Plane Crash Tragedies

Investigators examine the wreckage of a Dagestan Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010, at Moscow Domodedovo aiport. The passenger jet with 155 people aboard skidded off the runway during an emergency landing after all three of its engines failed, killing two people and injuring dozens of others, Russian officials said.

Passengers and rescuers gather near a Dagestan Airlines Tu-154 plane on December 4, 2010 at the Domodedovo airport outside of Moscow. The plane slammed into buildings at a Moscow airport after making an emergency landing.

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Plane crash experts in Bom Jesus do Galho, in the Brazilian southeastern state of Minas Gerais, inspect wreckage of a twin-engined Beechcraft which had executed an emergency landing, December 11, 2010. After the landing the aircraft exploded. Three passengers died. The pilot survived.

Wreckage of a small aircraft that crashed in a rural area in Bom Jesus do Galho, Minas Gerais state, in Brazil, on December 10, 2010, killing at least three passengers. The pilot and the co-pilot managed to leave the plane before it caught fire.

Firefighters inspect parts of a small aircraft after it crashed and burst into flames, near Bever, southeastern Switzerland, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. The plane, coming from Zagreb, was attempting to land at Samedan Airport when it hit a powerline and crashed into a generator station. The two pilots, the only persons on board, were killed.

Pakistani rescuers and airport security personnel gather at an aircraft crash site in Karachi on November 5, 2010. A charter aircraft carrying about 20 employees of an Italian oil company crashed minutes after take-off in Pakistan's business hub of Karachi, and a military spokesman said there were no survivors.

Pakistani soldiers search the site of the wreckage of a crashed passenger plane on the day after the accident on the outskirts of Islamabad on July 29, 2010. In the country's worst aviation disaster, 152 people were killed when the Airblue passenger jet from Karachi crashed in a ball of flames, killing everyone on board and disintegrating in the heavily forested Margalla Hills outside the Pakistani capital in heavy rain and poor visibility.

Members of the Mexican Army look at a small plane that crashed near the Pacific beach resort of Huatulco, in the state of Oaxaca, on September 3, 2010. Two Mexican federal lawmakers and at least three others died on Friday when their Cessna plane crashed, police and political officials said.

The wreckage of the Henan Airlines ERJ-190 jet, which was carrying 96 people, after it slammed into the ground on landing in the northeast city of Yichun in China's Heilongjiang province on August 25, 2010. The smashed into two pieces while trying to land in heavy fog. At least 42 people were killed; 54 survived.

The tail-end of the Henan Airlines ERJ-190 jet (made by the Brazilian company Embraer) sits smoldering after the aircraft slammed into the ground in the northeastern Chinese city of Yichun, August 25, 2010.

Rescue personnel, volunteers and onlookers are seen at the crash site in Mangalore, India, where an Air India Boeing 737-800 crashed upon landing, May 22, 2010, killing 158 people. A handful of survivors managed to scramble from the burning wreckage.

Firemen work on the wreckage of a light passenger plane that crashed during landing on September 18, 2010 in Benifontaine, northern France, killing two people.

A Solano County Sheriff's deputy, left, and a member of the Suisun Fire Protection District investigate a plane crash on Grizzly Island nature preserve, just south of Suisun, Calif. on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. The plane which departed from Sacramento Executive Airport heading to Concord experienced mechanical problems, according to an FAA spokesperson. The two occupants only received minor injuries and were treated at the scene.

Wreckage of the Aires Airlines aircraft at the airport on the Colombian island of San Andres, August 16, 2010. At least one person was killed and 120 injured when the plane crash-landed after being struck by lightning, aviation officials said.

Villagers stay on top of a partially-submerged light plane after a crash landing on a river in Cagayan province in northern Philippines Monday, Nov. 29. 2010. Police Senior Superintendent Mao Aplasca said the light plane, with 13 people on board, developed engine trouble but was safely brought down by the pilots without any injuries.

Pakistani rescuers work on the site where a cargo plane crashed after taking off from Karachi on November 28, 2010. At least eight people were killed when a Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76 cargo plane carrying an unknown number of laborers bound for the Sudanese capital Khartoum slammed into airport buildings in the Pakistani business capital.

Rescue personnel inspect the wrecked fuselage of the Conviasa Airline plane that went down about 10 kilometers from Puerto Ordaz en route to the resort city of Isla Margarita, in Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar state, Venezuela, September 13, 2010. Fifty-one people were on board.

Officials said a Russian passenger Tupolev TU-154 carrying 81 people made a "miracle" crash landing at a deserted air strip deep in the Siberian taiga after experiencing a complete mid-flight power failure, September 8, 2010. Wreckage of the aircraft is seen outside the village of Izhma in Russia's far northern Komi region

Officials said the Air India Express Boeing 737-800 careered off the end of the "table-top" runway at Bajpe airport and plunged into a forested gorge where it was engulfed in flames. Here aviation officials search the crash site in Mangalore for the black box data recorder, May 24, 2010.

A Libyan policeman walks amid the debris of an Afriqiyah Airways passenger plane which crashed during landing at Tripoli airport on May 12, 2010. An eight-year-old Dutch boy was the sole survivor when a Libyan plane arriving from South Africa exploded on landing at the Libyan capital's airport, killing more than 100 people, officials said. There was no immediate indication of the cause of the crash.

A closeup of the tail of an Afriqiyah Airways passenger plane which crashed during landing at Tripoli airport on May 12, 2010.

The wreckage of Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 is seen in Tripoli, Libya, May 13, 2010.

Engineers on March 22, 2010 begin dismantling a Polish cargo plane which made an emergency landing on Lake Ulemiste in Tallinn on March 18. The twin-engine Antonov An-26 aircraft belonged to the Polish firm EXIN.

Lebanese civil defense members carry a section of an Ethiopian airliner's wing on the shores of Beirut, January 26, 2010, a day after the jet crashed off Lebanon. Relatives of passengers killed in the Ethiopian Airlines crash filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in a U.S. court against plane-maker Boeing, their attorney said. The cause of the crash, in which 83 passengers and seven crew aboard the 737-800 were killed when the Beirut-to-Addis Ababa flight went down minutes after taking off in bad weather, has not been announced.

A Lebanese civil defense member holds part of a plane seat that washed ashore in Khaldeh, south of Beirut, January 26, 2010, a day after an Ethiopian airliner crashed off Lebanon.

Twisted debris is seen in the wreckage of a Cessna plane in the woods of Ursel, Knesselare, Western Belgium on January 3, 2010. The plane had taken off the day before from Ursel airport, then disappeared from the radar. The 76-year-old female pilot and her 74-year-old male passenger died in the crash.

People gather near an airplane from the Compagnie africaine d'aviation (CAA) after its brakes failed at the end of the runway while landing in Goma on November 19, 2009. Ten passengers were slightly injured in the crash.

People watch a burning plane which crashed during a test flight in Taiping, northern Perak State, Malaysia, August 16, 2009. British pilot Michael Robert Dacre, 53, was killed while conducting a test flight of his prototype Jetpod "flying taxi," reports said.