Plane crashes in the last 2 days of the year. How often do passenger planes crash?

11.10.2021

The crash of the An-148 Saratov Airlines is the first major plane crash in the world in 2018. 71 people died as a result of the accident. This is the first such serious incident for the airline, although there have been significant incidents before. The investigation considers "weather conditions, human factor, technical condition of the aircraft and other possible scenarios for the development of events as possible causes of the crash." It is known that the plane was in the air for only four minutes, and then crashed to the ground, after which it fell apart.

An-148 is a relatively young aircraft. It made its first flight on December 17, 2004. The crashed airliner with tail number RA-61704 was developed and produced by the design bureau named after V.I. Antonov in 2010. The aircraft entered the Saratov Airlines fleet in February 2017. On the day of the crash, the An-148 managed to complete three flights: Penza-Moscow, Moscow-Saratov, Saratov-Moscow.

The fleet of Saratov Airlines consists of 11 aircraft, including 5 AN-148-100 aircraft. The average age of the An-148 in operation is eight years, the total aircraft fleet is 18.8 years. In 2016, Saratov Airlines carried 796 thousand 386 passengers (19th place among Russian airlines). On February 12, it became known that Saratov Airlines had temporarily suspended the operation of the An-148.

Airplanes are considered the safest mode of transport, and 2017 became the safest in the history of commercial flights worldwide. According to the official statistics of the EMERCOM of Russia (it takes into account any aviation accidents), compared to 2016, the number of air crashes has decreased by more than 50%.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations takes into account all aviation accidents, including the crash of helicopters, private planes. And this is how the statistics of victims of plane crashes looks like, taking into account only passenger civilian ships.

In most cases, the human factor is called the cause of plane crashes:

According to a large-scale study, most fatalities occur during landing and approach:

The most serious aviation accidents with An-148:

June 4, 2010 An-148 of Rossiya Airlines, which was flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg, almost crashed. As a result of a short circuit in the fly-by-wire control system, the aircraft banked heavily and began to dive. The pilots managed to regain control and land safely at Pulkovo.

March 5, 2011 An-148, performing a training flight, crashed near the village of Garbuzovo, Belgorod Region. The disaster killed all 6 people on board, including two foreign pilots.

February 26, 2012 An-148 of Rossiya Airlines, which was flying from Berlin to St. Petersburg, lost a wheel. When approaching St. Petersburg, the plane produced additional fuel for about two hours, and then landed without the wheel of the left main landing gear. The cause of the incident was a wheel de-axle due to the destruction of bearings.

23 August 2013 An-148 lost the front landing gear tire during takeoff from Mineralnye Vody. The board managed to fly safely and land at Pulkovo.

September 10, 2017 An-148 of Saratov Airlines, which was performing the Kirov - Simferopol flight, had a right engine failure due to a drop in oil pressure. The airliner landed at the Saratov airport.

October 1, 2017 during the takeoff of the An-148 of the Angara airline, which was performing the Talakan - Irkutsk flight, the right engine caught fire. The plane made an emergency landing at the departure airport.

11 February 2018 the An-148 aircraft of Saratov Airlines, which took off from Domodedovo to Orsk, crashed 4 minutes after takeoff in the Ramensky district of the Moscow region. 65 passengers and 6 crew members were killed.

Floods, fires, earthquakes, crashes ... Let us recall the most destructive natural disasters of the past year.

1. At the very beginning of the year, a state of emergency was declared in several regions of Chile - forest fires began. Photo taken 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 could not be extinguished for several weeks. At the beginning of the year, the fire covered an area of more than a million hectares. Photo taken on January 5. (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 18th. Initially, no serious damage was 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 there were 40 people. This is one of the survivors. 29 people died. (Photo by Vigili del Fuco):

8. A violent explosion occurred on February 8 at a chemical plant in China in Anhui province. For 10 seconds, the city where the enterprise is located was as bright as day.

9.In the city of San Jose, California, flooding - the Coyote Creek River overflowed and flooded southern areas, February 22, 2017. (Photo by Noah Berger):

10. And in Chile, in Valparaiso, forest fires continued on March 12, 2017. (Photo by Raul Ramora):

12. On 22 March in Switzerland, at the Lucerne railway station, a passenger train derailed on its way to Basel from Milan. There were 160 passengers on the train at the time of the incident. (Photo by Michael Buholzer):

13. On 16 April 2014, the Sewol ferry, which was sailing from Incheon to Jeju, sank off the southwest coast of Korea. As a result, 304 people died, most of whom were high school students. In March 2017, he got it from the day of the sea. (Photo by Yonhap):

14. Hurricane Debbie, Tropical Cyclone Debbie is the first tropical cyclone in the 2017 season near Australia and the strongest cyclone in the Australian region since 2014-2015. Photo taken April 1, 2017. (Photo by Patrick Hamilton):

