Aviation accidents in 1994

1,821 accidents and incidents are recorded in 1994, with 1,662 people killed and 384 seriously injured. 21% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• General aviation accounts for 84% of these accidents and 70% of deaths. Airline flights account for 2% of accidents.

Deadliest accidents

1. China Airlines Flight 140, Nagoya Airfield (Apr 26, 1994) · 264 killed
2. China Northwest Airlines Flight 2303, People's Republic of China (Jun 6, 1994) · 160 killed
3. Boeing B-737-300, Aliquippa, PA (Sep 8, 1994) · 132 killed
4. Aeroflot Flight 593, Mezhdurechensky District (Mar 23, 1994) · 75 killed
5. American Eagle Flight 4184, United States (Oct 31, 1994) · 68 killed
6. Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746, Iran (Oct 12, 1994) · 66 killed
7. Turkish Airlines Flight 278, Turkey (Dec 29, 1994) · 57 killed
8. Douglas DC-9-31, Charlotte, NC (Jul 2, 1994) · 37 killed
9. 1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash, Mull of Kintyre (Jun 2, 1994) · 29 killed
10. 1994 Vanavara Yakovlev Yak-40 crash, Evenk Autonomous District (Sep 26, 1994) · 28 killed

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Nearby years

• 1992 · 1,900 accidents
• 1993 · 1,857 accidents
• 1995 · 1,903 accidents
• 1996 · 1,817 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.