List of Accidents and Incidents Involving Commercial Aircraft - 2012

2012

• April 2 – UTair Flight 120, an ATR-72, crashes shortly after take-off from Tyumen, Russia, killing 31 of the 43 passengers and crew on board.
• April 20 – Bhoja Air Flight 213, a Boeing 737, crashes near Chaklala airbase, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan reportedly due to bad weather, killing all of the 127 passengers and crew on board.
• May 9 – In the Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash, a Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashes into Mount Salak, Indonesia on an exhibition flight, killing all 45 passengers and crew on board.
• May 14 – The Agni Air Dornier 228 crash: A Dornier 228 crashes near Jomsom Airport in Nepal; of the 21 on board, 6 survive.
• June 2 – Allied Air Flight 111, a Boeing 727, overruns the runway on landing at Accra, Ghana and crashes through a fence; the aircraft then hits a bus on a nearby road; all 4 crew survive but 12 are killed on the ground.
• June 3 – Dana Air Flight 992, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 carrying 146 passengers and 7 crew members crashes in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria on approach to Murtala Muhammed International Airport, killing all on board and an estimated 6 more people on the ground.
• June 29 – Six people attempt to hijack Tianjin Airlines Flight 7554, an Embraer E-190, 10 minutes after takeoff; passengers and crew are able to restrain the hijackers until the aircraft makes an emergency landing; of the 101 on board, 2 hijackers die and 2 more hijackers and 11 passengers and crew are injured; this is China's first serious hijacking attempt since 1990.
• September 12 – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251, an Antonov An-28, crashes in Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Ten of the 14 passengers and crew on board are killed.
• September 28 – Sita Air Flight 601, a Dornier 228, crashes on the bank of the Manohara River after a bird strike, killing all 19 on board.
• October 7 – FlyMontserrat Flight 107, a Britten-Norman Islander, crashes on takeoff from V.C. Bird International Airport; of the 4 on board, only one survives.