Air Crashes

Top 5 Air Crashes in the History

Heavy fog, miscommunication, human error, terrorism and machine failure these are the main reasons for an air crash. Here are the top 5 air crashes that occurred in the history of aviation.

434 - 4 years ago - Aviation Hub

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752

The flight was scheduled internationally from Tehran to Kiev and Ukrain International Airlines was operating it. The aircraft was boarded by 176 people out of which 167 were passengers and 9 were crew members. Unfortunately, none of them survived this fatal crash. The aircraft was Boeing 737-8KV and was three and a half years old.

70 - 4 years ago - Aviation Hub

Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision

It was November 12, 1996 and location was Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India When a mid air collision occurred. This crash killed all 349 people on both aircraft. It was world's deadliest mid-air collision and world's deadliest aviation accident occurred in India.

820 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

American Airlines Flight 191

It was May 25, 1979 and the flight was scheduled from Chicago to Los Angeles. The aircraft was McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 which was taking off from runway 32R. It was carrying 271 people out of which 258 were passengers and 13 crew members. This crash also killed 2 people and injured 2 on the ground.

514 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

United Airlines Flight 173

It was December 28, 1978 and the flight was scheduled from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York to Portland International Airport, Portland. The aircraft involved in the accident was McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-61. It was carrying 189 people on board out of which 8 were crew and all other were passengers. 10 people were killed in this accident.

715 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

Saha Airlines Boeing 707

It was January 14, 2019 and aircraft was Boeing 707 operated by Saha Airlines. There were 16 people on board as it was a cargo flight. Out of 16 only 1 survived the crash and other 15 were killed in this crash.

1037 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

American Airlines Flight 587

The aircraft a boarded 260 people among (251 passengers and 9 crew members) were killed,along with 5 people on the ground. It is the second -deadliest aviation incident involving an Airbus A300 and the second -deadliest aviation accident in U.S.

2008 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

Paninternational Flight 112

It was September 6, 1971 when a flight was scheduled from Hamburg Airport, Germany to Malaga Airport, Spain carrying 121 people out of which 6 were crew members and 115 were passengers. Flight took off from the airport and everything was normal. But, suddenly airport noticed that both engines failed and without thrust pilot was unable to land back on the airport.

646 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

TWA Flight 800

It was a delayed flight as it was scheduled to depart at 7 pm but it departed at 8:02 pm that day. It was a pleasant flight everything was normal right after 12 minutes if takeoff the connection with the aircraft was lost. Approximately, 37 seconds later the captain of Eastwind Arlines reported to the ATC "Just saw an explosion out here, we just saw an explosion ahead of us here about 16,000 feet or something it just went into the water." The search of survivors started as police vessels and ot

344 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

Air India Express Flight 812

As per one of the survivor the aircraft broke in two pieces and he came out of it. Other 6 passengers followed him. There is an estimate that 15 fire trucks and 20 ambulances approached the crash site.

1274 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

Air India Flight 855

1 minute after the takeoff captain took the right turn as it was scheduled. After, coming to normal it started rolling to the left. The voice recorder investigation revealed that the Attitude Indicator of Captain was showing on right bank where as the Attitude Indicator of first officer was displaying the left bank. Captain mistakenly considered that both attitude indicators were displaying the wrong information.

1695 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight 147

On February 24, 2019 Boeing 737-8E9 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines was attempted hijack. Its destination was Dubai but it made its emergency landing at Chittagong, Bangladesh. There were total of 148 people on board out of which 134 were passengers and 14 were crew members. 1 amount 134 passengers was a hijacker who was killed by the Bangladesh security forces and all other 147 people on board survived the incident.

520 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

TAM Airlines Flight 3054

It was July 17, 2007 when the TAM Airline Flight was scheduled from Porto Alegre to Sao Paulo in Brazil. The aircraft was Airbus A320-233 there were 187 people on board including 171 passengers and 6 crew members. Unfortunately no one survived the crash.

372 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

Saudia Flight 163

It was August 19, 1980 when a flight caught fire right after takeoff from Riyadh International Airport. It was carrying 301 people including 287 passengers and 14 crew members. Unfortunately, no one survived this air crash but the aircraft make successful landing.

1065 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

Japan Airlines Flight 123

Faulty repair by Boeing technicians was the cause of this crash as at the time of crash rapid decompression occurred. Earlier with the same aircraft tailstrike incident happened during landing on June 2, 1978

1531 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

MH 370 (Malaysia Airlines)

Flying is the safest mode of transport available on out planet. It has lower rate of accidents among all the means of transport but air crashes are so dangerous that the chances of survival are critically low.

946 - 5 years ago - Aviation Hub

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