Deadliest Plane Crash in Four Years - 257 Perish in Algerian Military Crash

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[/FONT]At least 257 people were killed on Wednesday when a military plane crashed near the Algerian capital, Algiers, state media reported.

The aircraft crashed near the Boufarik air base, between Algiers and the city of Blida. Ten of those killed were the plane crew, according to state-run Radio Algérie.

images of smoke rising from the plane's fuselage, tilted to one side, with part of the aircraft sticking out above olive trees. Dozens of bodies were seen in numbered bags as paramedics and firefighters worked at the crash site. Cranes at the site have begun trying to move some of the debris.

Crashed shortly after takeoff

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018...boufarik-airport-reports-180411081014559.html


 
I seem to recall that these Russian-built Ilyushin aircraft have a pretty poor safety record - or at least they seem to have suffered quite a few crashes over the years.
 
100 Worst Aviation Disasters
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/worst100.htm

The Algerian Air Force crash is the 17th deadliest airplane disaster and ties with Air New Zealand crash on Mt Erebus, Antarctica on 11/28/1979.

The deadliest is 9/11, which claimed nearly 3,000 lives.

1985 had numerous deadly airplane disasters. If 9/11 is included for 2001, it is the deadliest year for aviation.
 

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