2009: 228 people lost their lives when Air France AF447 crashed in the Atlantic on the road between Rio de Janeiro and Paris on June 1, 2009. Among the victims were three Swedes.
2010: A Polish government aircraft, including the country's president Lech Kaczynski aboard, crashed as it tried to land in bad weather at the Russian city of Smolensk. Among the 96 crash victims were Kaczynski, among others, his wife Maria, Poland's ÖB and the heads of the country's all branches of defense.
2011: A passenger plane crashes in the city of Yaroslavl during a flight to Minsk. On the plane were the hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, including Swedish hockey player Stefan life. All passengers and seven of eight crew members were killed. The cause of the accident was that the pilot put his foot on the brake, and therefore could not reach sufficient speed or altitude whereupon the aircraft crashed into a radio mast before it crashed into the river Volga.
2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace over the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014 with over 200 passengers on board. The aircraft has never been found.
2014: 298 people were killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine on July 17, 2014. The aircraft was on its way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it exploded over rebel-controlled territory in Ukraine after being hit by an air defense robot. All passengers, from a total of 17 countries, were killed.
2015: 150 people were killed when the second pilot on a Germanwings flight locked himself in the cockpit and flew into a rock wall in the French Alps.
Accidental Boeing 737 Max2018: An aircraft of the Boeing 737 Max 8 model crashes into the sea shortly after takeoff from the airport in Indonesia's capital Jakarta. All 189 people on board were killed.
2019: On March 10, 2019, Ethiopian Airlines aircraft, including that of the Boeing 737 Max 8 model, crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa. All 157 people on board were killed, four of them Swedish.
2020: At least 170 people die when a Ukrainian aircraft of the Boeing 737 model crashes on its way from Tehran in Iran to Kiev in Ukraine. The plane should have just lifted before it crashed. Ten Swedes were on board the plane.