Crashed planes recently. Russia has become a leader in deaths in air crashes (photo, video)

The statistics of the largest air crashes in the world for 1974-2020 show that the main cause of tragedies in the air is the human factor (crew or dispatcher error).

The worst plane crash ever with the participation of two airliners occurred in 1977 in the Canary Islands - when trying to take off at Tenerife Airport, a Boeing-747 of the Dutch airline KLM crashed into a PanAm Boeing-747 in the fog. As a result of the collision, 578 people died. The collision of the airliners occurred due to a language barrier: the Dutch pilots did not understand the commands of the dispatcher, who spoke English with a Spanish accent.

In 1985 there was plane crash, which is considered a record for the number of passengers killed in a single plane crash over the past 40 years. On board the crashed Japanese Boeing-747 were 524 people, of whom only four survived. The reason for the death of the Boeing is poor-quality repairs.

TOP 10 largest air crashes in terms of the number of passengers killed (1974-2020)

The biggest plane crashes in the world 1974-2020

Statistics of the largest air crashes over the past 7 years

2015 plane crashes

November 4, 2015 after takeoff near Juba International Airport. The crash killed 39 people, including 6 crew members, 12 passengers and 21 residents of the village where the plane fell. The wreckage was scattered 800 meters from the airport along the White Nile River.
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October 31, 2015 the liner, flying flight 9268 from Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) to St. Petersburg, left Egypt at 6.51 Moscow time, after which it disappeared from the radar screens. As a result of the crash, 224 people died. There were 217 passengers and 7 crew members on board.

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August 16, 2015 with 54 passengers on board, disappeared from the radar in the area of ​​the Indonesian province of Papua. There were 49 passengers on board, including five children, as well as 5 crew members. The aircraft is owned by Trigana Air Service.
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June 30, 2015 fell on a hotel and nearby houses in the Indonesian city of Medan. The aircraft, which entered service in 1964, crashed two minutes after takeoff in Medan after flying about five kilometers. Soldiers and their families were on board. According to the latest data, 116 people died. Of these, 101 passengers, 12 crew members and three people who were on the ground at the time of the plane crash.
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March 24, 2015 airplane . According to the latest data, there were 150 people on board - 144 passengers and 6 crew members. Liner A320, en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf flight 4U9525, crashed in the area of ​​​​the extremely inaccessible mountain range of Trois-Evesche in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence near the town of Digne-les-Bains.

