The worst plane crashes in human history. Named the most dangerous planes in the world (11 photos) When was the last time the plane crashed
Man has always dreamed of flying into the sky. Ancient Greek myths tell that Daedalus and his son Icarus took off into the sky with the help of wings that were made of feathers, wax and thread.
And the greatest scientist, inventor and artist Leonardo do Vinci once created sketches of an unusual aircraft. He had to use the strength of human muscles to fly into the endless sky.
People have been trying to create such flying machines for a long time. And they created...
History of world air crashes
The very first flights in the sky began at the end of the 19th century. It was then that the statistics of world air crashes began. In the process of development of flights on airplanes (cargo, passenger), air crashes of the world began to occur more and more often. The statistics of their crashes grew incredibly until 1970. And it is the 70s that are the peak of terrible tragedies in the sky.
In the future, due to the growth of modern technologies, the improvement of aviation technology and the tightening of requirements and rules for flight safety, by the 80s, a decrease in the number of accidents with aircraft began to occur. There is a dynamic decrease in the number of air crashes from 616, with 15,689 deaths, in the 70s to more than 300 accidents with 8,000 deaths in the 2000s.
Air crashes of the world, their geography
Geographically, in this terribly sad statistics of disasters, the United States ranks. According to well-known information from the Aviation Safety Network, from 1945 to the present day, a huge number of passenger aircraft have crashed in this country - more than 630. More than 9,000 people have died in these accidents.
Russia, unfortunately, occupies the second place in this statistics. Since 1945, more than 200 catastrophes in the sky have occurred on the territory of the USSR of those times and modern Russia. At the same time, more than 5,000 people died.
3rd place - for Colombia.
The smallest number of air crashes - in Ecuador.
Statistics on the distribution of air crashes in recent years by country
In 1977, the world record for the number of victims in a plane crash was set. In the Tenerife area, two Boeing 747 airliners of the well-known Pan-America and KLM airlines unexpectedly collided. Then the victims were 583 people.
The total number of air crashes in the world is steadily increasing.
The most dangerous airline in the world, according to Actual Security (Swedish magazine), is the Soviet Aeroflot. According to them, the statistics of air crashes in the world shows that there are more than 18 crashes per 1 million Aeroflot flights. The second place in this sad list is occupied by the airlines of Taiwan - more than 11 accidents per million departures. Third place belongs to Egypt (more than 11), then - India (more than 10), Turkey, China, Philippines, South Korea and Poland - more than 6 accidents on 41 million flights. The safest is the South-West company (America). For 1 million 800 thousand flights of airliners of this company, not a single disaster happened.
The largest air crashes in the world by the number of victims
aircraft name | Year of disaster | Place of the disaster | Number of victims | Country, owner of the airliner | Causes of the disaster |
Canary Islands | Netherlands, USA | Incorrect reception by the crew of the dispatcher's command |
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Insufficient quality repair of the airliner (technical problems) |
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Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia | Collision of two planes in the air |
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Opening the hatch in the cargo compartment |
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Atlantic | Terrorist act |
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Due to conditions of poor visibility, a collision with the ground |
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Undefined |
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newfoundland | There was a loss of speed during takeoff |
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Antarctica | New Zealand | Fall to the ground |
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Unforeseen fire in the air |
This table presents the worst air crashes in the world.
Description of some plane crashes
In March 1974, after opening the cargo hold, a French THY Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed in a forest. In total - 346 dead.
In March 1977, a Boeing 747-206B (KLM) collided with a Boeing 747-121 (Pan Am) on the Canary Islands in Tenerife. 583 dead (worst air crash in the world).
In May 1979, due to damage to the hydraulic system, an American Airlines DC-10 crashed in the Chicago area. 273 people died.
In August 1980, after making an emergency landing, an L-1011-200 Tristar (Saudi) aircraft burned down in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh). 301 people died.
In June 1985, an Air India Boeing 747-237B was destroyed after a terrorist explosion. 329 people died.
In July 1988, by a ridiculous mistake, he was shot down by a military missile from the ship Vincennes (America) (Iran Air). It happened in the Persian Gulf. 290 people died.
In August 1985, a Boeing 747SR (Japan Airlines) crashed into a mountain in Tokyo. Surprisingly, only four survived. 520 people died.
In November 1996, another Boeing 747-168B (Saudi Arabian Airlines) collided with a Kazakh Il-76TD aircraft in Charkhi-Dadri (India). A total of 349 people died then.
In January 1996, an overloaded Ant-32 crashed into the city market of Kinshasa in Zaire. More than 297 dead. 4 people from the crew survived (total crew members 5).
More recently, on July 17, 2014, another terrible tragedy occurred on Ukrainian territory (60 kilometers from the border with Russia) - a Boeing 777 airliner (Malaysian Airlines) crashed (was shot down by the military). 295 passengers (including 80 children) and the entire crew (15 people) died. Until now, the true cause of the tragedy has not been officially clarified.
