BOAC Flight 911 departed Tokyo Haneda Airport on March 5, 1966, at 1:58 p.m. local time. The aircraft disintegrated mid-air approximately 20 to 30 minutes after takeoff, around 2:20 p.m., while flying near Mount Fuji. The crash occurred shortly after the plane passed over Gotemba City at an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m), encountering severe clear-air turbulence.

American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter while approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on January 29, 2025. The crash resulted in the deaths of all 64 people on board the American Airlines CRJ700 and all 3 military personnel on the helicopter. This was the first major commercial airline accident in the U.S. in 16 years.

On December 24, 1966, a Flying Tiger Line Canadair CL-44D4-1 (registration N228SW) crashed while attempting to land at Da Nang Airport, South Vietnam, killing 111 people in total. The crash was the first fatal accident involving the Canadair CL-44 and remains its deadliest. It was also the 11th deadliest aviation disaster of 1966, ranking among the top five deadliest crashes of that year.

Air India Flight 171 crashed on June 12, 2025, just 32 seconds after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, operating a route from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, crashed into the hostel block of B. J. Medical College, killing 241 people on board and 19 on the ground, for a total of 260 fatalities. Only one passenger, Vishwaskumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British national of Indian origin, survived.