Despite the ever-improving technology that should reduce accidents, we seem to have a steady stream of aviation tragedies hitting the headlines. The catalog of passenger plane crashes continues to grow as more people than ever take to the skies.
Sadly, few survive a plane crash, such is the destructive force of an event of this nature. And there have been some truly awful air accidents across the world, particularly in recent years.
Click through the gallery to remember some of the deadliest passenger plane crashes in history.