The biggest plane crash ever. The biggest plane crashes in the world

The history of air transportation has more than one hundred major disasters. Such accidents, although rare, are usually fatal. The most terrible plane crash to date has claimed the lives of almost six hundred people.

The most famous plane crashes

Flight No. 123 Japan Airlines

After the Boeing's keel came off, the team continued to fly the plane for thirty-two minutes, trying to stabilize the state of the airliner. However, it got out of control and crashed into a mountain range. Four passengers are known to have survived.

Disaster over India (Charkhi Dadri)

No one survived this terrible accident. The Boeing disintegrated while still in the air after the collision, the IL remained “undamaged”, but lost control.

Air crash in Ermenonville

Just seventy-two seconds after the incident, the plane crashed. Three hundred and forty-six people were victims of the Ermenonville disaster.

Crash L-1011

The airliner managed to land, but for unknown reasons, did not turn off the engines, but continued to move, stopping much further than the firefighters waiting for it. They did not dare to approach the board. Twenty-three minutes later, the plane was already completely enveloped in fire. All those inside, and this is three hundred and one people, were burned or died from suffocation.

Flight IR655

America never pleaded guilty, and no apologies were made to the families of the two hundred and ninety victims. Nevertheless, the US authorities paid almost sixty-two million dollars in compensation.

Flight No. 191 American Airlines

Plane crash near Donetsk

His crash happened over Donetsk. Nearly three hundred people died. As you know, the Boeing was in the zone of active hostilities and was shot down.

The results of the investigation should be made public in 2018.

A321 crash over the Sinai Peninsula

Among those who returned after the holidays was a little ten-month-old girl - Darina Gromova. Her photo at Pulkovo airport, which her mother posted in social network with an inscription " Main Passenger", became a symbol of the air crash and was replicated by many media. The A321 crash became the most massive death Russian citizens throughout the history of world aviation.

The most terrible plane crash to date The most terrible, unexpected and even ridiculous is the plane crash that occurred in 1977. She claimed the lives of nearly six hundred people.

At the airport in Tenerife in 1977, two large airliners collided during takeoff. We are talking about Boeing - 747, owned by the Dutch and American airlines. They ended up in Tenerife by accident. Airplanes were redirected there because of the terrorist attack that took place in Gran Canaria the day before.

The Boeings were moving along the taxiway towards each other and did not have time to avoid the collision. Five hundred and eighty-three people died in that crash. Only sixty-one passengers survived.

According to the site, the fastest planes in the world were taken out of service precisely because they often had an emergency.
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Man has always wanted to fly, back in ancient times there were literally countless attempts! Various inventions have been made aircrafts. And only at the beginning of the 19th century an airplane was invented, which was lifted into the air and at the same time was even controlled. It is believed that the Wright brothers were the first, although this fact is disputed, we will believe the opinion of the majority. Wilbur and Orville in 1903 lifted a controlled aircraft into the air, and literally two years later they were already able to put it into operation. This is where the era of aircraft construction began. Pretty soon, aircraft were already in full use for a wide variety of purposes, including Passenger Transportation. However, did the ability to manage and secure? Partly yes, but not enough.
When the planes did not lift a large number of people into the air, they fell, but there were not many casualties. Until they began to use them more actively and learned how to build big planes, and then very large aircraft. Since the middle of the last century, it would seem that people had to do something about it. And they did, but this is still not enough. However, no matter how hard they try to secure the structures, it is almost impossible to exclude the human factor. Yes, and to calculate absolutely everything is also difficult. Therefore, we present the saddest of statistics - a list of the most terrible plane crashes in the world.
1

This plane crash shocked the whole world. Two Boeing 767s were hijacked by terrorists and sent to the Twin Towers in New York. Despite the fact that there were a total of 137 people on board the planes, three thousand died that day. Both towers collapsed, burying a huge number of people under the rubble. But this is not a war .... This is the worst tragedy ever.

2

On this day at the airport of Los Rodeos, Tenerife, on the ground, and not at all high in the air, there was the largest plane crash in the world. The September 11 tragedy outnumbered it, of course, but 583 people died in Tenerife – aboard two Boeing 747s. And this is absolutely without malice. The dispatcher's commands were misunderstood and, apparently, there was a pilot error. This happened as a result of an explosion at Las Palmas airport and the redirection of all aircraft to the nearest airport. It was a Sunday, the planes were waiting too long, there were too many flights, there was too much of everything. A lot of facts have been proven that served as an impetus for the tragedy, but this will not change what happened.