The death of heads of state in aviation accidents
Air crashes in the world occur in the most unexpected places, for various reasons, and people of various statuses in society die in them.
The leaders of all countries, as a rule, use airliners as transportation due to time savings. The most modern and, it would seem, very reliable in terms of safety of the court are used for this. However, an unforeseen failure of equipment or simply a human factor in these cases can cause aircraft crashes. Here are some plane crashes in the world in which the first government officials died:
In 2010 - Lech Kaczynski (President of Poland) with his wife, military people from the high command of Poland and other political figures died in a Tu-154 crash near Smolensk.
In 2004, Boris Trajkovski (President of Macedonia) died in an accident in Bosnia.
In 2001, the Sudanese military leadership died in the south of the country.
In 1988, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was the president of Pakistan, died. The tragedy occurred over the city of Lahore, Pakistan (possibly as a result of a terrorist attack).
1986 - Samora Machel (President of Mozambique) died in South Africa in a plane crash.
In 1981, Jaime Roldos Aguilera, the President of Ecuador, died. The plane crashed in the Wairapunga mountains of Ecuador.
In 1969, René Barientos Ortuño died in Arc (Bolivia).
In 1966 - Abdul Salam Aref (President of Iraq) in southern Iraq.
In 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld (UN Secretary General) died in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
In 1957, Ramon Magsaysay died as a result of another disaster in the municipality of Balamban (Philippines).
Many more well-known names can be added to the lists of the dead from among the statesmen of small and large countries of the world. There are also mysterious plane crashes of the world among them, mainly those whose causes have not yet been clarified. These include the plane crash that occurred in Panama. In 1981, Omar Torrijos, the general, leader of Panama, died under mysterious circumstances.
Statistical data on Russian Airlines
Recently, when buying, almost all Russian airlines give preference to foreign (already used) aircraft, rather than new Russian ones. And as you know, the control of imported modern equipment equipped with electronics is very different from the control of domestic aircraft. Accordingly, the risk of occurrence, again, just a “human factor” increases.
So, Rossiya has 184 human lives, Vladivostok-Avia has 145, KrasAir has 29, and Tyumen Airlines has 5. victims: Transaero, Ural Airlines and Domodedovo Airlines.
Liner rating statistics
Liner model | Number of flights, million | Average deaths in disasters, % | Number of crashes | |||
Boeing 737-300/400/5000 | ||||||
Airbus A320/319/321 | ||||||
Boeing 737-600/700/800/900 | ||||||
From the above information, we can conclude that the Boeing 777 is today the most reliable type of airliner.
The main causes of air crashes
Every year, the black, terrifyingly tragic list of world air crashes is replenished. Quite often, the causes of these tragedies remain not fully understood. Air crashes in the world are very frequent and unpredictable. The investigation sometimes hits a dead end. Even the magical ones often cannot figure out the cause of some mid-air disasters.
The main causes of modern aviation accidents are: technical failures (failure of technical devices, minor malfunctions), errors of air traffic controllers, pilots and other personnel (human factor), international terrorism, hostilities, ridiculous fatal accidents (military air defense errors, lightning storms, even collisions with birds, etc.).
The most important cause of the air crashes that have occurred is the very ill-fated human factor. In the practice of the whole world, it accounts for almost 70% of all aircraft crashes.
And yet, despite the fact that air crashes are terrible and each time cause a very painful reaction from the entire world community, aviation remains one of the most reliable and safe of all modes of transport in existence.
According to official data, every 4-5 people in the world are afraid to fly on airplanes, that is, 20-25% of the total population of the planet, that is, about 1.5 billion people. However, according to unofficial data, these figures are much higher: at least half of the world's inhabitants are afraid of flying to varying degrees. And this is despite the fact that air crashes, although large-scale tragedies, still do not happen every day.
For example, about 30,000 people die annually on roads in Russia alone, and up to 2 million people in the world. Air crashes, for example, in 2010 - there were 28 air crashes in which 828 people died - take dozens, sometimes hundreds of times fewer lives than accidents involving ground transport and other dangers.
It’s just interest, media excitement due to the fact that often many people die in such a tragic way at once, and, it should be noted, the human factor is often to blame for this, outdated equipment that was not replaced in time.
That is, lives are ruined by someone's negligence. If a car accident where several people died, several such accidents in different parts of the country, albeit with the same number of victims, does not cause a resonance due to the fact that it happens every day, then a plane crash is more shocking for obvious reasons.
Any catastrophe is always a tragedy, ruined human lives are always a huge and irreparable loss for relatives...
Today we will talk about the largest and worst air crashes in the world.
Of the Wikipedia list of aviation accidents, 33 have 200 or more deaths, including 8 - more than 300 deaths.
