Timeline: Major plane crashes

The disappearance of Flight MS804 en route from Paris to Cairo on Thursday is the latest on a long list of air incidents over the past three years.

While investigators are yet to determine what happened to the EgyptAir plane, recent crashes have been blamed on a mix of bad weather, deliberate attacks and in some case the actions of the pilot.

March 19, 2016 – A passenger jet from the United Arab Emirates crashed during a landing attempt in Russia, killing all 62 people aboard. The Boeing 737 flydubai Flight 981 took off from Dubai and was scheduled to land at the Rostov-on-Don airport. Wind gusts had reached 60 miles per hour and visibility had been poor.

Analyst: Bad weather kept flydubai jet from landing

03:19 - Source: CNN

October 31, 2015 – All 224 people on board Kogalymavia Flight 9268, also known as Metrojet, were killed when a bomb exploded. The plane had departed from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt and was heading for St. Petersburg, Russia when it broke into pieces midair over the Sinai Peninsula. Russia. ISIS claimed responsibility.

March 24, 2015 - Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed into the French Alps after taking off from Barcelona, Spain, en route to Dusseldorf, Germany. All 150 people on board were killed. Officials concluded that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed the plane after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. A later investigation revealed that he had suffered from depression in the past.

Rescue and recovery after TransAsia plane crash

02:12 - Source: CNN

February 4, 2015 - TransAsia Airways Flight 235 crashed into a river in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, shortly after takeoff. Forty-three of the 58 people on board died. The captain of the ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft mistakenly switched off the plane’s working engine after the other lost power, according to Taiwan’s Aviation Safety Council.

December 28, 2014 - AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed as it flew from the Indonesian city of Surabaya headed for Singapore, crashing into the Java Sea after stalling following a sudden ascent. All 162 people on board died.

July 24, 2014 - Air Algerie Flight 5017 crashed in Mali after taking off from Burkina Faso to Algeria. Less than an hour into the flight, the aircraft, an MD-83, disappeared from radar after changing its flight path because of bad weather. All 116 people on board died.

July 23, 2014 - Taiwan’s TransAsia Airways Flight GE 222 crashed in in heavy rain while attempting to land at Magong Airport in the Penghu Islands. The pilot had asked for a second landing attempt before the accident occurred. The crash killed 48 people.

July 17, 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, en route from Amsterdam to Malaysia was shot down over the Donetsk area in Ukrainian territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists. U.S. officials concluded Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was struck by a missile and shot out of the sky, while Dutch accident investigators say that evidence points to pro-Russian rebels as being responsible. All 298 people on board were killed.

MH370 second anniversary brings few answers

01:51 - Source: CNN

March 8, 2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared from radar after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en route to Beijing. After more than 10 months of searching for the plane, on January 29, 2015, the government of Malaysia officially declared the loss of MH370 an accident and all of its passengers and crew were presumed dead. Pieces of plane wreckage, believed to be from the plane, have washed ashore. What happened to the flight remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries.

October 16, 2013 - Lao Airlines Flight QV301 crashed while it approached for landing at Pakse Airport, near the Thailand border, after departing from the Laotian capital Vientiane. The crash, which killed 49 people, was believed to have been caused by “wind shear,” according to an airline official.

Asiana: Pilot error was a factor in crash

02:39 - Source: CNN

July 6, 2013 - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed at San Francisco International Airport during its landing attempt. The flight came from Seoul, South Korea. The landing left three people dead and 180 people injured.

Pakistan International Airlines flight Flight PK-661 crashed near Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing all 47 people on board, according to the airline. The airline said the flight was carrying 42 passengers and five crew members when it lost contact with a control tower on its way from Chitral to Islamabad. It crashed into the mountains near Abbottabad and Havelian.

A charter airplane with 77 people on board, including players from the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, crashed near Rionegro, Colombia, outside Medellin, on Monday, November 28. At least 71 people were killed, officials said. Six survived.

EgyptAir Flight 804 disappeared from radar on a flight from Paris to Cairo on May 19. Searchers recovered parts of the plane wreckage in the Mediterranean Sea, including passengers' personal belongings, life vests, aircraft chairs and even body parts. The plane was carrying 56 passengers and 10 crew members. The flight data recorder indicated possible lavatory and avionics smoke before the plane plummeted into the sea.

Russian investigators work at the wreckage of the flydubai passenger jet that crashed on March 19, killing all 62 people on board as it tried to land in bad weather in Rostov-on-Don.

A Tara Air plane crashed on February 24 in mountainous northern Nepal. It was midway through what should have been a 19-minute flight. Twenty-three people were killed.

Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after breaking apart in midair in October 2015. All 224 people on board the plane were killed. The plane was en route to St. Petersburg, Russia, from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Wreckage is seen at the crash site of Germanwings Flight 9525 on March 24, 2015. The Airbus A320 was carrying at least 150 people when it crashed in the French Alps. The plane was en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany.

