Which country has the most plane crashes? Overview of air crash statistics in the world

Over the past ten years (2009-2018) there have been 10 major disasters related to our country. Aircraft included in this sample Russian airlines wrecked abroad. Foreign aircraft crashed in Russia.

According to Wikipedia, the cumulative death toll was 750 people. All these crashes were widely covered in the media, leaving a heavy mark on the heart of every Russian citizen. In most cases, the investigation into the causes of the tragedies has already been completed, but investigations and the study of evidence are still ongoing for several accidents.

List largest air crashes for 10 years:

• the death of the presidential board TU-154M near Smolensk (2010);
• Tu-134 crash near Petrozavodsk (2011);
• the crash of the Yak-42D aircraft near Yaroslavl (2011);
• ATR-72 plane crash near Tyumen (2012);
• Boeing-737 crash in Kazan (2013);
• Airbus A321 crash over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt (2015);
• Boeing-737 crash in Rostov-on-Don (2016);
• Tu-154 crash near Sochi (2016);
• the death of the An-148 in the Moscow region (2018);
• An-26 crash near Khmeimim base in Syria (2018).

Plane crashes 2010-2013

In a plane crash near Smolensk, which occurred on April 10, 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczynski, representatives of the country's leadership, the armed forces and public organizations, well-known religious figures, deputies of the Parliament. All of them flew to Russia to honor the memory of the victims of the Katyn massacre.

The presidential plane crashed while landing in difficult weather conditions. The victims of the accident were 96 people - this is a record number in the statistics of all disasters in which the first persons of states died.

The investigation of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) lasted almost a year. In January 2011, the main reasons leading to the tragedy were announced:

• aircraft landing under weather conditions below the minimum allowable values;
• airliner going out of bounds minimum height decrease while simultaneously exceeding the speed;
• psychological pressure on the crew from the Polish leadership;
• ignoring by pilots of warning systems about dangerous proximity to the ground.
• insufficient training of the crew and, in particular, the commander for landing in difficult weather conditions.

The Polish side did not agree with all the arguments of the IAC, so in July 2011 it initiated its own investigation, but its results were soon canceled. According to a re-inspection launched in 2016, the Polish commission called the explosion of the aircraft wing and the deliberate misleading of pilots by the Smolensk airfield controllers the cause of the disaster. Russia categorically denied these accusations.

On June 20, 2011, the Tu-134 airliner of the RusAir airline followed the Moscow-Petrozavodsk route. During a landing approach in poor visibility, the aircraft hit trees, collided with the ground and burst into flames. At the time of the disaster, 44 people died, three later died in the hospital, five were saved.

The main cause of the crash was named by the IAC as the uncoordinated actions of the crew and outdated aircraft equipment that controls the landing approach. This tragedy is similar in circumstances to the disaster near Smolensk.

Aviation experts argue that the largest number of accidents occur during takeoff or landing of aircraft. Just during takeoff on September 7, 2011, the Yak-42D airliner crashed, performing chartered flight from Yaroslavl to Minsk with the Lokomotiv hockey team on board. Unable to gain altitude, the aircraft after a few seconds of flight touched the radio beacon and crashed into the bank of the Tunoshonka River.

44 people died: almost the entire main team of the Lokomotiv team, its coaching staff and staff, as well as 8 crew members. The aircraft maintenance engineer Alexander Sizov managed to survive. According to the results of the investigation, it was established that uncoordinated actions of the crew during the takeoff and takeoff of the aircraft led to the tragedy.

The ATR-72 aircraft of UTair airlines crashed on April 2, 2012 near the village of Gorkovka near Tyumen. He was heading to Surgut, but managed to stay in the air for less than a minute. 33 people died, 10 were saved.

To development emergency icing on the aircraft body, which was not removed during preparation for the flight, resulted on board. As a result of the deterioration of the aerodynamic characteristics, the liner went into stall mode, which the crew did not notice in time.

In 2013, the largest plane crash in Russia was the crash of a Boeing-737 while landing at Kazan airport. The plane belonged to the Tatarstan airline, there were 50 people on board - all of them died. Among the factors that led to the unfavorable development of the air incident, the IAC called insufficient flight training for the crew, including for managing the Boeing-737, incorrect work with navigation equipment, and a formal approach to testing the knowledge of pilots in the airline.

Plane crashes 2015-2018

A black day in the history of Russian aviation was October 31, 2015, when the largest disaster in Russian history in terms of the number of victims occurred. On the Airbus A321 liner of the Kogalymavia company, tourists returned home after a holiday in sunny Egypt. Takeoff from the airport in Sharm el-Sheikh took place in the normal mode, but after 23 minutes the plane stopped communicating. Its wreckage was found on Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board were killed, including 25 children.

The destruction of the aircraft in the air occurred as a result of a terrorist attack - a bomb was planted in the tail section. ISIS militants claimed responsibility. On November 16, 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended air links with Egypt.

Airplane FlyDubai airlines as a result of an unsuccessful landing approach, it crashed at the airport of Rostov-on-Don on the night of March 19, 2016. 62 people died, no one managed to survive. A preliminary investigation revealed errors in the actions of the crew, which led to a sharp loss of altitude and a collision of the aircraft with the ground. The final report of the IAC has not yet been published.

Shortly before the new year 2017, another tragedy occurred in the air. The Tu-154 liner of the Russian Ministry of Defense landed in Sochi on December 25, 2016 for refueling en route to the Syrian city of Latakia. After leaving the airport, he stayed in the air for just over a minute, and then crashed into the Black Sea. On board were artists and leaders of the Alexandrov Academic Ensemble, 9 journalists from federal channels, and public figure Elizaveta Glinka. The term for investigating the crash has been extended until March 2019; according to unconfirmed information, it was caused by the loss of spatial orientation by the aircraft commander.

2018 was marked by two major accidents. In February 2018, a Saratov Airlines plane crashed in the Moscow region, killing 71 people. About a month later, on March 6, an An-26 military aircraft crashed near the Khmeimim base. The victims of the tragedy were 39 people, of which 33 passengers were servicemen of the Russian army. These two disasters are under investigation, the results will be published later.

Reliability of Russian airlines

Based on statistical data for 20 years and a comprehensive assessment of other criteria, the authoritative Aviation Safety Agency of Europe has compiled a rating of the most reliable air carriers in Russia. It includes 3 major airlines:

• « Ural Airlines»;
• S7 Airlines;
• Aeroflot.

The undisputed leader is Ural Airlines. In its twenty-year history, the company has not had a single major incident with victims and injured.

Good statistics and the carrier S7 Airlines, previously bearing the name "Siberia". There are 3 major accidents in its history:

• the crash of the Tel Aviv-Novosibirsk flight in October 2001, which was shot down during Ukrainian air defense exercises, killing 78 people;
• a terrorist attack on board a Tu-154B2 aircraft flying from Moscow to Sochi on August 24, 2004, killing 51 people;
• the crash of the A-310 aircraft on July 9, 2006 in Irkutsk, which led to the death of 125 people.

The Aeroflot airline has existed since the times of the USSR, in total - almost 100 years. During this time, she experienced many incidents and disasters. However, in recent history Russian aviation, the number of accidents is minimal. Last major disaster dated October 25, 2000, when an Il-18D cargo-passenger aircraft crashed at Batumi Airport during landing. On board were servicemen who were heading to the 12th military base of the Group of Russian Forces in the Transcaucasus, and members of their families, including 7 children. A total of 84 people died. The tragedy was caused by navigation errors of the crew, disturbances in the work of the dispatcher, and a malfunction in the operation of ground radio equipment.

Causes of plane crashes in Russia

Summing up, there are several reasons why, most often, planes crash in Russia:

• insufficient level of training of crew members;
• depreciation of the fleet of airliners used in civil aviation;
• poor aircraft maintenance;
• Act of terrorism.

