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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
FLIGHT ACCIDENTS GD
100 WORST AVIATION DISASTERS
Fatal Date Location Carrier Type Photo
1 2907* 09/11/2001 New York City, New York American /United Airlines B767 / B767
2 583 03/27/1977 Tenerife, Canary Islands Pan Am / KLM B747 / B747
3 520 08/12/1985 Mt. Osutaka, Japan Japan Air Lines B747
4 349 11/12/1996 New Delhi, India Saudi / Kazastan B747 / Il76
5 346 03/03/1974 Bois d' Ermenonville, France Turkish Airlines DC10
6 329 06/23/1985 Atlantic Ocean West of Ireland Air India B747
7 301 08/19/1980 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian Airlines L1011
8 290 07/03/1988 Persian Gulf Iran Air A300
9 275 02/19/2003 Shahdad, Iran Islamic Revolution's Guards Co. Il-76MD
10 273 05/25/1979 Chicago, Illinois American Airlines DC10
11 270 12/21/1988 Lockerbie, Scotland Pan American World Airways B747
12 269 09/01/1983 Sakhalin Island, Russia Korean Airlines B747
13 265 11/12/2001 Belle Harbor, Queens, New York American Airlines A300
14 264 04/26/1994 Komaki, Japan China Airlines A300
15 261 07/11/1991 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Nationair/charter Nigeria AW DC8
16 257 11/28/1979 Mt. Erebus, Antarctica Air New Zealand DC10
17 256 12/12/1985 Gander, Newfoundland, Canada Arrow Airways DC8
18 234 09/26/1997 Buah Nabar, Indonesia Garuda Indonesia Airlines A300
19 230 07/17/1996 Off East Moriches, New York Trans World Airlines B747
20 229 09/02/1998 Off Nova Scotia, Canada Swissair MD11
21 228 06/01/2009 Atlantic Ocean Air France A330
- 228 08/06/1997 Agana, Guam Korean Airlines B747
23 227 01/08/1996 Kinshasa, Zaire African Air AN32
24 225 05/25/2002 Off Penghu, Taiwan China Airlines B747
25 223 05/26/1991 Ban Nong Rong, Thailand Lauda Air B767
26 217 10/31/1999 Off Nantucket, Massachusetts EgyptAir B767
27 213 01/01/1978 Off Bandra, Maharashtra, India Air India B747
28 203 02/16/1998 Taipei, Taiwan China Airlines A300
29 200 07/10/1985 Uchuduk, Uzbekistan, USSR Aeroflot TU154
30 199 07/17/2007 Sao Paulo, Brazil TAM Brazil A320
31 191 12/04/1974 Maskeliya, Sri Lanka Martinair Holland DC8
32 189 09/11/2001 Arlington, Virginia American Airlines B757
- 189 02/06/1996 Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Alas Nacionales (Birgenair) B757
34 188 08/03/1975 Immouzer, Morocco Aila Royal Jordanian Airlines B707
35 183 05/09/1987 Warsaw, Poland Polskie Linie Lotnicze IL62
- 183 11/15/1978 Katunavake, Sir Lanka Loftleidir DC8
37 181 11/27/1983 Madrid, Spain Avanca B747
38 180 12/01/1981 Mt. San Pietro, Corsica, France Index Adria Avioproment MD80
39 178 10/11/1994 Omsk, Russia Aeroflot TU154
- 178 08/11/1979 Dneprodzerzhinsk, USSR Aeroflot / Aeroflot TU134/TU134
41 176 06/07/1989 Paramaribo, Surinam Surinam Airways DC8
- 176 09/10/1976 Gaj, Hrvatska, Yugoslavia Index Adria Avio / BA DC9 /Trident
- 176 01/22/1973 Kano, Nigeria Aila Royal Jordanian Airlines B707
44 174 10/13/1972 Krasnaya Polyana, USSR Aeroflot IL62
45 171 09/19/1989 Bilma, Niger Union des Trans. Aeriens DC10
- 171 09/03/1989 Havana, Cuba Cubana IL62M
47 170 08/22/2006 Donetsk, Ukraine Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154M
48 169 01/30/2000 Off Abidjan, Ivory Coast Kenya Airways A310-304
49 168 07/15/2009 Qazvin, Iran Caspian Airlines Tu-154M
50 167 09/28/1992 Bhadagon, Katmandu, Nepal Pakistan Inter. Airlines A300
- 167 03/31/1986 Maravatio, Mexico Mexicana B727
52 166 07/07/1980 Nar Alma-Ata, Kasakastan, USSR Aeroflot TU154B
53 163 07/30/1971 Morioko, Japan All Nippon / Japanese AF B727 / F86F
54 160 08/16/2005 La Cucharita, Venezuela West Carribean Airlines MD-82
- 160 12/20/1995 Buga, Columbia American Airlines B757
- 160 06/06/1994 Xi'an, China China Northwest Airlines TU154M
57 159 11/28/1987 Mauritius, Indian Ocean South Africian Airways B747
58 158 05/22/2010 Mangalore, India Air India Express B737
59 157 12/22/1992 Tripoli, Libya Libya Arab Airlines / Lib AF B727
60 156 08/16/1987 Romulus, Michigan Northwest Airlines MD82
- 156 08/14/1972 KKönigs Wusterhausen, E. Germany Interflug IL62
- 156 11/26/1979 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Pakistan Inter. Airlines B707
63 155 12/03/1972 Tenerife, Canary Islands Spantax Convair 990
- 155 04/04/1975 Siagon, Vietnam U.S. Air Force C-5 Gallaxy
65 154 03/16/1969 Maracaibo, Venezuela Venezolana Inter. de Av. DC9
- 154 09/19/1976 Karatepe Mountains, Turkey Turkish Airlines B727
- 154 09/29/2006 Sao Felix do Araguaia,Brazil Gol Airlines B-737
68 153 07/09/1982 Kenner, Louisiana Pan American World Airways B727
- 153 08/20/2008 Madrid, Spain Spanair MD-82
70 152 06/30/2009 Mitsamiouli, Comoros Yemenia A310
152 07/28/2010 Islamabad, Pakistan Airblue A321
72 149 05/04/2002 Kano, Nigeria EAS Airlines BAC-111
73 148 02/19/1985 Mt. Oiz, Spain Iberia Airlines B727
- 148 01/03/2004 Off Sharm el Sheikh-Ophira, Egypt Flash Air B737
75 146 04/25/1980 Tenerife, Canary Islands Dan Air B727
76 145 07/04/2001 Irkutsk, Russia Vladivostokavia TU154
77 144 02/08/1989 Santa Maria, Azores Independent Air Inc B707
- 144 09/25/1978 San Diego, California Pacific Southwest/Private B727 /C172
79 143 11/07/1996 Lagos, Nigeria Aviation Devel. Corp. B727
- 143 03/17/1988 Cucuta, Colombia Avianca B727
- 143 08/23/2000 Off Manama, Behrain Gulf Air A320
- 143 09/05/2005 Medan, Indonesia Mandala Airlines B737
83 141 08/29/1996 Spitsbergen, Norway Vnokovo Airlines TU154
- 141 12/18/1995 Kahengula, Angola Trans Service Airlift L188C
- 141 11/24/1992 Liutang, Guangxi, China China Southern Airlines B737
86 140 12/25/2003 Cotonou, Benin UTA B727
87 137 06/08/1982 Near Pacatuba, Brazil VASP B727
88 135 08/02/1985 Ft. Worth-Dallas, Texas Delta Air Lines L1011
89 134 12/16/1960 Staten Island/Brooklyn, New York United Air Lines / TWA DC8 / L1049
90 133 02/04/1966 Tokyo Bay, Japan All Nippon Airways B727
- 133 02/08/1993 Tehran, Iran Iran Air / Air Force TU154M
92 132 09/08/1994 Aliquippa, Pennsylvania USAir B737
- 132 05/19/1993 Medellin, Colombia SAM B727
- 132 06/28/1982 Southern Belarus, USSR Aeroflot YAK42
95 131 11/19/1977 Funchal, Is. of Madeira, Portugal TAP B727
- 131 04/19/2000 Samal Island, Philippines Air Philippines B737
97 130 10/02/1990 Kuwait City, Kuwait Iraqi Airways IL76
- 130 11/08/1983 Lubango, Huila, Angola TAAG Angola Airlines B737
- 130 11/16/1967 Near Sverdlovsk, Russia Aeroflot IL62
- 130 06/03/1962 Villeneuve-le-Roi, France Air France B707
European Pressphoto Agency: Rescue work being undertaken as charred bodies are seen trapped at the site of the Air India plane crash in Mangalore.An Air India Express plane crashed at Mangalore airport in southern India Saturday morning after running off the end of the runway, with 158 of the 166 people on board now feared dead.There were eight survivors, according to the Minister of Civil Aviation. The plane, arriving from Dubai, overshot the runway at the airport around 6:30 a.m. local time and burst into flames, Anup Srivastava, an Air India spokesman, said at a press conference. The plane broke into pieces and wreckage was scattered in a ravine.Mr. Srivastava declined to comment on the cause of the crash. "We have regulatory authorities that will conduct investigations according to procedure," he said. "There will be an inquiry, and the reason will emerge." There was good visibility at the time of the crash, the worst in India in a decade.While information from the scene remained sketchy, an international team of investigators is certain to look at whether the plane landed too far or too fast down the hilltop runway, and whether mechanical malfunctions of or other problems prevented the crew from braking in time. Boeing Co., which built the plane, and investigators from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will participate in the probe.Crashes involving runway overruns, dubbed "runway excursions" by safety experts, constitute the most common type of commercial-aircraft and business-jet crashes around the world. These kinds of accidents—almost always resulting from excessively fast and steep approaches to runways—have accounted for nearly 40% of all commercial accidents world-wide going back to the 1990s. While the majority don't end in deaths, the overall number of such accidents often makes them the largest single cause of airline fatalities annually.Relatives wait to identify the bodies of the victims of the Air India Express plane crash at a mortuary in Mangalore.Despite global efforts by aircraft manufacturers, cockpit-instrument suppliers and safety experts to reduce the frequency of such accidents, the number of such accidents has remained relatively stable over the years. Runway excursions have been particularly difficult to counter in some Third World countries, where pilot training and airline tradition may not adequately stress the dangers of continuing improper approaches."An excursion normally isn't a total surprise for the crew," according to James Burin, a senior official with the Flight Safety Foundation, a leading international air-safety advocacy group based in Alexandria, Va. The foundation has developed and distributed tens of thousands of videos and informational packets around the world to make pilots aware of the reasons planes veer off runways. But one of the nagging problems still contributing to runway accidents, according to safety experts, is lack of cockpit discipline.Such missteps can be especially dangerous at airports that lack adequate safety buffer zones at the end of runways to slow down speeding airliners. That has been a special concern in many countries in Africa, where hundreds of residents around airports have been killed from planes zooming off runways and slamming into residential areas.One of the issues investigators are expected to delve into in India is the size and makeup of the safety zone around the Mangalore strip. The Associated Press quoted a senior Indian aviation official saying that the safety area at the end of the runway was only about 300 feet, much smaller than recommended by international safety standards.Firefighters try to put out the fire on the Air India plane. It overshot the runway while landing in the southern Indian city of Mangalore.But runway excursions and substandard safety areas aren't restricted to Third World airports. