Pilatus aircraft accidents

71 accidents and incidents are recorded involving Pilatus aircraft (1983–2026), with 122 people killed and 14 seriously injured. 38% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• Among accidents with a coded cause, Pilot or crew was the main factor in 68%, followed by aircraft or equipment (29%).
• Recorded accidents went from 1 in 1983 to 4 in 2025.

Deadliest accidents

1. Pilatus PC-12/45, Butte, MT (Mar 22, 2009) · 14 killed
2. Pilatus PC6, Tomblaine, OF (Jun 28, 2026) · 11 killed
3. Pilatus PC12, Chamberlain, SD (Nov 30, 2019) · 9 killed
4. Pilatus PC-12, Plettenberg, ZA (Feb 8, 2011) · 9 killed
5. Pilatus PC12, San Donato, OF (Oct 3, 2021) · 8 killed
6. Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, Beaufort, NC (Feb 13, 2022) · 8 killed
7. Pilatus PC-12, Faridabad Parvatiya Colony, IN (May 25, 2011) · 7 killed
8. Pilatus Aircraft Ltd PC-12/47E, Recluse, WY (Jul 26, 2024) · 7 killed
9. Pilatus PC-12/45, Bellefonte, PA (Mar 26, 2005) · 6 killed
10. Pilatus PC-6, Brasilito, CS (Jul 16, 2005) · 6 killed

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Other aircraft makers

• Cessna · 24,148 accidents
• Piper · 13,241 accidents
• Beech · 4,780 accidents
• Bell · 2,250 accidents
• Boeing · 1,579 accidents
• Robinson · 1,575 accidents
• Mooney · 1,237 accidents
• Grumman · 1,000 accidents
• Air Tractor · 932 accidents
• Bellanca · 918 accidents

These are counts of recorded accidents, not risk rates: the data has no flight hours, so a place or aircraft near the top mostly reflects how much flying happens there. Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain), plus notable international accidents from Wikidata and Wikipedia. US-heavy; the NTSB only codes phase and cause for accidents from 2008 on, so those tables leave out earlier years.