Air India level crashes aft takeoff
A London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed successful India connected Thursday with 242 radical connected committee the Air India plane. Police said determination are no known survivors and authorities said determination are apt casualties connected the crushed successful the metropolis of Ahmedabad.
Ahmedabad Police Commissioner G.S. Malik told The Associated Press that the "exact figures connected casualties" were inactive being determined.
Air India said 169 Indian nationals, 53 British nationals, 1 Canadian nationalist and 7 Portuguese nationals were connected board.
Here is simply a database of the deadliest level disasters successful the 21st century, excluding the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks:
2014: Flight MH17 changeable down implicit Ukraine
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines formation MH17 was changeable down implicit rebel-held eastbound Ukraine en way to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam.
All 298 radical aboard the Boeing 777 were killed, including 193 Dutch nationals.
In May this twelvemonth the U.N. aviation bureau blamed Russia for the downing of the jetliner, a ruling Moscow dismissed arsenic "biased."
2003: Military level clang successful Iran
On Feb. 19, 2003, a Russian-made Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps crashed adjacent Kerman successful the southeast of the country.
All 275 radical connected committee were killed.
The craft disappeared from radars an hr aft takeoff, aft sending a petition to airdrome power successful Kerman to onshore owed to atrocious weather.
2001: American Airlines Flight 587
On Nov. 12, 2001, an American Airlines Airbus A300 crashed successful the New York borough of Queens soon aft taking off, killing each 260 connected board and 5 radical connected the ground.
Flight 587 was bound for Saint-Domingue, successful the Dominican Republic, departing from New York's John F. Kennedy airport.
The wreckage of American Airlines formation 587 burns connected Nov. 12, 2001, successful the Rockaway vicinity of the Queens conception of New York City.
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2018: Algerian subject level crash
On April 11, 2018, an Ilyushin Il-76 dense transport craft crashed soon aft taking disconnected from a subject basal southbound of the superior Algiers, killing each 257 people connected board.
The passengers were mostly subject unit and members of their families.
An Algerian subject level is seen aft crashing adjacent an airdrome extracurricular the capital, Algiers, connected April 11, 2018, successful this inactive representation taken from a video.
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2014: MH370 disappears
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines formation MH370 disappeared connected its mode from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 radical aboard.
Employees of biology extortion and coastal cleanup organisations look for debris from Malaysia Airlines formation MH370 connected a formation successful Sainte-Marie de la Reunion, connected the French Reunion Island successful the Indian Ocean, connected Aug. 10, 2015.
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Despite an aggravated hunt successful the confederate Indian Ocean, the Boeing 777-200 was ne'er found. Earlier this year, a new search for the level was launched much than a decennary aft the level went missing, Malaysian authorities said.
2009: Air France clang successful the Atlantic
On June 1, 2009, an Air France Airbus A330 disappeared implicit the Atlantic successful a portion of turbulence aft taking disconnected from Rio de Janeiro connected formation AF447 to Paris with 228 passengers and unit connected board.
The Brazilian Navy picks debris from Air France formation AF447 retired of the Atlantic Ocean, immoderate 745 miles (1,200 km) northeast of Recife, successful this photograph distributed by the Navy successful Recife, northeastern Brazil, June 9, 2009.
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It took 2 years to find the wreckage of the plane.
2002: China Airlines crashes into the sea
On May 25, 2002, a China Airlines Boeing 747-200 smashed into the Taiwan Strait, killing each 225 people connected board.
The aircraft, headed for Hong Kong, disintegrated mid-flight immoderate 20 minutes aft taking disconnected from Taipei.
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