3

And again Boeing-747. This plane crash is only slightly inferior to the previous one in terms of the number of victims. The largest single plane crash. On that day, a Japanese Airlines plane crashed near Tokyo. Only 4 people survived, an airline employee, one woman with her daughter and another girl found in a tree. And 520 people died. The accident occurred as a result of successive breakdowns, 12 minutes after departure from the airport. The crew of the plane tried to the last to keep the plane and control what was happening, but at a great height and with such breakdowns, this was not possible. Unlike the selfless crew, the rescue services did not act as well-coordinated. The helicopter that took off did not work enough, and no survivors were found, only after 14 hours four frozen ones were found and hospitalized. And there were also a lot of terrible finds - the suicide notes of the passengers of the flight. The head of the technical service of the airline at Haneda Airport committed suicide

4

A Russian plane took off from the N'Dolo airfield. Nothing foreshadowed trouble - the An-32 was taking off, but for some reason broke away from runway the plane failed. It so happened that the plane was on the runway of this particular airport, located in the city center. It was surrounded by a crowded market, where the plane entered. Later it turned out that the aircraft was overloaded, perhaps this was partly the cause of the tragedy - the death of 350 people and the injury of 450. But during a six-month investigation into the causes of the disaster, both pilots were accused of murder.

In the same year, the first two-aircraft crash in the air in terms of the number of victims occurred. Two planes collided - a Kazakh Il-76TD and a Saudi Boeing-747. As a result of the language barrier and the insufficiency of modern equipment, a fatal mistake occurred on the Kazakh aircraft - on the radar on the ground, the dots indicating the liners in the air met. But no matter how much the controllers trying to get through to the crews hoped, a message was soon received from an American military aircraft about flashes in the air. 349 people - no one survived.

6

Only three fewer people died in a plane crash near Paris. 546 victims and no survivors. Aircraft DC-10 crashed as a result of opening the door cargo compartment at a great height. It was 1974, the locking mechanisms were not perfect. At the altitude that planes climb, a broken lock is enough to kill hundreds of people, with no chance of survival.

7

The largest air crash over water - occurred off the coast of Ireland, but actually over the Atlantic Ocean. As it became known later, a few weeks before the crash, the plane's engine had already failed, but then nothing happened, the plane was returned to the ground and the engine was replaced. However, on June 23, the plane disappeared from radar, and soon there were reports of wreckage found off the Irish coast. The aircraft was thought to have crashed as a result of a malfunction, given the recent breakdown. However, after the flight recorders were found, it became clear that an explosion had occurred. It was later determined that a bomb had exploded and that it was a planned terrorist attack. 329 people had no chance of salvation.

8

This plane crash is terrible not only by the number of dead, but also by the fact that they were one step away from salvation. The plane flew to Karachi, but a fire broke out on board, and the plane was forced to return to the point of departure - Riyadh. The pilots were able to successfully land the plane, bring it to the end of the runway and even stop it. The engines have not yet been turned off. It would seem that everything should be fine. But three minutes later, the flames engulfed the iron bird, and even on the ground, close to salvation, no one managed to survive. 301 people.

9

What could be more unfair than the death of civilians at the hands of the military. It happened on July 3, 1988 - an American cruiser, sent to protect tankers from Kuwait from attacks by Iran and Iraq, mistakenly fired missiles at a plane en route to Dubai. It was mistaken for an Iranian fighter. Both fired missiles hit the target. For 290 passengers, this 28-minute flight was the last. Nobody survived. There is an opinion that the missiles were fired from the Vincennes on purpose, and not by mistake. However, this version is disputed due to the fact that the cruiser was not equipped with equipment for listening to civil frequencies, and there was no response to the signals from the aircraft, as it turned out later, the aircraft crew did not understand that the signals were addressed to them.

