{"id":170311,"date":"2024-12-30T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=170311"},"modified":"2024-12-30T20:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:00:27","slug":"these-were-biggest-aviation-accidents-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2024\/12\/these-were-biggest-aviation-accidents-in-2024.html","title":{"rendered":"These were biggest aviation accidents in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The year 2024 left a significant mark in the history of aviation due to several air accidents that unfortunately resulted in the loss of human lives. While the industry remains one of the safest in the world, each incident reminds us of the importance of safety standards and the constant need for improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These were some of the largest aviation accidents that occurred in 2024, ordered by number of fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOUTH KOREA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeju Air international flight 7C2216, originating from Bangkok, Thailand, and directed to Seoul, crashed on Dec. 29, killing all 175 passengers and four of the six crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRAZIL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voepass regional flight 2283, an ATR-72 turboprop originating from Cascavel and directed to Sao Paulo, crashed on Aug. 11 in the town of Vinhedo, killing all 62 people on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a separate accident, a small private plane, a twin-engine Piper PA-42-1000, carrying 10 people crashed into shops in the center of the tourist city of Gramado in southern Brazil on Dec. 22, killing everyone on board and injuring 17 people on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KAZAKHSTAN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azerbaijan Airlines international flight J2-8243, an Embraer E190 originating from Baku, Azerbaijan, and directed to Grozny, Russia, crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Dec. 25, killing 39 people. 29 people survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEPAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CRJ-200 aircraft, a small passenger plane belonging to Nepal’s Saurya Airlines, crashed and caught fire while taking off from Kathmandu to the Pokhara airport on July 24, killing 18 people on board and leaving one survivor, the captain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MALAWI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others, including former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, were killed on June 10 en route from Lilongwe to Mzuzu, when the military plane they were travelling in crashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THAILAND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domestic charter flight TFT209, a Cessna Caravan C208B registered to Thai Flying Service Co originating from Suvarnabhumi and directed to Trat, crashed 100 km southeast of Bangkok on Aug. 23, killing all 9 people onboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IRAN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and six other passengers and crew of a U.S.-made Bell 212 helicopter died in a crash on May 19 in mountainous terrain in the Varzeqan region, near the Azerbaijan border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CANADA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six people were killed after a Northwestern Air plane carrying global miner Rio Tinto’s workers crashed near Fort Smith in Canada’s remote Northwest Territories (NWT) on Jan. 23. Four passengers and two North Western Air Lease crew members died in the crash, while one passenger survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JAPAN<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Japan Airlines (JAL) plane collided with a smaller Coast Guard aircraft on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Jan. 2. All 379 people aboard the JAL plane, an Airbus A350-941 flight, escaped the burning airliner, while five of six crew on the smaller aircraft were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SINGAPORE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One passenger died of a suspected heart attack and 30 were injured after a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300ER plane from London to Singapore hit severe turbulence on May 21, flinging passengers and crew around the cabin and forcing the plane to land in Bangkok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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