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Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- General
- Hindustan Times
Ahmedabad plane crash: World's worst air crashes in recent years
Many people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from the western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, authorities said, in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade. Below are details of other fatal crashes in recent years. UNITED STATES More than 60 people were killed when an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on January 29 and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. SOUTH KOREA Jeju Air international flight 7C2216 crashed at Muan International Airport on Dec. 29, 2024, killing all 175 passengers and four of the six crew in the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil. KAZAKHSTAN Azerbaijan Airlines international flight J2-8243, an Embraer E190, crashed on December 25 after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said in December the plane had been damaged by accidental shooting from the ground in Russia. Moscow has not confirmed this. JAPAN A Japan Airlines (JAL) plane collided with a smaller Coast Guard aircraft on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda airport on January 2. All 379 people aboard the JAL plane, an Airbus A350-941 flight, escaped the burning airliner. Five of six crew on the smaller aircraft were killed. CHINA A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed into a mountainous region in the southwestern Guangxi region on March 21, 2022, killing all 132 people on board, in China's deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years. IRAN Iran's Revolutionary Guards shot down a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 on Jan. 8, 2020 shortly after it took off from Tehran Airport, killing all 176 people on board. Iran's civil aviation body blamed a misaligned radar and an error by an air defence operator. ETHIOPIA A Boeing 737-MAX 8 Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed on March 19, 2019 minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa for Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board. Soon after, the Boeing 737 MAX global fleet was grounded over safety concerns. INDONESIA A Boeing 737 MAX Lion Air plane crashed into the Java Sea soon after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, 2018, killing all 189 people on board. MALAYSIA Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, and was shot down over eastern Ukraine as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. All 298 passengers on board were killed. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. The remains of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people have not been found.
Business Recorder
2 days ago
- General
- Business Recorder
The world's worst air crashes in recent years
LONDON: At least 100 people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from India's western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, with the toll expected to climb, authorities said. Below are some of the fatal crashes that have occurred in recent years. More than 100 killed as Air India plane with 242 on board crashes near Ahmedabad 2025 UNITED STATES More than 60 people were killed when an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on January 29 and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. 2024 SOUTH KOREA Jeju Air international flight 7C2216 crashed at Muan International Airport on Dec. 29, 2024, killing all 175 passengers and four of the six crew in the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil. KAZAKHSTAN Azerbaijan Airlines international flight J2-8243, an Embraer E190, crashed on December 25 after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said in December the plane had been damaged by accidental shooting from the ground in Russia. Moscow has not confirmed this. JAPAN A Japan Airlines (JAL) plane collided with a smaller Coast Guard aircraft on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda airport on January 2. All 379 people aboard the JAL plane, an Airbus A350-941 flight, escaped the burning airliner. Five of six crew on the smaller aircraft were killed. 2022 CHINA A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed into a mountainous region in the southwestern Guangxi region on March 21, 2022, killing all 132 people on board, in China's deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years. 2020 IRAN Iran's Revolutionary Guards shot down a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 on Jan. 8, 2020 shortly after it took off from Tehran Airport, killing all 176 people on board. Iran's civil aviation body blamed a misaligned radar and an error by an air defence operator. 2019 ETHIOPIA A Boeing 737-MAX 8 Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed on March 19, 2019 minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa for Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board. Soon after, the Boeing 737 MAX global fleet was grounded over safety concerns. 2018 INDONESIA A Boeing 737 MAX Lion Air plane crashed into the Java Sea soon after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, 2018, killing all 189 people on board. 2014 MALAYSIA Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, and was shot down over eastern Ukraine as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. All 298 passengers on board were killed. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. The remains of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people have not been found.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Yahoo
Investigators make major discovery over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38
