The largest air crashes in the world. The most terrible plane crashes in the world

Man has always dreamed of flying into the sky. Ancient Greek myths tell that Daedalus and his son Icarus soared into the sky with the help of wings that were made of feathers, wax and thread.

And the greatest scientist, inventor and artist Leonardo before Vinci once created sketches of an unusual aircraft. He had to fly to the endless sky with the help of man's muscles.

People have long been trying to create such flying machines. And they created ...

The history of world aviation accidents

The very first flights in the sky began at the end of the XIX century. At the same time, it was laid the beginning of the statistics of world aviation accidents. In the process of development of flights on airplanes (freight, passenger) air crash of the world began to occur more and more often. The statistics of their wreckage grew tremendously until 1970. And it is precisely the 70th years that are the peak of terrible tragedies in the sky.

In the future, in connection with the growth of modern technologies, the improvement of aviation equipment and the tightening of requirements and rules for flight safety, the number of accidents with aircraft began to decrease by the 1980s. There is a dynamics of decrease in the number of air crashes from 616, with 15 689 dead, in the 70s to more than 300 catastrophes with 8000 deaths in the 2000s.

Air crashes of the world, their geography

According to the geographical situation in this horribly sad statistics, the United States occupies catastrophes. According to the information of the Aviation Safety Network, in this country since 1945 to this day, a huge number of passenger aircraft crashed - more than 630. With these accidents, more than 9,000 people were killed.

Russia, unfortunately, takes second place in this statistics. Since 1945, more than 200 disasters in the sky occurred on the territory of the USSR of those times and Russia. At the same time, more than 5,000 people died.

3rd place - for Colombia.

The smallest number of air crashes - in Ecuador.

Statistics of distribution of air crashes of recent years by countries

March 27 in 1977 marked the world record for the number of victims in a plane crash. In the Tenerife region, two liners of the Boeing 747 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 growing.

The most dangerous airline in the world, according to "Actual Security" (Swedish magazine), is the Soviet Aeroflot. According to their data, the statistics of air crashes in the world demonstrates that there are more than 18 disasters per 1 million flights of Aeroflot. The second place in this sad list is the airline of Taiwan - more than 11 catastrophes per million flights. Third place for Egypt (more than 11), Then - India (more than 10), Turkey, China, Philippines, South Korea and Poland - for 41 million flights of more than 6 disasters. The safest is the company-South-West (America). On 1 million 800 thousand flights of this company's liners did not happen a single catastrophe.

The largest air crashes in the world in terms of the number of victims

Name of aircraft	Year of the disaster	Place of disaster	Number of victims	Country, owner of the airliner	Causes of the disaster
Boeing-747	1977	Canary Islands	578	Netherlands, USA	Wrong reception by the crew of the dispatcher's command
Boeing-747	1985	Japan	520	Japan	Insufficient quality repair of the airliner (technical malfunctions)
IL-76, Boeing	1996	India	349	Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia	The collision of two aircraft in the air
DC-10	1974	France	346	Turkey	Opening the hatch in the cargo hold
Boeing-737	1985	Atlantic	329	India	The terrorist act
IL-76	2003	Iran	275	Iran	Due to poor visibility conditions, a collision with the ground
A-300	1994	Japan	264	China	Undefined
DC-8 250	1985	Newfoundland	250	Canada	Privzleta there was a loss of speed
DC-10	1979	Antarctica	257	New Zealand	Falling to the ground
A-300	2001	USA	246	USA	Unexpected fire in the air

This table represents the most terrible plane crashes in the world.

Description of some air crashes

In March 1974, after the opening of the cargo compartment, the French DC-10 of THY Turkish Airlines crashed in the forest. Total - 346 dead.

In March 1977, when a Boeing 747-206B (KLM) collided with a Boeing 747-121 (Pan Am), crashed in the Canary Islands in Tenerife. 583 dead (the largest air crash in the world in the air).

In May 1979, due to damage to the hydraulic system, the DC-10 (American Airlines) aircraft collapsed in the Chicago area. 273 people died.

In August 1980, after the emergency landing, the plane L-1011-200 Tristar (Saudi) in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) was burnt. 301 people died.

In June 1985, an Air India plane Boeing 747-237B was destroyed in the Irish Sea after the explosion of terrorists. 329 people died.

In July 1988, by an ironic mistake, it was shot down by a military missile from the Vincennes (America) Airbus A300B2-202 (Iran Air). It happened in the Persian Gulf. 290 people dead.

In August 1985, in Tokyo crashed into the mountain Boeing 747SR (Japan Airlines). Surprisingly, but then four survived. 520 people were killed.

In November 1996, another collision of Boeing 747-168B (company Saudi Arabian Airlines) with the Kazakhstan Il-76TD aircraft took place in Charkhi-Dadri (India). In total, 349 people were killed.

