Aviation accidents in 1999

1,819 accidents and incidents are recorded in 1999, with 1,024 people killed and 296 seriously injured. 17% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• General aviation accounts for 86% of these accidents and 91% of deaths. Airline flights account for 2% of accidents.

Deadliest accidents

1. EgyptAir Flight 990, Nantucket (Oct 31, 1999) · 216 killed
2. LAPA Flight 3142, Jorge Newbery Airport (Aug 31, 1999) · 63 killed
3. China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, Rui'an (Feb 24, 1999) · 61 killed
4. Si Fly Flight 3275 (Nov 12, 1999) · 24 killed
5. Cubana de Aviación Flight 310, Bejuma (Dec 25, 1999) · 22 killed
6. Asian Spirit Flight 100, Philippines (Dec 7, 1999) · 17 killed
7. Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216, La Aurora International Airport (Dec 21, 1999) · 16 killed
8. American Airlines Flight 1420, Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (Jun 1, 1999) · 11 killed
9. Beech 65-A90, Marine City, MI (Jul 31, 1999) · 10 killed
10. Piper PA-31-350, Volcano, HI (Sep 26, 1999) · 10 killed

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Nearby years

• 1997 · 1,753 accidents
• 1998 · 1,790 accidents
• 2000 · 1,804 accidents
• 2001 · 1,847 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.