User:Sardanaphalus/List of notable accidents and incidents on commercial aircraft (example layout)

Date	Craft	Summary
1930
October 5	British airship R101	Crashes north of Paris, killing 48 people in an eruption of flames.
1931
March 31	Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 599 Fokker F-10 Trimotor	Crashes near Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, killing all eight aboard, including legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.
1933
October 10	United Airlines Boeing 247	Destroyed by a bomb over Chesterton, Indiana in the first proven case of air sabotage on a commercial aircraft; all seven on board are killed.
1937
May 6	DZR Hindenburg	Bursts into flames and crashes while attempting a landing at Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst in New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board are killed. One person on the ground also dies.
November 16	Sabena Junkers Ju 52	Crashes near Ostend, Belgium killing all 11 on board, including the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Hesse.
1938
January 10	Northwest Airlines Flight 2 Lockheed L14H Super Electra	Crashes near Bozeman, Montana, killing all ten on board; the machine with which the manufacturer measured component vibration is found to be inaccurate, causing the aircraft to be more prone to flutter than thought.
1939
January 13	Northwest Airlines Flight 1 Lockheed L14H Super Electra	Crashes on takeoff from Miles City, Montana, killing all four on board. The aircraft's cross-feed fuel valve leaked fuel into the cockpit and an intense fire broke out.
1940
June 14	Kaleva incident	An Aero Junkers Ju 52-3/mge flying from Tallinn, Estonia to Helsinki, Finland is shot down by two Soviet bombers over the Gulf of Finland. At the time, Finland was not at war with any country.
1941
February 26	Eastern Air Lines Flight 21 Douglas DC-3	Crashes while descending to land at Atlanta, Georgia, killing 16 of 25 aboard; World War I hero and Eastern Air Lines president Eddie Rickenbacker is among the survivors.
1942
January 16	Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 3 Douglas DC-3	After refueling in Las Vegas, en route to California, the plane took off on a clear night, and twenty-three minutes later crashed into "Double Up Peak" near the 8300-foot level of Mount Potosi, 30 miles southwest of Las Vegas. All 22 passengers were killed, including actress Carole Lombard and her mother.
1943
June 1	BOAC Flight 777 Douglas DC-3	Shot down by German fighter aircraft over the Bay of Biscay, killing 17 passengers and crew, including actor Leslie Howard. It has been speculated that the flight was attacked because German intelligence believed that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was aboard.
1947
August 12	BSAA Star Dust Avro Lancastrian	Disappears over the Andes after transmitting an enigmatic coded message ("STENDEC"); the fate of the plane remains a mystery until the crash site is located in 2000. The crew of four and nine passengers were killed.
October 24	United Airlines Flight 608 Douglas DC-6	Crashes near Bryce Canyon Airport, Utah, when a fire caused by a design flaw destroys the plane. All 52 on board died.
1948
January 28		A flight chartered by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service crashes in the hills west of Coalinga, California, killing 32. The crash becomes the impetus of the Woody Guthrie song "Deportee" [1]
March 12	Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 Douglas DC-4	Crashes into Mount Sanford in the Alaska Territory, killing 30.
June 17	United Airlines Flight 624 Douglas DC-6	Crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, after errors in executing procedures to extinguish what was believed to be an on-board fire. All 43 on board died.
July 17	Miss Macao PBY Catalina	In the first known case of aircraft hijacking, four hijackers attempt to rob the 23 passengers on board a seaplane while it crosses the Pearl River delta en route from Macau to Hong Kong. The seaplane's pilot, one of three crew members, is attacked and loses control during the ensuing struggle in the cockpit. The subsequent crash kills all on board except one passenger, who is later identified to be the lead hijacker.
October 2	Bukken Bruse disaster	A flying boat crashes upon landing in Trondheim, Norway; Bertrand Russell is among the survivors.
October 20	KLM Constellation air disaster	A Lockheed Constellation, the Nijmegen, crashes near Prestwick, Scotland, killing 40.
1949
May 4	Superga air disaster FIAT G212CP	Crashes into the Superga hills near Turin, Italy, killing all 31 on board, including 18 Torino football team players (see also Grande Torino).
September 9	Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3	Explodes in flight while en route from Quebec City to Baie-Comeau, Quebec as the result of sabotage, killing all 23 on board.
November 1	Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 Douglas DC-4	On approach to Washington National Airport, the flight suffers a mid-air collision with a P-38 Lightning. All 55 people on board die, including Congressman George J. Bates, New Yorker cartoonist Helen Hokinson, and former Congressman Michael J. Kennedy.
November 29	American Airlines Flight 157 Douglas DC-6	Veers off course and strikes buildings after the flight crew loses control of the aircraft during its final approach to Dallas Love Field. 26 passengers and 2 crew members are killed.