2014 plane crashes

December 28, 2014 Passenger aircraft Airbus A320-216 (registration number PK-AXC) of Indonesia AirAsia, flying QZ8501 from Surabaya (Indonesia) to Singapore, disappeared from radar while over the Java Sea in the area between the islands of Kalimantan (Borneo) and Belitung (Indonesia). On board were 155 passengers (including 17 children) and 7 crew members. By December 31, rescuers found 7 bodies of the dead and the wreckage of the crashed airliner in the waters of the Karimata Strait. Search work continues.
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October 10, 2014 in the east of the Republic of Tuva, a Mi-8 helicopter (registration number RA-24614) of Tuva Airlines (Tyva-Avia), flying from the village of Tuva, disappeared. Sorug settlement in Kyzyl. There were 14 people on board. As of January 5, 2015, the search for the aircraft has not yielded any results.
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August 30, 2014 with the Ukrainian crew, which carried out the transportation of oil equipment along the route Taman Rasset (Algeria) - Malabo (Equatorial Guinea). The plane crashed 10 miles from the airfield. 7 crew members of the plane were found at the crash site. Rescue teams found no one alive.
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August 10, 2014 5 kilometers from the Mehrabad airport in Tehran (Iran) (registration number EP-GPA) of Iranian production, owned by Sepahan Air and on flight 5915 Tehran-Tebes. Of the 40 passengers and 8 crew members on board, 39 were killed. Several people on the ground were injured.
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July 24, 2014(registration number EC-LTV), leased by the Algerian airline Air Algerie from the Spanish Swiftair, was flying on the route Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) - Algiers with flight AH5017. Communication with the aircraft was lost 50 minutes after departure, later that day the wreckage of the liner was found in the desert in northern Mali / Kidal region /. All 110 passengers and 6 crew members on board were killed. The cause of the crash has not been determined and an investigation is underway.
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July 23, 2014, operating Flight 222 on the Kaohsiung - Magong (Taiwan) route, crashed into residential buildings during a re-landing approach in stormy weather. Of the 54 passengers and 4 crew members on board, 51 people died.
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July 17, 2014 in the sky over the Donetsk region in the Torez region (registration number 9M-MRD) of Malaysia Airlines, operating flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. 298 people died, including 283 passengers (including 85 children) and 15 crew members. An investigation into the causes of the incident is underway. This plane crash was the largest in the XXI century and entered the top ten largest in the history of aviation. The Dutch prosecutor's office found that in Ukraine shortly before the tragedy. Also, experts are sure that the control of the rocket launcher was carried out either by Russian specialists or by militants under the guidance of these specialists.
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June 14, 2014 while landing at Luhansk airport, militants of the unrecognized LPR shot down a Ukrainian military transport aircraft Il-76 from MANPADS, which was on a mission to replace personnel, deliver ammunition and armored vehicles for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was defending Luhansk airport from terrorists. The plane crashed near the village of Krasnoe, 2 km from the runway. There were 49 people on board. As a result of the disaster, everyone died.
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May 31, 2014 Mi-8AMT helicopter (registration number RA-22423) of the SPARK Avia airline fell into the lake. Munozero (Murmansk region). Of the 18 people on board, 16 were killed, including Sergey Skomorokhov, deputy governor of the Murmansk region, and Alexei Grigoriev, general director of the Apatit company.
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May 17, 2014 An-74TK-300 passenger aircraft (registration number RDPL-34020) of the Lao government, carrying the Minister of Defense of this country, the mayor of the Lao capital of Vientiane and a number of other high-ranking officials from Wattay Airport (Vientiane) to Xiangkhouang Province, sank lower during landing in Phonsavan safe height, touched the landing gear trees, overturned, crashed and burned. 16 people died, only one woman survived.
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March 8, 2014 passenger aircraft in the South China Sea. There were 227 passengers and 12 crew members on board. On March 24, 2014, the airline announced that the plane had likely crashed in the South Indian Ocean, killing all on board. The cause of the crash has not been established, search operations in the area of ​​the disappearance of the aircraft continue to the present.
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February 21, 2014 An An-26 transport aircraft (registration number 5A-DOW) of the Libyan company Libyan Air Cargo, performing an ambulance flight to the Tunis-Carthage airport, crashed near the city of Grombalia (33 km from the destination airport), presumably due to engine problems. 11 people died - six crew members, three doctors and two patients.
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February 16, 2014 A de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter passenger aircraft /registration number 9N-ABB/ of Nepal Airlines, following domestic flight 183 on the Kathmandu - Pokhara - Jumla route, crashed into a hillside in the jungle near the village in difficult weather conditions. Dikur. On board flight RA-183 were 18 people - 14 adult passengers, one child and three crew members. Later, the wreckage of the plane was found in the mountains, there were no survivors.
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February 11, 2014 Algerian Air Force Lockheed С-130H-30 Hercules military transport aircraft (registration number 7T-WHM) crashed in the region of the Jebel Fortas mountain range in the province of Oum el-Bouagi / Algeria /, following the route Tamanrasset-Ouargla-Constantine. On board were 78 people - the military and members of their families. Only one passenger survived, suffering serious head and chest injuries. The cause of the disaster was bad weather.

