Accidents · NTSB records through September 30, 2026

Fatal aviation accidents in 2020

291 fatal cases in 2020, newest first. Every case.

94,304 NTSB cases since 1962, each on its own page in plain English with the NTSB's probable cause and narrative, linked to the aircraft's registry record and its model. So far in 2026: 1,198 cases, 215 of them fatal, 478 people killed. No one is named on these pages.

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Cases newest first · 291

Date	Case	Aircraft	Where	Outcome	Report
2020-05-07	CEN20LA172	Cessna T210L N2074S	Burleson Texas	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-05-06	CEN20WA171	Cessna 182 TGMOL	Area Municipio de Joyabaj Guatemala	3 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-05-06	ERA20WA170	Learjet 35 LVBXU	Esquel Argentina	1 killed substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-05-03	CEN20LA169	Rans S-12 N427LB	Delta Colorado	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-05-02	CEN20LA167	MD Helicopter 369 N8375F	Houston Texas	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-05-02	CEN20LA168	Yakovlev YAK 52 N27YK	Palmyra Illinois	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-05-01	ERA20WA167	Grumman AA5 URDCJ	Dnipropetrovsk Ukraine	2 killed substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-04-30	WPR20LA135	Piper PA-23-250 N6521Y	Hemet California	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-04-28	CEN20WA200	Piper PA 25-235 XBZOZ	Angostura Mexico	1 killed	Preliminary
2020-04-24	CEN20LA160	Aerostar 601 N601X	Craig Colorado	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-04-24	WPR20LA130	Bell UH 1H N3276T	Mesa Arizona	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-04-24	WPR20LA131	Beech 35 N8743A	Currie Nevada	3 killed destroyed	Final
2020-04-23	ERA20WA174	Amateur-built RV7 PPZCA	Toledo Brazil	2 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-04-20	ERA20WA154	Garlick UH1H CCCBB	Del Curepto Chile	1 killed substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-04-20	WPR20LA128	Piper PA31T N926K	Billings Montana	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-04-18	ERA20WA173	Piper PA25 PRDTY	Matoes Do Norte Brazil	1 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-04-18	WPR20LA123	Cessna TU206 N756TH	Auburn California	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-04-13	ERA20WA172	Comp Air CA-8 PPXLD	Campo Verde Brazil	1 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-04-10	ERA20LA150	Arion Aircraft LLC Lightning LS-1 N81DJ	Mount Pleasant South Carolina	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-04-09	ERA20LA149	Pipistrel Italia SRL Sinus 912 LSA N6263R	Marathon Florida	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-04-08	CEN20LA143	Air Tractor AT 502 N9185D	Pecan Gap Texas	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-04-07	ERA20LA145	Amateur-built STANDARD CIRRUS N271BL	Groveland Florida	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-04-06	WPR20LA118	Kolb FIRESTAR 2 N90KL	La Center Washington	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-03-31	CEN20LA136	Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II N107EH	Audubon Iowa	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-03-29	CEN20LA134	Amateur-built P51D N151JD	Mesquite Texas	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-03-29	WPR20WA114	Israel Aircraft Industries 1124A RPC5880	Manilla Philippines	8 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-03-24	ERA20LA134	Maule MT-7 N899ZZ	Swansboro North Carolina	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-03-24	ERA20WA137	Bell 206 CCARR	Chicureo Chile	1 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-03-23	ANC20WA035	Bell 206 RA01917	Konstantinovsky Cape Russia	1 killed	Preliminary
2020-03-21	ERA20LA132	Cessna 310 N8080M	Charleston South Carolina	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-03-19	CEN20LA127	Piper PA28R N3943T	Pleasant Plain Ohio	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-03-17	CEN20LA122	Cessna 208 N274PM	Lacrosse Kansas	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-03-16	GAA21WA049	Cessna 177 DEDRB	Ebermannstadt Germany	1 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-03-15	CEN20WA135	Piper PA25 XBVOO	Tepalcatepec, Michoacán Mexico	1 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-03-13	ERA20WA136	Cessna 310 PRGSG	Tefe Brazil	2 killed substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-03-13	ERA20WA193	Cessna 525 YV3452	El Yaque Venezuela	2 killed substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-03-13	GAA20WA143	Piper PA28 TIAGV	Paquera, Province of Puntarenas Costa Rica	1 killed substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-03-13	WPR20FA108	Mooney M20K N777WP	Sylmar California	2 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-03-11	ERA20FA124	Cessna 177RG N1572H	Sterling Massachusetts	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-03-11	WPR20WA107	Cessna 404 VHOZO	Lockhart River Australia	5 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-03-06	ERA20FA119	American Aviation AA 1 N5757L	Boynton Beach Florida	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-03-03	CEN20FA110	Cessna 172 N157SF	Lincoln Illinois	3 killed destroyed	Final
2020-03-03	ERA20FA118	Piper PA46 N43368	Bishop Georgia	3 killed destroyed	Final
2020-02-29	CEN20FA108	Cessna 150 N407WJ	Port Isabel Texas	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-02-28	ANC20WA031	Robinson R44 RA04246	Astrakhan Russia	1 killed substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-02-23	CEN20FA098	Amateur-built Mosquitto N840GS	North Manchester Indiana	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-02-23	CEN20WA441	Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR N53018	Les Chariots France	2 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-02-22	ANC20FA024	Cessna 305 N65070	Mokuleia Hawaii	2 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-02-22	CEN20FA096	Beech A36 N3266Q	Rogers Minnesota	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-02-20	CEN20FA093	Beech 200 N860J	Coleman Texas	3 killed destroyed	Final

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The records come from the NTSB's public aviation accident database, refreshed here every week. Each case has a permanent page at eflight.com/accidents/<case number>; the plain-English summary is built from the NTSB's coded fields, and the probable cause and narrative are the NTSB's own words. "Preliminary" means the investigation is still open; the final report usually follows within one to two years, and the page updates when it does. Pilots, passengers and other people involved are not named, the site's policy at this time. Where the aircraft is still on the U.S. register, the page links to its registry record; where the model has a page here, it links to that too.