Many people prefer to get to a particular region with the help of an airliner, because it is much more convenient and faster to travel by air than by train. According to statistics every 2-3 seconds a plane lands and takes off in the world. Is it worth it to give in to fear when you go on board an airplane? How often do planes crash? Such questions always torment passengers, especially those who rarely fly an aircraft.

Everyone fears for their lives, so it is not surprising why such questions arise. If you look at the news, which constantly talk about some kind of disaster, often associated with air travel, then immediately there is no desire to go somewhere. Of course, there is always danger. Even while staying at home, there is a risk of death, for example, from a gas leak. Thus, to fly or not to fly on aircraft is a very controversial issue, and here everyone decides for himself what is best for him to do. In order to understand how many airliners get into a disaster, consider the statistics.

How many planes crash a year is a question that interests many people, even those who are not going on a flight. You can provide the following data:

1. According to statistics, about 10,000 airliners take off into the sky every day.
2. Approximately 4.5 billion people fly in aircraft, which is more than half of the world's population.
3. Of these, about 1,000 people die in air crashes.
4. In 100 years of passenger aviation, 150,000 people have died.

This figure is several times less than the number of victims in traffic accidents per month. So which one is safer to ride? The answer is obvious. In road accidents, people die much more often, so driving in cars is much more life-threatening than flying in airplanes.

According to statistics, since 2009 there have been 107 air crashes, with 3,245 passengers killed.

How often do planes crash in Russia?

Unfortunately, our country occupies a leading position in the ranking of countries that have experienced the largest number of air accidents. This is due to the fact that Russia is the largest power in the world. If we take the statistics from 2009, then in the Russian Federation there was the largest number of accidents related to airliners - 38 pieces. They killed 378 people. This is followed by America, where 11 incidents have occurred in the last 6 years. If we take into account the data for the entire time of the existence of civil aviation, then the first place is occupied by the United States of America.

• Russia (38 accidents);
• USA (11 for the period);
• Ukraine (7 in 6 years);
• Congo (6 over the same period);
• Germany (4 disasters in 2010).

What planes crash the most?

If we talk about which planes crash most often, here you need to give a rating of the most dangerous airliners. So the list is:

1. Boeing 737. This passenger aircraft was recognized as the most dangerous, as several plane crashes occurred on it.
2. IL-76. A terrible accident happened on this aircraft 13 years ago and claimed a lot of human lives.
3. Tu-154. It also had a lot of accidents.
4. Airbus A310. The last disaster was this year, which claimed more than 150 lives and only one girl managed to survive.
5. McDonnell-Douglas DC-9. It has been out of production for many years, but ready-made aircraft fly quite often. For all the time of its existence on board this aircraft, only 44 people died.

Compared to the years of the last XX century, the number of air crashes, alas, has increased. Planes crash for various reasons. This may be a malfunction of the airliner itself, weather conditions, or a human factor. It is difficult to say unequivocally whether planes often fall. Compared to an accident, it is much safer to travel on an aircraft. But in general, you should not be afraid of aircraft, because on the ground the risk of dying is much greater than in the air.

I've always wondered what people experience in a falling plane. Summarizing the experience of eyewitnesses who survived plane crashes, one interesting conclusion can be drawn - the devil is not so terrible as he is painted ...

First, be more afraid when you drive to the airport. In 2014, more than 33 million flights were made in the world, there were 21 air crashes (moreover, most of the trouble in the sky falls on cargo transportation), in which only 990 people died. Those. the probability of a plane crash is only 0.0001%. In the same year, 26,963 people died in traffic accidents in Russia alone, and according to WHO, 1.2 million people die in road accidents and about 50 million are injured annually in the world.

Secondly, judging by the statistics, you have a much greater chance of dying on an escalator in the subway or contracting AIDS than dying on an airplane. So the chance of dying in a plane crash is 1 in 11,000,000, while, for example, in a car accident - 1 in 5,000, so now it is much safer to fly than drive a car. Moreover, every year aviation technology becomes safer. By the way, Africa remains the most unfavorable continent in terms of flight safety: only 3% of all flights in the world are operated here, but 43% of air crashes have occurred!

Thirdly, with strong overloads, you will not remember anything According to research by the Interstate Aviation Committee, the consciousness of a person in a falling plane is turned off. In most cases - in the first seconds of the fall. At the moment of impact with the ground there is not a single person in the cabin who would be conscious. As they say, a protective reaction of the body is triggered. This thesis is confirmed by those who managed to survive in plane crashes. Silence also accompanies minor air incidents, a selection of videos

Fourth, the experience of surviving plane crashes. The story of Larisa Savitskaya is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. In 1981, at an altitude of 5220 meters, the An-24 aircraft in which she was flying collided with a military bomber. 37 people died in that crash. Only Larisa managed to survive.

