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List of famous deaths by aircraft misadventure

This is a list of famous people who have died by various forms of aircraft misadventure.

This list is sectioned by type of aircraft. For a list of aviation-related deaths by occupation of the person see List of people who died in aviation-related incidents.

Table of contents

1 Airplane crash 2 Balloon crash 3 Helicopter accident 4 Helicopter crash 5 See also

Airplane crash

• Thomas Selfridge - September 17, 1908 (first man to die in an aircraft accident)
• Charles Rolls - July 12, 1910 (founder of Rolls Royce, first Englishman to die in an aircraft accident)
• Knute Rockne – March 31, 1931
• Amy Johnson - January 5, 1941
• Carole Lombard - January 16, 1942
• Leslie Howard - June 1, 1943
• Wladyslaw Sikorski - July 4, 1943
• Glenn Miller - December 14, 1944
• Subhash Chandra Bose - August 18, 1945
• Kathleen Kennedy - May 13, 1947
• AC Torino soccer team (Superga disaster) - May 4, 1949
• Marcel Cerdan - October 27, 1949
• Ginette Neveu - October 27, 1949
• Ramon Magsaysay - March 17, 1957
• Busby Babes - February 6, 1958
• Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens - February 3, 1959
• Barthelemy Boganda - March 29, 1959
• Laurence Owen - February 15, 1961
• Bradley Lord - February 15, 1961
• Dag Hammarskjöld - 18 September, 1961
• Patsy Cline - March 5, 1963
• Otis Redding - December 10, 1967
• Yuri Gagarin - March 27 1968
• Roberto Clemente - December 31 1972
• Jim Croce - September 20 1973
• Graham Hill - November 29 1975
• Ronnie VanZant, Steve Gaines - October 20, 1977 (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Thurman Munson, August 2 1979
• Jaime Roldós Aguilera - May 24, 1981
• Omar Torrijos - July 31, 1981
• Stan Rogers - June 2, 1983
• Ricky Nelson - December 31, 1985
• Samora Machel - October 9, 1986
• Zia-ul Haq - August 17, 1988
• Cyprian Ntayamira - April 6, 1994
• Juvénal Habyarimana - April 6, 1994
• Ron Brown - April 3, 1996
• Jessica Dubroff - April 11, 1996
• John Denver - October 12, 1997
• Payne Stewart - October 25, 1999 (Note: The circumstances of this flight indicate that Stewart and the others on board may well have died several hours before their plane crashed.)
• John F. Kennedy Jr - November 16 1999
• Mel Carnahan - October 16 2000
• Aaliyah - August 25, 2001
• Hansie Cronje - June 1, 2002
• Paul Wellstone - October 25 2002
• Boris Trajkovski - February 26, 2004

Balloon crash

• Maxie Anderson 27 June 1983

Helicopter accident

• Vic Morrow - 23 July 1982

Helicopter crash

• Francis Gary Powers - 1 August 1977
• Stevie Ray Vaughan - 27 August 1990
• Marie Rossi - 1 March 1991
• Bill Graham - 25 October 1991
• Davey Allison - 13 July 1993
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov - 2 July 2000
• Alexander Lebed - 28 April 2002

See also

• Lists of people by cause of death
• List of people who died in aviation-related incidents

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