Plane crashes in 1938

203 crashes worldwide in 1938, with 623 fatalities. Browse each accident by date, aircraft and location on the interactive map.

Crashes: 203
Fatal crashes: 103
Fatalities: 623
First recorded: January 4, 1938
Most recent: December 31, 1938

Deadliest

October 10, 1938: Savoia-Marchetti SM.73, Soest North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (20 fatalities)
July 14, 1938: Savoia-Marchetti S.66, Mediterranean Sea off Terranova Sardinia, World (20 fatalities)
April 30, 1938: Savoia-Marchetti S.73, Formia Lazio, Italy (19 fatalities)
October 25, 1938: Douglas DC-2, Melbourne Victoria, Australia (18 fatalities)
August 13, 1938: Savoia-Marchetti SM.73, Oberkirch Baden-Württemberg, Germany (17 fatalities)

Countries

Manufacturers

De Havilland (31)
Avro (22)
Junkers (18)
Lockheed (18)
Douglas (16)
Fokker (11)
Handley Page (10)
Savoia-Marchetti (8)
Bloch (5)
Potez (5)
Supermarine (5)
Amiot (4)

Aircraft

All crashes (page 1 of 3)

December 31, 1938: Sikorsky S-38, Rio Branco Acre, Brazil (0 fatalities)
December 23, 1938: Douglas B-18 Bolo, Uniontown Alabama, United States (5 fatalities)
December 23, 1938: Supermarine Walrus, Cochin Kerala, India (2 fatalities)
December 20, 1938: Fokker F7, Surabaya West Java, Indonesia (0 fatalities)
December 20, 1938: De Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly, Gwelo (Gweru) Midlands, Zimbabwe (0 fatalities)
December 20, 1938: Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow, Owstwick Yorkshire, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
December 17, 1938: De Havilland DH.80 Puss Moth, Chipping Norton Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
December 16, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Bircham Newton AFB Norfolk, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
December 13, 1938: Lockheed 5 Vega, Saint George Utah, United States (1 fatality)
December 12, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Bircham Newton AFB Norfolk, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
December 11, 1938: Junkers JU.52, Quito Pichincha, Ecuador (0 fatalities)
December 10, 1938: Lockheed 14 Super Electra, Qingdao Shandong, China (0 fatalities)
December 9, 1938: Lockheed 14 Super Electra, Amsterdam North Holland, Netherlands (4 fatalities)
December 8, 1938: Nakajima AT-2, East China Sea near Kerama Islands, Okinawa, Japan (10 fatalities)
December 6, 1938: Focke-Wulf Fw.200 Condor, Manila Metro Manila, Philippines (0 fatalities)
December 2, 1938: Junkers JU.52, Vienna Vienna, Austria (0 fatalities)
December 2, 1938: Lockheed 10 Electra, Mexico City Federal District of Mexico City, Mexico (8 fatalities)
December 1, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Dovercourt Essex, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
November 29, 1938: Douglas DC-3, Point Reyes California, United States (5 fatalities)
November 28, 1938: Airspeed AS.10 Oxford, Montrose AFB Angus (Forfarshire), United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
November 27, 1938: Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat, Lake Habbaniya Iraq, Iraq (4 fatalities)
November 26, 1938: Junkers JU.90, Banjul Banjul City District, Gambia (12 fatalities)
November 24, 1938: De Havilland DH.60 Moth, Australia (0 fatalities)
November 24, 1938: Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow, Honington AFB Suffolk, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
November 22, 1938: Savoia-Marchetti SM.75, Winklern Carinthia, Austria (4 fatalities)
November 18, 1938: Lockheed 14 Super Electra, Regina Saskatchewan, Canada (2 fatalities)
November 18, 1938: Airspeed AS.10 Oxford, Hooton Park AFB Cheshire, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
November 17, 1938: Fokker Super Universal, Disappointment Inlet British Columbia, Canada (0 fatalities)
November 16, 1938: Bloch MB.120, Mbandaka Équateur, Democratic Republic of Congo (0 fatalities)
November 14, 1938: Douglas DC-3, Amsterdam North Holland, Netherlands (6 fatalities)
November 11, 1938: Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow, Acklington AFB Northumberland, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
November 10, 1938: Supermarine Walrus, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
November 10, 1938: Douglas DC-3, Fukuoka Kyūshū, Japan (0 fatalities)
November 7, 1938: Fokker Super Universal, Carcross Yukon, Canada (0 fatalities)
November 4, 1938: De Havilland DH.86 Express, Jersey Channel Islands, United Kingdom (14 fatalities)
November 3, 1938: De Havilland DH.84 Dragon, Agen Lot-et-Garonne, France (6 fatalities)
November 1, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Flamborough East Yorkshire, United Kingdom (4 fatalities)
October 25, 1938: Douglas DC-2, Melbourne Victoria, Australia (18 fatalities)
October 21, 1938: Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax II, Liverpool-John Lennon (ex Speke) Merseyside, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
October 20, 1938: Ford 4, Powellsville North Carolina, United States (1 fatality)
October 18, 1938: Douglas DC-2, Montgomery Alabama, United States (0 fatalities)
October 16, 1938: Junkers W.34, Umeå Västerbotten, Sweden (5 fatalities)
October 16, 1938: Simmonds Spartan, Mundaring Weir Western Australia, Australia (0 fatalities)
October 16, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Windsor New South Wales, Australia (1 fatality)
