Obviously there’ll be a bunch of title-only readlers making quips…
Police urged people to “strictly avoid” the area around the airport in Tomblaine to allow emergency responders and law enforcement unrestricted access to the crash site.
Sounds like it didn’t make it far off the ground.
Yeah, most crashes, especially bad crashes, happen during takeoff and landing. Once you’re actually up, the engine is likely to continue running fine, and even if it doesn’t, you have sufficient altitude and airspeed to glide to a reasonable landing.
Worst aviation disaster in history happened on the ground. Tenerife Airport disaster
Your own source says it’s the 3rd worst.
The disaster is the third deadliest aircraft incident in aviation history (after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175), and is the deadliest accident in aviation history.[1][2][3][c]
The other two are the planes that hit the world trade center on 9/11. I always understood disaster to be describing more of an accident, but obviously it can also describe a terror attack where someone intentionally crashes an airplane, fair enough.
Well if the attacks were only possible because of systemic shortcomings, it can be considered a disaster for sure.