| Date/Time | Person | Location | Aircraft | Details | Notes |
Feb 25, 1960
13:07 | U.S. Navy Band | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | R-6D-1
131582
cn: 43685-307 | Midair collision with a REAL DC-3 at 5,000 ft. Total of 61 killed on both planes, | details in
database |
Jul 16 1960
1538 | Members of the Danish Soccer Association | Copenhagen, Denmark | de Havilland DH-89 Dragon Rapide | Crashed after taking off in poor weather condtions. Eight members of the Danish Soccer Association killed. | |
| Aug 29, 1960 | David Diop
33, French West African poet | Off Dakar, Senegal | Air France
Flight 343
Lockheed 1049G
F-BHBC cn:4622 | Crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after an unsuccessful landing attempt. Possible structural failure due to turbulence or distraction of the flight crew associated with a lighting strike. | |
Oct 29, 1960
| Cal Poly San Luis Obispo football team | Toledo, Ohio | Arctic Pacific AL
Curtiss C-46F-1-CU
N1244N cn:22458 | Crashed while taking off. Premature liftoff, partial loss of power in the No.1 engine, overweight. 22 of 48 aboard killed. 16 team members killed. | details in
database |
Feb 15, 1961
10:05 | U.S. figure skating team | Near Brussels, Belgium | Sabena
Flight 548
Boeing 707-320
OO-SJB cn:17624 | Nosed down and crashed after executing a go-around. Failure of the aircraft's flying controls. All 72 aboard killed. 18 team members killed. |  details in
database |
Apr 3, 1961
| Green Cross Chilean soccer team | Llico, Chile | LAN
Flight 310
Douglas DC-3
CC-C-LDP cn:9716 | Crashed in the Las Lastimas Mountains. Possibly icing. Official cause unknown. All 24 aboard killed. | details in database |
Sep 17, 1961
22:13 | Dag Hammarskjöld
56, U.N. Secretary General | Ndola, Zambia | Douglas DC-6B
SE-BDY
cn:43559 | Crashed into jungle. Rumors persist alleging that victims were shot prior to the crash or that a bomb was onboard. All 16 aboard killed. | details in
database |
| Jan 25, 1962 | Donald Nutter
47, Governor of Montana | Wolf Creek, Montana
| Douglas C-47 | Crashed in snow storm. The plane went out of control in turbulent weather and crashed in a mountain canyon All 6 aboard killed. | |
Mar 1, 1962
10:09 | Johnny Dieckman
35, world fly-casting champion | New York, NY | American Airlines
Boeing 707
Flilght 1
N7506A
cn: 17633/12 | Crashed into Jamacia Bay after the plane experiencing a rudder malfunction. All 95 aboard killed. | details in
database |
| Apr 12, 1962 | Ron Flockhart
39, Scottish race car driver | Near Melbourne, Australia | Mustang P-51 | Lost control of a borrowed plane he was flying. The aircraft emerged from cloud cover, in a spin and crashed. Pilot error. Lack of IFR flying experience. | |
Oct 6, 1962
18:00 | Tom Slick
46, Texas millionaire, cryptozoologist | Dell, Montana, | Beechcraft Bonanza 35 | The Texas millionaire who financed expeditions in search of Big Foot was killed in an airplane crash that some say was under suspicious circumstances. | |
| Oct 7, 1962 | Clement Miller
46, California U.S. Rep. | Near Eureka, California | Piper Avalanche
| Crashed into Chapparal Mountain in a storm during a campaign flight. All 3 aboard killed. | |
Mar 5, 1963
18:20 | Patsy Cline
30, county western singer
Hawkshaw Hawkins
39, country western singer
Cowboy Copas
49, country western singer | Camden, Tennessee | Piper Comanche
N7000P
cn:24-2144 | The plane took off from Dyersburg and flew into a storm. The pilot was not instrument rated and lost control and crashed after entering an area of stormy weather. Randy Hughes, Cline's manager also killed. All 4 aboard killed. |
details in
database |
Feb 15, 1964
10:00 | Ken Hubbs
22, baseball player, Chicago Cubs 2nd baseman | Near Provo, Utah | Cessna 172D
N2970U | Hubbs used poor judgment in continued VFR flight into adverse weather conditions. 2 killed. | |
Jul 31, 1964
16:52 | Jim Reeves
40, country western singer | Near Nashville, Tennessee | Beechcraft 35-B33 Debonair
N8972M | Piloted by Reeves, the plane crashed in an area of thunderstorms into dense woods 10 miles south of Nashville en route from Batesville to Nashville. It took 2 days to find the wreckage. Pilot error. VFR flight into adverse weather conditions. His manager, Dean Manuel, also killed. 2 killed. |
