23 plane crashes in year 2005

24th December, 2005

Azerbaijan Airlines Antonov 140 with 23 people onboard crashes in Azerbaijan

The Antonov An-140-100 from Azerbaijan airlines, which was en route from Baku to Aktau, crashed a few minutes after take off. The plane crashed on land near the Caspian Sea shore, north from…

10th December, 2005

Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 with 110 people onboard crashes in Nigeria

The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 was on a passenger flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt with 103 passengers and 7 crew members onboard. It crashed during landing at Port Harcourt. The plane is…

8th December, 2005

Southwest Airline Boeing 737 with 103 people onboard crashes in USA

A jetliner from Southwest Airlines was performing a passenger flight from Baltimore to Chicago, with 98 passengers and 5 crew members onboard, when it crashed after landing at Midway-Chicago…

6th December, 2005

Iran air force Hercule C130 with 94 people onboard crashes in Iran

An Iranian military transport plane crashed into a residential area, in the south of Teheran (Iran), as it was trying to make an emergency landing on the Teheran-Mehrabad airport, igniting a…

31st October, 2005

MIBA Aviation Boeing 727 with 3 people onboard crashes in Congo

This Boeing 727 from Miba airline skidded off the runway after landing at the national airport of Kindu, near Maniema. All people onboard survived, but the aircraft has been damaged. After…

22nd October, 2005

Bellview airline Boeing 737 with 117 people onboard crashes in Nigeria

The flight 201 from Bellview airline was performing a passenger flight from Lagos to Abuja with 111 passengers and 6 crew members onboard when it crashed near Lagos a few minutes after…

5th September, 2005

Kavatshi Airlines Antonov 26B with 11 people onboard crashes in Congo

The aircraft, on a passenger flight from Beni to Isiro-Matari Airport, crashed while attempting to land. About a mile from the field while on approach to runway 31, the plane impacted a…

5th September, 2005

Mandala Airlines Boeing 737 with 117 people onboard crashes in Indonesia

The aircraft crashed while performing a scheduled passenger flight from Medan-Polonia Airport to Jakarta. Shortly after takeoff from Medan, survivors reported that the Boeing began to shake…

23rd August, 2005

TANS Peru Boeing 737 with 98 people onboard crashes in Peru

The aircraft was approaching Pucallpa on a domestic flight from Lima with heavy thunderstorms in the vicinity of the airport when, shortly after 3:00pm local time, it encountered windshear and…

16th August, 2005

West Caribbean Airways MD-82 with 160 people onboard crashes in Venezuela

The aircraft was on a passenger flight from Panama City, Panama to Fort de France on the Caribbean Island of Martinique. The crew announced intentions to divert to Caracas. Then the aircraft…

14th August, 2005

Helios Airways Boeing 737 with 121 people onboard crashes in Greece

The aircraft departed Larnaca, Cyprus at 9:07am local time for a scheduled passenger flight to Athens, Greece. Shortly after departure, at 9:37am, the aircraft entered Greek airspace, and…

6th August, 2005

Tuninter ATR 72 with 39 people onboard crashes in Italy

The aircraft was on a scheduled passenger flight from Bari, Italy to Djerba, Tunisia. While flying off the coast of Palermo, the crew reported that the twin turboprop had developed engine…

2nd August, 2005

Air France Airbus A340 with 309 people onboard crashes in Canada

The Air France Airbus A340-313 aircraft (registration F-GLZQ, serial number 0289) departed Paris, France, at 1153 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as Air France Flight 358 on a scheduled…

16th July, 2005

Equatair Antonov 24B with 60 people onboard crashes in Equatorial Guinea

The aircraft was operating a passenger flight from Malabo to Bata. Shortly after takeoff, the Antonov AN-24B was on fire and lost altitude. It crashed into a jungle mountainous area, about 13…

2nd June, 2005

al-Majal Company Antonov 24V with 40 people onboard crashes in Sudan

The aircraft, on a passenger flight from Khartoum to el-Fasher, crashed after having aborted the take-off run. The aircraft did not have enough distance to brake, overran the runway and came…

25th May, 2005

Victoria Air Antonov 12 with 27 people onboard crashes in Congo

The aircraft, on a passenger flight from Goma to Kindu, crashed into a forested cliff approximately 30 minutes after takeoff. All the 27 passengers and crew members were killed.

7th May, 2005

Aero Tropics Air Services Swearingen 227 with 15 people onboard crashes in Australia

The Fairchild Metroliner 227, on a passenger flight from Bamaga to Iron Range, crashed shortly before landing into a fog shrouded hillside surrounding the airport. The bad weather conditions…

20th April, 2005

Saha Airlines Boeing 707 freighter with 169 people onboard crashes in Iran

The aircraft was on a scheduled passenger flight from the Gulf city of Kish to Tehran. It landed on its destination airport. But due to a failure of the aircraft's landing gear, the plane…

23rd March, 2005

Airline Transport Company Ilyushin IL-76TD with 8 people onboard crashes in Tanzania

The aircraft was on a cargo flight from Mwanza Airport to Khartoum (Sudan), carrying fish fillet, when it plunged into Lake Victoria shortly after take-off. All the crew members were killed.

19th March, 2005

Cargo Plus Aviation Boeing 707 freighter with 5 people onboard crashes in Uganda

The aircraft, operating a cargo flight from Addis Ababa to Lome (Togo), on behalf of Ethiopian Airlines, crashed into Lake Victoria on its second landing attempt, at it was landing to refuel…

16th March, 2005

Kemerovo Air Enterprise Antonov 24 with 52 people onboard crashes in Russia

The aircraft was on a scheduled passenger flight from Perm to Varandey when it rolled abruptly to the right, and crashed just short of Varandey Airport. Of the 52 passengers and crew members…

3rd February, 2005

Kam Air Boeing 737 with 104 people onboard crashes in Afghanistan

The Boeing 737-242, flown by Kam Air, Afghanistan’s first post-Taliban private airline, was reported missing during a flight from Herat to Kabul, Afghanistan, during conditions of extremely…

3rd February, 2005

East/West Cargo Ilyushin IL-76TD with 7 people onboard crashes in Sudan

The aircraft, on a cargo flight from Sharjah to Khartoum, crashed shortly before landing after the crew reported fuel system problems. The crew reported that he would attempt an emergency…