Top 10 world misfortunes of airline industry and missing flights in the Aviation

Below will be the list of Top 10 world misfortunes of airline industry and missing flights in the Aviation for 2014...In the wake of the missing Air Asia flight travelling from Surabaya to Singapore, we ended up having a look at how 2014 was for the airline industry. Turns out, pretty crappy. While we hope and pray that flight QZ8501 is safe, we should also not forget that this wasn't the first incident of the year.

1.  Algeria Lockheed C-130 Hercules crash

On 11 February 2014, an Algerian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft crashed into Djebel Fertas mountain near Aïn Kercha, Oum El Bouaghi Province, Algeria; with 74 passengers and 4 crew on board. Seventy-seven bodies were discovered at the site, along with one survivor.
Preliminary reports suggest that bad weather conditions might have caused the crash. Eyewitness accounts describe the plane clipping a mountain before crashing. This was the first reported air disaster in Algeria since the 2003 crash of Air Algérie Flight 6289. The accident is undergoing investigation.

 

2. Air Algérie Flight 5017

Air Algérie Flight 5017 (AH5017/DAH5017) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed in Mali, near Gossi, on 24 July 2014. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 with 110 passengers and 6 crew on board, operated by Swiftair for Air Algérie, disappeared from radar about fifty minutes after take-off. There were no survivors.
The cause of the crash is not yet known; Malian authorities are conducting an investigation with the assistance of France's Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile.

3. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 hijacked

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 was a scheduled flight from Addis Ababa to Milan via Rome on 17 February, 2014. The aircraft, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-300ER, was hijacked by the unarmed co-pilot en route from Addis Ababa to Rome, and landed at Geneva. Thankfully, all 202 passengers and crew were unharmed.

4. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

This one is still fresh in our memories.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that crashed on 17 July, 2014, having been shot down, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. The Boeing airliner lost contact about 50 km from the Ukraine–Russia border and crashed near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 40 km from the border, over territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. The crash occurred during the Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion, part of the ongoing war in Donbass, in an area controlled by the Donbass People's Militia. According to American and German intelligence sources, the plane was shot down by pro-Russian separatists using a Buk surface-to-air missile fired from the territory which they controlled. The Russian government blamed the Ukrainian government. The Dutch Safety Board is currently leading an investigation into the incident and issued a preliminary report on 9 September, 2014; a final accident report is expected in August 2015.

5. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

The one that shook the world.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a scheduled international passenger flight that disappeared on Saturday, 8 March 2014, while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia, to Beijing Capital International Airport, People's Republic of China. Flight 370 last made voice contact with air traffic control at 01:19 MYT (7th March) when it was over the South China Sea. Less than an hour after takeoff, the aircraft disappeared from air traffic controllers' radar screens at 01:21 MYT. Malaysian military radar continued to track Flight 370 as it deviated from its planned flight path and crossed the Malay Peninsula; Flight 370 left the range of Malaysian military radar at 02:15 MYT while over the Andaman Sea, 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) northwest of Penang in northwestern Malaysia. Neither the crew nor the aircraft's communication systems relayed a distress signal, indications of bad weather, or technical problems before the aircraft vanished. The aircraft, a Boeing 777-200ER, was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers from 15 nations.
Despite being the largest and most expensive search in aviation history, there has been no confirmation of any flight debris,  resulting in many unofficial theories about its disappearance. On 24th March, the Malaysian government, noting that the final location determined by the satellite communication was far from any possible landing sites, concluded that "flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean." Very unfortunate.

 

 

6. Nepal Airlines Flight 183

Nepal Airlines Flight 183 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter that crashed in the jungles near Dhikura about 40 nautical miles (74 kilometres) south-west of Pokhara, Nepal, on 16 February 2014. Burning wreckage was reported from a surveillance helicopter and it was concluded that the aircraft had crashed into a hill, killing all 18 people on board.

7. Olsberg mid-air collision

On 23 June 2014, a mid-air collision occurred over Olsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, during an exercise simulating the interception of a civilian airliner that was out of radio contact. One of the aircraft consequently crashed; both occupants died. The fighter jet managed to land safely.

 

8. Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915

Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Tehran to Tabas, Iran. On 10 August, 2014, the HESA IrAn-140 aircraft serving the flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Mehrabad International Airport, falling into a residential area near the Azadi Stadium. Of the 40 passengers and eight crew on board, 39 people died.

 

9. TransAsia Airways Flight 222

TransAsia Airways Flight 222 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that crashed into a building during approach to land in bad weather at Magong Airport, Penghu Island, Taiwan, on 23 July, 2014. The flight was travelling from Kaohsiung International Airport with 54 passengers and four crew members on board; only 10 survived. The exact circumstances of the accident are under investigation, being led by the Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council.

 

10. Ukranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down

On 14 June, 2014, an Ilyushin Il-76MD of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic during the Ukrainian anti-insurgent operation against the unrecognized Lugansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic. The aircraft was on approach to land at Luhansk International Airport, and was carrying troops and equipment from an undisclosed location. All 49 people on board died.