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines are two U.S. carriers that have experienced runway excursions on wet or snowy runways in recent years, with investigators later determining that the pilots should have opted to break off their approaches and go around for another landing attempt. Neither of those crashes ended in fatalities. A number of U.S. regional carriers also have been criticized by air-safety investigators for improper landings that ended in planes careening off runways.It is too early to draw definitive conclusions from the crash. But early reports indicated that the Boeing 737-800 veered off the hilltop runway, with survivors clambering out of the plane before fire engulfed the wreckage. A police spokesman said that rescue operations, including 25 fire-operation units and ambulances, were stationed at the site."This is a major calamity," said V.S. Acharya, home minister for the state of Karnataka, on CNN-IBN TV. Television pictures showed rescue workers struggling to deal with the wreckage in a small valley near the airport.The crash is believed to be the first major crash of an airliner in India since July 17, 2000, when an Alliance Air Boeing 737-200, an older model, crashed into houses during a second landing attempt at Patna, killing 51.At the scene Saturday afternoon at an impromptu press conference, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said the pilot appeared to have lost control of the plane. He said the weather during the landing was fine. The pilot reportedly had flown into the airport several times. He said all the crew on the plane had died. He said the Indian government will probe the cause of the accident and that the black box inflight recorder had yet to be recovered.Mr. Patel also said the aircraft was one and a half years old.Dubai and southern India have close ties because of the number of migrant workers who go from southern India to Dubai for work.One survivor, interviewed in the hospital by NDTV, a New Delhi television channel, said that one of the plane's tires had burst on landing and that passengers had little time to escape the plane before it burst into flames after crashing off the end of the runway."It was not smooth, the flight shook on landing," said the survivor, whose name was not given. "Our hands and feet caught fire."Carl Esposito, a high-ranking safety-equipment manager at Honeywell, said Saturday that the company's runway-distance warning system has "addressed the majority of the situations [that occur] during unstabilized approaches." He also said Honeywell is receiving "quite a bit of interest from airlines" about the technology.Technology is available to help pilots avoid mistakes that end in runway overruns. Honeywell International Inc., for example, for years has marketed a safety system designed to alert cockpit crews if their plane is approaching a runway too fast or will touch down too far down the strip. European plane maker Airbus has developed a different system designed to warn pilots if they won't have enough room to safely stop their aircraft, based on runway conditions and other factors. Roughly four out of five commercial-aircraft excursions around the world occur during landings, with roughly half of those aircrafts veering off the side of the strip and the rest barreling past the end.One of the most dramatic runway excursions in recent years involved a TACA airlines Airbus A320 that skidded off a rain-soaked runway at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in May 2008, killing five people and injuring more than 30. The plane smashed into cars and buildings, but remained largely intact. A year earlier, Brazil's TAM airlines lost an A320 during a runway excursion at São Paulo's Congonhas Airport, killing more than 200 people, as the plane veered across a busy highway during rush hour, crashed into a gas station and exploded. Both of those airports were considered particularly challenging by pilots, because of relatively short runways and the lack of adequate safety areas if aircraft can't stop in time.Air India has been struggling to overcome the global recession, payments for new aircraft, an entrenched staff, a botched merger and increasing competition from private carriers. In the year ended March 31, its parent company, National Aviation Company of India Ltd., is estimated to have posted losses totaling about $1.2 billion, making it one of the global industry's most unprofitable carriers and a major financial problem for the Indian government.Chairman Arvind Jadhav has been trying to turn the airline around by seeking to cut employee ranks, increase cargo on long-haul flights and persuade the government to inject about $2.2 billion in funds.The airline's origins date to 1932, when Indian industrialist and aviation pioneer J.R.D. Tata founded Tata Airlines. It later became government-owned Air India. In 2007, Air India was merged with Indian Airlines, the state-run domestic service. But the merger has only been partially completed.In the meantime, Indian private carriers such as Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. and Jet Airways have eaten into its domestic market share. And international carriers have begun flying directly from abroad to Indian cities beyond Delhi and Mumbai.
Status:
Chennai accident
Date: 05 MAR 1999
Time: 23:29
Type: Boeing 747-2B3F (SCD)
Operator: Air France
Registration: F-GPAN
C/n / msn: 21515/337
First flight: 1978-08-21 (20 years 7 months)
Total airframe hrs: 72968
Cycles: 17608
Engines: 4 General Electric CF6-50E2
Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Airplane damage: Written off
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Chennai Airport (MAA) (India)
Phase: Landing (LDG)
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Bangalore-Hindustan Airport (BLR) (BLR/VOBG), India
Destination airport: Chennai Airport (MAA) (MAA/VOMM), India
Flightnumber: 6745
Air France flight 6745 had taken off from Paris and was on its way to Chennai (MAA) after some enroute stops at Karachi (KHI) and Bangalore (BLR). The cargo plane carried 66 tonnes of cargo, that included three foreign cars, 20 tonnes of ITC cigarettes, chemicals and garments.
The aircraft was cleared for a runway 07 ILS approach, but the approach was abandoned due to indications that the undercarriage was not down and locked. The flight crew concluded that all gear were down and locked despite a red GEAR light on the forward instrument panel. The crew had failed to recognize that the green GEAR DOWN light for the nose gear was not illuminated and assumed that the red GEAR light on the forward instrument panel was a false indication. The gear was recycled, but an alternate extension was not attempted.
The pilot positioned the airplane for another approach. The aircraft touched down with the nose gear retracted. The nose struck the runway. The plane skidded and came to rest at 7000 feet down the runway (which is 13050 feet long). As the pilot informed the ATC of the mishap, he noticed smoke in the cockpit. Even as the smoke was being extinguished, flames erupted in the front portion of the aircraft. One of the crewmembers came down through a rope ladder from the cockpit, the other four were brought down through the rear of the aircraft using the fire engine step ladders. The fire services were not able to extinguish the fire and the plane burned out completely.
Mumbai accident:Status:Final,Date:10 NOV 2009 Time:16:40 Type:ATR-72-212A Operator:Kingfisher Airlines Registration: VT-KAC C/n / msn: 729 First flight: 2006-05-18 (3 years 6 months) Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127F Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 38 Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 42 Airplane damage: Substantial Location:Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM) (India) Phase: Landing (LDG) Nature:Domestic Scheduled Passenger Departure airport:Bhavnagar Airport (BHU) (BHU/VABV), India Destination airport:Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM) (BOM/VABB), India Flightnumber:4124Narrative:
An ATR-72 passenger plane, operated by Kingfisher Airlines, was damaged when it skidded off the runway on landing at Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM), India. Flight IT4124 operated on a scheduled domestic flight from Bhavnagar Airport (BHU) to Mumbai. There were 36 passengers, 2 Infants and four crew members on board the aircraft.
Maintenance on runway runway 14/32 and runway 27 at Mumbai effected operations at the airport between certain times. There were several NOTAM's in effect relating to runway 27:
GP RWY27 NOT AVBL DUE SHORTENED RWY27. BTN 0730-1130 ON EVERY TUE, 03 NOV 07:30 2009 UNTIL 23 MAR 11:30 2010
RWY27 CL LGT NOT AVBL. 27 OCT 12:30 2009 UNTIL 31 MAR 23:59 2010.
RWY27 TDZ LGT NOT AVBL. 27 OCT 12:30 2009 UNTIL 31 MAR 23:59 2010.
RWY27 SHALL BE USED FOR LDG AND TKOF FM A POINT 1262M FM THR OF RWY27
1.THE SHORTENED RWY SHALL BE DESIGNATED AS RWY 27A. RADAR VECTORED VISUAL APP WILL BE PROVIDED SUBJ TO VIS 2800M OR MORE.DECLARED DIST OF RWY27A-
RWY TORA TODA LDA ASDA
27A 1703M 1703M 1703M 1703M
2.THR MARKING PROVIDED ON BOTH SIDES OF RWY27A ON RWY SHOULDER AREA AT A DIST OF 180M
3.PAPI RWY27A PROVIDED
4.AIMING POINT MARKING PROVIDED ON SHOULDER OF RWY27A OPPOSITE PAPI
5.DIST INDICATION SIGN PROVIDED EV 300M FM RWY27A END.
6.TORA SIGN PROVIDED AT TWY Q HLDG POINT.
7.TEMP WING BAR LGT PROVIDED FOR THR.
8.RWY EDGE LGT,RWY CL AND RWY END LGT PROVIDED FOR RWY27A. BTN 0730-1130 UTC ON EV TUE ON [...],10,17,24 NOV 2009 [...]
Runway 27 thus was available only after runway intersection as runway 27A. To carry out operations on this reduced runway 27 a NOTAM was issued and designated runway 27A for visual approach only.The weather conditions prevailing at the time of accident was winds 070/07 knots visibility 2800 m with feeble rain. Prior to Kingfisher aircraft, Air India flight IC-164, an Airbus 319 had landed and reported to ATC that it had aquaplaned and broken two runway edge lights. The ATC acknowledged it and sent runway inspection vehicle to inspect the runway. The ATC person was not familiar with the terminology of 'aquaplaning' and not realizing the seriousness of it, cleared the Kingfisher flight for landing. At the time of accident there were water patches on the runway. ATC also did not transmit to the Kingfisher aircraft the information regarding aquaplaning reported by the previous aircraft.The ATR-72 approached high and fast. The aircraft landed late on the runway and the runway length available was around 1000 m from the touchdown point. In the prevailing weather conditions this runway length was just sufficient to stop the aircraft on the runway. During landing the aircraft aquaplaned and did not decelerate even though reversers and full manual braking was applied by both the cockpit crew. The aircraft started skidding toward the left of center line. On nearing the runway end, the pilot initiated a 45° right turn, after crossing Taxiway N10, the aircraft rolled into an unpaved wet area. It rolled over drainage pipes and finally came to a stop near open drain. There was no fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT:
The accident occurred due to unstabilized approach and decision of crew not to carry out a 'Go-around'.
Contributory Factors:
i) Water patches on the R/w 27A
ii) Inability of the ATCO to communicate the aircraft about aquaplaning of the previous aircraft
iii) Lack of input from the co-pilot.
1921:Aug. 24, England: British dirigible AR-2 broke in two on trial trip near Hull; 62 died.
1925:Sept. 3, Caldwell, Ohio: U.S. dirigible Shenandoah broke apart; 14 dead.
1930:Oct. 5, Beauvais, France: British dirigible R 101 crashed, killing 47.
1933:April 4, N.J.: U.S. dirigible Akron crashed; 73 died.
1937:May 6, Lakehurst, N.J.: German zeppelinHindenburg destroyed by fire at tower mooring; 36 killed. 1945:July 28, New York City: U.S. Army bomber B-25 crashed into Empire State Building;13 dead.
1953:June 18, near Tokyo: Crash of U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster killed 129 servicemen.
1956:June 30, Grand Canyon, Ariz.: TWA Super Constellation and United Airlines DC-7 collided over the Painted Desert, killing a total of 128 passengers and crew from both aircraft.
1960:Dec. 16, New York City: United DC-8 and Trans World Super Constellation collided and crashed, killing 134 in air and on ground.
1961:Feb. 15, nr. Brussels, Belgium: 72 on board and farmer on ground killed in crash of Sabena plane; U.S. figure skating team wiped out.
