Comair Flight 3272 (January 9) — Israeli helicopter disaster (February 4) — China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 (May 8) — Continental Airlines Flight 1760 (May 11) — Air Malta Flight 830 (June 9) — FedEx Flight 14 (July 31) — Korean Air Flight 801 (August 6) — Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (September 3) — Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 (September 26) — Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 (October 10) — SilkAir Flight 185 (December 19) — Transavia Airlines Flight 462 (December 24) — United Airlines Flight 826 (December 28)
Bold indicates incidents resulting at least 50 deaths (current article is always in bold) Orange color indicates the deadliest incident in 1997