Airbus Industrie A320-211 — registry & accident history
Compiled from FAA & NTSB records · as of Jul 25, 2026
There are 53 Airbus Industrie A320-211 airframes on record (built 1989–1992), 7 currently registered. 6 have one or more NTSB accident records (6 records total). Data as of Jul 25, 2026.
Recent Airbus Industrie A320-211 accidents
Multiple bird strikes during descent.
The flight crew's misidentification of the desired landing runway due to excess altitude requiring an extended downwind, and failure to use all available navigation information.
The flight crew's continued flight into a closing gap between areas of thunderstorm activity and their failure to maintain the required lateral separation from the thunderstorms, which resulted in the airplane's encounter with hail and subsequent airplane damage. Contributing to the incident were the company flight dispatcher's failure to provide complete and timely weather information to the flight crew and the Denver air route traffic controller's failure to provide significant pilot weather report information and alert the pilots of existing and worsening hazardous weather along their flight route, as required by Federal Aviation directives, both of which led to the airplane's encounter with hail.
The flight attendant's inadvertent trip over the jumpseat that had not retracted automatically.
In-flight collision with birds during initial climb, which resulted in substantial damage to the aircraft.
The first officer’s excessive pitch-up of the airplane while landing with a tailwind, which resulted in a tailstrike following a bounced landing. Contributing to the bounced landing were a high descent rate and excessive thrust resulting from the first officer’s delay in retarding the thrust levers to idle, thereby providing residual thrust and preventing spoiler deployment.