A chronology of major air disasters in last 20 years:201829 October: A Boeing 737 Max 8 plane with 189 passengers onboard crashed shortly after take-off from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport. The Aseman Airlines plane crashed about an hour after taking off in the Iranian capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj. 30 June: Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashed into a residential area of Medan. 23 July: Forty-eight people died when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashed into stormy seas during a short flight. 24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashed in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion.

Source: Ethiopian News October 29, 2018 05:33 UTC