17. A car and a bus fell into a huge hole 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 is rapidly moving from house to house, firefighters can 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 on May 7, 2017. (Photo by Chris Watti):

22. At the same time, there was a flood in Colombia. (Photo by Luis Robayo):

23. The death toll from floods in Sri Lanka exceeded 200, May 29, 2017. (Photo by Sri Lanka Air Force):

24. A powerful earthquake occurred off the coast of the Greek island of Lesvos in the Aegean Sea. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the sea, about 84 km northwest of the Turkish city of Izmir. Photo taken on June 12, 2017. (Photo by Giorgos Moutafis):

25. In Kenya, 15 people disappeared as a result of the collapse of a seven-story building, 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 Toby Melville):

27. The fire spread with lightning speed. (Photo Toby Melville):

28. One can see the burnt insulation, through which, it seems, the fire was spreading. (Photo by Dan Kitwood):

29. Mid June. ... (Photo by Patricia de Melo Moreira):

30. And the cause of the fires in Portugal was lightning, which simply hit a tree. At least that's the official version. (Photo by Rafael Marchante):

31. The Portuguese fires in the summer killed 63 people. (Photo by Miguel Riopa):

32. In June, in the area of Xinmo Village, a landslide came down early in the morning. According to preliminary data, about 46 households were left under the rubble. Dozens of people died. (Photo by An Yuan):

33. Didn't get there. In the US state of Washington, an Amtrak train derailed on July 2, 2017. (Photo by West Pierce Fire Department):

34. On the morning of July 6, an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck 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. California was particularly hot this year, with forest fires blazing all the time. It's July. (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 XIV-XVI centuries to protect against the Ottoman invaders and played a decisive role in the fight against them. The epicenter of the 6.7 magnitude earthquake was 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 town of Castelo Branco on July 25, 2017. (Photo by Rafael Marchante)

41. In July, powerful forest fires raged in southern France near the famous resort town of Saint-Tropez, due to which authorities evacuated local residents and tourists to temporary shelters. However, some people liked to watch more. (Photo by Valery Hache):

42. An injured cat in the fires in Manila, 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 were killed by floods and landslides in Sierra Leone, 17 August 2017. (Photo by Seyllou):

46. On 19 August, 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 large-scale floods caused by monsoons in South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, from July to September 2017. India is most affected - more than a thousand deaths. This is a snapshot from Bangladesh. (Photo by Mohammed Ponir Hussain):

48. is a tropical cyclone that caused catastrophic floods in southeastern Texas in August 2017 as a result of heavy rains. This is the first major hurricane to hit a landfall in the United States. It is also the largest hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. (Photo by Adrees Latif):

49. Harvey is the eighth named storm, the third hurricane, and the first major hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. And on your Twitter, he noted that scientists agree that 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 at the end of August and caused catastrophic flooding. One of the hardest hit islands is Saint Martin, which is located in the northern part of the Windward Islands. (Photo by Lionel Chamoiseau):

52. The strongest impact in the last hundred years and more than fifty aftershocks is an earthquake of magnitude 8.4 in Mexico. Photo taken on September 8, 2017. (Photo by Victoria Razo):

53. On September 19 in Mexico at 18:14 local time (21.14 Moscow time), another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 was recorded. To find survivors under the rubble of buildings, they worked hard 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 in just 30 hours turned into a hurricane of the highest - fifth - category. The wind speed reached 257 km per hour with gusts up to 300 km per hour. (Photo by Ricardo Arduengo):

55. And in California the wildfires continued ... October, 2017. (Photo by Josh Edelson):

56. Save the pig! October floods 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. The fires in California have destroyed about 1,500 houses, about 2,000 km² of land turned into a charred desert, 14 people were killed and more than 70 were injured. About 10,700 firefighters participated in the firefighting, using special helicopters specially designed to extinguish the fire from the air. (Photo by Mike Blake):

61. This will be the last disaster of this review. On December 18, in Washington state, on a railroad overpass at 7.40 local time on Monday near the town of Dupont, 80 kilometers south of Seattle, a derailed carriage crashed right onto the highway. It is reported that at least six people have died and another 77 have been hospitalized. (Photo by Steve Dipaola):

These are the cataclysms and catastrophes that happened in 2017.

Every day in the world, someone asks the question - what are the statistics of plane crashes? After all, any air transport is exposed to the same risk of crash every minute:

passenger;
cargo;
military.

The statistics of plane crashes in the world indicate 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 traffic. The Russian government pays more attention to military aircraft.

Under the Soviet Union, the statistics of plane crashes were difficult to determine with precision, since this was almost always silent. Today, this is almost impossible to do.

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 the planes are marked as the safest transport of movement in the world, the future passenger does not even think that on land he is accompanied by danger much more often than in the air.