Collision at the airport of Los Rodeos, or plane crash in Tenerife in 1977
The largest air disaster in history is considered to have occurred on March 27, 1977, a collision at Los Rodeos airport (583 dead):
“Then two planes collided - “On the runway of Los Rodeos airport, KLM airliners Boeing 747-206B (flight KL4805 Amsterdam - Las Palmas) and Pan American Boeing 747-121 (flight PA1736 Los Angeles - New York - Las Palmas).
583 people died (all 248 people on board the Boeing KLM (234 passengers and 14 crew members) and 335 people on board the Boeing Pan American (326 passengers and 9 crew members), 61 people survived (on the Boeing Pan American (54 passengers and 7 crew members)).
This disaster remains the largest in terms of the number of victims in the history of civil aviation.
Two planes collided at an airport in the Canary Islands, and the crew chiefs, who misinterpreted the signals of the controllers, were found guilty of the tragedy.
Everything was aggravated by bad weather, poor visibility, the fact that the take-offs took place on a small strip of an alternate airfield. 61 people managed to escape, thanks to the fact that the body of the American Boeing crashed and this made it easier for the living passengers to escape before the aircraft burned down.
The largest single plane crash (that is, the maximum number of victims died on just one plane) is the Boeing 747 crash near Tokyo on August 12, 1985 (520 dead):
“The Boeing 747SR-46 of Japan Airlines was flying JAL 123 from Tokyo to Osaka, but lost its vertical tail stabilizer 12 minutes after takeoff.
The crew kept the unmanned airliner in the air for 32 minutes, but the plane lost control and crashed into Mount Otsutaka, 112 km from Tokyo. 520 people died (15 crew members and 505 passengers), only 4 people survived.
This is the second largest accident in the history of aviation (after the collision of two Boeing 747s in Tenerife) and the largest single aircraft accident.”
Despite the fatal damage to the aircraft and the collision with the mountain, a lot of passengers were still alive after the tragedy and died from help that was not provided on time, cold ... The delay in the arrival of rescue services was associated with some disputes, and of those teams who arrived, they even went down they didn’t, because there was a fire and it was decided in absentia that everyone was dead. Only after 14 hours, rescuers found survivors who said that there were many living people.
At the crash site, many farewell notes were found in the passengers' belongings.
“Japan Airlines accepted some of the responsibility for the crash because it did not properly inspect the repaired aircraft.
The airline's president, Yasumoto Takagi, has resigned, and the airline's chief technical officer at Haneda Airport has committed suicide."
Although for many reasons these tragedies are in question whether they are classified as air crashes (rather terrorist attacks) - sometimes they are included in the list of the largest air crashes.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - the crash of two Boeing 767s in New York and one Boeing 757 in Washington: then the Boeings seized by terrorists were sent to the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. In the plane itself and under the collapsed structures, as a result of a fire in both towers, more than three thousand people died.
Collision over Charkhi Dadri
« Aviation accident that occurred on November 12, 1996. A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-168B (flight SVA763 Delhi-Jeddah) and an Il-76TD of Kazakhstan Airlines (flight KZA1907 Shymkent-Delhi) collided over the Indian city of Charkhi Dadri, killing 349 people (312 on flight 763 and 37 on flight 1907).
This is one of the largest air crashes in history, including the first in the number of victims in the history of mid-air collisions and the third in the history of civil aviation.
Experts recognized the cause of the collision as a mistake by the Il-76 crew, the planes collided at flight level 140, when the Il-76 was supposed to rise higher, due to poor knowledge of a foreign language, misunderstanding of the radio operator, dispatcher, lack of modern technical means of interaction, communication.
Collision over Mato Grosso
In a similar scenario, a new tragedy occurred almost ten years later:
“On September 29, 2006, an Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600 of ExcelAire and a Boeing-737-8EH of Gol Transportes Aéreos (flight GLO 1907) collided over Brazil. They flew along the same trajectories as the Il-76 with the Boeing 747.”
“The Boeing crashed into the Amazon jungle, crashing vertically into the ground at speeds up to 500 km / h, all 154 people on board (148 passengers and 6 crew members) died. Embraer made an emergency landing at the airport of Sierra di Cachimbu, 7 people on board (5 passengers and 2 pilots) were not injured, the left wing of the aircraft was seriously damaged.
HORRIBLE Plane Crashes - Mid-Air Collisions:
DC-10 crash near Paris
The tragedy happened back in 1974.
The Paris DC-10 Crash (also known as the Ermenonville Crash) was a major aviation accident that occurred on Sunday March 3, 1974 near Paris, France.
The Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 airliner operated the TK 981 passenger flight on the Istanbul-Paris-London route, and there were 12 crew members and 334 passengers on board.
6 minutes after takeoff from Paris, at an altitude of more than 3 kilometers, one of the cargo doors suddenly opened, which created an explosive decompression, as a result of which the control systems collapsed.
The liner went into a dive and after a minute and a half at high speed crashed into the Ermenonville forest northeast of Paris, while completely destroyed.
