Statistics is an impartial science. It does not belittle or embellish the details. She presents the picture as it is. The statistics of crashes in Russia is one big disappointment in domestic aviation. When you start looking at the causes of plane crashes, you often come across the phrase “pilot error” or “crew error”.
It's right. The human factor leads among the causes in Russia and the world. What are the biggest air crashes in Russia over the past 10 years? Unfortunately, there are many. And if in the United States the statistics of crashes is falling, then in Russia it is only growing. What are the main reasons for this?
So, leading by a clear margin - human factor. Insufficient and unqualified training of pilots in many ways lead to such sad results.
Airbus A330-300 of the Aeroflot company.
Many experts note that old Soviet models are still being used, which should have been written off long ago.
Another reason is the greed of airlines, saving on the quality of aircraft maintenance and the purchase of new parts and equipment.
As a result, equipment wears out, parts are not replaced, and the aircraft becomes unusable. But it is not removed from service. There are cases when the plane flew to the point of complete wear and tear, up to the catastrophe!
List of largest air crashes in Russia
Over the past few years, Russia has had quite a few very sad disasters. One of the most recent is the crash of a Tupolev Tu-154 en route to Syria, December 25, 2016. This is the biggest accident in 2016.
TU-154 from Utair.
The causes of the crash have not yet been clarified, due to the difficulty in deciphering the black boxes. It is only known that the plane crashed into the Black Sea, taking with it the lives of all passengers and crew.
March 19 of the same year a FlyDubai plane crashed on its way to Rostov-on-Don from the UAE. All people died. The causes of the disaster are still being investigated, but so far only intermediate results have been announced.
That night were difficult weather, which caused the plane to land twice. After the second time, it began to decline sharply and simply collapsed on GDP.
Biggest disaster in 2013 the fall of the Boeing 737, near Kazan. All passengers and crew were killed. The accident also occurred during the landing approach.
The reason is negligence and failure by the crew to fulfill their duties, as well as their insufficient readiness for flights.
Aircraft TU-134.
Another terrible catastrophe that occurred on the territory of Karelia, death of TU-134 when landing. The plane hit trees and crashed. One of the reasons is poor visibility in foggy conditions. 47 people died, but 5 managed to survive.
Plane crash near Yaroslavl Yak-42 led to the death of the entire Lokomotiv hockey team. In this disaster only 1 person survived. On takeoff, the plane crashed into a radio beacon and crashed on the river bank. The reason was also the unpreparedness of the crew.
Monday - April 2, 2012 turned out to be the last day for most of the passengers and crew of Utair Flight 120. Only 10 managed to survive this disaster. The accident occurred after takeoff itself, after 42 seconds.
The reason was the failure of the PIC from anti-icing treatment, which led to a deterioration in the aerodynamic capabilities of the aircraft. Plus, the crew could not notice the stalling of the aircraft in time.
Which Russian planes crash more often?
In the article on our website, you can see that the second place in the ranking of the most dangerous aircraft in the world is occupied by the IL-76, and the third - notorious - TU-154. TU-134 takes the sixth place.
Three models of Russian manufacturers were included in this list. It says something. However, for example, the same TU-154 was never decommissioned, as a result of which disasters continue to occur.
Today, on January 16, at 7.31 am in the Chui region, near the village of Zhany-Zher, where summer cottages are located, a cargo plane crashed. Boeing-747-400F flying Hong Kong - Bishkek - Istanbul. The plane crashed into residential buildings. So far, more than 30 dead are being spoken of - almost all of them are residents of summer cottages on which the plane crashed. Of the four crew members, one survived but later died in hospital.
Information about the plane crash was reported by an eyewitness who called the "112" service of the Crisis Management Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic at 7.29. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic notified all emergency services. According to preliminary data, the aircraft belonged to MyCargo Airlines, the operator was Turkish Airlines.
She has already published a selection of major air incidents in Kyrgyzstan in recent years. The Russian agency RIA Novosti has prepared a compilation of major air crashes in the world in 2015-2017.
2017
January 16, 2017 A Turkish Airlines cargo Boeing 747 crashed near Bishkek while on a 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, more than 20 people died in them.
2016
December 25, 2016 A Tu-154 aircraft of the Russian Defense Ministry, which was heading to Syria, crashed 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 Fair Help charity foundation Elizaveta Glinka, known as Doctor Lisa, and two federal civil servants. Channel One, NTV and Zvezda reported on the presence of their employees on board.
December 7, 2016 a plane carrying 47 people (42 passengers and five crew members) crashed 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 list of passengers on the plane published in the media includes 31 men, nine women and two children.
