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Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States and U.S. territories in the 1970s
1970
Cornfield Bomber
(February 1970)
Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320
(March 1970)
ALM Flight 980
(May 1970)*
Trans International Airlines Flight 863
(September 1970)
Wichita State University football team plane crash
(October 1970)
Southern Airways Flight 932
(November 14 1970)
Capitol International Airways Flight C2C3/26
(November 27 1970)
1971
B-52C Lake Michigan crash
(January 1971)
Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash
(May 1971)
Hughes Airwest Flight 706
(June 6 1971)
Allegheny Airlines Flight 485
(June 7 1971)
Pan Am Flight 845
(July 1971)
Alaska Airlines Flight 1866
(September 1971)
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 (See
D. B. Cooper
, November 1971)
1972
Mohawk Airlines Flight 405
(March 1972)
Delta Air Lines Flight 9570
(May 1972)
American Airlines Flight 96
(June 12 1972)
Prinair Flight 191
(June 24 1972)*
Lake Winnebago mid-air collision
(June 29 1972)
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710
(July 5 1972)
Delta Air Lines Flight 841
(July 31 1972)
Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident
(September 1972)
Southern Airways Flight 49
(November 1972)
United Air Lines Flight 553
(December 10 1972)
Chicago–O'Hare runway collision
(December 20 1972)
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401
(December 29 1972)
Puerto Rico DC-7 crash
(December 31 1972)*
1973
DeKalb–Peachtree Airport Learjet crash
(February 1973)
Ozark Air Lines Flight 809
(July 23 1973)
Delta Air Lines Flight 723
(July 31 1973)
TWA Flight 742
(August 1973)
World Airways Flight 802
(September 8 1973)
Texas International Airlines Flight 655
(September 27 1973)
Pan Am Flight 160
(November 3 1973)
National Airlines Flight 27
(November 3 1973)
Iberia Flight 933
(December 1973)
1974
Commonwealth Commuter Flight 317
(January 6 1974)
Pan Am Flight 806
(January 30 1974)*
Delta Air Lines Flight 523
(February 1974)
Eastern Air Lines Flight 212
(September 1974)
TWA Flight 514
(December 1 1974)
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231
(December 1 1974)
1975
Golden West Airlines Flight 261
(Janaury 1975)
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
(June 1975)
Wien Air Alaska Flight 99
(August 1975)
Overseas National Airways Flight 032
(November 1975)
1976
Alaska Airlines Flight 60
(April 5 1976)
American Airlines Flight 625
(April 27 1976)*
Air Manila Flight 702
(June 1976)
TWA Flight 355
(September 1976)
1977
Japan Air Lines Cargo Flight 1045
(January 1977)
Southern Airways Flight 242
(April 4 1977)
Delta Air Lines Flight 1080
(April 12 1977)
Encino helicopter crash
(August 1977)
Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash
(October 1977)
Air Indiana Flight 216
(December 13 1977)
United Airlines Flight 2860
(December 18 1977)
Vieques Air Link crash
(December 19 1977)*
1978
Continental Airlines Flight 603
(March 1 1978)
United Airlines Flight 696
(March 13 1978)
National Airlines Flight 193
(May 1978)
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182
(September 25 1978)
Air Caribbean Flight 309
(September 26 1978)*
Rocky Mountain Airways Flight 217
(December 4 1978)
TWA Flight 541
(December 21 1978)
United Airlines Flight 173
(December 28 1978)
1979
TWA Flight 841
(April 1979)
American Airlines Flight 191
(May 25 1979)
Downeast Airlines Flight 46
(May 30 1979)
Air New England Flight 248
(June 17 1979)
American Airlines Flight 293
(June 20 1979)
American Airlines Flight 444
(November 1979)
This list is incomplete.
An asterisk (*) denotes an incident that either took place in a U.S. territory, or in adjacent waters thereof.
Flying Tiger Line Flight 45
(July 1970) occurred in the
United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands