Aviation accidents in 1982

2,298 accidents and incidents are recorded in 1982, with 1,804 people killed and 323 seriously injured. 17% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• General aviation accounts for 84% of these accidents and 89% of deaths. Airline flights account for 1% of accidents.

Deadliest accidents

1. Pan Am Flight 759, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (Jul 9, 1982) · 153 killed
2. VASP Flight 168, Serra da Aratanha (Jun 8, 1982) · 137 killed
3. Aeroflot Flight 8641, Vierbavičy (Jun 28, 1982) · 132 killed
4. Aeroflot Flight 411, Mendeleyevo (Jul 6, 1982) · 90 killed
5. Air Florida Flight 90, 14th Street Bridges (Jan 13, 1982) · 78 killed
6. 1982 Korean Air Force C-123 crash, Hallasan (Feb 5, 1982) · 53 killed
7. Spantax Flight 995, Málaga-Costa del Sol (Sep 13, 1982) · 50 killed
8. 1982 Mannheim helicopter crash, Bundesautobahn 656 (Sep 11, 1982) · 46 killed
9. Aeronor Chile Flight 304, Chile (Dec 9, 1982) · 46 killed
10. 1982 TABA Fairchild FH-227 accident, Brazil (Jun 12, 1982) · 44 killed

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Nearby years

• 1983 · 2,763 accidents
• 1984 · 2,659 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.