In the United States, looking over the years since 1945, there have been more than 630 disasters, the victims of which were 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, there were 173 accidents during this period, where approximately 1,755 deaths were counted.

Ecuador ranks last in terms of countries. The planes of this country suffered the least crashes.

Aircraft crash statistics by aircraft

Airplane crash statistics worldwide mark the Boeing brand. These aircraft are considered the most dangerous and most of all located in the zone. The Boeings 747 and 737 are highlighted in particular. These are the most frequently wrecked.

The statistics of fatalities in plane crashes in Russia and in other countries on Boeing planes is striking. In order to avoid troubles, the special service for assessing accidents strongly recommends correcting certain errors so that this does not happen again in the future.

Many airlines have already refused to carry people on the Boeing 737, but some countries still operate this brand of aircraft. Despite its poor performance, the Boeing 737 is considered the safest passenger transport.

In terms of the number of aircraft crashes in the world, Tu 154 is also noted. During the period of its use, starting in 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, due to the complexity of the structure, this technique requires appropriate professionalism and attention.

The statistics of air crashes in the world over the years makes it possible to assess the actions of specialists who are trying to correct all the shortcomings and make sure that the planes are exposed to the minimum risk of a crash. This can be seen on Wikipedia, where a table is provided, both with exact numbers and in percentages, showing accidents and the number of deaths in each of them. Top 5 worst crashes in the past two years:

Year	Country	Airline	Liner brand	Flight course	The 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 - Saint 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 craftsmen, the statistics of plane crashes in the United States and Russia have not changed much. They still rank first. Considering separately the accidents in cargo transportation, we can confidently say that they occur due to improper maintenance and violations of safety rules. Basically, they operate old cars, the repair of which is not monitored by anyone. And the statistics of plane crashes due to dangerous only confirms this.

Frequently cargo planes are loaded with much more weight than necessary. Considering the still old structure, this is the main reason for the collapse of such a transport. Airline crash statistics are difficult to determine. No one can say with certainty which one is better or worse. It all depends on the transport and how its working condition is monitored. Top 20 safest airlines today:

A place	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	Jetblue airways
12	Germany	Lufthansa
13	Australia	Qantas
14	United Kingdom	Virgin atlantic airways
15	Japan	All Nippon Airways
16	Canada	Air Canada
17	USA	Delta air lines
18	United Kingdom	British airways
19	China	Sichuan Airlines

Germany

Air Berlin

As for Russia, it ranks 35th.

Plane crashes in Russia

The statistics of plane crashes in Russia and the United States are leading both by airlines and by planes for one reason. These two countries are most involved in air travel. Considering that there is one crash per million sorties, it is difficult to avoid such tragedies with such a tight schedule.

The statistics of plane crashes in the USSR show that at that time air accidents were rare - one for a couple of years. The frequency of crashes began after long-term use of equipment, when the repair work of the transport was ignored.

The considered statistics of air crashes in Russia by airlines is 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 dropped dramatically over the past 20 years.

Despite the fact that Aeroflot's plane crashes are going through the roof according to statistics, the company is doing its best to rectify the situation and reduce the number of accidents to a minimum. To do this, it is modernizing its aircraft fleet and certifying its pilots for professionalism. Such tests help determine how an employee is able to adequately assess critical situations.

Judging by the Russian airlines and those killed in plane crashes, the statistics of victims at Aeroflot are scary. Over the entire history of its existence, there have been approximately 130 wrecks.

However, over the past 10 years, airlines have proven that flight safety is much higher than that of terrestrial travel. At the same time, over the past 5 years, the number of accidents in Russia has decreased significantly. This proves that the country is concerned not only for income, but also for safety. Specialists try to reduce flow disruption to a minimum.

Looking at 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 fatal accidents as in several years.

But, regardless of the statistics of aircraft accidents in Russia for 2016, the popularity of air travel has not diminished. Every day there are more and more people who want to fly.

Near Bishkek, performing a Hong Kong-Bishkek flight. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan, the plane crashed in the area of the dacha village in the vicinity of the airport. According to preliminary data, about 15 residential buildings of the village were destroyed, 20 people died in them.

2016

On December 25, the Tu-154 plane of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which was heading for Syria, a few minutes after departure from Sochi airport. Onboard there were 92 people - eight crew members and 84 passengers, including eight military men, 64 artists of the Alexandrov ensemble, nine representatives of Russian TV channels, the head of the Fair Help charity Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Liza, and two federal civil servants. About finding 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 signal shortly before the airliner disappeared from the radar of air traffic controllers. Everyone died in the crash. The planes revealed in the media include 31 men, nine women and two children.

On August 16, in the Indonesian province of Papua, an Indonesian passenger plane ATR of Trigana Air Service, flying from the provincial capital of Jayapura to Oksibil airport, collided with a mountain. There were 49 passengers and five crew members on board, all of whom were killed.

