Editing 2000s (section)

=== Non-natural disasters ===

==== Vehicular wrecks ====
* On January 31, 2000, [[Alaska Airlines Flight 261]] crashed into the [[Pacific Ocean]] off the coast of [[California]] after the plane's jackscrew failed, killing all 88 on board.
* On July 25, 2000, [[Air France Flight 4590]], a [[Concorde]] aircraft, crashed into a hotel in [[Gonesse]] just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel. This was the only Concorde accident in which fatalities occurred. It was the beginning of the end for Concorde as an airliner; the type was retired three years later.
* On August 12, 2000, the ''[[Russian submarine K-141 Kursk]]'' sank in the [[Barents Sea]], killing all 118 men on board.
* On November 11, 2000, the [[Kaprun disaster]] occurred. 155 people perished in a fire that broke out on a train in the Austrian Alps.
* On October 8, 2001, two aircraft [[2001 Linate Airport runway collision|collided on a runway]] at the [[Linate Airport]] in [[Milan]], [[Italy]], killing all 114 people aboard both aircraft and 4 people on the ground.
* On November 12, 2001, [[American Airlines Flight 587]] crashed into a neighborhood in [[Queens]], [[New York City]], killing all 260 aboard and 5 people on the ground.
* On May 25, 2002, [[China Airlines Flight 611]] broke up in mid-air and plunged into the [[Taiwan Strait]], killing all 225 people on board.
* On July 1, 2002, a [[Tupolev Tu-154]] passenger airliner and a [[Boeing 757]] cargo plane [[Überlingen mid-air collision|collided]] above the [[Germany|German]] town of [[Überlingen]]. All 71 people on both aircraft died.
* On July 27, 2002, a [[Sukhoi Su-27]] fighter jet [[Sknyliv airshow disaster|crashed]] at an [[air show]] in [[Ukraine]], killing 77 and injuring 543, making it the worst air show disaster in history.
* On September 26, 2002, the ferry [[MV Le Joola|MV ''Le Joola'']] sank off the coast of [[Gambia]], killing at least 1,863 people.
* On February 1, 2003, at the conclusion of the ''[[STS-107]]'' mission, the [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Columbia|Columbia]]'' [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|disintegrated during reentry]] over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
* On February 19, 2003, an [[Ilyushin Il-76]] military aircraft [[2003 Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash|crashed]] outside the [[Iran]]ian city of [[Kerman]], killing 275.
* On August 14, 2005, [[Helios Airways Flight 522]] crashed into a mountain north of [[Marathon, Greece]], while flying from [[Larnaca, Cyprus]], to Athens, Greece. All 115 passengers and six crew on board the aircraft were killed.
* On August 16, 2005, [[West Caribbean Airways Flight 708]] crashed in a remote region of [[Venezuela]], killing 160.
* On September 29, 2006, [[Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907]] collided with a new [[Embraer Legacy 600]] business jet over the [[Brazil]]ian [[Amazon rainforest|Amazon]] and crashed, killing all 154 people on board. The Embraer aircraft made an emergency landing at a nearby military outpost with no harm to its seven occupants.
* On December 30, 2006, the ferry [[MV Senopati Nusantara|MV ''Senopati Nusantara'']] sank in a storm in the [[Java Sea]], killing between 400 and 500 of the 628 people aboard. Three days later, [[Adam Air Flight 574]] crashed in the same storm, killing all 102 people on board.
* On July 17, 2007, [[TAM Airlines Flight 3054]] skidded off the runway at [[Congonhas-São Paulo Airport]] and crashed into a nearby warehouse, leaving 199 people dead.
* On February 12, 2009, [[Colgan Air Flight 3407]] crashed on approach in [[Buffalo, New York]], killing 50.
* On June 1, 2009, [[Air France Flight 447]] crashed into the southern [[Atlantic Ocean]] after instrument failure disoriented the crew. All 228 people on board perished.
* On June 30, 2009, [[Yemenia Flight 626]] crashed into the [[Indian Ocean]] near the [[Comoros]] islands. Of the 153 people on board, only 12-year-old [[Bahia Bakari]] survived.

==== Crowd crushes and collapses ====
* Two separate crowd collapses (in [[2004 Hajj stampede|2004]] and [[2006 Hajj stampede|2006]] respectively) during the annual [[Hajj]] in [[Mecca]], Saudi Arabia killed 245 and 345 pilgrims respectively.
* January 25, 2005: 291 pilgrims died after [[Mandher Devi temple stampede|a fatal crowd collapse]] at a Hindu temple in [[Maharashtra]], India.
* August 31, 2005 – 953 people died following [[Baghdad bridge stampede|a stampede]] on Al-Aaimmah bridge, which crosses the [[Tigris]] river in the [[Iraq]]i capital of [[Baghdad]].
* September 30, 2008: Rumors of a bomb planted inside a Hindu temple in [[Jodhpur]], India caused a [[2008 Jodhpur stampede|crowd crush]] killing 224 pilgrims and injuring 425 others.