Accidents · NTSB records through September 30, 2026

Aviation accidents and incidents in 2020

1,395 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 · 1,395

Date	Case	Aircraft	Where	Outcome	Report
2020-12-14	CEN21LA086	Eclipse EA 500 N686TM	Leadville Colorado	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-13	CEN21WA094	Aficionado MINI-MAX EROS ECZQJ	Urbanización Bassetes Spain	destroyed	Preliminary
2020-12-13	ERA21LA073	Flight Design CTSW N138CT	Marion North Carolina	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-13	WPR21LA069	Cessna 172 N5098E	San Diego California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-12	ERA21LA068	Beech V35A N5470U	Attalla Alabama	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-12-12	ERA21LA070	Piper PA24 N7639P	Nashville Tennessee	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-12	ERA21LA071	Amateur-built AR-1 N11TG	San Mateo Florida	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-12-11	ERA21LA074	Cessna 172 N19801	Dexter Maine	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-11	ERA21LA075	Kolb FIRESTAR N7094T	Durham North Carolina	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-11	ERA21LA079	Piper PA-28-161 N8436T	Nantucket Massachusetts	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-11	ERA21WA086	Bell 206 PPMSA	Mambucaba Brazil	1 killed substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-12-10	CEN21LA083	Cessna 172 N1956V	Glencoe Minnesota	serious injuries	Final
2020-12-10	CEN21LA084	Robinson R44 N7085Z	Colorado City Texas	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-12-10	CEN21LA085	Luscombe 8 N2238K	Manvel Texas	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-10	WPR21LA068	Cirrus Design Corp. SR22 N577CP	Ogden Utah	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-09	ERA21LA084	Amateur-built SUPER CHIEF N706SF	Blountstown Florida	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-08	CEN21LA080	Amateur-built RV6 N69HF	Hitchcock Texas	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-12-08	CEN21LA082	Piper PA12 N2554M	Spearfish South Dakota	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-08	WPR21LA067	Cessna 172 N46017	Dillon Montana	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-07	CEN21LA078	Amateur-built RV4 N423WH	Sadler Texas	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-06	CEN21LA075	Piper PA32 N8178Y	Windom Minnesota	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-12-06	ERA21LA062	Ercoupe 415 N2674H	South Boston Virginia	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-06	ERA21LA065 incident	Piper PA46 N282ST	Leesburg Virginia	no injuries minor damage	Final
2020-12-06	ERA21LA067	Piper PA23 N78329	Milton Florida	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-05	CEN21LA077	Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II N371MP	Marietta Texas	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-05	ENG21WA008 incident	Boeing 737 LZCGU	Katowice Poland	no injuries minor damage	Preliminary
2020-12-04	ENG21WA007 incident	Boeing 777 JA8978	Naha Japan	no injuries minor damage	Preliminary
2020-12-04	WPR21LA080	Cessna 172 N737NB	Palm Springs California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-03	ANC21LA008	Piper PA18 N4900C	Juneau Alaska	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-03	CEN21LA073	Bellanca 17-30A N28067	Arden Hills Minnesota	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-03	DCA21WA057 incident	Boeing 737-8EH PRGUD	Sao Paulo Brazil		Preliminary
2020-12-02	CEN21LA071	Cessna 551 N48DK	Lufkin Texas	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-02	DCA21WA049 incident	Boeing 737 EY560	Garowe Somalia	no injuries minor damage	Preliminary
2020-12-02	ERA21LA059	Piper PA38 N2420F	Pembroke Pines Florida	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-02	WPR21WA065	Robinson R44 VHHGU	Tallong Australia	2 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-12-01	CEN21LA072	Grumman G164 N48594	Elton Louisiana	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-01	CEN21LA079	Amateur-built Star-Lite N322SL	San Antonio Texas	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-12-01	DCA21WA041 incident	Boeing 757 N6706Q	Silao Mexico		Preliminary
2020-11-30	CEN21LA070	Piper PA38 N9879T	Franklin Arkansas	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-11-29	ERA21LA060	Champion 7EC N9721N	Northhampton New York	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-29	ERA21LA061	Piper PA28 N8056N	Bellefonte Pennsylvania	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-29	WPR21LA155	Aerostar International INC RX 8 N9051Y	St. George Utah	serious injuries	Final
2020-11-28	CEN21LA068	Piper PA28 N5242W	French Lick Indiana	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-28	CEN21LA069	Globe GC1A N3318K	Ottawa Kansas	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-28	ERA21LA058	Champion 7FC N7596B	Georgetown Delaware	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-27	DCA21WA045 incident	Boeing 737 PKYGW	Singapore Singapore	no injuries	Preliminary
2020-11-27	ERA21LA057	Cessna 172 N53587	Sanford North Carolina	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-26	CEN21LA067	Amateur-built RV4 N87LW	Telluride Colorado	2 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-11-26	CEN21LA111	Cessna T182T N182PP	Hollister Missouri	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-11-26	ENG21WA006	Atr ATR42 CFAFS	Nunavut Canada	minor injuries minor damage	Preliminary

About these pages

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.