details in
database |
Oct 23, 1964
11:55 | Harold "David" Box
21, rock & roll singer | Houston Texas | Cessna 172 Skyhawk
N2142Y | The plane crashed nose first into the ground and overturned. Cause undetermined. All 4 aboard killed. | |
| Oct 31, 1964 | Theodore Freeman
34, U.S. astronaut | Houston, Texas | T-38 trainer | Killed while attempting to land at Ellington Air Force Base following a proficiency flight. Struck a snow goose which shattered the canopy and debris entering both engines. He ejected but was too low for his chute to fully deploy. | |
Jul 8 1965
05:51 | Albert "Paul" Mantz
61, movie stunt pilot | Winterhaven, California | Phoenix P-1
N93082 | Killed while filming the movie "The Flight of the Phoenix" when his plane broke apart on landing after he misjudged his altitude. Alcoholic impairment of efficiency and judgment. He took the place of stunt pilot Frank Tallman who was injured. Tallman later died in another accident in 1978. 1 killed. | |
Nov 11, 1965
17:52 | William "Bill" Linderman
45, world champion rodeo cowboy | Salt Lake City, Utah | United Air Lines
Boeing B-727
N7030U
cn: 18322/130 | The plane crashed short of the runway after the captain made too high of a descent during the approach. 43 out of 91 aboard killed. |
details in database |
Dec 12, 1965
13:00 | Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace II
NASA doctor in the early space program | Near Aspen, Colorado | Beechcraft B95
N9975R | Flying on the Cutter Air Service, the pilot became disoriented and flew into a blind canyon. Lovelace's wife was also killed. 3 killed. | |
Jan 24, 1966
c 08:00 | Hombi Bhabha
father of India's nuclear program
| Mt. Blanc, Switzerland | Air India
Flight 101
Boeing 707-437
VT-DMN cn:18055/200 | Descended below minimum safe altitude and crashed into Mt. Blanc. Miscalculation by the crew of their position. All 117 killed. | details in database |
Feb 28, 1966
| Elliot See Jr.
39, U.S. astronaut
Charles Bassett II
35, U.S. astronaut | St. Louis, Missouri | T-38 jet fighter | Killed during an instrument landing approach at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation's plant. Came in too low and slow, hit the afterburners and crashed into the roof of a building. | |
May 1, 1966
| Nicholas Piantanida
34, Balloonist | | Balloon | Died four months later after enduring a severe explosive decompression of his spacesuit on board Strato Jump III at 57,600 feet in his third quest to acquire the world record for a skydiving jump. | |
Apr 13, 1966
| Abdul Salam Arif
45, President of Iraq | Southern Iraq | Helicopter | Died mysteriously in a helicopter accident. Reported to have gone down in a thunderstorm. | |
Jul 24, 1966
18:27 | Tony Lema
32, pro golfer | Near Munster, Indiana | Beechcraft H50
N538B | Crashed after both engines failed due to fuel starvation. The plane came to rest in a shallow pond on the golf course. Lima was on a Buick promotional tour. Wife, Betty, also killed. All 4 aboard killed. | details in
database |
| Jan 27, 1967 | Virgil Grissom, 41
Edward White, 37
Roger Chaffee, 32
U.S. astronauts | Cape Canaveral, Florida | Apollo spacecraft | Killed during the simulated launch of an Apollo I spacecraft. Short circuit in a 100%oxygen atmosphere caused a flash fire. 3 killed. | |
| Apr 24, 1967 | Vladimir Komarov, 40
Cosmonaut | Russia | Soyuz I | Parachute lines tangled during re-entry. Crashed to ground. First person to die while on a space mission. | |
| Jul 19, 1967 | John T. McNaughton
U.S. Navy Secretary designate | Hendersonville, North Carolina | Piedmont Airlines
Boeing 727-22
N68650 cn:18295 | Collided with a Cessna 310 while attempting to land. All 82 aboard killed which included McNaughton's wife and son. | details in
database |
Sep 3, 1967
| Mohammed bin Laden
73, father of Osama bin Laden | Usran, Saudi Arabia | Beechcraft 18
HZ-IBN | Bin Laden landed at Khamis Mushayt airport in his HS125, changed planes to his Beechcraft 18, and took off for the landing strip near Usran which had been cut out of the rough terain by his workers so that he could land and inspect the work in progress. He crashed trying to land on the mountain strip. 2 killed. | |
| Oct 5, 1967 | Clifton Williams Jr.
