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	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 4, 2013. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that between 1944 and 2012 there were 508 high fatality aircraft accidents and incidents, across all seven continents, in which 53,419 people died?
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"note the high selection bias of this statistic, since incidents with less than 50 fatalities, likely to have low FR"

Does this need a citation? It seems obvious; consider the very low end of the scale (for example, an incident with 0 fatalities must have 0 FR). Since many aircraft have many more than 50 people aboard, any accident with a high FR involving them must have more than 50 fatalities.

..old planes didn't carry 50 people. All that makes the list prior to 1945 are ridged air ships and any added ground-casualties. It's biased towards newer (bigger) planes which create bigger casualties. GreenC 04:39, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deadly is deadly. Period. There is no deadlier than deadly. You seem to mean something else. Be more precise with your choice of words. 2001:9E8:36EF:F800:A064:20BF:5BBE:A099 (talk) 23:06, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

By deadliest, one implies ranking highest number of casualties. Deadly simply implies a casualty. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.78.133.220 (talk) 20:51, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be worth updating the article's collage to include Jeju Air Flight 2216 and Air India Flight 171, both of which being particularly significant due to their high death tolls and global influence? Cobaj Thaite (talk) 10:44, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If we can find public domain images of the crashes then absolutely. Undescribed (talk) 13:24, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

El Al Flight 1862 seems to be missing from the list? Nico (talk) 20:41, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting point. The list is only for accidents involving 50 or more fatalities. Though it could be argued that the real number of deaths could have been higher due to some number of undocumented people, the official figure is 47. Even the Wikipedia page lists the fatalities as just 47, so it doesn’t meet the threshold of 50. Klausklass (talk) 10:29, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]