# List of heads of state and government who died in aviation accidents and incidents

This is a list of notable heads of state and heads of government who have died from aviation accidents, usually while in office.

## Heads of state

| Photo | Name | Title | Date | Place | Country | Type | Aircraft model |
| (1888–1940) | José Félix Estigarribia Insaurralde | President of Paraguay | 7 September 1940 | Altos | Paraguay | Airplane accident | Potez 25 |
| (1900-1945) | Duy Tân | former Emperor of Đại Nam under French protectorate of Annam and Tonkin | 26 December 1945 | Lobaye, Ubangi-Shari | French Equatorial Africa | Airplane accident | |
| (1907–1957) | Ramon Magsaysay | President of the Philippines | 17 March 1957 | Balamban, Cebu | Philippines | Airplane accident | Douglas C-47 Skytrain |
| (1888–1958) | Nereu de Oliveira Ramos | former President of Brazil | 16 June 1958 | São José dos Pinhais | Brazil | Airplane accident | Convair CV-440 Metropolitan |
| (1921–1966) | Abdul Salam Arif | President of Iraq | 13 April 1966 | Baghdad | Iraq | Airplane accident | de Havilland Dove |
| (1897–1967) | Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco | former President of Brazil | 18 July 1967 | Fortaleza | Brazil | Airplane accident | Piper PA-23 |
| (1919–1969) | René Barrientos Ortuño | President of Bolivia | 27 April 1969 | Arque | Bolivia | Helicopter accident | Hiller OH-23 |
| | Ahmed Ould Bouceif | Leader of the Military Junta of Mauritania | 27 January 1979 | Dakar | Senegal | Airplane accident | de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou |
| (1940–1981) | Jaime Roldós Aguilera | President of Ecuador | 24 May 1981 | Huairapungo | Ecuador | Airplane accident | Beechcraft Super King Air |
| (1929–1981) | Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera | Military Leader of Panama | 31 July 1981 | Penonomé | Panama | Airplane accident | De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter |
| (1933–1986) | Samora Moisés Machel | President of Mozambique | 19 October 1986 | Mbuzini | South Africa | Airplane accident | Tupolev Tu-134 |
| (1924–1988) | Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq | President of Pakistan | 17 August 1988 | Bahawalpur | Pakistan | Airplane accident | Lockheed C-130 Hercules |
| (1937–1994) | Juvénal Habyarimana | President of Rwanda | 6 April 1994 | Kigali | Rwanda | Airplane shootdown | Dassault Falcon 50 |
| (1955–1994) | Cyprien Ntaryamira | President of Burundi | 6 April 1994 | Kigali | Rwanda | Airplane shootdown | Dassault Falcon 50 |
| (1956–2004) | Boris Trajkovski | President of North Macedonia | 26 February 2004 | Mostar | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Airplane accident | Beechcraft Super King Air |
| | Muhammadu Maccido | Sultan of Sokoto State | 29 October 2006 | Abuja | Nigeria | Airplane accident | Boeing 737 |
| (1949–2010) | Lech Aleksander Kaczyński | President of Poland | 10 April 2010 | Smolensk | Russia | Airplane accident | Tupolev Tu-154 |
| (1919–2010) | Ryszard Kaczorowski | Last President of the Polish government-in-exile | 10 April 2010 | Smolensk | Russia | Airplane accident | Tupolev Tu-154 |
| (1949–2024) | Sebastián Piñera Echenique | former President of Chile | 6 February 2024 | Lake Ranco | Chile | Helicopter accident | Robinson R44 |

## Heads of government

| Photo | Name | Title | Date | Place | Country | Type | Aircraft model |
| (1862–1936) | Arvid Lindman | former Prime Minister of Sweden | 9 December 1936 | Croydon, Surrey | United Kingdom | Airplane accident | Douglas DC-2 |
| (1881–1943) | Władysław Sikorski | Prime Minister of Poland (in exile) | 4 July 1943 | Gibraltar | United Kingdom | Airplane accident | Consolidated B-24 Liberator |
| (1910–1959) | Barthélemy Boganda | Prime Minister of the Central African Republic | 29 March 1959 | Boukpayanga | Central African Republic | Airplane accident | Nord Noratlas |
| | Joël Rakotomalala | Prime Minister of Madagascar | 30 July 1976 | Antsirabe | Madagascar | Helicopter accident | Aérospatiale Alouette III |
| (1917–1977) | Džemal Bijedić | Prime Minister of Yugoslavia | 18 January 1977 | Kreševo | Yugoslavia | Airplane accident | Learjet 25 |
| | Francisco de Sá Carneiro | Prime Minister of Portugal | 4 December 1980 | Camarate | Portugal | Airplane accident | Cessna 421 |
| (1921–1987) | Rashid Karami | Prime Minister of Lebanon | 1 June 1987 | Beirut | Lebanon | Helicopter bombing | Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma |
| | Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai | Prime minister of Afghan Northern Alliance | 21 August 1997 | Bamyan | Afghanistan | Airplane accident | Antonov An-32 |
| (1960–2024) | Ebrahim Raisi | President of Iran | 19 May 2024 | Varzaqan | Iran | Helicopter accident | Bell 212 |

## International organizations

| Image | Name | Title | Date | Place | Country | Type | Aircraft model |
| (1905–1961) | Dag Hammarskjöld | Secretary-General of the United Nations | 18 September 1961 | Ndola | Rhodesia and Nyasaland | Airplane accident | Douglas DC-6 |