All 346 people on board were killed. This is the first and largest disaster involving the DC-10. At the time of the events (in 1974) it was the largest aviation accident in the world, currently (in 2016) it is the fourth. Remains the largest plane crash with no survivors.
During the investigation, it was found that the cause of the disaster was the imperfection of the locking mechanism of the cargo compartment door, which opened at high altitude due to the pressure difference.
This is one of the most terrible air disasters, of course, any disaster is terrible, but this tragedy has remained in the memory of many.
Of the 346 dead, only 40 bodies were identified, the plane was “smeared” to such an extent that there was not even a fire - it simply disintegrated into small pieces, literally wiped off the face of the earth along with the people sitting in it. In addition, even during the flight after the explosion of the fuselage, six passenger seats flew out through a hole in the place of the rear cargo door - the height was 3.5 km.
Boeing 747 crash near Cork
“The Boeing 747 crash near Cork is an aviation accident as a result of a terrorist attack that occurred on Sunday June 23, 1985 in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean, 70 kilometers from Cork (Ireland).
An Air-India Boeing 747-237B airliner was flying AI182 on the Montreal-London-Delhi-Bombay route when, while flying near the coast of Ireland, an explosion occurred on board, destroying the aircraft, killing all 329 people on board - 307 passengers and 22 crew members.
This is the largest air crash in neutral waters, the first terrorist attack on Boeing 747 aircraft and the largest terrorist attack in the history of Canada.
When the explosion thundered, the tail of the aircraft was torn off, the crew of the ship did not even have time to transmit a distress signal, hundreds of passengers “scattered” in the sky over the Atlantic, then within a few days 131 bodies and aircraft wreckage were lifted from the water.
L-1011 crash in Riyadh
“The L-1011 crash in Riyadh is an aviation accident that occurred on Tuesday, August 19, 1980 at the airport in Riyadh. A few minutes after takeoff from Karachi, a fire broke out on board a Saudi Arabian Airlines Lockheed L-1011-385-1-15 TriStar 200 operating passenger flight SVA163 on the Karachi-Riyadh-Jeddah route.
The crew managed to make an emergency landing in Riyadh, but the airport emergency services opened the door to the passenger compartment only 23 minutes after the plane landed. As a result of the delay in the evacuation, the liner burned out completely, killing all 287 passengers and 14 crew members on board (a total of 301 people).
As of 2016, this crash remains the largest air crash in Saudi Arabia. It is also the sixth deadliest of the largest air crashes in history, and the second in Saudi Arabian Airlines after the crash of flight SVA763 (312 deaths)."
Despite the fact that the fire, which started in flight, was able to be extinguished - and despite the fact that the plane managed to make a crash-free landing - For 23 minutes, rescuers could not open the doors, and there was no evacuation from inside. Even when landing, passengers fought for seats in the front. What happened, why an emergency evacuation was not carried out, remained a big question. In the first minutes after the liner stopped, it caught fire - all passengers and crew members died.
Boeing 777 crash in Donetsk region
“The Boeing 777 crash in the Donetsk region is an aviation accident of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft operating a scheduled flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, which occurred on July 17, 2014 in the east of the Donetsk region of Ukraine near the village of Grabovo near the town of Torez, near the border with Luhansk region, in the area of armed confrontation in eastern Ukraine.
There were 283 passengers and 15 crew members on board, all of whom died. This disaster, in terms of the number of deaths, was the largest in the history of aviation since September 11, 2001 and entered the top ten largest in history. The largest plane crash of the XXI century and in the post-Soviet space.
As for the causes of the tragedy, the plane was shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from a Ukrainian aircraft. This was done to blame Russia and the DPR for the plane they allegedly shot down.
« In total, 298 people died as a result of the crash. All the dead were on board the crashed aircraft; on the ground, there were no cases of death and injury of people as a result of the fall of the aircraft wreckage.
Among the passengers were 80 minors, including three minors (under the age of 2 years) children: two Malaysians and one Indonesian.
198 people flying on board were citizens of the Netherlands, 44 were citizens of Malaysia, 27 of Australia, 12 of Indonesia, 10 of Great Britain, 4 of Belgium, 4 of Germany, 3 of the Philippines, 1 of Canada, 1 of New Zealand.
An-32 crash in Kinshasa
“The An-32 crash in Kinshasa is an aviation accident that occurred on January 8, 1996. The Russian An-32B cargo plane of the Moscow Airways airline was making a cargo flight from Kinshasa to Cahemba, but during the takeoff run along the runway, it could not take off, rolled out of it and crashed into the market, which was located very close to Runway (actually in the city center).
298 people died (1 in the plane, 297 on the ground). Another 253 people were injured of varying severity.
For 2016, this disaster remains the largest in terms of the number of victims on earth (not counting the attacks of September 11, 2001) «.
