page_title: List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
section_title: 2002
hierarchical_section_title: List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft / 2000s / 2002
caption_attribution_description: English: A photographic image of the context of the damaged but intact wreckage of aircraft B737-300 registration PK-GWA that crashed on Garuda Indonesia Flight 421
context_page_description: This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least: 20,000 lb. The list is grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.
context_section_description: January 14 – Lion Air Flight 386, a Boeing 737-200, crashes while attempting to take off from Riau, Indonesia; all 103 on board survive.
  January 16 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 421, a Boeing 737-300, experiences a dual flameout after entering a thunderstorm, and crashes into the Bengawan Solo River in Indonesia; a flight attendant is killed but the other 59 people on board survive the accident.
  January 28 – TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727, crashes into a volcano on approach to Tulcán, Ecuador, in low-visibility conditions; all 94 on board are killed.
  February 12 – Iran Air Tours Flight 956, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into the Sefid Kooh mountains during heavy rain, snow, and dense fog, while descending for Khorramabad Airport; all twelve crew members and 107 passengers are killed.
  April 15 – Air China Flight 129, a Boeing 767-200ER, crashes into a hill during a landing attempt at Busan, South Korea, in misty conditions; of the 155 passengers and 11 crew, 37 survive.
  May 4 – EAS Airlines Flight 4226, a BAC 1-11 500 series, crashes into the Gwammaja neighborhood at Kano, Nigeria, shortly after takeoff; the ensuing crash results in the deaths of 71 passengers and at least 78 civilians on the ground.
  May 7 – EgyptAir Flight 843, a Boeing 737-566, crashes near Tunis, Tunisia, while landing in rough weather; of the 62 people on board, 14 perish.
  May 7 – China Northern Airlines Flight 6136, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes near Dalian, China, after a passenger sets fire to the cabin with gasoline; all 103 passengers and nine crew are killed.
  May 25 – China Airlines Flight 611, a Boeing 747-200B, disintegrates above the Taiwan Strait in mid-flight due to maintenance error, killing all 225 people on board.
  July 1 – In the Überlingen mid-air collision, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 with 60 passengers and nine crew members on board, collides with DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757 freighter with two pilots on board near Lake Constance, Germany; all people on both planes perish.
  July 4 – In the 2002 Prestige Airlines Boeing 707 crash, a Boeing 707 crashes at Bangui Airport while attempting an emergency landing, killing 28 of 30 on board.
  July 10 – Swiss International Airlines Flight 850, a Saab 2000, strikes an earth bank after landing at Werneuchen Airfield after multiple diversions due to a storm system; all 20 on board survive the accident but the aircraft is written off.
  August 22 – In the 2002 Shangri-La Air Twin Otter Crash, a DHC-6 Twin Otter crashes in thick cloud whilst on approach into Pokhara Airport, Nepal, killing all 18 passengers and crew.
  August 30 – Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasília, crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, Brazil, in a rainstorm; the aircraft breaks up into three pieces and catches fire; 23 of 31 on board perish.
  October 9 – Northwest Airlines Flight 85, a Boeing 747, experiences a rudder hardover; the crew make an emergency landing at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and all 404 people on board are unharmed.
  November 6 – Luxair Flight 9642, a Fokker F50, crashes short of the runway on approach to Luxembourg Findel Airport in foggy weather conditions; of the 19 passengers and three crew on board, only two survive.
  November 11 – Laoag International Airlines Flight 585, a Fokker F-27 Friendship, crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport; of the 34 people on board, 19 are killed.
  December 23 – Aeromist-Kharkiv Flight 2137, an Antonov An-140, crashes near Ardestan in Iran whilst descending into Isfahan International Airport, claiming the lives of all 44 on board; the accident is found to have been caused by insufficient crew training.
caption: Garuda Indonesia Flight 421, after making a water landing in the Bengawan Solo River, Indonesia