| Eastern Air Lines Flight 401: a single chime was the only warning the L-1011 was descending, and 101 people died | Not publicly named | 101 | Eastern Air Lines, Federal Aviation Administration, Lockheed Corporation, National Transportation Safety Board |
| Robert Williams, 1979: the first person on record killed by a robot | Robert Williams | 1 | Ford Motor Company, Litton Industries, Litton Systems, Inc., Unit Handling Systems |
| Air New Zealand Flight 901: a silent waypoint change put 257 people on a track into Mount Erebus | Not publicly named | 257 | Air New Zealand, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Peter Mahon, Ron Chippindale |
| A Kawasaki robot arm crushed Kenji Urada in 1981, and the world only heard about it five months later | Kenji Urada | 1 | Hyogo Labour Standards Bureau, Japan Ministry of Labour, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kenji Urada, NIOSH |
| An A320 autopilot flew a 3,300 ft/min descent into a French ridge, killing 87 | Not publicly named | 87 | Air Inter, Airbus, Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile, Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile |
| Automation logic withheld braking for nine seconds as Lufthansa Flight 2904 overran the runway at Warsaw | Not publicly named | 2 | Airbus, Federal Aviation Administration, Lufthansa, Main Commission Aircraft Accident Investigation |
| Crew fights the autopilot's go-around trim on approach to Nagoya; China Airlines Flight 140 stalls, killing 264 | Not publicly named | 264 | Airbus, China Airlines, Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile, Federal Aviation Administration, Japan Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission, National Transportation Safety Board |
| One letter, two beacons: American Airlines Flight 965's rushed approach ends on a mountain near Cali | Not publicly named | 159 | Aeronautica Civil de Colombia, American Airlines, Boeing, Federal Aviation Administration, Honeywell, International Civil Aviation Organization, Jeppesen Sanderson, National Transportation Safety Board |
| A blocked pitot tube fed false airspeed to a Boeing 757 autopilot, the crew never recovered from the stall that followed, and all 189 aboard Birgenair Flight 301 died | Not publicly named | 189 | Alas Nacionales, Birgenair, Boeing, Federal Aviation Administration, International Civil Aviation Organization, Junta Investigadora de Accidentes Aereos, National Transportation Safety Board |
| Uber test SUV killed a Tempe pedestrian after never classifying her as a person | Elaine Herzberg | 1 | Arizona Department of Transportation, Bruce Landsberg, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Transportation Safety Board, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, Uber Technologies, Volvo Cars |