1962:March 4, Douala, Cameroon: Trans-African DC-7 crashed on takeoff, killing all 111 people aboard.June 3, Paris: Chartered Air France Boeing 707 crashed after takeoff at Orly Airport, killing 130 June 22, Grande-Teree Island, Guadeloupe: Air France Boeing 707 crashed, killing all 113 aboard.
1963:Nov.29,Montreal:Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F crashed after taking off.All 18 aboard died.
1965:May 20, Cairo: Pakistan International Airways 707 crashed on landing at airport; 124 killed.
1966:Jan. 24, Mont Blanc: Air India Boeing 707 crashed into a mountain in a fog; 117 dead.
Feb. 4, Tokyo: All-Nippon 727 jet crashed into Tokyo Bay as it approached airport, killing all 133 aboard.March 5, near Gotemba City, Japan: BOAC Boeing 707 broke apart in flight and crashed into Mount Fuji; 124 dead.Dec. 24, Binh Thai, South Vietnam: crash of military-chartered CL-44 into village killed 129.
1967:April 20, Nicosia, Cyprus: Chartered Swiss Globe Britannia Turboprop crashed while landing, killing 126.
1970:Feb. 15, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Dominican DC-9 plunged into Caribbean on takeoff; 102 dead.July 3, near Barcelona, Spain: British charter Dan-Air Comet jet crashed into the sea while coming in for a landing at Barcelona; 112 dead.July 5, Toronto: Air Canada DC-8 crashed on landing approach; 109 dead.Nov. 14, Huntington, W.Va.: Chartered Southern Airways DC-9 crashed and burned on approach to Tri-State Airport; 75 dead, including entire Marshall University football team.
1971:July 30, Morioka, Japan: Japanese Boeing 727 and F-86 fighter collided in midair; 162 died.Sept. 4, near Juneau, Alaska: Alaskan Airlines Boeing 727 crashed into Chilkoot Mountains; 109 killed.
1972:May 5, Palermo, Sicily: Alitalia DC-8 hit mountain, killing 115.June 18, London: BEA Trident jetliner crashed after takeoff from Heathrow Airport. All 118 aboard were killed.
Aug. 14, East Berlin, East Germany: Soviet-built East German Ilyushin Il-62 plane crashed, killing 156.Oct. 13, Moscow, Russia: Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-14 crashed during landing due to pilot fatigue and 176 people perish.Dec. 3, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands: Spanish charter jet Convair 990-A jet carrying West German tourists crashed on takeoff; all 155 aboard killed.
Dec. 30, Miami, Fla.: Eastern Airlines Lockheed 1011 TriStar jumbo jet, Flight 401, crashed into Everglades; 101 killed, 75 survived.
1973:Jan. 22, Kano, Nigeria: 171 Nigerian Muslims returning from Mecca and 5 crewmen died in crash.Feb. 21, Sinai: civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 shot down by Israeli fighters after it had strayed off course; 108 died, 5 survived. Officials claimed that the pilot had ignored fighters' warnings to land.April 10, Hochwald, Switzerland: British airliner carrying tourists to Swiss fair crashed in blizzard; 106 dead.July 11, Paris: Boeing 707 of Varig Airlines, en route to Rio de Janeiro, crashed near airport, killing 122 of 134 passengers.
1974:March 3, Paris: Turkish DC-10 jumbo jet crashed in forest shortly after takeoff; all 346 killed.Dec. 4, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Dutch DC-8 carrying Muslims to Mecca killed all 191 when it crashed on landing approach.
1975:April 4, nr. Saigon, Vietnam: Air Force Galaxy C-5A crashed after takeoff, killing 172, mostly Vietnamese children.Aug. 3, Agadir, Morocco: chartered Boeing 707, returning Moroccan workers home after vacation in France, plunged into mountainside; all 188 killed.
1976:Sept. 10, Zagreb, Yugoslavia: midair collision between British Airways Trident and Yugoslav charter DC-9 fatal to all 176 people aboard.Sept. 19, Karatepe, Turkey: Turkish Airlines 727 crashes into mountainous terrain killing 154 people.
1977:March 27, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands: Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s collided on runway. All 249 on KLM plane and 333 of 394 aboard Pan Am jet killed. Total of 582 is highest for any type of aviation disaster.
1978:Jan. 1, Bombay: Air India 747 with 213 aboard exploded and plunged into sea minutes after takeoff.Sept. 25, San Diego, Calif.: Pacific Southwest plane collided in midair with Cessna. All 135 on airliner, 2 in Cessna, and 7 on ground killed for total of 144.Nov. 15, Colombo, Sri Lanka: chartered Icelandic Airlines DC-8, carrying 249 Muslim pilgrims from Mecca, crashed in thunderstorm during landing approach; 183 killed.
1979:May 25, Chicago: American Airlines DC-10 lost left engine upon takeoff and crashed seconds later, killing all 272 people aboard and 3 on the ground in worst U.S. air disaster.
Nov. 26, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Pakistan International Airlines 707 carrying pilgrims returning from Mecca crashed on takeoff; all 156 aboard killed.Nov. 28, Mt. Erebus, Antarctica: Air New Zealand DC-10 crashed on sightseeing flight; 257 killed.
1980:Aug. 19, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: all 301 aboard Saudi Arabian jet killed when burning plane made safe landing but passengers were unable to escape.
1981:Dec. 1, Ajaccio, Corsica: Yugoslav DC-9 Super 80 carrying tourists crashed into mountain on landing approach, killing all 178 aboard.
1983:June 28, near Cuenca, Ecuador: Ecuadorian jetliner crashed in mountains, killing 119.
Aug. 30, nr. island of Sakhalin off Siberia: Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 shot down by Soviet fighter after it strayed off course into Soviet airspace. All 269 aboard killed. Secret Soviet documents released in Oct. 1992 reveal that the plane was flying a straight course for two hours with its navigational lights on and did not take evasive action. Crew was unaware of its location and never saw the Soviet fighter that downed them. The Soviet fighter did not give a warning by firing tracer bullets as originally claimed.Nov. 27, Madrid: Colombian Avianca Boeing 747 crashed near Mejorada del Campó Airport, killing 181 people aboard. Eleven people survived.
1985:June 23, Atlantic Ocean: Air India 747 exploded over the ocean killing 329. The probable cause was a Sikh terrorist bomb.Aug. 12, Japan: Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into a mountain, killing 520 of the 524 aboard. Highest death toll in a single-plane crash in aviation history.Dec. 12, Gander, Newfoundland: a chartered Arrow Air DC-8 bringing American soldiers home for Christmas crashed on takeoff. All 256 aboard died.
1987:May 9, Poland: Polish airliner Ilyushin 62M, on charter flight to N.Y., crashed after takeoff from Warsaw, killing 183.Aug. 16, Romulus, Mich.: Northwest Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 crashed into a highway shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing 156 (including 2 on the ground). Girl, 4, only survivor.Nov. 26, south of Mauritius: South African Airways Boeing 747 went down in rough seas; 160 died.Nov. 29, Burma: Korean Air Boeing 747 jetliner exploded from bomb planted by North Korean agents and crashed into sea, killing all 115 aboard.
1988:July 3, Persian Gulf: U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes shot down Iran Air Airbus A-300 after mistaking it for an attacking jet fighter; 290 killed.Aug. 28, Ramstein Air Force Base, West Germany: 3 jets from Italian Air Force acrobatic team collided in midair during air show and crashed, killing 70 people, including the pilots and spectators on the ground.Dec. 21, Lockerbie, Scotland: N.Y.-bound Pan-Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight from a terrorist bomb and crashed into Scottish village, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground..
1989:June 7, Paramaribo, Suriname: a Surinam Airways DC-8 carrying 174 passengers crashed into the jungle while making a third attempt to land in a thick fog, killing 168 aboard.July 19, Sioux City, Iowa: United Airlines DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing. Out of a total of 296 aboard, 111 were killed, 172 were injured, and 13 escaped unharmed.
1991:May 26, nr. Bangkok, Thailand: Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767, en route to Vienna, crashed into jungle hilltop shortly after takeoff from Bangkok airport, killing all 223 aboard. Thailand's worst air disaster.July 11, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Canadian-chartered DC-8 carrying pilgrims returning to Nigeria crashed after takeoff, killing 261 people.
1994:Jan. 3, Irkutsk, Russia: Russian Tupolev-154 crashes after taking off, killing all 124 people.April 14, northern Iraq: two American F-15C fighter aircraft mistook two U.S. Army blackhawk helicopters for Russian-made Iraqi MI-24 helicopters and shot them down over no-fly zone, killing all 26 on board.April 26, Nagoya, Japan: China Airlines Airbus A-300 from Taiwan crash-landed and exploded on the tarmac. Only 7 of the 271 passengers aboard survived.June 6, Xian, China: China Northwest Airlines Tupolev-154 crashed 10 minutes after takeoff, killing all 160 aboard.Sept. 8, nr. Aliquippa, Pa.: USAir Boeing 737 crashed into a ravine shortly before it was supposed to land at Pittsburgh International Airport. All 132 aboard were killed.
1995:Dec. 20, nr. Cali, Colombia: 160 people killed when American Airlines Boeing 757 crashed in Andean Mountains.
1996 :Jan. 8, Kinshasa, Zaire: Russian-built Antonov-32 cargo plane crashed after takeoff from Kinshasa into the center of the city, killing over 350 people and injuring at least 470.Feb. 6, off coast of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic: a Birgenair Boeing 757 en route to Germany, chartered by Dominican Alas Nacionales. crashed into Atlantic Ocean after takeoff, killing 189.
Feb. 29, near Arequipa, Peru: Faucett Airline Boeing 737 crashed into mountain as it prepared to land. All 117 passengers and crew were killed.May 11, Everglades, Fla.: ValuJet DC-9 went down in swamp, killing 110. Cargo fire caused by oxygen generators missing safety caps.July 17, off coast of Long Island, N.Y.: TWA Boeing 747-100, Flight 800, bound for Paris from N.Y., exploded over waters of eastern L.I. and crashed into Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 aboard.Aug. 29, Svalbard, Norway: A Tu-154, taking miners and their families to a Russian mining settlement on Spitsbergen, crashed into a mountaintop, killing a 141 on board, including 29 children.Nov. 12, nr. New Delhi, India: shortly after takeoff, Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collided in midair with Kazak Airlines Ilyushin 76 approaching the New Delhi airport. All 349 passengers and crew were killed; the world's worst midair collision.
1997:Aug. 6, Guam: Korean Air Boeing 747-300 from Seoul crashed into jungle near Agana International Airport, killing 228 people; 26 survived.Sept. 26, nr. northern Indonesia: Indonesian Garuda Airlines A-300 Airbus jetliner crashed while approaching Medan Airport, Sumatra, killing all 234 people aboard.
1998:Feb. 2, Mindanao, Philippines: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashed into a mountain; 104 dead.
Feb. 3, Mt. Cermis, Italy: low-flying U.S. Marine surveillance jet on training flight accidentally cut ski-lift cable-car line, causing all 20 people aboard to fall some 260 ft to their deaths.Feb. 16, Taipei, Taiwan: China Airlines Airbus A-300 jumbo jet crashed while trying to land in fog at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing all 196 aboard and at least 6 people on the ground.
