Many people were killed when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 people on board crashed minutes after taking off from the western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday (local time), authorities said, in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade.
Below are details of other fatal crashes in recent years.
2025
UNITED STATES
More than 60 people were killed when an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter on January 29 and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
2024
Fire and smoke rise from the tail section of a Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 series aircraft after the plane crashed and burst into flames at Muan International Airport in South Jeolla Province, some 288 kilometres southwest of Seoul on 29 December 2024. Photo: AFP / YONHAP
SOUTH KOREA
Jeju Air international flight 7C2216 crashed at Muan International Airport on 29 December, 2024, killing all 175 passengers and four of the six crew in the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil.
KAZAKHSTAN
Azerbaijan Airlines international flight J2-8243, an Embraer E190, crashed on 25 December after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said in December the plane had been damaged by accidental shooting from the ground in Russia. Moscow has not confirmed this.
A Japan Airlines plane collided with a smaller Coast Guard aircraft on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda airport on 2 January, 2024. Photo: Jiji Press / AFP
JAPAN
A Japan Airlines plane collided with a smaller Coast Guard aircraft on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda airport on 2 January. All 379 people aboard the JAL plane, an Airbus
A350-941 flight, escaped the burning airliner. Five of six crew on the smaller aircraft were killed.
2022
CHINA
A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed into a mountainous region in the southwestern Guangxi region on 21 March, 2022, killing all 132 people on board, in China's deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years.
2020
IRAN
Iran's Revolutionary Guards shot down a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 on 8 January, 2020 shortly after it took off from Tehran Airport, killing all 176 people on board. Iran's civil aviation body blamed a misaligned radar and an error by an air defence operator.
2019
ETHIOPIA
A Boeing 737-MAX 8 Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed on 19 March, 2019 minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa for Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board.
Soon after, the Boeing 737 MAX global fleet was grounded over safety concerns.
2018
INDONESIA
A Boeing 737 MAX Lion Air plane crashed into the Java Sea soon after taking off from Jakarta on 29 October, 2018, killing all 189 people on board.
2014
Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Shaktarsk in July 2014. Photo: AFP
MALAYSIA
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur on 17 July, 2014, and was shot down over eastern Ukraine as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. All 298 passengers on board were killed.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March, 2014. The remains of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people have not been found.
- Reuters
