Today, November 4, 2015, just 5 days after the terrible plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, which claimed the lives of 224 people, another, no less, tragedy occurred - an An-12 cargo plane crashed in South Sudan. As a result of the incident, 41 people died, while two more people, according to initial data, who were on board the ill-fated plane, were taken to a local hospital in critical condition.

The official investigation into the plane crash in South Sudan has not yet officially begun, and rescuers have not even been able to find “black boxes” at the crash site, however, experts are already expressing some versions of what happened. What happened to the An-12 plane in South Sudan, and under what circumstances did several dozen people die?

Technical malfunction of An-12

The initial cause of the An-12 plane crash was named technical problem aircraft. As noted by direct witnesses of the plane crash, the plane, almost immediately after the attempt to take off, began to smoothly lose altitude, which led to a version of the failure of the aircraft’s power plant. However, the opinions of witnesses later differed - some of them claimed that the An-12 engines were working, at least as ordinary citizens could see it.

In addition, it is worth clarifying that the An-12 model has 4 aircraft engines, and even if two power plants failed, then with a high degree of probability the plane would be able to continue the flight, or at least return to the airport Jubes.

Airplane overload

A few hours after the plane crash, the management of Juba International Airport made a statement that the An-12 plane could have been overloaded. This version can be proven by the fact that, in fact, the pilots of the aircraft took off almost at the very edge of the runway, and in addition, the aircraft, immediately after gaining altitude, began to smoothly lose it, and, having covered a distance of 800 meters, fell next to the river.

According to Juba airport officials, there were a large number of cargo, and in addition, there was also an unspecified number of passengers present - according to some sources, there were 12 people on board the An-12 (including crew members), however, later information appeared that there could be up to 20 people on the plane.

However, according to the official flight characteristics of the aircraft, the An-12 can carry up to 21 tons of payload, and it is worth doubting that there was more cargo on board the aircraft, although at the moment this data needs careful verification.

Crew error

Experts also do not exclude the possibility that the An-12 plane could have crashed due to an error by one of the aircraft crew members. This version is currently one of the most under consideration due to the fact that it was possible to establish that at the time of departure from the airport, the plane was in good technical condition.

The first footage from the An-12 crash site in South Sudan

What exactly could have gone wrong is currently being clarified by experts, however, it is worth clarifying that about 30% of the An-12 aircraft that have crashed over the entire period crashed precisely because of the human factor, and we are talking about more than 230 accidents involving the model An-12.

Who exactly is to blame for the An-12 plane crash in South Sudan, equipment or people, remains to be determined by specialists, however, even this will not allow dozens of lost human lives to be brought back to life.

It's considered an airplane. Traffic accidents are much more common than car crashes. aircraft. However, plane crashes are more widespread. Dozens, or even hundreds of people die in them. This is confirmed by the statistics of plane crashes in Russia.

Top 5 incidents by number of victims (2006−2015)

Over the past 10 years, aviation accidents have occurred for various reasons. In approximately 80% of cases, the cause of the crash was human error. Errors were made either by crew members or ground services.

Disaster in Irkutsk (2006)

The statistics of plane crashes in Russia over 10 years are sad. During this period, several major plane crashes occurred, claiming the lives of both adults and children. One of them happened on July 9, 2006. On that day, the Airbus A310-324 airliner, owned by Siberia Airlines, was making a passenger flight from Moscow to Irkutsk.

The aircraft flew safely to its destination and began to land. For some reason it was unable to stop on the runway. The plane rolled off the runway at high speed and crashed into a concrete barrier.

Due to the collision, the hull of the airliner collapsed. A fire started in the cabin. Some people survived thanks to the actions of the crew. If the conductors had not taken the necessary measures, the statistics of plane crashes in Russia would have been more terrifying.

One of the brave crew members turned out to be Andrei Dyakonov. To save people, a young flight attendant knocked down the door on the plane. Andrei Dyakonov himself did not have time to get out of the burning cabin. He let passengers out until the last moment.

Victoria Zilbershtein, who works as a flight attendant, performed a heroic feat. Due to a plane colliding with a concrete barrier, the girl found herself under a rubble of suitcases and chairs. Having got out from under it, the flight attendant began to make her way towards the emergency exit. She opened the hatch and began to let people out. Then she got out herself.

