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10. Garuda Airlines
Until recently, the Indonesian national carrier was so bad that in 2007 it was even prohibited from flying to EU countries. However, a couple of years later, the ban was lifted, and now Garuda successfully flies to Amsterdam and many Asian cities. Moreover, earlier this year the company awarded the title of “most significant breakthrough in quality.” Nevertheless, statistics of accidents states – four air crashes that have occurred since the company liners, killed 431 people. Most fatal crash happened in 1997 when caught in a trailing smoke from forest fires, plane crashed into a mountain, killing 234 passengers.
Flights: 2 million. Crash: 4. Died: 431.
Flights: 2 million. Crash: 4. Died: 431.
9. Thai Airways
This year, the largest Thai carrier is celebrating its 50 anniversary. During its existence, the company has been honored with numerous awards for the quality of passenger service. In 2006, Thai Airways has received the prize “Best Crew” and “Best Airline of the world.” In 2007, it was nominated in the category of “Best Airline of the Year ”. In addition, the World Health Organization awarded “Thai Airways’ for best hygiene on board. But in the 1980′s and 1990′s flying on board of this airline was quite dangerous, as incidents haunted it, one after another. The biggest occurred in a flight from Kathmandu in 1992, when the airliner crash killed 113 people.
Flights: 1.98 million. Crash: 4. Died: 352.
Flights: 1.98 million. Crash: 4. Died: 352.
8. Avianca
Avianca boasts the longest history of flight in the Western Hemisphere. The first carriage, it began to perform at the dawn of aviation in 1919. The company currently has the most modern fleet in South America, but its reputation was severely marred by several incidents. In the 80 years of airliners airplanes have been chosen for the attacks of the Colombian drug traffickers. To the sad list a plane crash in Madrid was added killing 181 passengers.
Flights: 1.47 million. Crash: 4. Died: 500.
Flights: 1.47 million. Crash: 4. Died: 500.
7. Pakistan International Airlines
This state carrier of Pakistan was established in 1955 and now flies to 25 countries. Despite the fact that the company was established with the birth of the state, it has always tried to keep pace with the times and follow the latest trends in the airline industry. For example, PIA became the first airline in Asia, in a park of which there were jets. However, incidents involving airliners PIA has happened a lot. The most fatal of them killed 167 people in 1992, when the plane crashed into a mountain due to poor visibility.
Flights: 1.43 million. Crash: 5. Died: 440.
Flights: 1.43 million. Crash: 5. Died: 440.
6. Egyptair
The largest airline flies to the African continent more than 70 destinations worldwide, annually transporting about 10 million people. Alas, since the 70′s the company pursued a series of mishaps that occurred as the fault of the terrorists, and as a result of errors of pilots. The biggest tragedy, which killed 217 people, occurred over the Atlantic Ocean. Transcript of “black boxes” then led investigators to the unequivocal conclusion about the guilt of what happened putting the blame on crew commander.
Flights: 1.07 million. Crash: 4. Died: 402.
Flights: 1.07 million. Crash: 4. Died: 402.
5. Kenya Airways
The airline was established in 1977 to meet the increasing demands of tourism industry of the country. And although it accounted only two plane crashes, statistics are alarming since it has not done that many of operations. In addition, two incidents occurred in the past 10 years, and both during night flights. In 2000, Kenya Airways plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169 people, and in 2007 another airliner airlines crashed in a swamp, killing 114 passengers.
Flights: 450 000. Crash: 2. Died: 283.
Flights: 450 000. Crash: 2. Died: 283.
4. Philippine Airlines
Established in 1941, the Philippines state carrier made to the list of dangerous airlines solely because of the unfortunate coincidence. If it had not taken a liking to flights of terrorists, Philippine Airlines could boast of an impeccable past. However, during the 70-year history of the company’s planes blew up at least three times and once the plane was seized by terrorists. Fortunately, despite a large number of incidents of people in them died a little. Highest number of deaths, 36 people, was when the plane broke up in the air due to bomb exploded in the toilet.
Flights: 1.18 million. Crash: 6. Died: 107.
Flights: 1.18 million. Crash: 6. Died: 107.
3. Iran Air
Before the revolution of 1979 the airline was the official carrier of the country, but then things began to go get worse. It reduced the number of flights to many international destinations and in the end, this year the European Commission forbade it to fly to EU countries. The reason for this was found sufficient. Over the past 10 years the company has suffered three crashes (the one without casualties). But the biggest disaster occurred in 1988 and immediately claimed the lives of 300 people.
Flights: 970 000. Crash: 5. Died: 708.
Flights: 970 000. Crash: 5. Died: 708.
2. China Airlines
Chinese national carrier is actually based in Taiwan and is one of the largest in Asia. For unclear reasons, it is with these airlines that a large number of incidents occurred causing major casualties. The most serious accident occurred in 2002 during the voyage Taiwan-Hong Kong and killed 225 people. Then, all blamed on too old technique, and the airline promptly got rid of this type of aircraft. Now the average age of the fleet of the company is 7 years. Also interesting is the fact that China Airlines has a few years unsolved problems concerned the lack of pilots’ communications during flights,especially passing over the territory of the Czech Republic. For example, last year because of the alarm raised by Air Force fighter jets of the BBC countries.
Completed flights: 910 000. Crash: 6. Died: 763.
