The commercial aviation industry faced a turbulent week with four plane crashes, making this one of the deadliest years since 2018. The most shocking mid-air aviation disaster occurred on Sunday when a Jeju Air 737-800 jet crashed at Muan International Airport in South Korea.
December 25: Azerbaijan Airlines Crash
December 28: KLM Airlines Plane Skids Off Runway In Norway
December 28: PAL Airlines Dash 8-400 Catches Fire in Canada
December 29: 179 Dead In South Korea's Worst-Ever Aviation Disaster
There have been 4 different plane crashes worldwide in the last week
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) December 29, 2024
📅 December 25, 📍 Aktau, Kazakhstan
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan Airlines, ✈️ Baku-Grozny flight
📅 December 28, 📍 Sandefjord, Norway
🇳🇱 KLM, ✈️ Oslo-Amsterdam flight
📅 December 28, 📍 Halifax,… pic.twitter.com/l4eAP7JVsV
In August, Voepass Flight 2283 crashed near Sao Paulo, killing all 62 people onboard.
BREAKING: Voepass Flight 2283, a large passenger plane, crashes in Vinhedo, Brazil pic.twitter.com/wmpJLVYbB3
— BNO News (@BNONews) August 9, 2024
In July, 18 people were killed in a fatal take-off accident in Nepal involving a Saurya Airlines jet.
Shocking footage of #Saurya #Airlines flight crash today at #TIA, Kathmandu. The flight, bound for Pokhara, experienced a runway excursion, leading to a tragic accident. Nineteen people, including crew members, were on board. As per preliminary media reports, the plane flipped… pic.twitter.com/nDuTwEl4dx
— Niraj B (@NirajNPL) July 24, 2024
Amid the latest mid-air mishaps and several others, onboard passenger fatalities on commercial flights have risen to 318 this year, according to Bloomberg, citing data from Cirium.
This marks the highest death toll since 2018, when 500 lives were lost—a year defined by the first of two fatal Boeing 737 Max crashes.
The data reveals that onboard passenger plane fatalities have decreased over the past 15 years. However, it takes only a few mid-air accidents to abruptly shift a statistically safe year into one of the deadliest.