2013 plane crashes

December 26, 2013 at about 21:45 local time in the suburbs of Irkutsk in the area of ​​​​the Batareynaya station, the VSShD suffered when landing at the Vostochny airfield. The purpose of the flight was to deliver aircraft parts.
At a distance of 1 km from the runway, the aircraft disappeared from the radar screens. During the fall, the plane's wings touched the warehouses of the military unit.
There were 9 people on board the aircraft, including 6 crew members and 3 aviation technicians.
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November 17, 2013 A Boeing 737 operated by Tatarstan Airlines crashed at Kazan airport. The crash killed 50 people: six crew members and 44 passengers, including the son of the president of Tatarstan, Irek Minnikhanov, the head of the FSB department for Tatarstan, Alexander Antonov, and two children, girls aged 11 and 15.
When entering the second circle with a climb of up to 700 meters, the aircraft that crashed near Kazan experienced a loss of flight speed, followed by its transfer to a dive. Boeing hit the ground, hitting the ground almost vertically at a speed of 450 kilometers per hour.
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February 13, 2013 The plane of the Ukrainian airline "Southern Airlines" split in half as a result of an emergency landing at the airport of Donetsk. There were 52 people on board the An-24, five of them died. 26 passengers sought medical help, nine of them were hospitalized. On January 29, the plane CRJ-200 of SCAT airlines, performing the Kokchetav-Alma-Ata flight, crashed five kilometers short of Alma-Ata airport. There were five crew members and 16 passengers on board the aircraft. No one survived.

2012 plane crashes

December 29, 2012 with the Tu-204-100 aircraft of Red Wings Airlines, performing ferry flight (without passengers) No. 9268 on the route Pardubice - Moscow On December 29, 2012, a plane crash occurred at Vnukovo Airport. When landing on the runway-19 of the airfield, at about 16:36 Moscow time, the plane rolled out of the runway, broke through the airfield fence, crossed a deep ditch between the airfield fence and the Kiev highway passing along it (federal highway M3 "Ukraine") and collapsed, breaking into three large pieces.
On board the liner was only a crew of 8 people. Four of them died on the spot, including the commander of the aircraft, another died in the hospital and four were injured.
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December 25, 2012 On approaching the Chimkent airport, a departmental plane of the Border Service of the KNB of Kazakhstan crashed while flying from Astana to Chimkent. All 27 people on board, including seven crew members, were killed. The plane crashed due to equipment failure and crew errors.
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September 27, 2012 A Sita Air Dornier plane carrying 12 passengers and seven crew members crashed and caught fire near the airport of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. All 19 people on board the Sita Air plane died. Among them, 12 foreign tourists - seven Chinese and five British. The plane was heading to the city of Lukla, a transit point for tourists and climbers following in the vicinity of Mount Everest.
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September 11, 2012 An An-28 scheduled flight belonging to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise" disappeared from communications in the area of ​​​​the village of Palan. There were 13 people on board the plane, which was carrying out the flight Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky - Palana. The plane was found lying on its side in a thicket of elfin cedar ten kilometers from Palana. Ten people died in the plane crash.
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June 3, 2012 The MD 83 of the Nigerian airline Dana Air, flying from the capital of the country, Abuja to Lagos, fell on a densely populated residential area north of Lagos airport, fell apart and caught fire. During the fall, the plane rammed a two-story residential building in which at least 40 people lived. There were 153 people on board, including six crew members.
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May 9, 2012 Sukhoi SuperJet 100 (SSJ 100) crashed in Indonesia. During the demonstration flight, the SSJ 100 crashed into the slope of Mount Salak at an altitude of 1.6 kilometers in difficult terrain. On board the plane, which was operated by a Russian crew, were 45 people, including eight Russians. They all died. During a lengthy search and rescue operation, it was possible to first find, and then evacuate and identify the remains of all the victims of the disaster.
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May 14, 2012 In northwestern Nepal, an Agni Air Dornier aircraft flying from Pokhara crashed while landing at Jomsom Airport. There were three crew members and 18 passengers on board the aircraft. The crash killed 17 people.
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April 20, 2012 A Bhoja Airline Boeing 737 crashed in Pakistan on a flight from the Pakistani city of Karachi. The plane crashed near the Chaklala military air base, located near the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. All 127 people on board were killed.
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April 2, 2012 An ATR 72 aircraft of UTair airlines, operating a Tyumen-Surgut flight, crashed during takeoff from Tyumen Airport. On board were 43 people, 39 passengers and four crew members. The victims of the crash were 33 people.