Tragedy near Donetsk (2006)

Airplane crash statistics Russian Federation indicates that one of the large-scale plane crashes occurred on the morning of August 22, 2006. The Tu-154M aircraft, owned by the Russian company Pulkovo, took off from St. Petersburg. There were 10 crew members and 160 passengers on board. The people on the flight included 45 children.

While flying over the Donetsk region, the plane encountered unfavorable conditions weather conditions- thunderstorm and heavy hail. The crew, trying to get out of difficult weather conditions, made a fatal mistake. The plane began to rapidly lose altitude, and then it crashed, crashing into the side of a ravine. All people on board died.

An investigation was carried out after the disaster. Statistics of aircraft crashes in Russia show that airliners often crash due to some problems that were not noticed by the crew in a timely manner. In this case, the cause of the tragedy was mistakes made by the pilots.

Plane crash in Perm (2008)

In the fall, the statistics of plane crashes in Russia was supplemented by another tragedy. On the night of September 14, an airliner of the Russian airline Aeroflot-Nord, Boeing 737-505, took off from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. The passenger flight was carried out to Perm. The flight went well, but at the moment of landing, tragedy struck. The airliner crashed a few kilometers short of the airport.

There were 6 crew members and 82 passengers on board the fatal flight. No one was destined to survive the plane crash. Among the dead were 7 children. An investigation conducted after the tragedy showed that the plane was fully operational. occurred due to errors by crew members.

Perhaps pilot fatigue played a fatal role. Before the tragic flight, they carried out several flights and did not have time to fully rest. One of the pilots was intoxicated. This was confirmed by a forensic medical examination.

Plane accident in Kazan (2013)

Crash statistics passenger aircraft in Russia includes an event that occurred on the evening of November 17, 2013. A Tatarstan airline Boeing 737-500 aircraft took off from Domodedovo to Kazan. 44 people purchased tickets for the ill-fated flight. There were also 6 crew members on board.

The crash occurred during landing. The plane crashed into the ground and crashed. All people on the plane died. The cause of the fall was the commission of incorrect actions by crew members. Perhaps the pilots were not professionally trained enough. The investigation suspected that the deceased pilot-in-command had illegally obtained a commercial pilot's certificate.

Plane crash over Sinai (2015)

A terrorist act is one of the reasons why planes crashed in Russia. Statistics show that in 2015, the largest disaster occurred in our country due to the actions of militants - the Airbus A321 airliner crashed. The plane took off on October 31 from Sharm el-Sheikh towards St. Petersburg. However, the landing was not destined to happen.

23 minutes after departure from the Egyptian airport, radio contact with the airliner crew was lost. It later turned out that the plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula. There were 217 passengers and 7 crew members on board. No one survived the plane crash. Among the dead were 25 children. The youngest passenger, who became a symbol of the tragedy, was only 10 months old.

The plane was created 18.5 years before the plane crash. At the date of the crash, the airliner was operated by the Russian Kogalymavia LLC. After the incident, several versions of the causes of the tragedy were put forward. Many believed that the plane crash was caused by Kogalymavia specialists who did not properly maintain the plane. The investigation showed that the crash occurred as a result of a terrorist attack.

The most reliable airlines in the Russian Federation

Several dozen air carriers are registered in Russia: Globus, Pobeda, Dexter, Kogalymavia (Metrojet), etc. To determine the reliability, a particular company is assessed according to various criteria. The main one is considered to be the technical safety of aircraft, because often plane crashes occur due to breakdowns.

The European Aviation Safety Agency has compiled a rating of the most reliable air carriers operating in the Russian Federation. The top three included companies such as “ Ural Airlines", S7 Airlines and Aeroflot.

"Ural Airlines"

The named company is considered the most reliable and safe in Russia. It has been operating regular flights to different parts of the world for more than 20 years. During this period, there were no major plane crashes in Russia. The airline's statistics are very good.

Only a few accidents are known. All incidents are related to engine problems. Aircraft commanders, when malfunctions were detected, made a decision to carry out forced landings. There were never any casualties or injuries.

S7 Airlines

Second place in the list of the safest companies is occupied by S7 Airlines (Siberia). The history of this air carrier dates back to 1957, when the Tolmachevsky United Air Squadron was created. On its basis, in 1992, an airline called Sibir was created. In 2006, the brand was changed. The air carrier became known as S7 Airlines.