I was then 20 years old, - says Larisa Savitskaya. - Volodya, my husband, and I flew from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Blagoveshchensk. I fell asleep immediately after takeoff. And woke up from the roar and screams. His face was cold. Then I was told that our plane had its wings cut off and the roof blown off. But I don't remember the sky above my head. I remember it was foggy, like in a bathhouse. I looked at Volodya. He didn't move. Blood splattered across his face. I knew right away that he was dead. And prepared to die too. Then the plane broke up, and I lost consciousness. When she came to herself, she was surprised that she was still alive. I felt like I was lying on something hard. It turned out to be in the aisle between the chairs. And near the whistling abyss. There were no thoughts in my head. Fear too. In the state I was in - between sleep and reality - there is no fear. The only thing that came to mind was an episode from an Italian film where a girl, after a plane crash, soared in the sky among the clouds, and then, having fallen into the jungle, remained alive. I didn't expect to survive. I just wanted to die without pain. I noticed the crossbars of the metal floor. And I thought: if I fall sideways, it will be very painful. I decided to change position and regroup. Then she crawled to the next row of chairs (our row stood near the break), sat down in a chair, clutched the armrests and rested her feet on the floor. All this was done automatically. Then I look - the earth. Very close. She grabbed the armrests with all her might and pushed herself away from the chair. Then - like a green explosion from larch branches. And again a memory failure. When I woke up, I saw my husband again. Volodya sat with his hands on his knees and looked at me with a fixed gaze. It was raining, which washed the blood from his face, and I saw a huge wound on his forehead. Under the armchairs lay a dead man and woman...

Later it was established that a piece of the plane - four meters long and three wide, on which Savitskaya fell, planned like an autumn leaf. He fell into a soft marshy clearing. Larisa lay unconscious for seven hours. Then for two more days I sat in a chair in the rain and waited for death to come. On the third day I got up, started looking for people and came across a search party. Larisa received several injuries, a concussion, a broken arm and five cracks in her spine. You can't go with these injuries. But Larisa refused the stretcher and reached the helicopter herself.

The plane crash and the death of her husband remained with her forever. According to her, her feelings of pain and fear are dulled. She is not afraid of death and still quietly flies on airplanes.

Another case confirms the disconnection of consciousness. Arina Vinogradova is one of the two surviving stewardesses of the Il-86 aircraft, which in 2002, having barely taken off, fell into Sheremetyevo. There were 16 people on board: four pilots, ten flight attendants and two engineers. Only two flight attendants survived: Arina and her friend Tanya Moiseeva. They say that in the last seconds, your whole life scrolls before your eyes. This didn’t happen to me, ”Arina tells Izvestia. - Tanya and I were sitting in the first row of the third cabin, at the emergency exit, but not in service chairs, but in passenger ones. Tanya is in front of me. The flight was technical - we just had to return to Pulkovo. At some point, the plane shook. This happens with the "IL-86". But for some reason I realized that we were falling. Although nothing seemed to happen, there was no siren or roll. I didn't get scared. Consciousness instantly swam somewhere, and I fell into a black void. I woke up with a sharp shock. At first I didn't understand anything. Then it slowly unraveled. It turned out that I was lying on a warm engine, littered with chairs. She couldn't pull herself away. She began to scream, pound on the metal and shake Tanya, who either raised her head or lost consciousness again. We were pulled out by firefighters and taken to different hospitals.

Arina still works as a flight attendant. The plane crash, she said, left no trauma in her soul. However, the incident affected Tatyana Moiseeva very strongly. Since then, she no longer flies, although she has not left aviation.

Fifth, a plane crash is a positive experience for survivors! Scientists came to unique conclusions: people who survived plane crashes later turned out to be healthier from a psychological point of view. They showed less anxiety, anxiety, did not fall into depression and did not experience post-traumatic stress, in contrast to the subjects from the control group, who had never had such an experience.

In conclusion, I bring to your attention, the speech of Rick Elias, who was sitting on the front row of the plane that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. You will find out what thoughts came to his mind as the doomed plane fell down...

Still afraid to fly?-)

Every day, about 100,000 aircraft take to the air and approximately the same number make a successful landing. At the same time, the statistics of the dead is replenished by no more than 1000 per year - this is relatively less compared to those who died in road accidents in just a month around the world.

How often do planes crash?

