Passenger Aircraft Crashes In Last 12 Months: 1052 Passengers Died

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8th March - Malaysian Airlines MH370

 

The international passenger plane, carrying 227 passengers and 12 Malaysian crew members, disappeared en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. An investigation into the plane's disappearance is still ongoing.

 

 

 

17th July - Malaysian Airlines MH17

 

Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down over Ukraine. There were 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. There were no survivors.

 

 

 

23rd July - TransAsia Airways Flight 222

 

TransAsia flight, carrying 58 people, crashed en route from Kaohsiung to Penghu, Taiwan. There were 10 survivors.

 

 

 

24th July - Air Algerie

 

International passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria came down in Mali with 110 passengers and six crew on board. There were no survivors.

 

 

 

 

28th December - AirAsia Flight 8501

 

AirAsia Flight 8501 disappeared en route to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesian, carrying 155 passengers and seven crew. The wreckage was discovered in January but there were no survivors.

 

 

4th February - TransAsia Airways Flight 235

 

The TransAsia ATR 72-600 turboprop plane clipped an elevated motorway and hitting a taxi before crashing into the Keelung river outside Taiwan's capital Taipei in New Taipei City. The plane carried 53 passengers and five crew on board. There were 15 survivors.

 

 

 

9th March - Villa Castelli helicopter collision

 

Two helicopters collided mid-air near Villa Castelli, killing all ten people on board. Three of those killed were well known French athletes partaking in a reality TV show.

 

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