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International Tenerife Memorial -

The International Tenerife Memorial on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife stands as a reminder of the worst aviation disaster in history. On March 27, 1977, a Pan Am Boeing 747 collided with a KLM Boeing 747 at Los Rodeos Airport, killing 583 people.

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Flight 93 National Memorial -

The Flight 93 National Memorial is located at the site of the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked in the September 11 attacks. The plane came down in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after passengers stopped the terrorists from reaching their target, believed to be the US Capitol Building. There were no survivors.

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Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial -

The downing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 remains the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom. The bombing killed all 243 passengers and 16 crew, plus 11 people on the ground, the names and nationalities of which are memorialized in the Garden of Remembrance at Dryfesdale Cemetery in Lockerbie.

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Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie Cairn -

The Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie Cairn stands in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. The 270 blocks of red Scottish sandstone memorializes the 270 lives lost in the December 1988 terrorist attack.  

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Air France Flight 447 Memorial -

In the deadliest accident in the history of the airline, Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, stalled over the Atlantic Ocean during the night of June 1, 2009 and crashed, killing all 228 passengers and crew. A funerary stele stands in Paris' Pere Lachaise cemetery in tribute to the victims.

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UTA Flight 772 Memorial -

On September 19, 1989, UTA Flight 772 exploded in mid air and came down in the Ténéré desert near Bilma, Niger. All 170 passengers and crew perished. A memorial, seen here as a satellite image, features the outline of an airplane pointing in the direction of Paris and resembles a tattoo in the sand. It's one of the remotest memorials to anything anywhere in the world.

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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Memorial -

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on July 17, 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine. No one survived. A national monument dedicated to the 283 passengers (most of whom were Dutch) and 15 crew is located in Vijfhuizen park near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.

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Swissair Flight 111 Memorial -

Located at Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia, Canada is the Swissair Flight 111 Memorial. After departing New York City on September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight III crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at the entrance to St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia. All 229 passengers and crew were killed.

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Smolensk Air Disaster Memorial -

Pictured is the grandest of several monuments erected in Poland in the wake of the April 10, 2010 Smolensk air disaster, in which 96 high-profile figures died, including the President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria. The black granite monument stands in Warsaw's Piłsudski Square.

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Air India Flight 182 Memorial -

Air India Flight 182 disintegrated in midair over the Atlantic Ocean en route from Montreal to London on June 23, 1985. The nearest land to the crash site was Ahakista in County Cork, Ireland. The village is the location of the memorial to the 329 passengers and crew who lost their lives.

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Munich Air Disaster Memorial -

A memorial plaque designed as a soccer pitch pays tribute to those members of the Manchester United team who died along with officials and journalists when their plane crashed on takeoff from Munich-Riem Airport on February 6, 1958. It's located in the small village of Kirchtrudering near the site of the disaster.

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Flash Airlines Flight 604 Memorial -

All 135 passengers, most of whom were French tourists, and all 13 crew members perished when Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashed into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff from Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh International Airport on January 3, 2004. The memorial to the tragedy stands near the popular vacation resort.

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Air France Flight 4590 -

Air France Flight 4590 was the Concorde that jetted off from Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport on July 25, 2000 before catching fire and crashing into a hotel in nearby Gonesse. A memorial to the 109 people on board and the four others in the hotel stands adjacent to the airport (pictured). Another memorial is found at the crash site.

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TWA Flight 800 Memorial -

On July 17, 1996, all 230 people on board TWA Flight 800 out of New York City died when the airplane exploded over the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff. A memorial to the victims stands at the Smith Point County Park in Shirley, New York.

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Kegworth Air Disaster Memorial -

On January 8, 1989, British Midland Flight 92 crashed onto an embankment overlooking the M1 motorway in Leicestershire, England. Of the 126 people aboard, 47 died. A memorial to the victims can be found at Kegworth cemetery.

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Korean Air Flight 801 Memorial -

On August 6, 1997, Korean Air Flight 801 slammed into Nimitz Hill on the Pacific Ocean island of Guam, while on approach to the airport. The crash killed 229 of the 254 people aboard.

