Biggest aviation accidents of 2024 By Reuters

(Reuters) – The crash of a Jeju Air Boeing (NYSE: ) 737-800 in Muan County on Sunday killed a total of 179 people in the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil.

Here are some of the biggest aviation accidents of 2024 in order of severity:

SOUTH KOREA

Jeju Air International Flight 7C2216, originating from Bangkok, Thailand and bound for Mueang International Airport, crashed on December 29, killing all 175 passengers and six crew members.

BRAZIL

Voepass Regional Flight 2283, an ATR-72 turboprop from Cascavel en route to São Paulo, crashed on August 11 in Vinhedo, killing all 62 people on board.

In a separate accident, a small twin-engine Piper PA-42-1000 with 10 people on board crashed into shops in the center of the southern Brazilian tourist town of Gramado on Dec. 22, killing all and injuring 17 people on the ground.

KAZAKHSTAN

Azerbaijan Airlines International Flight J2-8243, an Embraer E190 en route from Baku to Grozny, Russia, crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan on December 25, killing 39 people. 29 people survived.

NEPAL

A CRJ-200 belonging to Nepal’s Saurya Airlines crashed and burst into flames on July 24 while flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara Airport, killing 18 people and one survivor, the captain.

MALAWI

Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others, including former First Lady Shanile Dzimbiri, were killed on June 10 when the military plane they were traveling in crashed while traveling from Lilongwe to Mzuzu.

THAILAND

Domestic charter flight TFT209, a Cessna Caravan C208B registered to Thai Flying Service Co, from Suvarnabhumi to Trat, crashed 100 km southeast of Bangkok on August 23, killing all all 9 people on board.

IRAN:

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and six other passengers and crew of an American-made Bell 212 helicopter died in a crash on May 19 in the mountainous region of Varzeghan near the border with Azerbaijan.

CANADA

A Northwest ( NASDAQ: ) Air plane carrying global miner Rio Tinto ( NYSE: ) crashed near Fort Smith in Canada’s Far Northwest Territories ( NYSE: ) on January 23. ( NYSE: ) crew members died in the crash one passenger survived.

JAPAN

A Japan Airlines (JAL) plane collided with a smaller Coast Guard plane on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on January 2. All 379 people on board the JAL flight A350-941 escaped from the burning plane, killing five of the smaller plane’s crew.

SINGAPORE

One passenger died of a heart attack and 30 were injured after a Singapore Airlines (OTC:) Boeing 777-300ER from London to Singapore encountered severe turbulence on May 21, throwing passengers and crew around the cabin and force the plane to land. Bangkok.

(This story has been corrected to set the crash site as Muan, not Seoul, in paragraphs 1 and 2)