Sept. 2, off Nova Scotia, Canada: Swissair flight from N.Y. to Geneva crashed off Canadian coast, killing all 229 aboard. 136 Americans were on the McDonnell Douglas MD-11.
1999:Oct. 31, southeast of Nantucket Island: EgyptAir Boeing 767-300 on flight from N.Y. to Cairo crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 aboard.
2000:Jan. 30, off the Ivory Coast: Kenya Airways Airbus A-310, carrying 179 passengers and crew, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after takeoff from Abidjan. Ten people survived.July 25, Gonesse, France: Air France Concorde jet en route to N.Y. crashed into a hotel after taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris; all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground were killed; first Concorde jet to crash since the plane went into commercial service in 1976.Aug. 23, off Bahrain: Gulf Air Airbus A-320 on a flight from Cairo crashed into the Persian Gulf, killing all 143 aboard.
2001:July 4, Irkutsk, Russia: Russian Tupolev-154 crashed on its third approach to the runway for a refueling stop, killing all 145 people.Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: For the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Oct. 8, Milan, Italy: Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) MD-87 jet bound for Copenhagen hit a Cessna aircraft during takeoff in a heavy fog at Milan's Linate airport. All 104 passengers and 6 crew aboard the airliner, as well as the four people in the smaller plane and four airport workers, were killed in what is one of Italy's worst air disastersNov. 12, Queens, N.Y.: American Airlines Airbus A-300, bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed into residential neighborhood minutes after taking off from JFK International Airport. All 260 people aboard and 5 on the ground were killed.
2002:Feb. 12, western Iran: Iranian airliner en route from Teheran to Khorramabad crashed into a mountain while trying to land, killing all 118 aboard. Overcast or foggy conditions may have contributed to the crash.April 15, nr. Pusan, South Korea: Air China Boeing 767 en route from Beijing crashed into a forested hillside near airport, killing at least 115 people. Miraculously, 38 passengers survived. Poor weather conditions were blamed for the crash.May 4, Kano, Nigeria: EAS Airline BAC 1-11 bound for Lagos plowed into a poor, densely populated suburb of Kano shortly after takeoff, killing 148. Dead included all 76 aboard and dozens on the ground.May 7, Dalian Bay, northeast China: China Northern Airlines MD-82 jet crashed into the bay shortly after captain reported a fire in the cabin. Out of 103 passengers and 9 crew aboard, none survived.
May 25, nr. Pescadores off western Taiwan: China Airlines Boeing 747, bound for Hong Kong with 225 people aboard, broke apart in midair and plunged into sea 20 minutes after takeoff from Taipei. There were no survivors.July 27, nr. Lviv, Ukraine: Russian-built Sukhoi-27 fighter jet crashed while performing an acrobatic maneuver during an air show. 83 people were killed, including 23 children; the 2 pilots ejected to safety. It is the worst air show disaster in history.
2003:Feb. 19, nr. Shahdad, Iran: Iranian military airplane, Ilyushin Il-76MD, carrying members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, crashed in the Sirach Mountains, killing all 276 on board, making this Iran's worst air disaster.March 6, Tamanrasset, Algeria: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashed after takeoff from Tamanrasset, killing 102 people.July 8, Port Sudan, Sudan: a Sudan Airways airplane, a Boeing 737, experienced technical difficulties shortly after takeoff and crashed while attempting to return to the Port Sudan airport. One child survived and 116 passengers and crew perished.Dec. 25, Cotonou, Benin: a chartered Boeing 727 jet bound for Beirut, Lebanon, crashed after hitting a building on takeoff, killing at least 140 people.
2004:Aug. 24, Moscow, Russia: two Russian planes, both departing from Moscow's airport, crashed within minutes of each other, killing a total of 89 people. Explosives were found on both flights.
2005:Feb. 3, Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan Kam Air, Boeing 737, bound to Kabul crashed in the mountains, killing 105.Aug. 14, Athens, Greece: a Helios Airways, Boeing 737, en route from Cyprus to Athens lost cabin pressure and crashed when it ran out of fuel, killing all 121 on board.Aug. 16, western Venezuela: a chartered West Caribbean Airways, MD-82, en route from Panama to Martinique, crashed in remote western Venezuela, killing all 160 on board.Sept. 5, Medan, Indonesia: Mandala Airlines, Boeing 737, crashed soon after takeoff, killing 102 on board and 47 on the ground; 13 passengers survived.Oct. 22, Lagos, Nigeria: after take-off from Lagos, a Nigerian Bellview Airlines Boeing 737-200 enroute to Abuja crashed, killing all 117.
Dec. 6, Tehran, Iran: Iranian military plane, a Lockheed C-130, crashed during an emergency landing the Tehran airport, hit an apartment building, and killed at least 115.Dec. 10, Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Nigerian Sosoliso Airlines plane carrying 110 crashed during landing, killing 106.Dec. 19, Miami, Fla.: Chalk's Ocean Airways, Grumman G73 seaplane, headed to the Bahamas, crashed into the ocean off Miami, killing all 20 on-board.
2006:May 3, Sochi, Russia: an Armavia (Armenian airline), Airbus A-320, crashed in the Black Sea en route to Sochi, killing all 113 aboard.July 9, Siberia, Russia: a Russian airline S7 Airbus A-310 slid off the end of the runway just after landing in Irkutsk, killing 122 people.July 10, Multan, Pakistan: a Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F-27 turboprop crashed minutes after take off, killing all 45 on board.Aug. 22, Donetsk, Ukraine: a Pulkovo (Russian) airliner, TU 154, flying from the Black Sea resort town of Anapa to St. Petersburg , reported a fire on board and crashed in stormy weather, killing all 170, including 45 children, on board.Aug. 27, Lexington, Ky.: Comair Flight 5191, a Bombardier commuter jet, crashed after attempting to take off on the wrong runway, killing 49.
2007:Jan. 1, Indonesia: Adam Air Flight KI-574, flying from Java to Manado, crashed in stormy weather and strong winds, killing all of the 102 people on board.March 7, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A Garuda Indonesia Airlines plane overshot the runway and crashed, killing 22 of the 140 people on board.May 5, Doula, Cameroon: A Kenya-bound Kenya Airways plane took off in stormy weather and crashed moments later, killing all 114 people on board.July 17, Sao Paulo, Brazil: An Airbus skidded off the runway at Congonhas Airport in rainy weather and crashed, killing at least 176 people. It was the worst aviation accident in Brazil's history, and the second in less than 10 months.Sept. 16, Phuket, Bangkok: A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 plane, which took off from Bangkok, skids off the runway and bursts into flames during heavy rain in Phuket. At least 88 people are killed.Nov. 30, western Turkey: A passenger jet, the McDonnell Douglas MD-83, crashed seven miles from its destination airport in Isparta, killing all 56 passengers.
2008:June 10, Khartoum, Sudan: A Sudan Airways airbus, flying from Amman to Khartoum, burst into flames when it skidded off the runway while landing in stormy weather, killing 32 passengers.Aug. 20, Madrid, Spain: At least 153 people died when a 160-person passenger plane, flying from Barajas airport in Madrid to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, skidded off the runway during take-off and burst into flames.Aug. 22, Utah: All 10 passengers of a twin-engine plane died when the Beech King Air A-100 crashed and caught fire near Canyonlands Field airport in southeastern Utah.Aug. 25, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: An Itek Air Boeing 737 bound for Iran crashed and caught fire about 10 minutes after take-off, killing 68 out of the 90 passengers.Sept. 1, eastern Congo: A Beechcraft plane carrying 15 passengers and 2 crew members crashed on a ridge in the eastern Congo, killing everyone on board.Oct. 8, Nepal: A Yeti Airlines passenger plane, flying from Kathmandu to Lukla in eastern Nepal, burst into flames on the runway while landing in heavy cloud, killing 18 of the 19 people on board—only the Nepalese pilot survived.Nov. 4, Mexico: All nine passengers and five people on the ground died when a Learjet crashed in Mexico City during afternoon rush hour. Turbulence from flying too close to a large passenger plane caused the Learjet to crash.Nov. 16, Canada: Seven passengers died when a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft crashed off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia.Dec. 8, California, U.S.: Three civilians died when a military fighter jet crashed into a house in San Diego about two miles from its airfield destination. The pilot, who survived the crash, had lost power in one engine and tried to reach the airfield on a single working engine.
2009:Jan. 15, New York City, U.S.: All 155 passengers and crew onboard US Airways Flight 1549 survived after their plane lost power in both engines and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.Feb. 7, Brazil: A twin turboprop plane, flying from Coari to Manaus, crashed into a river in the Amazon, killing 24 passengers. Four people survived and were able to swim clear of the wreckage.Feb. 12, New York, U.S.: All 45 passengers and 4 crew members died when a Continental flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed five minutes outside Buffalo airport, damaging homes and killing one person on the ground.Feb. 25, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Nine people died and at least 50 more were injured when a Turkish plane crashed during the landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport. The plane carrying 134 passengers en route from Istanbul broke into three pieces but did not catch fire.June 1, Brazil: In the worst aviation disaster since 2001, Air France Airbus A330 disappeared somewhere off the northeast coast of Brazil with 228 passengers on board, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. No mayday signals were sent before crashing.June 30, Indian Ocean: a Yemenia Jet, on its way to Comoros, crashed into the Indian Ocean in an attempt to land. There were 153 people on board, with only one survivor, a 14-year-old girl. Severe weather and turbulence are believed to have caused the crash.July 15, Iran: a Caspian Airlines plane crashed en route from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia, killing all 168 passengers on impact.July 24, Iran: at least 16 people died when an Aria Air flight skidded off the runway and caught fire in Mashhad, Iran. August 8, New York: a helicopter and plane collided over the Hudson River, killing all nine people on the private plane.
