Airline Disasters Quiz

Hijackers flew two Boeing 767s into the World Trade Center towers in New York, resulting in the deaths of 2753 people.

2001

Two Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport on the Spanish island of Tenerife. 583 people were killed.

1977

A Boeing 747 lost part of its tail following the rupture of a previous repair. This caused an explosive decompression and damage to the hydraulic system. The aircraft crashed into a Japanese mountain, killing 520 people.

1985

A Boeing 747 and an Ilyushin Il-76 collided in the air over the village of Charkhi Dadri in India, causing the deaths of all 349 people on board both aircraft.

1996

The rear cargo door failed on a McDonnell DC-10, leading to a loss of control. The aircraft crashed into a forest near Paris. All 346 passengers and crew on board died.

1974

A Boeing 747 crashed off the coast of Ireland when a bomb exploded in its cargo hold. All 329 people on board perished.

1985

301 people died when a Lockheed L-1011 caught on fire, despite the aircraft making an emergency landing at Riyadh airport.

1980

A Boeing 777 was shot down near the border of Russia and Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of all 298 passengers and crew.

2014

Over the Strait of Hormuz, an Airbus A-300 was struck by a missile. It crashed into the ocean and all 290 people on board were killed.

1988

A Boeing 787 crashed into a medical hostel soon after take-off from Ahmedabad Airport, killing all but one of its occupants as well as numerous people on the ground. The total death toll was 275.

2025

When a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 lost its left engine on takeoff at Chicago O'Hare Airport, the resulting crash killed all 273 passengers and crew.

1979

A bomb detonated on board a Boeing 747, and it crashed on the town of Lockerbie in Scotland. 259 passengers and crew died, as well as eleven people on the ground.

1988

A Boeing 747 flew into Soviet airspace and was shot down and crashed west of Sakhalin Island, killing all 269 on board the aircraft.

1983

Unorthodox rudder inputs caused the crash of an Airbus A3000 in the Belle Harbor neighborhood of Queens, New York. 260 passengers and crew on board perished, as did five people on the ground.

2001

Pilot error resulted in the crash of an Airbus A300 at Nagoya Airport in Japan. 264 passengers and crew died; seven survived.

1994

A Douglas DC-8 experienced a fire when two of its tires ignited on take-off from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. It crashed before it could return to the airport, killing 261 people.

1991