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ValuJet Flight 592 Memorial -

Shortly after taking off from Miami for Atlanta on May 11, 1996, ValuJet Flight 592 crashed into the Everglades. All 110 people on board died. A memorial to the victims, consisting of 110 concrete pillars, was erected just north of the Tamiami Trail.

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TAM Airlines Flight 3054 Memorial -

The crash involving TAM Airlines Flight 3054 remains the deadliest aviation accident in Brazilian territory. On July 17, 2007, the passenger jet overran runway 35L at São Paulo and exploded on impact, killing all 187 passengers and crew on board, and 12 people on the ground. Pictured is the walled memorial garden set over the crash site.

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Air France Flight 1611 Memorial -

Air France Flight 1611 was lost on September 11, 1968 when it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea off Nice in southern France, killing all 95 on board. A 2019 report in the UK's Guardian newspaper reinforced the theory that the plane was accidentally shot down by the French navy. A memorial stands in the city's park.

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1999 South Dakota Learjet crash -

One of the most bizarre accidents in aviation history occurred on October 25, 1999 when a chartered Learjet 35 carrying, among others, PGA golfer Payne Stewart crashed in South Dakota after running out of fuel. The jet had lost cabin pressure and all on board were incapacitated due to hypoxia—a lack of oxygen. Pictured is the US Open championship trophy standing alone at the edge of the 18th green at Pebble Beach, California in temporary tribute to Stewart, who was the defending US Open champion.

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Scotland RAF Chinook Memorial -

On June 2, 1994, 25 passengers—most of them Northern Ireland intelligence experts—and four crew lost their lives when the RAF Chinook helicopter they were traveling in crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in foggy conditions. A simple cairn marks the crash site.

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The Vietnam Military History Museum -

Located in Hanoi, the Vietnam Military History Museum includes in its exhibits the wreckage of a Boeing B-52G, shot down during Operation Linebacker IIB, conducted in December 1972. There's no indication on whether the crew survived.

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Shoreham Airshow Disaster Memorial -

This is the memorial to the 11 men who were tragically killed in the Shoreham Airshow Disaster in West Sussex, England, on August 22, 2015. The artwork features 11 distinctive steel arches, one for each life lost. The pilot of the Hunter fighter jet lost control during an aerial maneuver and crashed onto an adjacent freeway.

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Superga Air Disaster Memorial -

On May 4, 1949, the Italian city of Turin lost the entire soccer club of Torino, when the passenger jet carrying the players crashed into the retaining wall at the back of the Basilica of Superga, which stands on a hill on the outskirts of the city. In all, 31 people died in the disaster. The crash site effectively became their memorial.

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Gibraltar Liberator AL523 Memorial -

One of the passengers on board the Liberator AL523 that took off from Gibraltar on July 4, 1943 was General Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile. Almost immediately the plane crashed, killing Sikorski and at least 16 others. A memorial to Sikorski and his companions on the flight is set at Europa Point, the southernmost tip of "The Rock."

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Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 Memorial -

The crash of Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 during its approach to Tripoli International Airport on May 12, 2010 resulted in the loss of 103 lives. Only one passenger survived, a nine-year-old Dutch boy. The dead are memorialized at a monument in the Dutch city of Nieuwegein.

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Yak-Service Flight 9633 Memorial -

Forty-five passengers, including all the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, perished when their passenger jet crashed on takeoff near the Russian city of Yaroslavl on September 7, 2011. The players' memorial is set in the city's Leontyevsky Cemetery.

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Yuri Gagarin Memorial -

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to journey into space, this on April 12, 1961. But on March 27, 1968, he lost his life when his MiG-15 jet span out of control and hit the ground near Kirzhach. Flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin also perished. A memorial plaque marks the crash site.

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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 -

Nothing has been heard of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 since it disappeared from radar while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. All 227 passengers and 12 crew aboard are  presumed dead in one of the most baffling incidents in aviation history. Plans to build a memorial to the missing are currently on hold. However, shortly after the event, a "wall of hope" was created at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (pictured).

Sources: (The Guardian) (National Park Service) (BBC) (Observer) (Airways Magazine) (CNN) 

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