Backgrounder: Major air crashes since 2003
17/8/2005 10:53
March 6, 2003: An Algerian flag carrier Boeing 737-200 crashes shortly
after takeoff from Tamanrasset airport, killing all but one of the 97 passengers
and six crew members on board.
July 8: A Sudanese airliner bound for Khartoum
crashes with the loss of all but one of the 105 passengers and 11 crew members
aboard.
Dec. 25: A plane owned by the Guinean-based airline UTA crashes into
the sea off the West African state of Benin, killing 139 of the 151 passengers
and 10 crew members on board.
Jan. 3, 2004: An Egyptian 737 charter plane
belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing at least 148
people.
Feb. 10: An Iranian passenger plane crashes and bursts into flames
near Sharjah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, killing 43 of
the 40 passengers and six crew members on board.
Aug. 24,: Two Russian planes
departing from a Moscow airport crash within minutes of each other, killing at
least 89 people in a terror attack. Explosives were found on both
flights.
Nov. 30: A Lion Air passenger plane skids off the runway and crashes
during heavy rains in central Indonesia, killing at least 31 people and injuring
75, with 47 others missing.
Feb. 3, 2005: An Afghan airliner crashes into a
mountain near Kabul, killing all 104 people on board. The Boeing 737 was
operated by Afghanistan's only private airline, Kam Air.
March 16: An An-24
two-engine turboprop aircraft crashes and catches fire while trying to reach an
airport near the oil port of Varandei in the Nenets autonomous region on
Russia's Pechora Sea, killing 28 of the 53 people on board.
May 26: An An-28
passenger plane crashes in eastern mountain area of the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC), killing all the 32 passengers and crew members on
board.
Aug. 6: A Tunisian ATR-42 plane crashes into the sea off Palermo in
Sicily, Italy, killing 13 of the 39 passengers and crew members on board, with
three others missing.
Aug. 14: A Cypriot Boeing 737 operated by the private
Helios Airways crashed in north of Athens, killing all 121 passengers and crew
members on board.
Xinhua
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