Aviation accidents in France

127 accidents and incidents are recorded in France (1987–2026), with 619 people killed and 30 seriously injured. 49% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• Recorded accidents went from 1 in 1987 to 3 in 2025.

Deadliest accidents

1. Airbus A330, Atlantic, FR (Jun 1, 2009) · 228 killed
2. Air France Flight 4590, Gonesse (Jul 25, 2000) · 113 killed
3. Air Inter Flight 148, Barr (Jan 20, 1992) · 87 killed
4. TAT Flight 230, France (Mar 4, 1988) · 23 killed
5. Air Littoral Flight 1919, France (Dec 21, 1987) · 16 killed
6. Proteus Airlines Flight 706, Quiberon Bay (Jul 30, 1998) · 15 killed
7. Pilatus PC6, Tomblaine, OF (Jun 28, 2026) · 11 killed
8. Airbus Industrie Flight 129, Toulouse-Blagnac (Jun 30, 1994) · 7 killed
9. Airbus A320, Perpignan, FR (Nov 27, 2008) · 7 killed
10. Socata TBM 700, Mouffy, FR (Nov 19, 2013) · 6 killed

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Other countries

• United States · 76,200 accidents
• Brazil · 327 accidents
• Australia · 203 accidents
• Mexico · 154 accidents
• Colombia · 147 accidents
• Canada · 133 accidents
• United Kingdom · 109 accidents
• Venezuela · 100 accidents
• Russia · 84 accidents
• Argentina · 82 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.