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| Date: | November 4, 2025 Time: 1715 |
| Location: | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Operator: | United Parcel Service Flight: 5X-2976 |
| AC Type: | McDonnell Douglas MD11F |
| Reg.: | N259UP cn: 48417 |
| Aboard: | 3 Fatalities: 3 Ground: 11 |
| Route: | Louisville - Honolulu |
| Details: | The cargo plane, with its left wing on fire, crashed into the roof of the Kentucky Petroleum Recycling building shortly after taking off from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. It then burst into a huge fireball. Multiple pieces of engine fan blades were found on runway 17R along with the main component of the #1 engine |
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| Date: | October 18, 2025 Time: 0830 |
| Location: | Near Kwale, Kenya |
| Operator: | Mombasa Air Safari |
| AC Type: | Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Reg.: | 5Y-CCA cn: 208B1248 |
| Aboard: | 11 Fatalities: 11 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Dani Airstrip - Maasai Mara |
| Details: | The aircraft crashed in a forested area about 25 miles from Diani airstrip, killing 10 tourists and the pilot. A preliminary report found fatigue cracks in the hardware of the engine mount caused the engine to separate from the airplane wing as the plane lifted off the runway. |
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| Date: | October 20, 2025 Time: 0353 |
| Location: | Hong Kong, China |
| Operator: | ACT Airlines, SkyCargo |
| AC Type: | Boeing 747-481 |
| Reg.: | TC-ACF cn: 25645/979 |
| Aboard: | 4 Fatalities: 0 Ground: 2 |
| Route: | Dubai - Hong Hong |
| Details: | The cargo plane was destroyed after it veered off the left side of runway 07L during landing at Hong Kong International Airport.
The aircraft struck a ground service vehicle killing two, before coming to rest in the sea. |
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| Date: | August 7, 2025 Time: 1420 |
| Location: | Mwihoko, Kenya |
| Operator: | Afriican Medical Research Foundation |
| AC Type: | Cessna 560XLS Citation Excel |
| Reg.: | 5Y-FDM cn: 560-5674 |
| Aboard: | 4 Fatalities: 4 Ground: 2 |
| Route: | Nairobi - Hargeisa |
| Details: | About three minutes after takeoff, while climbing, the air ambulance entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in the district of Mwihoko, 22 km northeast of Wilson Airport. The two medical crew and two pilots as well as two on the ground were killed. |
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| Date: | July 24, 2025 Time: 1258 |
| Location: | Tynda, Russia |
| Operator: | Angara Airlines |
| AC Type: | Antonov An-24V |
| Reg.: | RA-47315 cn: 67310502 |
| Aboard: | 48 Fatalities: 48 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Blagoveshchensk - Tynda |
| Details: | Crashed in a forest while on approach, 15km short of runway 06. |
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| Date: | June 12, 2025 Time: 1340 |
| Location: | Ahmedabad, India |
| Operator: | Air India Flight: AI171 |
| AC Type: | Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner |
| Reg.: | VT-ANB cn: 36279/26 |
| Aboard: | 242 Fatalities: 241 Ground: 38 |
| Route: | Ahmedabad - London |
| Details: | The aircraft crashed immediately after taking off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International airport. The aircraft was airborne for about a minuet before it began losing altitude. The plane crashed into a dining facility on top of a Ahmedabad college killing 19 people. A preliminary report states that soon after becoming airborne, the cutoff/run switches for both engines were switched from run to cutoff. In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff the engines. The other pilot responded that he did not do so. The cutoff switches were then switched back run, but before the engines were able to spool up, the plane lost altitude and crashed. |
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| Date: | May 22, 2025 Time: 0347 |
| Location: | San Diego, California |
| Operator: | Daviator LLC, opf Sound Talent Group |
| AC Type: | Cessna S550 Citation II |
| Reg.: | N666DS cn: S550-0056 |
| Aboard: | 6 Fatalities: 6 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Teterboro - Wichita - San Diego |
| Details: | While on approach to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, the aircraft descended below the glideslope and most likely impacted high tension power lines crashing into the Tierrasanta military housing community and and damaging about ten homes and various cars. |
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| Date: | April 10 Time: 1515 |
| Location: | Hudson River near Jersey City, New Jersey |
| Operator: | Meridian Helicopters LLC |
| AC Type: | Bell 206L-4 Long Ranger IV |
| Reg.: | N216MH cn: 52296 |
| Aboard: | 6 Fatalities: 6 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Sightseeing |
| Details: | The sightseeing helicopter was destroyed after an in flight breakup and impact with the water. The main and tail rotors separated from the helicopter before it impacted the water. Five passengers and the pilot were fatally injured. |
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| Date: | March 22, 2025 Time: 1743 |
| Location: | Near Mogadishu, Somalia |
| Operator: | Trident Aviation |
| AC Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC- 5D Buffalo |
| Reg.: | 5Y-RBA cn: 109 |
| Aboard: | 5 Fatalities: 5 Ground: 0 |
| Route: | Mogadishu - Dhobley |
| Details: | The cargo plane crashed southwest of Mogadishu while enroute to Dhobley. |
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