In January 1996, the overloaded Ant-32 crashed into the urban market of Kinshasa in Zaire. More than 297 dead. Survived 4 people from the crew (the entire crew of 5).

Quite recently, on July 17, 2014, another terrible tragedy occurred on the Ukrainian territory (60 kilometers from the border with Russia) - a Boeing 777 airliner (the Malaysian Airlines) crashed (was shot down by the military). Killed 295 passengers (among them 80 children) and the entire crew (15 people). Until now, the true cause of the tragedy has not been officially clarified.

The death of the heads of state in aviation accidents

Air crashes of the world occur in the most unexpected places, for various reasons, and people of various statuses in society are dying in them.

Leaders of all countries, as a rule, use airliners as a movement in connection with saving time. Used for this are the most modern and, it would seem, very reliable in terms of security vessels. However, an unforeseen failure of technology or just a human factor and in these cases can cause aircraft crashes. Here are some air crashes in the world in which the first state officials were killed:

• In 2010, Lech Kaczynski (Polish President) with his wife, a large number of military men from the Polish High Command and other political figures perished in the Tu-154 crash near Smolensk.

• In 2004, Boris Traikovsky (Macedonian President) was killed in a catastrophe in Bosnia.

• In 2001, the Sudanese military leadership perished in the south of the country.

• In 1988, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was President of Pakistan, was killed. The tragedy occurred over the city of Lahore, Pakistan (possibly as a result of the terrorist attack).

• In 1986, Zamora Machel (President of Mozambique) died in South Africa in a plane crash.

• In 1981, Jaime Roldos Aguilera, President of Ecuador, died. The plane crashed in the Wyrarapung Mountains of Ecuador.

• In 1969, René Barientos Ortunho (President of Bolivia) died in the Arch (Bolivia).

• In 1966, Abdul Salam Aref (Iraqi President) in the south of Iraq.

• In 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld (UN Secretary-General) was killed in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).

• In 1957, Ramon Magsaysay (President of the Philippines) died as a result of another catastrophe in the municipality of Balamban (Philippines).

Many more well-known names can replenish lists of the dead from among the statesmen of small and large countries of the world. There are among them mysterious air crashes of the world, mainly those whose causes have not yet been clarified. They can be attributed to the plane crash that occurred in Panama. In 1981, Omar Torrijos, the general, leader of Panama, died under mysterious circumstances.

Statistics on Russian Air Companies

Authoritative expert organizations have deduced the statistics of aircraft wrecks in many Russian airlines and have compiled a safety rating for existing airliners.

Recently, almost all Russian airlines prefer foreign (already used) aircraft, rather than the new Russian ones, when buying. And as you know, the management of imported modern equipment, equipped with electronics, is very different from the management of domestic aircraft. Accordingly, the risk of occurrence of, again, simply a "human factor" increases.

So, on the account of the company "Russia" 184 human lives, airlines "Vladivostok-Avia" - 145, the company "KrasAir" - 29, and on account of the "Tyumen Airlines" - 5. At the same time, the presence of airlines that have worked for Victims: Transero, Ural Airlines and Domodedovo Airlines.

Statistics on the rating of liners

The table shows the ranking of aircraft for their dangers.

Model liner		Number of flights, million	The number of people killed in case of catastrophes, on average,%		Number of crashes	Airliner hazard rating
Boeing 747		16.26	49.04%		28	0.84
Boeing 737-300 / 400/500 0		50	74.40%		15	0.22
Airbus A300		9.72	66.56%		9	0.62
Boeing 757		14.71	77.14%		7th	0.37
Airbus A320 / 319/321		21.43	65.86%		7th	0.22
Airbus A310		3.75	87.17%		6th	1.39
Boeing 767	11.76		91.67%	6th		0.47
Fokker F70 / F100	6.67		46.75%	4		0.28
Boeing 737-600 / 700/800/900	13.9		100%	2		0.14
Boeing 777	2		0	0		0

From the above information, we can conclude that the Boeing 777 is by far the most reliable type of airliner.

The main causes of air crashes

Every year a black horror-tragic list of global air crashes is replenished. Quite often, the causes of these tragedies remain unclear until the end. Very frequent and unpredictable air crashes of the world. Investigation sometimes comes to a standstill. Even magic black boxes often can not clarify the cause of some disasters that have occurred in the airspace.

The main causes of modern aviation accidents: technical malfunctions (failure of technical devices, minor malfunctions), mistakes of air traffic controllers, pilots and other personnel (human factor), international terrorism, military operations, absurd fatal accidents (mistakes of military air defense, lightning storms, even collisions with Birds, etc.).

The most important reason for the air crashes that occurred is the most ill-fated human factor. In practice around the world, it accounts for almost 70% of all aircraft crashes.

And yet, despite the fact that air crashes are horrible and each time cause a very painful reaction to the entire world public, aviation remains one of the most reliable and safe of all types of existing transport.