This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time.

List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft include all types of accident and incident, including mechanical failures, pilot error and military action.

Air crashes and pilot fatalities were a commonplace occurrence during the First World War. Historians will cite many reasons for the high crash and fatality rate during the war, but the most common explanations all reference back to rushed aviation development and pilot inexperience.

Oct 7, 2024 · A pilot was killed Saturday at a popular New York state air show after a replica World War I fighter plane crashed and caught fire.

During World War II, more than 13,000 American aviators lost their lives in training accidents at home before they ever faced the enemy. Their sacrifice is all but forgotten today.

Aug 20, 2013 · On April 27, 1916, Billon de Plan shot down an attacking Fokker E.III fighter. His luck ran out on October 10, however, when he was shot in the head by one of three attacking Albatros D.IIs and his wounded pilot, Sergeant Roger Thuau, was forced to land their Nieuport 12bs in German lines.

Even Manfred von Richthofen, the highest scoring ace of WWI, was once wounded and forced to crash land from the bullets of a two-seater, though he did survive the encounter and continued flying after he recovered.

May 16, 2023 · The 1917 model plane, one of six — er, five — airworthy Jennies left in the world, crash-landed at the Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center near Greenville, Kentucky, early Monday evening,...

Oct 11, 2024 · The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York canceled its remaining air shows for the season after a World War I replica plane crashed on Oct. 5, killing 60-year-old pilot and board member Brian...

2 days ago · In 1982 an Air Florida flight crashed into the Potomac and killed 78. Here are some of the deadliest commercial plane crashes in the U.S. since the Air Florida disaster according to reports from the National Transportation Safety Board: