Plane crashes in 1969

362 crashes worldwide in 1969, with 2,741 fatalities. Browse each accident by date, aircraft and location on the interactive map.

Crashes: 362
Fatal crashes: 216
Fatalities: 2,741
First recorded: January 1, 1969
Most recent: December 31, 1969

Deadliest

March 16, 1969: Douglas DC-9, La Trinidad Maracaibo Zulia, Venezuela (155 fatalities)
March 20, 1969: Ilyushin II-18, Aswan Aswan, Egypt (100 fatalities)
June 23, 1969: Antonov AN-12, Yukhnov Kaluga oblast, Russia (96 fatalities)
December 8, 1969: Douglas DC-6, Mt Paneio Attica, Greece (90 fatalities)
November 20, 1969: Vickers VC-10, Lagos-Murtala Muhammed Lagos, Nigeria (87 fatalities)

Countries

Manufacturers

Douglas (70)
Lockheed (41)
De Havilland (29)
Beechcraft (25)
Antonov (22)
Boeing (22)
Rockwell (17)
Curtiss (12)
Fairchild (9)
Grumman (9)
Ilyushin (9)
Pilatus (9)

Aircraft

Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) (39)
Lockheed C-130 Hercules (19)
Curtiss C-46 Commando (12)
De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver (9)
Pilatus PC-6 (Porter & Turbo Porter) (9)
Antonov AN-12 (8)
Antonov AN-2 (8)
Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor (8)
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress (8)
PZL-Mielec AN-2 (8)
Vickers Viscount (7)
Douglas C-54 Skymaster (6)

All crashes (page 1 of 4)

