• On 10 June 1960,
Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 crashed in the sea near
Mackay, Queensland, Australia, with 29 fatalities, in what is still the deadliest civilian Australian aircraft accident in history. The investigation was unable to determine the probable cause of this accident, but it was critical in the development of the
flight recorder to record parameters that aid investigations of future airliner accidents. • On 23 September 1961,
Turkish Airlines Flight 835, an F-27-100, struck the Karanlıktepe hill during approach, killing 28 of the 29 on board. • On February 28, 1967,
Philippine Airlines Flight 345, an F-27 100, crashed on approach to
Mactan–Cebu International Airport. The aircraft pitched upwards, then banked and descended, with its left wing striking trees and then the ground, ending with the fuselage nosing over and sliding onto its back, catching fire. 12 of the 19 occupants were killed. A contributing factor to the crash was improper load distribution, which affected the aircraft's centre of gravity. • On 6 July 1967,
Philippines Airlines Flight 385, an F-27-100, crashed 10 minutes after takeoff on the slopes of
Mount Kanlaon, killing all 21 on board. • On 21 April 1969, an
Indian Airlines flight crashed in a thunderstorm while crossing East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) airspace on its flight from
Agartala to
Calcutta, killing all 44 people on board. • On 6 August 1970, a
Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 turboprop aircraft crashed near the small village Rawat, after take-off from Islamabad in a thunderstorm, killing all 30 people on board. • On 26 September 1970, a
Flugfélag Íslands Fokker F27 Friendship, with registration TF-FIL,
crashed into the mountains of Mykines in the
Faroe Islands, in heavy fog, killing the Icelandic captain and seven Faroese passengers. 26 passenger and crew survived the crash. Three passengers, who escaped with minor injuries, hiked for an hour down the mountain to the village of
Mykines, alerting authorities. The majority of the villagers went up the mountain to aid the injured. • On 23 January 1971, a domestic scheduled
Korean Air Lines passenger flight, operated by a Fokker F27 Friendship 500, between
Gangneung and
Seoul was hijacked by a man armed with hand
grenades in the sky over Hongcheon County, Gangwon Province. A security officer shot the hijacker, and as he fell, the bomb he was holding exploded, and a co-pilot blocked it with his body, cutting off his left leg and right arm, and he later died from excessive bleeding. The aircraft crash-landed on a deserted
beach in
Goseong County, Gangwon, near
Sokcho,
South Korea. The aircraft was written off. • On 30 January 1971,
Indian Airlines Fokker Friendship aircraft Ganga was hijacked by Hashim Quereshi and his cousin Ashraf Butt, and was flown to
Lahore, Pakistan, where the passengers and crew were released and the aircraft was burnt on February 1, 1971. • On 12 December 1971, a Fokker F27 Friendship registered AP-ALX, operating an international flight between Karachi and Zahedan, crashed in Pakistan near the Iranian border, killing all 4 people on board. • On 8 December 1972,
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 631, an F-27-600, crashed on a mountain terrain, killing all 26 or 32 on board. • On 25 March 1978,
Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 XY-ADK lost altitude and crashed into a paddy field just after take-off from
Mingaladon Airport, killing all 48 people on board. • On 14 September 1978, a
Philippine Air Force F27 crashed due to
wind shear; 15 of the 24 people on board were killed, as well as 17 people on the ground. • On 17 February 1979,
Air New Zealand Flight 4374, a F27-500 crashed while landing at
Auckland International Airport in poor weather, killing two of the four people on board. • On 26 May 1980, a
Nigerian Air Force F27 crashed due to a thunderstorm, killing all 30 people on board. The aircraft was carrying a delegation of military and government officials on a diplomatic mission. • On 20 July 1981,
Somali Airlines Flight 40 crashed near Balad, Somalia. All 50 passengers and crew on board were killed. • On 5 August 1984,
a Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27-600 crashed into a marsh near Zia International Airport (now
Shahjalal International Airport) in
Dhaka, Bangladesh, while landing in poor weather. With a total death toll of 49 people, it is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur on Bangladeshi soil. • On 20 February 1986, an Iranian F27-600 commanded by Colonel Abdolbaghi Darvish was shot down by an Iraqi fighter jet. All 49 crew and passengers were killed. The aircraft was carrying a delegation of military and government officials on a mission. • On 29 April 1986, a