There were 6 crew members on board - one was killed. The nose of the aircraft did not rise during takeoff, it moved to a nearby adjacent territory, dragged along the shopping malls for a couple of hundred meters, crashed into buildings and caught fire. Mostly women and children died on the ground, the bodies were severely mutilated, only 66 people were identified (identified), the rest were buried in a mass grave.
In total, out of the hundred largest air crashes in more than 30 tragedies, there were more than 200 victims, in nine more than 300 victims, in 66 cases, victims from 100 to 199 people.
The 28 largest air crashes occurred after 2000, the rest from 1960 to 2000.
In the list of the largest Russian air crashes, 16 have more than 100 dead.
Some of the largest air crashes that have occurred in Russia in recent times:
Boeing 737 crash in Kazan
“The Boeing 737 crash in Kazan is an aviation accident that occurred on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at Kazan International Airport.
The plane Boeing 737-500 (53A) of Tatarstan airlines, making flight U9-363 on the route Moscow - Kazan, at 19:23:28 Moscow time, crashed while landing at Kazan airport.
All 50 people on board the aircraft (44 passengers and 6 crew members) died.”
“The Boeing 737 crash in Rostov-on-Don is an aviation accident that occurred in the early morning of March 19, 2016 in Rostov-on-Don.
The Boeing 737-800 airliner FlyDubai was completing a regular passenger flight FZ-981 from Dubai (UAE) and made two landing attempts at the airport of Rostov-on-Don (Russia).
After the second unsuccessful attempt, during the climb, the liner, for an unknown reason, began a sharp decline and at high speed crashed to the ground next to the airport runway, completely destroyed.
All 62 people on board (55 passengers and 7 crew members) died.”
About the causes of the tragedy:“According to the official statement, the reason for the crash of the Boeing 737-800 passenger airliner in Rostov-on-Don was the fragmentation of the actions of the crew members, in particular, the mistakes made during the go-around approach are implied.
According to some reports, this version was established during the decoding of flight recorders from a crashed airliner, and there were reports that a terrorist attack and a technical malfunction could be the culprit were refuted even earlier.
Plane crash of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team © Reuters
The plane crash near Tyumen, which killed 31 people, was the first disaster of this magnitude in 2012.
After the tragic year for Russian aviation in 2011, Russia again leads by a wide margin in the world statistics of air crashes.
We tried to figure out how often planes crash in Russia, why this happens, and remembered the biggest plane crashes of the decade.
death statistics
The United States is the historical leader in the number of air crashes. Since 1945, 653 civilian aircraft have crashed there, according to the Aviation Safety Network. Almost 10 thousand people died as a result of accidents.
Since 2007, 293 people have died in plane crashes in Russia.
Russia takes the second place. Over the past 66 years, 266 accidents have occurred on the territory of the USSR and the Russian Federation, in which 6.5 thousand people died. It should be noted that Russia and the United States are leading largely due to the volume of air travel - the more flights, the higher the likelihood of an accident.
But the number of air crashes in the world and in the US in particular has been declining over the years. If in the 1990s 12 thousand people died in a plane crash, then in the 2000s the number of victims was 8.2 thousand. Here is a graph of the number of deaths in air crashes in the United States for 1945-2010:
Against this background, the statistics for Russia looks depressing. So, if since 2007 118 people have died in air crashes in the United States, then in Russia over the same period - 293 people.
The most tragic for Russian aviation was last year. Russia ranked first in fatal air crashes, second only to the Congo. In 2011, 514 people died in plane crashes around the world, 120 of them in the Russian Federation, that is, more than 20% of the total number of victims. 2012, which began with only strengthened the position of the Russian Federation.
See the graph of the victims of air crashes in the USSR and Russia over the past 65 years:
Causes of disasters
Among the main causes of air crashes in Russia, experts name the poor training of pilots. To release one pilot, it is necessary to burn from 60 to 160 tons of kerosene. Due to the high cost of fuel, pilots are often taught to fly in simulators only. And according to statistics, the cause of 80% of air crashes is the human factor.
Another cause of disasters is the decrepitude of the Russian aircraft fleet. Thus, in 2005, only 37% of passenger turnover was accounted for by new generation aircraft. The remaining 63% are still Soviet aircraft.
For example, the Yak-42 that crashed the Lokomotiv hockey team was banned in the European Union in 2009 due to serious security flaws.
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Il-76 and Boeing-737 JT8D topped the rating of the most dangerous aircraft, compiled by the American business magazine BusinessWeek. There is one plane crash for every 500,000 flight hours. The Tu-154 also entered the top three: on average, every thousandth flight crashes.
Most often in Russia, the An-2 "maize" crashes, which are included in the Guinness Book of Records as the only aircraft in the world that have been produced for more than 60 years. The An-2 isn't necessarily the most unreliable aircraft - it's just the most common. But over the years, the failure of technology becomes the cause of the disaster more and more often.
