An EgyptAir flight crashed over the Mediterranean Sea today, killing all 66 people on board. Here is a look at other commercial aviation crashes in 2015 and 2016.
The number of people killed in fatal airline accidents decreased from 2014 to 2015, according to number numbers from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
All 150 passengers and crew aboard a Germanwings flight traveling from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany, were killed after an Airbus A320 crashed in southern France.
Germanwings has canceled some fights after some crews “decided not to operate aircraft today following the reports on the accident of a Germanwings aircraft,” the airline said in a statement.
A Germanwings Airbus A320 with 150 people on board crashed Tuesday over southern France after the plane suddenly and inexplicably dropped more than 30,000 feed in a matter of minutes, according to news accounts.