December 31, 1969: PZL-Mielec AN-2, Poland (0 fatalities)
December 31, 1969: Douglas DC-4, Nueva Loja-Lago Agrio Sucumbíos, Ecuador (0 fatalities)
December 31, 1969: Ilyushin II-14, Nanchang Jiangxi, China (0 fatalities)
December 30, 1969: Pilatus PC-6 (Porter & Turbo Porter), Long Tieng Xieng Khouang Province, Laos (0 fatalities)
December 28, 1969: Douglas C-117 Skytrain, Quảng Tín Đắk Nông Province, Vietnam (4 fatalities)
December 27, 1969: Fokker F27 Friendship, Rønne (Bornholm Island) Hovedstaden, Denmark (0 fatalities)
December 26, 1969: De Havilland DHC-4 Caribou, Tiên Phước Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam (2 fatalities)
December 23, 1969: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), Luang Prabang Louangphabang Province, Laos (6 fatalities)
December 22, 1969: Douglas DC-6, Nha Trang Khánh Hòa Province, Vietnam (34 fatalities)
December 22, 1969: Vickers Viscount, Luxembourg-Findel, Luxembourg (0 fatalities)
December 21, 1969: Beechcraft 80 Queen Air, Republic Missouri, United States (1 fatality)
December 21, 1969: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Recife-Guararapes Pernambuco, Brazil (7 fatalities)
December 20, 1969: Fairchild F27, Inuvik Northwest Territories, Canada (0 fatalities)
December 19, 1969: Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, Ching Chuan Kang AFB (Taichung) Taichung City, Taiwan (4 fatalities)
December 19, 1969: Rockwell Aero Commander 500, Courchevel Savoie, France (2 fatalities)
December 17, 1969: Cessna 401, Piketon Ohio, United States (5 fatalities)
December 17, 1969: Curtiss C-46 Commando, Buenos Aires-Aeroparque-Jorge Newbery Buenos Aires City, Argentina (0 fatalities)
December 17, 1969: Fairchild C-123 Provider, Gia Nghĩa Đắk Nông Province, Vietnam (1 fatality)
December 16, 1969: Rockwell 1121 Jet Commander, Salt Lake City Utah, United States (2 fatalities)
December 15, 1969: Pilatus PC-6 (Porter & Turbo Porter), Bahrain (0 fatalities)
December 15, 1969: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Tainan Tainan City, Taiwan (8 fatalities)
December 15, 1969: Curtiss C-46 Commando, Gulf of Mexico All, World (0 fatalities)
December 14, 1969: Avro 748, Uberlândia Minas Gerais, Brazil (0 fatalities)
December 13, 1969: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Bù Đốp Bình Phước Province, Vietnam (4 fatalities)
December 12, 1969: Curtiss C-46 Commando, Corani Cochabamba, Bolivia (0 fatalities)
December 11, 1969: NAMC YS-11, Wonsan Kangwon, North Korea (0 fatalities)
December 11, 1969: Canadian Vickers PBV-1 Canso (OA-10 Canso), Gilleleje Hovedstaden, Denmark (1 fatality)
December 10, 1969: Avia 14, Makhachkala Republic of Dagestan, Russia (17 fatalities)
December 9, 1969: PZL-Mielec AN-2, Lunino Penza oblast, Russia (3 fatalities)
December 9, 1969: Cessna 401, Ostend West Flanders, Belgium (0 fatalities)
December 8, 1969: Douglas DC-6, Mt Paneio Attica, Greece (90 fatalities)
December 6, 1969: Antonov AN-12, Katanga Irkutsk oblast, Russia (8 fatalities)
December 6, 1969: Cessna 421A Golden Eagle I, Calgary Alberta, Canada (2 fatalities)
December 5, 1969: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), Puerto Montt-El Tepual Región de Los Lagos, Chile (0 fatalities)
December 5, 1969: Lockheed 18 LodeStar, Albuquerque New Mexico, United States (11 fatalities)
December 5, 1969: Britten-Norman Islander, Bario Sarawak, Malaysia (0 fatalities)
December 4, 1969: Rockwell 1121 Jet Commander, Stockholm-Bromma Uppland, Sweden (2 fatalities)
December 3, 1969: Boeing 707, Caracas-Maiquetía-Simón Bolívar Vargas, Venezuela (62 fatalities)
December 3, 1969: Pilatus PC-6 (Porter & Turbo Porter), Núi Đất Bắc Giang Province, Vietnam (2 fatalities)
December 2, 1969: Fokker F27 Friendship, Marambio, Antarctica (0 fatalities)
November 28, 1969: Lockheed L-749 Constellation, Oukaïmeden Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz, Morocco (8 fatalities)
November 27, 1969: Avro 748, Santa Rosa La Pampa, Argentina (0 fatalities)
November 26, 1969: Beechcraft 90 King Air, Galveston Texas, United States (3 fatalities)
November 25, 1969: PZL-Mielec AN-2, Mukachevo Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine (5 fatalities)
November 25, 1969: Casa 2.111, Las Palmas-Gando (Gran Canaria) Canary Islands, Spain (0 fatalities)
November 25, 1969: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), Tegucigalpa Francisco Morazán, Honduras (0 fatalities)
November 24, 1969: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Ban Talan Xaignabouli Province, Laos (8 fatalities)
November 21, 1969: Beechcraft 60 Duke, Alief-Andrau Airpark (Houston) Texas, United States (0 fatalities)
November 20, 1969: Vickers VC-10, Lagos-Murtala Muhammed Lagos, Nigeria (87 fatalities)
November 20, 1969: Britten-Norman Islander, Bolobip Western (Fly), Papua New Guinea (0 fatalities)
November 19, 1969: Fairchild-Hiller FH-227, Glenn Falls New York, United States (14 fatalities)