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Last terrible plane crash this list is different from the rest. Here, not the number of victims, of which there were 71 people, is taken into account, but this is many times more than any of the above-mentioned disasters. As a result of the collision of the Russian Tu-154 and the German cargo Boeing-757, children died. Most of the passengers Russian aircraft It was children whose lives were cut short due to a malfunction of the controller's equipment and his messages, which misled the pilots. The crews of both aircraft tried to prevent a collision, but due to incorrect information and instructions, precious seconds were lost. Two years later, the dispatcher was killed by a man who lost his wife and two children on that fateful day. The murder was committed in a state of passion, which reduced the originally announced 8-year sentence by almost three years. Most of the victims are buried near the crash site, a memorial has been erected. There were many legal proceedings related to the disaster. However, no payments and terms will not be able to return the children.

TASS-DOSIER /Valery Korneev/. In 2015, there were 16 major (ten or more deaths) accidents in passenger, transport and military transport in the world aircraft different types. They killed 772 people.

Among these disasters - 4 accidents with liners of regular passenger airlines (471 dead), 3 - with military transport aircraft (160 dead), 1 - with a transport aircraft (41 dead), 3 - with light aircraft (31 dead) and 5 - with helicopters (69 dead).

For comparison, in 2014 there were 12 major air crashes in which 1,51 people died or went missing.

The largest disaster in 2015, as well as the most massive disaster in terms of the number of victims in the history of Russian civil aviation, was the loss of a Metrojet airliner (Kogalymavia) over Sinai Peninsula. On the territory of the Russian Federation itself, only one disaster occurred, closing the list of "16 largest".

The five biggest air crashes

The top five in terms of the number of victims of accidents with aircraft included four liners of regular passenger airlines and one military transport aircraft.

1. October 31 passenger aircraft Airbus A321-231 ("Airbus A-321-231", registration number EI-ETJ) Russian airline Metrojet ("Kogalymavia"), en route from Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) to St. Petersburg, as a result of a terrorist attack, crashed in the area of ​​n. Al-Hasna in the Egyptian province of North Sinai.

There were 224 people on board - including 217 passengers (including 25 children) and seven crew members, all of whom died. Most of the passengers were Russians, there were also four citizens of Ukraine and one Belarusian on the plane.

Shortly after the disaster, representatives of a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation " Islamic state"Declared the involvement of this group in the plane crash. On November 17, 2015, the director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that a terrorist act was the cause of the disaster.

2. On March 24, an Airbus A320-211 passenger aircraft (registration number D-AIPX) of the German airline Germanwings ("Germanwings"), performing regular flight 4U 9525 / GWI18G on the route Barcelona (Spain) - Düsseldorf (Germany), crashed into a mountain slope in the Alps haute provence(France) and completely collapsed. There were 144 passengers and 6 crew members on board, all of whom died. The crash was the result of the deliberate actions of the co-pilot of the liner Andreas Lubitz (Andreas Lubitz).

3. On June 30, the Lockheed KC-130B Hercules transport aircraft ("Lockheed C-130 Hercules", side number A-1310) of the 32nd squadron of the Indonesian Air Force, following domestic flight from Medan to Penang, crashed 2 minutes after takeoff, falling on houses and cars. On board, 12 crew members and 101 passengers - military personnel and members of their families - were killed. In addition, at least 22 people on the ground were killed. The probable cause of the disaster is a technical malfunction: the pilot managed to report engine problems to the base.

4. On August 16, an ATR 42-300 passenger plane of the Indonesian company Trigana Air Service ("Trigana Air Service", registration number PK-YRN), following a regular domestic flight 257 on the Jayapura-Oksibil route, collided with a mountain slope and collapsed. All 54 people on board were killed - five crew members and 49 passengers.

5. On February 4, an ATR 72-600 passenger aircraft (registration number B-22816) of the Taiwanese airline TransAsia Airways ("Transeisha Airways"), operating domestic flight 235 on the Taipei - Kinmen route, stopped climbing shortly after takeoff, sharply decreased with a roll on left wing, touched the fence of an automobile overpass and fell into the Jilong River in the vicinity of Taipei.

There were 53 passengers and 5 crew members on board. 43 people were killed, 17 were injured, including two passengers in a taxi that was driving along the overpass. The causes of the disaster were engine failure and crew error, which turned off the second engine that was running.

