Aviation disasters

August 2, 2005: More than 300 passengers and crew escape death at Toronto’s Pearson Airport after Air France flight 358 from Paris skids off the runway, plunges into a ravine and bursts into flames.

The Airbus A340, part-built in Wales, got into trouble while landing in extreme weather conditions.

January 2004: A Flash Airlines Boeing 737 develops a mechanical failure soon after taking off from the Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm el Sheik.