On Sunday, 179 people were killed as a plane touched down in South Korea, making it the deadliest plane crash in South Korea’s history.
Two of the six Jeju Air crew members are the only survivors of the crash, and are being treated at a local hospital after the plane veered off a runway and slammed into a wall at Muan International Airport on Sunday morning, South Korea’s Transport Ministry said. Much of the crash was captured on video.
The plane was en route from Bangkok, Thailand.
Victims ranged from ages 3 to 78, according to authorities.
A team of U.S investigators was being assembled to aid South Korea’s probe into the crash.
The crash happened the same week an Azerbaijan Airlines flight crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people.
This crashes are far from the norm, with a one in an 11 million chance for the average American to be involved in a plane crash, according to PBS.
Here’s a list of some of the deadliest and most shocking plane crashes in recent history.
In 1977, 583 people were killed on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife after a KLM Boeing 747 attempted to take off.
There was heavy fog and the Boeing crashed into a Pan Am 747, leading to the tragedy.
On Aug. 12, 1985, 12 minutes after it took off from Tokyo, the plane experienced “an explosive decompression,” which led to extensive damage and caused the plane to lose control and crash into remote, mountainous terrain in the Gunma Prefecture, which lies at the center of Japan, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Of the 524 people onboard the plane, only four survived.
Another tragedy and great mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared while it was en route from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Beijing, China on March 8, 2014.
The flight carried 227 passengers and 12 crew members onboard the Boeing 777 that seemingly vanished a decade ago.
The number of casualties count can not be confirmed as the craft is still missing, but the search is set to resume over a decade after its disappearance, Malaysia Minister of Transport Anthony Loke announced Dec. 20.
On Nov. 12, 2001, an Airbus A300 crashed into a neighborhood in Queens, New York, two months after 9/11 in 2001, according to ABC 7 NY. The plane carried 260 people. Everyone onboard and five people on the ground were killed in the crash.
The American Airlines flight, which took off from Kennedy Airport, and was headed to the Dominican Republic, a country in the Caribbean.
January 31, 2000, all 88 people on board the flight, which was en route to San Francisco from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, were killed when it nosedived into the Pacific Ocean 2.7 miles north of Anacapa Island, California, according to the FAA.
“Accident investigation revealed a wide range of human, technical, and organizational factors contributing to this tragic event,” according to a report from the International Symposium on Aviation Psychology.
Contributing: Greta Cross; USA TODAY.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: What are the deadliest plane accidents? See list after South Korea crash