Other fatal accidents

In addition, 11 cases of disasters with a death toll of 10 or more people are known (listed in chronological order):

March 9 near the village. Villa Castella (prov. La Rioja, Argentina) during the filming of a television reality show, two Eurocopter AS350B3 Ecureuil helicopters collided in the air ("Eurocopter AS-350-B3 Ecurel", registration numbers LQ-CGK and LQ-FJQ). The crash killed 10 people, including famous French athletes - swimmer Camille Muffat (Camille Muffat), boxer Alexis Vasten (Alexis Vastine) and Florence Artaud (Florence Arthaud), who was engaged in sailing. Also among the dead were two Argentine pilots and five members of the French film crew.

March 10 at US state Florida helicopter Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk ("Sikorsky HU-60-m Black Hawk", tail number 13-20624) of the Louisiana Army National Guard crashed in a training flight. The crew decided to take off in weather conditions that were worse than recommended; in the fog, the car collided with the ground. All 11 servicemen on board were killed.

March 19 Beechcraft B90 private light aircraft King Air("Beechcraft B-90 King Air", registration number LV-CEO) fell into a river near Punta del Este Airport (Uruguay) during takeoff, collapsed and burned down. Ten people died.

On May 12, a US Marine Corps Bell UH-1Y Venom ("Bell Yu-hey-1-way Venom", tail number 168792 / SE-08), participating in a search and rescue operation after a major earthquake in Nepal, crashed in the area Nepalese village Kalinchok. 13 people died on board - six Americans, two Nepalese military personnel and five local residents previously affected by the earthquake. The cause of the accident was the error of pilots who lost their bearings in bad weather conditions.

On July 27, a Mi-17-1V helicopter (registration number RDPL-34062) of the Lao Armed Forces, heading from Vientiane (Laos) to northern part countries, stopped contacting shortly after departure from capital airport Wattay. There were four crew members and 19 passengers on board. On July 29, the wreckage of the car was found in the vicinity of Vientiane, the bodies of 22 dead were found.

On July 31, a transport aircraft CASA CN-235M-200 (tail number FAC1261) of the Colombian Air Force, on a domestic flight from Palanquero to Valledupar, collided with the ground in difficult weather conditions and collapsed near the city of Agustín Codassi. 11 people on board were killed. Shortly before the crash, the pilot informed the dispatcher of an engine failure.

On August 22, during an air show at Shoreham Airport (East Sussex, UK), while trying to perform a "dead loop", a fighter-bomber of the late 1940s fell on a highway near the runway. Hawker Hunter T7 ("Hawker Hunter T-7", registration G-BXFI), owned by the British company Canfield Hunter ("Canfield Hunter"). The pilot survived, 11 people in the cars were killed.

2 October Lockheed C-130J Hercules transport aircraft of the 774th Expeditionary Squadron air transportation The 455th Expeditionary Wing of the US Air Force crashed at Jalalabad Airport (Afghanistan). 11 people on board and three more people who were on the ground at the time of the disaster were killed.

On October 2, a light aircraft de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 ("DH-C-6 Twin Otter 300") Indonesian Aviastar airlines Mandiri ("Aviastar Mandiri"), following a scheduled domestic flight MV7503 from Masamba to Makassar, collided with Mount Latimojong in flight and completely collapsed. Ten people died on board - three crew members and seven passengers.

On November 4, an An-12BK transport aircraft (registration number EY-406, built 1971) of the South Sudanese company Allied Services Limited crashed while taking off from Juba airport. The plane, which was flying to Paloh in the state of Upper Nile, was unable to gain altitude, collided with residential buildings fishing village and collapsed. According to local media, in aircraft there were six crew members (five Armenian citizens and a Russian) and 37 passengers. 41 people died in the crash, two passengers survived.

On November 26, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a Mi-8T helicopter (registration number RA-25361) of the Russian airline Turukhan, transporting shift workers from the city of Igarka to the Vankor field, made a hard landing on the ice of the Yenisei River shortly after takeoff.

There were 25 people on board - three crew members and 22 passengers. The aircraft was partially destroyed and caught fire.

As a result of the disaster, 12 people died and 13 others were injured.