Catastrophes of the Decade in Russia
21st of June 2011 A Tu-134 plane crash occurred in Karelia. The plane made a hard landing near Petrozavodsk airport. The fuselage collapsed, a fire started. 46 of the 52 people on board were killed.
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In July in the Tomsk region. In flight, the engine caught fire, but the pilots managed to land the plane on the water, although not without casualties - seven out of 37 passengers and crew members died.
On September 7, a Yak-42 crashed near Yaroslavl with the Lokomotiv hockey team on board. Of the 45 people on board, only one flight engineer survived.
In August 2010 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, an An-24 aircraft crashed. It fell while landing at the Igarka airport and caught fire. 12 people died in the crash.
In September 2008 Aeroflot Nord Boeing 737, flying from Moscow, crashed while landing at Perm airport. All 88 people on board were killed. The cause of the crash was the erroneous actions of the pilots.
July 9 2006 Airbus A310 crashed at Irkutsk airport. The plane skidded off the runway. 125 people died.
On August 22, Tu-154M of Pulkovo Airlines crashed near Donetsk. The plane, flying Flight 612 from Anapa to St. Petersburg, tried to slip over a thundercloud, instead of sidestepping it, fell into a flat tailspin and crashed into the ground at a speed of 300 km / h. There were 170 people on board, all of them died on the spot. This tragedy was the largest air disaster in the history of Russian aviation.
24 August 2004 two Russian planes crashed as a result of terrorist attacks. Tu 154 and Tu 134 flew from Moscow's Domodedovo airport to Sochi and Volgograd. On board each of them was one suicide bomber. Almost simultaneously, they set off explosions, and both planes crashed. All 90 people on the two planes were killed. Later, Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev took responsibility for the attacks. He said that the organization of the explosions cost him $4,000.
In August 2002 Chechnya witnessed the worst helicopter crash in the world. Mi-26 with the military on board was shot down by a missile. At the same time, the helicopter was overloaded twice, and even landed on a minefield. 127 people died.
In July 2001 Tu-154 crashed at Irkutsk airport. The pilot made a mistake while landing. All 145 people died.
In October, a Russian Tu-154 flying from Tel Aviv crashed into the Black Sea. Everyone on board was killed - 77 people. The plane was accidentally shot down by a Ukrainian missile.
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Today there was a tragedy: a passenger plane of Saratov Airlines crashed in the Moscow region. An-148 was flying from the capital to Orsk. 71 people were on board: 65 passengers and 6 crew members. There are no survivors.
The president expressed condolences to the families of the victims. In connection with this tragedy, Vladimir Putin changed his schedule: a working trip to Sochi was postponed. According to the Kremlin press service, in order for the president to be able to directly coordinate the work of a special commission to clarify the causes of the tragedy. The commission was created on behalf of the head of state.
These shots were taken by eyewitnesses a few minutes after the disaster. The wreckage of the plane is scattered in a snowy field, around, at least at first glance, there are no signs of a fire or explosion. As if he just fell to the ground from a height. At the same time, the picture at the crash site - the wreckage is scattered over a radius of a whole kilometer - suggests that the liner collapsed while still in the air. And eyewitnesses say that before the fall, the plane seemed to be engulfed in flames.
Data on how long the plane has been in the air is still different. At first it was reported that the flight lasted about seven minutes. It was later reported that it had crashed just two minutes after takeoff. One way or another, the crash site is the vicinity of the village of Argunovo in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region - located just 30 kilometers from the Domodedovo airport.
“After a very strong cotton, we went to look for the place where this cotton was found. The whole field is approximately the size, I give it offhand - these are two football fields, ”the eyewitness said.
The Moscow-Orsk flight took off from Domodedovo airport at 14:21. And soon disappeared from the radar screens. Internet publications publish the words of an air traffic controller, allegedly the one who monitored the air situation in the crash area - the plane took off normally, then began to descend, but no longer contacted and did not respond to requests. Even an audio recording of the negotiations has appeared on the Web, although it is not yet possible to guarantee its authenticity.
One thing can be said for sure: the crew did not report any malfunctions on board, although the breakdown of the aircraft, along with piloting error and adverse weather conditions, are now the three main versions of the disaster.
According to Svetlana Petrenko, the official representative of the Investigative Committee, operational documentation is being confiscated at the Saratov Airlines company, and its employees are being interrogated. In addition, the investigators began interrogating the employees of the Domodedovo airport, who were preparing the aircraft for flight.
So far, too little is known about the last flight of the crashed plane, but experts have already drawn attention to its strange trajectory. According to the Flytradar service, after taking off from Domodedovo, it began to rise to a mark of 1800 meters, then dropped to one and a half thousand, then climbed again, and after that the plane went down sharply. Because of these conflicting data, at first there was even a version that the An-148 could collide with a helicopter in the air. But later these rumors were denied.
Experts in the field of aviation are now suggesting that icing of the liner could be the cause - in the event that a piece of ice got into the engine.
