2006-08-07 21:48:45 · 9 answers · asked by ashwini r 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
I tried searching for on specific incident I could not get any but managed to get a list of 23. Here it goes
Sources Canadian Press
The world's worst plane crashes:
1. July 25, 2000: Air France Concorde plunges into a hotel near the town of Gonesse, just north of Paris; 113 killed, including 109 aboard the aircraft and four people on the ground.
2. Jan. 30, 2000: Kenya Airways Airbus A-130 crashes in the sea shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast; 169 killed, including two Canadians.
3. Oct. 31, 1999: Egyptair Flight 990, on a flight from New York to Cairo, crashes off Nantucket, Massachusetts; 217 killed, including 22 Canadians.
4. Sept. 2, 1998: Swissair MD-11, en route from New York to Geneva, crashes off Peggy's Cove, N.S. as it prepares to make an emergency landing in Halifax; 229 killed.
5. Feb. 16, 1998: China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes while approaching the airport in Taipei, Taiwan in fog and light rain; 203 killed, including 196 on the aircraft and seven on the ground.
6. Sept. 26, 1997: Indonesian Garuda Airbus A-300-B4 crashes in northern Sumatra in a mountainous area about 45 kilometres south of Medan in Indonesia's worst crash; 234 killed.
7. Aug. 6, 1997: Korean Air Lines Flight 801 carrying 254 people from Seoul crashes into a hilly area near Guam's airport; 228 killed.
8. Nov. 12, 1996: Saudi Arabian jumbo jet and a Kazakhstan cargo plane collide in midair over India in the worst midair collision; 349 killed.
9. July 17, 1996: TWA Flight 800 explodes in a fireball over the Atlantic Ocean after taking off from Kennedy Airport, N.Y., en route to Paris; 230 killed.
10. Feb. 6, 1996: Dominican Alas Nacionales Boeing 757 plunges into waters off the Dominican Republic; 189 killed.
11. Jan. 8, 1996: Russian-built Antonov-32 cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the Zaire capital, Kinshasa; at least 350 killed.
12. April 26, 1994: China Airlines A300-600R Airbus explodes and burns during an aborted landing in Nagoya, Japan; 262 killed.
13. July 11, 1991: Nationair DC8 crashes in a desert in Saudi Arabia; more than 260 people killed, including 14 Canadian crew members.
14. July 3, 1988: Iran Air A300 Airbus shot down by the USS Vincennes over the Persian Gulf; 290 killed.
15. Dec. 21, 1988: Pan Am Boeing 747 crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland; a terrorist bomb is blamed; 270 killed, including 259 people on the plane and 11 on the ground. Two Canadians were among the dead.
16. December 12, 1985: Worst Air Crash in Canada. An Arrow Airlines DC-8 crashes, after refueling in Gander en route to Kentucky; 248 members of the US 101st Airborne Division and 8 crew were killed.
17. Aug. 12, 1985: Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashes into a mountain on a domestic flight; 520 killed.
18. June 23, 1985: Air-India Boeing 747 crashes off the coast of Ireland; investigators conclude a bomb caused the crash; 329 killed, including 280 Canadians.
19. Sept. 1, 1983: Korean Air Lines 747 shot down by a Soviet fighter after flying through Soviet airspace near Sakhalin Island; 269 killed.
20. Aug. 19, 1980: Fiery emergency landing of a Saudi Arabian L-1011 jet at the airport in the Saudi capital of Riyadh; 301 killed.
21. May 25, 1979: American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff in Chicago; 273 killed.
22. March 27, 1977: Two Boeing 747s operated by Pan American and KLM collide at the airport on Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands; 582 killed.
23. March 3, 1974: Turkish DC-10 crashes northeast of Paris; 346 killed.
2006-08-07 22:12:08 · answer #1 · answered by ngina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typically only once. The most dangerous thing you are going to do is drive to the airport. There is vastly more chance that you will break your neck in the shower than that you will see any sort of problem on an aircraft, especially one operated in the developed world. Russia, China, India and Africa have some issues but other than that I'm afraid you are in for a boring time. Just check out the crew, they do this all the time and they aren't concerned. That's how I got over my worries landing between storms at Chicago, even though the wings were flapping like a bird and the girls on each side of me threw up the flight attendants just looked a bit bored and a bit frustrated, Oh, so this is nothing to worry about. Takeoffs are the best, faster than the fastest sports car, but after that it's just sitting and waiting.
2016-03-27 03:24:38 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9/11
2006-08-07 21:54:33 · answer #3 · answered by Coolguy_punjabi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
9-11
2006-08-07 21:51:00 · answer #4 · answered by supraman126 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Accident: Well, it was a blimp not a plane, but I'd say the Hindenburg disaster.
Deliberate: 9/11, hands down.
2006-08-07 21:54:40 · answer #5 · answered by The Man In The Box 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are all terrible. But 9-11 was cold blooded murder.
2006-08-08 02:16:03 · answer #6 · answered by roeskats 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm, September 11th. You should know that unless you live in a arabian country where they say it never happened or the Jew's did it !
2006-08-07 22:34:13 · answer #7 · answered by Baghdad Pete ! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good job ngina.
2006-08-08 19:10:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the one you lost someone in
2006-08-07 21:53:16 · answer #9 · answered by twinks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