BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- An airliner crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Friday as it tried to land in bad weather, killing 127 people.
Fifty-one people on board the plane survived the crash, which occurred at the airport of Kisangani, a city in the country's northeast.
The following are major aircraft accidents that have taken place since 2010:
On June 20, 2011, a Russian Tu-134 passenger plane crashed in heavy fog on a highway about 1 km away from Petrozavodsk airport in northwestern Russia, killing 44 people and injuring eight others.
On Jan. 9, 2011, a Boeing-727 passenger jet of the state-owned Iran-Air airline crashed near the airport of the northwestern Iranian city of Uroumieh, killing 72 people, including 12 crew members, and injuring 28 others.
On Nov. 4, 2010, a plane carrying 68 people crashed in central Cuba, killing all onboard. The ATR-72 turboprop plane of the state-run Aero Caribbean airline crashed near the village of Guasimal, 355 km east of Havana, in the central Sancti Spiritus province.
On Aug. 24, 2010, an ERJ-190 jet crashed near the runway of Lindu airport of Yichun, some 40 minutes after it took off from Harbin, capital of China's northeastern Heilongjiang province. Forty-two people were killed.
On July 28, 2010, an Airblue Flight ED-202 crashed into the Margalla Hills in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, killing all the 152 people aboard.
On May 22, 2010, 158 people were killed when an Air India Express plane from Dubai overshot the runway during landing and crashed near Mangalore airport in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
On May 12, 2010, a passenger plane of Libya's Afriqiyah Airways crashed upon landing at Tripoli airport, killing all of the 103 people on board except an 8-year-old Dutch boy.
On April 10, 2010, 96 people aboard Polish President Lech Kaczynski's official Tupolev Tu-154 plane were killed in a crash near Smolensk airport in western Russia. The plane was carrying Kaczynski, his wife Maria and a large number of senior Polish officials.
On Jan. 25, 2010, an Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 people fell into the Mediterranean sea shortly after taking off from Lebanon's capital Beirut, killing all the people on board.
