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  1. Photo: Sebastien Mortier / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Germanwings Flight 9525

    The A320 flown into the French Alps

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    On 24 March 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320 flying from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, descended from its cruising height and flew into a mountainside in the French Alps after the co-pilot locked the captain out of the cockpit. The French investigators, the BEA, found that he did it deliberately, and all 150 people on board were killed.

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  2. Photo: Kentaro Iemoto / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

    The Boeing 777 that disappeared on the way to Beijing

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    On 8 March 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, stopped communicating less than 40 minutes after takeoff, turned back across Malaysia and flew on for about seven hours, tracked only by satellite signals. The aircraft is believed to have come down in the southern Indian Ocean and has never been found, and the official investigation could not establish why it disappeared.

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  3. Photo: Pete Macklin / CC BY-SA 2.0

    Air France Flight 447

    The Rio to Paris flight lost over the Atlantic

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    On 1 June 2009 Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330 flying overnight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, stalled at 38,000 feet over the Atlantic after ice crystals blocked its airspeed probes and the autopilot disconnected. It struck the ocean four and a half minutes later, and all 228 people on board were killed.

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