The crash of a passenger aircraft, on board of which there were 242 people, near the airport in the Indian state of Gujarat, made me think about such accidents around the world.
Air India 171 passenger aircraft, which was from the Sardar Vallabhai International Airport in Akhmadabad to the Gatvik airport, broke up five minutes after take -off.
Air India announced that 242 passengers and crew members were on board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner.
According to India Today, the Commissioner of the police Akhmadabad G.S. Malik confirmed that 204 people were killed as a result of the crash, 41 people were injured. About whether the dead and victims of people who were on an airplane, or people in the village were not reported.
This accident reminded of such incidents that have occurred around the world over the past year and led to the death of many people.
American Airlines passenger aircraft with 60 passengers and a crew of 4 people encountered a helicopter transporting 3 military, on January 29 near the capital of the United States Washington. There were no survivors from the plane that fell into the river.
On the same day in South Sudan, soon after the take -off, a plane of the Bichkraft 1900d type crashed. Twenty of 21 people on board died.
On March 17, a small plane, on board which were 18 people, fell into the sea in the Central American country of Honduras. Lifeless bodies 12 people were found in the wreckage of an airplane, which crashed shortly after taking off the island of Roatan into the city of Trujillo.
In the city of San Diego in the American state of California, 6 people died when on May 22 a small aircraft such as Cessna 550 fell to a residential area.
major accidents occurred in the last half of 2024
December 25, 2024, in the area of the city of Aktau (Kazakhstan), crashed the flight of Azerbaijani Airlines (AZAL) Baku-Grozny. Of the 67 people on board, 38 were killed. In an interview with the correspondent of the Anadol agency, the officials of Azerbaijan confirmed that the aircraft was allegedly attacked by the Russian Air Defense Air Defense System.
A few days after this accident, December 29, 2024, the chassis of the Boeing 737-800 model, which was following the Bangkok-Muan route, did not open when landing at the Muan International Airport in South Korea. After landing on the runway, the plane got out of control and crashed into the wall, as a result of which 179 people were killed, and the incident itself went down in history as the most deadly disaster in the history of South Korean aviation.