Worst aviation accidents

The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when Jeju Air flight 7C2216 erupted in a fireball while landing at Muan International Airport
                                                 

Jeju Air flight 7C2216. Dec 29, 2024: Twin-engine Boeing 737-800 from Bangkok, with 175 passengers and six crew on board, skids down runway with no visible landing gear before crashing into navigation equipment and wall in explosion of flames and debris. Two crew rescued
     
Japan Airlines Flight 123, JA8119 Aug 12, 1985: Deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history, Japan Air Lines Boeing 747SR experiences explosive decompression 12 minutes after taking off from Tokyo, Japan. 
Of 524 people onboard, four survive

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 
Mar 8, 2014: Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew vanishes en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China. Three pieces of debris from MH370 found in Indian Ocean

American Airlines Flight 587 
Nov 12, 2001: Airbus A300, carrying 251 passengers and nine crew members, crashes in a residential neighbourhood of New York after taking off from Kennedy Airport. Everyone onboard and five people on ground are killed

Alaska Airlines Flight 261
Jan 31, 2000: McDonnell-Douglas MD-80 en route to San Francisco from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, nosedives into Pacific Ocean north of Anacapa Island, California.
All 83 passengers and five crew members are killed
      

Sources: Associated Press, Reuters, USA Today 
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