Completed flights: 910 000. Crash: 6. Died: 763.
1. Cubana Airlines
Cubana Airlines was established in 1929 and is one of the first commercial airlines in the world. The national carrier has a fleet of Liberty Island, in the mass, consisting of “Antonov” and “Ilyushin” inherited from the time of the Soviet Union. So a huge number of accidents are expected to take place. Despite the fact that Cuban authorities are currently engaged in work to replace liners, and the latest incident in the airline occurred in 1999, yet it is worth considering, choosing it as a carrier.
Completed flights: 320 000. Crash: 8. Died: 404.
Completed flights: 320 000. Crash: 8. Died: 404.
Source: http://www.travelvivi.com/top-10-most-dangerous-airlines/
1. Democratic Republic of the Congo
Not to be mixed with the neighboring Republic
of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become the poorest country
in the world as of 2010. Democratic Republic of the Congo was known as Zaire
until 1997. Congo is the largest country in the world that has French as an
official language – the population of D.R Congo is about six million larger
than the population of France (71 million people in D.R Congo vs 65 million in
France). The Second Congo War beginning in 1998 has devastated the country. The
war that involves at least 7 foreign armies is the deadliest conflict in the
world since World War II – it has already killed 5.4 million people. In Africa
the war is called African World War. It is estimated that in 2010 at least
45,000 people in Congo are killed monthly.
2. Zimbabwe
Thanks to hyperinflation Zimbabwe has become
the second poorest country in the world dropping from first position in 2010.
It used to one of the 10 poorest countries but the 87.9 sextillion percent
inflation has left the countries economy into ruins. The inflation worrying the
country since 2007 saw the government printing 100 billion dollar bills that
were only good enough to buy a few eggs.
3. Liberia
Liberia is one of the few countries in Africa
that have not been colonized by Europe. Instead, Liberia was founded and
colonized by the slaves who escaped from America. These slaves made up the
elite of the country and they established a government that closely resembled
that of the United States of America. In 1980 the president of Liberia was
overthrown and a period of instability and civil war followed. After the
killings of hundreds of thousands Liberia is in a deep economic crisis.
Statistics indicate that about 90% of the population lives below $1.25 a day.
4. Burundi
In addition to being one of the poorest
countries in the world this small landlocked African country is known for its
wars between the inhabiting competing tribes. The reason Burundi is so poor is
because they have never really had any peaceful time between the everlasting
civil wars. Corruption, poor access to education, and a high percentage of HIV
and AIDS are all the things that Burundi is known for. Approximately 80% of
Burundians live in poverty and according to the World Food Programme 57% of
children under 5 years suffer from chronic malnutrition. 93% of Burundi’s
exports revenues come from selling coffee.
5. Somalia
Unlike many African countries Somalia has
never been officially colonized by any country. The efforts of the British
Empire were successfully driven back at least 4 times. While Somalia is
situated in Eastern Africa it has close ties to the Arab world. As a Muslim
country it also belongs to the Arab League.
In recent years the poor people of Somalia
have found a new way to make money – hijacking international boats and taking
the crew and the cargo as hostage. International companies are known to pay
pirates from 1 to 20 million dollars just to get the ships back. An oil tanker
filled with oil can be worth a few hundred million dollars.
6. Eritrea
The location of Eritrea gives it an advantage
of controlling the sea route through the Suez Canal. This is why Italy made it
its colony just a year after the opening of the canal in 1869 and why the
British conquered it in 1941. In the present Eritrea has been accused by the
USA of having relations with terrorists. In 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton accused Eritrea in supplying weapons to Somalian militant group
al-Shabab which is believed to have relations with Al Qaeda.
7. Central African Republic
As the unoriginal name suggest this former
French colony is right in the middle of Africa. Being among 1 of the poorest
countries in the world means that the governmental control of the country is
extremely weak. The well-being of the population is entirely dependent on
foreign aid and numerous non profit organizations. The very present of aid
workers in the country is the largest source of revenue for Central Africans.
An estimated 40% of import revenue comes from selling diamonds mined from the
countries rich land.
8. Niger
Niger is one of the poorest countries in
Africa – over 80% of its land is covered by the giant desert of Sahara. While
it might seem like a hostile place to live it is actually even worse – ongoing
droughts are leading to more desertification. One day the whole Republic of
Niger might be swallowed by the mighty desert. Currently most of its terrain is
made up of desert plains and sand dunes with some savanna around the Niger
river. Over 5000 years ago the same land was actually covered with fertile
grasslands – the desertification has took place in the last 2000 years.
9. Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a poor west African country
that has English as its official language. Over the years however the locals
have used English to derive their own language called Krio. It uses English
vocabulary but the grammar comes from 12 different African languages. As is the
case with a lot of the top 10 poorest countries, Sierra Leone is also one of
the largest diamond manufacturers of the world. If you have seen the movie
Blood Diamond you should know that it is based on Sierra Leone.
10. Afghanistan
Over 70% of Afghanis live with less than 2$ a
day. To make money a lot of people have gone into drug trafficking. Afghanistan
is the worlds largest exporter of heroin. The drug problem in this poor country
is so large that a drug test in the Afghanistan police force showed that 17% of
the countries police officers had lately used drugs. Even worse – only 30% of
the police can read! No wonder Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in
the world.
