10 March 1989 - Air Ontario Flight 1363 was an Air Ontario flight operated by a Fokker F28 Fellowship airplane, registered C-FONF which crashed near the city of Dryden, Ontario during take-off just hundreds of meters from the airport because ice and snow was accumulating on the airplane's wings.
1 June 2009 - Air France Flight 447. The accident involved an Air FranceAirbus A330 en route from (Rio de Janeiro Galeão Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport GIG SBGL)) to Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport CDG LFPG. The plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing all 216 passengers and 12 crew. The investigation concluded that the aircraft crashed due to an aerodynamic stall. This stall was preceded by inconsistent readings from the pitot tubes of the aircraft.
2011
01 November 2011 - A LOT Polish AirlinesBoeing 767-300ER registered SP-LPC was operating as LOT Flight 16 from Newark Liberty Airport EWR KEWR to Warsaw Chopin Airport WAW EPWA, during the flight the aircraft experienced a failure in the hydraulic system that rendered some of the flaps and landing gear unusable. After switching to the backup system, only the flaps control was regained. Further attempts by the crew to lower the landing gear failed. After circling Warsaw Airport for more then an hour the Boeing 767-300ER made a belly landing, a very unusual and rare event for modern jetliners. The crew under the command of captain Tadeusz Wrona made a historic landing with no fatalities.
2012
9 May 2012 - The Sukhoi Superjet demonstration tour crash - A Sukhoi Superjet 100 with registration RA-97004 was performing a demonstration flight with 37 passengers and eight crew members on board when it disappeared from radar screens in a mountainous area 60km south of Jakarta, in the province of West Java, Indonesia. Search and rescue operations found the aircraft the next day crashed on the side of a ridge on Mount Salak