10 Worst Aviation Disasters And Plane Crashes In History | Part 2

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11) Pan Am Flight 103
12) Korean Air Lines Flight 007
13) American Airlines Flight 587
14) China Airlines Flight 140
15) Nigeria Airways Flight 2120
16) Air New Zealand Flight 901
17) Arrow Air Flight 1285
18) 1996 Air Africa crash
19) Garuda Indonesia Flight 152
20) TWA Flight 800

An aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked, where a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible.

The first fatal aviation accident occurred in a Wright Model A aircraft at Fort Myer, Virginia, USA, on 17 September 1908, resulting in injury to the pilot, Orville Wright and death of the passenger, Signal Corps Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge.

An aviation incident is defined as an occurrence, other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft that affects or could affect the safety of operations.

An accident in which the damage to the aircraft is such that it must be written off, or in which the plane is destroyed is a hull loss accident.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_accidents_and_incidents

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