8 Deadliest Plane Crashes in the World

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Tenerife Airport Disaster (1977)

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Japan Airlines Flight 123 (1985)

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Charkhi Dadri Mid-Air Collision (1996)

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Turkish Airlines Flight 981 (1974)

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Aeroflot Flight 593 (1994)

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American Airlines Flight 191 (1979)

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China Airlines Flight 611 (2002)

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Pan Am Flight 103 (1988)

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Russia's Luna-25 Mission Launches to the Moon

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