Near Bishkek, performing the Hong Kong-Bishkek flight. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan, the plane crashed near a holiday village near the airport. According to preliminary data, about 15 residential buildings of the village were destroyed, 20 people died in them.
2016
On December 25, a Tu-154 aircraft of the Russian Defense Ministry, which was heading to Syria, a few minutes after taking off from Sochi airport. There were 92 people on board - eight crew members and 84 passengers, including eight military personnel, 64 artists of the Alexandrov Ensemble, nine representatives of Russian TV channels, the head of the Just Help charity foundation Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, and two federal civil servants. On the presence of their employees on board Channel One, NTV and Zvezda.
On December 7, a plane carrying 47 people (42 passengers and five crew members) near the city of Havelian in Pakistan. The liner took off from the city of Chitral in the north of the country and was supposed to land in Islamabad. The pilot of the plane gave a distress call shortly before the liner disappeared from the radar of air traffic controllers. Everyone died in the crash. The aircraft released to media includes 31 men, nine women and two children.
On August 16, in the Indonesian province of Papua, in a collision with a mountain, an Indonesian passenger aircraft ATR of Trigana Air Service, flying from the provincial capital of Jayapura to Oksibil airport. There were 49 passengers and five crew members on board, all of whom died.
On June 30, a four-engine Hercules C-130B military transport aircraft, manufactured more than half a century ago by the American airline Lockheed, in the southwestern part of the capital of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, about two minutes after takeoff from the Medan air force base "Suwondo" (Soewondo), flying just about five kilometers. Immediately before the crash, the pilot informed the dispatchers about engine problems, the C-130 crashed at the moment when it was turning around to return to base. On board the crashed plane were 122 people, they died. Another 19 people died on the ground.
On March 24, in the south of France in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, an Airbus A320 owned by Germanwings and en route from Barcelona (Spain) to Dusseldorf (Germany). There were 142 passengers and eight crew members on board the airliner. They all died. A record from the discovered "black boxes" indicates that the crash was the result of the co-pilot, German citizen Andreas Lubitz.
March 10 near the village of Villa Castella in Argentina at an altitude of about 100 meters, on board were participants in the filming of the reality show about survival in difficult conditions "Dropped". As a result of the crash, all ten people (eight French and two Argentine pilots) died, including the 2012 Olympic swimming champion Camille Muffat, the 2008 Games bronze medalist boxer Alexis Vasten, and the famous yachtswoman Florence Artaud.
On February 4, in Taiwan, an ATR 72 aircraft taking off from Taipei Songshan Airport in the direction of the Kinmen archipelago hit a bridge and. There were 53 passengers on board, including 31 Chinese tourists and five crew members. As a result of the incident, 43 people died.
On January 26, in Spain, a Greek Air Force aircraft participating in the NATO Tactical Leadership Program failed to gain altitude during takeoff and fell to the ground in an area where other aircraft were located. He rammed several of them. As a result, 11 people were killed and 20 more were injured.
January 18 in Syria, an army cargo plane near the Abu al-Zuhur airport in the province of Idlib due to bad weather. At least 35 military personnel were killed.
The crash of a private passenger plane Bombardier Challenger 600, flying from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Istanbul, killed at least 11 people: eight passengers and three crew members. The crash was reported by Arabia, citing representatives of Iran's civil aviation authority.
The Bombardier disappeared from radar screens at 18:50 local time. Eyewitnesses reported that he fell in the province of Cheharmehal or Bakhtiaria near the city of Shahr Kord in central Iran.
After hitting the ground, the plane caught fire, now dense black smoke is coming from the crash site.
A search operation has been launched in the area of the plane crash, Iran's emergency services said. As a working version of the crash, an error in control in conditions of poor visibility is considered - the plane crashed in a mountainous area, crashing into a rock. Photographs from the scene show the area covered in thick fog.
The Bombardier Challenger 600 is a family of high-comfort passenger aircraft. The liner has been produced since 1978, undergoing many improvements and modifications. A number of aircraft are in service with the US Coast Guard. The capacity of the Bombardier Challenger 600 is 19 people. The fuselage length is 21 meters, the wingspan is 19.6 meters.
Since the start of operation, the Bombardier Challenger 600 has been involved in 13 air crashes - the 14th crash in Iran since 1980.
Most of the crashes occurred in the United States - 8 aircraft of this model, and one of them burned down in the hangar. Most of the accidents were due to crew errors or icing.
