Aviation accidents in 2001

1,847 accidents and incidents are recorded in 2001, with 1,374 people killed and 342 seriously injured. 19% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• General aviation accounts for 85% of these accidents and 52% of deaths. Airline flights account for 3% of accidents.

Deadliest accidents

1. Airbus Industrie A300B4-605R, Belle Harbor, NY (Nov 12, 2001) · 260 killed
2. Vladivostok Air Flight 352, Irkutsk (Jul 4, 2001) · 145 killed
3. 2001 Linate Airport runway collision, Linate Airport (Oct 8, 2001) · 118 killed
4. Boeing 757-200, Arlington, VA (Sep 11, 2001) · 64 killed
5. Boeing 757, Shanksville, PA (Sep 11, 2001) · 44 killed
6. Crossair Flight 3597, Switzerland (Nov 24, 2001) · 24 killed
7. De Havilland DHC-6-300, Saint Barthelem, GP (Mar 24, 2001) · 19 killed
8. Grumman Gulfstream III, Aspen, CO (Mar 30, 2001) · 18 killed
9. Beech 200, Strasburg, CO (Jan 27, 2001) · 10 killed
10. Cessna 208B, Roque Perez, AR (Apr 28, 2001) · 10 killed

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Nearby years

• 1999 · 1,819 accidents
• 2000 · 1,804 accidents
• 2002 · 1,910 accidents
• 2003 · 1,999 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.