The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on Christmas Day killing 38 people suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, a preliminary report revealed. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia's republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on 25 December 2024. The Embraer 190 aircraft was carrying 67 people but only 29 survived, making it the first fatal accident involving a passenger jet in 2024. A preliminary report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday said that there was damage to the plane, including on its stabilisers, hydraulics and trim systems, but it did not say what caused the damage, Reuters reported. The report was issued under global aviation rules to learn from incidents like these in order to prevent them in the future, rather than assigning blame for the crash. Also included were photographs showing that the port side of the tail section had numerous punctures, while other pictures showed fragments that it described as 'foreign metal objects' removed from the left stabiliser and hydraulic system. A senior Azerbaijani government official told Reuters that the external impact referred to in the report was from a Russian surface-to-air missile. The news agency had not received comment from Russian officials on this. "The Azerbaijani side possesses a fragment of a Pantsir-S missile, which was extracted from the aircraft and identified through international expertise," the source said. Four sources with knowledge of Azerbaijan's preliminary investigations previously told Reuters in December that the investigations found Russian air defences were responsible for the crash. One of the Azerbaijani sources told the news agency that preliminary results indicated that the plane had been struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. 'No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft,' the source said. Russia has started its own investigation into the crash and said that actions are being taken to try to understand the circumstances around the incident. Russia's aviation watchdog's preliminary investigation indicated the pilot decided to change landing site after 'a collision with birds'. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the plane crash in Russian airspace in December. 'Vladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,' an official Kremlin statement said.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Yahoo
Investigators make major discovery over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38
The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on Christmas Day killing 38 people suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, a preliminary report revealed. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia's republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on 25 December 2024. The Embraer 190 aircraft was carrying 67 people but only 29 survived, making it the first fatal accident involving a passenger jet in 2024. A preliminary report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday said that there was damage to the plane, including on its stabilisers, hydraulics and trim systems, but it did not say what caused the damage, Reuters reported. The report was issued under global aviation rules to learn from incidents like these in order to prevent them in the future, rather than assigning blame for the crash. Also included were photographs showing that the port side of the tail section had numerous punctures, while other pictures showed fragments that it described as 'foreign metal objects' removed from the left stabiliser and hydraulic system. A senior Azerbaijani government official told Reuters that the external impact referred to in the report was from a Russian surface-to-air missile. The news agency had not received comment from Russian officials on this. "The Azerbaijani side possesses a fragment of a Pantsir-S missile, which was extracted from the aircraft and identified through international expertise," the source said. Four sources with knowledge of Azerbaijan's preliminary investigations previously told Reuters in December that the investigations found Russian air defences were responsible for the crash. One of the Azerbaijani sources told the news agency that preliminary results indicated that the plane had been struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. 'No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft,' the source said. Russia has started its own investigation into the crash and said that actions are being taken to try to understand the circumstances around the incident. Russia's aviation watchdog's preliminary investigation indicated the pilot decided to change landing site after 'a collision with birds'. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the plane crash in Russian airspace in December. 'Vladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,' an official Kremlin statement said.
The Independent
05-02-2025
- The Independent
Investigators make major discovery over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash which killed 38
The Azerbaijani passenger plane that crashed on Christmas Day killing 38 people suffered external damage and was riddled with holes in its fuselage, a preliminary report revealed. Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, which had been flying from Baku to Grozny, the capital of Russia 's republic of Chechnya, crash-landed a few kilometres short of Aktau airport in Kazakhstan on 25 December 2024. The Embraer 190 aircraft was carrying 67 people but only 29 survived, making it the first fatal accident involving a passenger jet in 2024. A preliminary report published on a Kazakh government website on Tuesday said that there was damage to the plane, including on its stabilisers, hydraulics and trim systems, but it did not say what caused the damage, Reuters reported. The report was issued under global aviation rules to learn from incidents like these in order to prevent them in the future, rather than assigning blame for the crash. Also included were photographs showing that the port side of the tail section had numerous punctures, while other pictures showed fragments that it described as 'foreign metal objects' removed from the left stabiliser and hydraulic system. A senior Azerbaijani government official told Reuters that the external impact referred to in the report was from a Russian surface-to-air missile. The news agency had not received comment from Russian officials on this. "The Azerbaijani side possesses a fragment of a Pantsir-S missile, which was extracted from the aircraft and identified through international expertise," the source said. Four sources with knowledge of Azerbaijan's preliminary investigations previously told Reuters in December that the investigations found Russian air defences were responsible for the crash. One of the Azerbaijani sources told the news agency that preliminary results indicated that the plane had been struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defence system. 'No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft,' the source said. Russia has started its own investigation into the crash and said that actions are being taken to try to understand the circumstances around the incident. Russia's aviation watchdog's preliminary investigation indicated the pilot decided to change landing site after 'a collision with birds'. Russian President Vladimir Putin apologised to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the plane crash in Russian airspace in December. 'Vladimir Putin apologised for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,' an official Kremlin statement said.
