Editing 1970s (section)

===Non-natural disasters===
*On October 2, 1970, a plane carrying the [[Wichita State University]] [[1970 Wichita State Shockers football team|football team]] [[Wichita State University football team plane crash|crashed]] into a mountain near [[Logan, Utah]], killing 31 with 9 survivors.
* On November 14, 1970, [[Southern Airways Flight 932]] carrying the entire Marshall (West Virginia) football team and boosters crashed into a mountainside near [[Ceredo, West Virginia|Ceredo]], West Virginia, on approach to [[Tri-State Airport]] in heavy rain and fog. They were returning from a road game loss at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. There were no survivors.
* On July 30, 1971, [[All Nippon Airways Flight 58]] collided with a [[Japanese Air Self-Defense Force|JASDF]] fighter plane, killing all 162 on board. The JASDF pilot survived.
* On October 13, 1972, [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]] from Uruguay to Chile crashed in the [[Andes]] mountains. Survivors suffered from freezing temperatures, exposure and starvation for 72 days until their rescue on December 23.
* On December 29, 1972, [[Eastern Air Lines Flight 401]] crashed in the Florida [[Everglades]] while its crew was distracted. 101 people died in the accident while 75 survived.
* On January 22, 1973, an [[Royal Jordanian|Alia]] [[Boeing 707]], chartered by [[Nigeria Airways]], [[Kano air disaster|crashed]] upon landing at Nigeria's [[Kano Airport]] after one of its landing gear struts collapsed. 176 of the 202 people on board perished, leaving 26 survivors.
* On March 3, 1974, [[Turkish Airlines Flight 981]] crashed in northern France after a cargo hatch blowout, killing all 346 people aboard.
* On April 4, 1975, the rear loading ramp on a [[United States Air Force|USAF]] [[Lockheed C-5 Galaxy]] [[1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident|blew open mid-flight]], causing [[Uncontrolled decompression|explosive decompression]] that crippled the aircraft. 153 were killed in the incident while 175 survived.
* On November 10, 1975, the U.S. Great Lakes bulk freighter [[SS Edmund Fitzgerald|SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'']] foundered on [[Lake Superior]] with the loss of all 29 crewmen.
* On September 10, 1976, in the [[1976 Zagreb mid-air collision|Zagreb mid-air collision]], a [[British Airways]] [[Hawker Siddeley Trident]] and an [[Adria Airways|Inex-Adria Aviopromet]] [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9|Douglas DC-9]] collided near [[Zagreb]], [[Yugoslavia]] (now Croatia), killing all 176 aboard both planes and another person on the ground.
* On March 27, 1977, two [[Boeing 747]]s (a [[KLM]] and a [[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am]]) collided on the runway in heavy fog at [[Tenerife North Airport|Los Rodeos Airport]] in [[Tenerife]], Canary Islands, Spain, killing 583 people – the [[Tenerife airport disaster|worst aviation disaster]] on record.
* On January 1, 1978, [[Air India Flight 855]] crashed into the sea off the coast of India, killing all 213 aboard.
* On September 25, 1978, [[PSA Flight 182]] collided with a private [[Cessna 172]] over San Diego, California, and crashed into a local neighborhood. All 135 on the PSA aircraft, both pilots of the Cessna, and 7 people on the ground (144 total) were killed.
* On May 25, 1979, [[American Airlines Flight 191]], outbound from [[O'Hare International Airport]] in Chicago, Illinois, lost an engine during take-off and crashed, killing all 271 on board and 2 others on the ground. It was and remains the deadliest single-plane crash on American soil.
* On November 28, 1979, [[Air New Zealand Flight 901]] crashed on the flanks of [[Mount Erebus]] in [[Antarctica]], killing all 257 people on board.
* On March 28, 1979, there was a [[Three Mile Island accident|partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor]] in Pennsylvania, United States. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.