European Union's most deadly air crashes

Category: European Union

PARIS: A German budget airliner crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday with 150 people on board declared dead.

It was one of the worst aviation disasters in the European Union in the past 20 years:

2015

March 24: FRANCE - An Airbus A320 airliner belonging to Lufthansa's low-cost Germanwings crashes en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf in the French Alps. France says all 150 people on Flight 4U 9525 died. Germanwings says they included at least 67 Germans, of whom 16 were schoolchildren, as well as Spaniards and Turks.

2008

August 20: SPAIN An MD82 plane owned by Spanish low cost company Spanair crashes and turns into a fireball while taking off at Madrid for the Canary Islands, killing 154 people.

2005

August 14: GREECE A Boeing belonging to Cyprus company Helios crashes near Athens, killing 121 people.

2001

October 8: ITALY A collision between an MD87 belonging to Scandinavian airline SAS and a private Cessna plane in the fog at MilanLinate airport leaves 118 dead.

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European Union's most deadly air crashes

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