List of disasters in Australia by death toll
Disaster Location Deaths Date Notes
Terrorism Kuta , Bali , Indonesia 88 2002 Oct 12 2002 Bali bombings
Missile strike Hrabove , Donetsk Oblast , Ukraine 27 2014 Jul 17 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
Tsunami Thailand and Sri Lanka 26 2004 Dec 26 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
Air accident Denpasar , Indonesia 16 1974 Apr 22 Pan Am Boeing 707 crashes into a mountain , a total of 107 people were killed
Flood Saxeten , Switzerland 14 1999 Jul 28 Flash flood hits canyoning expedition
Volcanic eruption Whakaari/White Island , New Zealand 14 2019 Dec 9 2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption
Terrorism New York City and Arlington County , United States 11 2001 Sep 11 11 September 2001 attacks
Air accident Nias Island , Indonesia 9 2005 Apr 2 2005 Nias Island Sea King crash crashes while providing relief services to victims of the 2005 Nias-Simeulue earthquake
Air accident near Isurava , Papua New Guinea 9 2009 Aug 12 Airlines PNG Flight 4684
Road accident near Cairo , Egypt 6 2006 Jan 10 Tourist bus crash
Air accident Republic of the Congo 6 2010 Jun 20 2010 Cameroon Aéro Service CASA C-212 Aviocar crash
Air accident Pakse , Laos 6 2013 Oct 16 Lao Airlines Flight 301
Air accident Southern Indian Ocean ( presumed ) 6 2014 Mar 8 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Road accident Yamuna Highway , Northern India 6 2016 Jan 10 Five members of an Indian-Australian family killed in car accident while traveling between Delhi and Agra , sixth member later died in hospital
Massacre Balibo , East Timor 5 1975 Oct 16 Balibo Five . Five Australian journalists murdered by Indonesian troops . The Indonesian government claimed that the men were unintentionally killed in a cross-fire but a 2007 inquest ruled that the journalists were deliberately murdered
Air accident Yogyakarta , Indonesia 5 2007 Mar 7 Garuda Indonesia Flight 200
Tsunami Samoa 5 2009 Sep 30 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami
Sinking North Atlantic Ocean 4 1912 Apr 15 Sinking of RMS Titanic . Two other Australians survived
Air accident near San Francisco 4+ 1953 Oct 29 British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Flight 304 crashes on approach to San Francisco
Massacre Waco , Texas 4 1993 Feb 28 - Apr 19 Waco Siege . At least two other Australians were among the small number of survivors . A child belonging to one of the Australian victims was also lost but was listed as a US citizen
Significant incidents of Australians being killed overseas
Excludes deaths attributable to war .
This is a list of disasters and tragic events in modern Australia sorted by death toll.