Most Deadliest Air Crashes

Recently we lost Malaysian Airways MH 370, one of the most critical disappearance of a passenger aircraft. It brings light on the other air crashes which had gone through such incident affecting families and questioning the human science. Here are the deadliest air crashes in human history that tells us ‘what a man made machine can do’.

Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 March 2014
There were few answers on Sunday about the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a day after contact was lost with the commercial jetliner en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It had 239 souls on board and reports say it has crashed into the Sea off Vietnam.
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Air-France Crash 2009
The experienced captain reportedly left the cockpit for a rest break, leaving AF447 to two younger co-pilots. The Air France jet crash killed all 288 people on board in June 2009. The Pilot and co-pilots were running on very dangerous situation with only one hour sleep the previous night.
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Flight 587 American Airlines 2001
The second-deadliest aviation accident in the United States also involved American Airlines. Flight 587 out of New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport crashed into the Belle Harbor neighbourhood of Queens shortly after take-off on Nov. 12, 2001, killing all 260 people on board and 5 more on the ground.
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CharkhiDadri Mid-Air Collision 1996
In 1996, over the village of CharkhiDadri, west of New Delhi, Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 had just departed New Delhi and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 was arriving when they crashed, killing all 349 people on both flights.
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Flight 140 China Airways 1994
Pilot error was responsible for yet another accident. The first officer on the flight from Taipei, Taiwan, inadvertently pressed the takeoff/go-around button prior to landing at Nagoya Airport in Japan, and the pilot and co-pilot were unable to remedy the situation after autopilot on the Airbus A300 kicked in. A total of 264 of the 271 crew and passengers died as a result.
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Flight 2120 Nigeria Airways 1991
A group of Muslim pilgrims travelling to Mecca on Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 died on July 11, 1991, when their flight caught fire and crashed just short of King Abdulaziz International Airport. All 261 passengers and crew aboard the McDonnell Douglas DC-8 passed away as a result.
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Flight 123 Japan Airlines 1985
Japan Airlines Flight 123 left Tokyo en route to Osaka on August 12, 1985, when a catastrophic mechanical failure involving the plane’s rear pressure bulkhead sent the Boeing 747SR soaring into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara. All 15 crew and 505 of the 509 passengers died, resulting in the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history with a total of 520 deaths.
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Flight 163  Saudia Arabian 1980
All 287 passengers and 14 crew on board Saudia Arabian Flight 163 died after the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar caught fire after takeoff from Riyadh International Airport (now Riyadh Air Base) in August 1980. The incident remains the deadliest aviation disaster that did not involve a crash on impact or mid-flight break up.
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Flight 191  American Airlines 1979
American Airlines Flight 191 crashed just moments after takeoff from Chicago O’Hare on May 25, 1979, when engine number one on the left wing of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 separated and flipped over the top of the wing, severing hydraulic fluid lines and damaging the plane. All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were killed, and the crash remains the most devastating air disaster on U.S soil.
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Flight 901 Air New Zealand 1979
From 1977 to 1979, Air New Zealand operated a so-called “flight to nowhere” that looped from Auckland Airport over Antarctica and returned via Christchurch. The sightseeing route ceased to exist after Air New Zealand Flight 901 collided with Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica, killing all 237 passengers and 20 crew onboard. The accident remains New Zealand’s deadliest peacetime disaster.
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Tenerife Airport Disaster 1977
It was a bomb explosion at the nearby Gran Canaria Airport that forced KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 to divert to Los Rodeos Airport (now Tenerife North Airport) on March 27, 1977, for what would turn out to be a fateful day. A dense fog, lack of ground radar at the small airport and several miscommunications resulted in the two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft colliding on the runway in what remains to this day the deadliest accident in commercial aviation history. All 248 passengers and crew aboard the KLM flight perished, along with 335 of the 396 people aboard the Pan Am flight, resulting in a staggering death toll of 583.
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Flight 981 Turkish Airlines 1974
Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed just outside of Paris in March 1974 killing all 346 people onboard. Investigators found that the rear cargo hatch of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 blew off, causing decompression, severing cables and leaving the pilots with no control of the vessel.
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The epic of all disasters 9/11
The World Trade Centre south tower (left) burst into flames after being struck by hijacked United Airlines Flight 175. There were over 3500 causalities that shook up the world for a very long time.
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