How many planes crash a year is a question that interests many people, even those who are not going on a flight. You can provide the following data:

1. According to statistics, about 10,000 airliners take off into the sky every day.
2. Approximately 4.5 billion people fly in aircraft, which is more than half of the world's population.
3. Of these, about 1,000 people die in air crashes.
4. In 100 years of passenger aviation, 150,000 people have died.

Aircraft crash statistics around the world

According to world statistics of air crashes, the leaders are:

1. Russia
2. Canada

Where are the most victims of air crashes?

(from 1945 - 2013)

1. USA: 763 crashes, 10,514 casualties;
2. Russia: 307 accidents, 7061 victims;
3. Canada: 173 crashes, 1,755 casualties;
4. Brazil: 172 crashes, 2681 casualties;
5. Colombia: 164 accidents, 2774 casualties;
6. UK: 102 crashes, 1278 casualties;
7. France: 101 accidents, 2240 casualties;
8. India: 93 accidents, 2341 casualties;
9. Indonesia: 93 accidents, 1902 casualties;
10. Mexico: 88 crashes, 1226 casualties.

Aircraft crash statistics in Russia

Speaking about our country, we have to admit with bitterness that over the past six years we have ranked first in the world in terms of the number of air crashes.

So during this time in Russia there were 38 air crashes in which 378 people died, while in the United States there were only 11 air accidents.

Aircraft crash statistics by airline

Which airlines have the most accidents? To answer this question, you need to rank airlines by the number of plane crashes.

Turkish Airlines

The most massive and popular (especially among Russian tourists) air carrier has not encountered air accidents since the seventies of the last century, but a series of small incidents, as well as the 2009 disaster near the Dutch airport Schiphol, which claimed nine lives, significantly damaged the reputation of the airline.

China Airlines

The Taiwanese airline is considered one of the most unsafe in Asia.

Over the past thirty years, about 755 people have died in accidents with the aircraft of this air carrier, which gives reason to suspect this company of an unprofessional approach to the safety of its customers.

Korean Airlines

The largest air carrier in South Korea has spent more than a billion US dollars on various passenger amenities. The ships of this company constantly get into some kind of small accidents, fortunately, so far without casualties. The last tragic incident occurred back in 1997.

Saudi Arabian Airlines

The flag carrier of Saudi Arabia. Since the year 2000, it has had a reputation as a not very safe company, various incidents often occur with the aircraft of this carrier, although only one person died in them (during the crush that occurred during the evacuation), the frequency of various accidents involving the aircraft of this company is very alarming.

Skywest Airlines

A well-known American airline specializing in local transportation. After the 1990s, which dealt a serious blow to the company's reputation, it was noted only by the 2008 disaster in San Antonio. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but the carrier's reputation was dealt a serious blow.

South African Airways

The largest airline in South Africa, specializes in domestic and international flights. The company's reputation was damaged by a failed Zimbabwean terrorist who hijacked the carrier's aircraft in 2006. As a result of the incident, no one was injured, and although the responsibility lies with the airport security service, this did not save the carrier's reputation from a serious blow.

Aeroflot aircraft crash

Several dozen airlines are registered in our country. To determine their reliability and safety, a particular company is evaluated according to various criteria, one of which is the technical safety of aircraft. The European Aviation Safety Agency has compiled a rating of the most reliable air carriers, the list of which includes the domestic company Aeroflot.

The company was founded in 1923. After the collapse of the USSR, many small carriers separated from it. In 1992, Aeroflot-Russian International Airlines JSC was established, which marked the beginning of the modern history of the airline. Today, Aeroflot is the largest air carrier in Russia. During the period from 1992 to the present, there have been 4 air crashes that have claimed the lives of people. There is also information about 5 more accidents, which, fortunately, did not cause any casualties.

The most famous disaster that has occurred in the history of the airline is the tragedy near Mezhdurechensk. In the spring of 1994, a passenger plane crashed on a Moscow-Hong Kong flight. During the investigation, it turned out that the crash occurred through the fault of the aircraft commander. The man put his fifteen-year-old son at the helm. This disaster claimed the lives of 75 people.

Going on a trip to another country, people are interested not only in the reliability of airlines, but also in the safety of the aircraft themselves. Therefore, it will not be superfluous to give a rating of the most unreliable and dangerous aircraft.

The Boeing 737 was recognized as one of the most dangerous aircraft, since most of the accidents occurred on this type of aircraft.

IL 76 is also considered an unsafe aircraft, since it was on this vessel that a major disaster occurred 13 years ago, which claimed many human lives.

TU 154, recognized as very dangerous and unreliable, this airliner also experienced many accidents and emergency situations.

