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Investigation concluded that the flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian missile system, killing 298 people.
This Thursday disaster caused more than two hundred deaths. From Tenerife to the mysterious disappearance of the MH370 flight, we remember the worst air accidents in recent years.
It killed more than 200 people this Thursday (12/06). Appealed the aircraft followed 242 people: 230 passengers, 10 crew and two pilots who, according to the company, were Indians, British, Seven Portuguese and a Canadian. Among the victims are still people who were in the residential zone hit by the fall.
Of the one that was the largest aviation disaster in 11 years, Only one person left alive: Briton Ramesh Vishwaskumar Bucharvado, 38, was sitting in place 11a, next to the emergency exit, which already the dramatic moment of the accident.
The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, Flight AI-171, departed from Ahmedabad, western India, bound for Gatwick airport in London, UK, and fell a few minutes after take off.
The plane is considered one of the safest means of transport in the world. By the way, one. But when there are plane accidents, it is a fact that the number of survivors tends to be reduced.
Tenerife, 1977: the greatest tragedy in aviation history
An example of this was the collision that occurred on March 27, 1977, when a KLM Boeing 747 collided With a panam jumbo on the Los Rodeos airport track in Tenerife, Spain, after both were diverted to that airport due to a bomb attack at Las Palmas airport in the Canary Islands.
A explosion killed 583 peoplethis being the greatest tragedy in the history of aviation.
Let us remember some of the worst accidents of commercial aviation in recent years.
2025: Collision became politics in the USA
More than 60 people died When a commercial plane with an Army Black Hawk helicopter on 29 January and crashed into the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington.
American Eagle flight 5342, a regional subsidiary of the American Airlines, was approaching the airport from Wichita, Kansas, when, at 8:48 pm, collided with the military helicopter, which performed a night training exercise with three soldiers, who also died.
2024: Year with three disasters
Jeju Air’s 7C2216 Flight at Muan International Airport on December 29, 2024, killing all 175 passengers and four of the six crew. It is the deadliest air disaster that occurred on South Korean soil.
The plane had departed from the Thai capital, Bangcoque, bound for Muan, in southern South Korea, and will have tried an emergency landing. After failing the first attempt due to a breakdown at the landing site, the aircraft could not lock in time and clashed on the airport wall, eventually exploded.
Also last year, in Kazakhstanflight J2-8243 of Azerbaijan Airlines fell on Christmas Day, December 25, after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan, provoking 38 Dead – 29 people survived, some of which are rescued from an intact part of the fuselage.
The president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, said the plane – an Embraer 190, of Brazilian manufacture – was from the Russian soil.
No JapanEarlier in 2024, a Japan Airlines plane with a small coast guard aircraft on the Haneda airport track in Tokyo on January 2, 2024. All 379 people aboard the Airbus A350-941 escaped the flames. Five of the six smaller aircraft crew died.
Jal stated that the fire was caused by the collision, shortly after the landing, between the passenger plane and the other aircraft, which exploded and was consumed by the flames.
2023: 72 Dead in Nepal
A Yeti Airlines ATR 72 twin -engine plane crashed near Pokhara’s city airport during the final approach to landing, on January 15, 2023, after being detached from the capital, Catmandu. The 72 people died on board.
The plane co -pilot’s husband 16 years earlier in the service of the same company.
2022: The worst disaster in China in three decades
China Eastern Airlines’ Boeing 737-800 in a rural area near the city of Wuzhou, in the Southeast Guangxi region of the country, causing a fire in a mountainous area.
O, occurred on March 21, 2022, killed the 132 people on board And it is considered the worst air disaster in China in the last 30 years.
The MU5735 flight had cool shortly after 1 pm (local time) from the city of Kunming, in Yunnan province, southern China, to Guangzhou, and was expected to last only an hour and 40 minutes.
2020: They will slaughter boeing by mistake
Iran’s revolutionary guard slaughtered a Boeing 737-800 from Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) on January 8, 2020, shortly after the take-off of Teerão Airport, killing the 176 people on board.
Iranian civil aviation authority is a misaligned radar and an error of an air defense operator. The 285 -page report concluded that “the plane was identified as a hostile goal due to a System Operator Error Air defensive located on the outskirts of Tehran. ”Due to this misconception, he“ fired two missiles ”against the device, a Boeing 737-800 from Ukranian International Airlines (UIA), which had cool from Teerão Airport on the morning of January 8 to Kiev.
2019 and 2018: Boeing guilty for the death of 346 people
The first major accident came with a 737 Max 8 airline from the Indonesia Lion Air airline. 189 Deadincluding all passengers and crew.
Just five months later, an airplane of the same model of Ethiopian Airlines in similar circumstances, causing the Death of 157 people.
In Indonesia, the Boeing 737 Max 8 with 189 people on board fell into the sea of Java. Flight JT 610, from the Low-Cost Lion Air company, disappeared from the radars 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta airport at 6:20 am (local time) to Pangkal Pinang.
The pilot had requested the return to the airport. On board followed 181 passengers – including three children – and eight crew – two pilots and six onboard assistants.
The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 fell on March 19, 2019, minutes after the Ethiopia capital of Adis Ababa, to Nairobi, Kenya. Following this accident, the Boeing 737 Max world fleet was suspended due to safety concerns.
In July 2024, the two accidents that killed 346 people after the US government discovered that the company violated an agreement.
2014: Russians cause the deadliest air crash of the century and Boeing disappears
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014 and Earth Buk over the Donetsk region in East Ukraine, Killing 298 peopleamong them 196 Dutch, 38 Australians and four Germans.
International investigations led by the International Civil Aviation Organization (OACI) concluded that the BUK system had been transferred from a Russian military base across the border to East Ukraine and transported back to Russian territory after the fall.
Russian separatists are believed to have confused the MH17 with a Ukrainian military plane and did not realize that it was a commercial passenger plane.
In May this year, the fall of MH17.
The MH17 disaster is ahead, in number of deaths, February 19 disaster in Iranwhere an Ilyushin IL-76 plane of Russian manufacturing belonging to the revolutionary guard crashed near Kerman in the southeast of the country, killing 275 people.
O third most deadly air crash of the century took place in 2001 in New Yorkjust two months after the September 11 disaster. 260 people died aboard an American Airlines Airbus A300, which fell on Queens after taking off. 5 affected people had also lost their lives.
In 2018, the fourth largest disaster of deaths were given, when on April 11, 257 people died in Algiers in an Ilyushin IL-76.
The mystery of the flight MH370
On March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777 disappeared on his way to Beijing after from Kuala Lumpur, and the remains of the 239 people on board were never found.
Triggered the greater search operation of aviation history at the date of the incident. The operations extended until 2018, when a report indicated that the plane deviated from the initial route. As in February 2025, but in April, “for now.”
The main physical proof found so far was a wing fragment that on an island near Madagascar 16 months after the aircraft disappeared.