Also, 7 accidents were without casualties, and the deadliest crash involving this aircraft occurred in January 2002 in British Birmingham - then 5 people died. The aircraft banked immediately after takeoff and lost altitude due to icing.
In 2017, the German company's Bombardier Challenger 600 flew 300 meters under the flight path of an Airbus A320 over the Arabian Sea and was "literally blown away" by a jet of air. The business jet began to "tumble in the air", but the pilots, having lost about 3 km of altitude, managed to correct the situation by regaining control over the aircraft and landing it on the surface of the ocean. No one died as a result of the incident, but the aircraft had to be scrapped due to the overloads it suffered during the fall.
The disaster in the mountains of Iran was the second since the beginning of February 2018. On the morning of February 18, in the west of Iran, near the city of Semirom, Isfahan province, an ATR 72 passenger plane of Iran Aseman Airlines crashed, 66 people on board were killed.
In addition to 60 passengers, there were two flight attendants, two security officers, as well as a pilot and an assistant pilot on board the Iranian airliner. The liner took off from the airport of the Iranian capital to the center of the province of Kohgiluye and Boyerakhmed in the southwest of the country at 08:55 local time.
The plane disappeared from radar 50 minutes after takeoff. The accident allegedly occurred in the Dena mountain range. Eyewitnesses told reporters that the aircraft was trying to make an emergency landing in the area of agricultural farms.
A rescue helicopter flew to the site of the alleged crash, but it has not yet been able to reach the alleged crash site due to bad weather and heavy fog.
“It is not possible to send an ambulance to the mountainous area, so we are preparing to send helicopters there,”
Iranian emergency response spokesman Moytab Khaledi said.
On February 11, an An-148 aircraft of Saratov Airlines, flying from Moscow to the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region, crashed in the Moscow region. According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, communication with the crew of the An-148 disappeared a few minutes after takeoff from the airport.
The pitch of the An-148 reached 30 degrees, and at that moment the air parameters module of the aircraft commander showed zero aircraft speed. The backup indicator showed very low 200 km / h for this kind of situation. Collision with the ground became inevitable, at the time of the crash, the speed of the aircraft reached 800 km / h. There were 65 passengers and six crew members on board. None of the 71 people survived.
More than 5,000 fuselage fragments were found at the crash site as a result of a week-long search operation. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said that the explosion occurred after a collision with the ground, and at the time of the fall, the aircraft "was intact." After the crash of the An-148 and the death of 71 people on board, he opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Violation of the rules of traffic safety and operation of air transport, which negligently entailed the death of two or more persons.
Every day in the world someone asks the question - what are the statistics of air crashes? After all, any air transport is exposed to the same risk of crash every minute:
- passenger;
- cargo;
- military.
Statistics of air crashes in the world notes that in recent years most often occurred in the United States. Unfortunately, Russia's rating is second. In the United States, they are trying to rectify the situation, especially with passenger transportation. The Russian government is paying more attention to military aircraft.
Under the Soviet Union, aircraft crash statistics were difficult to accurately determine, as they were almost always kept silent. Today it is almost impossible to do this.
Why planes crash
Every person who goes on air travel for the first time tries to find information about what are the main reasons for flying cars. Despite the fact that airplanes are marked as the safest transportation in the world, the future passenger does not even think that danger accompanies him on land much more often than in the air.
In the United States, looking at the years since 1945, more than 630 disasters have occurred, the victims of which have become more than 10,500 people.
In Russia and the USSR, less than 307 accidents occurred during this time, where approximately 7,000 deaths were counted.
In Canada during this period, there were 173 accidents, where approximately 1755 deaths were counted.
The last place by country is occupied by Ecuador. The planes of this country suffered the least crashes.
Air crash statistics by aircraft
Air crash statistics for aircraft in the world marks the Boeing brand. These aircraft are considered the most dangerous and are located most of all in the zone. The Boeing 747 and 737 are highlighted in particular. They are the most frequently crashed.
The statistics of those killed in plane crashes in Russia and in other countries on Boeing aircraft is amazing. To avoid trouble, a special accident assessment service strongly recommends correcting certain errors so that this does not happen again in the future.
Many airlines have already refused to transport people on the Boeing 737, but some countries still operate this brand of aircraft. Despite the poor performance, the Boeing 737 is considered the safest passenger transport.
