| Rank |
Date |
Location |
Operator |
Fatalities |
| 1 |
Mar. 27, 1977 |
Tenerife, Spain |
Pan Am, KLM |
583 |
| 2 |
Aug. 12, 1985 |
Mt. Osutaka, Japan |
JAL |
520 |
| 3 |
Mar. 3, 1974 |
Ermenonville, France |
Turkish Airlines |
346 |
| 4 |
Jun. 23, 1985 |
Atlantic Ocean |
Air India |
329 |
| 5 |
Nov. 12, 1996 |
New Delhi, India |
Saudi Arabian Airlines,
Kazakhstan Airlines |
312 |
| 6 |
Aug. 19, 1980 |
Riyahd, Saudi Arabia |
Saudi Arabian Airlines |
301 |
| 7 |
Jul. 17, 2014 |
Shakhtarsk, Ukraine |
Malaysia Airlines |
298 |
| 7 |
Jan. 8, 1996 |
Kinshasa-Ndolo, Democratic Republic
of Congo |
African Air |
298 |
| 8 |
Jul. 3, 1988 |
Persian Gulf, Iran |
Iran Air |
290 |
| 9 |
Feb. 19, 2003 |
Kerman, Iran |
Islamic Revoluntionary
Guard Corps |
275 |
| 10 |
May 25, 1979 |
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
American Airlines |
273 |
|
Source: Copyright B3A – Ronan HUBERT – Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives.