Aviation accidents in 1998

1,790 accidents and incidents are recorded in 1998, with 1,558 people killed and 304 seriously injured. 19% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• General aviation accounts for 85% of these accidents and 92% of deaths. Airline flights account for 2% of accidents.

Deadliest accidents

1. Swissair Flight 111, Atlantic Ocean (Sep 2, 1998) · 229 killed
2. China Airlines Flight 676, Taoyuan (Feb 16, 1998) · 196 killed
3. Cebu Pacific Flight 387, Mount Sumagaya (Feb 2, 1998) · 104 killed
4. Thai Airways International Flight 261, Surat Thani (Dec 11, 1998) · 101 killed
5. 1998 Occidental Petroleum Boeing 737 crash, Andoas District (May 5, 1998) · 75 killed
6. Cubana de Aviación Flight 389, Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport (Aug 29, 1998) · 70 killed
7. Air France Flight 422, Colombia (Apr 20, 1998) · 53 killed
8. 1998 Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crash, Sharki Baratayi Mountain (Mar 19, 1998) · 45 killed
9. PauknAir Flight 4101, Spain (Sep 25, 1998) · 38 killed
10. Myanma Airways Flight 635, Myanmar (Aug 24, 1998) · 36 killed

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Nearby years

• 1996 · 1,817 accidents
• 1997 · 1,753 accidents
• 1999 · 1,819 accidents
• 2000 · 1,804 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.