This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. Aircraft Crash Record Office Air Safety Network Combat losses are not included except for a very few cases denoted by singular circumstances.

Aircraft terminology Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number if the serial number is not known, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.

1990 12 JanuaryUSMC Douglas A-4M Skyhawk, 158149, of VMA-131, crashes on approach to NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, after an engine fire, coming down in Upper Moreland Township, impacting in an intersection, debris tearing off roof of an auto-leasing business, destroying four autos, and damaging six houses, but no injuries on the ground. Pilot Capt. Duane Pandorf, 35, parachutes into tree, suffering only minor injuries.Washington, D.C.:"Marine Corps Fighter/Bomber Crashes North of Philadelphia", Washington Post, Saturday, 13 January 1990, page A-6.

23 JanuaryMid-air collision between two Blue Angels McDonnell-Douglas F/A-18 aircraft during a practice session at El Centro. One airplane, Angel Number 2, 161524, piloted by Capt Chase Moseley (ejected) was destroyed and the other, Angel Number 1, badly damaged but managed to land safely. Both pilots survived unharmed.

6 FebruaryA USAF General Dynamics F-111E, 68-0001, known as "Balls 1", out of RAF Upper Heyford, crashes into the North Sea off the east coast of England during a routine training mission, killing two crew. The Third Air Force identified the crew as pilot Capt Clifford W. Massengill, 30, of Edenton, North Carolina, and WSO 1st Lt Thomas G. Dorsett, 26, of Pensacola, Florida.Washington, D.C.:"Crashes in Britain", Washington Post, Wednesday 7 February 1990, page A-20.

7 FebruaryA USAF Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes in the Black Mountains of Wales, UK, around eight miles S of Hay-on-Wye, less than 18 hrs. after a General Dynamics F-111 was lost in the North Sea. Captain Bradley Burrows, the A-10 pilot was killed. Lt Gen Marcus Anderson, commander of the Third Air Force, grounds all British-based tactical fighters for a one-day safety review, although an Air Force press spokesman said the two accidents were unrelated, calling it "a terrible coincidence" that they occurred so close together.

12 FebruaryA USMC pilot died and a reconnaissance observer was hurt when they ejected almost simultaneously from separate aircraft during training missions at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Twentynine Palms, California. Capt Thomas Kolb, 28, of San Diego, California, was killed after ejecting from his McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, BuNo 163187, from VMA-223, based at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, which crashed in a remote area of range N of Twentynine Palms. Aerial observer Capt Jeffrey P. Schade, of Southold, New York, ejected from North American OV-10 Bronco, suffering minor injuries. The Bronco landed safely.Washington, D.C.: Washington Times, Marine dead after ejecting from plane, Wednesday, 14 February 1990, page A-2.Nordeen, Lon O., "Harrier II: Validating V/STOL", Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2006, Library of Congress card number 2006023870, , page 170.

23 FebruaryA Marine Corps student pilot and his U.S. Navy instructor from Whiting Field, Florida, were killed after two Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentors collided in mid-air, near Summerdale, Alabama.Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola News Journal, Wednesday, 5 June 1991, page 8A. One aircraft crashed near the edge of the field, killing the instructor pilot, LT Gordon Bruce Wulf, 29, a Wichita, Kansas, native who lived in Cantonment, Florida, and his student, Marine 1st Lt Cary K. Smith Jr., 25, of Columbia, South Carolina. The second aircraft made an emergency landing at another outlying field about 15 miles away near Silverhill, Alabama, with only slight damage and without injury to the instructor pilot or his student.Associated Press, "Military says sailor was in radio contact with planes that collided", Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 27 February 1990, p. 5B.Norman, Brett, staff writer, "Few details in training accident that killed instructor, student", Pensacola News-Journal, Pensacola, Florida, Friday 29 September 2000.

16 MarchA USAF F-16A in route from Hill AFB crashed in the western Utah Salt Flats due to an engine failure east of Wendover Air Force Base. The pilot ejected safely.

22 MarchTwo F-16A fighters from the 419th Tactical Fighter Wing collided midair southeast of Wendover, Utah. Both pilots ejected safely. 10 minutes later an F-16C caught fire and made an emergency landing at Wendover AFB.

19 MarchA McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle, 80-0002, of the 3d Wing, stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, accidentally fired an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile at F-15C, 81-0054. The damaged aircraft was able to make an emergency landing; it was subsequently repaired and returned to service, finally retired to AMARG, 8 September 2009. According to one account, the wing commander was relieved over this incident.

8 AprilA McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II crashed and caught fire at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri. Capt. Carl Arizpe and Lt. Kevin Greeley of the 131st Tactical Fighter Wing of the Missouri Air National Guard suffered minor injuries.

17 AprilTwo McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornets, 188779 and 188765, of the 439 Combat Support Squadron based at CFB Baden–Soellingen, Germany, collided in midair over the nearby city of Karlsruhe, killing pilot Capt. Timothy Kirk Leuty. Capt. Reg Decoste safely ejected and escaped injury despite landing on a busy highway. Debris was scattered across the city causing damage to buildings and cars but no injuries on the ground.