The situation with plane crashes in Russia has not changed much in 10 years. Our country is still among the leaders in the number of air crashes. Let's hope that domestic airlines will draw the right conclusions from the statistics and improve the quality of flight crew training and the technical safety of aircraft.

The safest airliners are Airbus A330, A340 and Boeing 777, BusinessWeek found out

Which plane is more likely to get into a plane crash, as a result of which passengers die - the American Boeing 737 JT 8 D or Russian Il-76? If you think that the IL-76 is more dangerous, then you are mistaken.

The very first versions of the familyBoeing 737s were created back in 1988, but more than 500 of these aircraft are still in operation. In August last year, a plane crashed in KazakhstanBoeing 737JT 8D , ownedItekAir, shortly after the European Union banned the ship from flying to Europe due to inadequate security. Incidents like these help explain why this model tops the list of aircraft most likely to crash. Old aircraft require more intensive care than new ones. However, used liners operated by airlines that often there are not enough funds for full maintenance and training of pilots, writes businessweek.

Using data from a London-based insurance consultantAscend ,BusinessWeek ranked the most dangerous and without dangerous aircraft based on the number of fatal air crashes. The rating included models of aircraft that are operated around the world in quantities of 100 or more. The rating did not take into account terrorism-related air crashes.

1. Boeing 737JT 8D

So, the most dangerous passenger aircraft in terms of the number of accidents is recognized Boeing 737JT 8D. One fatal air crash occurs in 507,500 flight hours. The lower this figure, the higher the risk of an accident. This is an average figure for the last five years. Years of production of the liner: 1967-1988. Quantity models located in operation (on the the end 2008): 517 pieces. The oldest version of the familyBoeing 737 -JT 8D are still operated by airlines in poor countries. Almost 30 year old Boeing 737JT 8D, operated by Kyrgyz airline Itek Air, crashed near Bishkek in August 2008. 68 people died in the crash.

2. Il-76

One plane crash 549 900 flight hours.
Years of production: from 1974 to the present day
247 .

This cargo model is most often found in the airline fleets of the countries of the former Soviet Union, Middle East and Africa. In 2003, the crashed Il-76 of the Iranian airline IranrevolutionaryGuard claimed the lives of 275 people.

3. Tu-154

One plane crash per 1,041,000 flight hours.
Years of release: from 1971 to the present
Number of aircraft in service: 336.

Tu-154 is also used by most airlines from the countries of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. Tu-154 Iranian Airlines CaspianAir, en route from Tehran to Yerevan (Armenia) crashed on July 15 this year, killing 168 people. This was the fourth plane crash involving the Tu-154 in Iran since 2002.

4. AirbusA 310

One plane crash per 1,067,700 flight hours.
Years of release: 1983-1998
Number of aircraft in service: 191.

Major airlines have already stopped using this model of the European aircraft manufacturer. Airbus. However, some carriers from poor countries, such as PakistanInternationalAirlines, keep flying onA 310A 310 occurred on June 30 this year. LinerA 310 Yemenia Airlines en route from Yemen to the Comoros crashed into the open sea killing all 153 people on board. Miraculously, only a 12-year-old girl managed to escape.

5 . McDonnell-Douglas DC-9

One plane crash1 068 700 flight hours.
years issue: 1965-1982
Number of aircraft in service: 315.

This aircraft model became owned Boeingafter a merger in 1997 with McDonnellDouglas.DC-9 still operated by the airlineDeltaAirlines, which inherited them fromnorthwestAirlines, as well as many other small carriers in the world. In April 2008, in Democratic Republic Congo crashedDC-9 airlinesHewaBoraAirways, 44 people died.

6. Tu-134

One plane crash1 087 600 flight hours.
Release years: 1964-1986 gg.
Number of aircraft in service: 223.

Tu-134, comparable in size to DC-9 is widely used by airlines from the countries of the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. In terms of noise, the engine of this airliner does not meet Western European standards, so the Tu-134 flies mainly to domestic destinations in Russia. In August 2004, a Tu-134 of the Volga-Aviaexpress airline crashed, killing all 43 people on board.