November 29, 2016 A plane crashed in Colombia 50 kilometers from Medellin. On board the aircraft were 77 people - nine crew members and 68 passengers, including players and staff of the Brazilian football club Chapecoense, flying to the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final. The cause of the crash was an insufficient supply of fuel from the liner. As a result of the accident, six people survived, of which three are Chapecoense players, and 71 people died.
December 3, 2016 In Indonesia, in the area of the Linga archipelago, located near the southern exit of the Strait of Malacca, a police plane crashed, taking off from the city of Pankalpinang on the island of Banka. There were 13 people on board, all of them died. According to the head of the Tanjungpinang naval base, an explosion was heard before the plane crashed.
July 1, 2016 in the Irkutsk region, the Il-76 aircraft, which was engaged in extinguishing large-scale natural fires, did not get in touch. A ground rescue team found a crashed IL-76 south of the village of Rybny Uyan on the slope of one of the hills. All ten crew members were killed.
May 19, 2016 An Egyptair Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo on flight MS804 has disappeared from radar. The plane disappeared 20 minutes after entering Greece. There were 66 passengers and crew members on board.
March 19, 2016 passenger Boeing 737-800, flying from Dubai, crashed in Rostov-on-Don. The aircraft crashed to the left of the runway while landing in poor visibility. There were 55 passengers and seven crew members on board, all of whom died.
February 24, 2016 A Tara Airlines plane has gone off the radar in the mountains of Nepal. The plane took off from the city of Pokhara and was heading to the city of Jomsom. There were 23 people on board the plane: 20 passengers, including two children, and three crew members. There are no survivors.
2015
October 31, 2015 Airbus-321 airliner "Kogalymavia", which operated flight 9268 Sharm el-Sheikh - St. Petersburg, took off from Egypt at 6.21 (Moscow time) and disappeared from the radar screens after 23 minutes. There were 217 passengers and seven crew members on board. The wreckage of a Russian civilian aircraft was found in the center of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. No one survived the crash.
August 16, 2015 In the Indonesian province of Papua, an Indonesian passenger aircraft ATR of Trigana Air Service crashed in a collision with a mountain while flying from the provincial capital, Jayapura, to Oksibil Airport. There were 49 passengers and five crew members on board, all of whom died.
June 30, 2015 A four-engine Hercules C-130B military transport aircraft, manufactured more than half a century ago by the American airline Lockheed, fell on a residential area in the southwestern part of the capital of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra about two minutes after taking off from the Medan air force base "Suwondo" (Soewondo), flying only 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.
March 24, 2015 In the south of France in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, an Airbus A320 aircraft owned by Germanwings and en route from Barcelona (Spain) to Düsseldorf (Germany) crashed. 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 deliberate actions of the co-pilot, German citizen Andreas Lubitz.
March 10, 2015 Near the village of Villa Castella in Argentina, at an altitude of about 100 meters, two helicopters collided, on board of which there 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.
February 4, 2015 In Taiwan, an ATR 72 aircraft taking off from Taipei Songshan Airport towards the Kinmen Archipelago hit a bridge and fell into the Jilong River. There were 53 passengers on board, including 31 Chinese tourists and five crew members. As a result of the incident, 43 people died.
January 26, 2015 In Spain, a Greek Air Force aircraft participating in the NATO Tactical Leadership Program failed to gain altitude at the time of takeoff and crashed to the ground in an area where other aircraft were located. He rammed several of them. As a result of the disaster, 11 people died and 20 were injured.
January 18, 2015 in Syria, an army cargo plane crashed near the Abu az-Zuhur airport in the province of Idlib due to bad weather. At least 35 military personnel were killed.
Floods, fires, earthquakes, devastation... Recall 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. An accident occurred in the US state of Washington railway during which 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 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):
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 6.7 magnitude earthquake was 10.3 kilometers from resort town Bodrum is 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, due to 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. December 18 in the state of Washington on a railway overpass at 7.40 local time on Monday near the city of Dupont, 80 kilometers south of Seattle, a derailed car collapsed right on 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.
The mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on March 8, 2014 is far from the only air tragedy that raises more questions than it answers. The history of aviation knows cases when the planes also did not give a distress signal, and after the disappearance they did not leave any traces and debris. Here are just some of the most high-profile and mysterious plane crashes, which also could not do without mysticism ...
Amelia Earhart (1937)
The mystery of the last flight of Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot, is still unsolved. In 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan went missing in the central Pacific while attempting to fly around the world in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra twin-engine aircraft.
According to one version, the plane simply ran out of fuel, according to another, Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan were captured by the Japanese, who were building their military bases on the islands located in this part of the Pacific Ocean.