“Sometimes, due to the weather, due to icing, something can happen. The aircraft was poorly handled or got into a sharp, heavy icing. The weather here could play a negative role only if there was an engine failure and the crew did not see the site, could not pick up and land,” says Honored Pilot of Russia Yuri Sytnik.
The crashed An-148 belonged to Saratov Airlines. It had four aircraft of this type in its fleet to this day. Short-haul aircraft, designed to carry 80 passengers. The liner that crashed was produced less than eight years ago. At first, it belonged to the Rossiya airline, flew, including to foreign destinations. Later it was sold to Saratov. And the airlines assure that they have no doubts about the serviceability of the aircraft or the qualifications of the crew.
“There was an experienced crew on board. The commander of the aircraft is Gubanov Valery Ivanovich, who has more than 5 thousand flight hours, and on this type Valery Ivanovich had 2147 flight hours,” said Elena Voronova, head of the press service of Saratov Airlines.
“8 years is, of course, not a term for an aircraft. Moreover, Antonovskaya is a reliable company. Our airworthiness standards are the toughest in the world. Not only to new production aircraft, but to aircraft that are submitted for testing,” said Vitaly Zhiltsov, Honored Test Pilot of the USSR.
Meanwhile, the authorities are already publishing a list of those who died as a result of the disaster. There were 71 people on board the plane - 65 passengers and six crew members. Nobody had a chance to survive.
The head of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, Maxim Sokolov, said that "in accordance with federal law, insurance in the amount of more than 2 million rubles is paid to all relatives of the victims, and the necessary additional decisions in this direction will be made through the subject."
To identify the bodies during the crash of the An-148, a special board of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver DNA samples from relatives of the victims to Moscow from Orsk. The identification of the bodies will be carried out at the Moscow Bureau of Expertise.
EMERCOM of Russia opened a hotline. Phone: 8-800-775-17-17.
The hotline also operates in the Orenburg region: 8-3532-308-999.
Almost 600 rescuers are at the crash site of the An-148 passenger plane in the Moscow region. The wreckage is scattered over a large area, the search operation will be conducted around the clock, one of the black boxes has already been found.
“We have formed operational groups that work here and in Orsk, on the territory of the Orenburg region. The task force operates in Domodedovo and, where necessary, in the Moscow region. I will ask you to provide support for all relatives and friends, taking into account vital indications, to organize the duty of medical teams of social workers and all specialists who are needed for health reasons, ”instructed the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Vladimir Puchkov.
At the Orsk airport, the relatives of the victims are provided with all the necessary assistance. The director of the airport, Sergei Sukharev, said that psychologists and doctors work at the first-aid post.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill performed a prayer service for those who died in this crash. Condolences to Russian citizens in connection with the crash of the An-148 aircraft were brought by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, France and Belgium and other countries.
In connection with this tragedy, Channel One changes the broadcasting schedule. Immediately after our program, instead of playing the club “What? Where? When?" - broadcast from the Olympic Pyeongchang
Undoubtedly, the conquest of airspace by man can be attributed to one of the greatest events. But to our great regret, it was during this process that many brave testers died, who needed to test the work of the first aircraft in the airspace.
At present, air transport is the most convenient, fastest and most comfortable. After all, it is on an airplane that you can quickly cover a huge distance. But air transport, which seems so large and reliable both on the ground and in the sky, can still face numerous problems that lead to accidents. What were the most terrible plane crashes in the world, we will consider in this article, and it would be useful to give a rating. After all, a variety of factors are the cause of accidents. We will consider the largest air crashes in the form of TOP-10.
The number of victims is 290. In early July 1988, an airbus belonging to the Iranian state was shot down by a cruiser of the United States of America. The tragedy occurred in the Persian Gulf. According to the statistics of the dead, there were 290 people, including 65 minors. According to the authorities of the United States of America, the crew of the sea vessel mistook the airbus for a military fighter, so they opened fire "to kill."
Location #9: 1980 disaster near Riyadh
In the summer of 1980, a terrible tragedy occurred near the city of Riyadh. Neither the passengers of the plane nor the crew members could survive in the crash. In total, she took the lives of 301 people. These people had a chance to escape, but the Riyadh airport service did not show skill and resourcefulness, which did not allow timely opening of an emergency exit from the air transport. The doors were open, but, unfortunately, too late, since more than 20 minutes had passed since landing, and this provoked an instant ignition of the cabin. The fire did not allow anyone to leave the air transport, so all people died a terrible death. Why the door did not open for so long, it was not possible to find out.
Being in the sky on board this aircraft, a special device announced the start of a fire in the compartment carrying passenger cargo. The captain of the aircraft decided to turn around the air transport and land at the airport near the city of Riyadh, since the team, which did not speak a foreign language, could not deal with the existing instructions on firefighting on its own.