Accident description
Status:
Final:delhi accident
Date: 08 MAR 1994
Time: 14:54
Type: Boeing 737-2R4C
Operator: Sahara India
Registration: VT-SIA
C/n / msn: 21763/571
First flight: 1979-04-25 (14 years 11 months)
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17
Crew: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Ground casualties: Fatalities: 4
Airplane damage: Written off
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (India)
Phase: Takeoff (TOF)
Nature: Training
Departure airport: Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (DEL/VIDP), India
Destination airport: Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (DEL/VIDP), India
Narrative:
Sahara India Airlines Boeing 737 VT-SIA was engaged in a training flight with an instructor and 3 trainee pilots. Five circuits and landings were completed uneventfully and during the sixth touch-and-go exercise, after the take off from runway 28, the aircraft made a left turn and crashed at the International Terminal Apron. The wreckage of aircraft hit an Aeroflot Ilyushin 86 aircraft parked on Bay No. 45 as a result of which it also caught fire. Two Aeroflot employees, a Russian ground engineer and an airport worker were killed on the ground.PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident occurred due to application of wrong rudder by trainee pilot during engine failure exercise. Capt. did not guard/block the rudder control and give clear commands as Instructor so as to obviate the application of wrong rudder control by the trainee pilot".Sources:
» Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1994 (DGAC India)
Statistics58th loss of a Boeing 737-200
26th worst accident involving a Boeing 737-200 (at the time)
43rd worst accident involving a Boeing 737-200 (currently)
62nd worst accident in India (at the time)
72nd worst accident in India (currently)
Fatal Date Location Carrier Type Photo
1 2907* 09/11/2001 New York City, New York American /United Airlines B767 / B767
2 583 03/27/1977 Tenerife, Canary Islands Pan Am / KLM B747 / B747
3 520 08/12/1985 Mt. Osutaka, Japan Japan Air Lines B747
4 349 11/12/1996 New Delhi, India Saudi / Kazastan B747 / Il76
5 346 03/03/1974 Bois d' Ermenonville, France Turkish Airlines DC10
6 329 06/23/1985 Atlantic Ocean West of Ireland Air India B747
7 301 08/19/1980 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian Airlines L1011
8 290 07/03/1988 Persian Gulf Iran Air A300
9 275 02/19/2003 Shahdad, Iran Islamic Revolution's Guards Co. Il-76MD
10 273 05/25/1979 Chicago, Illinois American Airlines DC10
11 270 12/21/1988 Lockerbie, Scotland Pan American World Airways B747
12 269 09/01/1983 Sakhalin Island, Russia Korean Airlines B747
13 265 11/12/2001 Belle Harbor, Queens, New York American Airlines A300
14 264 04/26/1994 Komaki, Japan China Airlines A300
15 261 07/11/1991 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Nationair/charter Nigeria AW DC8
16 257 11/28/1979 Mt. Erebus, Antarctica Air New Zealand DC10
17 256 12/12/1985 Gander, Newfoundland, Canada Arrow Airways DC8
18 234 09/26/1997 Buah Nabar, Indonesia Garuda Indonesia Airlines A300
19 230 07/17/1996 Off East Moriches, New York Trans World Airlines B747
20 229 09/02/1998 Off Nova Scotia, Canada Swissair MD11
21 228 06/01/2009 Atlantic Ocean Air France A330
- 228 08/06/1997 Agana, Guam Korean Airlines B747
23 227 01/08/1996 Kinshasa, Zaire African Air AN32
24 225 05/25/2002 Off Penghu, Taiwan China Airlines B747
25 223 05/26/1991 Ban Nong Rong, Thailand Lauda Air B767
26 217 10/31/1999 Off Nantucket, Massachusetts EgyptAir B767
27 213 01/01/1978 Off Bandra, Maharashtra, India Air India B747
28 203 02/16/1998 Taipei, Taiwan China Airlines A300
29 200 07/10/1985 Uchuduk, Uzbekistan, USSR Aeroflot TU154
30 199 07/17/2007 Sao Paulo, Brazil TAM Brazil A320
31 191 12/04/1974 Maskeliya, Sri Lanka Martinair Holland DC8
32 189 09/11/2001 Arlington, Virginia American Airlines B757
- 189 02/06/1996 Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic Alas Nacionales (Birgenair) B757
34 188 08/03/1975 Immouzer, Morocco Aila Royal Jordanian Airlines B707
35 183 05/09/1987 Warsaw, Poland Polskie Linie Lotnicze IL62
- 183 11/15/1978 Katunavake, Sir Lanka Loftleidir DC8
37 181 11/27/1983 Madrid, Spain Avanca B747
38 180 12/01/1981 Mt. San Pietro, Corsica, France Index Adria Avioproment MD80
39 178 10/11/1994 Omsk, Russia Aeroflot TU154
- 178 08/11/1979 Dneprodzerzhinsk, USSR Aeroflot / Aeroflot TU134/TU134
41 176 06/07/1989 Paramaribo, Surinam Surinam Airways DC8
- 176 09/10/1976 Gaj, Hrvatska, Yugoslavia Index Adria Avio / BA DC9 /Trident
- 176 01/22/1973 Kano, Nigeria Aila Royal Jordanian Airlines B707
44 174 10/13/1972 Krasnaya Polyana, USSR Aeroflot IL62
45 171 09/19/1989 Bilma, Niger Union des Trans. Aeriens DC10
- 171 09/03/1989 Havana, Cuba Cubana IL62M
47 170 08/22/2006 Donetsk, Ukraine Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154M
48 169 01/30/2000 Off Abidjan, Ivory Coast Kenya Airways A310-304
49 168 07/15/2009 Qazvin, Iran Caspian Airlines Tu-154M
50 167 09/28/1992 Bhadagon, Katmandu, Nepal Pakistan Inter. Airlines A300
- 167 03/31/1986 Maravatio, Mexico Mexicana B727
52 166 07/07/1980 Nar Alma-Ata, Kasakastan, USSR Aeroflot TU154B
53 163 07/30/1971 Morioko, Japan All Nippon / Japanese AF B727 / F86F
54 160 08/16/2005 La Cucharita, Venezuela West Carribean Airlines MD-82
- 160 12/20/1995 Buga, Columbia American Airlines B757
- 160 06/06/1994 Xi'an, China China Northwest Airlines TU154M
57 159 11/28/1987 Mauritius, Indian Ocean South Africian Airways B747
58 158 05/22/2010 Mangalore, India Air India Express B737
59 157 12/22/1992 Tripoli, Libya Libya Arab Airlines / Lib AF B727
60 156 08/16/1987 Romulus, Michigan Northwest Airlines MD82
- 156 08/14/1972 KKönigs Wusterhausen, E. Germany Interflug IL62
- 156 11/26/1979 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Pakistan Inter. Airlines B707
63 155 12/03/1972 Tenerife, Canary Islands Spantax Convair 990
- 155 04/04/1975 Siagon, Vietnam U.S. Air Force C-5 Gallaxy
65 154 03/16/1969 Maracaibo, Venezuela Venezolana Inter. de Av. DC9
- 154 09/19/1976 Karatepe Mountains, Turkey Turkish Airlines B727
- 154 09/29/2006 Sao Felix do Araguaia,Brazil Gol Airlines B-737
68 153 07/09/1982 Kenner, Louisiana Pan American World Airways B727
- 153 08/20/2008 Madrid, Spain Spanair MD-82
70 152 06/30/2009 Mitsamiouli, Comoros Yemenia A310
152 07/28/2010 Islamabad, Pakistan Airblue A321
72 149 05/04/2002 Kano, Nigeria EAS Airlines BAC-111
73 148 02/19/1985 Mt. Oiz, Spain Iberia Airlines B727
- 148 01/03/2004 Off Sharm el Sheikh-Ophira, Egypt Flash Air B737
75 146 04/25/1980 Tenerife, Canary Islands Dan Air B727
76 145 07/04/2001 Irkutsk, Russia Vladivostokavia TU154
77 144 02/08/1989 Santa Maria, Azores Independent Air Inc B707
- 144 09/25/1978 San Diego, California Pacific Southwest/Private B727 /C172
79 143 11/07/1996 Lagos, Nigeria Aviation Devel. Corp. B727
- 143 03/17/1988 Cucuta, Colombia Avianca B727
- 143 08/23/2000 Off Manama, Behrain Gulf Air A320
- 143 09/05/2005 Medan, Indonesia Mandala Airlines B737
83 141 08/29/1996 Spitsbergen, Norway Vnokovo Airlines TU154
- 141 12/18/1995 Kahengula, Angola Trans Service Airlift L188C
- 141 11/24/1992 Liutang, Guangxi, China China Southern Airlines B737
86 140 12/25/2003 Cotonou, Benin UTA B727
87 137 06/08/1982 Near Pacatuba, Brazil VASP B727
88 135 08/02/1985 Ft. Worth-Dallas, Texas Delta Air Lines L1011
89 134 12/16/1960 Staten Island/Brooklyn, New York United Air Lines / TWA DC8 / L1049
90 133 02/04/1966 Tokyo Bay, Japan All Nippon Airways B727
- 133 02/08/1993 Tehran, Iran Iran Air / Air Force TU154M
92 132 09/08/1994 Aliquippa, Pennsylvania USAir B737
- 132 05/19/1993 Medellin, Colombia SAM B727
- 132 06/28/1982 Southern Belarus, USSR Aeroflot YAK42
95 131 11/19/1977 Funchal, Is. of Madeira, Portugal TAP B727
- 131 04/19/2000 Samal Island, Philippines Air Philippines B737
97 130 10/02/1990 Kuwait City, Kuwait Iraqi Airways IL76
- 130 11/08/1983 Lubango, Huila, Angola TAAG Angola Airlines B737
- 130 11/16/1967 Near Sverdlovsk, Russia Aeroflot IL62
- 130 06/03/1962 Villeneuve-le-Roi, France Air France B707
European Pressphoto Agency: Rescue work being undertaken as charred bodies are seen trapped at the site of the Air India plane crash in Mangalore.An Air India Express plane crashed at Mangalore airport in southern India Saturday morning after running off the end of the runway, with 158 of the 166 people on board now feared dead.There were eight survivors, according to the Minister of Civil Aviation. The plane, arriving from Dubai, overshot the runway at the airport around 6:30 a.m. local time and burst into flames, Anup Srivastava, an Air India spokesman, said at a press conference. The plane broke into pieces and wreckage was scattered in a ravine.Mr. Srivastava declined to comment on the cause of the crash. "We have regulatory authorities that will conduct investigations according to procedure," he said. "There will be an inquiry, and the reason will emerge." There was good visibility at the time of the crash, the worst in India in a decade.While information from the scene remained sketchy, an international team of investigators is certain to look at whether the plane landed too far or too fast down the hilltop runway, and whether mechanical malfunctions of or other problems prevented the crew from braking in time. Boeing Co., which built the plane, and investigators from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board will participate in the probe.Crashes involving runway overruns, dubbed "runway excursions" by safety experts, constitute the most common type of commercial-aircraft and business-jet crashes around the world. These kinds of accidents—almost always resulting from excessively fast and steep approaches to runways—have accounted for nearly 40% of all commercial accidents world-wide going back to the 1990s. While the majority don't end in deaths, the overall number of such accidents often makes them the largest single cause of airline fatalities annually.Relatives wait to identify the bodies of the victims of the Air India Express plane crash at a mortuary in Mangalore.Despite global efforts by aircraft manufacturers, cockpit-instrument suppliers and safety experts to reduce the frequency of such accidents, the number of such accidents has remained relatively stable over the years. Runway excursions have been particularly difficult to counter in some Third World countries, where pilot training and airline tradition may not adequately stress the dangers of continuing improper approaches."An excursion normally isn't a total surprise for the crew," according to James Burin, a senior official with the Flight Safety Foundation, a leading international air-safety advocacy group based in Alexandria, Va. The foundation has developed and distributed tens of thousands of videos and informational packets around the world to make pilots aware of the reasons planes veer off runways. But one of the nagging problems still contributing to runway accidents, according to safety experts, is lack of cockpit discipline.Such missteps can be especially dangerous at airports that lack adequate safety buffer zones at the end of runways to slow down speeding airliners. That has been a special concern in many countries in Africa, where hundreds of residents around airports have been killed from planes zooming off runways and slamming into residential areas.One of the issues investigators are expected to delve into in India is the size and makeup of the safety zone around the Mangalore strip. The Associated Press quoted a senior Indian aviation official saying that the safety area at the end of the runway was only about 300 feet, much smaller than recommended by international safety standards.Firefighters try to put out the fire on the Air India plane. It overshot the runway while landing in the southern Indian city of Mangalore.But runway excursions and substandard safety areas aren't restricted to Third World airports. