Commercial airliners crashes in 2014 in Focus:
Year 2014 brought worst air crashes of commercial airliners and Malaysian Airline Flight MH370 has yet to be found along with 239 people on-board. While Air Asia flight QZ8501 is “presumed” crashed and lost in the bottom of the sea.
MH370, MH17 and AH5017 were exceptional air crashes and QZ8501 made the list bigger by the end of the year 2014.
July 2014 was the wort month regarding air crashes and 468 people died in commercial accidents only in the month of July.
Read a detail report about air accidents that took place in July 2014 to click this link.
The bad year for commercial airlines started when Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crashed or found missing over southern Indian Ocean. Here are basic information and direct links to news of three biggest crashes of this year.
March 24, 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crashed in southern Indian Ocean
KAULA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on Monday that according to a new analysis of satellite data, the missing Malaysia Airlines plane crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean, killing all people on board.
On March 8, a Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew vanished from radars while it was on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Click here to read more details about this horrible incident and accident.
July 17, 2014
Malaysian Airlines MH17 crashed over Eastern Ukraine carrying 285 passengers and 15 crew members onboard
Kiev: Malaysian Airlines MH17 crashed over Eastern Ukraine in Donetsk region in Torez city. Malaysian Airlines MH17 crashed over Eastern Ukraine carrying 285 passengers and 15 crew members onboard.
MH17 crashed in Torez city of Donetsk region. MH17 is downed by Donetsk People’s Republic terrorists claims Ukraine media. Boeing 777-200 registration# 9M-MRD reportedly shot down by a surface-to-air missile over eastern Ukraine by Eastern Ukrainian separates who got such missile allegedly from Russia. Malaysian Flight 17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Click here to read investigations and other details about MH17 crash or shot downing.
July 24, 2014
AH5017 –a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 passenger plane crashed 80 km northwest of Gossi, Mali. All 116 occupants sustained fatal injuries. all 116 people on-board died in this accident. The airplane was operated by Spanish airline Swiftair on behalf of Air Algérie as flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to Algiers. The reason for crash was bad weather.
click here to read detail report about AH5017 accident.
December 28, 2014
AirAsia flight QZ8501 lost contact with tower: Presumred as crashed. Search operation in sea near Belitung island started
Jakarta, Indonesia: Search operation has been started in sea because it is confirmed that #QZ8501 is down in the sea near Belitung island. Moreover Indonesian authorities confirmed that there is no possibility for missing flight #QZ8501 to continue flying because it had fuel for only 4.5hrs flight time.
It may be mentioned that AirAsia flight number QZ8501 with 162 people including 155 passengers onboard lost its control with Air tower after taking “unusual route.” Indonesian transport officials confirmed that Airbus A320-200 left Indonesian city of Surabaya for Singapore and lost contact with air traffic control at 6:17 a.m. local time (23:17 GMT on Saturday). “Flight lost contact with Jakarta air traffic control, confirmed Transport Ministry spokesman Hadi Mustofa who further mentioned that the contact was lost at after the crew asked for an “unusual route.” The flight was due to land in Singapore at 8:30 a.m. local time (00:30 GMT) and was listed as “delayed” but AirAsia confirmed the plane has gone missing in a statement when there was no contact from crew for next 3 hours.
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