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Welcome to the Aviation accident task force, a joint project of WikiProject Aviation and WikiProject Disaster management.

Goals

• To improve the quality of articles documenting accidents and incidents in aviation, as well as those dealing with other aviation safety issues

Scope

Articles dealing with any of the following topics:

• Individual incident/accident articles
• Lists of aviation incidents and accidents
• Articles dealing with advances in aviation safety rules and technology

Notability guidelines

Proposed notability guidelines are available for comment at WP:Aircrash. To help develop this, a record of accident/incident AfDs has been built.

Accident article naming conventions

(Refer also Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Style guide/Naming)

• For commercial aircraft with a known flight number, the standard article name structure is:

<airline> Flight <flight number>

For example: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, American Airlines Flight 77

• However, if the airline had two same flight numbers for different years, mention the year in '()' such as:

<airline> Flight <flight number> <year>

For example: Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1976), Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)

• If the accident was in the same year with the same flight number, then mention the month, along with the year:

<airline> Flight <flight number> <month + year>

For example: Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 (June 1956), Linea Aeropostal Venezolana Flight 253 (November 1956)

• For articles on air accidents without a flight number, the title should be in the format:

<year> <airline> <aircraft> <event>

or, if this is not possible,

<year> <place> <event>

unless the accident is notable for the involvement of a particular group, in which case the format should be:

<group> <event>

College sports teams should include the full school name rather than the mascot (for example, Wichita State University football team plane crash). If the incident has a flight number, this format should be used as a redirect.

• For further disambiguation, the year can be added (see for example 1926 Air Union Blériot 155 crash). Some flexibility can be exercised. Examples:
  • 2006 New York City plane crash
  • 1999 South Dakota Learjet crash
  • 2007 Mogadishu TransAVIAexport Airlines Il-76 crash
  • 2007 Blue Angels South Carolina crash

• Exceptions: if the event has acquired a popular name, that name should be used. Examples:
  • Tenerife airport disaster
  • The Day the Music Died
  • Munich air disaster
  • Gimli Glider

Tagging and assessment

Aviation accident task force assessment statistics Aviation accident pages by quality Quality Total FA 17 FL 1 A 1 GA 70 B 304 C 637 Start 1,002 Stub 175 List 147 Category 1,005 Disambig 34 File 7 Portal 4 Project 8 Redirect 166 Template 206 NA 6 Assessed 3,790 Unassessed 24 Total 3,814 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 9,661 Ω = 4.38 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Accident-task-force=yes to the {{WPAVIATION}} project banner at the top of its talk page. This will automatically place it into Category:Aviation accident task force articles. You can also add this to the talk page of images, categories, and templates. Cut and paste this code: {{WikiProject Aviation|Accident-task-force=yes}}

Resources

• NTSB Accident reports
• NTSB Docket Management System
• AAIB publications

Parent WikiProjects

• WikiProject Aircraft
• WikiProject Disaster management

Open tasks

Missing Articles- Major and other notable aviation accidents and incidents missing articles.

Aviation WikiProject announcements and open tasks
We encourage all members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation to use the translation feature more often. There are many articles that can be created or expanded via translation. The Soviet Aviation Task force needs articles translated into English! Please feel free to join! The Aviation accident task force has a list of missing articles of major aviation accidents that aren't covered on English Wikipedia. Missing women aviators is a small redlist of women aviators for whom we lack biographies. The defunct airlines project is now a task force of WikiProject Airlines – check it out and join today! Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of aircraft A quick reference to aviation articles that are up for discussion and deletion is available - watchlist it and use it! Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles lists over 500 articles that require creating or redirecting. Dig in! A template is available to quickly create articles. Go to Template:WPAVIATION creator and start creating! The collaboration and review departments are open. Please visit and nominate or help review articles!
Articles for deletion 20 Nov 2024 – 2018 Philippines Piper PA-23 crash (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Aviationwikiflight (t · c); see discussion (2 participants) 14 Nov 2024 – Caspian Airlines Flight 6936 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Lolzer3000 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants) 08 Nov 2024 – 2024 New Way Cargo Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 shootdown (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Lolzer3000 (t · c); see discussion (10 participants; relisted) Categories for discussion 15 Nov 2024 – Category:Airliner accidents and incidents caused by bird strikes (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Carguychris (t · c); see discussion Redirects for discussion 08 Oct 2024 – 2001 terrorist attacks (talk · edit · hist) →September 11 attacks was RfDed by SeaHaircutSoilReplace (t · c); see discussion 07 Oct 2024 – 2001 attacks (talk · edit · hist) →September 11 attacks was RfDed by SeaHaircutSoilReplace (t · c); see discussion A-Class review undated – List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review Good article nominees 09 Nov 2024 – American Airlines Flight 327 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RecycledPixels (t · c); start discussion 09 Nov 2024 – Western Air Lines Flight 636 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RecycledPixels (t · c); start discussion 14 Oct 2024 – Western Air Lines Flight 34 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by RecycledPixels (t · c); start discussion Articles to be split 20 Nov 2024 – List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mjroots (t · c); see discussion
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WikiNews

Wikinews on air accidents and incidents

• August 8: Passenger flight crashes upon landing at Calicut airport in India
• June 4: Power firm helicopter strikes cables, crashes near Fairfield, California
• January 29: Former basketball player Kobe Bryant dies in helicopter crash, aged 41
• January 13: Iran admits downing Ukrainian jet, cites 'human error'
• January 10: Fire erupts in parking structure at Sola Airport, Norway