The Airbus A 310 is also notorious, it was on this ship that a disaster occurred on June 30, 2009, which claimed more than 150 lives.

McDonnell-Douglas DC 9, this type of aircraft has not been produced for a long time and is out of production, however, during its entire existence, there have been several accidents as a result of which 44 people died.

2016 was the busiest year in terms of air accidents. This conclusion can be reached by referring to the statistics of air crashes that occurred during this period.

On February 24, a DHC-6 passenger plane crashed in Nepal with 20 passengers and 3 crew members on board. As a result of the disaster, no one managed to survive.

A month later, on March 9, an AN 26 crashed in Bangladesh, the plane crashed into the sea. There were 4 people on board, all of them were citizens of Ukraine. As a result, three people died, and only one managed to survive.

On the night of March 19 of the same year, a Boeing 737 crashed in Rostov-on-Don while climbing, the airliner began a sharp decline and crashed onto the airport runway. There were 55 people and 7 crew members on board. As a result of the plane crash, everyone on board died.

Two months later, on May 18, AN 12 B crashed in Dwyer. There were 9 people on board. As a result of the crash, 7 people died, only two technicians managed to survive.

The next day, on May 19, another disaster occurred when an Airbus A 320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. All 66 people (56 passengers, 10 crew members) on board were killed.

Two months later, on July 1, while extinguishing forest fires, due to poor visibility, an IL 76 transport aircraft of the Russian Emergencies Ministry crashed. All 10 crew members on board were killed.

Six months later, on 28 November, a BAe 146 crashed in Colombia due to lack of fuel. There were 77 people on board. As a result of the incident, 71 people died and only 6 people were saved.

A month later, on December 7, an ATR 42 aircraft crashed near the city of Havelian. All 47 people on board were killed.

On December 25 of the same year, a major disaster occurred, the aircraft TU 154 of the Russian Air Force, as a result of an error by the crew commander, crashed during landing and completely collapsed. All 92 people on board were killed.

In general, looking at the statistics, we can conclude that traveling by plane is much safer than by land transport, according to estimates, the probability of dying in a plane crash is 1: 8,000,000. Therefore, do not be afraid to fly on airliners, because the risk of dying on the ground is much higher than in the air.

Plane crash statistics for 2017

Over the past months of this year, there have been only 4 air crashes, which is significantly less compared to the past 2016.

January 16, landing, crashed Boeing 747. As a result of the accident, 39 people died and 14 were injured.

Three months later, on March 20, while landing, an accident occurred with an AN 26 aircraft. As a result of the incident, 37 people were injured.

On April 29, AN 26 crashed. There were 8 people on board. All on board were killed.

Three months later, on June 7, the Y8 airliner crashed, half an hour later, after the plane took off, the liner crashed into the Andaman Sea. There were 122 people on board. As a result of the disaster, no one managed to survive.

As a result of an aviation accident, the following several factors often have a damaging effect on the body of the victim simultaneously or in rapid succession, and the action of one factor often overlaps with another:
1) dynamic and shock overloads;
2) counter air flow;
3) explosive decompression;
4) atmospheric electricity;
5) thermal impact;
6) toxic products of combustion and pyrolysis;
7) blunt objects located inside the aircraft;
8) blast wave;
9) external parts of the aircraft;
10) running engines;
11) high-altitude decompression;
12) shaking, vibration.

When an aircraft collides with an obstacle, they can cause overloads that reach very large values ​​of the order of tens and even hundreds of g units. At the same time, the body is torn off the back of the chair and is held by seat belts. Depending on the magnitude of the overload, the consequences for the victims can be of a different nature - from functional disorders of breathing and blood circulation associated with the relative movement of the internal organs of the chest and abdomen, and loss of consciousness - to mechanical damage caused by seat belts in the form of abrasions, bruises, sometimes skin tears and soft tissues, injuries of the spine, and in the event of a collision of an aircraft at high speed with an obstacle or the ground - in the form of gross damage to all tissues at the level of seat belts up to the separation of the upper body. In the latter case, as a rule, subsequent significant destruction of the head and torso occurs as a result of the impact of these parts of the body on objects located in front.

Radial accelerations and the corresponding overloads occur when trying to get out of a dive in emergency situations. In these cases, there is a significant displacement of soft tissues, internal organs, and especially blood in large vessels, accompanied by a sharp violation of breathing, circulation, functions of the central nervous system, visual impairment, loss of consciousness, as well as traumatic injuries to tissues and vital organs.

