AIRPLANE CRASHES
C'mon admit it...almost everyone has a morbid fascination with plane crashes.  Maybe it's because it is one of the most terrifying scenarios that can happen to you.   Imagine being in a plane knowing you're going down.  Not much you can do.   Sheer agony, huh?  Note: this list is up to 1999.

Worse civil airplane crashes

# killed       Fatal Date             Location                  Carrier/Type

583    03/27/1977   Tenerife, Canary Islands   Pan Am / KLM B747 / B747 2

520    08/12/1985   Mt. Osutaka, Japan    Japan Air Lines B747 3

349    11/12/1996   New Delhi, India     Saudi / Kazastan B747 / Il76 4

346    03/03/1974    Ermenonville, France    Turkish Airlines DC10 5

329     06/23/1985    Atlantic Ocean  Air India B747 6

301    08/19/1980     Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   Saudi Arabian Airlines L1011 7

290    07/03/1988    Persian Gulf    Iran Air A300 8

273    05/25/1979    Chicago, Illinois    American Airlines DC10 9

270    12/21/1988    Lockerbie, Scotland   Pan American World Airways B747 10

269    09/01/1983    Sakhalin Island, Russia    Korean Airlines B747 11

264    04/26/1994    Komaki, Japan   China Airlines A300 12

261    07/11/1991    Jeddah, Saudi Arabia    Nigeria Airways DC8 13

257    11/28/1979    Mt. Erebus, Antarctica   Air New Zealand DC10 14

256    12/12/1985    Gander, Canada  Arrow Airways DC8 15

234    09/26/1997    Buah Nabar, Indonesia    Garuda Indonesia Airlines A300 16

230    07/17/1996    Off New York  Trans World Airlines B747 17

229    09/02/1998    Off Nova Scotia, Canada  Swissair MD11 18

227    01/08/1996    Kinshasa, Zaire    African Air AN32 20

223    05/26/1991    Off Nantucket, Mass  EgyptAir B767 22

213   01/01/1978    Off Bandra, India  Air India B747 23

203    02/16/1998    Taipei, Taiwan    China Airlines A300 24

200    07/10/1985    Uchuduk, Uzbekistan  Aeroflot TU154 25

191    12/04/1974    Maskeliya, Sri Lanka   Martinair Holland DC8

 Reasons for crashes-

Pilot Error (human error) 30%
Pilot Error (weather related) 12%
Pilot Error (mechanical related) 4%
Other Human Error 7%
Weather 15%
Mechanical Failure 19%
Sabotage 9%
Other Cause 2%