Photos: Airbus A320 crashes and accidents throughout the years

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
This March22, 1998 crash in Bacolod City in Central Philippines killed at least four passengers and injured more.
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On Tuesday, an Airbus A320 crashed in southern France, with at least 150 people onboard. Here are other crashes and tragedies throughout history involving the Airbus A320 plane.

June 26, 1998: Air France Flight 296 crashes on a demonstration flight at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport, France. Three passengers were killed.

February 14, 1990: Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes on final approach to HAL Airport in Bangalore. 88 passengers and four crew members were killed.

January 20, 1992: Air Inter FLight 148 crashes near Mount Sainte-Odile in the Vosges mountains. 87 onboard died.

September 14, 1993: Lufthansa Flight 2904, crashes near Warsaw. Two people died, according to AP.

March 22, 1998: Philippine Airlines Flight 137 crashed in Bacolod, Philippines, destroying several homes. No passengers died, but three on the ground were killed.

August 23, 2000: Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into Persian Gulf. All 143 passengers were killed, according to AP.

February 7, 2001: Iberia Flight 1456 crashed landed at Bilbao Airport. All occupants survived.

September 21, 2005: JetBlue Airways Flight 292 executed an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. No one was injured.

May 3, 2006: Armavia Flight 967 crashed into the Black Sea. All 113 passengers and crew lost their lives, according to AP.

July 17, 2007: TAM Airlines Flight 3054 was not able to stop while landing at Congonhas International Airport in Brazil. All 187 passengers onboard died, with 12 fatalities on the ground.

May 30, 2008: TACA Flight 930 overran the runway after landing in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. There were five passenger deaths onboard and two on the ground.

November 27, 2008: XL Airways Germany Flight 888T crashed into the sea off the southern French coast during a test flight. All seven people onboard died.

January 15, 2009: US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff. All 150 passengers survived.

August 29, 2011: Gulf Air Flight 270 going from Bahrain to Cochin skidded off the runway. Seven passengers were injured.

September 20, 2012: Syrian Air Flight RB-501 collides mid-air with a military helicopter. The plane landed safely, but three passengers died onboard the helicopter.

December 28, 2014: Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashed into Java Sea between Belitung and Borneo, killing all 162 people onboard.

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