Aviation accidents in Iran

12 accidents and incidents are recorded in Iran (1993–2024), with 699 people killed and 0 seriously injured. 83% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• Recorded accidents went from 1 in 1993 to 1 in 2022.

Deadliest accidents

1. Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, Iran (Jul 15, 2009) · 168 killed
2. 1993 Tehran mid-air collision, Qods (Feb 8, 1993) · 133 killed
3. Iran Airtour Flight 956, Iran (Feb 12, 2002) · 119 killed
4. Iran Air Flight 277, Urmia (Jan 9, 2011) · 77 killed
5. Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746, Iran (Oct 12, 1994) · 66 killed
6. Aeromist-Kharkiv Flight 2137, Ardestan (Dec 23, 2002) · 44 killed
7. Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915, Mehrabad International Airport (Aug 10, 2014) · 39 killed
8. Iran Airtour Flight 945, Iran (Sep 1, 2006) · 28 killed
9. Aria Air Flight 1525, Mashhad International Airport (Jul 24, 2009) · 16 killed
10. 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash, Bakrabad Rural District (May 19, 2024) · 9 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
• France · 127 accidents
• United Kingdom · 109 accidents
• Venezuela · 100 accidents
• Russia · 84 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.