Factbox: Biggest aviation accidents of 2024

JejuAir Co

30/12/2024 15:18

Dec 30 (Reuters) - The crash on Sunday of a Jeju Air
Boeing  BA.N  737-800 in Seoul killed a total of 179 people in
the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil. 
    Here are some of the biggest aviation accidents of 2024, in
order of severity:
    
    SOUTH KOREA
    Jeju Air international flight 7C2216, originating from
Bangkok, Thailand, and directed to Seoul, crashed on Dec. 29,
killing all 175 passengers and four 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 in the town of Vinhedo, killing all 62 people on board. 
    In a separate accident, a small private plane, a twin-engine
Piper PA-42-1000, carrying 10 people crashed into shops in the
center of the tourist city of Gramado in southern Brazil on Dec.
22, killing everyone on board and injuring 17 people on the
ground.  
    
    KAZAKHSTAN 
    Azerbaijan Airlines international flight J2-8243, an Embraer
 EMBR3.SA  E190 originating from Baku, Azerbaijan, and directed
to Grozny, Russia, crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan
on Dec. 25, killing 39 people. 29 people survived.
    
    NEPAL
    The CRJ-200 aircraft, a small passenger plane belonging to
Nepal's Saurya Airlines, crashed and caught fire while taking
off from Kathmandu to the Pokhara airport on July 24, killing 18
people on board and leaving one survivor, the captain.
    
    MALAWI
    Malawi's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine
others, including former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, were killed
on June 10 en route from Lilongwe to Mzuzu, when the military
plane they were travelling in crashed.
    
    THAILAND
    Domestic charter 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 people onboard.  
    
    IRAN
    Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and six other passengers and
crew of a U.S.-made Bell 212 helicopter died in a crash on May
19 in mountainous terrain in the Varzeqan region, near the
Azerbaijan border.
    
    CANADA 
    Six people were killed after a Northwestern Air plane
carrying global miner Rio Tinto's  RIO.L  workers crashed near
Fort Smith in Canada's remote Northwest Territories (NWT) on
Jan. 23. Four passengers and two North Western Air Lease crew
members died in the crash, while one passenger survived.
    
    JAPAN 
    A Japan Airlines (JAL)  9201.T  plane collided with a
smaller Coast Guard aircraft on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda
airport on Jan. 2. All 379 people aboard the JAL plane, an
Airbus A350-941 flight, escaped the burning airliner, while five
of six crew on the smaller aircraft were killed.
    
    SINGAPORE
    One passenger died of a suspected heart attack and 30 were
injured after a Singapore Airlines  SIAL.SI  Boeing 777-300ER
plane from London to Singapore hit severe turbulence on May 21,
flinging passengers and crew around the cabin and forcing the
plane to land in Bangkok.       

 (Reporting by Alessandro Parodi, Philippe Leroy Beaulieu and
Enrico Sciacovelli)
 ((Alessandro.Parodi@thomsonreuters.com))