270 total · 152 fatal · 10 years with data
| Year | Total | Fatal | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 11 | 5 | 50 |
| 1941 | 11 | 3 | 14 |
| 1942 | 14 | 8 | 87 |
| 1943 | 21 | 13 | 199 |
| 1944 | 32 | 15 | 153 |
| 1945 | 25 | 13 | 203 |
| 1946 | 29 | 12 | 198 |
| 1947 | 23 | 17 | 423 |
| 1948 | 34 | 20 | 503 |
| 1949 | 70 | 46 | 751 |
Our multi-source corpus documents 270 aviation accidents across the 1940s.
Of the 270 recorded accidents in the 1940s, 152 were fatal.
See the year-by-year breakdown above for the full distribution across the decade.
Counts reflect occurrences documented in our multi-source corpus (NTSB, ASN, B3A and 80+ national investigation authorities); coverage varies by source and era and these are not official totals.
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