Aviation accidents in 1983

2,763 accidents and incidents are recorded in 1983, with 1,983 people killed and 490 seriously injured. 20% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• General aviation accounts for 84% of these accidents and 91% of deaths. Airline flights account for 1% of accidents.

Deadliest accidents

1. Avianca Flight 011, Mejorada del Campo (Nov 27, 1983) · 181 killed
2. TAAG Flight 462, Lubango Airport (Nov 8, 1983) · 130 killed
3. TAME Flight 173, Ricaurte (Jul 11, 1983) · 119 killed
4. Gulf Air Flight 771, Jebel Ali (Sep 23, 1983) · 112 killed
5. 1983 Madrid Airport runway collision, Madrid-Barajas Airport (Dec 7, 1983) · 93 killed
6. Aeroflot Flight 5463, Almaty International Airport (Aug 30, 1983) · 90 killed
7. Nigeria Airways Flight 250, Enugu (Nov 28, 1983) · 53 killed
8. Turkish Airlines Flight 158, Ankara Esenboğa Airport (Jan 16, 1983) · 47 killed
9. Aeroflot Flight 601, Russia (Dec 24, 1983) · 44 killed
10. Avensa Flight 007, Jacinto Lara International Airport (Mar 11, 1983) · 23 killed

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Nearby years

• 1982 · 2,298 accidents
• 1984 · 2,659 accidents
• 1985 · 2,414 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.