In message <5u72m6F1ggumdU1.TakeThisOut@mid.individual.net>, at 15:46:27 on Fri, 4
Jan 2008, tim..... <tims_new_home.TakeThisOut@yahoo.co.uk> remarked:
>>> 2007 had the least number of fatalities in crashes involving
>>>aircraft made to carry 6 or more passengers since the end of World
>>>War 2.
>>
>> Can you confirm that figure is the overall fatalities and not fatalities
>> per X flights or Y miles.
>
>Well it must be one or the other. I doubt that there was less fatailies
>involving aircraft than there was in 1902, 1901, 1900 .....
It did say "since WW2".
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_accidents_and_incidents_on
_commercial_aircraft#2007>
Lists these, but some accidents don't quantify the exact number of
passengers killed (nor do they distinguish crew vs passengers).
* January 1 – Adam Air Flight 574, a Boeing 737 with 102 people on
board, crashes into the ocean off the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia,
killing all on board.
* January 9 – An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes near Balad, Iraq,
killing 34 of the 35 people on board.
* March 7 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a Boeing 737, overshoots the
runway and crashes while landing at Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 22 of
the 140 people on board.
* March 17 – UTair Flight 471, a Tupolev Tu-134, suffers severe
structural damage while landing in Samara, Russia, killing six of the 63
people on board.
* March 23 – A TransAVIAexport Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 crashes in
Mogadishu, Somalia killing all 11 on board;
* May 5 – Kenya Airways Flight 507, a Boeing 737 with 114 people on
board, crashes near Douala, Cameroon killing everyone on board.
* June 3 – A Paramount Airlines Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashes in Lungi,
Sierra Leone killing all 22 people on board.
* June 21 – A Free Airlines Let-410UVP crashes shortly after takeoff
from Kamina Town, Democratic Republic of Congo due to severe
overloading, killing 1 and injuring 4 of the 21 people onboard.
* June 25 – PMTair Flight 241, an Antonov An-24, crashes in southwestern
Cambodia killing all 22 on board.
* June 28 – A TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 737, D2-TBP, with 78 people on
board, loses control while landing and crashes in M'banza-Kongo, Angola,
killing at least six people on board and injuring an unknown number of
others.
* July 17 – TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, in São Paulo,
Brazil killing all 187 people on board and 12 on the ground.
* July 27 – Two news helicopters, both Eurocopter Ecureuils, one from
KNXV-TV and one KTVK collide in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States,
while covering a car chase. All on both helicopters, two from each, were
killed.
* August 9 – An Air Moorea de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashes
on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia killing all 20 on board.
* September 16 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, a McDonnell Douglas MD-
82 carrying 130 people, crashes and bursts into flames after attempting
to land in Phuket, Thailand during poor weather conditions killing 89
people.
* October 4 – An Africa One Antonov An-26 crashes into a residential
area Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, shortly after taking
off. At least 50 people are killed, most of whom were on the ground.
* November 30 – Atlasjet Flight 4203, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, crashes
into a mountain near Isparta, Turkey killing all 57 on board.
--
Roland Perry
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