Photos: A look at recent aviation accidents across the world
It’s been five days since the Malaysia Airlines aircraft has gone missing. While rescue operations are on, the suspense as to what went wrong with the jet is only getting worse. Here’s a look at aviation accidents across the world.
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Rescue officials stand near an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 plane after it crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport in California on 6 July, 2013. Two people were killed and 130 were hospitalised after the plane crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco. The Boeing 777, which had flown from Seoul, South Korea, was carrying 307 people. Reuters
A policeman walks past the wreckage of a jet at Yogyakarta airport on 7 March, 2007. Four charred bodies were removed from the Garuda jet that crashed and burst into flames on landing at Indonesia's Yogyakarta airport on Wednesday, a Reuters witness had said. The plane had 140 people on board. Reuters
A Embraer 190 aircraft is seen after an emergency landing at Simon Bolivar airport in Santa Marta, about 1286 Km (800 miles) north of Bogota on July 17, 2007. The flight originating in Cali, slid when landing on the wet runway, local media had said. Reuters
The charred remains of a China Airlines plane lies on the tarmac on Japan's southern island of Okinawa on 20 August, 2007. A plane belonging to Taiwan's China Airlines Ltd. caught fire soon after landing on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, but officials said all 165 people on board had escaped safely. Reuters
Two planes from the Zelazny aerobatics team crash at the Radom Air Show at an airport in Radom, about 100 km (62 miles) from Warsaw, 1 September, 2007. Two pilots were killed performing aerial acrobatics at the air show in Poland on Saturday when their aircraft collided head-on in front of thousands of spectators. A Reuters photographer at the scene said the collision occurred after a three-plane formation fanned out and two of the aircraft slammed into each other as they attempted to re-converge. Reuters
Rescue workers survey the site of a plane crash at Phuket's airport on 17 September, 2007. A budget airliner filled with foreign tourists crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Sunday, killing 88 people as it broke up and burst into flames while trying to land in heavy rain, officials had said. Reuters
A Russian serviceman stands guard near part of the wreckage of a Polish government Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft that crashed near Smolensk airport on 11 April, 2010. Polish President Lech Kaczynski's coffin returned home to a stunned nation on Sunday, a day after he and much of the country's political and military elite perished in a plane crash in Russia. Reuters
The wreckage of a crashed passenger plane is seen in Yichun, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on 25 August, 2010. The Henan Airlines ERJ-190 plane overshot a runway while landing at a new airport in northeast China. bursting into flames and killing 42 people of 96 on board, in the nation's worst air disaster since 2004. Reuters
Rescue divers work next to the wreckage of a plane that crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl on 8 September, 2011. A passenger plane carrying a Russian ice hockey team to a season-opening match crashed after takeoff from a provincial airport on Wednesday, killing 43 people and plunging the Russian and international sports world into grief. Reuters
Brazilian Navy sailors pick a piece of debris from Air France flight AF447 out of the Atlantic Ocean, some 745 miles (1,200 km) northeast of Recife, in this handout photo distributed by the Navy 8 June, 2009. Brazilian search crews retrieved more bodies and debris from a crashed Air France plane in the Atlantic and air investigators said faulty speed readings had been detected on the same type of jets. Reuters
An American Airlines Boeing 737 sits with cracks in its fuselage at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica, 23 December, 2009. The plane carrying 154 passengers and crew overshot the runway while landing, cracking its fuselage and halting just short of the Caribbean sea, authorities and eyewitnesses said. Reuters
A Nepalese police officer stands in front of the wreckage of a Dornier aircraft, owned by private firm Sita Air, at the crash site in Kathmandu. A small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from Kathmandu, killing 19 people, including seven British and five Chinese passengers, an airline official said. Reuters
An official stands beside the wreckage of a passenger airplane in Mashhad, 924 km (577 miles) east of Tehran on 24 July, 2009. Seventeen people were killed when the aircraft caught fire while landing at the airport of Mashhad in northeastern Iran on Friday, the state news agency IRNA had reported. Reuters
People gather near the engine of a plane, after it crashed into a neighbourhood in Ishaga district, on the outskirts of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on 3 June, 2012. There were no survivors among the 147 people on board a domestic passenger aircraft that crashed in the Nigerian city of Lagos on Sunday, an official of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), had told Reuters.
Flames come out of the Air France Concorde seconds before it crashed in Gonesse near Paris Roissy airport on 25 July, 2000. The crash killed at least 110 people. The photo was taken by a Hungarian plane spotter whilst on holiday travelling across Europe. Reuters
Policemen inspect the site of a plane crash near Kiev on 10 December, 2007. A small chartered plane flying from the Czech Republic to Kiev crashed near the Ukrainian capital killing all five people on board, Ukraine's emergency ministry said. Reuters
A crashed cargo plane lies on the tarmac at Narita international airport in Chiba, Japan on 23 March, 2009. Two crew members were confirmed dead after the plane crashed and burst into flames as it landed at Narita international airport, Japan's TV Asahi had reported. Reuters
A Lion Air plane is seen in the water after it missed the runway in Denpasar, Bali in this picture provided by the Indonesian police on 13 April, 2013. All 108 passengers and crew miraculously survived. Reuters