35, astronaut | Near Tallahassee, Florida | T-38 jet fighter | A mechanical failure caused his control to malfunction. | |
| Nov 4, 1967 | June Thorburn
36, actress | Fernhurst, England | Iberia Airlines
Caravelle 10R
EC-BDD cn:202/204 | The aircraft descended too low and flew into the southern slope of Black Down Hill. | details in
database |
| Nov 15, 1967 | Michael Adams
37, test pilot | California | North American X-15 | Killed while testing the X-15. The plane went into a spin and dive while re-entering. The aircraft disintegrated after reaching 15 Gs. | |
| Dec 8, 1967 | Robert Lawrence
32, astronaut | Edwards Air Force Base, California | F-104 Starfighter | Crashed while performing maneuvers. | |
Dec 10, 1967
15:25 | Otis Redding
26, singer | Near Madison, Wisconsin | Beechcraft H18
N390R
cn:BA-623 | Went into a spin and crashed into icy Lake Monona in fog. Undetermined cause Four members of his Bar-Kays band also killed. 5 of 6 aboard killed. | details in
database |
Mar 27, 1968
| Yuri Gagarin
34, Soviet cosmonaut | Near Moscow, Russia | MiG 15 UTI | Crashed 30 miles east of Moscow, while training in a military fighter. He was the first man in space. 2 killed. | details in
database |
Apr 28, 1968
00:15 | Lamar Tech Track Team | Near Beaumont, Texas | Beech 65
N968Q | Impacted the ground and caught fire. Cause undetermined. All six members of the team, along with the pilot killed. | |
| Mar 16, 1969 | Nestor Chavez
22, baseball player, San Francisco Giants pitcher | Maracaibo, Venezuela | Venezolana Inter. de Aviacion
Flight 742
DC-9-32
YV-C-AVD cn:47243 | Struck power lines while taking off. Incorrect information supplied to crew. All 84 aboard and 70 on the ground killed. | details in database |
Apr 27 1969
| Rene Barrientos
49, President of Bolivia | Near Arque Village, Bolivia | Helicopter | The helicopter struck high tension wires and crashed. 3 killed. | |
Jun 4, 1969
08:42
| Rafael Osuna
30, Mexican tennis star | Near Salinas Victoria, Nuevo Leon, Mexico | Mexicana Airlines
Flight 704
B-727-64
XA-SEL
cn: 19256/355 | While the crew was aligning with the runway, the plane hit high ground several miles from the airport. Pilot error. All 79 aboard killed. | details in database |
Aug 31, 1969
20:05
| Rocky Marciano
45, boxer | Newton, Iowa | Cessna 172H
N3149X
cn:55229 | Took off in rainy weather barely climbing. Crashed into a lone oak tree. Inexperienced pilot not IFR qualified. Marciano was returning home for his birthday party. 3 killed. |
details in
database |
| Sep 26, 1969 | The Strongest, Bolivian soccer team | Near La Paz, Bolivia | Lloyd Aereo Boliviano
Douglas DC-6B
CP-698 cn:43273 | The aircraft hit a 15,500 ft. mountain. Cause unknown. All 74 aboard killed. | details in database |