Recent aviation disasters in North America

The Delta Air Lines crash at Toronto’s Airport is the latest in a series of major accidents in North America in the past month that has spread anxiety among air travellers

Feb 17: Delta Air Lines plane overturns while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport amid strong winds (above). All 80 people on board 16-year-old CRJ900 aircraft made by Bombardier survive, but three suffer critical injuries

Feb 6: Regional plane flying from city of Unalakleet to Nome vanishes in remote Alaska. Wreckage of Bering Air single-engine turboprop Cessna Caravan is found next day on sea ice with bodies of pilot and nine passengers

Jan 31: Medical jet crashes into several buildings in Philadelphia soon after taking off, killing all six people on board and one person on ground. Learjet 55 was carrying one child patient and mother back to their home in Mexico

Jan 29: American Airlines plane approaching Washington DC’s Reagan National Airport and U.S. Army helicopter on training mission collide in mid-air and crash into Potomac River. All 64 on Bombardier CRJ700 and three on UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter killed

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Sources: Aviation Safety Network, AP, Reuters, BBC
Picture: Getty Images
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