7. Boeing 727

One plane crash2 306 300 flight hours.
Release years: 1963-1984 gg.
Number of aircraft in service: 412.

Most major carriers have long since replaced the oldBoeing 727 for newer and more modern aircraft. Airline United Airlines, for example, donated one such aircraft to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry back in 1993. However, outside the United States, many carriers, especially charter carriers, continue to operate the Boeing 727. One of the crashes with this airliner occurred on Christmas Day 2003 in the African state of Benin, killing 151 people.

8. McDonnell- Douglas MD-80

One plane crash2 332 300 flight hours.
Release years: 1980-1999 gg.
Number of aircraft in service: 923.

The MD-80s, built to replace the DC-9s, continue to be used by the American airline Delta, as well as a number of European carriers, notably Alitalia and SAS. The most recent crash involving this airliner in the United States occurred in January 2000: MD -80 of the airline AlaskaAirlines crashed into the Pacific Ocean. In August 2008, 153 people died flying on such an aircraft, owned by the Spanish airline Spanair, from Madrid to Canary Islands.

9. McDonnell- Douglas MC-10

One plane crash2 908 800 flight hours.
Release years: 1971-1989 gg.
Number of aircraft in service: 153.

The DC-10 is one of the rare aircraft whose safety has, on the contrary, improved with age. A number of fatal crashes in the 70s involving this airliner led to the development of changes and improvements to the aircraft. As a result, the last accident with the dead occurred in 1999, when the liner of the former French carrierAOM crashed in Guatemala. Now this aircraft is mainly operated by cargo and charter operators. AirlineBimanBangladesh is the latest company to be usedDC -10 on scheduled flights.

10. McDonnell- Douglas MD-11

One plane crash3 668 800 flight hours.
Years of release: 1990-2001
Number of aircraft in service: 187.

The MD-11 brought its creator a commercial disappointment, as it performed poorly in terms of fuel efficiency and other parameters. True, Finnair and KLM still fly these liners, but they mainly use them for cargo transportation. Last plane crash occurred in 1999 when the DC-11 airline ChinaAirlines caught fire while landing in Hong Kong during a typhoon, then three people died.

11. Boeing 737 CFMI

One plane crash4 836 900 flight hours.
Years of release: 1984-2000
Number of aircraft in service: 1796.

12. Boeing 757

One plane crash13 744 400 flight hours.
Years of release: 1982-2005
Number of aircraft in service: 973

13. Airbus A 320

One plane crash14 050 200 flight hours.
Release years: 1988 to present
Number of aircraft in service: 3604

14. Boeing 767

One plane crash14 895 100 flight hours.
Release years: 1982 to present
Number of aircraft in service: 867

15. Boeing 737NG

One plane crash16 047 900 flight hours.
Release years: 1997 to present
Number of aircraft in service: 2583

16. Boeing 747

One plane crash17 358 500 flight hours.
Release years: 1970 to present
Number of aircraft in service: 935

17. AirbusA 330

No fatal accidents during 2008

Number of aircraft in service: 577

18. Airbus A 340

Release years: 1993 to present
Number of aircraft in service: 341

19 Boeing 777

No fatal accidents
Release years: 1995 to present
Number of aircraft in service: 742

Every 2-3 seconds someone lands or takes off. Some are happy about it, others are afraid. Is it worth giving in to fear? The answer will be given by statistics: how often planes crash, where it happens and how likely it is to crash.

About 100,000 planes soar into the sky every day, and, oddly enough, just as many successfully land. Every year, aircraft carry about 4.5 billion people, which is more than half of the world's population. How many of them do you think fill up the statistics of those killed in air crashes? No more than 1000 per year. The ratio is impressive, right?

During the entire existence of civil aviation (almost 100 years), less than 150 thousand people died. This is less than the number of deaths per month in traffic accidents around the world.

How many planes crash a year

According to Wikipedia, over the past 6 years, there have been 107 fatal air crashes in the world, in which 3245 people died. This is about 540 victims per year. It is important to clarify that the statistics take into account both commercial airliners and private small aircraft, and the number of victims is indicated taking into account those who died on the ground. That is, if a falling plane rammed a bus with 10 passengers, then they are also taken into account in the statistics. Therefore, the real numbers of air crashes passenger aircraft significantly less.

