The Deadliest Plane Crashes in the Past Five Years
2. ASIANA in 2011:
The South Korean Airline Asiana Boeing 747-400 is a cargo plane which was operating from Incheon airport, west of Seoul to Shanghai via Jeju Island on 28th July 2011.The cargo jet crashed soon after the crew member reported about the fire in the cargo and while attempting to divert the plane to Jeju island. Two pilots lost their lives in this disaster.
Almost after three months, their bodies were recovered from the sea floor located 104km west of Jeju Island. This cargo jet was shipping 58 tons of electronic and machine parts, including lithium batteries, paint and other chemicals that are considered as highly flammable. It was the worst accident for Asiana airlines since 1993 where one of its domestic passenger planes crashed into a hill in southwestern South Korea killing 68 people.
3. Airblue Airbus A321 crash in 2010:
Airblue Flight Airbus A321-231 crashed on 28th July 2010 near the Capital city of Pakistan. It was a scheduled domestic flight. This is considered one of the deadliest air accidents to ever have happened in Pakistan as it took away the lives of all the 146 passengers and the six crew members on board.
The flight crashed on its way from Karachi's Jinnah International Airport to Benazir Bhutto International Airport in the Margalla Hills located in the north of Islamabad.
Bad weather condition played a spoilsport in this tragic accident as the weather hampered the air traffic controllers to continuously lose contact with the crew members. Airblue which is based in Islamabad is the second largest airline in Pakistan and is operated within Pakistan as well as internationally to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and the United Kingdom.
