Fatal accidents: List of deadly air crashes involving Airbus A320

Paris: The German airliner that crashed on Tuesday in the French Alps is an Airbus A320, a popular short-to-medium haul model that has been hit by 11 fatal accidents since coming into service in 1988. The launch of the single-aisle plane made by European aerospace giant Airbus was controversial as its computerised flight control system reduced the number of pilots required on board to two from three. [caption id=“attachment_2171395” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Destroyed pieces of the wrecked French Air Inter Airbus A320 are seen, on January 21, 1992. AFP[/caption] Airbus has won thousands of orders for the model, with nearly 6,200 aircraft from the A320 family currently in service worldwide. Here is a list of deadly crashes involving the A320: June 1988: Air France plane went down at the airport in eastern France’s Mulhouse-Habsheim, at an air show. Three killed. February 1990: Indian Airlines plane crashed on landing in Bangalore. Ninety-two people killed. January 1992: French company Air Inter’s airliner crashed in eastern France not far from the city of Strasbourg. Eighty-seven dead, nine survived. September 1993: German carrier Lufthansa’s plane caught fire on landing near Warsaw. Two dead and 54 injured. August 2000: Gulf Air plane crashed into the sea off Bahrain. 143 people dead. May 2006: Armavia plane crashed into the Black Sea. 113 people dead. July 2007: Tam Airlines of Brazil careered off the runway upon landing at the Sao Paulo airport, then slammed into a warehouse. 199 people dead. November 2008: Air New Zealand plane plunged into the sea off France’s Mediterranean coast during a test flight. Seven dead. July 2010: Pakistan’s Airblue airliner crashed in the hills close to Islamabad due to poor visibility. 152 dead. December 2014: An AirAsia plane crashed into the Java Sea. 162 dead. March 2015: Germanwings plane crashed into the southern French Alps. All 150 people on board feared dead. AFP