2010: 14 accidents in which 792 people died. The biggest tragedy is the unsuccessful landing of an Indian low-cost airline on a Boeing 737 (158 victims) and the crash of a Polish TU-154 near Smolensk (96 deaths).

2011 passed without loud aircraft crashes. The largest number of victims (77 people) was in the Iranian Boeing 727, which failed to land due to bad weather conditions. In total, 45 air crashes were recorded, in which 552 people died. As is clear from the statistics, these were mainly light aircraft, on board of which there were no more than 10 people.

year 2012: 23 accidents, 315 fatalities. The most severe case is the fall of the Pakistani Boeing 737, in which all on board (127 people) were killed.

year 2013 was relatively calm: only 5 aircraft accidents, the total number of victims - 128 people. 50 of them died in a Boeing 737 that crashed near Kazan.

year 2014 seriously spoiled the statistics for airlines: 15 accidents, with a total number of victims - 980 people. The largest incident was the downing of a Boeing 777 over Ukraine with 298 people on board.

2015 claimed 478 lives in just 5 air crashes. The loudest is the Russian Airbus A321 that fell over as a result of the terrorist attack, the victims of which were 224 people.

2016 was remembered for the crash of the Tu-154 of the Russian Ministry of Defense, in which 100 people died (92 passengers and 8 crew members. In total, in 12 months, air transport caused the death of 389 people.

2017 went down in history as the safest in the history of civil aviation. In just 12 months, 67 people died.

Which country has the most plane crashes?

If we take into account exclusively passenger air transportation, then a pronounced “ bermuda triangle”, in which planes most often fall, no. But if we take statistics on everything air transport, the result will be somewhat unexpected.

Over the same 6 years, the most air crashes occurred ... in Russia - 41, the number of deaths - 559 people. During the same period, there were 11 accidents in the United States. It is interesting to note that the last one was back in 2013. Next comes Ukraine (7 disasters), Congo (6) and Germany (4, all in 2010).

In general, the numbers are very encouraging. By learning how often aircraft crashes according to statistics, we hope you will feel more confident in flight.

About a year ago I wrote a post on my Facebook on this topic (), I'll copy it here:

When discussing the topic of air crashes or accidents, I periodically hear the opinion that in Soviet times passenger air transportation was exceptionally safe, and then the USSR collapsed, chaos began in aviation, and flight safety fell sharply. Since I am very interested in aviation, I have long wanted to test this hypothesis and compare the safety of air travel in the USSR / Russia in different years, and take the United States as a starting point. Now hands have finally reached this lesson.

For this exercise, we will need: datasets (two pieces); time (120 min.); Stat (1 pc.); Excel (1 pc.); and most importantly, manual dexterity (dexterity - 1 piece, hands - preferably 2 pieces) and no fraud. So, we do the following:

1. We take here (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR/countries/US?display=default) data on the number of passengers in the USA in 1971 - 2014 and Russia in 1991 - 2014. Add from here (https://skorobutov.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/history-of-aeroflot-part-2-3-1973-1983/) data for the USSR for 1976 and from here (https://skorobutov.wordpress. com/2013/10/21/aeroflot-history-part-5-1983-1993/) - for 1990; by two points we build a linear interpolation for the USSR starting from 1971 (not an ideal assumption, of course, but I did not find better data for the USSR).

2. We take here (http://aviation-safety.net/database/country/) data on all accidents for Russia/USSR and the USA since 1971.

Note: Unfortunately, there the country sorting is based on where the plane crashed, not on the basis of which country the aircraft belongs to. So, for example, there is no Tu-154 crash over Donetsk in 2006. But, again, I have no other data, and manually sorting crashes is too long and boring.

