(Reuters) – The crash on Sunday of a Jeju Air Boeing (NYSE:) 737-800 in Muan County killed a complete of 179 folks within the deadliest air catastrophe on South Korean soil.
Listed below are a number of the greatest aviation accidents of 2024, so as of severity:
SOUTH KOREA
Jeju Air worldwide flight 7C2216, originating from Bangkok, Thailand, and flying to Muan Worldwide Airport, crashed on Dec. 29, killing all 175 passengers and 4 of the six crew.
BRAZIL
Voepass regional flight 2283, an ATR-72 turboprop originating from Cascavel and directed to Sao Paulo, crashed on Aug. 11 within the city of Vinhedo, killing all 62 folks on board.
In a separate accident, a small personal airplane, a twin-engine Piper PA-42-1000, carrying 10 folks crashed into retailers within the middle of the vacationer metropolis of Gramado in southern Brazil on Dec. 22, killing everybody on board and injuring 17 folks on the bottom.
KAZAKHSTAN
Azerbaijan Airways worldwide flight J2-8243, an Embraer E190 originating from Baku, Azerbaijan, and directed to Grozny, Russia, crashed close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Dec. 25, killing 39 folks. 29 folks survived.
NEPAL
The CRJ-200 plane, a small passenger airplane belonging to Nepal’s Saurya Airways, crashed and caught fireplace whereas taking off from Kathmandu to the Pokhara airport on July 24, killing 18 folks on board and leaving one survivor, the captain.
MALAWI
Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and 9 others, together with former first woman Shanil Dzimbiri, had been killed on June 10 en route from Lilongwe to Mzuzu, when the navy airplane they had been travelling in crashed.
THAILAND
Home constitution flight TFT209, a Cessna Caravan C208B registered to Thai Flying Service Co originating from Suvarnabhumi and directed to Trat, crashed 100 km southeast of Bangkok on Aug. 23, killing all 9 folks onboard.
IRAN
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and 6 different passengers and crew of a U.S.-made Bell 212 helicopter died in a crash on Could 19 in mountainous terrain within the Varzeqan area, close to the Azerbaijan border.
CANADA
Six folks had been killed after a Northwestern (NASDAQ:) Air airplane carrying international miner Rio Tinto (NYSE:)’s employees crashed close to Fort Smith in Canada’s distant Northwest Territories (NWT) on Jan. 23. 4 passengers and two North Western Air Lease (NYSE:) crew members died within the crash, whereas one passenger survived.
JAPAN
A Japan Airways (JAL) airplane collided with a smaller Coast Guard plane on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Jan. 2. All 379 folks aboard the JAL airplane, an Airbus A350-941 flight, escaped the burning airliner, whereas 5 of six crew on the smaller plane had been killed.
SINGAPORE
One passenger died of a suspected coronary heart assault and 30 had been injured after a Singapore Airways (OTC:) Boeing 777-300ER airplane from London to Singapore hit extreme turbulence on Could 21, flinging passengers and crew across the cabin and forcing the airplane to land in Bangkok.
(This story has been corrected to repair the situation of the crash to Muan, not Seoul, in paragraphs 1 and a couple of)
