24 plane crashes in year 2001

1st December, 2001

Russian Ministry of Interior Ilyushin IL-76TD with 18 people onboard crashes in Russia

The aircraft's crew reported an in-flight fire at FL290 (29000 ft – 9000 meters), and declared intentions to perform an emergency landing. The aircraft broke up and caught fire during the…

27th November, 2001

MK Airlines Boeing 747 freighter with 13 people onboard crashes in Nigeria

The aircraft was on a cargo flight from Luxembourg to Port Harcourt. It crashed approximately 700 meters short of runway while attempting to land at Port Harcourt's Omagwa Airport. A…

24th November, 2001

Crossair BAe 146-300 with 33 people onboard crashes in Switzerland

19th November, 2001

IRS Aero Ilyushin IL-18 with 27 people onboard crashes in Russia

The aircraft was on a passenger flight from Khatanga to Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. The plane also carried 180 kilograms of cargo belonging to the company IRS Aero. The plane suddenly…

12th November, 2001

American Airlines Airbus A300B4 with 260 people onboard crashes in New York, USA

On November 12, 2001, about 09:16:15 eastern standard time, American Airlines flight 587, an A300-605R, N14053, crashed into a residential area of Belle Harbor, New York, shortly after takeoff…

8th October, 2001

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) MD-87 with 118 people onboard crashes in Italy

The Scandinavian MD-87 was on a passenger flight from Milan (Italy) to Copenhagen (Denmark). It was cleared to taxi to Runway 36R (Linate Airport, Milan) for departure. At approximately the…

4th October, 2001

Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154M with 77 people onboard shot down in Russia

The aircraft exploded over the Black Sea while on a passenger flight from Tel Aviv, Israel to Novosibirsk, Russia via Bugas, Bulgaria. The pilot of a nearby aircraft reported seeing the…

11th September, 2001

American Airlines Boeing 757 with 44 people onboard crashes in Pennsylvania, USA

11th September, 2001

American Airlines Boeing 767 with 65 people onboard crashes in New York, USA

11th September, 2001

American Airlines Boeing 767 with 92 people onboard crashes in New York, USA

11th September, 2001

American Airlines Boeing 757 with 64 people onboard crashes in D.C, USA

29th August, 2001

Binter Mediterraneo CASA 235-200 with 44 people onboard crashes in Spain

The aircraft crash-landed on a road, some 200 meters short of the runway at Ruiz Picasso International Airport at Málaga, Spain. The crew reported to Málaga Air Traffic Control while on final…

24th August, 2001

Air Transat Airbus A330 with 298 people onboard crashes in Terciera Isl, Portugal

The aircraft was on a passenger flight from Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Lisbon, Portugal when a problem developed with the fuel system approximately 300 NM (540 km) northeast of Terciera…

23rd August, 2001

Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 with 6 people onboard crashes in Malaysia

The Boeing 747 was being taxied on Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) airport from a hangar toward a departure gate to board 319 passengers for Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), when the crew lost directional…

14th July, 2001

Russ Air Transport Ilyushin IL-76 with 10 people onboard crashes in Russia

The aircraft was being used to fly construction materials from a military airfield just outside Moscow to Norilsk. After take-off, the aircraft reached an altitude of about 150 feet when it…

3rd July, 2001

Vladivostok Avia Tupolev 154M with 145 people onboard crashes in Russia

The aircraft was operating on a passenger flight from Yekaterinburg to Vladivostok with an intermediate stop at Irkutsk. Two approaches to the airport were aborted. During the last approach to…

22nd May, 2001

Russian Air Force Antonov 12 with 7 people onboard crashes in Russia

The aircraft was performing a military flight in Russia. It crashed into a swamp killing all the seven people onboard.

17th May, 2001

Fuerza Aerea Argentina Fokker F-27 400M with 5 people onboard crashes in Argentina

The plane was on a military flight. Immediately after takeoff, the aircraft made a descending right turn and crashed in a field, 300 meters past the runway. Unconfirmed reports say the no.2…

17th May, 2001

Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yakovlev YAK-40 with 30 people onboard crashes in Iran

The Yak-40 departed Tehran (Iran) for a passenger flight to Gorgan where a new airport was to be opened. The aircraft carried Iranian Transport Minister, two deputy ministers, and seven…

4th April, 2001

Sudan Air Force Antonov 32 with 30 people onboard crashes in Sudan

The plane was on a military flight. It crashed during a sandstorm. Among the dead were Sudan's Deputy Defense Minister and 13 high-ranking military officers. 16 people onboard survived.

26th March, 2001

Merpati Nusantara Airlines Fokker F-27 500F with 3 people onboard crashes in Indonesia

The aircraft was on a local training flight when, while on approach for its eighth touch and go landing, it was seen to bank sharply left and crash. There was one instructor and two student…

24th March, 2001

Caraïbes Air Transport DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 with 19 people onboard crashes in Saint-Barthélémy

The Twin Otter plane was on a 10-minute inter island flight between St. Maarten, Dutch/French Antilles, and Saint-Barthélémy, French Antilles, and approached Saint-Barthélémy from the West for…

3rd March, 2001

Thai Airways International Boeing 737 with 8 people onboard crashes in Thailand

The plane was scheduled for a passenger flight from Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport to the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Approximately 27 minutes before its scheduled departure…

1st February, 2001

Angola Military Antonov 26 with 22 people onboard shot down in Angola

UNITA rebels claim to have downed the aircraft as it approached Luena on a military flight. All the 22 people onboard were killed.