Note 2 (I will take it out of the comments): the data on air crashes in Russia / USSR from this site include only crashes in the territory modern Russia. At first I did not take this into account, and then I did not have time to redo all the data, but I took into account the largest (from about 20 dead) air crashes on the territory of the Union republics manually. The remaining air crashes with relatively few casualties are unlikely to change the overall picture; moreover, the underestimation of catastrophes leads to an overestimation, not an underestimation, of the level of security in the USSR.

3. We clean the data. Will take into account only those who died on board the aircraft, but not on the ground (you can take into account everyone; I don’t think that this will change much); remove all missing and null victim values; delete "criminal" categories (H1 and H2, C1 and C2 - terrorist attacks, hijackings, seizures, etc., since they are not directly related to flight safety); if possible, remove private and military (for the USSR / Russia: Soviet AF, Polish AF, Russian AF, Soviet Navy; for the USA: USMC, US Army, US Coast Guard, USAF, US Navy, Mexican AF, Mali AF ) operators. For the USSR, for the sake of clarity, I removed the Japanese JAL plane crash; for the USA, I didn’t clean it further, since there are a lot of airlines.

4. Since there are still a lot of light aircraft crashes (not private, but some kind of "Horns and Hooves"), we delete all crashes with a number of victims less than 5 (again, not ideal, but at least so).

5. We group the data by five-year intervals: 1971 - 1975, 1976 - 1980, ..., 2006 - 2010, 2011 - 2014 (for 2015 there is no data on the number of passengers).

6. Divide the number of people killed in air crashes by the number of passengers (in millions). We draw the whole thing on a graph (at the same time we add separately graphs with the number of passengers and the number of dead).

Now some observations:

a) While the air travel industry was growing in the US and worldwide, in Russia it collapsed after the collapse of the USSR and never recovered to the Soviet level (and this decline cannot be explained simply by a decrease in territory or a decrease in population caused by the collapse of the USSR).

b) Soviet aviation did not differ in any exceptional safety: on average, it was almost four times less safe than American aviation.

c) There has been tremendous progress in air travel safety in the US. Modern aviation in developed countries is phenomenally safe.

d) Looking at the absolute number of deaths, overall the trend for Russia/USSR looks even better than for the US, but the situation changes dramatically as soon as we take into account changes in the number of passengers.

And, finally, to the answer to the main question: what is happening with the safety of transportation in Russia? In my opinion, the answer to this question depends on the angle from which you look at the situation. I will rely on the relative rather than the absolute number of fatalities, as it, in my opinion, better reflects the safety of flights.

Note: The change in passenger numbers does not account for the change in aircraft capacity. Modern aircraft are much larger than their 40-year-old counterparts, so there are fewer flights today to carry the same number of passengers on the same route. And the fewer flights, the fewer accidents, other things being equal. At the same time, a single plane crash now causes more casualties than in the past. In theory, these two effects more or less compensate each other. But in any case, since route network is constantly changing, I can’t estimate the number of flights performed from my data, and I don’t have exact data on the number of flights, so I work with what I have.

On the one hand, there was indeed a failure in the safety of transport in Russia in 1991-2010 (1996-2000 were a pleasant exception); the country fell back to the level of security characteristic of the USSR in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the same time, it is not entirely clear what exactly caused this failure: a sharp deterioration in the situation after the collapse of the USSR, or an unexpected positive jump in security in 1986-1990 (most likely both).

Moreover, the situation with air transportation safety in Russia today, although inferior to the USSR of the period 1986-1990, looks much better than in any other Soviet period.

But still, it must be admitted that everything looks very bad with regard to the United States: in Soviet times, the gap between the USSR and the United States was much smaller than now; while air travel has become much safer in the US, nothing like this has happened here.

In other words, in post-Soviet Russia there was no such progress in the field of aviation security, which is typical for developed countries, and there was even a significant deterioration in the situation compared to the late USSR, but at the same time, even the worst Russian times comparable with individual Soviet segments. That is, it cannot be said in any way that aviation in the USSR was very safe, and after the collapse of the USSR, something unprecedented began to happen.