The Tu 154 is also noted in terms of the number of aircraft crashes in the world. During the period of its use, starting from 1973, at least once every twelve months one of these aircraft crashes. However, experts say that this model is one of the most reliable for transporting passengers. The reasons for their accidents are the carelessness of pilots and dispatchers, since the complexity of the structure of this technique requires appropriate professionalism and attention.
The statistics of air crashes in the world over the years makes it possible to evaluate the actions of specialists who are trying to correct all the shortcomings and make sure that the planes are at minimal risk of crash. This can be seen on Wikipedia, where a table is provided, both in exact numbers and in percentage, showing the accidents and the number of deaths in each of them. The five worst crashes in the last two years:
| Year | The country | Airline | Liner brand | Flight heading | Number of victims |
| 2015 | Taiwan | TransAsia Airways | ATR 72 | Songshan – Kinmen | 43 |
| 2015 | Germany | germanwings | Airbus A320-211 | Barcelona – Dusseldorf | 150 |
| 2015 | Russia | Kogalymavia | Airbus-321 | Sharm el-Sheikh – St. Petersburg | 224 |
| 2016 | Russia | Boeing 737-800 | Dubai – Rostov-on-Don | 62 | |
| 2016 | Egypt | EgyptAir | A320 | Paris-Cairo | 66 |
Despite all the efforts of the masters, the statistics of air crashes in the United States and Russia have not changed much. They are still in first place. Looking at freight accidents separately, it is safe to say that they occur due to improper maintenance and violations of safety rules. They mainly operate old cars, the repair of which no one follows. And the statistics of air crashes due to dangerous only confirm this.
Often, cargo planes are loaded with much more weight than necessary. Considering the still old design, this is the main reason for the collapse of such a transport. Air crash statistics by airline are difficult to determine. No one can say with certainty which one is better or worse. It all depends on the transport and how they monitor its working condition. Top 20 safest airlines today:
| Place | The country | Airline |
| 1 | China (Hong Kong) | cathay pacific airway |
| 2 | UAE | Emirates |
| 3 | Taiwan | Eva Air |
| 4 | Qatar | Qatar Airways |
| 5 | China | Hainan Airlines |
| 6 | Netherlands | KLM |
| 7 | New Zealand | Air New Zealand |
| 8 | UAE | Etihad Airways |
| 9 | Japan | Japan Airlines |
| 10 | Portugal | TAP Portugal |
| 11 | USA | jet blue airways |
| 12 | Germany | Lufthansa |
| 13 | Australia | Qantas |
| 14 | Great Britain | Virgin Atlantic Airways |
| 15 | Japan | All Nippon Airways |
| 16 | Canada | Air Canada |
| 17 | USA | Delta Air Lines |
| 18 | Great Britain | british airways |
| 19 | China | Sichuan Airlines |
| 20 | Germany | Air Berlin |
As for Russia, it takes 35th place.
Plane crashes in Russia
Air crash statistics in Russia and the United States lead both by airlines and aircraft for one reason. These two countries are most involved in air travel. Considering that there is one crash per million sorties, then with such a busy schedule, such tragedies are difficult to avoid.
The statistics of air crashes in the USSR show that at that time air accidents were rare - one in a couple of years. The frequency of crashes began after a long use of technology, when the repair work of the transport was ignored.
The considered statistics of air crashes in Russia by airlines are noted by Aeroflot. She is one of the oldest. Perhaps that is why it is considered dangerous for passengers. At the same time, few people pay attention to the fact that these are mainly her “daughters”. In the company itself, accidents have declined greatly over the past 20 years.
Despite the fact that Aeroflot's air crash statistics go off scale, the company is doing its best to correct the situation and reduce the number of accidents to a minimum. To do this, she carries out the modernization of the aircraft fleet and certifies its pilots for professionalism. Such tests help to determine whether an employee is able to adequately assess critical situations.
Judging by the Russian airlines and those who died in air crashes, the statistics of victims at Aeroflot are frightening. Over the entire history of its existence, there have been approximately 130 crashes.
However, over the past 10 years, airlines have proven that the safety of flights compared to terrestrial travel is much higher. At the same time, the number of accidents in Russia has significantly decreased over the past 5 years. This proves that the country is worried not only about income, but also about security. Stall flow specialists try to reduce to a minimum.
