The following is a list of aircraft accidents and incidents which have resulted in fatalities on the ground. Aircraft crashes with a high number of ground fatalities typically occur in areas where there are large congregations of people, such as buildings, marketplaces, and sporting events.
As of , 64 accidents and incidents have resulted in at least 12 ground fatalities, 14 at least 50 ground fatalities, and five over 100 ground fatalities. The crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks in 2001 are by far the deadliest incidents of this sort, with a total of approximately 2,600 ground fatalities attributed to the two crashes and subsequent collapse of 1 World Trade Center and 2 World Trade Center. The deadliest accidental crash of an aircraft was the Air Africa Antonov An-32 crash in 1996, which resulted in the deaths of at least 249 people on the ground.