Top 10 deadliest airline disasters

Updated: 2014-03-14 08:05 By Sun Chengdong (chinadaily.com.cn)

Nothing grabs people's attention like an airplane crash. Maybe it's the drama, the destruction or our fascination with flying that brings out the emotions no other type of accident does. While some car crashes, train derailments and sea tragedies do leave us in shock, but the feelings we experience when we see a plan crash are on a totally different scale. Here's a look at 10 deadliest airplane crashes, or at least disasters most likely caused by accident.

Despite the terrifying crashes, planes are by far the safest way to travel. For those with a fear of flying, it is worth noting that eight of these 10 accidents occurred in the '70s and '80s. Deadly incidents reveal shortcomings that are immediately fixed and that in turn make air travel safer.

No.10 Pan Am Flight 103 (the Lockerbie bombing) Year:1988

Fatalities: 270 Survivors: 0

Pan Am Flight 103, a transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York City, was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, December 21, 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board. Large sections of the aircraft crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.