Airplanes are seen as one of the safest modes of travel in the world, however, there have been several deadly air crashes in the past
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Here is a list of such flight disasters in history where tragedy struck and many lives were lost
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The deadliest plane accident is the collision in 1977, between two Boeing 747s at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, in which 583 were killed
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In 1985, an Air India flight travelling from Canada to India via London, exploded off the Irish coast, killing all 329 people on board
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In 1985, a Japan Airlines flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka crashed, killing 520 out of the 524 onboard, after a faulty repair of the tail by Boeing technicians, as per BBC
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A Spanair MD-82 aircraft burst into flames while taking off from Madrid airport, killing 154 people, in 2008
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In 2009, an Air France Airbus A330 was lost over the Atlantic Ocean on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 people on board
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Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling over Ukraine in 2014 when it crashed after being hit by a Russian missile which took the life of 298 people on board, as per BBC
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A Yeti Airlines aircraft crashed in Nepal in 2023 killing 71 people was the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation