadri, India | ENR | DEL-DHA-JED and CIT-DEL | | | 1996-11-12 |
| 346 | 11 | 335 | 0 | ‡, † | COM | Turkish Airlines Flight 981 | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 | Fontaine-Chaalis, France | ENR | ISL-ORY-LHR | | | 1974-03-03 |
| 329 | 22 | 307 | 0 | † | INB | Air India Flight 182 | Boeing 747-237B | Atlantic Ocean, area of Cork, Ireland | ENR | YYZ-YMX-LHR-DEL-BOM | | | 1985-06-23 |
| 301 | 14 | 287 | 0 | † | COM | Saudia Flight 163 | Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | ENR | KHI-RUH-XZF | RUH | | 1980-08-19 |
| 298 | 15 | 283 | 0 | † | EXG | Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 | Boeing 777-2H6ER | near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine | ENR | AMS-KUL | | | 2014-07-17 |
| 290 | 16 | 274 | 0 | † | EXG | Iran Air Flight 655 | Airbus A300B2-203 | Strait of Hormuz, off Shib Deraz, Iran | ENR | THR-BND-DXB | | | 1988-07-03 |
| 275 | 18 | 257 | 0 | † | MIL | Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (15-2280) | Ilyushin Il-76MD | near Kerman, Iran | ENR | ZAH-KER | | | 2003-02-19 |
| 273 | 13 | 258 | 2 | † | COM | American Airlines Flight 191 | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 | Des Plaines, Illinois, U.S. | TOF | ORD-LAX | ORD | 1.4 km (0.76 NM) | 1979-05-25 |
| 270 | 16 | 243 | 11 | † | INB | Pan Am Flight 103 | Boeing 747-121 | Lockerbie, United Kingdom | ENR | FRA-LHR-JFK-DTW | | | 1988-12-21 |
| 269 | 23 | 246 | 0 | † | EXS | Korean Air Lines Flight 007 | Boeing 747-230B | Sea of Japan, near Moneron Island, Russian SFSR, USSR | ENR | JFK-ANC-GMP | | | 1983-09-01 |
| 265 | 9 | 251 | 5 | † | COM | American Airlines Flight 587 | Airbus A300B4-605R | Belle Harbor, New York City, New York, U.S. | ENR | JFK-SDQ | | | 2001-11-12 |
| 264 | 15 | 249 | 0 | | COM | China Airlines Flight 140 | Airbus A300B4-622R | Komaki, Japan | APR | TPE-NKM | NKM | <0.1 km (0.054 NM) | 1994-04-26 |
| 261 | 14 | 247 | 0 | † | COM | Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61 | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | TOF | | JED | 2.8 km (1.5 NM) | 1991-07-11 |
| 260 | 12 | 229 | 19 | 1* | COM | Air India Flight 171 | Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner | Ahmedabad, India | ICL | | AMD | 1.6 km (0.86 NM) | 2025-06-12 |
| 257 | 10 | 247 | 0 | † | MIL | Algerian Air Force (7T-WIV) | Ilyushin Il-76TD | Boufarik, Algeria | ICL | | | | 2018-04-11 |
| 257 | 20 | 237 | 0 | † | COM | Air New Zealand Flight 901 | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 | Mount Erebus, Antarctica | ENR | | | | 1979-11-28 |
| 256 | 8 | 248 | 0 | † | COM | Arrow Air Flight 1285R | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF | Gander, Newfoundland, Canada | ICL | | YQX | 1 km (0.54 NM) | 1985-12-12 |
| 251 | 2 | 0 | 249 | | COM | Air Africa (RA-26222) | Antonov An-32B | Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) | ICL | | NLO | 0.6 km (0.32 NM) | 1996-01-08 |
| 239 | 12 | 227 | 0 | † | COM | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | Boeing 777-2H6ER | Indian Ocean | ENR | | | | 2014-03-08 |
| 234 | 14 | 220 | 0 | † | COM | Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 | Airbus A300B4-220 | near Medan, Indonesia | APR | | MES | 32 km (17 NM) | 1997-09-26 |
| 230 | 18 | 212 | 0 | † | COM | Trans World Airlines Flight 800 | Boeing 747-131 | Atlantic Ocean, off East Moriches, New York, U.S. | ENR | | | | 1996-07-17 |
