List of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline (P–Z)

This list of accidents and incidents involving airliners by airline summarizes airline accidents and all kinds of incidents, major or minor, by airline company with flight number, location, date, aircraft type, and cause.

This list is dynamic and by no means complete!

While all of the incidents in this list are noteworthy, not all the incidents listed involved fatalities.

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Pacific Air Lines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 308Santa Maria Airport26 October 1959Douglas DC-3Santa Maria–Paso RoblesEngine failure Flight 773 San Ramon, California 7 May 1964 Fairchild F-27A Reno–Stockton–San Francisco Mass murder/suicide Pacific Air Transport Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause NC5340 Techachapi Mountains 18 November 1930 Boeing 40B-4A Burbank–Oakland CFIT NC5390 La Tuna Canyon near Burbank 5 May 1931 Boeing 40B-4 San Diego–Los Angeles Low visibility NC10347 San Francisco Bay 16 September 1931 Boeing 40B-4 Oakland–Seattle CFIT NC5389 Burbank 16 May 1932 Boeing 40B-4 San Diego–Burbank–Oakland Low visibility NC431HDawson Eugene 24 January 1933 Ford 5-AT-D Trimotor Portland–Eugene–Medford Engine failure, crash on takeoff NC13345 Portland 9 November 1933 Boeing 247D Portland–The Dalles Poor visibility, navigation error, CFIT Pacific Overseas Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause HS-PC103 off Sumatra Island 25 October 1948 Douglas C-47 Possibly shot down HS-POSCity of Ayudhya Hong Kong Island 11 March 1951 Douglas R5D-1 Hong Kong–Bangkok Poor visibility, CFIT Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 710 San Francisco International Airport 5 July 1972 Boeing 737-200 Sacramento–San Francisco Hijacking Flight 182 San Diego 25 September 1978 Boeing 727-214 Sacramento–Los Angeles–San Diego Mid-air collision with a Cessna 172 Flight 1771The Smile of Stockton near Paso Robles 7 December 1987 BAe 146–200 Los Angeles–San Diego Mass murder/suicide Pacific Western Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 314 Cranbrook 11 February 1978 Boeing 737-200 Edmonton–Calgary–Cranbrook–Castlegar Runway incursion, thrust reverser deployed during go-around, loss of control Flight 501 Calgary 22 March 1984 Boeing 737-200 Calgary–Edmonton–Alberta Uncontained engine failure, in-flight fire Flight 117 Kelowna 14 July 1986 Boeing 737-275 Calgary–Kelowna–Vancouver Pilot error, runway overrun Pakistan International Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause AP-ACZ Lash Golath Mountain 25 February 1956 Douglas C-47B Gilgit–Islamabad Pilot error, CFIT AP-AJS off Charlakhi Island 1 July 1957 Douglas C-47A Chittagong–Dhaka Weather, loss of control Flight 205 Delhi-Palam Airport 15 May 1958 Convair CV-240-7 Karachi–Delhi–Karachi Pilot error, CFIT AP-AAH near Lowery Pass 26 March 1965 Douglas C-47A Peshawar–Chitral Weather, CFIT Flight 705 near Cairo 20 May 1965 Boeing 720-040B Karachi–Dhahran–Cairo–Geneva–London Excessive descent for reasons unknown AP-ATT near Patian 8 October 1965 Fokker F27-200 Rawalpindi–Skardu Undetermined AP-ALM Islamabad 6 August 1970 Fokker F27-200 Rawalpindi–Lahore Weather AP-AUV near Shamshernagar Airport 31 December 1970 Fokker F27-200 Pilot error, loss of control Flight 631 near Jalcot 8 December 1972 Fokker F27-600 Gilgit–Rawalpindi Weather, CFIT Flight 740 30 mi N of Ta'if 26 November 1979 Boeing 707-340C Kano–Jeddah–Karachi In-flight fire for reasons unknown Flight 326 Kabul 2 March 1981 Boeing 720-030B Karachi–Peshawar Hijacking AP-AUX near Peshawar 23 October 1986 Fokker F27-600 Lahore–Peshawar Poor CRM, crashed short of runway Flight 404 Himalaya Mountains (presumed) 25 August 1989 Fokker F27-200 Gilgit–Islamabad Unexplained disappearance Flight 268 Kathmandu 28 September 1992 Airbus A300B4-203 Karachi–Kathmandu CFIT Flight 544 Hyderabad Airport 25 May 1998 Fokker F27 Gwadar–Turbat–Hyderabad Hijacking Flight 688 near Multan International Airport 10 July 2006 Fokker F27-200 Multan–Lahore Improper maintenance, engine failure, crew errors Flight 756 near Peshawar 24 June 2014 Airbus A310-324ET Riyadh–Peshawar Struck by ground fire Flight 661 near Havelian 7 December 2016 ATR 42-500 Chitral–Islamabad Improper maintenance, propeller failure, loss of control Flight 8303 near Karachi 22 May 2020 Airbus A320-214 Lahore–Karachi Under investigation Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 301 near Skopje 5 March 1993 Fokker 100 Skopje–Zurich Wing icing, loss of control Panair do Brasil Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause PP-PBD Serra de Cantareira 18 August 1941 Lockheed 18-10 Lodestar Porto Alegre–São Paulo CFIT PP-PBH Rio Doce, Brazil 21 September 1944 Lockheed 18-10 Lodestar Rio de Janeiro–Belém Engine failure PP-PBN São Paulo de Olivença 3 January 1947 Sikorsky S-43B Iquitos–Manaus CFIT Flight 99 near Gravataí Air Base 28 July 1950 Lockheed L-049 Constellation Rio de Janeiro–Porto Alegre Weather, CFIT Flight 389 Uberlândia, Brazil 28 February 1952 Douglas DC-3A-393 Goiânia–Uberlândia–Rio de Janeiro Pilot error, CFIT Flight 263 near Congonhas Airport 17 June 1953 Lockheed L-049 Constellation Rio de Janeiro–São Paulo Bad visibility, crew error Flight 263 near Silvio Pettirossi Int'l Airport 16 June 1955 Lockheed L-149 Constellation London–Paris–Lisbon–Dakar–Recife–Rio de Janeiro–São Paulo–Ascunción–Buenos Aires Pilot error, CFIT PP-PDO near Guararapes Int'l Airport 1 November 1961 Douglas DC-7C Lisbon–Ilha do Sal–Recife Pilot error, CFIT Flight 026 Galeão Int'l Airport 20 August 1962 Douglas DC-8-33 Buenos Aires–Rio de Janeiro Aborted takeoff, ran off runway PP-PDEEstêvão Ribeiro Baião Parente near Paraná da Eva 14 December 1962 Lockheed L-049 Constellation Belém–Manaus CFIT for reasons unknown Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra) Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Unknown Arequipa Airport 21 February 1931 Ford Trimotor Hijacking NC403HSan José near Vitacura 16 July 1932 Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor Santiago–Mendoza Weather, CFIT NC407H Lima Airport 22 March 1934 Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor Engine failure, crashed on takeoff NC8417San Pedro Mar Chiquita Lake 11 June 1934 Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor Buenos Aires–Santiago Weather, CFIT NC433HSan Felipe Lima, Peru 24 December 1935 Ford 5-AT-D Trimotor None CFIT NC14273 near San José Pinula 10 October 1936 Douglas DC-2-118B San Salvador–Guatemala City CFIT NC15065 off Cristobal 2 August 1937 Sikorsky S-43B Guayaquil–Tumaco–Cali–Cristobal Engine failure or weather NC14272Santa Lucia Mount Mercedario 19 July 1938 Douglas DC-2-118A CFIT Flight 9 northeast of Chaparra, Peru 22 January 1943 Douglas DC-3A-399 Santiago–Arequipa–Lima Pilot error, CFIT NC19470 off Chorrillos 4 January 1945 Douglas DC-3A Aircraft stolen, CFIT Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)