On June 30, the four-engine Hercules C-130B military transport aircraft, produced 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 Soewondo Air Force Base Medan, having flown only about five kilometers. Just before the crash, the pilot reported a problem with the engine, the C-130 crashed as it turned 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 Alps of Haute Provence, in the south of France, an Airbus A320 aircraft, owned by Germanwings and en route from Barcelona (Spain) to Dusseldorf (Germany). There were 142 passengers and eight crew members on board. They all died. Records from the discovered "black boxes" indicate that the crash was the result of the co-pilot - German citizen Andreas Lubitz.

March 10 at the village of Villa Castelli in Argentina at an altitude of about 100 meters, on board which were participants in the filming of the reality show about survival in difficult conditions "Dropped". The plane crash killed all ten people (eight French and two Argentine pilots), among whom were 2012 Olympic swimming champion Camille Muffat, 2008 Games bronze medalist boxer Alexis Vasten, and famous yachtswoman Florence Artaud.

On February 4, in Taiwan, an ATR 72 plane, which took off from Taipei Songshan Airport in the direction of the Jinmen Archipelago, touched the bridge and. Onboard there were 53 passengers, including 31 tourists from the PRC and five crew members. The accident killed 43 people.

On January 26, in Spain, a Greek Air Force plane participating in the NATO Tactical Leadership Program failed to gain altitude at the time of takeoff and fell to the ground in the area where other aircraft were located. He rammed several of them. As a result, 11 people were killed, another 20 were injured.

On January 18, in Syria, an army cargo plane near the Abu al-Zuhur airport in Idlib province due to bad weather. At least 35 soldiers were killed.

Image copyright EPA Image caption Airliner of MyCargo Airlines fell on a summer cottage village near Manas airport in Kyrgyzstan

The crash of the Boeing 747 cargo airliner in Kyrgyzstan was the 61st serious accident involving an aircraft of this type in almost half a century of history.

At the moment, it is known about 37 people killed as a result of the crash of the Boeing during an unsuccessful attempt to land at Manas airport.

The reasons for the crash of the liner are still unknown. Kyrgyz officials said the pilot was unable to land on the first attempt, and the plane may have hit the airport fence with its fuselage before it could gain altitude again. During the landing approach in the area of the Manas airport, there was poor visibility due to fog.

The crash of Boeing 747 in Kyrgyzstan was the 29th incident with aircraft of this type, resulting in the death of people.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Boeing 747 is used as the number one plane for the transportation of the President of the United States

Nevertheless, the 747 is considered one of the most reliable aircraft, which is confirmed by statistics. Since the start of operation of these machines in 1969, less than 4% of the manufactured liners have been lost due to crashes, accidents and other incidents.

The Boeing 747, also known informally as the Jumbo Jet, was developed in the late 1960s and was the heaviest and most spacious aircraft in the world for several decades - until the Airbus A380 was introduced in 2005.

The first Boeing crash happened in 1974 - due to a pilot error, the plane fell during takeoff from Nairobi airport, killing 59 people, 98 survived.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Jumbo Jet was designed primarily as a cargo plane, as in the 1960s the airline industry expected passengers to be carried primarily by supersonic aircraft. However, these predictions did not come true, and the 747 began to be produced in various modifications - from liners for many hundreds of passengers to specialized NASA aircraft for transporting space shuttles.

Two years later, a cargo Boeing 747 of the Iranian Royal Airlines crashed due to a lightning strike in the left wing, killing all 17 people on board.

On January 1, 1978, an Indian Airlines plane crashed into the sea near Bombay due to a pilot error - all 213 passengers and crew members were killed.

One of the worst disasters since the 747 occurred on August 12, 1985 - it still remains in aviation history as the one that caused the largest number of casualties due to the fall of one plane. A Japanese Airlines liner flying between Tokyo and Osaka collapsed due to a malfunction in the tail section of the fuselage, caused, in turn, by an error during repairs seven years earlier. 520 people died.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption On March 27, 1977, two 747s collided at the Tenerife airport due to dense fog: 583 people died

In terms of the number of victims, the disaster in Japan is only ahead of the tragedy at the Tenerife airport, on the runway of which two Boeing 747 planes of KLM and Pan American World Airways collided. 583 people died, 61 managed to escape.

An error in repairing the aircraft led to the crash of a Chinese Boeing with 225 people on board, which crashed in the Taiwan Strait in 2002.

Other well-known Boeing 747 crashes are not related to technical problems or crew errors, but to external influences.

In 1983, Soviet fighters shot down a Korean Airlines liner off Sakhalin, killing 269 people; In 1985, a bomb exploding on board an Air India plane killed 329 people in the skies over Ireland; Finally, in 1988, a bomb planted by Libyan terrorists exploded over the Scotland town of Lockerbie on a Pan Am liner, killing 259 people on board and 11 Lockerbie residents.