List of famous deaths by aircraft misadventure
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This is a list of famous people who have died by various forms of aircraft misadventure.

Airplane crash

• Thomas Selfridge - September 17, 1908
• Amy Johnson - January 5, 1941
• Leslie Howard - June 1, 1943
• Wladyslaw Sikorski - July 4, 1943
• Glenn Miller - December 14, 1944
• Busby Babes - February 6, 1958
• Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens - February 3, 1959
• Dag Hammarskjöld - 18 September, 1961
• Otis Redding - 10 December, 1967
• Ronnie VanZant, Steve Gaines - 20 October, 1977 (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• Ricky Nelson - December 31, 1985
• John Denver - October 12, 1997
• Aaliyah - August, 2001

Balloon crash

• Maxie Anderson 27 June 1983

Helicopter accident

• Vic Morrow - 23 July 1982

Helicopter crash

• Francis Gary Powers - 1 August 1977
• Stevie Ray Vaughan - 27 August 1990
• Marie Rossi - 1 March 1991
• Bill Graham - 25 October 1991
• Davey Allison - 13 July 1993
• Svyatoslav Fyodorov - 2 July 2000
• Alexander Lebed - 28 April 2002

Related links

• Index of lists of famous deaths by cause
• List of people who died in aviation-related incidents

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