Paninternational Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 112 A7/E45 near Hamburg Airport 6 September 1971 BAC 1-11-515FB Hanover–Hamburg–Málaga Maintenance error, double engine failure Partnair Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 394 Hirtshals, Denmark 8 September 1989 Convair 580 Oslo–Hamburg Structural failure, counterfeit parts Pegasus Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 2193Açelya Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport 5 February 2020 Boeing 737-86J Izmir–Istanbul Under investigation (runway overrun on landing) Pennsylvania Central Airlines (PCA) Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Trip 19 Lovettsville, Virginia 31 August 1940 Douglas DC-3-313 Washington, DC–Pittsburgh–Detroit Lightning strike (probable), loss of control NC21788(operating for USAAF) Atlantic Ocean, off Lake Worth, Florida 5 May 1944 Douglas C-49H Miami–Savannah Mid-air collision with a USAAF B-24 Flight 142 Cheat Mountain, near Morgantown, West Virginia 14 April 1945 Douglas DC-3-313A Pittsburgh–Morgantown Pilot error, CFIT Flight 105 Birmingham Airport 6 January 1946 Douglas DC-3-392 New York City–Pittsburgh–Knoxville–Birmingham Pilot error, runway excursion on landing Flight 410 Lookout Rock, Blue Ridge Mountains 13 June 1947 Douglas C-54 Chicago–Cleveland–Pittsburgh–Washington, DC–Norfolk Pilot error, CFIT Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause RA-87481 Tigil, Russia 23 September 2001 Yakovlev Yak-40 Under investigation (heavy landing, nosegear failure) Flight 123 Ust-Kamchatsk Airport 16 April 2011 Yakovlev Yak-40K Ust Kamchatsk–Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky Under investigation (runway excursion) Flight 251 near Palana 12 September 2012 Antonov An-28 Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky–Palana Pilot intoxication, pilot error, CFIT Flight 251 near Palana 6 July 2021 Antonov An-26 Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky–Palana Under investigation (CFIT) Philippine Airlines

Piedmont Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 349Buckeye Pacemaker Bucks Elbow Mountain, near Crozet, Virginia 30 October 1959 Douglas DC-3 Washington, DC–Charlottesville Pilot error, CFIT Flight 22Manhattan Pacemaker over Hendersonville, North Carolina 19 July 1967 Boeing 727-22 Asheville–Roanoke Mid-air collision with a Cessna 310 PMTair Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause XU-072(operated by Royal Phnom Penh Airways) Ratanakiri Airport 21 November 2005 Xian Y-7-100C Phnom Penh–Ratanakiri Crashed on landing Flight 241 Kampot Province 25 June 2007 Antonov An-24B Siem Reap–Sihanoukville CFIT for reasons unknown Polar Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause RA-05881 near Sangar 16 May 2003 Antonov An-3T Under investigation (engine failure, forced landing) RA-02252 Sangar 18 November 2005 Antonov An-2TP Sangar–Sebyan–Kyuel Weather, loss of control RA-26061 Deputatskiy Airport 21 November 2012 Antonov An-26B-100 Yakutsk–Deputatskiy Under investigation (runway excursion) Flight 9977 Vilyuisk Airport 16 August 2013 Antonov An-2TP Vilyuisk–Ugulet Engine problems for reasons unknown, forced landing Polyarnya Aviatsiya Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Unknown Dudinka 25 December 1945 Douglas C-47 In-flight fire, crash on takeoff CCCP-N400 Kara Sea 13 December 1946 Igarka–Arkangelsk Double engine failure, forced landing CCCP-N444 89 mi N of Kharp, Russia 7 March 1948 Lisunov Li-2 Dudinka–Anderma CFIT CCCP-N464 off Cape Medynski Zavorot 16 September 1948 Lisunov Li-2T None Weather, spatial disorientation, fuel exhaustion, water ditching CCCP-N494 10 mi east of Mys Kosistyy 1 November 1948 Lisunov Li-2 Kresty Kolymskiye–Ust-Yansk–Mys Kosistyy Engine failure, icing, stall, loss of control CCCP-N500 Yakutsk Airport 23 April 1950 Focke-Wulf MK-200 Runway overrun CCCP-N488 Khimki Reservoir 26 June 1950 Consolidated KM-2 Pilot error CCCP-N568 Lena River near Yakutsk 20 August 1951 Antonov An-2 Maintenance error, crash on takeoff CCCP-N591 Ust-Tareya 28 September 1952 Antonov An-2 Pilot error, stall, loss of control CCCP-N479 near Kępino 4 March 1955 Ilyushin Il-12 Mys-Kamennyy–Amderma–Arkhangelsk–Moscow Engine fire, forced landing Flight 3 41 mi from Katanga 30 December 1958 Ilyushin Il-14M Pevek–Mys Kosistyy–Khatanga–Moscow Deviation from course, premature descent, CFIT Precision Air Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause Flight 494Bukoba Lake Victoria near Bukoba 6 November 2022 ATR 42-500 Dar es Salaam–Mwanza–Bukoba Under investigation President Airlines Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause N90773Theodore Roosevelt River Shannon 10 September 1961 Douglas DC-6 Düsseldorf–Shannon–Gander–Chicago Instrument failure, weather, possible pilot error, loss of control Puerto Rico International Airlines (Prinair)