Worst plane crashes in history

Ten worst plane crashes in history - in photo gallery by TASS

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Tenerife airport disaster was a fatal runway collision between two Boeing 747s on March 27, 1977 at the airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife. The crash killed 583 people. It became the deadliest accident in aviation history

On August 12, 1985 a Boeing 747SR on rout from Tokyo to Osaka suffered mechanical failure 12 minutes into the flight and later crashed 100 kilometres from Tokyo. 15 crew members and 505 passengers on board died. Photo: Crash site of a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 in Komoro, Japan

Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision occurred on 12 November 1996 over the village of Charkhi Dadri, India. Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B en route from Delhi to Dhahran and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Chimkent to Delhi collided. 349 people on board of both planes were killed

On 3 March 1974 McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashed outside Paris, France, killing all 346 people on board. Photo: Firemen near the fuselage of the Turkish Airlines DC10 jumbo jet crashed into the Ermenonville forest, north of Paris, 1974

On August 19, 1980, a fire destroyed the L-1011-200 used for Saudia Flight 163 on the ground after the pilots made an emergency landing at Riyadh's International Airport. Delays in initiating the evacuation of the aircraft led to the deaths of all 287 passengers and 14 crew members

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed on 17 July 2014 after being shot down, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. Photo: Site of the crash of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, 60 km east of the Ukrainian Russian border

Iranian military aircraft Il-76 crashed on 19 February 2003, killing over 250 members of the elite Revolutionary Guard, and 18 crew, in the Sirch mountains, 32 kms from it's destination Kerman, Iran. Photo: Relatives near the coffins of victims of a plane crash at the funeral ceremony in Tehran

On May 25, 1979 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 crashed on take off in Chicago. 273 people were killed. Photo: Investigators viewing the wreckage of the American Airlines Flight 191 to Los Angeles, which crashed in Chicago

On November 12, 2001, the Airbus A300-600 flying the route from the New York City to Santo Domingo crashed shortly after takeoff. 265 people were killed. Photo: Fires burning in New York's Rockaway neighborhood, from the crash of American Airlines Flight 587

On 26 April 1994, the Airbus A300B4-622R was completing a routine flight from Taipei to Nagoya, when, just before landing at Nagoya Airport it crashed, killing 264 people

On March 24, 2015 an Airbus A320 en route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf crashed in mountainous terrain in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, southern France. According to Germanwings, Lufthansa's budget airline which operated the flight, 150 people were on board. Ten worst plane crashes in history - in photo gallery by TASS