2011 plane crashes

October 13, 2011 A PNG Airlines Dash 8 crashed off the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The victims of the crash were 28 people, four survived. Among the survivors, two pilots are citizens of Australia and New Zealand.
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September 29, 2011 Indonesian airline PT Nusantara Buana Air crashed on the island of Sumatra. A CASA C 212 passenger plane flying from the North Sumatra provincial capital Medan to the neighboring province of Aceh issued a distress call, which was picked up by a small Susi Air aircraft. A few minutes later, the plane disappeared from radar. Residents of one of the Indonesian villages reported the crash of a passenger plane to the authorities. The victims of the disaster were 18 people - 14 passengers and four crew members. Four children were among the dead.
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September 7, 2011 Yak 42 aircraft of the Yak Service airline crashed on takeoff from the Tunoshna airport in the Yaroslavl region. On board the aircraft was the hockey team Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl), which flew to the match in Minsk. In total, the plane had 45 people, 37 passengers and eight crew members. During the crash, only two hockey player Alexander Galimov and flight engineer Alexander Sizov survived, but on September 12 Galimov died at the Institute of Surgery. Vishnevsky in Moscow.
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July 26, 2011 A Lockheed C 130 Hercules military transport plane crashed into Mount Imstitan while landing near the city of Gulimine, located 700 kilometers south of the capital of Morocco, Rabat. The plane belonged to the Royal Moroccan Air Force and was heading to the military airfield in Gulimine. The crash killed 78 people, including 12 civilians. Three were seriously injured.
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July 8, 2011 A Hewa Bora Boeing 727 crashed at Kisangani International Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There were 178 people on board, 127 of them died. The liner crashed while landing in bad weather, the pilot tried to land the plane, but missed the runway.
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June 21, 2011 RusAir's Tu 134 aircraft flying from Moscow to Petrozavodsk (Karelia) made a hard landing on a highway one kilometer from Petrozavodsk airport in adverse weather conditions. During landing, the fuselage of the aircraft collapsed, a fire broke out. Of the 52 passengers and crew on board, 44 were killed. Eight victims were hospitalized in serious condition, two of them a child and a girl later died in hospitals.
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April 4, 2011 CRJ 100 aircraft of the UN mission, belonging to the Georgian airline Airzena, crashed at the airport of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo). During a landing under bad weather conditions, the plane hit the runway, broke into two pieces and caught fire. Of the 33 people on board the plane, 32 were killed and one survived.
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January 9, 2011 An IranAir Boeing 727 crashed in the northwest of Iran near the city of Urmia (Urumiyeh) in the province of Western Azerbaijan, 700 km from Tehran. There were 105 people on board at the time of the incident, including 94 passengers and 11 crew members. 78 people were killed, 27 people were injured and were hospitalized.

2010 plane crashes

November 4, 2010 An Aerocaribbean ATR 72 212 flying from Santiago de Cuba to Havana crashed near the city of Sancti Spiritus in central Cuba. There were 61 passengers and seven crew members on board, including 40 Cubans and 28 foreign nationals. There are no survivors of the plane crash.
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August 24, 2010 In the city of Yichun in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, a Henan Airlines passenger plane crashed during landing. There were 91 passengers and five crew members on board. 42 people died.
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July 28, 2010 An Airblue A321 aircraft en route from Karachi to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, crashed in a hilly area north of its destination. After receiving clearance to land, the Airbus crashed into the hilly Margalla Range north of Islamabad in low cloud and rain conditions. There were 152 people on board, including 6 crew members. All died.
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May 22, 2010 Air India Boeing 737 800 flying from Dubai (UAE) to Mangalore (Indian state of Karnataka) crashed in southern India while landing. The plane landed but could not stop and skidded off the runway at high speed. Having broken through the fence, the plane broke into two parts, rolled down a forested slope and caught fire. There were 166 people on board, including six crew members. According to the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation, 158 people died, eight passengers escaped.
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May 17, 2010 An Afghan Pamir Airways An-24 passenger plane with 38 passengers on board and five crew members crashed over the Salang Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains north of Kabul. The aircraft was flying from the northern Afghan province of Kunduz to Kabul. The crew included Tajik pilots.
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May 12, 2010 At the airport of the Libyan capital Tripoli, an A330 aircraft belonging to the Libyan airline Al Afriqiyah crashed. The plane arrived from the South African city of Johannesburg and crashed while landing. In total, 93 passengers and 11 crew members were on board the crashed plane, according to the airline. The only survivor of the crash was an eight-year-old boy.
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April 10, 2010 The presidential plane of the leader of Poland Tu 154, flying from Warsaw to Smolensk, crashed while landing 300-400 meters from the runway of the Severny military airfield in the Smolensk region. There were 96 people on board - 88 passengers and eight crew members, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife. Everyone on the plane died.
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January 25, 2010 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 800, which took off from Beirut (Lebanon) and flew to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), crashed over the Mediterranean Sea. There were 90 people on board the ship along with the crew. The weather conditions were not favorable for the flight: there was a thunderstorm, it was raining heavily.

2009 plane crashes

July 15, 2009 In Iran, a Tu 154 plane crashed while flying from Tehran to Yerevan. The airliner belonged to Caspian Airlines. On board the aircraft were 153 people plus crew members, among the passengers were mainly citizens of Armenia, as well as Iran and Georgia. All 168 people died.
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June 30, 2009 A Yemenia A310 crashed off the Comoros. The plane made a flight from Paris with intermediate stops in five cities, the latest of which was the capital of Yemen, Sanaa. On board the crashed aircraft were 142 passengers and 11 crew members. The only surviving passenger was a 12-year-old girl (according to other sources, she is 13 or 14 years old), she has numerous bruises, her knees are burned and her collarbone is broken. Her mother died in the crash. The girl was rescued from the ocean 12 hours after the plane crash.
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June 1, 2009 Air France Airbus A330 crashed over the Atlantic Ocean. The plane took off from Rio de Janeiro International Airport and was supposed to land at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. Communication with the plane was lost four hours after departure, when the liner was flying over the Atlantic. There were 228 people on board, one child survived.
4 minutes before the disappearance of the aircraft, 24 automatic malfunction messages were received from it. The wreckage of the aircraft was found 900 kilometers from the Fernando de Noronha archipelago and 69.5 kilometers from the place where the airbus sent the last electronic malfunction signal on board.
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May 20, 2009 near the city of Madiun in the Indonesian province of East Java, an Indonesian Air Force C-130 Hercules transport aircraft crashed while heading from Jakarta to the eastern part of the island. The plane crashed into several houses. On board were 110 people, 11 crew members and 99 passengers. Of the passengers, 15 people survived - they received injuries of varying severity. The crash killed 97 people, including residents of the village where the plane fell.

PHOTOS of the largest air crashes in the world

For all the drama of tragedies in the air, the history of aviation also knows cases that can be called funny and happy at the same time. At one time, the young king of Morocco, Hassan II, was during an anti-government putsch in the air. A mutineer officer in an F-5 fighter attacked the huge royal Boeing-727. Already on approach to Rabat, the fighter fired its first missile. She demolished the rightmost engine of the liner, but the plane continued to fly on the remaining three. The second missile destroyed a nearby turbine, but Boeing survived that too. The pilot of the fighter opened fire with a 20-mm cannon, but after that the plane continued to fly. Only after the chief pilot of the Boeing-727 announced on the radio that the king had been killed (it was a military trick), the fighter turned back to the base, and the liner landed safely at the capital's airport.