At least 241 people were killed when a UK-bound Air India flight crashed in western India on Thursday. The air disaster has revived memories of recent air crashes around the globe, which have resulted in hundreds of deaths as well as losses in billions of US dollars.

A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed into a mountainous region in the southwestern Guangxi region on March 21, 2022, killing all 132 people on board, in China's deadliest aviation disaster in 28 years.

An Air India flight with more than 240 people aboard crashed shortly after takeoff in Ahmedabad, a city in western India, on Thursday. The plane, which was flying over the densely populated Meghani Nagar neighborhood,