Aviation accidents in 1997

1,753 accidents and incidents are recorded in 1997, with 1,728 people killed and 334 seriously injured. 19% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• General aviation accounts for 85% of these accidents and 84% of deaths. Airline flights account for 3% of accidents.

Deadliest accidents

1. Garuda Indonesia Flight 152, Buah Nabar (Sep 26, 1997) · 234 killed
2. Korean Air Flight 801, Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport (Aug 6, 1997) · 228 killed
3. SilkAir Flight 185, Musi River (Dec 19, 1997) · 104 killed
4. Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183, Sharjah International Airport (Dec 15, 1997) · 85 killed
5. Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, Nuevo Berlín (Oct 10, 1997) · 74 killed
6. 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster (Feb 4, 1997) · 73 killed
7. Aerosvit Flight 241, Greece (Dec 17, 1997) · 70 killed
8. Vietnam Airlines Flight 815, Phnom Penh International Airport (Sep 3, 1997) · 64 killed
9. Stavropolskaya Aktsionernaya Avia Flight 1023, Cherkessk (Mar 18, 1997) · 50 killed
10. China Southern Airlines Flight 3456, Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (May 8, 1997) · 35 killed

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Nearby years

• 1995 · 1,903 accidents
• 1996 · 1,817 accidents
• 1998 · 1,790 accidents
• 1999 · 1,819 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.