In this still image taken from video, TransAsia Airways Flight GE235 clips a bridge in Taipei, Taiwan, shortly after takeoff on February 4, 2015. There were 58 passengers on board the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop airplane that plunged into the Keelung River.

A portion of the tail section of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 appears on the deck of a rescue ship after its recovery from the Java Sea on January 10, 2015. The Airbus A320-200 lost contact with air traffic control Sunday, December 28, 2014, shortly after the pilot requested permission to turn and climb to a higher altitude because of bad weather, according to Indonesian officials.

The crash site of Air Algerie Flight AH 5017 in Mali is visible from above on July 26, 2014. After the crash, French President François Hollande said the jet was found in a "disintegrated state." He said there were no survivors.

48 people were killed when TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 crashed in Taiwan's Penghu island chain, on July 23, 2014.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in a field in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. U.S. intelligence concluded the passenger jet carrying 298 people was shot down. Ukrainian officials accused pro-Russian rebels of downing the jet, but Russia pointed the finger back at Ukraine, blaming its military operations against separatists.

Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappeared over Southeast Asia on March 8, 2014. Australian officials said they believe the plane was on autopilot throughout its journey over the Indian Ocean until it ran out of fuel. In August 2015, authorities confirmed that a piece of debris found on Reunion Island was from the jet.

Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed at San Francisco International Airport on July 6, 2013. The South Korean airline's Boeing 777 fell short of its approach and crash-landed on the runway. Three people were killed and more than 180 were injured.

A Dana Air MD-83 carrying 153 people crashed on June 3, 2012, in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria's most populous city. No one on the plane survived, and 10 people on the ground were killed.

Indonesian relatives mourn at the airport in Jakarta after a Russian Sukhoi Superjet slammed into the side of a volcano on May 9, 2012. Russia's newest civilian airliner was on its second demonstration flight when the incident occurred, killing all 45 people on board.

A plane crash on April 20, 2012, in Islamabad, Pakistan, killed 127 people. The Bhoja Air Boeing 737 was en route from Karachi to the Pakistani capital.

A plane carrying dozens of hockey players crashed on September 7, 2011, outside the Russian city of Yaroslavl, about 160 miles northeast of Moscow. Forty-three people were killed. One of two survivors later died of his injuries.

A Hewa Bora Airways plane crashed on July 8, 2011, while trying to land in bad weather at the airport in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. At least 74 of the 118 people on board were killed.

A survivor of an Iran Air Boeing 727 crash lies in a hospital on January 10, 2011. The plane went down a day earlier near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of 105 passengers and crew members.

An Airblue flight carrying 152 people crashed into a hillside on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on July 28, 2010. No one survived.

An Air India plane crash killed 158 people on May 22, 2010, after the jet overshot a runway in Mangalore, in southwestern India, crashed into a ravine and burst into flames.

A 9-year-old Dutch boy was the lone survivor of a plane crash on Afriqiyah Airways that killed 103 people near Tripoli, Libya, on May 12, 2010. His mother, father and older brother died in the crash.

A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed as it tried to land at an airport near the Russian city of Smolensk on April 10, 2010. Kaczynski was among the 97 people killed.

An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed into the sea, killing all 90 people aboard shortly after taking off from Beirut, Lebanon, on January 25, 2010.

A Caspian Airlines plane went down in a field near the north-central Iranian city of Qazvin, on July 15, 2009, killing all 168 people on board and leaving a huge, smoldering crater.

A Yemenia Airways plane carrying more than 150 people crashed in the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros on June 30, 2009. The Airbus A310 was en route to Moroni, the capital of Comoros, from Yemen's capital, Sanaa.

An Air France flight carrying 228 people disappeared from radar over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. The Airbus A330 took off from Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris and sent out an automatic signal warning of electrical problems.

Colgan Air Flight 3407 (a connector flight with Continental Airlines) crashed into a house outside Buffalo, New York, on February 13, 2009, killing all 49 aboard the plane and one on the ground. Two occupants of the house survived.

A TAM Airlines jet skidded off the runway into a gas station and burst into flames on July 17, 2007, after landing at the airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. All 199 people on board were killed.

A Comair flight crashed in Lexington, Kentucky, while attempting to take off from the wrong runway on August 27, 2006. The plane ran off the end of the runway, drove through a fence and crashed into trees on an adjacent horse farm. Forty-nine of 50 people aboard were killed.

A Sudan Airways Boeing 737 crashed just after takeoff on July 8, 2003, killing 116 people. A 3-year-old boy was the only survivor.

An American Airlines plane crashed in Belle Harbor, Queens, shortly after takeoff from John F. Kennedy Airport on November 12, 2001. The crash killed 265 people, including five people on the ground.

An Air France Concorde, en route to New York, crashed into a Paris hotel shortly after takeoff on July 25, 2000. All 109 passengers and crew members died. Four people on the ground were also killed.

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Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly named the airline in the July 6, 2013, San Francisco crash. It was Asiana Airlines.