Peruvian Navy F-27 400M (reg. AE-561) crashed in the
Grau Sea off the coast of
Huacho, killing its seven occupants. • On 16 August 1986, a
Sudan Airways F27 was
shot down by the
Sudan People's Liberation Army, killing all 60 people on board. The Shootdown remains the worst involving the F27 and in
South Sudan. • On 23 October 1986, a Pakistan International Airlines F27 crashed while coming in to land in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 13 of the 54 people on board. • On 21 June 1987, a
Burma Airways Fokker F-27 Friendship 200
slammed into an 8200-ft-high mountain 15 minutes after take-off from
Heho Airport, killing all 45 people on board. • On 8 December 1987, in the
Alianza Lima air disaster, an F27 of the Peruvian Navy that was transporting the
Alianza Lima football team crashed in Lima, Peru, killing the whole team. • 11 October 1987, a
Burma Airways F-27-500
crashed into a 1500-ft-high mountain, killing all 49 people on board. This was Myanmar's second-deadliest air disaster, surpassed only by the
crash of a Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 in 2017, which killed 122 people. Thirty-six foreigners—14 Americans, seven Swiss citizens, five Britons, four Australians, three West Germans, two French citizens, and one Thai—were among the dead. • On 19 October 1988 thirty-four died in a
Vayudoot F27 crash near
Guwahati, India. • On 25 August 1989, a Pakistan International Airlines F27 operating as
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 404 and carrying 54 people disappeared after leaving Gilgit in northern Pakistan. The wreckage was never found. • On 10 September 1992,
Expreso Aéreo Flight 015, an F27-500 (reg. OB-1443), crashed in the
airstrip of the remote
Amazon town of
Bellavista in
Peru. Due to a
pilot error on
approximation, possibly compounded by
fatigue and the
co-pilot's lack of experience, the plane hit the ground shortly before the
runway threshold (practically crash-landing) and broke up in several parts, killing the pilot in the ensuing fire. The six remaining crew members and the 36 passengers managed to evacuate and survived, although some were injured. • On 1 July 1995, an East West Airlines
Fokker F27, registered VT-EWE, was engaged in a
touch-and-go landing training exercise at
Vadodara Airport when the aircraft's left main landing gear failed on touchdown. The aircraft continued moving forward on its belly and skid to a halt on the runway. There was no fire and no injury to persons on board the aircraft. Poor maintenance was cited as a contributory factor in the accident. The aircraft was written off. • On 8 November 1995, an
Argentine Air Force F27, tail number TC-72, operating a
LADE civilian flight from
Comodoro Rivadavia to
Córdoba, crashed () near the summit of
Cerro Champaquí in Córdoba, killing all 52 passengers and crew. • On 17 July 1997,
Sempati Air Flight 304 crashed at Bandung, West Java, shortly after take-off, when after an engine failure, the crew mishandled the return to the airport on one engine. • On 27 January 1998, a
Myanma Airways Fokker F27 crashed while taking off from Yangon, Myanmar, killing 16 of the 45 people on board. • On 24 August 1998,
Myanma Airways Flight 635 crashed into a hill on approach to
Tachilek Airport, killing all 36 on board. • On 12 January 1999, a
Channel Express F-27-600F (registration: G-CHNL) cargo flight from
Luton Airport to
Guernsey Airport was incorrectly loaded affecting centre of gravity, stalled on approach to the airport, crashed, and caught fire. The fire spread to two nearby homes, killing the pilots and injuring one person on the ground. • On 11 November 2002,
Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashed into
Manila Bay in the Philippines; 19 of the 34 people on board were killed. • On 20 February 2003, a military F27 crashed in northwestern Pakistan, killing
Pakistan Air Force Air Chief Marshal
Mushaf Ali Mir, his wife, and 15 others. •
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688, carrying 45 people, crashed 2–3 minutes after take-off from
Multan airport on 10 July 2006, with no survivors. Engine fire was suspected as the cause of the crash. • On 6 April 2009, an
Indonesian Air Force F27
crashed in
Bandung, Indonesia, killing all 24 occupants on board. The cause of the accident was said to be heavy rain. The aircraft reportedly crashed into a hangar during its landing procedure and killed all on board. • On 21 June 2012, an Indonesian Air Force F27
crashed into a housing complex in the capital
Jakarta, setting six houses on fire and killing at least 11 people. • On 24 June 2022, a Cargo2Fly F27 5Y-CCE landed heavily on the runway at
Juba International Airport,
South Sudan, with the undercarriage retracted after the aircraft failed to climb on takeoff. No injuries. ==Aircraft on display==