10 worst (number of dead)
No comments | 3. March 1974 - 12. November 1996
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Turkish Airlines DC-10 flight 981, which had taken off from Orly airport Paris and had been in the air for about10 minutes dived into the forest of Ermenonville north of Paris killing all346 people on board...
3. March 1974
Two Boeing 747s collide on a fog-shrouded runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 people in the worst accident in aviation history. Sixty-one people survive. The planes — Pan Am flight 1736 originating in Los Angeles and KLM Royal Dutch...
27. March 1977
An engine fell off, damaging the wing and rolling the airplane. Crashing a mile from the airport, moments after takeoff from Chicago. All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were killed, along with two people on the ground...
25. May 1979
It seems unbelievable that the aircraft could land safely with all alive on board and yet not one person was able to escape. 301 people died after the aircraft made an emergency landing back at the Riyadh airport...
19. August 1980
Air India Flight 182 was flight operating on the Montreal–London–Delhi route. The aircraft was blown up by a bomb at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m), and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean while in Irish airspace...
23. June 1985
The Boeing 747-146SR that made this route, suffered mechanical failures 12 minutes into the flight and 32 minutes later crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 100 kilometers from Tokyo...
12. August 1985
All 290 onboard including 66 children and 16 crew perished. Iran Air Flight 655 was a civilian jet airliner shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988 as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz at the end of the Iran–Iraq War...
3. July 1988
Airplane was totally destroyed by an explosive device killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Large sections of the plane crashed into Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, killing a further 11 people on the ground...
21. December 1988
Traveling from Kazakhstan, an Ilyushhin IL-76 Cargo plane collided with a Saudia 747. The collision was blamed on the Kazakhstan crew, which ignored instructions. All 349 people on board both flights were killed, making it the deadliest mid-air...
12. November 1996