| 229 | 14 | 215 | 0 | † | COM | Swissair Flight 111 | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 | Atlantic Ocean, off Peggys Cove, N.S., Canada | ENR | | | | 1998-09-02 |
| 229 | 14 | 215 | 0 | | COM | Korean Air Flight 801 | Boeing 747-3B5 | Asan-Maina, Guam, U.S. | APR | | GUM | 4.8 km (2.6 NM) | 1997-08-06 |
| 228 | 12 | 216 | 0 | † | COM | Air France Flight 447 | Airbus A330-203 | Atlantic Ocean, area of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago | ENR | | | | 2009-06-01 |
| 225 | 19 | 206 | 0 | † | COM | China Airlines Flight 611 | Boeing 747-209B | Taiwan Strait, near Penghu Islands, Taiwan | ENR | | | | 2002-05-25 |
| 224 | 7 | 217 | 0 | † | INB | Metrojet Flight 9268 | Airbus A321-231 | near Hasna, North Sinai Governorate, Egypt | ENR | | | | 2015-10-31 |
| 223 | 10 | 213 | 0 | † | COM | Lauda Air Flight 004 | Boeing 767-3Z9ER | Phu Toei National Park, Thailand | ENR | | | | 1991-05-26 |
| 217 | 15 | 202 | 0 | † | COM | EgyptAir Flight 990 | Boeing 767-366ER | Atlantic Ocean, area of Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S. | ENR | | | | 1999-10-31 |
| 213 | 23 | 190 | 0 | † | COM | Air India Flight 855 | Boeing 747-237B | Arabian Sea, off Mumbai, India | ENR | | | | 1978-01-01 |
| 202 | 14 | 182 | 6 | † | COM | China Airlines Flight 676 | Airbus A300B4-622R | Dayuan District, Taiwan | APR | | TPE | 0.06 km (0.032 NM) | 1998-02-16 |
| 200 | 9 | 191 | 0 | † | COM | Aeroflot Flight 5143 | Tupolev Tu-154B-2 | near Uchkuduk, Uzbek SSR, USSR | ENR | | | | 1985-07-10 |
| 199 | 6 | 181 | 12 | † | COM | TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 | Airbus A320-233 | São Paulo, Brazil | LDG | | CGH | | 2007-07-17 |
| 191 | 9 | 182 | 0 | † | COM | Martinair Flight 138 | Douglas DC-8-55CF | near Maskeliya, Sri Lanka | ENR | | | | 1974-12-04 |
| 189 | 8 | 181 | 0 | † | COM | Lion Air Flight 610 | Boeing 737 MAX 8 | Java Sea, off Tanjungbungin, Karawang Regency, Indonesia | ENR | | | | 2018-10-29 |
| 189 | 6 | 58 | 125 | † | INH | American Airlines Flight 77 | Boeing 757-223 | Arlington, Virginia, U.S. | ENR | IAD-LAX | | | 2001-09-11 |
| 189 | 13 | 176 | 0 | † | COM | Birgenair Flight 301 | Boeing 757-225 | Atlantic Ocean, near Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic | ENR | | | | 1996-02-06 |
| 188 | 7 | 181 | 0 | † | COM | Royal Air Maroc (JY-AEE) | Boeing 707-321C | Tamri, Morocco | ENR | | | | 1975-08-03 |
| 183 | 11 | 172 | 0 | † | COM | LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 | Ilyushin Il-62M | Warsaw, Poland | ENR | | WAW | 6 km (3.2 NM) | 1987-05-09 |
| 183 | 8 | 175 | 0 | | COM | Loftleiðir Flight 001 | Douglas DC-8-63CF | Katunayake, Sri Lanka | APR | | CMB | 2.1 km (1.1 NM) | 1978-11-15 |
| 181 | 19 | 162 | 0 | | COM | Avianca Flight 011 | Boeing 747-283B | Madrid, Spain | APR | | MAD | 12 km (6.5 NM) | 1983-11-27 |
| 180 | 7 | 173 | 0 | † | COM | Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308 | McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | Mount San Pietro, Petreto-Bicchisano, Corsica, France | ENR | | | | 1981-12-01 |
| 179 | 4 | 175 | 0 | | COM | Jeju Air Flight 2216 | Boeing 737-800 | Muan, South Jeolla, South Korea | LDG | | MWX | | 2024-12-29 |
| 178 | 9 | 169 | 0 | | COM | Surinam Airways Flight 764 | Douglas DC-8-62 | Paramaribo, Surinam | APR | | PBM | 3 km (1.6 NM) | 1989-06-07 |
| 178 | 5 | 169 | 4 | | COM | Aeroflot Flight 3352 | Tupolev Tu-154 | Omsk, Russian SFSR, USSR | LDG | | OMS | | 1984-10-11 |