The largest air crashes in the world. The most terrible plane crashes in the world
Man always dreamed of flying into the sky. Ancient Greek myths tell that Daedalus and his son Icarus soared into the sky with the help of wings that were made of feathers, wax and thread.
And the greatest scientist, inventor and artist Leonardo before Vinci once created sketches of an unusual aircraft. He had to fly to the endless sky with the help of man's muscles.
People have long been trying to create such flying machines. And they created ...
The history of world aviation accidents
The very first flights in the sky began at the end of XIXcentury. At the same time, it was laid the beginning of the statistics of world aviation accidents. In the process of development of flights on airplanes (freight, passenger) air crash of the world began to occur more and more often. The statistics of their wreckage grew tremendously until 1970. And it is the 70's that are the peak of terrible tragedies in the sky.
Air crashes of the world, their geography
By geographical position in this terribleThe sad statistics of disasters are taken by the United States. According to the information of the Aviation Safety Network, in this country, since 1945, to this day, a huge number of passenger aircraft crashed - more than 630. In these accidents, more than 9,000 people were killed.
Russia, unfortunately, takes second place in this statistics. Since 1945, more than 200 disasters in the sky occurred on the territory of the USSR of those times and Russia. At the same time, more than 5,000 people died.
3rd place - for Colombia.
The smallest number of air crashes - in Ecuador.
Statistics of distribution of air crashes of recent years by countries
March 27 in 1977, a world record fornumber of victims in a plane crash. In the Tenerife region, two liners of the Boeing 747 of the well-known Pan-America and KLM airlines unexpectedly collided. Then the victims were 583 people.
The total number of air crashes in the world is steadily growing.
The most dangerous airline in the world, according to"Topical security" (Swedish magazine), is the Soviet Aeroflot. According to their data, the statistics of air crashes in the world demonstrates that there are more than 18 disasters per 1 million flights of Aeroflot. The second place in this sad list is the airline of Taiwan - more than 11 catastrophes per million flights. Third place for Egypt (more than 11), Then - India (more than 10), Turkey, China, Philippines, South Korea and Poland - for 41 million flights of more than 6 disasters. The safest is the company-South-West (America). On 1 million 800 thousand flights of this company's liners did not happen a single catastrophe.
The largest air crashes in the world in terms of the number of victims
Name of aircraft | Year of the disaster | Place of disaster | Number of victims | Country, owner of the airliner | Causes of the disaster |
Boeing-747 | 1977 | Canary Islands | 578 | Netherlands, USA | Incorrect reception by the crew of the command of the dispatcher |
Boeing-747 | 1985 | Japan | 520 | Japan | Insufficient quality repair of the airliner (technical malfunctions) |
IL-76, Boeing | 1996 | India | 349 | Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia | The collision of two aircraft in the air |
DC-10 | 1974 | France | 346 | Turkey | Opening the hatch in the cargo hold |
Boeing-737 | 1985 | Atlantic | 329 | India | The terrorist act |
IL-76 | 2003 | Iran | 275 | Iran | Due to poor visibility conditions, a collision with the ground |
A-300 | 1994 | Japan | 264 | China | Undefined |
DC-8 250 | 1985 | Newfoundland | 250 | Canada | Privzleta there was a loss of speed |
DC-10 | 1979 | Antarctica | 257 | New Zealand | Falling to the ground |
A-300 | 2001 | USA | 246 | USA | Unexpected fire in the air |
This table represents the most terrible plane crashes in the world.
Description of some air crashes
In March 1974, after the opening of the cargo compartment, the French DC-10 of THY Turkish Airlines crashed in the forest. Total - 346 dead.
In March 1977, when a Boeing 747-206B (KLM) collided with a Boeing 747-121 (Pan Am) crashed in the Canary Islands in Tenerife. 583 dead (the largest air crash in the world in the air).
In August 1980, after the emergency landing, the L-1011-200 Tristar (Saudi) aircraft in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) burned down. 301 people were killed.
In June 1985, an Air India Boeing 747-237B plane was destroyed in the Irish Sea after an explosion of terrorists. 329 people died.
In July 1988, by an absurd mistake, it was shot down by a military missile from the Vincennes (America) ship Airbus A300B2-202 (Iran Air). It happened in the Persian Gulf. 290 people dead.
In August 1985, in Tokyo crashed into the mountain Boeing 747SR (Japan Airlines). Surprisingly, but then four survived. 520 people were killed.
In November 1996, in Charkhi-Dadri (India), another collision occurred between Boeing 747-168B (Saudi Arabian Airlines) and the Kazakhstan Il-76TD aircraft. In total, 349 people died at that time.