The history of this company includes a plane crash in Russia. The statistics of the air carrier S7 Airlines are as follows:

1. In the fall of 2001, a passenger plane flying from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk crashed. The airliner crashed straight into the Black Sea. The tragedy claimed the lives of 78 people. The plane crashed due to being hit by an anti-aircraft missile. It was launched during military exercises taking place at that moment on the Crimean peninsula.
2. At the end of August 2004, a plane flying from Moscow to Sochi crashed. There were 51 people on board. All crew members and passengers were killed. The cause of the tragedy was a terrorist attack.
3. In the summer of 2006, a plane crash occurred in Irkutsk, which was described above. The crew was unable to land. 125 people died.

Aeroflot

Airplane crash statistics for Russian airlines show that another safe air carrier is Aeroflot. He ranks third in the ranking. Aeroflot was founded in 1923. During the collapse of the USSR, many small air carriers separated from it. In 1992, JSC Aeroflot - Russian International Airlines was created. From this moment it begins modern history companies.

Now Aeroflot is the largest air carrier in Russia. It carries out international and domestic flights. During the period from 1992 to the present, there have been 4 plane crashes that have claimed lives. There are also 5 accidents reported without casualties.

The most famous plane crash is the tragedy that occurred near Mezhdurechensk. News about her spread all over the world. In the spring of 1994, a passenger plane flying from Moscow to Hong Kong crashed. The crash was caused by the pilot of the aircraft. The man put his 15-year-old son at the helm. 75 people died.

What are the statistics of plane crashes in Russia? A question that arises for many people who decide to go abroad or to another city in their native country. Based on the available information, we can conclude that major plane crashes are rare, given the huge number of flights that take place every day.

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Year 2001
1) In July, a Tu-154 crashed at the Irkutsk airport. All 145 people died.
2) In October, a Russian Tu-154 flying from Tel Aviv crashed into the Black Sea. Everyone on board died - 77 people.

Year 2002
1) In August, the worst helicopter accident in the world occurred in Chechnya. An Mi-26 with military personnel on board was shot down by a missile. At the same time, the helicopter was overloaded twice, and even landed on a minefield. 127 people died.

Year 2004
1-2) August 24 two Russian aircraft suffered a catastrophe as a result of terrorist attacks. Tu-154 and Tu-134 took off from Moscow, from Domodedovo airport, to Sochi and Volgograd. Each one carried a suicide bomber. Almost at the same time they made explosions, both planes fell. 90 people died. Later, the leader of the Chechen militants, Shamil Basayev, took responsibility for the attacks.

Year 2006
1) On July 9, an Airbus A-310 crashed at Irkutsk airport. The plane skidded off the runway. 125 people died.
2) On August 22, a Pulkovo Airlines Tu-154M crashed in Donetsk. A plane flying from Anapa to St. Petersburg tried to fly over a thundercloud. It fell into a flat tailspin and crashed into the ground. 170 people died.

Year 2008
1) In September, a Boeing 737 crashed in Perm while landing. The plane belonged to Aeroflot Nord airline, flying from Moscow. 88 people died.

Year 2010
1) In August, an An-24 plane crashed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Fell while landing at Igarka airport. 12 people died in the disaster.

