Some of the deadliest plane crashes in the past two years:
-- October 29, 2006: A Nigerian ADC Airlines plane carrying 104 people
crashed shortly after taking off during a storm in Abuja. Six people survived,
but the others were feared dead.
-- September 29, 2006: A Gol Airlines flight crashed in the Brazilian jungle
after clipping a private jet, killing all 154 people aboard.
-- August 22, 2006: A Russian Pulkovo Airlines jetliner returning from the
Black Sea resort of Anapa crashed in Ukraine during a thunderstorm, killing all
170 people on board.
-- July 9, 2006: A Russian S7 airliner crashed while landing on a wet runway
in the Siberian city of Irkutsk and burst into flames, killing 124 people.
-- May 3, 2006: An Armenian Armavia airliner crashed in the Black Sea while
trying to land in the Russian resort city of Sochi in rough weather, killing all
113 people aboard.
-- December 6, 2005: A C-130 military transport carrying Iranian journalists
crashed into a building in a Tehran suburb as the pilot attempted an emergency
landing, killing 115 people -- 94 in the plane and 21 on the ground.
-- December 10, 2005: A Nigerian Sosoliso Airlines jet crashed in Port
Harcourt, killing 107 people, most of them schoolchildren.
-- October 22, 2005: A Nigerian Bellview Airlines jetliner crashed shortly
after takeoff from Lagos, killing all 117 people aboard.
-- September 5, 2005: An Indonesian Mandala Airlines jetliner crashed into a
crowded neighborhood moments after takeoff, killing 143 people -- 99 on the
plane and 44 on the ground.
-- August 16, 2005: A West Caribbean Airways charter jet crashed in
Venezuela, killing 160 people, most of them tourists from Martinique.
-- August 14, 2005: A Helios Airways flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, to Athens
crashed into a hillside outside Athens, killing 121 people.
-- February 3, 2005: An Afghan Kam Air plane crashed in the mountains in bad
weather, killing 104 people.
