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Fatal Bombardier CRJ Events

The following events are either those involving at least one passenger death on a CRJ where the aircraft flight had a direct or indirect role, or serious accidents that did not qualify as a fatal event.

16 December 1997; Air Canada CRJ-100ER; Fredericton, Canada: The aircraft was on a scheduled domestic flight from Toronto to Fredericton. Visibility at the arrival airport was limited by heavy fog. After the crew disconnected the autopilot shortly before touchdown, they attempted to abort the landing. The aircraft stalled and crashed during the attempted go-around. The aircraft contacted the ground to the left of the runway, crossed the runway, became briefly airborne after striking a ditch to the right of the runway, and finally came to rest after striking some trees. The aircraft was destroyed, but none of the three crew or 39 passengers were killed. This was not a fatal event as defined by AirSafe.com.

22 June 2003; Brit Air CRJ-100ER; near Brest, France: The aircraft was on a scheduled domestic flight from Nantes to Brest when it crashed about 2.3 km (1.4 mi) short of the runway at about 450 meters (0.3 mi) to the left of the extended centerline. The aircraft had descended below glideslope during the landing approach to the extent that the ground proximity warning system alerted the flight crew, but the crew was unable to keep the aircraft from touching down in a field short of the runway. Only the captain was unable to escape before the aircraft caught fire. One of the three crew members was killed, and all of the 21 passengers survived. This was not a fatal event as defined by AirSafe.com.

1. 21 November 2004; China Yunnan Airlines (China Eastern) CRJ-200; Baotou, China: The aircraft crashed shortly after taking off on a scheduled domestic flight from Baotou to Shanghai. According to witnesses, the aircraft caught fire and suffered in in-flight breakup before crashing into a frozen lake about two kilometers (1.3 miles) from the runway. The six crew members and 47 passengers were all killed in the crash. Two people on the ground were also killed.
   Fatal Events for Airlines of the PRC
   Fatal Events for Airlines of Asia

2. 27 August 2006; Delta Connection (Comair) CRJ-100; Lexington, KY: The aircraft was on a scheduled domestic flight from Lexington, KY to Atlanta, GA. The aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff, about one half mile (800 m) from the end of the departure runway. The event occurred shortly before sunrise, and there was no reported precipitation at the time of the event. The aircraft took off on a shorter runway that is typically used by smaller private aircraft rather than the airport's main runway.
   Two of the three crew members and all 47 passengers were killed.
   Fatal events involving Delta Airlines
   Fatal events with a sole survivor