Year 2011
1) On January 1, a fire in a Tu-154 plane at Surgut airport, 3 people died, 43 were injured.
2) On January 20, the AS-355N helicopter crashed in Leningrad region, 1 person died, three were injured;
3) On February 5, a Mi-2 helicopter crashed during takeoff in Kalmykia, 2 people were killed.
4) On March 5, an An-148 crashed in the Belgorod region, 6 people were killed.
5) March 15, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed near Krasnoyarsk, no fatalities.
6) March 19, a Ka-26 helicopter crashed near Ufa, no fatalities.
7) On April 6, an SU-27 crashed near Vladivostok, no fatalities.
8) On May 27, a Mi-2 helicopter crashed in the Stavropol region, killing one person.
9) On June 7, a Piper plane crashed during Vladimir region, two people died.
10) On June 8, a private Robinson helicopter crashed in the Elbrus area, no fatalities.
11) On June 21, a Tu-134 plane crash occurred in Karelia. The plane made a hard landing near Petrozavodsk airport. The fuselage collapsed and a fire started. 47 people died.
12) On June 22, a Mi-2 helicopter crashed in Krasnodar region, the pilot died.
13) June 23: A MiG-29 crashed near Astrakhan, both pilots were killed.
14) On July 4, a Eurostar plane crashed in the Moscow region, one person died.
15) On July 5, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed near Irkutsk, 2 people were killed.
16) On July 10, the Robinson-44 helicopter crashed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the pilot died.
17) On July 11, the An-24 made an emergency landing in the Tomsk region. During the flight, the engine caught fire, the pilots landed the plane on the water, killing 7 people.
18) On July 17, an Mi-8 made an emergency landing in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, there were no fatalities.
19) On July 19, an Mi-8 helicopter crashed in the Sverdlovsk region, killing the pilot.
20) On July 25, an Mi-8 helicopter crashed near the village of Billings in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, 3 people were killed.
21) On July 25, a single-engine plane crashed in the Vladimir region, 2 people were killed.
22) August 8 An-24 crash at Blagoveshchensk airport, 12 injured.
23) On August 9, an An-12 plane crashed in Magadan region, 11 people died.
24) On August 15, a Piper plane crashed in the Leningrad region, 3 people were killed.
25) On August 20, a private Yak-18 plane crashed in the Leningrad region, 4 people were killed.
26) On August 22, an AN-2 plane crashed in the Republic of Tyva, 1 person died.
27) On August 26, an MI-24 crashed in the Primorsky Territory, 1 person died.
28) On August 29, an MI-24 crashed in Karachay-Cherkessia, 5 people were injured.
29) On September 6, a MiG-31 crashed in Perm region, both pilots were killed.
30) On September 7, a Yak-42 plane carrying the Lokomotiv hockey team crashed in Yaroslavl. Of the 45 people on board, only one flight engineer survived. After this disaster, Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Russian government to close all dubious airlines, and for the rest - to tighten their checks.

Year 2012
1) On September 11, a regular An-28 aircraft belonging to the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise" disappeared from communication in the area of ​​​​the village of Palan. There were 13 people on board the plane flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana. The plane was found lying on its side in the thickets of dwarf cedar ten kilometers from Palana. Ten people died in the crash.
2) On April 2, 2012, a passenger plane ATR-72 flying from Tyumen to Surgut crashed during takeoff at Tyumen airport. According to preliminary data, there were 43 people on board - 39 passengers and four crew members. The ATR-72 is a short-haul turboprop aircraft. The aircraft is designed to carry up to 74 passengers and is flown by two pilots.

Year 2013
1) November 17 at 19.30 Moscow time international airport"Kazan" during landing, a Boeing 737 plane, en route Moscow - Kazan, crashed. There was an explosion. According to preliminary data, six crew members and 44 passengers were killed.

Year 2014
There are no major civil aircraft accidents yet.

Year 2015
1) On 10/31/15, the Airbus A320 "Kagalymavia" aircraft, operating flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, took off at 6:51 Moscow time and at 7:14 did not contact Larnaca, and the mark disappeared from the radar screen . There were 217 people and 7 crew members on board. All died over the Sinai Peninsula.
2) Mig-31 disappeared from radar screens on October 30 at 18:38 Moscow time. The aircraft was returning to its home airfield in the Kamchatka Territory after completing a scheduled training flight. “The pilots were taken by helicopter to Klyuchi, and now they are being transported to Yelizovo. They are examined there,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, one pilot was injured during the ejection, the second was not injured. The pilots of the MiG-31 military aircraft that crashed in Kamchatka were evacuated from the landing site. A source in law enforcement agencies reported this to RIA Novosti.

There is still not enough data on the wars in Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine.

Today, January 16, at 7.31 in the Chui region, near the village of Zhany-Zher, where the dachas are located, a cargo plane crashed. Boeing 747-400F, flying Hong Kong - Bishkek - Istanbul. The plane fell on residential buildings. So far there are more than 30 dead - almost all of them are residents of the dachas on which the plane crashed. Of the four crew members, one survived but later died in hospital.

Information about the plane crash was reported by an eyewitness by calling the “112” service of the Crisis Management Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic at 7.29. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic notified all emergency services. According to preliminary data, the plane belonged to MyCargo Airlines and was operated by Turkish Airlines.

Already published a selection of major air incidents in Kyrgyzstan over last years. The Russian agency RIA Novosti has prepared a selection of major plane crashes in the world in 2015-2017.

2017

January 16, 2017 A Turkish Airlines Boeing 747 cargo plane crashed near Bishkek while flying from Hong Kong to Bishkek. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan, the plane crashed in the area of ​​a holiday village in the vicinity of the airport. According to preliminary data, about 15 residential buildings in the village were destroyed, and more than 20 people died in them.