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines are two U.S. carriers that have experienced runway excursions on wet or snowy runways in recent years, with investigators later determining that the pilots should have opted to break off their approaches and go around for another landing attempt. Neither of those crashes ended in fatalities. A number of U.S. regional carriers also have been criticized by air-safety investigators for improper landings that ended in planes careening off runways.It is too early to draw definitive conclusions from the crash. But early reports indicated that the Boeing 737-800 veered off the hilltop runway, with survivors clambering out of the plane before fire engulfed the wreckage. A police spokesman said that rescue operations, including 25 fire-operation units and ambulances, were stationed at the site."This is a major calamity," said V.S. Acharya, home minister for the state of Karnataka, on CNN-IBN TV. Television pictures showed rescue workers struggling to deal with the wreckage in a small valley near the airport.The crash is believed to be the first major crash of an airliner in India since July 17, 2000, when an Alliance Air Boeing 737-200, an older model, crashed into houses during a second landing attempt at Patna, killing 51.At the scene Saturday afternoon at an impromptu press conference, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said the pilot appeared to have lost control of the plane. He said the weather during the landing was fine. The pilot reportedly had flown into the airport several times. He said all the crew on the plane had died. He said the Indian government will probe the cause of the accident and that the black box inflight recorder had yet to be recovered.Mr. Patel also said the aircraft was one and a half years old.Dubai and southern India have close ties because of the number of migrant workers who go from southern India to Dubai for work.One survivor, interviewed in the hospital by NDTV, a New Delhi television channel, said that one of the plane's tires had burst on landing and that passengers had little time to escape the plane before it burst into flames after crashing off the end of the runway."It was not smooth, the flight shook on landing," said the survivor, whose name was not given. "Our hands and feet caught fire."Carl Esposito, a high-ranking safety-equipment manager at Honeywell, said Saturday that the company's runway-distance warning system has "addressed the majority of the situations [that occur] during unstabilized approaches." He also said Honeywell is receiving "quite a bit of interest from airlines" about the technology.Technology is available to help pilots avoid mistakes that end in runway overruns. Honeywell International Inc., for example, for years has marketed a safety system designed to alert cockpit crews if their plane is approaching a runway too fast or will touch down too far down the strip. European plane maker Airbus has developed a different system designed to warn pilots if they won't have enough room to safely stop their aircraft, based on runway conditions and other factors. Roughly four out of five commercial-aircraft excursions around the world occur during landings, with roughly half of those aircrafts veering off the side of the strip and the rest barreling past the end.One of the most dramatic runway excursions in recent years involved a TACA airlines Airbus A320 that skidded off a rain-soaked runway at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in May 2008, killing five people and injuring more than 30. The plane smashed into cars and buildings, but remained largely intact. A year earlier, Brazil's TAM airlines lost an A320 during a runway excursion at São Paulo's Congonhas Airport, killing more than 200 people, as the plane veered across a busy highway during rush hour, crashed into a gas station and exploded. Both of those airports were considered particularly challenging by pilots, because of relatively short runways and the lack of adequate safety areas if aircraft can't stop in time.Air India has been struggling to overcome the global recession, payments for new aircraft, an entrenched staff, a botched merger and increasing competition from private carriers. In the year ended March 31, its parent company, National Aviation Company of India Ltd., is estimated to have posted losses totaling about $1.2 billion, making it one of the global industry's most unprofitable carriers and a major financial problem for the Indian government.Chairman Arvind Jadhav has been trying to turn the airline around by seeking to cut employee ranks, increase cargo on long-haul flights and persuade the government to inject about $2.2 billion in funds.The airline's origins date to 1932, when Indian industrialist and aviation pioneer J.R.D. Tata founded Tata Airlines. It later became government-owned Air India. In 2007, Air India was merged with Indian Airlines, the state-run domestic service. But the merger has only been partially completed.In the meantime, Indian private carriers such as Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. and Jet Airways have eaten into its domestic market share. And international carriers have begun flying directly from abroad to Indian cities beyond Delhi and Mumbai.
Status:
Chennai accident
Date: 05 MAR 1999
Time: 23:29
Type: Boeing 747-2B3F (SCD)
Operator: Air France
Registration: F-GPAN
C/n / msn: 21515/337
First flight: 1978-08-21 (20 years 7 months)
Total airframe hrs: 72968
Cycles: 17608
Engines: 4 General Electric CF6-50E2
Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Airplane damage: Written off
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Chennai Airport (MAA) (India)
Phase: Landing (LDG)
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Bangalore-Hindustan Airport (BLR) (BLR/VOBG), India
Destination airport: Chennai Airport (MAA) (MAA/VOMM), India
Flightnumber: 6745
Air France flight 6745 had taken off from Paris and was on its way to Chennai (MAA) after some enroute stops at Karachi (KHI) and Bangalore (BLR). The cargo plane carried 66 tonnes of cargo, that included three foreign cars, 20 tonnes of ITC cigarettes, chemicals and garments.
The aircraft was cleared for a runway 07 ILS approach, but the approach was abandoned due to indications that the undercarriage was not down and locked. The flight crew concluded that all gear were down and locked despite a red GEAR light on the forward instrument panel. The crew had failed to recognize that the green GEAR DOWN light for the nose gear was not illuminated and assumed that the red GEAR light on the forward instrument panel was a false indication. The gear was recycled, but an alternate extension was not attempted.
The pilot positioned the airplane for another approach. The aircraft touched down with the nose gear retracted. The nose struck the runway. The plane skidded and came to rest at 7000 feet down the runway (which is 13050 feet long). As the pilot informed the ATC of the mishap, he noticed smoke in the cockpit. Even as the smoke was being extinguished, flames erupted in the front portion of the aircraft. One of the crewmembers came down through a rope ladder from the cockpit, the other four were brought down through the rear of the aircraft using the fire engine step ladders. The fire services were not able to extinguish the fire and the plane burned out completely.
Mumbai accident:Status:Final,Date:10 NOV 2009 Time:16:40 Type:ATR-72-212A Operator:Kingfisher Airlines Registration: VT-KAC C/n / msn: 729 First flight: 2006-05-18 (3 years 6 months) Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127F Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 38 Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 42 Airplane damage: Substantial Location:Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM) (India) Phase: Landing (LDG) Nature:Domestic Scheduled Passenger Departure airport:Bhavnagar Airport (BHU) (BHU/VABV), India Destination airport:Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM) (BOM/VABB), India Flightnumber:4124Narrative:
An ATR-72 passenger plane, operated by Kingfisher Airlines, was damaged when it skidded off the runway on landing at Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM), India. Flight IT4124 operated on a scheduled domestic flight from Bhavnagar Airport (BHU) to Mumbai. There were 36 passengers, 2 Infants and four crew members on board the aircraft.
Maintenance on runway runway 14/32 and runway 27 at Mumbai effected operations at the airport between certain times. There were several NOTAM's in effect relating to runway 27:
GP RWY27 NOT AVBL DUE SHORTENED RWY27. BTN 0730-1130 ON EVERY TUE, 03 NOV 07:30 2009 UNTIL 23 MAR 11:30 2010
RWY27 CL LGT NOT AVBL. 27 OCT 12:30 2009 UNTIL 31 MAR 23:59 2010.
RWY27 TDZ LGT NOT AVBL. 27 OCT 12:30 2009 UNTIL 31 MAR 23:59 2010.
RWY27 SHALL BE USED FOR LDG AND TKOF FM A POINT 1262M FM THR OF RWY27
1.THE SHORTENED RWY SHALL BE DESIGNATED AS RWY 27A. RADAR VECTORED VISUAL APP WILL BE PROVIDED SUBJ TO VIS 2800M OR MORE.DECLARED DIST OF RWY27A-
RWY TORA TODA LDA ASDA
27A 1703M 1703M 1703M 1703M
2.THR MARKING PROVIDED ON BOTH SIDES OF RWY27A ON RWY SHOULDER AREA AT A DIST OF 180M
3.PAPI RWY27A PROVIDED
4.AIMING POINT MARKING PROVIDED ON SHOULDER OF RWY27A OPPOSITE PAPI
5.DIST INDICATION SIGN PROVIDED EV 300M FM RWY27A END.
6.TORA SIGN PROVIDED AT TWY Q HLDG POINT.
7.TEMP WING BAR LGT PROVIDED FOR THR.
8.RWY EDGE LGT,RWY CL AND RWY END LGT PROVIDED FOR RWY27A. BTN 0730-1130 UTC ON EV TUE ON [...],10,17,24 NOV 2009 [...]
Runway 27 thus was available only after runway intersection as runway 27A. To carry out operations on this reduced runway 27 a NOTAM was issued and designated runway 27A for visual approach only.The weather conditions prevailing at the time of accident was winds 070/07 knots visibility 2800 m with feeble rain. Prior to Kingfisher aircraft, Air India flight IC-164, an Airbus 319 had landed and reported to ATC that it had aquaplaned and broken two runway edge lights. The ATC acknowledged it and sent runway inspection vehicle to inspect the runway. The ATC person was not familiar with the terminology of 'aquaplaning' and not realizing the seriousness of it, cleared the Kingfisher flight for landing. At the time of accident there were water patches on the runway. ATC also did not transmit to the Kingfisher aircraft the information regarding aquaplaning reported by the previous aircraft.The ATR-72 approached high and fast. The aircraft landed late on the runway and the runway length available was around 1000 m from the touchdown point. In the prevailing weather conditions this runway length was just sufficient to stop the aircraft on the runway. During landing the aircraft aquaplaned and did not decelerate even though reversers and full manual braking was applied by both the cockpit crew. The aircraft started skidding toward the left of center line. On nearing the runway end, the pilot initiated a 45° right turn, after crossing Taxiway N10, the aircraft rolled into an unpaved wet area. It rolled over drainage pipes and finally came to a stop near open drain. There was no fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT:
The accident occurred due to unstabilized approach and decision of crew not to carry out a 'Go-around'.
Contributory Factors:
i) Water patches on the R/w 27A
ii) Inability of the ATCO to communicate the aircraft about aquaplaning of the previous aircraft
iii) Lack of input from the co-pilot.
1921:Aug. 24, England: British dirigible AR-2 broke in two on trial trip near Hull; 62 died.
1925:Sept. 3, Caldwell, Ohio: U.S. dirigible Shenandoah broke apart; 14 dead.
1930:Oct. 5, Beauvais, France: British dirigible R 101 crashed, killing 47.
1933:April 4, N.J.: U.S. dirigible Akron crashed; 73 died.
1937:May 6, Lakehurst, N.J.: German zeppelinHindenburg destroyed by fire at tower mooring; 36 killed. 1945:July 28, New York City: U.S. Army bomber B-25 crashed into Empire State Building;13 dead.
1953:June 18, near Tokyo: Crash of U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster killed 129 servicemen.
1956:June 30, Grand Canyon, Ariz.: TWA Super Constellation and United Airlines DC-7 collided over the Painted Desert, killing a total of 128 passengers and crew from both aircraft.
1960:Dec. 16, New York City: United DC-8 and Trans World Super Constellation collided and crashed, killing 134 in air and on ground.
1961:Feb. 15, nr. Brussels, Belgium: 72 on board and farmer on ground killed in crash of Sabena plane; U.S. figure skating team wiped out.
1962:March 4, Douala, Cameroon: Trans-African DC-7 crashed on takeoff, killing all 111 people aboard.June 3, Paris: Chartered Air France Boeing 707 crashed after takeoff at Orly Airport, killing 130 June 22, Grande-Teree Island, Guadeloupe: Air France Boeing 707 crashed, killing all 113 aboard.
