I think most frequent flyers have noticed the unusually high number of aviation incidents lately. If you didn't, then take note. Most notable were:
- May 2009: Air France's Airbus A330 disappeared off the face of the earth [Link].
- Feb 2009: 50 people were killed when a small Colgan Air aircraft crashed into a house (Donnie? Donnie Darko?) [Link].
- Oct 2008: Qantas' Airbus A330-300 suddenly dropped in altitude [Link].
- Sept 2008: Boeing 737-300 crashes in Russia, killing all [Link].
- Aug 2008: Spanair's MD82 aircraft catches fire, 153 dead [Link].
- July 2008: Qantas' Boeing 747-400 developed a case of a hole in its fuselage while in mid-air [Link].
- June 2008: Airbus 310 crashes in Sudan [Link].
- Dec 2007: The year ended with another big crash in Turkey which killed all 57 people
on board [Link]. - Sep 2007: Jetliner skids off the runway in Phuket [Link].
- Aug 2007: Twin Otter DH6 Turboprop crashes in French Polynesia, killing 20 [Link].
- July 2007: 191 died in Brazil as an Airbus A320 came in to land too fast in one of the country's worst aviation disasters [Link].
- June 2007: Plane crashes in Cambodia. Toddler is sole survivor [Link].
- May 2007: 114 dead as Kenyan plane crashes into swamp [Link].
- Jan - Mar 2007: 2007 was a particularly bad year for Indonesian airlines, with 3 aviation accidents in the first quarter of the year alone, one in each month. Not kidding. Quite unfortunately for Boeing, they were all Boeing 737s [Link].
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