Place No. 8: 1996, the crash of the An-32B air transport
The number of victims is 298. The Russian air transport was supposed to transport the cargo, there were crew members and a citizen of Zaire responsible for transporting the goods on board. The take-off was supposed to be carried out from the capital of the Congo, but during it the air transport could not take off from the ground. The runway had no railings, so the aircraft ended up in a market located near the runway. Damage led to a fire, followed by an explosion that claimed the lives of 297 people, including all on board. The cause of the crash was the overload of goods for transportation.
Location #7: July 2014 Boeing 777 crash
The number of victims is 298. In the summer of 2014, a Boeing 777 belonging to a Malaysian airline flew from Amsterdam, the landing site was supposed to be Kuala Lumpur. A downed plane was found near Donetsk, Ukraine, where the confrontation was observed. Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian side took the blame for this crime.
Airplane with a burning engine
Seat #6: Summer 1980, Boeing 747 Air Crash
The number of victims is 329. The largest air crash in the world over water occurred in the summer of 1980. Unfortunately, no one was able to escape. Both passengers and crew were victims of the crash. The tragedy befell the Boeing 747, which belonged to an Indian airline over the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, which are considered neutral. The airliner carried out the flight "Montreal-Bombay", unexpectedly for everyone on board, a terrifying explosion was heard. Everything happened so quickly that the team did not even have time to send a distress signal to Earth. As a result of the explosion, the air vehicle was destroyed in the sky. After the flight recorder was found, the experts were able to establish that the accident was organized by terrorists. Sikh extremists claimed responsibility for the attack.
Location #5: March 1974 DC-10 crash
The number of victims is 346. In the spring of 1974, a Turkish airliner that took off from Paris airport crashed after 6 minutes of flight. The air transport was discovered in the forest of Ermenonville, and no survivors could be found. The cause of the plane crash was the failure of the lock in the door leading to the cargo hold. At the moment of climbing, the faulty lock could not withstand the overload, during which the door opened wide open. As a result, decompression was formed, which, under the action of a blast wave, damaged the system responsible for managing air transport. The out-of-control airliner entered the so-called "dive", the fall of the aircraft lasted 1.5 minutes, until the transport reached the surface of the earth. Unfortunately, after this tragedy, the largest air crashes were replenished with another tragedy.
Place number 4: November 1996, the crash of two airliners - Boeing-747 and Il-76
The number of victims is 349. Air transport crashes for many reasons:
- due to technical problems;
- due to terrorist acts;
- in unforeseen situations;
- due to the fault of the crew.
It was the irresponsibility of people that led to another terrible tragedy that occurred in 1996, in the fall. In the area of the city of Charkhi Dadri, an Il-76 and Boeing-747 aircraft crashed, the pilots of which failed to control the airliners in the sky, due to a lack of understanding of a foreign language by the pilot controlling the Il-76. A misunderstanding caused the plane to descend to an unacceptable level, which led to an inevitable collision. This is the largest plane crash in the world due to the human factor, during the crash, 349 people died. Survivors were found at the crash site, 4 people, but, unfortunately, they were not provided timely assistance, so they died before reaching the nearest hospital.
Location #3: August 1985 tragedy aboard a Boeing 747
In the summer of 1985, a tragic fate befell a plane flying along the Tokyo-Osaka route. The air transport stayed in the sky for only 12 minutes, as the hydraulic system began to work intermittently, after a soft pop was heard by the team. For more than half an hour, the air transport crew tried to turn the aircraft around and land at the nearest airport. To do this, the team tried to use all the thrust generated by the engine, as the steering system completely refused to work. But despite the great efforts of the entire crew, the airliner could not be delivered to the airport, the ship crashed, crashing into a mountain called Otsutaka. The crash occurred at an altitude of 1.7 kilometers. It took more than 12 hours for the rescue teams to arrive at the scene of the tragedy, but despite such a long time, they managed to find 4 surviving passengers, among whom were two children. The death toll in this accident is 520 people.
Airliner crash site
Location #2: March 1977, crash of two Boeing 747s
In the spring of 1977, another terrible tragedy occurred that took the lives of 583 people. It happened due to the human factor, which led to the collision of two Boeing 747s. The planes collided with each other while taking off near the airport located in the city of Los Rodeos, due to the wrong command, which was announced by the dispatcher of one of the airlines. This tragedy has forced global aviation to rethink its previously used safety measures very carefully.
Location #1: Fall 2001 Airplane Attack
The biggest plane crash in the world was committed by a terrorist organization that called itself Al-Qaeda on September 11, 2001. On a terrible September day, terrorists seized 4 air transports at once, on board of which there were only civilians and crew. 2 airliners were redirected by terrorists to the world-famous American towers in order to ram them. The third plane was forced to ram the Pentagon building. The terrorist organization redirected the fourth air transport to Pennsylvania. In this state, the last civilian plane crashed. These major air crashes in total took the lives of 2977 people, became victims of disasters.