1963:Nov.29,Montreal:Trans-Canada Airlines DC-8F crashed after taking off.All 18 aboard died.
1965:May 20, Cairo: Pakistan International Airways 707 crashed on landing at airport; 124 killed.
1966:Jan. 24, Mont Blanc: Air India Boeing 707 crashed into a mountain in a fog; 117 dead.
Feb. 4, Tokyo: All-Nippon 727 jet crashed into Tokyo Bay as it approached airport, killing all 133 aboard.March 5, near Gotemba City, Japan: BOAC Boeing 707 broke apart in flight and crashed into Mount Fuji; 124 dead.Dec. 24, Binh Thai, South Vietnam: crash of military-chartered CL-44 into village killed 129.
1967:April 20, Nicosia, Cyprus: Chartered Swiss Globe Britannia Turboprop crashed while landing, killing 126.
1970:Feb. 15, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Dominican DC-9 plunged into Caribbean on takeoff; 102 dead.July 3, near Barcelona, Spain: British charter Dan-Air Comet jet crashed into the sea while coming in for a landing at Barcelona; 112 dead.July 5, Toronto: Air Canada DC-8 crashed on landing approach; 109 dead.Nov. 14, Huntington, W.Va.: Chartered Southern Airways DC-9 crashed and burned on approach to Tri-State Airport; 75 dead, including entire Marshall University football team.
1971:July 30, Morioka, Japan: Japanese Boeing 727 and F-86 fighter collided in midair; 162 died.Sept. 4, near Juneau, Alaska: Alaskan Airlines Boeing 727 crashed into Chilkoot Mountains; 109 killed.
1972:May 5, Palermo, Sicily: Alitalia DC-8 hit mountain, killing 115.June 18, London: BEA Trident jetliner crashed after takeoff from Heathrow Airport. All 118 aboard were killed.
Aug. 14, East Berlin, East Germany: Soviet-built East German Ilyushin Il-62 plane crashed, killing 156.Oct. 13, Moscow, Russia: Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-14 crashed during landing due to pilot fatigue and 176 people perish.Dec. 3, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands: Spanish charter jet Convair 990-A jet carrying West German tourists crashed on takeoff; all 155 aboard killed.
Dec. 30, Miami, Fla.: Eastern Airlines Lockheed 1011 TriStar jumbo jet, Flight 401, crashed into Everglades; 101 killed, 75 survived.
1973:Jan. 22, Kano, Nigeria: 171 Nigerian Muslims returning from Mecca and 5 crewmen died in crash.Feb. 21, Sinai: civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 shot down by Israeli fighters after it had strayed off course; 108 died, 5 survived. Officials claimed that the pilot had ignored fighters' warnings to land.April 10, Hochwald, Switzerland: British airliner carrying tourists to Swiss fair crashed in blizzard; 106 dead.July 11, Paris: Boeing 707 of Varig Airlines, en route to Rio de Janeiro, crashed near airport, killing 122 of 134 passengers.
1974:March 3, Paris: Turkish DC-10 jumbo jet crashed in forest shortly after takeoff; all 346 killed.Dec. 4, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Dutch DC-8 carrying Muslims to Mecca killed all 191 when it crashed on landing approach.
1975:April 4, nr. Saigon, Vietnam: Air Force Galaxy C-5A crashed after takeoff, killing 172, mostly Vietnamese children.Aug. 3, Agadir, Morocco: chartered Boeing 707, returning Moroccan workers home after vacation in France, plunged into mountainside; all 188 killed.
1976:Sept. 10, Zagreb, Yugoslavia: midair collision between British Airways Trident and Yugoslav charter DC-9 fatal to all 176 people aboard.Sept. 19, Karatepe, Turkey: Turkish Airlines 727 crashes into mountainous terrain killing 154 people.
1977:March 27, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands: Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s collided on runway. All 249 on KLM plane and 333 of 394 aboard Pan Am jet killed. Total of 582 is highest for any type of aviation disaster.
1978:Jan. 1, Bombay: Air India 747 with 213 aboard exploded and plunged into sea minutes after takeoff.Sept. 25, San Diego, Calif.: Pacific Southwest plane collided in midair with Cessna. All 135 on airliner, 2 in Cessna, and 7 on ground killed for total of 144.Nov. 15, Colombo, Sri Lanka: chartered Icelandic Airlines DC-8, carrying 249 Muslim pilgrims from Mecca, crashed in thunderstorm during landing approach; 183 killed.
1979:May 25, Chicago: American Airlines DC-10 lost left engine upon takeoff and crashed seconds later, killing all 272 people aboard and 3 on the ground in worst U.S. air disaster.
Nov. 26, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Pakistan International Airlines 707 carrying pilgrims returning from Mecca crashed on takeoff; all 156 aboard killed.Nov. 28, Mt. Erebus, Antarctica: Air New Zealand DC-10 crashed on sightseeing flight; 257 killed.
1980:Aug. 19, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: all 301 aboard Saudi Arabian jet killed when burning plane made safe landing but passengers were unable to escape.
1981:Dec. 1, Ajaccio, Corsica: Yugoslav DC-9 Super 80 carrying tourists crashed into mountain on landing approach, killing all 178 aboard.
1983:June 28, near Cuenca, Ecuador: Ecuadorian jetliner crashed in mountains, killing 119.
Aug. 30, nr. island of Sakhalin off Siberia: Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 shot down by Soviet fighter after it strayed off course into Soviet airspace. All 269 aboard killed. Secret Soviet documents released in Oct. 1992 reveal that the plane was flying a straight course for two hours with its navigational lights on and did not take evasive action. Crew was unaware of its location and never saw the Soviet fighter that downed them. The Soviet fighter did not give a warning by firing tracer bullets as originally claimed.Nov. 27, Madrid: Colombian Avianca Boeing 747 crashed near Mejorada del Campó Airport, killing 181 people aboard. Eleven people survived.
1985:June 23, Atlantic Ocean: Air India 747 exploded over the ocean killing 329. The probable cause was a Sikh terrorist bomb.Aug. 12, Japan: Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into a mountain, killing 520 of the 524 aboard. Highest death toll in a single-plane crash in aviation history.Dec. 12, Gander, Newfoundland: a chartered Arrow Air DC-8 bringing American soldiers home for Christmas crashed on takeoff. All 256 aboard died.
1987:May 9, Poland: Polish airliner Ilyushin 62M, on charter flight to N.Y., crashed after takeoff from Warsaw, killing 183.Aug. 16, Romulus, Mich.: Northwest Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-80 crashed into a highway shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing 156 (including 2 on the ground). Girl, 4, only survivor.Nov. 26, south of Mauritius: South African Airways Boeing 747 went down in rough seas; 160 died.Nov. 29, Burma: Korean Air Boeing 747 jetliner exploded from bomb planted by North Korean agents and crashed into sea, killing all 115 aboard.
1988:July 3, Persian Gulf: U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes shot down Iran Air Airbus A-300 after mistaking it for an attacking jet fighter; 290 killed.Aug. 28, Ramstein Air Force Base, West Germany: 3 jets from Italian Air Force acrobatic team collided in midair during air show and crashed, killing 70 people, including the pilots and spectators on the ground.Dec. 21, Lockerbie, Scotland: N.Y.-bound Pan-Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight from a terrorist bomb and crashed into Scottish village, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground..
1989:June 7, Paramaribo, Suriname: a Surinam Airways DC-8 carrying 174 passengers crashed into the jungle while making a third attempt to land in a thick fog, killing 168 aboard.July 19, Sioux City, Iowa: United Airlines DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing. Out of a total of 296 aboard, 111 were killed, 172 were injured, and 13 escaped unharmed.
1991:May 26, nr. Bangkok, Thailand: Austrian Lauda Air Boeing 767, en route to Vienna, crashed into jungle hilltop shortly after takeoff from Bangkok airport, killing all 223 aboard. Thailand's worst air disaster.July 11, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Canadian-chartered DC-8 carrying pilgrims returning to Nigeria crashed after takeoff, killing 261 people.
1994:Jan. 3, Irkutsk, Russia: Russian Tupolev-154 crashes after taking off, killing all 124 people.April 14, northern Iraq: two American F-15C fighter aircraft mistook two U.S. Army blackhawk helicopters for Russian-made Iraqi MI-24 helicopters and shot them down over no-fly zone, killing all 26 on board.April 26, Nagoya, Japan: China Airlines Airbus A-300 from Taiwan crash-landed and exploded on the tarmac. Only 7 of the 271 passengers aboard survived.June 6, Xian, China: China Northwest Airlines Tupolev-154 crashed 10 minutes after takeoff, killing all 160 aboard.Sept. 8, nr. Aliquippa, Pa.: USAir Boeing 737 crashed into a ravine shortly before it was supposed to land at Pittsburgh International Airport. All 132 aboard were killed.
1995:Dec. 20, nr. Cali, Colombia: 160 people killed when American Airlines Boeing 757 crashed in Andean Mountains.
1996 :Jan. 8, Kinshasa, Zaire: Russian-built Antonov-32 cargo plane crashed after takeoff from Kinshasa into the center of the city, killing over 350 people and injuring at least 470.Feb. 6, off coast of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic: a Birgenair Boeing 757 en route to Germany, chartered by Dominican Alas Nacionales. crashed into Atlantic Ocean after takeoff, killing 189.
Feb. 29, near Arequipa, Peru: Faucett Airline Boeing 737 crashed into mountain as it prepared to land. All 117 passengers and crew were killed.May 11, Everglades, Fla.: ValuJet DC-9 went down in swamp, killing 110. Cargo fire caused by oxygen generators missing safety caps.July 17, off coast of Long Island, N.Y.: TWA Boeing 747-100, Flight 800, bound for Paris from N.Y., exploded over waters of eastern L.I. and crashed into Atlantic Ocean, killing all 230 aboard.Aug. 29, Svalbard, Norway: A Tu-154, taking miners and their families to a Russian mining settlement on Spitsbergen, crashed into a mountaintop, killing a 141 on board, including 29 children.Nov. 12, nr. New Delhi, India: shortly after takeoff, Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collided in midair with Kazak Airlines Ilyushin 76 approaching the New Delhi airport. All 349 passengers and crew were killed; the world's worst midair collision.
1997:Aug. 6, Guam: Korean Air Boeing 747-300 from Seoul crashed into jungle near Agana International Airport, killing 228 people; 26 survived.Sept. 26, nr. northern Indonesia: Indonesian Garuda Airlines A-300 Airbus jetliner crashed while approaching Medan Airport, Sumatra, killing all 234 people aboard.
1998:Feb. 2, Mindanao, Philippines: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashed into a mountain; 104 dead.
Feb. 3, Mt. Cermis, Italy: low-flying U.S. Marine surveillance jet on training flight accidentally cut ski-lift cable-car line, causing all 20 people aboard to fall some 260 ft to their deaths.Feb. 16, Taipei, Taiwan: China Airlines Airbus A-300 jumbo jet crashed while trying to land in fog at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing all 196 aboard and at least 6 people on the ground.
Sept. 2, off Nova Scotia, Canada: Swissair flight from N.Y. to Geneva crashed off Canadian coast, killing all 229 aboard. 136 Americans were on the McDonnell Douglas MD-11.
