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Airlines and Accidents - Commercial Airline Crashes with Fatalities - 2009

By Arlene Fleming, About.com

An ongoing list of major airline crashes which had fatalities in 2009.

February 2009
  • 7 - Manaus Aerotaxi (Brazil) - Embraer 110 Bandeirante - 24 of the 28 people on board were killed. Possible engine failure and heavy rain are potential causes.
  • 12 - Continental Connection (Colgan Air) - de Havilland Dash-8 Q400 - 49 of the 49 people on board were killed, plus one person on the ground. Possible ice build-up cited as a potential cause.
  • 25 - Turkish Airlines - Boeing 737-800 - 9 dead, and dozens injured. Cause under investigation.


May 2009
  • 31 / June 1 - Air France - Airbus 330 - 228 passengers and crew on board. Flight lost over the Atlantic. All on board perish.


June 2009
  • May 31 / June 1 - Air France - Airbus 330 - 228 passengers and crew on board. Flight lost over the Atlantic. All on board perish.
  • 30 - Yemenia - Airbus 310 - 153 people on board (142 passengers and 11 crew) crashed into the Indian Ocean as it tried to land during very poor weather on the island country of Comoros. A young teenage girl is the only survivor.


July 2009
  • 15 - Caspian Airlines - Tupolev Tu-154M - 168 passengers and crew on board. Seems the tail of the plane suddenly caught on fire and the pilot was unsuccessful in finding a safe place to land and crashed into a field. No survivors.
  • 24 - Aria Air - Ilyushin-62 - 153 on board. Conflicting reports on what happened. 17 dead.


August 2009
  • 2 - Merpati Airlines - DeHavilland Twin Otter - 16 passengers and crew on board with no survivors. Plane crashed en route to its destination by flying into a mountain range. Flight was not known to have a flight recorder on board.
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