25 AprilMcDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle, 81-0049, of the 32d Tactical Fighter Squadron, 79th Test and Evaluation Group, based at Soesterberg AB, Netherlands, suffered an engine fire while flying in a three ship formation during Exercise Elder Forest and subsequently lost all hydraulic power. Pilot major George D. Hulsey ejected safely and was picked up by an oil-rig supply vessel. Aircraft crashed into the North Sea, 9 miles off Spurn Point, Humberside, United Kingdom

30 April

An Avro Shackleton, of No. 8 Squadron RAF crashes into a hill on the Isle of Harris, in Scotland. All ten crew on board die in the accident. It was later determined to be a CFIT, but no reason was found as to why.

10 May A McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle of the USAF, originating probably from Ramstein Air Base, near-misses a Danish civil aircraft near Hermeskeil, Eifel, West Germany. During the evasive maneuver three passengers in the civil aircraft were injured.

25 May An F-16A 81-0798, USAF, Moody AFB, 347th TFW, 68th TFS, crashed 1.8 miles north of Pearson, Georgia, 400 feet east of US Highway 221/441. The aircraft bounced upon impact, destroying at least two houses, and a parked car, as well as killing a civilian Marion Lanier, a cleaning woman who was making her weekly visit to a client’s home. The crash also killed the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel A. Stuart (call sign "OTTO23").

30 MayTwo USAF LTV A-7 Corsair IIs of the 175th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 114th Tactical Fighter Group, South Dakota Air National Guard, collide in mid-air and crash in a "ball of flame" over northwestern Iowa near Spencer, Iowa, during mock combat, both pilots and a civilian passenger eject safely.Washington, D.C.: Washington Post, Thursday, 31 May 1990, page A-20. The flight consisted on an A-7D single-seater 70-1050, and A-7K 80-0292 a two-seater.

9 August A Panavia Tornado IDS, tactical number 45+11 of the German Air Force was severely damaged on station of the Büchel Air Base.

24 AugustA fatal aircraft landing accident involving a U.S. Coast Guard Grumman E-2C Hawkeye, CG 3501, of CGAW-1, based at CGAS St. Augustine, Florida, while returning to the former Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico where the mission originated, prompted the Coast Guard to discontinue flying E-2Cs and to return all of its eight remaining borrowed airframes to the U.S. Navy. The Hawkeye's port engine caught fire and the aircraft crashed on short final in a cow pasture one quarter mile from the runway, all four crew KWF. A granite memorial to LT Duane Stenbak, LT Craig Lerner, LT Paul Perlt, and AT1 Matthew Baker was dedicated at St. Augustine's City Hall Square on 23 August 1991. Another plaque honoring the four was placed near St. Augustine lighthouse.

29 AugustA C-5 Galaxy, 68-0228, crashed after take off from Ramstein Air Base, killing 13 of its crew on board and injuring 4 more. The plane was on its way to Saudi Arabia with medical supplies, food & maintenance equipment in support of US Troops stationed there, following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The investigation concluded that the cause was an uncommanded & inadvertent deployment of the thrust reverser on Engine No.1 during takeoff.

9 SeptemberRimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavicius (1944–1990), a Lithuanian test pilot selected as a cosmonaut and serving as a pilot for the Buran, is killed in the crash of a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter, '14 Red', at the Salgareda Air Show at Treviso, Italy.

19 September While flying a training mission in preparation for Operation Desert Storm over the Fallon, Nevada desert, First Lieutenant Andrew G. "Andy" Baer a Weapons Systems Officer and Captain Ralph Miller a pilot with the Indiana Air National Guard's 181st Fighter Group, 113th Fighter Squadron, based at the Hulman International Airport in Terre Haute, IN were killed while flying their F-4 Phantom II during a high-speed, low-altitude turning maneuver. At the outset of the mishap, Lt. Baer initiated the dual-sequenced ejection seats however due to their low altitude and the aircraft's attitude those life saving systems were unsuccessful and Lt. Andrew Baer and his pilot, Captain Ralph Miller (who were both natives of Terre Haute, Indiana and fellow graduates of both Terre Haute North High School and Indiana State University) were unable to survive the incident.

19 September An F-16C 89-2027, USAF, Moody AFB, 347th TFW, 70th TFS, just three weeks after delivery, crashed 12 nautical miles south-west of Allendale, South Carolina, at 20:27, killing the pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Barry Bost (call-sign "NOBBY 91").The board of inquiry concluded that the aircraft caught fire in flight, and that the pilot did not eject from his F-16 before impact.

30 September SH-60B, BuNo 162343 of HSL-43, crashed into sea off Oregon killing all three crew aboard while deployed with USS Crommelin (FFG-37) at the time, headed north along the western coast off Oregon during workups.

29 October An AH-64A, tail # 86-8954 crashed after a wire strike just north of Nuremburg, Germany. The aircraft was assigned to B Co. 4th Bn, 229th Advanced Attack Helicopter Regiment, 11th Avn Bde, VII Corps, and was based at Illesheim AAF in Illesheim, Germany. The company was participating in a night deep attack training mission and was returning to Illesheim when the aircraft (the 4th or 5th aircraft in the formation) struck the power line approximately 245 AGL. The crash was witnessed by one of the accompanying OH-58C scout helicopters, and another AH-64 landed at the accident site to render assistance, but both the pilot (CW3 Johnny Wilkinson), and co-pilot gunner (CW2 Ed Hall) were killed in the crash. The unit was training for deployment to Saudi Arabia as part of Operation DESERT STORM at the time of the crash.