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
2020-10-02	ERA21LA002	Beech BE-36 N656V	Green Sea South Carolina	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-02	ERA21LA003	Socata TBM700 N965DM	Corfu New York	2 killed destroyed	Final
2020-10-02	WPR21LA008	Cessna 180 N8678X	Princeton Oregon	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-02	WPR21WA047	Air Tractor AT502 ETAYJ	Semera Ethiopia	minor injuries destroyed	Preliminary
2020-10-01	ANC20LA100	Cessna 180 N926LL	Tok Alaska	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-01	ENG21WA002 incident	Airbus A330 APBNE	Nawabshah Pakistan		Preliminary
2020-10-01	ERA21LA005	Fokker DR1 N512FH	Wake Virginia	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-10-01	WPR21LA002	Amateur-built CH601 N601SA	Burlington Washington	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-30	CEN20LA429	Cessna 172 N461CM	Higginsville Missouri	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-30	DCA21LA018	Boeing 777 N860DA	Anchorage Alaska	serious injuries	Final
2020-09-30	ERA20LA342	Bellanca 7GCB N8950R	Defuniak Springs Florida	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-30	WPR20LA332	Piper PA28 N5397S	Oregon City Oregon	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-29	CEN20LA425	Cessna 172N N75634	Spring Texas	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-29	CEN20LA427	Schleicher ASK21 N721WC	Hinckley Illinois	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-29	CEN20LA431	Cessna 172 N79300	Big Rapids Michigan	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-28	CEN20LA421	Beech A36 N104RK	Lago Vista Texas	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-28	CEN20WA426	Cirrus SR22 N918SE	Le Chevillotte France	3 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-09-28	ENG20LA046 incident	Thrush S2R-H80 N6216K	Donalsonville Georgia	no injuries minor damage	Final
2020-09-28	ERA20LA341	Tecnam P92 N562TU	Centerville Maryland	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-27	ERA20LA335	Piper PA28 N33859	Union South Carolina	serious injuries destroyed	Final
2020-09-27	WPR20LA319	Cessna T182 N157RC	Santa Barbara California	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-09-26	CEN21WA017	Cessna 180D SECXN	Linköping Sweden	no injuries substantial damage	Preliminary
2020-09-26	ERA20LA334	Cessna 140 N89476	New Smyrna Beach Florida	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-26	WPR20LA322	Piper PA32-300 N4132W	Silver Springs Nevada	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-25	CEN20LA419	Cessna 172S +1 more N108VK	San Marcos Texas	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-25	CEN20LA430	Piper PA46R-350T N920X	Rogers Arkansas	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-25	CEN20WA418 incident	Sikorsky S92 LNONQ	Sola Norway	no injuries	Preliminary
2020-09-25	ERA20LA337	Amateur-built 235 N35FW	Chester Connecticut	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-25	WPR20LA325	Cessna T210 N300JS	Bridgeport California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-24	CEN20LA417	Quicksilver MXII N9045Z	Killeen Texas	2 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-09-24	CEN20LA420	Beech V35 N3958A	Terrell Texas	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-24	CEN20LA424	Amateur-built Speedster N525PP	Leadville Colorado	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-24	GAA20WA149	Cessna 182 CXAYE	Minas City Uruguay	damage not recorded	Preliminary
2020-09-24	WPR20LA320	Great Lakes 2T1A N3617L	San Diego California	serious injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-23	ANC20LA099	Cessna 170B N4380B	Big Lake Alaska	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-23	CEN20LA422	Aeronca 7AC N81624	St. Clairsville Ohio	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-23	CEN20WA423 incident	Cessna 208B N967FE	Beef Island British Virgin Islands	damage not recorded	Preliminary
2020-09-23	ERA20LA330	Piper PA25 N6106Z	Floral City Florida	1 killed destroyed	Final
2020-09-23	ERA20LA332	Amateur-built 1RG N324DJ	Hagerstown Maryland	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-23	ERA20LA336	Cessna 172 N5439E	La Grange North Carolina	minor injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-23	WPR20LA315	Air Tractor AT-802A N836MM	Emmett Idaho	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-09-22	ERA20LA329	Cessna 182 N2601Q	Lincolnton Georgia	1 killed substantial damage	Final
2020-09-22	ERA20LA333	Ayres S2R N3298M	Jackson Tennessee	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-22	ERA20LA338	Cessna 170 N2772D	Pottstown Pennsylvania	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-22	GAA20WA139	Cessna 172 N9056K	Riyadh Saudi Arabia	1 killed destroyed	Preliminary
2020-09-22	WPR20CA316	Piper PA 12 N7754H	Pacific City Oregon	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-22	WPR20LA318	Cessna 182 N756RA	Island Park Idaho	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-22	WPR20LA323	MD Helicopter 369 N509CG	Chemehuevi Valley California	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-21	ANC20LA098	Cessna 182 N182KT	King Salmon Alaska	no injuries substantial damage	Final
2020-09-21	CEN20CA416	Cessna 172RG N6330V	Lafayette Indiana	no injuries substantial damage	Final

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.