In January 1996, the overloaded Ant-32 crashed into the urban market of Kinshasa in Zaire. More than 297 dead. Survived 4 people from the crew (total crew 5).
The death of the leaders of states in aviation accidents
Air crashes of the world take place in the most unexpected places, for various reasons, and people of various statuses in society are dying in them.
Leaders of all countries, as a rule, useas a movement of airliners in connection with the economy of time. Used for this are the most modern and, it would seem, very reliable in terms of security vessels. However, an unforeseen failure of technology or just a human factor, and in these cases, can cause aircraft crashes. Here are some air crashes in the world in which the first state officials were killed:
• In 2010, Lech Kaczynski (Polish President) with his wife, a large number of military men from the Polish High Command and other political figures perished in the Tu-154 crash near Smolensk.
• In 2004, Boris Traikovsky (Macedonian President) was killed in a catastrophe in Bosnia.
• In 2001, the Sudanese military leadership perished in the south of the country.
• In 1988, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who was the President of Pakistan, was killed. The tragedy occurred over the city of Lahore, Pakistan (possibly as a result of the terrorist attack).
• In 1986, Zamora Machel (President of Mozambique) died in South Africa in a plane crash.
• In 1981, Jaime Roldos Aguilera, President of Ecuador, died. The plane crashed in the Wyrarapung Mountains of Ecuador.
• In 1969, René Barientos Ortunho (President of Bolivia) died in the Arch (Bolivia).
• In 1966, Abdul Salam Aref (Iraqi President) in the south of Iraq.
• In 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld (UN Secretary-General) was killed in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
• In 1957, Ramon Magsaysay (President of the Philippines) died as a result of another catastrophe in the municipality of Balamban (Philippines).
Many more famous names can be replenishedlists of the dead from among the statesmen of small and large countries of the world. There are among them mysterious air crashes of the world, mainly those whose causes have not yet been clarified. They can be attributed to the plane crash that occurred in Panama. In 1981, Omar Torrijos, the general, leader of Panama, died under mysterious circumstances.
Statistics on Russian Air Companies
Authoritative expert organizations have deduced the statistics of aircraft wrecks in many Russian airlines and have compiled a safety rating for existing airliners.
Recently, almost all Russianthe airlines prefer foreign (already used) aircraft rather than a new Russian one. And as you know, the management of imported modern equipment, equipped with electronics, is very different from the management of domestic aircraft. Accordingly, the risk of occurrence of, again, simply a "human factor" increases.
So, on the account of the company "Russia" 184 humanVladivostok-Avia airline - 145, KrasAir - 29, and Tyumen Airlines account - 5. At the same time, the presence of airlines that have worked without casualties: Transero, Ural Airlines and "Domodedovo Airlines".
Statistics on the rating of liners
The table shows the ranking of aircraft for their dangers.
Model liner | Number of flights, million | The number of people killed in case of catastrophes, on average,% | Number of crashes | Airliner hazard rating | ||
Boeing 747 | 16,26 | 49.04% | 28 | 0,84 | ||
Boeing 737-300 / 400/500 0 | 50 | 74.40% | 15 | 0,22 | ||
Airbus A300 | 9,72 | 66.56% | 9 | 0,62 | ||
Boeing 757 | 14,71 | 77.14% | 7 | 0,37 | ||
Airbus A320 / 319/321 | 21,43 | 65.86% | 7 | 0,22 | ||
Airbus A310 | 3,75 | 87.17% | 6 | 1,39 | ||
Boeing 767 | 11,76 | 91.67% | 6 | 0,47 | ||
Fokker F70 / F100 | 6,67 | 46.75% | 4 | 0,28 | ||
Boeing 737-600 / 700/800/900 | 13,9 | 100% | 2 | 0,14 | ||
Boeing 777 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
From the above information we can conclude that the Boeing 777 is by far the most reliable type of airliner.
The main causes of air crashes
The main reasons for modern aviationcatastrophes: technical malfunctions (failure of technical devices, minor malfunctions), mistakes of air traffic controllers, pilots and other personnel (human factor), international terrorism, fighting, ridiculous fatal accidents (mistakes of military air defense, lightning storms, even collision with birds, P.).
The most important reason for the air crashes that took place is the most ill-fated human factor. In practice around the world, it accounts for almost 70% of all aircraft crashes.
And yet, despite the fact that the plane crashare horrible and each time cause a very painful reaction to the entire world community, aviation remains one of the most reliable and safe of all types of existing transport.
