On June 28, all 11 people onboard a skydiving plane were killed when it crashed in the northeastern French town of Tomblaine, a regional official said.
The plane crashed at 11 am local time during a skydiving session, according to Yves Séguy, the prefect of the Meurthe-et-Moselle region where the crash occurred.
Séguy told BFMTV, a CNN affiliate, that the plane crashed “almost vertically, right next to a housing development” by the edge of the airfield. “There were many witnesses at the scene of the accident,” including relatives of the victims, he added.
The deadly incident comes only weeks after another skydiving plane crashed in western Missouri, where 12 people were killed shortly after takeoff and a long-running debate about how skydiving aircraft are regulated was revived.
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 following gallery to remember some of the deadliest passenger plane crashes in history.