PARIS: A TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river outside the Taiwanese capital Taipei Wednesday, leaving at least 22 dead, the latest high-profile accident this year, especially in Asia.
Despite several headline-grabbing crashes, 2014 continued a long-term trend of improving air safety, online accident database Aviation Safety Network said in December.
The number of crashes last year was well below 32, the annual average since 1946.
Here is a list of major crashes over the past 12 months:
2014
February 11: ALGERIA – An Algerian military C-130 Hercules plane crashes in bad weather in the mountainous northeast Oum El Bouaghi region killing all …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
