| 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: 9 |
| 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. |
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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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