Major plane crashes in recent times

Following the tragic fate of FlyDubai flight FZ981, here's a look at the major plane crashes in the past months.

A FlyDubai aircraft crashed and killed all 62 people on board while trying to land amidst strong winds in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
Following the tragic fate of flight FZ981, here's a look at the major plane crashes in the past months.

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November 4, 2015
South Sudan Juba; Soviet Era Cargo plane; at least 41 killed

A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed after taking off from the airport in South Sudan's capital, killing at least 41 people on the flight and on the ground, an official and a Reuters witness said. Read more...
October 31, 2015
Egypt - Sinai Peninsula; Airbus A321; 224 killed
 
A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after losing radar contact and plummeting from its cruising altitude, killing all aboard. Read more...
August 16, 2015
Papua Indonesia; Trigana Air (ATR 42-300); 54 killed
A Trigana Air plane that went missing with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia's eastern Papua region, a transport ministry official said.
Earlier, villagers in Indonesia's remote and mountainous eastern Papua region reported that the aircraft had crashed several hours after it went missing, media reports said. Read more...
June 30, 2015
Median City, Indonesia; Indonesian Military Aircraft (Hercules C-130); 116 killed
At least 116 people were killed when an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a major city shortly after take-off and exploded in a fireball, officials said.
Buildings were left in ruins and cars reduced to flaming wrecks when the Hercules C-130 came down in a residential area of Medan, a city of two million on the island of Sumatra.
March 24, 2015
Digne -France; Germanwings Airbus A320; 150 killed
The profile that has emerged of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz has become more troubling by the day.
In the hours after Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps two weeks ago, Lubitz was regarded as one of 150 victims in an unexplained disaster. Two days later he was the prime suspect of an unfathomable act.
February 4, 2015
Taipei Songshan airport; TransAsia ATR-72 600; 23 killed
At least 23 people were killed Wednesday when a turboprop passenger plane operated by TransAsia Airways clipped an overpass and plunged into a river in Taiwan, in the airline's second crash in just seven months.
Desperate crew shouted "Mayday! Mayday! Engine flameout!" according to a recording thought to be the final message from the cockpit to the control tower played on local television.
A "flameout" is when the flame that normally burns in the engine goes out, causing engine failure. Twin-engined planes are usually able to fly on one engine.
December 28, 2014
Java Sea; AirAsia (AirAsia Airbus A320-200); 162 killed
Multinational search teams hunted for any sign of an AirAsia plane missing off Indonesia with 162 people on board, but one top official warned it was likely at the bottom of the sea.
The Airbus A320-200 lost contact en route from Surabaya in Indonesia's east Java to Singapore after the crew requested a change of flight plan due to stormy weather, in the third crisis for a Malaysian carrier this year.
July 24, 2014
Gossi, Mali; Air Algerie AH5017; 118 killed

French investigators scoured through the debris of a shattered Air Algerie jetliner in Mali's remote desert north to get to the cause of the third global air disaster in eight days.
Officials who had already reached Mali's remote, barren Gossi area described a scene of devastation littered with twisted and burnt fragments of the plane. No one survived the impact of the tragedy and entire families were wiped out.
July 23, 2014
Magong, Taiwan; TransAsia Airways GE222; 48 killed
Taiwan authorities said it was unlikely bad weather was the cause of the crash of a TransAsia Airways turboprop plane in which 48 people, including two French nationals, were killed.
The plane, a 70-seat ATR 72, crashed near the runway while trying to land on the small island of Penghu, west of Taiwan island after a typhoon had passed earlier in the day.
July 17, 2014
Hrbove, Ukraine; Malaysia Airlines MH17; 298 killed

Shaken by the deaths of 298 people from around the world, Western governments have threatened Russia with stiffer penalties for what they say is its backing of pro-Russian militia who, their evidence suggests, shot the plane down.
March 8, 2014
Malaysian Flight MH370; 239 missing
A new piece of debris found by a South African that could be a part of the missing Malaysian flight MH370 just days after the two-year anniversary of the plane's mysterious disappearance on March 8, 2014.
The aircraft diverted for unknown reasons while on a routine overnight flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew aboard.
Investigators believe the plane rerouted to the southern Indian Ocean, where it crashed.
No crash site has been found.
February 16, 2014
Pokhara Nepal; Nepal Airlines; 18 killed
Rescue teams in Nepal on Wednesday found the burnt-out wreckage of a passenger plane that went missing in a remote mountainous area with 23 people on board, the aviation minister said.
The airline said the plane was carrying three crew and 20 passengers, one a Chinese and one a Kuwaiti national, revising an earlier figure of 18 passengers.
All the others were from Nepal and two of them were children. Read more... 
Research by Rajesh Sharma/ Khaleej Times

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