Recent Crash Timeline

2009

22 March: A small plane crashes shy of the Butte, Montana, airport killing 17 adults and children.

25 February: Istanbul to Amsterdam crashes shy of the runway at Schiphol international airport. Nine are killed and at least 50 injured. 150 on board.

12 February: Buffalo, New York, killing 49 people on board and one person on the ground.

8 February: Amazonas, Brazil, killing 24 people, most of whom were from the same family.

15 January: A US Airways Hudson River in New York. All 150 passengers, three flight attendants and two pilots are rescued. No loss of life.

2008

14 September: Boeing-737 crashes on landing near Perm, Russia killing all 88 passengers and crew members

24 August: Passenger plane crashes after take-off from Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, killing 68 people.

20 August: Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid’s Barajas airport, killing 154 people, injuring 18.

2 May: Engine trouble crashes a plane carrying a military delegation west of Juba. 22 dead.

15 April: DC-9 skids off the runway on take off in Goma Congo during heavy rain, smashing through a wall and into residential area. 40 die

24 January: Polish Casa C-295M military transport plane crashes killing officials who had attended an air safety conference. Nineteen die.

2007

30 November: 56 die on Atlasjet flight when it crashes in Isparta province 7.5 miles from Isparta airport near the town of Keciborlu.

16 September: 87 people die in One-Two-Go plane crashed bad weather at Phuket Thailand.

17 July: TAM jet crashes at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil. All 186 on board die and 13 on the ground.

5 May: Kenya Airways’ Boeing 737-800 crashes in southern Cameroon swamp, killing 114 on board.

2006

29 September: Boeing 737 kills 154 passengers and crew crashed i Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after midair collision.

27 August: Comair CRJ-100 jet goes down in Kentucky, killing 49.

22 August: Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, Ukraine.

9 July: Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia 124 on board die. 50 survive.

3 May: Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes in Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113.

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    Texas: Falling Parts

    What: Aruban Airbus A319 en route from Dallas Love Field
    Where: Dallas
    When: Tuesday November 10, 1:30 pm
    Who: maintenance crew
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    Like the pilot association, we wonder how blaming the victims will improve the state of aviation.

    The pilots of Air France Flight 447 had already lost valid data before the Airbus A330 stalled. Fell for three minutes down into the Atlantic in June of 2009, carrying the 228 people aboard to their death. Fell, with pilots flying blind. Fell, with only erroneous data available. Fell with the warning system squawking confused messages. Yet the Bea report says this was was the pilot’s fault.

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