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An excavator is lifting burnt chairs from the ruins of an aircraft that went off the runway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, on December 29, 2024. — Reuters
A Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London crashed in India on Thursday, carrying 242 passengers. Authorities reported that "it seems there are no survivors."
Below is a list of the most devastating plane crashes of the 21st century, not including the events of September 11, 2001:
298 Fatalities, Ukraine
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, which was under rebel control, while traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 298 passengers on the Boeing 777 lost their lives, including 193 Dutch citizens. Recently, the UN’s aviation body (ICAO) attributed the incident to Russia, a claim that Moscow has described as "biased."
275 Fatalities, Iran
On February 19, 2003, an Ilyushin Il-76, operated by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), crashed near Kerman in southeastern Iran. Every individual on board, totaling 275, was killed. The aircraft vanished from radar about an hour after takeoff while requesting to land due to poor weather conditions.
265 Fatalities, New York
An American Airlines Airbus A300 crashed in Queens, New York, shortly after departing on November 12, 2001. All 260 people aboard, as well as five individuals on the ground, perished. The flight was headed to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, having taken off from John F. Kennedy International Airport.
257 Fatalities, Algiers
On April 11, 2018, an Ilyushin Il-76 heavy transport aircraft went down shortly after taking off from a military facility south of Algiers. The crash resulted in the loss of all 257 individuals on board, most of whom were military personnel and their family members.
Disasters at Sea
The three next most catastrophic air accidents occurred over water. On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 individuals. Despite extensive searching in the southern Indian Ocean, the Boeing 777-200 was never located.
On June 1, 2009, an Air France Airbus A330 vanished over the Atlantic during turbulent conditions after departing from Rio de Janeiro on Flight AF447 to Paris, with 228 passengers and crew aboard. It took two years to discover the wreckage.
On May 25, 2002, a China Airlines Boeing 747-200 crashed into the Taiwan Strait, killing everyone on board—225 individuals. The aircraft, en route to Hong Kong, disintegrated approximately 20 minutes into its flight from Taipei.
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