Air travel is considered one of the safest modes of transport. But even in spite of this, the statistics here show deaths. Throughout the history of world aviation, a large number of plane crash, most of which ended happily or with a small number of victims. Although planes are not as dangerous as cars, which collide every day with several hundred around the globe, there are people who are afraid to fly. And who knows, maybe they are doing the right thing and protecting their lives to some extent.

When a person chooses air travel, he hopes for the reliability of the aircraft, the professionalism of pilots and dispatchers, as well as technical staff. But sometimes even they fail. Therefore, unforeseen situations are possible. Below is a list of the most "black" air crashes. Air crashes can be judged by the number of deaths. But it is worth noting that the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington are not taken into account, since untold thousands of civilians suffered.

10. Disaster over the Pacific Ocean

• Number of victims: 270 people;
• Airplane: Boeing 246;
• Date of: September 1, 1983.

In the space above the territory of the USSR, a Boeing 246 was shot down with the help of two R-98 missiles. Boeing 246 owned by Korean Airlines ( South Korea). A flight on which he was flying from New York to Seoul and deviated from his route. The USSR considered this an invasion and made the right decisions in their opinion. There were 246 residents and 23 crew members on this plane.

9. Disaster over Lockerbie (a town in Scotland)

• Number of victims: 270 people;
• Airplane: Boeing 747;
• Date of: December 21, 1988.

At that time, a Pan Am airliner flew over Scotland, flying from London to New York. The plane crash was due to terrorist act committed by the Libyans, as a result of which 270 people died.
After listing the most "black" air crashes, we can say that 10 aircraft and 9 airlines suffered in these crashes. Moreover, the largest company owned by the United States was seen in two crashes. Saudi Airlines also suffered in two crashes. Arabian Airlines.

8. Crash at Chicago International Airport

• Number of victims: 271 people;
• Airplane: McDonnell Douglas DC-10;
• Date of: May 25, 1979

This tragedy is the worst in the United States, as an American Airlines plane crashed into a trailer pad behind the airport complex. The flight lasted 31 seconds. In addition to the people on the plane, 2 more residents died, on whom this plane fell. When determining the cause of the crash, all experts agreed that the cause was erroneous repair technologies, as well as the incompetence of pilots who were not well trained. The only positives were that there were no more people at the trailer stop, or that the plane crashed there instead of into the more crowded Chicago area, then the number of victims increased significantly.

7. Catastrophe over the Persian Gulf

• Number of victims: 248 people;
• Airplane: Airbus A300;
• Date of: July 3, 1988

Iranian Airlines and their Airbus A300 airliner with 290 people on board were involved in this disaster. The American cruiser Vincennes mistakenly shot down an Airbus. Since this catastrophe was accidental and the fault of the United States, compensation was paid in 1996, which amounted to 61.8 million US dollars.

• Number of victims: 301 people;
• Airplane: Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar;
• Date of: August 19, 1980.

The Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar aircraft belonged to Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudi Arabia). And he made flight number 163, which was heading from Riyadh to Jeddah. An unforeseen situation occurred immediately after takeoff, which was at Riyadh airport. After 7 minutes, a flash occurred in the cargo hold, and then a fire. In such a situation, the crew decided to turn the plane back to the airport and make an emergency landing. Although the crew made a perfect landing, all passengers died, as there were a number of errors due to which poisonous gases spread throughout the cabin. And since the plane was on fire, no one managed to leave the cabin, which led to the death of 301 people.

5. Catastrophe in the south of Ireland

• Number of victims: 329 souls;
• Airplane: Boeing 747;
• Date of: June 23, 1985;

This catastrophe occurred on the south coast of Ireland. As a result of the terrorist attack committed by extremists, a bomb was detonated on board an aircraft that was flying along the route Montreal - London - Delhi. This attack was conceived on a larger scale. But it was not possible to complete it to the end. Another bomb on board airlines Air India exploded prematurely and was discovered before takeoff in the baggage hold at Tokyo airport.

4. Disaster near the French airport Orly

• Number of victims: 346 souls;
• Airplane: McDonnell Douglas DC-10;
• Date of: March 3, 1974;

This crash is the biggest crash ever to happen to Turkish Airlines (Turkey). It was also the largest crash ever to occur to a DC-10 aircraft. The reason for the crash was technological reasons, namely the design of the door entering the cargo compartment. In flight, this door was torn off and led to depressurization of the cabin. After that, the plane became completely uncontrollable, and broke down, falling into the forest thicket near Orly airport(Orly airport), Paris. There were no survivors.

