Deadly month for air crashes
Hundreds died in separate crashes. Two of them involved 737s, the same type of plane involved in the Indonesian crash.
A plane also overshot a Toronto runway and caught fire, but no one died.
August 23: A Tansa Airline 737-200 crashes in Peru near Pucallpa. At least 40 died.
August 16: A West Caribbean Airways jet crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.
August 14: The most mysterious accident. A Helios Airways 737 crashes near Athens, killing 121 people on board. The plane, which was travelling from Cyprus to Prague apparently lost cabin pressure, killing most of those on board before the plane hit the ground.
August 6: A Tunisian plane makes an emergency landing in the sea near Sicily, killing 13 passengers.
August 2: An Air France jet crashes on landing in Toronto. The plane bursts into flames but all 308 on board survive.