Bottom line: in my opinion, the question should not be about how to return to the times of the USSR (because then a lot of people flew and crashed a lot too), but about how to get closer to the modern USA (because they fly a lot, a lot and almost completely safe).

P.S. It would be very interesting to look at this data in the context of individual airlines, but, unfortunately, there is no such detailed data on the number of passengers. For example, Aeroflot has not had any fatal accidents on passenger flights since 1994; Transaero has never had such accidents in its 24 years of existence; Siberia / S7 had only one such case (except for the terrorist attack and the plane, it seems like it was shot down by a Ukrainian missile). There is a feeling that the leading Russian companies are now not much inferior to Western ones in terms of security, but it is not clear what is happening in small companies. But you shouldn’t take this as a call to nationalize and unite everything: it’s not about the size itself, and even more so not about who the owner is, but what is the level of training (and salary) of pilots, what is the safety culture in the company etc.

Statistics is an impartial science. It does not belittle or embellish the details. She presents the picture as it is. The statistics of crashes in Russia is one big disappointment in domestic aviation. When you start looking at the causes of plane crashes, you often come across the phrase “pilot error” or “crew error”.

It's right. The human factor leads among the causes in Russia and the world. What are the biggest air crashes in Russia over the past 10 years? Unfortunately, there are many. And if in the United States the statistics of crashes is falling, then in Russia it is only growing. What are the main reasons for this?

So, leading by a clear margin - human factor. Insufficient and unqualified training of pilots in many ways lead to such sad results.

Airbus A330-300 of the Aeroflot company.

Many experts note that old Soviet models are still being used, which should have been written off long ago.

Another reason is the greed of airlines, saving on the quality of aircraft maintenance and the purchase of new parts and equipment.

As a result, equipment wears out, parts are not replaced, and the aircraft becomes unusable. But it is not removed from service. There are cases when the plane flew to the point of complete wear and tear, up to the catastrophe!

List of largest air crashes in Russia

Over the past few years, Russia has had quite a few very sad disasters. One of the most recent is the crash of a Tupolev Tu-154 en route to Syria, December 25, 2016. This is the biggest accident in 2016.

TU-154 from Utair.

The causes of the crash have not yet been clarified, due to the difficulty in deciphering the black boxes. It is only known that the plane crashed into the Black Sea, taking with it the lives of all passengers and crew.

March 19 of the same year a FlyDubai plane crashed on its way to Rostov-on-Don from the UAE. All people died. The causes of the disaster are still being investigated, but so far only intermediate results have been announced.

That night were difficult weather, which caused the plane to land twice. After the second time, it began to decline sharply and simply collapsed on GDP.

Biggest disaster in 2013 the fall of the Boeing 737, near Kazan. All passengers and crew were killed. The accident also occurred during the landing approach.

The reason is negligence and failure by the crew to fulfill their duties, as well as their insufficient readiness for flights.

Aircraft TU-134.

Another terrible catastrophe that occurred on the territory of Karelia, death of TU-134 when landing. The plane hit trees and crashed. One of the reasons is poor visibility in foggy conditions. 47 people died, but 5 managed to survive.

Plane crash near Yaroslavl Yak-42 led to the death of the entire Lokomotiv hockey team. In this disaster only 1 person survived. On takeoff, the plane crashed into a radio beacon and crashed on the river bank. The reason was also the unpreparedness of the crew.

Monday - April 2, 2012 turned out to be the last day for most of the passengers and crew of Utair Flight 120. Only 10 managed to survive this disaster. The accident occurred after takeoff itself, after 42 seconds.

The reason was the failure of the PIC from anti-icing treatment, which led to a deterioration in the aerodynamic capabilities of the aircraft. Plus, the crew could not notice the stalling of the aircraft in time.

Which Russian planes crash more often?

In the article on our website, you can see that the second place in the ranking of the most dangerous aircraft in the world is IL-76, and the third - notorious - TU-154. TU-134 takes the sixth place.

Three models of Russian manufacturers were included in this list. It says something. However, for example, the same TU-154 was never decommissioned, as a result of which disasters continue to occur.