1999:Oct. 31, southeast of Nantucket Island: EgyptAir Boeing 767-300 on flight from N.Y. to Cairo crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 aboard.
2000:Jan. 30, off the Ivory Coast: Kenya Airways Airbus A-310, carrying 179 passengers and crew, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after takeoff from Abidjan. Ten people survived.July 25, Gonesse, France: Air France Concorde jet en route to N.Y. crashed into a hotel after taking off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris; all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground were killed; first Concorde jet to crash since the plane went into commercial service in 1976.Aug. 23, off Bahrain: Gulf Air Airbus A-320 on a flight from Cairo crashed into the Persian Gulf, killing all 143 aboard.
2001:July 4, Irkutsk, Russia: Russian Tupolev-154 crashed on its third approach to the runway for a refueling stop, killing all 145 people.Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: For the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Oct. 8, Milan, Italy: Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) MD-87 jet bound for Copenhagen hit a Cessna aircraft during takeoff in a heavy fog at Milan's Linate airport. All 104 passengers and 6 crew aboard the airliner, as well as the four people in the smaller plane and four airport workers, were killed in what is one of Italy's worst air disastersNov. 12, Queens, N.Y.: American Airlines Airbus A-300, bound for the Dominican Republic, crashed into residential neighborhood minutes after taking off from JFK International Airport. All 260 people aboard and 5 on the ground were killed.
2002:Feb. 12, western Iran: Iranian airliner en route from Teheran to Khorramabad crashed into a mountain while trying to land, killing all 118 aboard. Overcast or foggy conditions may have contributed to the crash.April 15, nr. Pusan, South Korea: Air China Boeing 767 en route from Beijing crashed into a forested hillside near airport, killing at least 115 people. Miraculously, 38 passengers survived. Poor weather conditions were blamed for the crash.May 4, Kano, Nigeria: EAS Airline BAC 1-11 bound for Lagos plowed into a poor, densely populated suburb of Kano shortly after takeoff, killing 148. Dead included all 76 aboard and dozens on the ground.May 7, Dalian Bay, northeast China: China Northern Airlines MD-82 jet crashed into the bay shortly after captain reported a fire in the cabin. Out of 103 passengers and 9 crew aboard, none survived.
May 25, nr. Pescadores off western Taiwan: China Airlines Boeing 747, bound for Hong Kong with 225 people aboard, broke apart in midair and plunged into sea 20 minutes after takeoff from Taipei. There were no survivors.July 27, nr. Lviv, Ukraine: Russian-built Sukhoi-27 fighter jet crashed while performing an acrobatic maneuver during an air show. 83 people were killed, including 23 children; the 2 pilots ejected to safety. It is the worst air show disaster in history.
2003:Feb. 19, nr. Shahdad, Iran: Iranian military airplane, Ilyushin Il-76MD, carrying members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, crashed in the Sirach Mountains, killing all 276 on board, making this Iran's worst air disaster.March 6, Tamanrasset, Algeria: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashed after takeoff from Tamanrasset, killing 102 people.July 8, Port Sudan, Sudan: a Sudan Airways airplane, a Boeing 737, experienced technical difficulties shortly after takeoff and crashed while attempting to return to the Port Sudan airport. One child survived and 116 passengers and crew perished.Dec. 25, Cotonou, Benin: a chartered Boeing 727 jet bound for Beirut, Lebanon, crashed after hitting a building on takeoff, killing at least 140 people.
2004:Aug. 24, Moscow, Russia: two Russian planes, both departing from Moscow's airport, crashed within minutes of each other, killing a total of 89 people. Explosives were found on both flights.
2005:Feb. 3, Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan Kam Air, Boeing 737, bound to Kabul crashed in the mountains, killing 105.Aug. 14, Athens, Greece: a Helios Airways, Boeing 737, en route from Cyprus to Athens lost cabin pressure and crashed when it ran out of fuel, killing all 121 on board.Aug. 16, western Venezuela: a chartered West Caribbean Airways, MD-82, en route from Panama to Martinique, crashed in remote western Venezuela, killing all 160 on board.Sept. 5, Medan, Indonesia: Mandala Airlines, Boeing 737, crashed soon after takeoff, killing 102 on board and 47 on the ground; 13 passengers survived.Oct. 22, Lagos, Nigeria: after take-off from Lagos, a Nigerian Bellview Airlines Boeing 737-200 enroute to Abuja crashed, killing all 117.
Dec. 6, Tehran, Iran: Iranian military plane, a Lockheed C-130, crashed during an emergency landing the Tehran airport, hit an apartment building, and killed at least 115.Dec. 10, Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Nigerian Sosoliso Airlines plane carrying 110 crashed during landing, killing 106.Dec. 19, Miami, Fla.: Chalk's Ocean Airways, Grumman G73 seaplane, headed to the Bahamas, crashed into the ocean off Miami, killing all 20 on-board.
2006:May 3, Sochi, Russia: an Armavia (Armenian airline), Airbus A-320, crashed in the Black Sea en route to Sochi, killing all 113 aboard.July 9, Siberia, Russia: a Russian airline S7 Airbus A-310 slid off the end of the runway just after landing in Irkutsk, killing 122 people.July 10, Multan, Pakistan: a Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F-27 turboprop crashed minutes after take off, killing all 45 on board.Aug. 22, Donetsk, Ukraine: a Pulkovo (Russian) airliner, TU 154, flying from the Black Sea resort town of Anapa to St. Petersburg , reported a fire on board and crashed in stormy weather, killing all 170, including 45 children, on board.Aug. 27, Lexington, Ky.: Comair Flight 5191, a Bombardier commuter jet, crashed after attempting to take off on the wrong runway, killing 49.
2007:Jan. 1, Indonesia: Adam Air Flight KI-574, flying from Java to Manado, crashed in stormy weather and strong winds, killing all of the 102 people on board.March 7, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A Garuda Indonesia Airlines plane overshot the runway and crashed, killing 22 of the 140 people on board.May 5, Doula, Cameroon: A Kenya-bound Kenya Airways plane took off in stormy weather and crashed moments later, killing all 114 people on board.July 17, Sao Paulo, Brazil: An Airbus skidded off the runway at Congonhas Airport in rainy weather and crashed, killing at least 176 people. It was the worst aviation accident in Brazil's history, and the second in less than 10 months.Sept. 16, Phuket, Bangkok: A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 plane, which took off from Bangkok, skids off the runway and bursts into flames during heavy rain in Phuket. At least 88 people are killed.Nov. 30, western Turkey: A passenger jet, the McDonnell Douglas MD-83, crashed seven miles from its destination airport in Isparta, killing all 56 passengers.
2008:June 10, Khartoum, Sudan: A Sudan Airways airbus, flying from Amman to Khartoum, burst into flames when it skidded off the runway while landing in stormy weather, killing 32 passengers.Aug. 20, Madrid, Spain: At least 153 people died when a 160-person passenger plane, flying from Barajas airport in Madrid to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, skidded off the runway during take-off and burst into flames.Aug. 22, Utah: All 10 passengers of a twin-engine plane died when the Beech King Air A-100 crashed and caught fire near Canyonlands Field airport in southeastern Utah.Aug. 25, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: An Itek Air Boeing 737 bound for Iran crashed and caught fire about 10 minutes after take-off, killing 68 out of the 90 passengers.Sept. 1, eastern Congo: A Beechcraft plane carrying 15 passengers and 2 crew members crashed on a ridge in the eastern Congo, killing everyone on board.Oct. 8, Nepal: A Yeti Airlines passenger plane, flying from Kathmandu to Lukla in eastern Nepal, burst into flames on the runway while landing in heavy cloud, killing 18 of the 19 people on board—only the Nepalese pilot survived.Nov. 4, Mexico: All nine passengers and five people on the ground died when a Learjet crashed in Mexico City during afternoon rush hour. Turbulence from flying too close to a large passenger plane caused the Learjet to crash.Nov. 16, Canada: Seven passengers died when a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft crashed off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia.Dec. 8, California, U.S.: Three civilians died when a military fighter jet crashed into a house in San Diego about two miles from its airfield destination. The pilot, who survived the crash, had lost power in one engine and tried to reach the airfield on a single working engine.
2009:Jan. 15, New York City, U.S.: All 155 passengers and crew onboard US Airways Flight 1549 survived after their plane lost power in both engines and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.Feb. 7, Brazil: A twin turboprop plane, flying from Coari to Manaus, crashed into a river in the Amazon, killing 24 passengers. Four people survived and were able to swim clear of the wreckage.Feb. 12, New York, U.S.: All 45 passengers and 4 crew members died when a Continental flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed five minutes outside Buffalo airport, damaging homes and killing one person on the ground.Feb. 25, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Nine people died and at least 50 more were injured when a Turkish plane crashed during the landing at Amsterdam's Schiphol international airport. The plane carrying 134 passengers en route from Istanbul broke into three pieces but did not catch fire.June 1, Brazil: In the worst aviation disaster since 2001, Air France Airbus A330 disappeared somewhere off the northeast coast of Brazil with 228 passengers on board, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. No mayday signals were sent before crashing.June 30, Indian Ocean: a Yemenia Jet, on its way to Comoros, crashed into the Indian Ocean in an attempt to land. There were 153 people on board, with only one survivor, a 14-year-old girl. Severe weather and turbulence are believed to have caused the crash.July 15, Iran: a Caspian Airlines plane crashed en route from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia, killing all 168 passengers on impact.July 24, Iran: at least 16 people died when an Aria Air flight skidded off the runway and caught fire in Mashhad, Iran. August 8, New York: a helicopter and plane collided over the Hudson River, killing all nine people on the private plane.
Accident description
Status:
Final:delhi accident
Date: 08 MAR 1994
Time: 14:54
Type: Boeing 737-2R4C
Operator: Sahara India
Registration: VT-SIA
C/n / msn: 21763/571
First flight: 1979-04-25 (14 years 11 months)
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17
Crew: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4
Ground casualties: Fatalities: 4
Airplane damage: Written off
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (India)
Phase: Takeoff (TOF)
Nature: Training
Departure airport: Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (DEL/VIDP), India
Destination airport: Delhi-Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL) (DEL/VIDP), India
Narrative:
Sahara India Airlines Boeing 737 VT-SIA was engaged in a training flight with an instructor and 3 trainee pilots. Five circuits and landings were completed uneventfully and during the sixth touch-and-go exercise, after the take off from runway 28, the aircraft made a left turn and crashed at the International Terminal Apron. The wreckage of aircraft hit an Aeroflot Ilyushin 86 aircraft parked on Bay No. 45 as a result of which it also caught fire. Two Aeroflot employees, a Russian ground engineer and an airport worker were killed on the ground.PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident occurred due to application of wrong rudder by trainee pilot during engine failure exercise. Capt. did not guard/block the rudder control and give clear commands as Instructor so as to obviate the application of wrong rudder control by the trainee pilot".Sources:
» Civil aviation aircraft accident summary for the year 1994 (DGAC India)
Statistics58th loss of a Boeing 737-200
26th worst accident involving a Boeing 737-200 (at the time)
43rd worst accident involving a Boeing 737-200 (currently)
62nd worst accident in India (at the time)
72nd worst accident in India (currently)
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