Top 5 worst air crashes in the world you should know about

A flight going from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed. The accident happened after colliding with a flock of birds. The world has come up with many technologies for transportation, with aircraft being the fastest means of transportation. Many times accidents occur due to technical malfunction or such natural causes. Only 6 accidents have been reported in the year 2023, while since January 2024, there have been 17 plane accidents in the world. Then take a look at the most gruesome accidents that have happened in the world so far…

1. What is considered the worst aviation accident occurred on March 27, 1977. Two Boeing 747s were involved in a collision on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport. The cause of the accident was reported to be pilot error, runway incursion and dense fog. A total of 583 out of 644 people on board the plane died in this accident. Only 6 people survived, all from Pan Am Flight 1736.
2. It occurred on August 12, 1985, when passenger flight Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed due to mechanical failure 12 minutes after takeoff into the twin peaks of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 100 kilometers from Tokyo. , It is considered the deadliest single-aircraft crash in history, killing 520 people. Only 4 people survived the accident, all of whom were female passengers.
3. Also known as the Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision, it is related to the mid-air collision between Saudi Arabia Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907, which killed all 349 people on board, making it The first route, which became the world’s deadliest mid-air collision, was from Delhi to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and the second was from Chimkent, Kazakhstan to Delhi. The collision occurred due to pilot error in the Kazakhstan Airlines plane.
4. On March 3, 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashed outside Paris, killing all 346 people on board. It is the deadliest single-aircraft crash ever with no survivors. The cause of the accident was the failure of a cargo door at the rear of the aircraft which broke, causing an explosion.
5. On June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182, en route Montreal, Canada-London, UK-Delhi, India, was destroyed in mid-air by a bomb at an altitude of 31,000 feet and ultimately crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. No one survived the fatal accident and all 329 people on board died. It is Canada’s worst mass murder to date.

Apart from this, many big plane accidents have happened in the past also. In which other table top airports of the world including airports in Kerala and Mangalore led to such tragedies.

1. On 22 May 2010, Air India Express Flight 812 from Dubai to Mangaluru crashed on landing, killing 158 passengers, including six crew members.
2. Ten years later, on 7 August 2020, another table-top runway became the site of a disaster. The Air India Express flight from Dubai to Kozhikode was part of the Vande Bharat Mission to bring back Indian citizens stranded due to the Covid pandemic. The plane skidded off the table-top runway and crashed below. Twenty-one died, including nineteen passengers and both pilots, but another 169 survived.
3. Portugal’s Madeira Airport, which has a table-top runway, recorded one accident in 1977 when Air Portugal Flight 425 went out of control and crashed into the beach, killing 131 people.
4. Nepal, which has a poor air travel safety record, has reported accidents on table-top runways in the past. On 27 May 2017, a cargo plane crashed at Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Solukhumbu.
5. Kathmandu Airport is one of the most dangerous airports for landing and was the site of a major disaster in 1992, when 167 passengers on a Pakistan International Airlines flight died.