• Number of victims: 349 souls;
• Airplane: IL-76 and Boeing 747;
• Date of: November 12, 1996;

In this disaster, Kazakhstan Airlines (Kazakhstan), which owned the Il-76, and Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudi Arabia) met with a Boeing 747 aircraft. landing at a speed of 500 km/h. At the same time, a Boeing 747 flew to meet him. Such a speed was enough to crash into the fuselage and lead to the death of people on two planes. They say that if the liners were equipped with a collision avoidance system (TCAS), then it would be possible to avoid this tragedy. But no one really knows how it would have happened.

• Number of victims: 520 souls;
• Airplane: Boeing 747;
• Date of: August 12, 1985.

There was a crash near the well-known mountain deck in Japan called Fuji. The reason was errors in the repair and inspection of the pre-flight condition of the aircraft. Such inattention caused the loss of control of the aircraft and its further breakdown. The Boeing 474 belonged to Japan Airlines (Japan) and had the flight number JA 8119. This crash is the largest single-aircraft crash in history. And it is the most terrible by the right that only 4 people could stay alive.

1. Wreck in Tenerife

• Number of victims: 583 souls;
• Airplane: two Boeing 747s;
• Date of: March 27, 1977

This disaster deserved the first place for its scale. Location of the incident runway strip, which was hit by two Boeings. One was owned by Pan American World Airways or Pan Am (USA) and the other by Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij or KLM (Netherlands).

After listing the most "black" air crashes, we can say that 12 aircraft and 10 airlines were affected in these crashes. Moreover, the largest company owned by the United States was seen in two crashes. Saudi Arabian Airlines also suffered in two crashes. The most frequently seen aircraft is the Boeing 747, but the number of crashes (seven on this list) does not mean that the aircraft is subject to a ban.

The history of aeronautics is inextricably linked with inevitable accidents. You can remember the legendary Icarus, who fell from the sky into the water. The first aircraft crashes occurred at the end of the 19th century. Then the number of accidents and casualties was quite large relative to the total number of flights. In the middle of the 20th century, the era of mass air travel began. This greatly increased both the number of victims and the number of tragedies.

When aeronautics came to third world countries, this trend only got worse. Air crashes reached their peak in the 70s, when the planes began to be used by terrorists. But over the past decades, much has been done to raise the standards of aviation safety.

Although many are still afraid of flying, relentless statistics show that the risk of dying in a plane crash today is quite low. More likely get into an accident in a taxi on the way to the airport than on the plane itself. The reasons for such incidents can be different - these are the human factor, equipment failure, weather and terrorism. Major disasters in the air remain part of history, let us recall the most significant of them.

USS Akron. At that time, aeronautics was determined by airships. Akron was one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world. It could carry up to five aircraft and was intended for naval reconnaissance. The airship was built in 1929 in the city of Akron, which gave it its name. The flying giant served the country for only a year and a half. During this time, he had several minor accidents. But thanks to the events of April 4, 1933, the airship was destined to go down in history. As Akron flew past the Barnegat Lighthouse in New Jersey, strong wind who mercilessly hit the ship. Descending air currents forced the airship to descend rapidly, causing a strong roll. Upon hitting the water, Akron collapsed. Then 73 people died, and only three managed to escape. main reason tragedy got worse weather and the error of the pilots who, during a storm, sent the ship into the open sea. The crew did not have life jackets or any means to stay on the water. This disaster has become end point airship service in the navy. After all, the main supporter of this, Admiral Moffet, died on Akron. And this disaster was the largest in the history of aeronautics.

A fall Turkish aircraft DC-10. We can say that it was this tragedy that opened a series of major and high-profile accidents. The previous "record" for the number of victims was broken 2 times at once. Turkish Airbus flew on the route Ankara-Istanbul-Paris-London. In the capital of France, many rugby fans who were returning to England sat on him. Half an hour after takeoff closed door cargo compartment opened. An explosive decompression ensued, blowing several seats overboard in a whirlwind. There was a malfunction in the control of the machine. 77 seconds after the accident, the plane crashed at a tremendous speed into a mountain 37 kilometers from Paris. At the same time, the blow turned out to be of such force that nothing was left of the plane and everyone who was in it. There was not even a fire at the crash site. 346 people died, including 11 crew members. The cause of the accident was a flight engineer who, in the hustle and bustle, did not bother to check the cargo hatch door before takeoff. And the locking mechanism itself had design flaws.

