Visuals of a bruised Ramesh limping away from the debris of the plane that crashed seconds after take-off became one of the ...

As a correspondent for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair and the New York Times, he wrote vivid accounts of aviation disasters, shipwrecks and the Iraq War.

Here’s a look at commercial passenger airplane crashes. For crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism, see Terrorism and War-Related Airplane Crashes Fast Facts. On August 12, 1985, the largest ...