2016

December 25, 2016 The Tu-154 plane of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which was heading to Syria, crashed a few minutes after takeoff from Sochi airport. There were 92 people on board - eight crew members and 84 passengers, including eight military personnel, 64 artists from the Alexandrov Ensemble, nine representatives of Russian television channels, the head of the Fair Aid charity foundation Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, and two federal government employees. Channel One, NTV and Zvezda reported that their employees were on board.

December 7, 2016 a plane carrying 47 people (42 passengers and five crew members) crashed near the city of Havelian in Pakistan. The airliner took off from the city of Chitral in the north of the country and was supposed to land in Islamabad. The plane's pilot issued a distress signal shortly before the plane disappeared from air traffic controllers' radars. Everyone died in the disaster. The list of passengers on the plane, published in the media, includes 31 men, nine women and two children.

November 29, 2016 In Colombia, a plane crashed 50 kilometers from Medellin. There were 77 people on board the aircraft - nine crew members and 68 passengers, including players and staff of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, flying to the first meeting of the Copa Sudamericana final. The cause of the plane crash was the plane's insufficient fuel supply. As a result of the accident, six people survived, three of whom are Chapecoense players, while 71 people died.

December 3, 2016 In Indonesia, in the area of ​​the Linga archipelago, located near the southern exit of the Strait of Malacca, a police plane taking off from the city of Pankal Pinang on Banka Island crashed. There were 13 people on board, all of them died. According to the head of the Tanjung Pinang naval base, an explosion was heard before the plane crashed.

July 1, 2016 V Irkutsk region the Il-76 plane, which was busy putting out large-scale wildfires, did not get in touch. A ground rescue team discovered a crashed Il-76 to the south settlement Rybny Uyan on the slope of one of the hills. All ten crew members were killed.

May 19, 2016 An Egyptair passenger aircraft Airbus A320, flying from Paris to Cairo on flight MS804, disappeared from radar. The plane disappeared 20 minutes after entering Greek space. There were 66 passengers and crew members on board.

March 19, 2016 A passenger Boeing 737-800 flying from Dubai crashed in Rostov-on-Don. The plane crashed to the left of the runway while landing in poor visibility conditions. There were 55 passengers and seven crew members on board, all of whom died.

February 24, 2016 A Tara Airlines plane disappeared from radar in the mountains of Nepal. The plane took off from the city of Pokhara and was heading to the city of Jomsom. There were 23 people on board the plane: 20 passengers, including two children, and three crew members. There are no survivors.

2015

October 31, 2015 The Airbus-321 airliner of the Kogalymavia airline, which was operating flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, took off from Egypt at 6.21 (Moscow time) and disappeared from the radar screens after 23 minutes. There were 217 passengers and seven crew members on board. Wreckage of a Russian civil aircraft found in the center Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. No one survived the disaster.

August 16, 2015 In the Indonesian province of Papua, an Indonesian ATR passenger plane of Trigana Air Service, flying from the provincial capital of Jayapura to Oxybil Airport, crashed in a collision with a mountain. There were 49 passengers and five crew members on board the plane, all of whom died.

June 30, 2015 The four-engine Hercules C-130B military transport aircraft, manufactured more than half a century ago by the American airline Lockheed, crashed into a residential area in the southwestern part of the capital of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra about two minutes after takeoff from the Soewondo Air Force Base in Medan. only about five kilometers. Just before the crash, the pilot reported engine problems to air traffic controllers and the C-130 crashed as it was turning around to return to base. There were 122 people on board the crashed plane, they died. Another 19 people died on the ground.

March 24, 2015 In the south of France, in the Alpes-Haute-Provence department, an Airbus A320 aircraft belonging to the Germanwings company and flying from Barcelona (Spain) to Dusseldorf (Germany) crashed. There were 142 passengers and eight crew members on board the airliner. They all died. Recordings from the discovered black boxes indicate that the crash was the result of deliberate actions by the co-pilot, German citizen Andreas Lubitz.

March 10, 2015 near the village of Villa Castella in Argentina, at an altitude of about 100 meters, two helicopters collided, on board which were participants in the filming of the reality show about survival in difficult conditions “Dropped”. The plane crash killed all ten people (eight French and two Argentinean pilots), including 2012 Olympic swimming champion Camille Muffat, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist boxer Alexis Vasten, and famous yachtswoman Florence Artaud.

February 4, 2015 In Taiwan, an ATR 72 aircraft, taking off from Taipei Songshan Airport in the direction of the Kinmen Archipelago, hit a bridge and fell into the Keelung River. There were 53 passengers on board, including 31 tourists from China and five crew members. As a result of the incident, 43 people died.

