Deadliest Plane Crashes In Aviation History

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Nepal Plane, an ATR 72 crashed just before landing in the tourist city of Pokhara in 2023, killing 72 people onboard 

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17), a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was shot down in 2014 in Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers

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Air India Flight 182 that was flying from Canada to India via London detonated off the coast of Ireland in 1985, killing 329 persons 

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Air France Flight 447, carrying 228 people, crashed in 2009. The flight, from Brazil's Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean 

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On March 3, 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, crashed in France. 346 people were killed in the crash 

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On August 12, 1985, Japan Airlines flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka crashed, killing 520 out of the 524 onboard

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Saudia Flight 763 from Delhi to Dhahran and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collided mid-air over the city of Charkhi Dadri in 1996, killing 349 people

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On May 25, 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 crashed in Chicago. It remains the deadliest aviation disaster in US history, killing 273 persons 

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, dropped off the radar on March 8, 2014. 8 years later, it's still aviation's most agonizing mystery

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