The Konginkangas bus disaster kills 23 and injures 14 people in Äänekoski, Finland.

The Konginkangas bus disaster was a major road traffic crash on 19 March 2004, outside the village of Konginkangas in Äänekoski, Central Finland. At 02:08 local time, a bus transporting 38 passengers, most of them youths, to the Rukatunturi skiing center for an alpine ski trip crashed into a full-trailer truck carrying heavy paper rolls weighing about 61.5 tonnes total. The crash occurred on Finnish national road 4 (E75) 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Äänekoski, and left the bus driver and 22 passengers dead; fourteen were injured. The executive director of the youth travel company was among those who perished in the crash. Most of the victims were killed immediately by the paper rolls ejected into the bus. The truck driver was uninjured.

Äänekoski is a town in Finland, located in the Central Finland region, about 45 kilometres (28 mi) north of Jyväskylä, the region's capital city. Äänekoski has a population of 17,614, as of 30 June 2025, and covers an area of 1,138.39 square kilometres (439.53 sq mi) of which 253.84 km² (98.01 sq mi), or 22%, is water. The population density is 19.91 inhabitants per square kilometre (51.6/sq mi).

March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 287 days remain until the end of the year.