January 26, 2015 In Spain, a Greek Air Force plane participating in NATO's Tactical Leadership Program failed to gain altitude during takeoff and crashed to the ground in an area where other planes were located. He rammed several of them. As a result of the disaster, 11 people were killed and another 20 were injured.

January 18, 2015 In Syria, an army cargo plane crashed near Abu al-Zuhur airport in Idlib province due to bad weather. At least 35 military personnel were killed.

Every 2-3 seconds someone lands or takes off. Some are happy about this, others are afraid. Is it worth giving in to fear? The answer will be given by statistics: how often planes crash, where it happens and how high the probability of a crash is.

About 100 thousand planes take off into the sky every day, and, oddly enough, the same number successfully land. Aircraft transport about 4.5 billion people annually, which is more than half the world's population. How many of them do you think add up to the statistics of those killed in plane crashes? No more than 1000 per year. The ratio is impressive, isn't it?

Over the entire existence of civil aviation (almost 100 years), less than 150 thousand people have died. This is less than the number of deaths per month in traffic accidents around the world.

How many planes crash per year?

According to Wikipedia, over the past 6 years, there have been 107 fatal plane crashes worldwide, killing 3,245 people. This is approximately 540 victims per year. It is important to clarify that the statistics take into account both commercial airliners and private small aircraft, and the number of victims is indicated taking into account those killed on the ground. That is, if a falling plane rammed a bus with 10 passengers, then they are also included in the statistics. Therefore, the real numbers of passenger plane crashes are much lower.

2010: 14 accidents in which 792 people died. The biggest tragedy was the unsuccessful landing of an Indian low-cost airline on a Boeing 737 (158 victims) and the crash of a Polish TU-154 near Smolensk (96 deaths).

2011 passed without any loud plane crashes. The largest number of victims (77 people) was in the Iranian Boeing 727, which could not be landed due to bad weather conditions. In total, 45 plane crashes were recorded, in which 552 people died. As is clear from the statistics, these were mainly light aircraft with no more than 10 people on board.

year 2012: 23 accidents, 315 dead. The worst case was the crash of a Pakistani Boeing 737, in which everyone on board (127 people) died.

year 2013 was relatively calm: only 5 aircraft accidents, the total number of victims was 128 people. 50 of them died in a Boeing 737 that crashed near Kazan.

year 2014 severely spoiled airline statistics: 15 accidents, with a total number of victims - 980 people. The most significant incident was the downing of a Boeing 777 over Ukraine, with 298 people on board.

2015 claimed 478 lives in just 5 plane crashes. The loudest was the Russian Airbus A321 that crashed over the terrorist attack, killing 224 people.

2016 remembered for the crash of the TU-154 of the Russian Ministry of Defense, in which 100 people died (92 passengers and 8 crew members. In total, over 12 months, air transport caused the death of 389 people.

2017 went down in history as the safest in the entire history of civil aviation. In just 12 months, 67 people died.

2018 began with the crash of an An-148 passenger plane in the Moscow region. 71 people died. A number of other major passenger accidents occurred in the following months. Over the past 10 years, 2018 became the most massive year in terms of the number of victims - 773 people were among the dead.

2019 I remember the unsuccessful landing of a Sukhoi Superjet plane at Sheremetyevo, which resulted in the death of 41 passengers. And in the worst plane crash of this year near Addis Ababa, 157 people died. A problem occurred on board 6 minutes after takeoff. The result of 2019 was 261 victims in plane crashes.

2020 began with a tragedy. During New Year's holidays A plane en route from Tehran to Kyiv crashed immediately after takeoff. The cause of the crash was said to be an Iranian air defense missile accidentally fired at the plane. All passengers and crew members died - 176 people.

In which country do planes crash more often?

If we take into account exclusively passenger air transportation, then there is no clearly defined “Bermuda Triangle” in which planes most often crash. But if you take statistics on all air transport, the result will be somewhat unexpected.

Over the same 6 years, the most plane crashes occurred... in Russia - 41, the number of deaths - 559 people. During the same period, there were 11 aircraft accidents in the United States. It's interesting to note that the last one was back in 2013. Next comes Ukraine (7 disasters), Congo (6) and Germany (4, all in 2010).

Overall, the numbers are very encouraging. Having learned how often planes crash according to statistics, we hope you will feel more confident in flight.