Considering recent years, it can be noted that 2015 was unusually calm. There were only 16 disasters, the victims of which were 560 people. But it was like the calm before the storm. In 2016, there were as many accidents with victims as in several years.
But, despite the statistics of aircraft accidents in Russia in 2016, the popularity of air travel has not decreased. Every day more and more people want to fly.
Floods, fires, earthquakes, devastation... Let's remember the most devastating natural disasters of the past year.
1. At the very beginning of the year, a state of emergency was declared in a number of regions of Chile - forest fires began. Snapshot on January 2, 2017 in Valparaiso. (Photo by Rodrigo Garrido):
2. In the Argentine province of La Pampa, which is located in the center of the country, forest fires also could not be extinguished for several weeks. At the beginning of the year, the fire covered an area of more than a million hectares. The picture was taken on January 5th. (Photo by Eitan Abramovich):
3. On the morning of January 16 near Bishkek, which followed from Hong Kong to Istanbul. More than half of the village, on which the cargo 747-400 collapsed, was destroyed. (Photo by Vladimir Pirogov):
5. An earthquake struck central Italy on January 18. Initially, serious damage was not reported, but at night it became known that in the Abruzzo region in the mountains, an avalanche descended on the hotel and buried the hotel, where 40 people were staying. This is one of the survivors. 29 people died. (Photo by Vigili del Fuco):
8. A strong explosion occurred on February 8 at a chemical plant in China in Anhui Province. For 10 seconds in the city where the enterprise is located, it was as bright as day.
9. In the city of San Jose, California, flooding - the Coyote Creek overflowed its banks and flooded the southern regions, February 22, 2017. (Photo by Noah Berger):
10. And in Chile, in Valparaiso, forest fires continued, March 12, 2017. (Photo by Raul Ramora):
12. March 22 in Switzerland at the railway station of the city of Lucerne derailed a passenger train en route to Basel from Milan. There were 160 passengers on the train at the time of the incident. (Photo by Michael Buholzer):
13. On April 16, 2014, the Sewol ferry from Incheon to Jeju sank off the southwestern coast of Korea. As a result, 304 people died, most of whom were high school students. In March 2017, they got him from the day of the sea. (Photo by Yonhap):
14. Hurricane Debbie, Tropical Cyclone Debbie is the first tropical cyclone near Australia in the 2017 season, the strongest cyclone in the Australian region since 2014-2015. The picture was taken April 1, 2017. (Photo by Patrick Hamilton):
17. A car and a bus fell into a huge hole formed on a highway in Chennai on April 9, 2017.
18. End of April. Almost one and a half thousand hectares of forest are on fire. The most difficult situation is in the Irkutsk Region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The fire quickly spreads from house to house, firefighters barely cope with the work. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin | Reuters):
21. In May, in the Canadian province of Quebec, due to incessant downpours, severe flooding began, May 7, 2017. (Photo by Chris Watti):
22. At the same time, the flood was in Colombia. (Photo by Luis Robayo):
23. The death toll from the floods in Sri Lanka exceeded 200 people, May 29, 2017. (Photo by Sri Lanka Air Force):
24. A powerful earthquake occurred off the coast of the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the sea, about 84 km northwest of the Turkish city of Izmir. The picture was taken on June 12, 2017. (Photo by Giorgos Moutafis):
25. In Kenya, as a result of the collapse of a seven-story building, 15 people disappeared, June 13, 2017. (Photo by Baz Ratner):
26. In June, a fire broke out in a residential building in west London. 71 people are on the official list of identified victims. (Photo by Toby Melville):
27. Fire spread with lightning speed. (Photo by Toby Melville):
28. You can see the burnt insulation, through which, it seems, the fire spread. (Photo by Dan Kitwood):
29. Mid June. . (Photo by Patricia de Melo Moreira):
30. And the cause of fires in Portugal was lightning, which simply struck a tree. At least that's the official version. (Photo by Rafael Marchante):
31. 63 people died in the Portuguese fires in the summer. (Photo by Miguel Riopa):
32. In June, a landslide came down in the early morning near Xinmo village. According to preliminary data, about 46 households remained under the rubble. Dozens of people died. (Photo by An Yuan):
33. Didn't get there. In the US state of Washington, there was an accident on the railroad, during which the Amtrak train derailed, July 2, 2017. (Photo by West Pierce Fire Department):
34. On the morning of July 6, an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 occurred in the central part of the Philippines. The earthquake caused a landslide in the city of Ormoc. There are people injured. (Photo by Lito Bagunas):
