|
2000
|
| July
27 |
A
Twin Otter plane belonging to Nepalese airline RNAC crashes
in jungle to the southwest of Nepal, killing 25. |
| July
17 |
An
Indian Airlines Boeing 737 crashes near Patna airport in the
east of the country, with 57 dead. |
| June
22 |
A
Chinese-made Yun-7 plane crashes in a storm near the central
city of Wuhan, leaving 51 dead |
| Apr
19 |
An
Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 crashes while on a flight from
Manila to the
southern Philippines city of Davao, killing all 131 passengers
and crew on board. |
| Mar
30 |
All
40 soldiers and crew on board an An-26 plane die when their
craft comes down near a military airfield north of the Sri Lankan
capital, Colombo. |
|
1999
|
| Sept
5 |
All
15 people on board are killed when an Avro operated by NECON
Airlines on a domestic flight hits a telephone tower in thick
fog and crashes near the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. |
| Aug
22 |
A
China Airlines MD-11 on a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong overturns
and catches fire after landing at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport
in a storm. Three passengers are killed and 200 injured. |
| July
24 |
An
Air Fiji Bandeirante turboprop crashes into a mountain on a
flight from Suva to Nadi, killing all 15 passengers and two
crew members. |
| June
16 |
An
Airlink Bandeirante turboprop crashes on a flight from Nadzab
to Goroka in Papua New Guinea, killing all 15 passengers and
two crew members. |
| Feb
24 |
A
China Southwest Airlines Tupolev 154 explodes killing 64 people
on board near the town of Ruian on a flight from Chengdu to
the eastern city of Wenzhou. |
|
1998
|
| Dec
11 |
A
Thai Airways Airbus A310-200 carrying 146 passengers and crew
crashes and catches fire at Surat Thani airport in southern
Thailand. 101 people are killed. |
| Aug
24 |
A
Myanmar Airways Fokker F-27 crashes near Manibagi, Myanmar,
killing all 39 passengers and crew. |
| Aug
21 |
18
passengers and crew are killed when a Lumbini Airways plane
crashes in remote western Nepal. |
| July
30 |
Nine
people are killed when an Indian Airlines Dornier plane crashes
just after take-off from the southern city of Cochin. |
| May
27 |
28
people are killed when a Mongolian plane crashes on a domestic
flight in the north of the country. |
| Mar
19 |
An
Ariana Afghan airlines Boeing 727 on a flight from Sharjah via
Kandahar smashes into a mountain south of Kabul, killing at
least 45 people. |
| Mar
18 |
Formosa
Airlines SAAB 340 plunges into the sea off Taiwan, killing 13
people. |
| Feb
16 |
China
Airlines Airbus 300-600 ploughs into houses while trying to
land at Taipei airport, killing 196 passengers and crew and
six people on the ground in the country's worst plane crash. |
| Feb
2 |
104
people are killed as a Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 flies into a mountainside
en route from the Philippine capital Manila to the southern
city of Cagayan de Oro. |
| Jan
30 |
Myanmar
Airways Fokker F-27 slews off the runway at Thandwe in Arkan
state killing at least 16. |
|
1997
|
| Dec
19 |
A
SilkAir Boeing 737-300 jetliner mysteriously comes down in mid-flight
between Jakarta and Singapore, killing all 104 people on board.
|
| Sept
26 |
A
Garuda Airbus A300 crashes near Medan in the north of Sumatra,
Indonesia, killing 234. The crash is blamed on poor visibility
from smoke given off by fires raging across the region. |
| Sept
3 |
A
Vietnam Airlines Tupolev 134B crashes near Phnom Penh airport,
killing 65. |
| Aug
5 |
A
Korean Air Boeing 747 crashes into the jungle on the US island
of Guam killing 226 people. |
| May
8 |
China
Southern Airlines plane crashes at Shenzhen airport in southern
China, killing 35. |
| Apr
19 |
A
Merpati Nusantara Airline airliner crashes killing 15 on an
Indonesian island. |
|
Source:
AFP
|
