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Few Worst Air Crashes In History

Aircrafts are the most astonishing, fastest and most commonly used means of travel nowadays. It was merely a century before that air travel was considered to be as impractical as time travel. Now, we have a large choice of flying machines to travel the skies in. Helicopters, airplanes, gliders, float planes, you name it. even though flying is fast and suitable, it is as unsafe and unreliable as any other medium of travel. Take floatplanes for example, flying them requires good climate. in addition, there is a Floatplane rating and a Float rating that defines the water, weather and circumstances appropriate or inappropriate for the plane.

Nearly all kinds of planes have such ratings to guarantee a secure flight. However, the disasters are almost always unpredictable. The most common of all the planes are the commercial planes. They can carry more than three hundred people around the globe in merely a day. In these fast traveling machines, the tempo of sufferings is greater than on land or seas. The reasons are forever unique. Sometimes it is a mechanical error, sometimes it is human negligence. Even with these figures, the numbers of passengers and air traffic are continuously on the rise. Let’s take a look at the worst airplane crashes in the past.

On 27 March 1977, the entire world was left in a shock to hear the news of the worst air catastrophe in the aviation history. A KLM Boeing 747 and a Pan AM Boeing crashed into a straight on impact on the Canary Island Runway all 583 people were killed in the accident which occurred due to foggy weather and disturbed radio transmission.

On August 12, 1985, the Japanese people mourned the tragic death of 520 people in Japan Airlines 747. The jet went out of control because to a erroneous repair which made crash into the Mount Fuji. Japan Airlines fully took the blame, the president resigned and the supervisor committed suicide.

November 12, 1996, people saw the worst mid air crash when a cargo plane from Kazakhstan crashed with a Saudia 747 near Delhi. All passengers aboard the aircraft, were killed in the disaster. The reason was found to be disobedience from the Kazakh crew.

On August 1980, many people witnessed the worst accident due to human error at the Riyadh Airport. A Saudia L-1011 was coming back from Pakistan to Riyadh with 301 people on the flight when a fire broke out after the departure. Somehow the crew managed to get out of the jet without any evacuation. For more than three minutes, the jet stood on the runway with its engines running before the rescue crew could open the emergency latch, a flash fire in the passenger cabin killed everybody inside.

March 3rd 1947, one of the worst tragedy in history was recorded as the Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed in the woods near Orly. The cause of the accident was found to be a erroneous designed cargo door which suddenly burst and sent the whole jet out of control. All 346 passengers and the crew died in the crash.