When the overload is directed in the direction of the head-legs, a significant part of the circulating blood (up to 1/4 of the total mass) moves into the vessels of the abdominal cavity and extremities, as a result of which the work of the heart is disturbed, anemia of the brain develops with loss of consciousness. The outcome in such a situation will depend on the duration of the unconscious state and the flight altitude at which the loss of consciousness occurred. As a result of displacement and deformation of the internal organs and tissues of the abdominal cavity and their sharp overflow with blood, multiple hemorrhages can be observed in the mesentery of the intestine, under the capsule and in the ligaments of the internal organs, loose fatty tissue.

Overloads directed from the legs to the head, a person endures much harder. Already at an acceleration of the order of 4-5 g, a strong rush of blood to the head occurs, accompanied by redness and swelling of the face, nosebleeds, multiple small hemorrhages in the skin of the face, conjunctiva of the eyes, membranes and substance of the brain. A sharp increase in intracranial pressure leads to rapid loss of consciousness and death. In this case, fractures of the upper and lower extremities, compression fractures of the spine, fractures of the base and cranial vault, injuries of soft extremities can be observed.

The oncoming air flow at high flight speeds (800-1000 km / h or more) has the properties of a solid body, since the pressure force of the air flow under these conditions exceeds the weight of a person by 50-70 times. The oncoming air flow can rip off household items and clothing. When the oxygen mask is torn off, a sharp deformation of the soft tissues of the face occurs with extensive hemorrhage and their detachment from the underlying bones, rupture of the corners of the mouth, and damage to the eyeballs. A jet of air that has penetrated under high pressure into the upper respiratory tract and esophagus can lead to barotrauma of the lungs and stomach; reflex violation of breathing and cessation of oxygen supply causes acute oxygen starvation. As a result of the breakdown of the arms from the armrests and the legs from the footrests,
scattering of limbs, accompanied by dislocations, sprains of articular ligaments, muscle tears, hemorrhages.

Explosive decompression is observed in flight at an altitude of over 8-9 thousand meters as a result of emergency depressurization of the cabin. As a result of a sharp pressure drop, a person may experience barotrauma of the lungs and hearing aid, as well as gas embolism. Barotrauma of the hearing aid is accompanied by a rupture of the tympanic membrane, damage to the auditory ossicles, hemorrhage in the tissues of the middle and inner ear and the tympanic cavity.

With barotrauma of the lungs, there is liquid blood in the airways, acute swelling of the lungs, multiple focal hemorrhages and ruptures of the lung tissue. Along with the macrofocal nature of changes in the lung tissue along the branching of the bronchi, small ruptures and hemorrhages are also observed.

Blunt objects located inside the aircraft are the main damaging factor in the fall and impact of the aircraft on the ground. In this case, deformation and destruction of its structure occurs, as well as the mutual displacement of the people in the aircraft and the objects surrounding them. The resulting shock overloads, depending on the speed and angle of incidence of the aircraft, can exceed hundreds and even thousands of times the impact forces on the victims observed in ground transport accidents.

The result of shock overloads of enormous force can be gross destruction of the body with separation of its individual parts (head, limbs, pelvic region) with extensive ruptures and crushing of the skin and soft tissues, crushing of bones, opening of body cavities and crushing, separation, displacement of internal organs or their ejection out.

The blast wave is the most powerful damaging factor that occurs as a result of an explosion of fuel in fuel tanks or a terrorist attack. Most often, the first explosion occurs at the moment the aircraft hits the ground, sometimes in the air after touching the ground. When a jet aircraft falls to the ground in a dive mode, followed by an explosion, the funnel can reach a depth of several meters. A powerful blast wave causes complete destruction of aircraft structures and bodies. At the same time, the remains are found both in the funnel itself and outside it, scattered over an area with a radius of up to 300-500 m. In the event of an explosion in the air after touching the ground, the remains of people who were on the plane are scattered at a distance of up to 3 km in the direction of flight and up to 1.5 km away from the explosion site.

With the complete destruction of the body as a result of an explosion, separate small flaps of skin are usually found without settling their edges, auricles with part of the temporal bone, pieces of internal organs, bone fragments with fragments of soft tissues, sometimes hands, feet or parts of them. During a terrorist attack, extensive injuries with separations of body parts, multiple penetrating and blind shrapnel wounds are received by persons located directly near the explosion site, the rest most often die as a result of mechanical damage during the subsequent fall of the aircraft and its impact on the ground.

As a result of the action of the flame, clothing can be ignited, body burns, as well as post-mortem burning of corpses, reaching extreme degrees with charring of soft tissues and bones up to their incineration. Sometimes a fire is preceded by an explosion, in these cases, the remains of corpses are already exposed to thermal effects.