Aircraft "Cessna" (1972)
On October 16, 1972, Democratic Congressman Thomas Hale Boggs and politician Nick Begich boarded a twin-engine Cessna bound for Alaska's capital, Juneau.
However, the plane was never destined to deliver passengers to their destination - it disappeared without a trace. Even the 39-day search, which was called "the largest in the history of Alaska", because. 70 aircraft were involved in them, they did not give any results.
Various theories have been put forward as to the cause of the plane crash. It was rumored that the plane was shot down by the Serbs because of Begich's Croatian roots. Another version pointed to the political background of Boggs, who was a member of the Warren Commission.
TWA Flight 800 (1996)
A Boeing 747 flying from New York to Rome exploded mid-air and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. All 230 passengers on board died. Experts from the National Transportation Safety Board found that probable cause The plane crash was a fuel tank explosion due to faulty electrical wiring.
However, conspiracy theorists believe that the cause of the explosion was a bomb planted on board the aircraft or a collision with a US Navy missile.
In a briefing last summer, the National Safety Board confirmed that neither witness testimony, nor debris found, nor flight recorder footage support the suggestion of an aircraft colliding with a missile.
EgyptAir Flight 990 (1999)
A Boeing 767 flying between Los Angeles and Cairo crashed and fell into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff. The disaster claimed the lives of 200 people. After a 2-year investigation, it was found that the plane crash was caused by the wrong actions of the crew commander.
All the evidence collected by the National Council, including the flight path of the aircraft and data from the flight recorders, indicated that the commander and chief officer in the last minutes of their lives tried to take control of the aircraft into their own hands. The senior officer repeatedly repeated: "I rely on God." This version did not suit the Egyptian side, and she put forward her own - the cause of the disaster was a malfunction of the aircraft control system.
Air France flight 447 (2009)
This fatal aerial incident occurred in 2009 involving an Airbus A 330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The plane with 228 passengers on board crashed into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
As in the case of the missing Malaysian aircraft, the Air France pilots did not issue a distress signal. A full-scale search and rescue operation for five days did not produce any results. Then some fragments of the tail section of the aircraft were found.
The search for the plane that crashed to the bottom of the ocean dragged on for two years. And a year later, as a result of the investigation, it was found that ice crystals blocked the aircraft's airspeed sensors - this is what led to the tragedy.
Missing Malaysian Boeing (2014)
The version of a terrorist attack still remains possible in the story of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. According to one hypothesis, passengers aboard the ill-fated Boeing could be seriously injured or killed due to large overloads, however, those who were in the cockpit could survive and land the airliner, in order, perhaps, to lift it into the air for some reason. goals… Sergey MELNICHENKO, a member of the World Aviation Safety Foundation, spoke about how this version is being built.
- The plane took off... Literally after 40 minutes, ACARS stopped working, the crew said goodbye to the dispatcher and did not get in touch again, recalls Sergey Melnichenko. - Three minutes after the last communication on the radio, the transponder was turned off. After that, the plane turned to the left and proceeded in fact in the opposite direction, crossed Malaysia, entered the Strait of Malacca. Further, the military reported that the plane began to climb flight level 450 - this is an altitude of 15 km.
And I thought at the very beginning: if the investigators received information that someone was trying to make the plane invisible to radars and controllers, then probably they should have asked all radiotelephone communication providers, because the China region of Malaysia is known for having people there , probably only sleep without smartphones, phones, iPads, etc. This information was not available for eight days. On March 18, such information appeared. Indeed, all providers were requested and the result is this: the passengers did not even try to turn on the phone. Not to mention the transmission of SMS or attempts to call.
To be clear, the Boeing 777 is approved to fly at a maximum altitude of 43,100 feet (13.1 km). He scored 13.7 thousand km. The Americans a few days ago simulated flying a Boeing 777 at 45,000 feet and concluded that flying on autopilot was impossible. The autopilot immediately returns the plane to safe altitudes, so piloting at 45 thousand feet was carried out by a person. An American pilot who worked on the simulator said the plane became completely unstable at that altitude. The air is thin and the plane is close to stalling.
The question arises: why was this done? I'm afraid to assume ... I really don't like to speculate when a possible action or inaction is related to the life and health of people, but here one involuntarily has to assume that, as a result of malicious intent, someone raised the plane to a height that is outside the operational parameters, with the aim of depressurize the passenger compartment.
