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Air-crash spate puts year on course to be deadliest since 2005

Three fatal airline crashes in a week mean 2014 is shaping up to become the worst year in almost a decade for passenger fatalities.

By Chris Jasper, Bloomberg | Updated on July 24, 2014
Rescue workers survey the wreckage of TransAsia Airways Flight GE222 on the Taiwanese island of Penghu on July 2. (AP Photo)

(Bloomberg) — Three fatal airline crashes in a week mean 2014 is shaping up to become the worst year in almost a decade for passenger fatalities.

The crash of a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft on the fringes of the Sahara desert yesterday follows the loss of an ATR-72 turboprop in storms in Taiwan on July 23 and the downing of Malaysian Air Flight MH17 over Ukraine last week.

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