October 10, 1938: Savoia-Marchetti SM.73, Soest North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (20 fatalities)
October 9, 1938: De Havilland DH.60 Moth, Russell Ontario, Canada (0 fatalities)
October 7, 1938: Fokker F7, Jaca Aragon, Spain (0 fatalities)
October 6, 1938: Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow, Pontefract West Yorkshire, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
October 6, 1938: Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow, Rye Sussex, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
October 6, 1938: Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow, Dungeness Kent, United Kingdom (5 fatalities)
October 4, 1938: Douglas DC-3, Komsomolsk-on-Amur Khabarovsk Krai, Russia (5 fatalities)
October 3, 1938: De Havilland DH.60 Moth, Victoria British Columbia, Canada (0 fatalities)
October 1, 1938: Junkers G.24, Coruripe Alagoas, Brazil (0 fatalities)
October 1, 1938: Junkers JU.52, Italy (13 fatalities)
October 1, 1938: Dornier DO.18, Banjul Banjul City District, Gambia (4 fatalities)
September 30, 1938: De Havilland DH.60 Moth, Sarajevo East Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 fatalities)
September 30, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Shipton-under-Wychwood Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (2 fatalities)
September 29, 1938: Supermarine Walrus, Wick Caithness, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
September 22, 1938: Saro A.29 Cloud, Coventry West Midlands, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
September 21, 1938: Douglas Dolphin, Hamilton AFB (Novato) California, United States (0 fatalities)
September 20, 1938: Short S.25 Sunderland, Milford Haven Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom (2 fatalities)
September 19, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Misty Law Renfrewshire, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
September 17, 1938: Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket, Panama City Panamá, Panama (0 fatalities)
September 15, 1938: Douglas DF-151, Saga Kyūshū, Japan (15 fatalities)
September 13, 1938: Airspeed AS.10 Oxford, Poulton Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (1 fatality)
September 11, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, King Island-Currie Tasmania, Australia (0 fatalities)
September 3, 1938: Stinson Model U, Nantucket Massachusetts, United States (0 fatalities)
September 3, 1938: Ford 5, Big Prairie Montana, United States (0 fatalities)
August 29, 1938: De Havilland DH.84 Dragon, Innisfail Queensland, Australia (5 fatalities)
August 24, 1938: Douglas DC-3, Albuquerque New Mexico, United States (0 fatalities)
August 24, 1938: De Havilland DH.60 Moth, Mayland Essex, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
August 24, 1938: Douglas DC-2, Wangmoon Guangdong, China (14 fatalities)
August 22, 1938: Amiot 143, Lyon Rhône, France (3 fatalities)
August 22, 1938: Amiot 143, Lyon Rhône, France (3 fatalities)
August 19, 1938: Tupolev ANT-35 (ANT-35bis & PS-35), Stockholm-Bromma Uppland, Sweden (0 fatalities)
August 18, 1938: Macchi M.C.94, Mornago Lombardy, Italy (14 fatalities)
August 18, 1938: Lockheed 14 Super Electra, Bucharest-Băneasa București, Romania (0 fatalities)
August 16, 1938: De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide, Ketapang West Kalimantan, Indonesia (0 fatalities)
August 15, 1938: Junkers JU.52, Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (9 fatalities)
August 14, 1938: Fleet 50 Freighter, Lower Post British Columbia, Canada (0 fatalities)
August 14, 1938: De Havilland DH.60 Moth, Brockville Ontario, Canada (0 fatalities)
August 13, 1938: Savoia-Marchetti SM.73, Oberkirch Baden-Württemberg, Germany (17 fatalities)
August 12, 1938: Lockheed 10 Electra, San Andrés Tuxtla Veracruz, Mexico (11 fatalities)
August 10, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Dromana Victoria, Australia (4 fatalities)
August 10, 1938: Douglas DF-151, Chichijima Island Kantō, Japan (6 fatalities)
August 10, 1938: Fokker F7, Debrecen Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary (12 fatalities)
August 8, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Bridlington Yorkshire, United Kingdom (4 fatalities)
August 7, 1938: Avro 504, Tatoi AFB (Athens) Attica, Greece (1 fatality)
August 7, 1938: Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow, Great Barton Suffolk, United Kingdom (5 fatalities)
August 7, 1938: Avro 652 Anson, Groombridge Sussex, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
August 4, 1938: Amiot 143, Lyon Rhône, France (2 fatalities)
August 1, 1938: De Havilland DH.60 Moth, Biel Bern, Switzerland (2 fatalities)
July 29, 1938: Martin M.130, Pacific Ocean, World (15 fatalities)
July 27, 1938: Armstrong Whitworth AW.15 Atalanta, Kisumu Nyanza, Kenya (4 fatalities)
July 27, 1938: Bloch MB.200, Albon Drôme, France (5 fatalities)
July 23, 1938: Handley Page H.P.54 Harrow, Hendon Middlesex, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
July 22, 1938: Lockheed 14 Super Electra, Negrilesa near Stulpicani, Suceava, Romania (14 fatalities)
July 20, 1938: Potez 25, Chartres Eure-et-Loir, France (0 fatalities)
July 19, 1938: Douglas DC-2, Argentina (4 fatalities)
July 16, 1938: Junkers JU.52, Wuhan Hubei, China (0 fatalities)