November 19, 1969: Cessna 207 Skywagon/Stationair, Kerhonkson New York, United States (0 fatalities)
November 19, 1969: Tupolev TU-134, Istanbul-Atatürk Marmara Region, Türkiye (0 fatalities)
November 14, 1969: Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor, Albany Georgia, United States (0 fatalities)
November 13, 1969: Antonov AN-12, Amderma Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia (12 fatalities)
November 13, 1969: Rockwell T-39 Sabreliner, Eglin AFB (Valparaiso) Florida, United States (0 fatalities)
November 11, 1969: BAe 125, Wabush Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada (8 fatalities)
November 11, 1969: Ilyushin II-18, Tashkent Tashkent Province, Uzbekistan (0 fatalities)
November 11, 1969: Beechcraft U-21 Ute, Quy Nhơn Bình Định Province, Vietnam (10 fatalities)
November 10, 1969: Fokker F27 Friendship, Sudan (0 fatalities)
November 9, 1969: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), Timmins Ontario, Canada (4 fatalities)
November 6, 1969: Learjet 23, Racine Wisconsin, United States (7 fatalities)
November 3, 1969: De Havilland DH.104 Dove, Kalaupapa Hawaii, United States (0 fatalities)
November 1, 1969: Antonov AN-2, Kazalinsk Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan (5 fatalities)
November 1, 1969: Convair CV-440 Metropolitan, Stockholm-Arlanda Uppland, Sweden (0 fatalities)
November 1, 1969: Beechcraft D18, Madison Wisconsin, United States (1 fatality)
October 31, 1969: Rockwell 1121 Jet Commander, Rural Retreat Virginia, United States (3 fatalities)
October 31, 1969: Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor, Barrow Alaska, United States (0 fatalities)
October 26, 1969: Vickers Viscount, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv District, Israel (0 fatalities)
October 21, 1969: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Castle AFB California, United States (0 fatalities)
October 20, 1969: NAMC YS-11, Miyazaki Kyūshū, Japan (0 fatalities)
October 17, 1969: Beechcraft D18, Macon Georgia, United States (4 fatalities)
October 17, 1969: Lockheed P-2 Neptune, Whidbey Island NAS (Ault Field) Washington, United States (0 fatalities)
October 16, 1969: Douglas DC-8, Stockton California, United States (0 fatalities)
October 16, 1969: Lockheed 18 LodeStar, Golden Gate Florida, United States (0 fatalities)
October 15, 1969: Rockwell Aero Commander 520, Camalú Baja California, Mexico (0 fatalities)
October 13, 1969: Antonov AN-24, Nizhnevartovsk Khantia-Mansia okrug, Russia (24 fatalities)
October 13, 1969: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), Piendamó Cauca, Colombia (0 fatalities)
October 13, 1969: Douglas C-54 Skymaster, Alaska Alaska, United States (4 fatalities)
October 12, 1969: Antonov AN-10, Mirny Republic of Yakutia (Sakha), Russia (0 fatalities)
October 11, 1969: Beechcraft C-45 Expeditor, Loíza, Puerto Rico (1 fatality)
October 11, 1969: Britten-Norman Islander, Sargasso Sea, World (2 fatalities)
October 11, 1969: Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, Saigon Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh City District, Vietnam (6 fatalities)
October 10, 1969: Fairchild C-123 Provider, Rach Gia Kien Giang Province, Vietnam (5 fatalities)
October 9, 1969: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Castle AFB California, United States (6 fatalities)
October 8, 1969: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), Phù Cát Bình Định Province, Vietnam (6 fatalities)
October 6, 1969: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Chu Lai Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam (5 fatalities)
October 5, 1969: Dornier DO.28A/B, Malakal Upper Nile, South Sudan (0 fatalities)
October 3, 1969: Beechcraft 80 Queen Air, Denver-Stapleton Colorado, United States (5 fatalities)
October 3, 1969: Lockheed 12 Electra Junior, Brasília Distrito Federal, Brazil (0 fatalities)
October 2, 1969: Grumman C-2A Greyhound, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam (26 fatalities)
October 1, 1969: Antonov AN-12, Pskov AFB Pskov oblast, Russia (6 fatalities)
September 30, 1969: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), Pleiku Gia Lai Province, Vietnam (0 fatalities)
September 29, 1969: Handley Page H.P.137 Jetstream, Courtyard Farm Norfolk, United Kingdom (0 fatalities)
September 26, 1969: PZL-Mielec AN-2, Tiksi Republic of Yakutia (Sakha), Russia (5 fatalities)
September 26, 1969: Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter, Uli Anambra, Nigeria (5 fatalities)
September 26, 1969: Douglas DC-6, Mt Choquetanga La Paz, Bolivia (74 fatalities)
September 23, 1969: Rockwell Aero Commander 560, Chavantes São Paulo, Brazil (0 fatalities)
September 22, 1969: De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, Moshabong Lake Ontario, Canada (2 fatalities)
September 21, 1969: Boeing 727-100, Mexico City-Benito Juarez Federal District of Mexico City, Mexico (27 fatalities)