1981

Date	Location / Operator	Aircraft Type / Registration	Fatalities
14 Jan 1981	Ramstein AFB, West Germany Military - U.S. Air Force	Lockheed C-130E Hercules 69-6581	11/11(0)
20 Jan 1981	Spokane, Washington Cascade Airways	Beechcraft 99A N390CA	7/9(0)
07 Feb 1981	Near Leningrad, Russia Military - Soviet Navy	Tupolev TU-104A CCCP-42332	52/52(0)
11 Feb 1981	White Plains, New York Private - Corporate	Lockheed 1339 N520S	8/8(0)
22 Feb 1981	Avalon, California Helicopter - Air Taxi	Sikorsky S-62A N324Y	2/8(0)
24 Feb 1981	Belem, Brazil VOTEC	Embraer 110P Bandeirante PT-GLB	11/14(0)
26 Feb 1981	Off Tabones Island Philippines Military - U.S. Air Force	Lockheed MC-130E-Y 64-0564	23/24(0)
10 Mar 1981	Moroni, Comoro Islands Military - French Naval Aviation	Dassault-Breguet Atlantique 29	18/18(0)
15 Mar 1981	Shemya AFB, Alaska Military - U.S. Air Force	Boeing RC-135S 61-2664	6/24(0)
26 Mar 1981	Redzikowo, Poland LOT Polish Airlines	Antonov AN-24B SP-LTU	1/52(0)
06 Apr 1981	Laguna Soliz, Bolivia Urcupina	Douglas C-47A CP-1470	7/7(0)
07 Apr 1981	Cincinnati, Ohio Freedom International	Learjet 23 N400PG	1/2(0)
17 Apr 1981	Loveland, Colorado Air US / Private	Hadley Page 137Jetstream I / Cessna 206 N11360 / N4862F	15/19(0)
28 Apr 1981	Pekanbaru, Indonesia Private - Airfast Indonesia	Douglas C-47A-5-DK PK-OBK	15/17(0)
28 Apr 1981	Batagay, Russia Aeroflot	Antonov An-2TP CCCP-92864	12/12(0)
06 May 1981	Near Fredrick, Maryland Military - U.S. Air Force	Boeing EC-135N 61-0328	21/21(0)
07 May 1981	Rio de la Plata, Argentina Austral Lineas Aeras (Argentina)	BAC One-Eleven 529FR LV-LOX	31/31(0)
16 May 1981	Near Menongue, Angola TAAG Angola Airlines	Lockheed L-100-20 Hercules D2-EAS	4/4(0)
21 May 1981	Pinarete Mountain, Mexico Lineas Aereas	Convair CV-440-11 XA-KEH	24/24(0)
22 May 1981	Near Zumba, Ecuador TAME	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 HC-BAX	18/18(0)
29 May 1981	Cairo, Egypt Military - Egyptian Air Force	Lockheed C-130H Hercules SU-BAH	17/17(0)
14 Jun 1981	Ust-Barguzin, Russia Aeroflot	Ilyushin Il-14 CCCP-41838	48/48(0)
26 Jun 1981	Nailstone, England Dan Air Services	Hawker Siddeley HS-748 G-ASPL	3/3(0)
18 Jul 1981	Near Yerevan, Armenia TAR	Canadair CL-44D4-6 LV-JTN	4/4(0)
20 Jul 1981	Mogadishu, Somalia Somali Airlines	Fokker F-27 Friendship 600RF 6O-SAY	50/50(0)
24 Jul 1981	Madagascar Air Madagascar	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 5R-MGB	19/19(0)
25 Jul 1981	Caruru, Colombia Transamazonica	Douglas C-53D-DO HK- 772	5/9(0)
27 Jul 1981	Chihuahua, Mexico Aeromexico	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 XA-DEN	32/66(0)
22 Aug 1981	Near Sanyi, Miao-li, Taiwan Far Eastern Air Transport	Boeing B-737-222 B-2603	110/110(0)
24 Aug 1981	Near Zavitinsk, Russia Aeroflot / Military - Russian Air Force	Antonov AN-24RV / Soviet Air Force TU-16 CCCP-46653	31/32(0)
27 Aug 1981	Mt. Elena, Colombia Aeropesca Colombia	Vickers Viscount 745D HK-1320	50/50(0)
29 Aug 1981	Zeya, Russia Aeroflot	Yakovlev YAK-40 CCCP-87346	3/34(0)
02 Sep 1981	Paipa, Colombia Aereo el Venado	Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante HK-2651	21/22(0)
18 Sep 1981	Zeleznogorsk, Russian Aeroflot /Military - Russian	Yakovlev YAK-40 / Mil Mi-8 CCCP-87455	40/40(0)
21 Sep 1981	Nellis AFB, Nevada Military - U.S. Air Force	Lockheed C-130H Hercules 74-1672	7/70(0)
22 Sep 1981	Near Babaeski, Turkey Military - Turkish Air Force	Northrop F-5A ?	0/0(40)
29 Sep 1981	Tehran, Iran Military - Iranian Air Force	Lockheed C-130H 5-158-8552	60/80(20)
01 Oct 1981	Casper, Wyoming Sky Train Air	Learjet 24 N44CJ	3/3(0)
06 Oct 1981	Moerdijk, Netherlands NLM (Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)	Fokker F-28 Fellowship 4000 PH-CHI	17/17(0)
15 Oct 1981	Kufstein, Austria Oefag Flugdienst	Cessna 404 Titan OE-FCT	9/9(0)
26 Oct 1981	St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Aerolineas Argo	Lockheed L-749A Constellation HI-328	5/5(0)
31 Oct 1981	Bafoussam, Cameroon Cameroon Airlines	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 TJ-CBC	1/24(0)
08 Nov 1981	Sierra de Guerro, Mexico Aeromexico	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 XA-DEO	18/18(0)
16 Nov 1981	Norilsk, Russia Aeroflot	Tupolev TU-154B-2 CCCP-85480	99/167(0)
19 Nov 1981	Biratnagar, Nepal Royal Nepal Airlines	Pilatus PC-6/B2-H2 Turbo-Porter 9N-ABJ	10/10(0)
30 Nov 1981	Castries, Saint Lucia Island Guyana Airways	Douglas DC-6A N3486F	3/3(0)
01 Dec 1981	Mt. San Pietro, near Ajaccio, Corsica, France Inex Adria Aviopromet (Yugoslavia)	McDonnell Douglas MD-81 YU-ANA	180/180(0)
05 Dec 1981	Honolulu, Hawaii Private - Parajump air show	Beech C-45H N8185H	11/12(0)
16 Dec 1981	Kuala Belait, Brunei Bristow Helicopters	Aerospatiale Puma 9M-SSC	12/12(0)
18 Dec 1981	Near Covenas, Colombia ACES Colombia	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 HK-2217	13/13(0)