35. This year in California it was especially hot, forest fires were blazing all the time. It's July. (Photo by Josh Edelson):
36. Rescuing a flag from a fire, California, July 8, 2017. (Photo by Josh Edelson):
37. In mid-July, there were fires in Nice. (Photo by Valery Hache):
39. A medieval fortress on the Greek island of Kos was damaged by a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea. The fortress of the Knights of the Order of St. John, known as the Hospitallers, was built on the island in the 14th-16th centuries to protect against the Ottoman conquerors and played a decisive role in the fight against them. The epicenter of the earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 was located 10.3 kilometers from the resort town of Bodrum in southwestern Turkey and 16.2 kilometers from the Greek island of Kos. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki):
40. Never give up. A local resident fights a fire in the Portuguese city of Castelo Branco on July 25, 2017. (Photo by Rafael Marchante):
41. In July, powerful forest fires raged in the south of France near the famous resort town of Saint-Tropez, because of which the authorities evacuated local residents and tourists to temporary shelters. However, some people like to watch. (Photo by Valery Hache):
42. An injured cat in the fires in Manila in the Philippines, August 11, 2017. But the cats are strong, he will recover. (Photo by Noel Celis):
43. Blazed in August and in Greece, north of Athens. (Photo by Giorgos Moutafis):
44. Forest fire in the village of Vale de Abelha in Macau, Portugal, August 16, 2017. (Photo by Patricia de Melo Moreira):
45. Graves. More than 310 people became victims of flooding and a landslide in Sierra Leone, August 17, 2017. (Photo by Seyllou):
46. On August 19, a passenger train derailed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. As a result of the incident, 20 people were killed and another 150 were injured. (Photo by Adnan Abidi):
47. About 1,300 people died and more than 41 million people were affected by widespread monsoon floods in South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, from July to September 2017. India was the hardest hit - more than a thousand deaths. This is a picture from Bangladesh. (Photo by Mohammed Ponir Hussain):
48. is a tropical cyclone that caused catastrophic flooding in southeast Texas in August 2017 as a result of heavy rains. This is the first major hurricane at a US landfall. It is also the strongest hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (Photo by Adrees Latif):
49. Harvey is the eighth named storm, third hurricane, and first major hurricane in the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. And on your Twitter, I noted that scientists agree that such a flood after a hurricane like Harvey happens once every 500 years. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman):
51. And then there was Irma. Experts believe that Irma is stronger than Hurricane Harvey, which hit the Texas coast in late August and led to catastrophic flooding. One of the most affected islands is Saint Martin, which is located in the northern part of the Windward Islands. (Photo by Lionel Chamoiseau):
52. The strongest blow in the last hundred years and more than fifty aftershocks is an earthquake of magnitude 8.4 in Mexico. The picture was taken on September 8, 2017. (Photo by Victoria Razo):
53. September 19 in Mexico at 18.14 local time (21.14 Moscow time) was recorded another earthquake of magnitude 7.1. To find survivors under the rubble of buildings, a lot of work was done in Mexico. (Photo by Edgard Garrido):
54. No sooner had the Caribbean countries recovered from Hurricane Irma than nature prepared for them an even more serious test: Tropical Storm Maria turned into a Category 5 hurricane in just 30 hours. The wind speed reached 257 km per hour with gusts up to 300 km per hour. (Photo by Ricardo Arduengo):
55. And forest fires continued in California ... October, 2017. (Photo by Josh Edelson):
56. Save the Piggy! October flood in Vietnam.
57. The area of Puerto Rico on October 20, 2017, where Tropical Storm Maria visited a month ago. Full recovery is still a long way off. (Photo by Alvin Baez):
60. As a result of fires in California, about 1,500 houses were destroyed, about 2,000 km² of land were turned into a burnt desert, 14 people died and more than 70 were injured. About 10,700 firefighters participated in the fight against the fire, using special helicopters specially designed to put out fires from the air. (Photo by Mike Blake):
61. This will be the last disaster of this review. On December 18, in Washington state, at 7:40 local time on Monday, at a railroad overpass near the city of Dupont, 80 kilometers south of Seattle, a derailed car crashed right onto the highway. At least six people were reported dead and 77 more were hospitalized. (Photo by Steve Dipaola):
These are the cataclysms and disasters that took place in 2017.