Disaster in Los Rodeos. Unfortunately, planes collide not only in the sky, but also on the ground. This incident happened on March 27, 1977. Then at the airport of Los Rodeos, in Tenerife, two huge Boeing 747s collided. One flight took off at a speed of 250 km / h. But then another liner met him on the same lane. The tragedy was preceded by a terrorist attack at another major airport in canary islands. It was temporarily closed, causing all aircraft to be directed to Los Rodeos. No wonder its lanes were congested. Planes stood at all parking lots and even taxiways. The KLM Boeing chose the wrong lane during takeoff, misinterpreting the dispatcher's command. The situation was aggravated by heavy fog and problems with radio communications. As a result, a board of the Pan American company landed towards the taking off liner. All 234 passengers and 14 crew members of the Boeing KLM were killed on impact. And of the Pan American passengers, 325 passengers and 9 members died. terrible tragedy claimed the lives of a total of 583 people. Pilots are to blame bad weather and set of circumstances. That disaster was the largest in terms of the number of victims in civil aviation.

Plane crash over the Atlantic. The circumstances of the death of a Boeing 747 off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985 remain a mystery. The liner followed the course of Montreal-London-Delhi-Bombay. At an altitude of 9400 meters, an explosion was heard in the plane, its remains fell into the Atlantic Ocean. Only 329 people died then. It became the largest air crash that happened over the sea. The investigation into the circumstances of that case took almost 20 years. It cost 130 million Canadian dollars. Canadian authorities have determined that Indian extremists are to blame. Sikh battle group, based in North America, planted a bomb in the luggage. This Indian people fought a bloody war for their independence and decided to draw attention to their problem in this way. Although the security services were notified of the impending attack, the explosives got on board the plane in one of the passengers' bags. The explosion occurred 190 kilometers from the coast. Based on the injuries of the victims, it was possible to establish a chain of events - an explosion, the collapse of the aircraft. Today, however, Sikhs say they were not involved in those events. The tragedy was allegedly staged by the US intelligence agencies to discredit the freedom-loving people.

Plane crash near Tokyo. This tragedy remains the largest to happen to a single aircraft. On August 12, 1985, 520 people died at once, and only 4 women were saved. And in this case, the accident occurred with a Boeing 747. The plane took off from Tokyo, bound for Tokyo. 12 minutes after taking off from the ground, the keel collapsed at the liner. The breakdown led to a number of failures - the hydraulics failed, the pressure in the cabin dropped. Boeing lost control and began to fall. At an altitude of 4100 meters, the crew commander announced this. The team until the last tried to correct the situation by changing the thrust of the engines. The plane crashed on a mountain, a strong fire broke out on a steep slope. This greatly complicated the task of rescuers. They arrived at the accident site only 14 hours after the accident. The investigation showed that on June 2, 1978, the plane touched the tail runway. The repair was not carried out with sufficient quality, which led to the appearance of fatigue defects. The airline staff did not check the plane sufficiently, which then led to the tragedy.

Plane crash over the Persian Gulf. Sometimes neither pilots nor equipment are to blame for the tragedy. Civil aircraft may be shot down by the military. Most famous case occurred on 3 July 1988 with an Iranian Airways Airbus A300. The flight was quite short, it took 28 minutes to fly to Dubai. The flight seemed simple - take off to an altitude of 4300 meters, follow in a straight line and land. But at that time, the US Navy cruiser Vinceness was operating in the Persian Gulf. He protected the Kuwaiti transports from the attack of Iran and Iraq, who were at war with each other. According to official data from the American authorities, the cruiser mistakenly identified an Iranian combat aircraft in the airbus. From a distance of 20 kilometers, 2 missiles were fired at it, hitting the target. The Americans recognized those events as a military incident, and the ship's commander was not punished. As a result of the crash, 290 people died, including 66 children and 16 crew members. Iranian authorities believe that attacking an aircraft in neutral waters is a crime. Only 8 years later, the US agreed to pay the amount of 62 million dollars as a voluntary act, and not as compensation.

