Countdown to a disaster - how death comes so quickly at 35,000 feet . . .
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Sept 1, 2006: Twenty-eight of 148 people aboard an Iranian airliner are killed when the plane catches fire after a tyre blew out while landing in the city of Mashhad.
Sept 29, 2006: One hundred and fifty-four people are killed when a Boeing 737-800 operated by the low-cost Gol airline crashes in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's worst plane disaster.
Jan 1, 2007: An Indonesian Boeing 737-400 operated by budget carrier Adam Air disappeared from radar screens during a flight from Java to Sulawesi islands. Wreckage was located at sea 10 days later and it now appears that all 102 aboard were killed.
May 5, 2007: All 114 people on board a Kenya Airways Boeing 737 were believed to be killed when the plane crashed in torrential rain after take-off from Douala in Cameroon.
July 17, 2007: A Brazilian TAM passenger plane crashes into buildings when trying to land in Sao Paulo, killing 199 people aboard and on the ground.
Sept 16, 2007: One-Two-Go, a budget Thai airliner carrying 123 passengers and several crew crashes on landing at the resort island of Phuket.
