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Condor safety record

No fatal accident for anyone on board a Condor flight since 1988 — more than thirty-five years. On airlines like Condor, the chance of being in a fatal accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight.

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No fatal accident for anyone on board since 1988

1 in 80 millionodds of a fatal accident, per flight
219,000 yearsof flying every day, on average, before a fatal accident
For airlines based in Germany and the other countries in the same safety group, 2018–2022 (MIT study).
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More than thirty-five years without a fatal accident on board

Condor's last fatal accident was on 2 January 1988. Flight 3782, a Boeing 737 on a night charter from Stuttgart, flew into a hill near Seferihisar on its approach to İzmir, Turkey, after the crew lost track of their position while joining the instrument landing approach. All 16 on board — 11 passengers and 5 crew — lost their lives. The official report found the navigation aids had been used wrongly, chiefly because company procedures and coordination between the two pilots were not followed.

In July 1970 a Condor 737 collided with a flying-club light aircraft near Tarragona, Spain. The 737 was only slightly damaged and none of its 100 occupants were fatally injured; the three people in the light aircraft lost their lives. It is shown on the line below, but it does not change the headline, which counts people on board Condor's own flights.

Condor began in 1955 as Deutsche Flugdienst, set up by Lufthansa with two shipping lines and the German railways, and took the Condor name in 1961 after taking over the charter airline Condor-Luftreederei. Its one fatal accident before 1970 was in July 1960, when a Deutsche Flugdienst Convair lost both engines approaching Rimini and was put down in a field short of the runway; one passenger lost her life.

The best-known recent event was in March 2023, when an A330neo on its way from Frankfurt to Mauritius turned to avoid storm clouds over the Indian Ocean and met severe turbulence. About twenty people were treated in hospital, three of them with serious injuries, and the flight landed safely in Mauritius; Germany's accident investigators (BFU) looked into it.

Today Condor flies holiday and long-haul flights from Frankfurt and other German airports with a fleet renewed since 2022: Airbus A330neos on long-haul routes and A320-family jets in Europe. Lufthansa owned it for four decades, then Thomas Cook; since 2021 its majority owner has been the investment firm Attestor. It is an IATA member and is overseen by Germany's aviation authority under European (EASA) safety rules.

since 1970

Every fatal accident, on one line

Solid dots are its own flights; hollow ones were flown by a partner or subsidiary under its name; grey rings are hijackings and attacks. Fatalities that investigators don't class as accidents (such as trespassers) aren't shown.

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Its own flights

Each of these was investigated, and the lessons are built into how every airline flies today. The full list is here if you want it.

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  1. Jan 1988 Condor 3782 · Boeing 737-200 · near Seferihisar, İzmir, TurkeyA night charter from Stuttgart flew into a hill on its approach to İzmir after the crew lost track of their position while joining the instrument landing approach; all 16 on board — 11 passengers and 5 crew — lost their lives. The official report found the navigation aids had been used wrongly, chiefly because company procedures and crew coordination were not followed.
  2. Jul 1970 Condor passenger flight · Boeing 737-100 · near Tarragona, SpainCollided in the air with a light aircraft of the Reus flying club near Tarragona. The Condor 737 was only slightly damaged and none of the 100 people on board were fatally injured; the three people in the light aircraft lost their lives.
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at a glance

Condor in numbers

Founded
1955
Country
Germany
Main hubs
Frankfurt
Passengers a year
9.6 M FY2024/25
IATA safety audit (IOSA)
Registered
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Condor safety questions

How safe is Condor?

No fatal accident for anyone on board a Condor flight since 1988 — more than thirty-five years. On airlines like Condor, the chance of being in a fatal accident is about 1 in 80 million per flight. Every fact on this page is sourced — the list is at the bottom.

What is Condor's safety rating?

There is no single official safety rating for airlines; the scores some websites publish are their own formulas. What can be checked is the record: no one on board a Condor flight has lost their life in an accident since 1988. It is a member of IATA, the airlines' trade body, which requires its members to pass IATA's operational safety audit (IOSA).

Has Condor ever crashed?

Yes, in the past. Its last fatal accident was flight 3782 near İzmir in January 1988, when a 737 flew into a hill on approach and all 16 on board lost their lives. There has been none since. In 2023 severe turbulence injured passengers on a flight to Mauritius; the aircraft landed safely.

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Where these facts come from

Every fact on this page is from official accident reports, the airline's own figures or the published accident record.

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