Worst Airline Disasters in History by Airlines Involved

Can you name the fifteen worst airline accidents in aviation history?

Discounting acts of sabotage and terrorism, so 9/11 does not count

Deaths on the ground are excluded

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As of January 2017, according to wikipedia.org

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Rank	Date	Location	Deaths/Souls Onboard	Aircraft(s) Involved	Airline(s) Involved	Notes
1	March 27, 1977	Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	248/248	Boeing 747-206B	KLM Flight 4805	Involved in a collision with aircraft below. 583 total deaths.
			335/396	Boeing 747-121	Pan-Am Flight 1736
2	August 12, 1985	Ueno, Japan	520/524	Boeing 747SR-146	Japan Airlines Flight 123
3	November 12, 1996	Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India	312/312	Boeing 747-168B	Saudi Arabian Flight 763	Involved in a midair collision with aircraft below. 349 total deaths.
			37/37	Illyushin Il-76TD	Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907
4	March 3, 1974	Fontaine-Chaalis, France	346/346	McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10	Turkish Airlines Flight 981
5	August 19, 1980	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	301/301	Lockheed L-1011-200 Tristar	Saudia Flight 163
6	July 17, 2014	Near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine	298/298	Boeing 777-200ER	Malaysia Airlines Flight 17	Accidental airliner shootdown by pro-Russian rebels.
7	July 3, 1988	Strait of Hormuz, Persian Gulf	290/290	Airbus A300B2-203	Iran Air Flight 655	Accidental airliner shootdown by US Marines.
8	May 25, 1979	Des Planes, Illinois, United States	273/273	McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10	American Airlines Flight 191
9	September 1, 1983	Near Moneron Island, west of Sakhalin Island, Soviet Union	269/269	Boeing 747-230B	Korean Air Flight 007	Accidental airliner shootdown by Soviet military
10	November 12, 2001	Queens, New York, United States	260/260	Airbus A300B4-605R	American Airlines Flight 587
11	April 26, 1994	Nagoya, Japan	264/271	Airbus A300B4-622R	China Airlines Flight 140
12	July 11, 1991	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	261/261	Douglas DC-8-61	Nigeria Airways Flight 2120	Charter flight operated by Nationair
13	November 28, 1979	Mount Erebus, Antarctica	257/257	McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30	Air New Zealand Flight 901
14	December 12, 1985	Gander, Newfoundland, Canada	256/256	McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF	Arrow Air Flight 1285
15	March 8, 2014	Southern Indian Ocean (Presumed)	239/239	Boeing 777-200ER	Malaysia Airlines Flight 370	Ongoing search effort, vanished during flight

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Nov 6, 2017

I'm not sure how if all 3 of those "accidental" airliners shot down were done accidentally. They may have made an accidental mis-identification, but the firing upon them was intentional.

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