On 17th of July 2014, we were surprised by the second Malaysia Airlines flight tragedy, MH17. A Boeing 777-200ER was shot down in Ukraine when the plane, with registration number 9M-MRD was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. All 283 passengers and 15 crew perished.
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| 9M-MRD |
On 23rd of July 2014, Transasia Airways flight GE222 crashed on a residential area in Taiwan while attempting to land due to bad weather. 48 died and 10 survived. The plane was an ATR-72-500 with registration number B-22810.
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| B-22810 |
On 24th of July, a week after MH17 was shot down in Ukraine, Air Algerie AH5017 lost contact and disappeared from radar 50 minutes after take-off. The McDonnel Douglas MD-83, with registration number EC-LTV diverted from its planned path due to extreme weather, disappeared from radar and was found crashed in Mali. AH5017 was a flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to Algiers, Algeria. There were 110 passengers and 6 crew members on board the flight and all were presumed dead. The plane was owned by Spanish private airline company SwiftAir but was operated by Air Algerie, an Algerian flag carrier.
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| EC-LTV |
R.I.P to those who perished because of these three tragedies. My condolences reach out to families of the victims. This week is really a sad and tragic week for civil aviation. :'(
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