Aviation accidents in 2009

1,713 accidents and incidents are recorded in 2009, with 1,558 people killed and 344 seriously injured. 20% of the accidents were fatal.

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Takeaways

• Landing is the most common phase of flight (28% of accidents with a recorded phase), but 1% of those were fatal. Maneuvering accidents were fatal 41% of the time.
• General aviation accounts for 84% of these accidents and 43% of deaths. Airline flights account for 3% of accidents.
• Among accidents with a coded cause, Aircraft or equipment was the main factor in 59%, followed by pilot or crew (34%).

Deadliest accidents

1. Airbus A330, Atlantic, FR (Jun 1, 2009) · 228 killed
2. Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, Iran (Jul 15, 2009) · 168 killed
3. Airbus A310, Moroni, KM (Jun 29, 2009) · 152 killed
4. 2009 Indonesian Air Force L-100 crash, East Java (May 20, 2009) · 101 killed
5. Bombardier Inc DHC-8-402, Clarence Center, NY (Feb 13, 2009) · 49 killed
6. 2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash (Jul 3, 2009) · 41 killed
7. Embraer EMB110, Coari, BR (Feb 7, 2009) · 24 killed
8. 2009 Indonesian Air Force Fokker F27 crash, Indonesia (Apr 6, 2009) · 24 killed
9. 2009 Táchira helicopter crash, Venezuela (May 3, 2009) · 18 killed
10. Cougar Helicopters Flight 91, Atlantic Ocean (Mar 12, 2009) · 17 killed

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Nearby years

• 2007 · 1,696 accidents
• 2008 · 1,836 accidents
• 2010 · 1,677 accidents
• 2011 · 1,760 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.