What was the most recent airline crash?

On the evening of August 7, 2020, Air India Express Flight 1344 crashed with 190 people on board during a botched landing attempt at Kozhikode Calicut International Airport. Eighteen people were killed in the Air India crash and more than 150 others sustained injuries.

Is air travel safer than driving?

In conclusion, if you want to avoid the most risk when flying, fly commercial. It is statistically safer than driving. Unfortunately, despite your taste for risk, whether you use a motor vehicle or an aircraft, accidents will occur.

Where did the Ukrainian plane crash take place?

(DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) In this image taken from video, Thursday July 17, 2014, showing debris at the crash site after a passenger plane carrying 298 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over Ukraine, near the village of Hrabove, in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo / Channel 1)

Where did the Malaysian airliner crash?

(ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY/AFP/Getty Images) Luggage is seen on the site of the crash of the Malaysian airliner carrying 298 people from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, near the town of Shaktarsk, in rebel-held east Ukraine. (DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)

What happened in the Tupolev plane crash?

In the night from 1 July to 2 July a Russian charter jet had slammed into a Boeing cargo plane in midair, killing all 71 passengers and scattering flaming wreckage around the s (dpa) – Relatives of the plane crash victims visit the wreck of the crashed Tupolev near Ueberlingen, Germany, 4 July 2002.

What’s in the wreckage of flight MH17?

(AP Photo/Channel 1) This image taken from video, Thursday July 17, 2014, shows a suitcase found in the wreckage of Flight MH17. (AP Photo/Channel 1) In this image taken from video, Thursday July 17, 2014, showing part of the wreckage of a passenger plane carrying 298 people was shot down Thursday.