At least 200 people were killed and one person survived when an Air India plane bound for London with 242 passengers on board crashed minutes after taking off from India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, with the toll expected to climb, authorities said.

Below are some of the fatal crashes that have occurred in recent years.

2025 United States

More than 60 people were killed when an American Airlines regional passenger jet collided with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter on January 29 and crashed into the frigid Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

2024 South Korea

Jeju Air international flight 7C2216 crashed at Muan International Airport on Dec 29, 2024, killing all 175 passengers and four of the six crew in the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil.

2024 Kazakhstan

Azerbaijan Airlines international flight J2-8243, an Embraer E190, crashed on Dec 25 after being diverted from Russia to Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said in December the plane had been damaged by accidental shooting from the ground in Russia. Moscow has not confirmed this.

2024 Japan

A Japan Airlines (JAL) plane collided with a smaller Coast Guard aircraft on the runway of Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Jan 2. All 379 people aboard the JAL plane, an Airbus A350-941 flight, escaped the burning airliner. Five of six crew on the smaller aircraft were killed.

2022 China

A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed into a mountainous region in the southwestern Guangxi region on March 21, 2022, killing all 132 people on board, in China’s deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years.

2020 Pakistan

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane, with 99 people onboard, crashed in Karachi’s Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport on May 22, 2020.

Sindh health officials said that 97 people were confirmed dead, while two survived the crash.

PIA spokesperson Abdullah Hafeez said that the A320 Airbus was carrying 91 passengers and 8 crew members from Lahore to Karachi on PK 8303. Eyewitnesses said the Airbus A320 appeared to attempt to land two or three times before crashing in a residential area near the airport.

2020 Iran

Irans Revolutionary Guards shot down a Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 on Jan 8, 2020 shortly after it took off from Tehran Airport, killing all 176 people on board. Iran’s civil aviation body blamed a misaligned radar and an error by an air defence operator.

2019 Ethiopia

A Boeing 737-MAX 8 Ethiopian Airlines jet crashed on March 19, 2019, minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa for Nairobi, killing all 157 people on board.

Soon after, the Boeing 737 MAX global fleet was grounded over safety concerns.

2018 Indonesia

A Boeing 737 MAX Lion Air plane crashed into the Java Sea soon after taking off from Jakarta on October 29, 2018, killing all 189 people on board.

2014 Malaysia

Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam for Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014, and was shot down over eastern Ukraine as fighting raged between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. All 298 passengers on board were killed.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. The remains of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people have not been found.

Header Image: Rescuers work near the wreckage of the Jeju Air aircraft that went off the runway and crashed at Muan International Airport, in Muan, South Korea on December 30, 2024. — Reuters/File