Collision over Delhi. It would seem, how can planes collide in the vast sky? Meanwhile, such cases do occur. This disaster was one of the largest in general in the history of civil aviation and the most significant in the collision of two aircraft in the air. On November 12, 1996, an Il-76 took off from Kazakhstan's Chimkent, flying to Delhi. On board, in addition to 10 crew members, there were 27 passengers. Later, a Boeing 747 flying to Jeddah took off from Delhi. On board were 312 people, mostly Indians, flying to Saudi Arabia to work. IL-76 unexpectedly dropped to the height at which the Boeing was flying. At 75 kilometers from Delhi, the planes crashed into each other at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour each. The impact force was 700 times stronger than in a car collision. More than 500 tons of burning metal fell to the ground, the debris scattered over a distance of 8 kilometers. All people died. The first to arrive at the scene of the accident were not rescuers, but marauders. Rescuers were not even able to identify all the bodies of the passengers. The crew of the Kazakh flight was named guilty, but it is worth mentioning that at that time the airport in Delhi would have been the only civilian one in the whole country. It was overloaded, which increased the risk of collisions.

The terrorist attack on September 11, 2011. On the morning of this day, a whole group of 19 terrorists captured 4 aircraft at once. Two of them were aimed at the towers of the World shopping center, which led to the complete destruction of skyscrapers. A third plane crashed into the Pentagon near Washington, and another crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Then 246 people died in the planes. In total, as a result of the global attack of terrorists, 2977 people became victims. Footage of those events spread around the world. This caused real chaos in the country. All commercial flights were canceled, landings of domestic flights were also suspended. The official investigation revealed that the terrorist organization al-Qaeda under the leadership of Osama bin Laden is behind everything. The suicide bombers who hijacked the plane were trained as pilots and outwardly did not look like martyrs at all. The recorder said that in one of the planes, passengers and crew members learned that other hijacked planes had been sent to buildings. A struggle ensued, during which the terrorists sent the plane into the ground. It is believed that initially they wanted to send him to the Capitol. Those events changed modern world. Governments largest countries strengthened the fight against terrorism. America, in search of the main culprits, unleashed a war in the Middle East. True, many questions remain about those events. Perhaps the main organizers were the American intelligence services. In this way, they increased their influence, and the largest financial magnates of the country profited from the military campaign.

Korean Boeing incident. In this case, the civilian aircraft was shot down by the military. It happened near Sakhalin Island. A South Korean Boeing 747 flew from New York to Seoul. The route was supposed to pass over Pacific Ocean, rounding the territory of the USSR. It was the heyday cold war, which is why relations between the two superpowers were especially tense at that moment. On September 1, 1983, the American reconnaissance RC-135 was also in the air. At some time, he crossed the course with a deviated from his path passenger liner. When the Boeing invaded the air borders of the USSR, our air defense forces mistook the plane for a military one. Two Su-15 interceptors were raised into the sky. They caught up with the intruder and accompanied him. Then, on command, two missiles were fired at the Boeing from the ground. The plane crashed into the sea, and all 269 people on board were killed. The events caused a huge resonance in the world. Soviet flags were burned in Korea, Reagan accused the USSR of crimes against humanity. Further investigation showed that the pilots simply misconfigured the autopilot and until the last moment did not suspect that they had deviated from the route. The pilots also did not see the interceptor.

Disaster near Smolensk. These events took place quite recently, but the reason for them is almost already clear. On April 10, 2010, a Tu-154 of the Polish Air Force crashed near Smolensk. Then 96 people died. The tragedy spread all over the world, because the liner was the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski, his wife, almost the entire army command of the country, politicians, prominent public and religious figures. At one point, the country was left decapitated. A week of mourning was declared in Poland. The aircraft was flying in heavy fog, and the crew was informed about it. The pilots were asked to land on an alternate airfield, but they refused. The plane hit the trees, turned around and began to fall apart in the air. By official version The cause of the accident was crew error. However, the Polish authorities rest on the fact that the pilots were forced to land in such conditions by Russian dispatchers.