At an altitude of 15 km, 15,000 meters, or about 45,000 feet, in the event of a depressurization, a person without oxygen and without an emergency descent, which, according to all the rules, the crew must undertake, can live from 9 to 15 seconds: the blood, as they say figuratively, boils. That is, during the time when the aircraft was flying at such an extremely high flight level, the health of passengers could be either too serious, or irreparably damaged. After that, the plane descended very sharply with a high vertical speed to flight level 230 (that's 23,000 feet).
The speed at which this plane was descending suggests that the pressure on people was very serious. If someone was alive, then it could just be a load that the person could not stand. Further, the Malay military say that the plane scored flight level 295 and disappeared somewhere from the field of view of military locators. The situation is very serious. This speaks of the criminal intentions of the person or people who performed it.
This may indicate that one person was hardly behind the thought of such a blasphemous plan. And it is unlikely that one person could spontaneously perform such actions. A lot of preparation was required. It was necessary to determine at what point to turn off everything, it was necessary to determine the procedure for climbing to an exceptionally high level and with a sharp descent.
If the ship was hijacked, then it was hijacked for some subsequent purpose. The fact that today already 26 states are participating in the search indicates concern about the fate of the aircraft. If an airliner has managed to land somewhere already with inanimate people, then there is a danger that it will someday take off somewhere, and none of us knows what it will have on board. The fact that all terrorist organizations are silent also makes one wonder. Maybe their plan hasn't been completed yet? I have such a concern.
- When the altitude drops began, the pilots themselves could survive and fly the plane, right?
- Pilots or the pilot or the person who was in the cockpit. This person could put on an oxygen mask and could, if he knows how to turn off all those systems that we talked about, make sure that oxygen masks do not fall out in emergency mode. And he himself could perform his functions.
Many people prefer to get to a particular region with the help of an airliner, because it is much more convenient and faster to travel by air than by train. According to statistics every 2-3 seconds a plane lands and takes off in the world. Is it worth it to give in to fear when you go on board an airplane? How often do planes crash? Such questions always torment passengers, especially those who rarely fly an aircraft.
Everyone fears for their lives, so it is not surprising why such questions arise. If you look at the news, which constantly talk about some kind of disaster, and often associated with air travel, then immediately there is no desire to go somewhere. Of course, there is always danger. Even while staying at home, there is a risk of death, for example, from a gas leak. Thus, to fly or not to fly on aircraft is a very controversial issue, and here everyone decides for himself what is best for him to do. In order to understand how many airliners get into a disaster, consider the statistics.
How many planes crash a year is a question that interests many people, even those who are not going on a flight. You can provide the following data:
- According to statistics, about 10,000 airliners take off into the sky every day.
- Approximately 4.5 billion people fly in aircraft, which is more than half of the world's population.
- Of these, about 1,000 people die in air crashes.
- In 100 years of passenger aviation, 150,000 people have died.
This figure is several times less than the number of victims in traffic accidents per month. So which one is safer to ride? The answer is obvious. In road accidents, people die much more often, so driving in cars is much more life-threatening than flying in airplanes.
According to statistics, since 2009 there have been 107 air crashes, with 3,245 passengers killed.
How often do planes crash in Russia?
Unfortunately, our country occupies a leading position in the ranking of countries that have experienced the largest number of air accidents. This is due to the fact that Russia is the largest power in the world. If we take the statistics from 2009, then in the Russian Federation there was the largest number of accidents related to airliners - 38 pieces. They killed 378 people. This is followed by America, where 11 accidents have occurred in the last 6 years. If we take into account the data for the entire existence civil aviation, then the first place is occupied by the United States of America.
- Russia (38 accidents);
- USA (11 for the period);
- Ukraine (7 in 6 years);
- Congo (6 over the same period);
- Germany (4 disasters in 2010).
What planes crash the most?
If we talk about which planes crash most often, here you need to give a rating of the most dangerous airliners. So the list is:
- Boeing 737. This passenger aircraft was recognized as the most dangerous, as several plane crashes occurred on it.
- IL-76. A terrible accident happened on this aircraft 13 years ago and claimed a lot of human lives.
- Tu-154. It also had a lot of accidents.
- Airbus A310. The last disaster was this year, which claimed more than 150 lives and only one girl managed to survive.
- McDonnell-Douglas DC-9. It has been out of production for many years, but ready-made aircraft fly quite often. For all the time of its existence on board this aircraft, only 44 people died.
Compared to the years of the last XX century, the number of air crashes, alas, has increased. Planes crash for various reasons. This may be a malfunction of the airliner itself, weather conditions, or a human factor. It is difficult to say unequivocally whether planes often fall. Compared to an accident, it is much safer to travel on an aircraft. But in general, you should not be afraid of aircraft, because on the ground the risk of dying is much greater than in the air.