Filmed deaths in the United States

American psychologist (1920–1996)

American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–2024)

On January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated about 46,000 feet (14 km) above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 16:39:13 UTC. It was the first fatal accident involving an American spacecraft while in flight.

On January 29, 2025, a Bombardier CRJ700 airliner operating as American Airlines Flight 5342 and a United States Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter operating as Priority Air Transport 25 collided in mid-air over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. The collision occurred at 8:47 p.m. at an altitude of about 300 feet (100 m) and about one-half mile short of the threshold of runway 33 at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. All 67 people aboard both aircraft were killed in the crash, 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the three crew of the helicopter. It was the first major US commercial passenger flight crash since Colgan Air Flight 3407 in 2009, and the deadliest US air disaster since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in 2001. This was also the third hull loss and first fatal accident involving the CRJ700 series.

Canadian wrestler (1965–1999)

ship accident in Baltimore on 26 March 2024

American television news reporter (1944–1974)

1937 airship accident in New Jersey

American racing driver (1951-2001)

self-immolation of a 25-year-old U.S. serviceman

2021 building collapse in Surfside, Florida, USA

American politician (1939–1987)

UPS Airlines Flight 2976 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight in the United States from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky, to Honolulu, Hawaii. On November 4, 2025, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 operating the flight suffered a separation of its left engine during its takeoff roll and crashed into an industrial area seconds after liftoff from the runway, at about 5:13 p.m. local time (22:13 UTC). The crash killed all three crew members on board the aircraft, and an additional twelve people on the ground, one of whom succumbed to their injuries on December 25.

2025 aviation accident in Pennsylvania, United States

helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy

2026 aviation accident in the United States

Vincent Walter Zampella II was an American video game designer. He was best known for being a co-founder and the former studio head of Infinity Ward, the head of Respawn Entertainment, and the former CEO of Ripple Effect Studios.

American hip-hop artist (1968–2024)

crash between two planes at the Wings Over Dallas airshow on November 12, 2022

American fitness model and actor (1977–2015)

American stalker and criminal

aviation accident

2020 death by suicide in Mississippi, US

On the evening of February 20, 2003, a fire occurred at The Station, a nightclub and music venue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert by the rock band Jack Russell's Great White, an offshoot of the original Great White band, a pyrotechnic display ignited flammable acoustic foam in the walls and ceilings surrounding the stage. Within six minutes, the entire building was engulfed in flames. The fire remains the deadliest firework accident in U.S. history and the fourth-deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. It was also the second-deadliest nightclub fire in New England, behind the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire.

2006 film directed by Eric Steel

German stunt performer (1905-1978)

crash of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter

American daredevil and flat-Earther

American historian (1952–2024)

American rapper (1974–2023)

American basketball player (1967–1990)

American murder by explosive collar

American SeaWorld trainer

2025 aviation accident in San Diego, United States

American playwright and writer (1898–1971)

American football player

American baseball umpire (1944–1996)

2025 sailing ship crash in New York City, U.S.

African American person killed due to interaction with a California Law Enforcement Agency (1976–2010)